Archibald Thompson Hall | The Monster Butler | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Serial killer Roy Fontaine, originally Archibald Hall, killed a former lover, his employers, an accomplice and another man in England in the 1970s.Born in Scotland in 1924, serial killer Archibald Hall (who, inspired by an Alfred Hitchcock film, renamed himself Roy Fontaine) worked as a butler for several wealthy families in England in the 1970s. During the time of his employ, he killed a former lover, two of his employers, an accomplice and another man. He died in prison in 2002.
Willie Crain | The Murder Of Amanda Brown | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Willie Crain was introduced to Kathryn Hartman by his daughter on 09/09/98, while at a bar in Hillsborough County. Crain and Hartman danced and talked for four hours that night, until 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning. Crain dropped Hartman off at her trailer, and Hartman asked to see Crain again.On the afternoon of 09/10/98, Crain returned to Hartman’s trailer, where he met her seven-year-old daughter, Amanda Brown. Crain and Brown sat at the kitchen table, playing games and doing her homework. Before leaving that afternoon, Crain accepted Hartman’s invitation to return for dinner that evening.After dinner that night, Crain and Brown played games with Brown and told her that he had a large collection of videotapes at his trailer. Brown pleaded with her mother to let her go to Crain’s trailer, and she agreed. Crain drove Hartman and Brown to his trailer in his white pickup truck.After beginning to watch the movie in Crain’s living room, Crain and Brown then went to his bedroom, where Hartman found the two sitting on Crain’s bed, watching the movie. Hartman noticed that Brown was sitting between Crain’s sprawled legs with her back to his front. At some point in the evening, Hartman asked Crain if he had any medication for pain. Crain offered her Valium, which she took, and marijuana, which she declined.Eventually, Hartman decided it was time to leave, and Crain drove Hartman and Brown to their trailer. Around 2:15 a.m., Brown went to sleep in Hartman’s bed. Crain appeared intoxicated, so Hartman advised him to lie down to sober up while she went to bed. Within five minutes of Hartman going to bed, Crain entered the bedroom and lay down on the bed with Hartman and Brown. Hartman awoke the next morning to find Crain gone and Brown missing. Hartman called Crain on his cell phone, and he told her that he did not know where Brown was and that he was loading his boat at a boat landing. Other people at the boat ramp testified at trial that Crain carried what appeared to be a rolled-up item of clothing with him when he was launching his boat. One of the men at the boat ramp that day testified that Crain had told him on two separate occasions that he had the ability to get rid of a body where no one could find it. Police later interviewed Crain, and he told police that he left Hartman’s house around 1:30 a.m. on 09/11/98. He also told police that he accidentally spilled bleach in his bathroom and spent the early morning hours cleaning his bathroom. While searching Crain’s trailer, a detective applied Luminol, a chemical that reacts with blood, to Crain’s bathroom. The detective testified at trial that the floor, bathtub, and walls “lit up”. Detectives also found blood stains in the bathroom and on Crain’s boxer shorts, both of which contained DNA consistent with a mixture of the DNA profiles of Crain and Brown. Despite an extensive, two-week search of Upper Tampa Bay, Brown’s body was never found.
