This man was one of the Iron Curtain serial killers we never heard about, a man who confessed to nine murders and eleven attempted murders. Why he did these crimes is not known, but they did have a bizarre element to them.Tuchlin was born on April 28th 1946 in Mount, located at Kos'cierzyna, Poland. His parents Bernard & Monica abused him as a child but, like Miewes, not a lot is known about his early life. He ran away from home at 18, got married, was convicted for petty theft, got divorced, then remarried, having two children. One thing that did emerge was that Tuchlin liked sexual exhibitionism, but again, details as to why are scarce. His victims ages ranged from 19 to 53.
His first attack was an attempted murder in the autumn of 1975. He would rush up behind lone woman and strike them over the head. Whilst they lay on the floor, he would insert a couple of fingers into the victim's genitals, and then masturbate with his other hand! The attacks continued , with him claiming his first murder on 9th November 1979. He carried on attacking lone women, killing and severely injuring them. He attacked a twenty year old woman on 18th January 1983, but she survived and gave the Police their first solid clue; a sketch of him. His last known victim he attacked on 6th May 1983. Police closed in on him and he was arrested on 31st May. Tuchlin confessed to all the crimes, and put on trial. The court sentenced him to death. His sentence was upheld by the Polish Supreme Court, and the State Court could have granted clemency but they did not. Tuchlin was hanged at a detention Centre in Gdansk on 25th May 1987.
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Armin Miewes - The German Cannibal
Despite how long the Internet has been up and running, it still never ceases to amaze me just what sites people devise, the content and the fact that people are sucked in. One such website was "The Cannibal Cafe" which catered for the obvious, and a German named Armin Miewes advertised for somebody he could kill and then consume!! The twisted thing is that he got some replies from apparently willing victims, who later backed out. But one man made it clear he was willing. Bernd Brandes from Berlin.
Armin Miewes was born in Essen on 1st December 1961, but not much is known about his early life. When he had his own home, he put his advert on the Internet. He asked for a well built man aged 18-30 to be slaughtered and eaten. Brandes duly met up with Miewes, on March 9th 2001, who had a video camera setup to record the whole horrific event. First thing Miewes did was - men get ready to squirm - to cut his penis off and both attempted to eat it!!! Both could not manage it, so Miewes started a fry up with vegetables and some wine. He had killed the Berlin Engineer by first plying him with sleeping pills and schnapps, then killed him and hung him from a meat hook, and started stripping the corpse. To the fry up he added some body fat, but it ended burnt, so he chopped it up and fed some to his dog.
He put much of the body parts in his freezer, and ate them over a ten month period. His downfall came when a student saw another advert for victims and descriptions of what he had done to Brandes. Police raided his home in December 2002 and found he still had body parts of Brandes. The video camera was seized along with tapes. The whole episode was on tape. Put on trial, he was sentenced to just 8 years for manslaughter, but the prosecution appealed and a retrial was held. This time he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. A psychologist believed he was capable for repeating his offence if released. In May 2006, he was sentenced.
Armin Miewes was born in Essen on 1st December 1961, but not much is known about his early life. When he had his own home, he put his advert on the Internet. He asked for a well built man aged 18-30 to be slaughtered and eaten. Brandes duly met up with Miewes, on March 9th 2001, who had a video camera setup to record the whole horrific event. First thing Miewes did was - men get ready to squirm - to cut his penis off and both attempted to eat it!!! Both could not manage it, so Miewes started a fry up with vegetables and some wine. He had killed the Berlin Engineer by first plying him with sleeping pills and schnapps, then killed him and hung him from a meat hook, and started stripping the corpse. To the fry up he added some body fat, but it ended burnt, so he chopped it up and fed some to his dog.
He put much of the body parts in his freezer, and ate them over a ten month period. His downfall came when a student saw another advert for victims and descriptions of what he had done to Brandes. Police raided his home in December 2002 and found he still had body parts of Brandes. The video camera was seized along with tapes. The whole episode was on tape. Put on trial, he was sentenced to just 8 years for manslaughter, but the prosecution appealed and a retrial was held. This time he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. A psychologist believed he was capable for repeating his offence if released. In May 2006, he was sentenced.
