On Monday October 16 2006 Michael Hamer pleaded guilty to the murder of Joe Geeling. Joe, age 11, was killed on the 1st March 2006 his body was discovered the following day buried under a bed of dead leaves and rocks in a park in Bury, Greater Manchester. Hamer used a fake letter supposedly from his school’s deputy head to lure Geeling to his home, where he hit him over the head with a frying pan and stabbed him 16 times.
Wichita Police Detective. Sam Houston shows a mask, which was used in one of BTK’s crimes, during Dennis Rader’s sentencing hearing August 18, 2005.
The King Brothers
Alex King was only 12 years old and his brother Derek 13 when the two Florida boys were arrested for murdering their father as he slept in November 2001.
The boys’ father, Terry King, was sitting in a living room chair with his feet propped up on a sofa, asleep, when he was bludgeoned to death with an aluminum baseball bat. Firefighters working feverishly to extinguish the blaze that had been deliberately set, discovered his body. Closer examination revealed that the left side of his head had been bashed in, making it easy to determine that he hadn’t died from smoke inhalation. His two sons, Alex and Derek, were nowhere to be found. At first authorities considered the possibility that they might have been abducted, but the following day they showed up at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office after being driven there by a family friend, 40-year-old Rick Chavis.
The two boys soon confessed that they had killed their father. Alex claimed that he had thought up the bizarre plan, and Derek said that he had been the one who had swung the bat. They were worried, they said, that their father was going to punish them for having ran away from home 10 days earlier. It turned out that they had been staying at the home of their dad’s friend, Chavis, a convicted sex-offender, for many of those ten days. It was later shown that Chavis had allowed them to hide in a back room of his trailer home when their father had come looking for them. Chavis had been convicted in 1984 of molesting three boys of varying ages. According to Alex’s testimony before a grand jury and to letters that he had written, he and Chavis had entered into a sexual relationship.Alex and Derek were swiftly indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder charges, and Chavis was charged with being an accessory after the fact, tampering with evidence, and molesting Alex. Surprisingly, Chavis was later acquitted of the sex-offenses involving Alex.
Although their confession had contained details of Terry King’s murder that could have only been known by the perpetrators, the boys recanted and instead blamed Chavis, insisting that he had killed their father while they waited outside, hiding in the trunk of Chavis’s car. Chavis was subsequently charged with first-degree murder and arson.
In August 2002, Chavis was the first to go on trial for Terry King’s murder. After hearing four days of testimony, the jury deliberated for five hours before announcing that they had reached a verdict. The judge, however, ordered that the verdict be sealed until after Alex and Derek’s trial, scheduled for the following week.
Although the boys had been charged with first-degree murder, the jury was allowed by law to find them guilty of a lesser charge—which they did. Alex and Derek were convicted of second-degree murder, for which they could have been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison. Following the boys’ verdict, the judge unsealed Chavis’s verdict—he had been found not guilty on the murder and arson charges. In another legal proceeding later, Chavis was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to third-degree murder, tampering with evidence, and false imprisonment involving Alex. He received the maximum sentence of 35 years, and is not scheduled for release until 2037.
The boys are now free.
Albert DeSalvo prays in the chapel at Walpole State Prison, South Walpole, Massachusetts. DeSalvo was the alleged Boston Strangler, a serial killer who claimed at least 11 women’s lives between 1962 and 1964, DeSalvo confessed to the murders, but there has always been a shadow of doubt concerning his guilt and there always will be as he was murdered in his prison cell on November 25, 1973.
One of the legends of American crime, Alfred Packer was born in 1842 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and fought on the Union side in the American Civil War. He later became a prospector and on 9 February 1874 he and five others - Shannon Wilson Bell, James Humphrey, Frank Miller, George Noon, and Israel Swan - set off for Gunnison, Colorado despite a warning of impending bad weather. By his own account, Packer went to look for food and when he returned he claimed that he found Shannon Wilson Bell eating one of the other men. When Bell saw Packer he tried to attack him with an axe so Packer shot him. On 16 April Packer finally returned to civilization and said that Bell had gone mad and killed all the others. Packer then admitted that conditions had been so bad that when the oldest traveller, 65-year-old Israel Swan died, the others ate him. Four or five days later, James Humphrey died and “was also eaten”. Frank Miller died in an accident and also ended up being eaten, as did George Noon. Packer then killed Bell in self-defence.
On 5 August 1874 Packer confessed that he had killed the others and was jailed, but he escaped and went to ground. According to legend, the judge said at his trial “Damn you Afred Packer” There were seven Dimmycrats in Hinsdale County and you’ve et five of them!” Contrary to many stories told years later, and even today, Packer was never charged with, tried for, or convicted of cannibalism, or crimes related to cannibalism. On 11 March 1883 he was unmasked while living as John Schwartze in Cheyenne, Wyoming. On 13 April he was found guilty manslaughter and sentenced to death “until you are dead, dead, dead, and may God have mercy upon your soul.” The verdict was overturned but on 8 June 1886 Packer was sentenced to 40 years in jail.
Jake Evans, 17, tells 911 he shot and killed mother, sister — charged with murder
Jake Evans, 17, called 911 to say that he shot and killed his mother and sister with a .22 revolver in the family’s Aledo, Texas, home.
“I am pretty, I guess, evil…whatever,” he told the police dispatcher, during the 911 call around 12:30 a.m. on Friday.
When asked why he killed his mother Jamie, 48, and sister Mallory, 15, Jake explained that he was not even particularly mad at them.
“I don’t know…it’s weird,” Jake said. “I wasn’t even really angry with them. It just kind of happened. I’ve been kind of planning on killing for a while now.”
But he did eventually stumble through a confused explanation of his motive. “I don’t really like people’s attitude (sic). They’re … verbally rude to each other and stuff like that,” the homeschooled teenager said.
Jake was concerned that thoughts of the murders might torment him and asked the dispatcher if she knew of any medications that might help, reported The Dallas Morning News.
“I’m really worried about, like, nightmares and stuff like that,” he said. “I don’t mean to sound like a wimp or anything, but this is, wow, I’ve never, like, done anything violent in my whole life.”
The dispatcher kept Jake on the line for about 25 minutes until Parker County sheriff’s deputies arrived at his expensive house in a gated community. The dispatcher then asked Jake to walk outside very slowly with his hands up in the air.
Deputies arrested him. He has been charged with capital murder and denied bail, reported NBC DFW.
The Texas Rangers and Parker County Sheriff’s Criminal Investigation Division are investigating the case.
Evans mother was a teacher and assistant principal at Aledo Independent School District before retiring in 2004.
His father was out of town on business when the murders occurred but rushed home immediately. Jake has two other sisters who were not home during the killings. One was scheduled to visit from college this weekend.
Child of Rage (the Full Documentary). The story and interview of Beth Thomas.
When James Riva was 23 years old he shot and killed his handicapped grandmother while she sat in her wheel-chair, and then stabbed her several times in the heart. The gun was loaded with gold-painted bullets. He drank the blood that gushed from her wounds and set fire to her house to get rid of the evidence. He claimed to be a 700-year-old vampire who needed to drink her blood, but claimed she was also a vampire and that she fed on him at night while he slept. He was convicted of second degree murder, arson, assault and battery. He was sentenced to life in prison on the murder charge, and ten to twenty years for the arson charge.
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The gun that Aileen Wuornos used to murder her victims.