The Murder of Diane Pikul | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Joseph & Diane's marriage was on the rocks, she couldn't stand his cold controlling manner. She found boxes in their attic which contained astonishing evidence (clothes, photos, tapes) that Pikul was a long-time transvestite & homosexual. Pikul's transvestite obsession was so strong that he even rented a separate city apartment for dress-up fun. Diane confronted Joseph with her find which threw him into a panic: not only would the news be bad for his career it would mean certain loss of childrens' custody. Pikul killed her on the spot & later drove up north to dispose of the body (in a surprisingly stupid & amateurish fashion).Pikul even asked his first wife Sandra Jarvinen if he could bury something in her yard: she said no but didn't mention the request when police investigated (tribal togerthness).When Pikul was arrested & booked, he was rather embarassed when found to be wearing a bra & panties! Pikul confessed to the murder in the face of strong evidence but the legal fun was just beginning.Judges showed astonishing favoritism to Pikul: granted $350K bail despite him being a flight risk. After being charged for murder Joe actually married for the third time just to help in the custody battle. Diane's relatives sued for custody & the Family Court judge actually awarded it to Joe on the grounds that he hadn't been judged guilty yet!The murder trial judge gave a huge boost to Pikul's defense when he ruled photos/tapes of Joe in transvestite clothes were prejudicial. Pikul, nonetheless was convicted of murder. While awaiting sentencing his lawyer filed an appeal--Joseph went to a hospital & died a week later (!) Hospital refused to discuss his 'illness' & treatment, rumored to have been AIDS.
The Murder Of Amarjit Chohan And His Family | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | William Horncy (born 1954) is a British murderer who achieved notoriety in 2005 when he was convicted of murdering millionaire Amarjit Chohan as well as Chohan's wife, mother-in-law and two sons. The bodies of Chohan's two sons were never found.Horncy was sentenced to life imprisonment and on 23 February 2008 The Times reported that he was among 50 prisoners who were issued with whole life tariffs and are unlikely ever to be released.
Judith Ann Neelley | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Alvin Howard Neelley, Jr. (1953-2005) and Judith Ann Adams Neelley (1964-) are an American couple responsible for two torture murders. They each were convicted of the kidnappings and murders of Lisa Ann Millican and Janice Chatman. Judy Neelley was sentenced to death by the state of Alabama in 1983, but her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment in 1999. She is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. Alvin Neelley was serving a life sentence at the Bostick State Prison in Hardwick, Georgia at the time of his death in 2005.
The Murder of Bonnie Hood and Bruce Beauchamps | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | In one of the cabins in the Sequoia National Forest, the body of Bonnie Hood, owner of a California mountain resort is found in 1990.Her husband, Jim Hood, a real estate developer, wants revenge for his wife's murder. Bruce Beauchamps, the alleged murderer of Bonnie Hood, is himself found murdered several years later.
Claudine Longet | The Murder of Spider Sabich | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Claudine Georgette Longet (born 29 January 1942) is a French singer, actress, dancer and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975. She has maintained a private profile since 1977, following her conviction for misdemeanor negligent homicide in connection with the death of her boyfriend, former Olympic skier Spider Sabich.
Women on Death Row Part 2 | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | As of January 1, 2016 there were 55 women on death row. This constitutes 1.87% of the total death row population of 2,943 persons.In the past 100 years, over 40 women have been executed in the U.S, including 15 since 1976. See, Women Executed in the U.S. Since 1900 for the date, state, race, and method of each execution.Much of this information is taken from "Death Penalty For Female Offenders, January 1973 through December 31, 2012 by Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law, with periodic annotations by DPIC.In general, both the death sentencing rate and the death row population remain very small for women in comparison to that for men. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 571 documented instances as of 12/31/2012, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 2.9% of the total of confirmed executions in the United States since 1608.
Women on Death Row Part 3 | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | As of January 1, 2016 there were 55 women on death row. This constitutes 1.87% of the total death row population of 2,943 persons.In the past 100 years, over 40 women have been executed in the U.S, including 15 since 1976. See, Women Executed in the U.S. Since 1900 for the date, state, race, and method of each execution.Much of this information is taken from "Death Penalty For Female Offenders, January 1973 through December 31, 2012 by Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law, with periodic annotations by DPIC.In general, both the death sentencing rate and the death row population remain very small for women in comparison to that for men. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 571 documented instances as of 12/31/2012, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 2.9% of the total of confirmed executions in the United States since 1608.