Ian Stanton - Another Drug Smuggler Bites The Dust
Yet another Liverpool drug smuggler and his team have been taken down and shipped off to jail. This time it was the National Crime Agency that had Stanton under close surveillance and foiled his attempt to distribute £71 million worth of cocaine. They discovered the haul stored in a container at Tilbury Docks in London, hidden amongst beef from Argentina. Craftily, they replaced the haul, stashed in 16 bags, with bricks. The container was then hoisted onto a lorry and driven all the way up north, to Wigan. The NCA watched as an associate removed two bags then discarded them as he realised the contents were not drugs.
Stanton and his associates had a meeting at Aintree Retail Park, where it was expressed that extreme physical and sexual violence was to be meted out to anybody who might know anything. This was covertly watched by NCA officers. Stanton, 43, was later arrested in Rotterdam, in Holland, and extradited back to the UK. At Liverpool Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import narcotics and received 12 years. His associates, Tony Short, 40, from Lancashire, received 22 years, the heaviest sentence. James Mossman, 38, from Liverpool received 7 years 4 months. Gary keating, from Stockbridge Village, received 8 years. Finally,Francis Oakford was jailed for 4 years 9 months for conspiracy to blackmail.
The list of Merseyside "Mr Bigs" involved in drugs, that have gone down, include Warren, Haase, Hibbs-Turner, and now Stanton. It has taken a very long time but my opinion is that during the 60`s & 70`s, and even into the 80`s, the drug problem was never truly taken seriously by the Home Office or the Police hierarchy. Certainly since the 90`s they have done.
Stanton and his associates had a meeting at Aintree Retail Park, where it was expressed that extreme physical and sexual violence was to be meted out to anybody who might know anything. This was covertly watched by NCA officers. Stanton, 43, was later arrested in Rotterdam, in Holland, and extradited back to the UK. At Liverpool Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import narcotics and received 12 years. His associates, Tony Short, 40, from Lancashire, received 22 years, the heaviest sentence. James Mossman, 38, from Liverpool received 7 years 4 months. Gary keating, from Stockbridge Village, received 8 years. Finally,Francis Oakford was jailed for 4 years 9 months for conspiracy to blackmail.
The list of Merseyside "Mr Bigs" involved in drugs, that have gone down, include Warren, Haase, Hibbs-Turner, and now Stanton. It has taken a very long time but my opinion is that during the 60`s & 70`s, and even into the 80`s, the drug problem was never truly taken seriously by the Home Office or the Police hierarchy. Certainly since the 90`s they have done.
Saturday, 12 April 2014
The Murder of Edith McElroy
This is a tale of a girl turning rebel and running with the wrong crowd. The sort of warnings many thousands of parents have warned their children about, but for many things can turn out very bad, and for some, deadly. Edith McElroy was such a girl. The Louisiana teenager hooked with a biker named Archie "Possum" West, not something her father and stepmother were happy about. She went mainly riding with him and his little gang of buddies for some years but then decided to marry him. However, things are never bright and shiny when you mix with bikers, as women do not come before their club, buddies or bikes. One place they frequented was a garage run by a man named Mike Brown.
Archie West was arrested on a number of warrants and jailed, and so Edith turned up at a house where his buddies Ricky Brown & Mike Burnett were and had a number of drinks with them. But the alcohol loosened her tongue and she said she was responsible for West being in jail. They turned on her, beating her, stripping her and throwing her into the boot of a car. They took her to a swamp, tied a weight around her neck and threw her in. She kept getting up and out, so Burnett told Brown that they have to finish her off or they are done for. He says he reluctantly helped Burnett, whilst he held her under the water. Then they left.
