VILLEGAS, TONY: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
A routine missing person’s report leads to a tragic discovery … Melissa’s [Lewis] attackers slipped in as she closed the garage door behind her. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s2e4: Loyalty, Lies & Loss, ID 2011
On March 15th 2008 [Tony] Villegas was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. ibid.
VILLEMIN, GREGORY murder: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Long before their four-year-old’s body was discovered in a river with his hands and feet bound, the Villemin family was being terrorised in other ways. True Crime Recaps: Who Killed Little Gregory Villemin? Youtube 26.12, 2022
For over 30 years France has been captivated by the mystery. ibid.
Sketches … bore a striking resemblance to Jean-Marie’s cousin, Bernard Laroche, and Bernard’s handwriting as it turned out bore a pretty striking resemblance to whoever had been leaving around those little hate notes for everyone. ibid.
Authorities were closing in on another suspect, his wife Christine. The handwriting experts said her handwriting matched the letters. ibid.
As Bernard Laroche was leaving work on March 29th, four days after Christine had been named as a suspect in Gregory’s death, Jean-Marie shot him dead. ibid.
VILLISCA AXE MURDERS: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
In the sleepy little town of Villisca, Iowa, a house full of 8 people, 6 of them children, were bludgeoned to death with an axe. To this day their killer has never been caught. True Crime Recaps: An Axe, A Slumber Party & 8 Brutal Murders, Youtube 9.55, 2023
VIRK, REENA murder: Crime Stories TV - Ripeace online -
The police discovered it wasn’t the assault that killed Reena, it was what happened next. Crime Stories: Bull Kills
She had last been seen at a party. Acting on eye-witness testimony from the party-goers the police learned that Rena was assaulted by as many as eight other youths in a brutal attack. ibid.
A task force made up of three divisions planned a massive sweep of the teenagers who had taken part in the assault. ibid.
The strategy paid off. ibid.
Reena Virk was a fourteen year old teen from Saanich, British Columbia. She would have been turning fifteen on March 10, 1983 but sadly, she never made it.
Reena was originally from India and transferred to Canada as a child. Her immediate family was described as ‘a minority within a minority’, as they were of the Jehovah’s Witness religion in the local South Asian community of 3,000 which was predominantly Sikh.
She always had a hard time in school, constantly getting bullied due to her accent and looks and because she was ‘different’.
On the night of Friday November 14, 1997, Reena was invited to a ‘party’ by her friend near the Craigflower Bridge, a popular hangout spot, west of the city of Victoria, British Columbia. She heard rumors that her bullies were going to go there and ‘beat her up’ but that didn’t stop her from continuing her life. At first everything was fine, Reena was enjoying herself and the group were said to be drinking and smoking. But then, the ‘Shoreline Six’ arrived, a group of girls known to bully Reena. They swarmed the teen. Ripeace online Horrific True Stories article
VITKOVIC, FRANK: Crimes that Shook Australia TV -
Just after 4 p.m. one December afternoon in 1987 a Melbourne office block became a scene of carnage. Innocent office workers found themselves caught up in a terrifying ordeal as they witnessed friends and colleagues being killed in front of them. The man at the centre of the chaos was a young student whose pent-up anger and frustration would lead to a tragic outcome. The cold-blooded massacre that took place in Queen Street in central Melbourne was a crime that shook Australia. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e5: Queen Street, CI 2018
The 5th floor was a scene of chaos: staff were confronted by a gunman Frank Vitkovic who was chasing them around the office to stop them escaping. ibid.
They were tasked with determining why 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic had killed 8 people before throwing himself off the 11th floor of the Melbourne office block. ibid.