Women on Death Row Part 1 | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | As of January 1, 2016 there were 55 women on death row. This constitutes 1.87% of the total death row population of 2,943 persons.In the past 100 years, over 40 women have been executed in the U.S, including 15 since 1976. See, Women Executed in the U.S. Since 1900 for the date, state, race, and method of each execution.Much of this information is taken from "Death Penalty For Female Offenders, January 1973 through December 31, 2012 by Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law, with periodic annotations by DPIC.In general, both the death sentencing rate and the death row population remain very small for women in comparison to that for men. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 571 documented instances as of 12/31/2012, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 2.9% of the total of confirmed executions in the United States since 1608.
Theodore Robert Bundy | Ted Bundy | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century.Ted Bundy was born November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. In the 1970s, he raped and murdered young women in several states. He was connected to at least 36 murders, but some thought he had committed one hundred or more. He was executed in Florida's electric chair in 1989. His charm and intelligence made him something of a celebrity during his trial, and his case inspired many novels and films about serial killers.
The Attempted Murder of Linda Sandler | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Linda Sandler is the ex-wife of a multi-millionaire named Joel Sandler. The couple lived in luxury in a Philadelphia mansion but despite their wealth, skinflint Mr Sandler would urinate into a cup and throw the contents out of the window rather than incur water charges. When Linda Sandler filed for divorce and moved into the couple’s beach house in 2001, Joel Sandler sought out what he thought to be a hit man. His mistake was to be introduced to someone who turned out to be an undercover police officer instead. Convicted in 2003, Joel Sandler was sentenced to 8.5 to 20 years in prison whilst Linda Sandler gained 75% of the couple’s $4.5 million estate. Still in fear of her life, she remains in hiding to this very day.
Dana Ewell | The Ewell Murders | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Dana Ewell (born January 28, 1971, Fresno, California) is an American convicted triple murderer, sentenced to three life sentences for ordering the killing of his mother, father, and sister in 1992.Dana Ewell's father, businessman and multi-millionaire Dale Ewell, his mother Glee (née Mitchell), and his older sister Tiffany were murdered so he could access the family fortune. A 9-mm pistol with a homemade silencer was used by Ewell's roommate at Santa Clara University, Joel Radovcich, to murder the family on Easter Sunday in their home in the Central Valley as they returned from a long weekend on the coast.Dana Ewell was sentenced on May 12, 1998, alongside friend and classmate Joel Radovcich, who was promised a part of the family fortune in return for murdering Dana's family.Ernest Jack Ponce (who procured the murder weapon) was also charged with the murders, but he obtained a dismissal in exchange for his testimony and was later licensed as an attorney.At the time of the murders, Dana Ewell still lived at home in the family's comfortable Sunnyside-area home near Fresno. In his freshman year at San Joaquin Memorial High School, Ewell claimed his goal was to be a multi-millionaire by age 25, but at age 21, he was still being supported by his parents. The murders took place on Sunday, April 19, 1992.Dana had been lying to his friends, claiming that he was personally financially successful. Dana claimed to be a stock-market wiz and he also claimed to own his own airplane transport company. Dana's father found out that his son had been going around lying and bragging. Dana's father told him that he was getting cut off financially that summer, when he was expected to graduate from Santa Clara University.Dana was angry and this is what led him to plot the murders, although ironically it was ultimately revealed to Dana during the reading of his father's will that his father instructed that the family fortune be given to Dana but in installments. Ewell's furious reaction to not gaining his full inheritance and his lack of grief over the deaths of his parents and sister led to his uncles informing investigators about the possibility that Dana was behind the murders.Fresno County Assistant District Attorneys James Oppliger and Jeffrey Hammerschmidt prosecuted Ewell and Radovcich in a jury trial that took more than eight months. Ewell and Radovcich are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole; their appeals have all been denied and exhausted. Ewell is housed in the Protective Housing Unit of California State Prison, Corcoran.