Two fishermen found her body and alerted Police. Eventually she was identified as 23 year old Edith McElroy. Her parents told of the people she hung around with but they played dumb, not knowing anything. The case ran cold for two decades. In 2001, Mike Brown was facing a heavy sentence in jail, so he informed authorities that Ricky Brown admitted to him that he & Burnett had killed a girl in 1980. The cops originally on the case had since retired so one cop looked over the files and evidence but could not locate either Brown or Burnett. He received a call some years later from the ex-wife of Ricky Brown, saying that he told all the details, saying it gave him nightmares. He was later traced and arrested. He was charged with 2nd degree murder. Viki Brown & Mike Brown gave evidence, and in 2012 he was found guilty and sentenced to life.
Archie West was arrested on a number of warrants and jailed, and so Edith turned up at a house where his buddies Ricky Brown & Mike Burnett were and had a number of drinks with them. But the alcohol loosened her tongue and she said she was responsible for West being in jail. They turned on her, beating her, stripping her and throwing her into the boot of a car. They took her to a swamp, tied a weight around her neck and threw her in. She kept getting up and out, so Burnett told Brown that they have to finish her off or they are done for. He says he reluctantly helped Burnett, whilst he held her under the water. Then they left.
Two fishermen found her body and alerted Police. Eventually she was identified as 23 year old Edith McElroy. Her parents told of the people she hung around with but they played dumb, not knowing anything. The case ran cold for two decades. In 2001, Mike Brown was facing a heavy sentence in jail, so he informed authorities that Ricky Brown admitted to him that he & Burnett had killed a girl in 1980. The cops originally on the case had since retired so one cop looked over the files and evidence but could not locate either Brown or Burnett. He received a call some years later from the ex-wife of Ricky Brown, saying that he told all the details, saying it gave him nightmares. He was later traced and arrested. He was charged with 2nd degree murder. Viki Brown & Mike Brown gave evidence, and in 2012 he was found guilty and sentenced to life.
Kerry Lyn Dalton - Death Row Inmate
This woman has been residing on California's Death Row for nearly twenty years, convicted for her leading role in the brutal and savage murder of Irene Louise May in 1988. Irene`s body has never been found and the prosecution relied on the evidence of a woman who was there, and whom had cut a deal to get a reduced sentence. Also, the fact that a man, Mark Lee Thompkins, who participated and it was said, gave the final wound that ended Irene`s life, stuck his hands up to the charge. This enabled him to avoid the death penalty. The factor that set this episode off, was that both Dalton and Irene were meth heads; addicted to methamphetamine, a drug that turns people into the worst monsters there is.
Irene asked to stay in the trailer Dalton lived in, and they both just drugged away. At one point, Dalton was jailed and when she came out, it was claimed that some of her jewelry was missing and obviously Irene May has sold it for meth money. Then it was claimed she brought her friend Thompkins and a woman, Sheryl Ann Baker, to teach her a lesson. Irene was tied to a chair, beaten, given electric shocks, injected with battery acid, and stabbed numerous times. Thompkins was said to have delivered the lethal stab. Her body has never been found. It was in the early 90`s that Police searched the trailer home but found nothing. Well, it was a few years later, and even rabid druggies can clean up a crime scene. They had plenty of time. Arrests were made and Baker cut a deal, telling the full horrific story. She was found guilty of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life. She has a good chance of parole. Thompkins pled guilty to 1st degree murder and received 25 years to life. He has a chance to get out. Dalton received the Death Penalty.
Dalton has her supporters that believe she is innocent, but Baker & Thompkins stuck their hands up to their roles in this case. Dalton has requested letters from people whilst she awaits her execution. You would not believe what she was convicted of if you read what she says about herself. No mention of the rampant meth habit. She seems a happy-go-lucky free spirit. If you want to believe her. Yes, a spell on Death Row certainly changes the perception of how you want people to view you. Look at Karla Faye Tucker as an example. No sympathy from me.
Irene asked to stay in the trailer Dalton lived in, and they both just drugged away. At one point, Dalton was jailed and when she came out, it was claimed that some of her jewelry was missing and obviously Irene May has sold it for meth money. Then it was claimed she brought her friend Thompkins and a woman, Sheryl Ann Baker, to teach her a lesson. Irene was tied to a chair, beaten, given electric shocks, injected with battery acid, and stabbed numerous times. Thompkins was said to have delivered the lethal stab. Her body has never been found. It was in the early 90`s that Police searched the trailer home but found nothing. Well, it was a few years later, and even rabid druggies can clean up a crime scene. They had plenty of time. Arrests were made and Baker cut a deal, telling the full horrific story. She was found guilty of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life. She has a good chance of parole. Thompkins pled guilty to 1st degree murder and received 25 years to life. He has a chance to get out. Dalton received the Death Penalty.
