He is the worst serial offender in modern history that no-one knows about. He raped over 50 women in California and killed 10 people, and he’s never been caught. There’s no-one like him out there. ibid.
If you’re out every night at 3 a.m. trying to break into people’s houses, it’s a numbers game. At a certain point you’re going to be successful. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark II: Reign of Terror
We just didn’t necessarily have the tools or the culture to treat the victims in the way they needed at that time. ibid. Agent
He was a lunatic. Unseen so doubly feared. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark III: Rat in a Maze
By 1979 the East Area Rapist appeared to have stopped … The East Area Rapist had only moved 400 miles where he would become known as the Original Knight Stalker. ibid.
October 1st 1979: The couple’s next door neighbour was an FBI agent. Alerted by the woman’s scream he came outside just in time to see a man furiously pedal past. ibid.
Police Lack Leads in Double Murder … East Area Rapist Link to Double Slayings … ibid. newspaper headlines
A sense that a single mind was at work: someone who didn’t leave many clues or talk or show his face. Someone who strolled undetected in the middle-class swarm. An ordinary man with a resting-pulse derangement. ibid.
DNA Links ‘70s Rapes to Serial Slaying Cases: Unknown Southern California Killer was ‘East Area Rapist’. ibid. newspaper article
In the town of Visalia there was this Ransacker who down to the strangest details totally mirrors the East Area Rapist. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark IV: The Motherload
Visalia, 10 December 1975, Detective Bill McGowan … A figure appeared in the garage doorway and looked around, a chase ensued, but the suspect escaped … The Ransacker struck as many as 130 times over a period of less than two years. ibid.
Help Us Catch A Killer: Investigators believe there is a good change the Golden State Killer is still alive – and they want your help. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark V: Monsters Recede But Never Vanish, public help article
Discarded DNA Ties Former Cop to Crime Spree of ’70s & ’80s. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark VI: Walk Into the Light, CNN headline banner
‘A true convergence of emerging technology and dogged determination by detectives.’ ibid. rozzer’s press conference
When he was at his peak, he was one of the most powerful men in Fleet Street. Max Clifford: The Fall of a Tabloid King, Channel 4 2021, opening comments
Max Clifford has been charged with eleven counts of indecent assault between 1966 and 1985. ibid. television news
I think Max loved power. It made him feel good. It made him feel he’d got somewhere in life. And he really liked being in the centre of things. ibid. Angela Levin, biographer
I learnt earlier on that it was important to have as much control as possible. ibid. Clifford to Levin
On May 2nd 2014 Max Clifford was sentenced to 8 years in prison. On 8th December 2017 Max Clifford collapsed in prison. He died in hospital two days later. ibid. captions
While moonlighting in Bournemouth, John Warboys was perfecting a method of spiking drinks he offered to women he picked up in his black cab. The desired effect of the drugged cocktail was to incapacitate them. Predator: Catching the Black Cab Rapist, Channel 5 2021
Serial rapist John Warboys assaulted over 100 women in the back of his black cab. After the rape of the student in July 2007 Warboys began to keep a diary in which he wrote a defence to use if he was ever questioned again. In his home were almost 200 pages of densely written notes centred around his attack on the student. ibid.
For 17 years a sexual predator carried out brutal assaults and burglaries on the elderly in South East London. The Real Manhunter, Sky Crime 2021
‘For some reason the aged victims were not as newsworthy.’ ibid. Colin Sutton, investigating rozzer
‘All of a sudden we knew what type of car, what make and model and colour, was driven by the Nightstalker.’ ibid.
Delroy Grant was charged with 29 offences of burglary, sexual assault and rape. ibid. caption
In 2017 Greater Manchester Police began investigating the biggest rape case in British legal history. The evidence revealed hundreds of victims of sexual violence. And one perpetrator. Catching a Predator, BBC 2021
Reynhard Sinaga was an Indonesian student … lived in Manchester for about ten years. ibid.
The content was actually horrendous. There were videos upon videos of young men being sexually abused and raped. ibid. rozzer
He would just go prowling the streets looking for his victims. ibid.
The worst serial rapist in British criminal history has been jailed for Life by a court in Manchester with a minimum term of 30 years. He was convicted of 159 offences against 48 victims. ibid. BBC news
After a successful appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service and GMP, Reynhard Sinaga’s sentence was extended from 30 years in prison to a minimum of 40 years. ibid. caption
For decades they were icons. Their work was loved by millions. But behind the fame and glamour they were monsters hiding in plain sight. Celebrities who were so powerful they felt untouchable. National Treasure, National Disgrace, captions, Channel 5 2022
Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter and Jimmy Savile: four superstars symbolising British entertainment in the ‘60s and ’70s, protected by a shield of fame and celebrity when no-one questioned them. ibid.
19 cases of sexual abuse carried out during recordings of Top of the Pops. ibid.
Operation Yewtree uncovered 214 offences committed by Savile across the country between 1955 and 2009. However, the police were inundated with accusations relating to other celebrities who were still alive. ibid.
Despite initially protesting his innocence, faced with all the evidence, Hall changed his plea. Stuart Hall was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to multiple offences against ten young girls dating back to the 1960s. A sentenced later doubled by the Court of Appeal. ibid.
Norway 2016: The country’s largest national newspaper, VG, exposes 11 cases of child sexual abuse in Tysfjord, a small community just north of the Arctic Circle.
A police investigation later uncovers 151 more cases in a populatio of just 2,000 people. Storyville: Beneath the Surface, captions, BBC 2022
In Tysfjord, the population is divided by a 900m fjord, with the Sami living on one side and the Norwegian-run authorities on the other. ibid.
‘My father destroyed my childhood … I just want people to understood what we went through.’ ibid. victim
29 December 2021 5.12 p.m.: ‘Ghislaine Maxwell just got convicted of five of six of the serious counts against her, including the most serious counts – sex trafficking of a minor.’ Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster I: Queen Bee, court reporter, Channel 4 2022
And she says to me, ‘They are nothing. They are trash.’ ibid. colleague
She got away scot free. Ghislaine’s lifestyle was lavish. It was the best of everything. ibid.
And by chance he had a partner – Ghislaine – who was a basket case … He moulded her into being complicit. Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster II: Hidden in Plain Sight, witness
I remember a little girl walking downstairs crying. She was wearing a uniform. And I thought, What happened? And Ghislaine said, She didn’t get the job. Some people aren’t cut out for modelling. ibid. door-keeper
And she says to me, They are nothing. They are trash. ibid. writer
In 1998 Epstein purchased a private island in the Caribbean. ibid.
Prince Andrew was there – he came a few times. ibid. Island butler
This sexual pyramid scheme really had Ghistlaine Maxwell at the top. Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster III: The Reckoning, rozzer
The Miami Herald uncovered the close relationship between the federal government and Epstein. It also revealed the vast scale of Epstein’s abuse of underage victims. ibid. caption
She’s evil and she’s dangerous. ibid. witness