Lyle and Erik Menendez | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970) are brothers who are known for their conviction in 1994, as a result of a much-publicized trial, for the shotgun murders of their wealthy parents, entertainment executive Jose Menéndez and his wife Mary "Kitty" Menéndez of Beverly Hills, California, in 1989. They were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
The Murder Of Andrea Wilborn | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Thomas Cullen Davis (born September 22, 1933, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American oil heir and member of a prominent Fort Worth, Texas oil family. Davis is best known for standing trial, and being acquitted, twice in the 1970s, first for the murders of two people at the home of his estranged wife Priscilla on August 2, 1976 and the second two years later for conspiring to murder the judge in his divorce proceedings against Priscilla. At the time of his first trial, Davis was the wealthiest man to have stood trial for murder in the United States. The prosecution alleged in his murder trial that he forced his 12-year-old step-daughter Andrea Wilborn into the basement of Priscilla's home, making her kneel before shooting her dead, and also shot Priscilla's live in boyfriend Stan Farr, a former basketball star at nearby Texas Christian University. A Texas jury found him not guilty of the murders. The girl was the daughter of his second wife, whom he was in the process of divorcing.
Katherine Knight | Female Killer | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Katherine Mary Knight (born 24 October 1955) was the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She was convicted of the murder of her partner, John Charles Thomas Price (born 6 January 1955) in October 2001, and is currently detained in Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre.Originally from the town of Aberdeen in New South Wales' Hunter Valley, Barbara Roughan (Née Thorley) was forced to move to Moree after beginning a relationship with Ken Knight, a co-worker of her husband Jack Roughan. The Roughan and Knight families were both well known in the conservative rural town and the affair was a major scandal. Two of Roughan’s four children remained with their father while the two youngest were sent to live with an aunt in Sydney.Katherine Knight was the younger of twins born to Barbara and her de facto partner Ken on 24 October 1955 in Tenterfield, New South Wales. Jack Roughan died in 1959 and the two children who had lived with him moved in with the Knight family. Barbara’s grandmother was apparently an Indigenous Australian from the Moree area who had married an Irishman. She was proud of this fact and liked to think of her own family as Aboriginal. This was kept a family secret, as there was considerable racism in the area at the time and this was a source of tension for the children. Apart from her twin, the only person Knight was close to was her uncle Oscar Knight who was a champion horseman. She was devastated when he committed suicide in 1969 and continues to maintain that his ghost visits her. The family moved back to Aberdeen the same year.
The Murder of Janet March | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | On August 29, 1996, Janet Levine March (born February 20, 1963), a children's book illustrator in Forest Hills, Tennessee, United States, a suburb of Nashville, was reported missing to police by her husband and mother. Perry March, a lawyer, told police that he had last seen his wife when she left the house on the night of August 15, two weeks earlier, following an argument. He claimed she had packed her bags for a 12-day vacation at an unknown location and driven away. She was never seen alive by anyone else afterwards.Janet's car was found at a nearby apartment complex a week after the police report, apparently having been there for some time. Other evidence began to suggest that Perry had fabricated some evidence of his wife's supposed motive for departure, and attempted to tamper with or destroy other items that might have provided evidence. Police soon reclassified the case as a homicide, despite the absence of Janet's body, and named Perry as a suspect. Shortly afterwards he moved back to his native Chicago area with the couple's two children. After his in-laws won visitation, he fled with the children to Mexico, where his father, Arthur, a former U.S. Army pharmacist, had retired.
The Murder of Lita McClinton | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Lita LaVaughn McClinton (January 7, 1952 – January 16, 1987), the daughter of Emory McClinton, a former U. S. Department of Transportation official and his wife, JoAnn McClinton, a Georgia state representative, was murdered the day her divorce was to be settled, shot when receiving a box of pink roses at her doorstep. In 1997, Phillip Anthony Harwood was identified as the hit man and indicated that he had committed the murder for $25,000 at the behest of James Sullivan, the former husband of Lita McClinton, who had been in Palm Beach, Florida, during the shooting in Atlanta, Georgia. Sullivan escaped arrest by fleeing abroad. On July 2, 2002, he was arrested in Thailand, and in 2004, he was extradited to Atlanta. In March 2006, Sullivan was convicted of murder for arranging the 1987 shooting of his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, in a Georgia prison. The case was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries in 2001, the year before James Sullivan was arrested.