Dalton has her supporters that believe she is innocent, but Baker & Thompkins stuck their hands up to their roles in this case. Dalton has requested letters from people whilst she awaits her execution. You would not believe what she was convicted of if you read what she says about herself. No mention of the rampant meth habit. She seems a happy-go-lucky free spirit. If you want to believe her. Yes, a spell on Death Row certainly changes the perception of how you want people to view you. Look at Karla Faye Tucker as an example. No sympathy from me.
Friday, 11 April 2014
Dr Michael Stone - "Most Evil"
This is one man who has made it his mission to study the lives and actions of sadistic killers, serial killers, spree killers and anybody convicted of heinous crimes. He is a Forensic Psychiatrist at Columbia University, and has devised a scale from one to twenty two. The higher the score, the more evil and diabolical the individual is. He examines the backgrounds, the actual crimes, and afterwards, concluding where an individual stands on his scale. He hosts a documentary series "Most Evil" which also shows various research projects carried out by other scientists on patients, hoping to discover why people act in certain ways.
Dr Stone also conducts interviews with so many of these killers, and sometimes he gets a nasty reaction from the interviewee. He has hit on a sore spot. One was a vicious child killer, who said he would end the interview if he kept asking about the murders he committed. He claims he is innocent and was framed by the police. Another was Cindy Hendy, the woman who helped David Parker Ray abduct and torture women because it gave him a sexual thrill. Dr Stone asked why a much younger woman would be around a much older man. Was it a father thing? She went mad at this. He asked if she liked much older men. She threatened to walk out if he asked one more question like that.
Dr Stone has put a number at level 22 - Arthur Shawcross, Ridgway, Parker Ray, Chikatilo, Dahmer, Gacy, etc. Bundy rated a couple of notches down, at 19 or 20. Rod Ferrell, Manson, and his killers, all rated at 15. Some rate very low. It is a very interesting series. Dr Stone adopts an attitude of not showing any reactions to what he is told, keeps a calm voice and lets the person state their case, even if he does not believe it. He tells us his conclusions after the interviews. Essential viewing for budding and armchair psychiatrists.
Dr Stone also conducts interviews with so many of these killers, and sometimes he gets a nasty reaction from the interviewee. He has hit on a sore spot. One was a vicious child killer, who said he would end the interview if he kept asking about the murders he committed. He claims he is innocent and was framed by the police. Another was Cindy Hendy, the woman who helped David Parker Ray abduct and torture women because it gave him a sexual thrill. Dr Stone asked why a much younger woman would be around a much older man. Was it a father thing? She went mad at this. He asked if she liked much older men. She threatened to walk out if he asked one more question like that.
Dr Stone has put a number at level 22 - Arthur Shawcross, Ridgway, Parker Ray, Chikatilo, Dahmer, Gacy, etc. Bundy rated a couple of notches down, at 19 or 20. Rod Ferrell, Manson, and his killers, all rated at 15. Some rate very low. It is a very interesting series. Dr Stone adopts an attitude of not showing any reactions to what he is told, keeps a calm voice and lets the person state their case, even if he does not believe it. He tells us his conclusions after the interviews. Essential viewing for budding and armchair psychiatrists.
Richard Trenton Chase - "The Sacramento Vampire"
There have been a very small group of so-called vampires that have included John Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer, Rod Ferrell, from Florida, and the back in the 30`s, the Dusseldorf Vampire in Germany. This particular man did not claim to be one - Haigh claimed he was for an insanity plea and probably for shock effect as well - but he acted like one due to the severe delusions he was having. Chase was born in Santa Clara County in California in 23rd May 1950, where it was said he was abused by his mother. He started displaying bizarre behaviour by the age of ten and as an adolescent he developed a severe case of hypochondria, thinking he was suffering many outlandish illnesses and symptoms. He finally left home, convinced that his mother was attempting to poison him. He shared an apartment with some people but his behaviour was getting more and more bizarre. He was perpetually consuming alcohol, weed, and given his deteriorating mental state, LSD. Most definitely not the best thing to be taking.