Rapist Alex Kelly | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Alex Kelly is an American convicted rapist, Kelly was charged with committing two rapes within a four-day period in Darien, Connecticut, in 1986. He was charged first with the rape of a 16-year-old Stamford girl, and then of a teenager in Darien. In one of the rapes, according to the police, he encountered a girl who lived near him and offered her a ride home from a party. He was later also charged with drug possession and two counts of kidnapping.Before his trial was due to begin in 1987, Kelly fled the United States and spent the next seven years on the run, mostly in Europe. Kelly's parents allegedly supported him financially during this seven-year period, although they may have been unaware of his exact locations. Law enforcement authorities suspected that the parents had been in contact with their son and, on at least one occasion, raided the parents' house in an attempt to find evidence of Kelly's location or their assistance to him.In 1995, the Connecticut State Police discovered photos in the Kelly home of Alex with his parents in Europe the previous year. Though his parents claimed to have no knowledge of his whereabouts, the photos told a different story and they were to be charged with obstruction. Kelly surrendered to authorities in Switzerland after learning of the charges of obstruction pending against his parents. He was extradited from Switzerland to the United States in order to stand trial on rape and kidnapping charges. Several lesser counts were excluded, as they were not specifically listed in the extradition treaty between the two nations. While out on bail, Kelly was allowed by the court to take classes at Norwalk Community College. Kelly faced two trials in 1997. After the first was declared a mistrial, the second resulted in his conviction for the first rape and a sentence of 17 years in prison. He pleaded no contest to the second rape and was sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison (sentence to run concurrently with the 17-year sentence).In 2005, after having served eight years of his 17-year sentence, Kelly appeared before a Connecticut parole board; his bid for release was rejected. At the hearing Kelly apologized many times saying he was "hypercompetitive" and self-centered, and that he has finally realized that the world is bigger than him.
Michael Peterson | The Murder of Kathleen Peterson | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | On December 9, 2001, Peterson called an emergency line to report that he had just found Kathleen unconscious and suspected she had fallen down "15, 20, I don't know" stairs. He later claimed that he had been outside by the pool and had come in at 2:40am to find Kathleen at the foot of the stairs. He maintained she must have fallen down the stairs after consuming alcohol and valium. Toxicology results showed that his wife's blood alcohol content was 0.07 percent. The autopsy report concluded that the 48-year-old victim sustained a matrix of severe injuries, including a fracture of the thyroid neck cartilage and seven lacerations to the top and back of her head, consistent with blows from a blunt object, and had died from blood loss 90 minutes to two hours after sustaining the injuries. Kathleen's daughter, Caitlin, and her sister, Candace Zamperini, both initially maintained Michael's innocence and publicly supported him alongside his children, but Zamperini reconsidered after learning of Peterson's bisexuality, as did Caitlin after reading her mother's autopsy report, and both subsequently broke off from the rest of the family. Although forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee, hired by the defense, testified that the blood-spatter evidence was consistent with an accidental fall down the stairs, police investigators concluded that the injuries were inconsistent with such an accident. As Michael Peterson was the only person at the residence at the time of Kathleen's death, he was the prime suspect and was soon charged with her murder. He pleaded not guilty.The medical examiner concluded that Kathleen had died from lacerations of the scalp caused by homicidal assault. According to this medical examiner, the total of seven lacerations to the top and back of her head were the result of repeated blows with a light yet rigid weapon, a blow pole which was a gift by Kathleen's sister, but wasn't recovered at the scene of the crime...that is, not at that time. Regardless,The defense disputed this theory, claiming that Kathleen's skull had not been fractured by the blows and nor was she brain damaged, which was inconsistent with injuries sustained in a beating death, according to their analysis.
Aileen Carol Wuornos | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Between December 1989 and September 1990, the bodies of several men were found murdered along the highways of northern and central Florida, including Richard Mallory, Dick Humphreys, Troy Burress, David Spears, Walter Gino Antonio, Peter Siems, and Charles Carskaddon.Items belonging to Mallory and Antonio were pawned near Daytona Beach and the alias names used were traced to Wuornos through thumbprints left on the pawn shop cards.Wuornos confessed to the murder of all six men, claiming that she was picked up by the men when she was working as a highway prostitute, and shot them in self defense after they attempted to sexually assault her.Wuornos was convicted of the murder of Richard Mallory after a jury trial in Volusia County and was sentenced to death. At trial, the State was allowed to introduce similar crimes evidence about Wuornos' commission of several other murders.While on death row, it was discovered that Mallory had previously served time for Attempted Rape. Wuornos pleaded no contest to the murders of the other 5 men and was sentenced to death in each case.Within two weeks of her arrest, Wuornos and her attorney had sold movie rights to her story. Investigators in her case did likewise. The case resulted in several books and movies, and even one opera on the life of "America's first female serial killer."Wuornos’s father, Leo Dale Pittman, was a child molester and a sociopath who was strangled in prison in 1969. Wuornos was pregnant at age fourteen. Shortly thereafter, she dropped out of school, left home and took up hitchhiking and prostitution. Wuornos had a prior conviction for armed robbery in 1982.
The Murder of Maurizio Gucci | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Maurizio Gucci (September 26, 1948 – March 27, 1995), son of Rodolfo Gucci and grandson of Guccio Gucci, was an Italian businessman, and the former head of the famous Gucci fashion house.Maurizio Gucci went on to sell his stock in Gucci in 1993 for $170 million to the Bahrain-based investment group, Investcorp. In 1995, a year and a half after the sale of Gucci, he was gunned down by a hired hit man. His ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani was later convicted of arranging the killing.[
Wade Frankum | The Strathfield Massacre | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | The Strathfield massacre was a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia, on 17 August 1991. The shooter was Wade Frankum, who killed himself as police arrived at the scene. The incident left eight dead and six wounded.
The Murderer Gary Gilmore | A Fight to Die | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Gary Gilmore was born in Texas in 1940. His father was an abusive alcoholic and a con man whose violence and contempt for the law was passed on to his son. After committing a series of escalating petty crimes in Oregon during his teens, Gilmore was sent to reform school and later served his first stretch in prison. By the age of 35, he had spent half his life incarcerated. After receiving a conditional release in May 1976, Gilmore moved in with a cousin in Provo, Utah, and briefly led a normal life. However, two months later he killed two men in cold blood during separate robberies and was arrested shortly thereafter. Found guilty of first-degree murder in his October 1976 trial, Gilmore chose not to appeal his death sentence. His case became a rallying point for opponents of the death penalty, and his execution was delayed for a time. He was executed by a firing squad in January 1977.
The Murder of Rinette Riella-Bergna | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Rinette Louise Riella-Bergna passed away at the age of 49 due to injuries suffered in a vehicle accident between Mount Rose Highway and the Slide Mountain Ski area. She was born to John J. and Ida T. Ferini Riella. She had lived in Incline Village for the past 24 years, coming from Stockton. Rinette owned a pharmacological consulting business. She was owner, partner and administrator of Keimach & Associates of Incline Village and an international tour director of Tauck Tours. She received a doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of the Pacific in Stockton on 1974. She was an honors graduate from the University of California at David in 1971. And a 1967 graduate of Manteca High School. She was a member of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Nevada Society of Hospital Pharmacist, past president of Nevada Pharmacist Association, California Pharmacists Association, American Association of University Women and received the 1994 Outstanding Pharmacist Service Award by the Nevada Pharmacist Association. Mrs. Riella-Bergna was a former director of Pharmacy Carson-Tahoe Hospital in Carson City, former director of Pharmacy at Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee, CA, and an administrator of Professional Services and Arlington Clinical Infusions of Reno. Surviving are husband, Peter M. of Incline Village; brothers, Jim, Jack and Rick Riella all of Manteca, CA Her parents preceded her in death.
The Murder in East Hampton | Ted Ammon | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | In October, Long Island’s East End was shocked by the murder of one of its wealthiest residents: 52-year-old Ted Ammon, who’d built much of his $80 million fortune as one of the top LBO players at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in the 1980s, was discovered naked and bludgeoned in the master bedroom of his house on Middle Lane. Ammon was popular with business colleagues, police found, but his private life, once seemingly idyllic—the adored young twins, the five homes, the luxury cars—held several ominous signs, not least the vicious divorce battle with his second wife, Generosa.
Armin Meiwes | The Rotenburg Cannibal | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Armin Meiwes , born 1 December 1961 is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penis, Meiwes killed his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh. Because of his acts, Meiwes is also known as the Rotenburg Cannibal or Der Metzgermeister (The Master Butcher). His main occupation was working as a computer repair technician.
The Murder of Helen Brach | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Helen Voorhees Brach (born November 10, 1911 – disappeared February 17, 1977) was an American multimillionaire widow whose wealth had come from marrying into the E. J. Brach & Sons Candy Company fortune; she endowed the Helen V. Brach Foundation to promote animal welfare in 1974. Brach disappeared on February 17, 1977 and was declared legally dead in May 1984. An investigation into the case uncovered serious criminal activity associated with Chicago stable owners including Silas Jayne and Richard Bailey. More than a decade later Bailey was charged with, but not convicted of, conspiring to murder Brach; he eventually received a long sentence after being convicted of defrauding her.
Timothy Wilson Spencer | The Southside Slayer | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Timothy Spencer is best known for being the first to be identified and convicted as a result of DNA evidence. His rape and murder spree began in January of 1984 when he killed Carol Hamm after raping her in her Arlington, Virginia, home. Another man was convicted of the murder and not released until Spencer was uncovered five years later.Spencer resumed killing in September of 1987 when he raped and strangled Debby Davis in Richmond, Virginia, and continued just two weeks later with the slaying of Dr. Susan Hellams, also found raped and strangled. Next was teenager Diane Cho who was killed in her home outside Richmond in November. Susan Tucker joined Spencer's list of victims the next month when she was found, like the others, raped and strangled in her Arlington home.Spencer was linked scientifically to three of the five murders, though her certainly committed them all, and earned a death sentence in 1988. He was executed on April 27, 1994.
The Kim Barry Murder | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | On Sunday, 8 February 1981, apprentice plumber Scott Davies was on a track leading down from Jamberoo Mountain Lookout, looking for dumped car parts to repair his old Holden, when he found the naked body of a young woman lodged against a tree. The body was face-down, in a crouching position. The wrists have been tied to the ankles with a bone-coloured bra and a blouse was wrapped around her arm. Her head was obscured from view. Davies scrambled back up the mountain and alerted police.When police recovered the body, it was found that the head, in fact, was not obscured from view but had been cut off at the neck. Additionally, the woman’s fingers on both hands had been cut off at the knuckles. The fingers on the right hand had been removed with a hacksaw, the left hand fingers had been removed with pliers. The post mortem showed that these had been removed after death, that her right arm was broken, and that there was no evidence of sexual assault. It also showed no cause of death.As drug gangs at the time were known to dispose of their couriers and cut off their heads and fingers to avoid identification of the bodies, NSW Police initially suspected the crime was drug-related. They tried to identify the body by checking its palm prints against their database, a task which at the time needed to be done by eye. This revealed no match with any palm prints held on file. Not knowing what else to do to identify the body, the police released photographs of the bra and blouse found with it.Beverley Barry returned to her Mt. Pleasant home in time to catch the news. She recognised the clothing as that belonging to her daughter, Kim, who had been missing since Friday night. She and Kim’s father, Brian, contacted police and identified the body as Kim’s by a heart-shaped birthmark below her breast.
Robert Spangler | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | On the morning of December 30, 1978, in Littleton, Colorado, Robert Spangler lured his wife Nancy into the basement with the promise of a "surprise." He then shot her in the head with a.38 handgun. Going upstairs, he shot his teenage children, Susan and David. David was slow in dying, so his father finished him off by smothering him with a pillow. Spangler had cunningly framed the crime scene, making it appear that his wife had shot their children and then herself.Now he was free to marry his new love, Sharon Cooper. A former high school athlete, he hiked the Grand Canyon with Sharon, who chronicled the trip in a book dedicated to her "soul mate," Spangler. But their happiness was short-lived. The marriage ended in a costly, messy divorce.In April, 1993, when Spangler's third marriage to 59-year-old aerobics instructor Donna Sundling went sour, he took her hiking in the Grand Canyon and pushed her off a 140-foot drop to her death. In 1994, when ex-wife Sharon committed suicide, Spangler became the focus of intense police scrutiny. Wracked with brain cancer, he told all to investigators in the fall of 2000, detailing his shocking serial sage-the story of a two-time widower...and a four-time killer.
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Josef Fritzl | The Monster of Amstetten | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | The Fritzl case emerged in April 2008 when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years behind eight locked doors in a concealed corridor part of the basement area of the large family house by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935), and that Fritzl had physically assaulted, sexually abused, and raped her numerous times during her imprisonment.The abuse by her father resulted in the birth of seven children; four of whom joined their mother in captivity (one dying just days after birth), while the other three were raised by Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie, having been reported as foundlings.
The Murder of Mitchell and Judith Bell | Crime Documentaries Timothy Jones 2017-02-20 | Daniel Colwell shot and killed two people in the Americus WalMart parking lot six years ago.He randomly killed Mitchell and Judith Bell so he would be sentenced to die. For years, Daniel Colwell had a death wish, but was afraid to committ suicide. He apparently overcame that fear late Sunday night.The 41-year old Colwell was found hanging in his cell on death row at the Jackson State Prison. Prison officials say he apparently hanged himself with a sheet.Colwell had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and manic depressive. He had tried suicide several times and finally, in a desperate attempt to die in the electric chair, he gunned down the Bells, then surrendered to police.What followed was one of the strangest sentencing trials in South Georgia history."My lawyers do not represent me," he said to the court. "It's too bad that me and death are best friends.”Daniel Morris Colwell was not your typical killer. He didn't kill out of anger, for money, or even for some sick thrill. He intentionally murdered with one goal in mind; to die at the hands of the state. "I, Daniel Colwell, deserve the death penalty.”Moments after shooting Mitchell and Judith Bell in July 1996, Colwell drove to the police station. Commander Nelson Brown says "He walked inside, summoned dispatch, told the dispatcher, 'I'm the person you're looking for killing two people at Wal-Mart.'"Colwell's attorney wanted him to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but he refused, and plead guilty. Then, at his sentencing trial last year, he even threatened the jurors. "For those who might want me to see me suffer by making me suffer for the rest of my life in prison, how do you know, that I will not break out of prison and then torture your loved ones?"Daniel Colwell was one of 14 children, from a hard working, God-fearing, religious family, well known and well respected throughout Americus.And Daniel was the family star. He won a college football scholarship and at 6-1, 225 pounds, he was even a pro prospect. To his younger brother Steven, Daniel was a hero."He loved rising to the occasion and making the big play. He was an exciting type football player," said brother Steven.But his promising football career came to an abrupt end in 1983 when he walked off the field before his college team's final game. His family says it was the first sign of his mental illness.It's the mental illness his lawyers point to as the reason for his bizarre trial where Colwell sang: "Babe I'm leaving, I must be on my way. The time is drawing near. Babe I love you."