His roommates were freaked out by him and they asked him to leave but he refused. They chose to leave instead. Chase then started killing animals, bringing them back to his apartment, eating their innards and drinking their blood. He believed that if he carried on like this, it would prevent his heart from shrinking! In 1975, he was committed to a mental institution, after he was found injecting the blood of rabbits into his veins. In hospital, blood was found smeared around his mouth, which was discovered to be from birds. After being subjected to psychotropic drugs, he was, in a move reminiscent of the British Government's attitude to the mentally ill in the 1980`s, deemed safe to be released back into the general public in 1976. He had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. People were to suffer horrifically for this cavalier approach to Chase`s mental state. He was released under the supervision of his mother, who slowly weaned him off his medication.
A warning shot about his state occurred in 1977 when he was arrested in Nevada, where he was found covered in blood. The vehicle he was driving, had a bucket of blood in it. This turned out to be animal blood. It was at the end of 1977, December 29th, that he drove past 51 year old Ambrose Griffin and shot him dead. Two weeks later, he was trying doors and windows. If they were locked, then obviously he was not welcome. But if they were open.... One couple returning couple surprised him in their home. He fled but not before he pissed and shat on their bed and clothes. January 23rd 1978, he walked into the home of Teresa Wallin, who was pregnant. Chase shot her, raped her, stabbed her, removed organs from her body and drank her blood. If this was not enough, he went outside, gathered up dogshit and forced it down the throat of the victim. Four days later, on the 27th, he entered the home of 38 year old Evelyn Miroth. Her friend Danny Meredith was there. He shot them both dead. Then he turned his attentions to the children in the house. Her 6 year old son, Jason was shot dead. Then he turned to 22 month old nephew David Ferreira, sparing no quarter. He then went back to the body of Evelyn, raped and cannibalized her. A young boy who knocked on the door, startled Chase who fled in Evelyn`s car. He also took the body of the baby. Police quickly on the scene found a house of horrors, exactly like four days earlier. They found perfect finger and foot prints in the blood. He was quickly apprehended.
On trial for six murders, the only defence to save him from the death penalty was an insanity defence. One point the defence used was that Chase believed he needed to drink blood to stay alive. The jury would not hear of it, and he was convicted and sentenced to death. In prison, he told psychiatrists that he was being stalked and hounded by nazis & ufos. He committed suicide in December 1980, after secretly saving up his medication tablets and taking an overdose. Good riddance.
His roommates were freaked out by him and they asked him to leave but he refused. They chose to leave instead. Chase then started killing animals, bringing them back to his apartment, eating their innards and drinking their blood. He believed that if he carried on like this, it would prevent his heart from shrinking! In 1975, he was committed to a mental institution, after he was found injecting the blood of rabbits into his veins. In hospital, blood was found smeared around his mouth, which was discovered to be from birds. After being subjected to psychotropic drugs, he was, in a move reminiscent of the British Government's attitude to the mentally ill in the 1980`s, deemed safe to be released back into the general public in 1976. He had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. People were to suffer horrifically for this cavalier approach to Chase`s mental state. He was released under the supervision of his mother, who slowly weaned him off his medication.
A warning shot about his state occurred in 1977 when he was arrested in Nevada, where he was found covered in blood. The vehicle he was driving, had a bucket of blood in it. This turned out to be animal blood. It was at the end of 1977, December 29th, that he drove past 51 year old Ambrose Griffin and shot him dead. Two weeks later, he was trying doors and windows. If they were locked, then obviously he was not welcome. But if they were open.... One couple returning couple surprised him in their home. He fled but not before he pissed and shat on their bed and clothes. January 23rd 1978, he walked into the home of Teresa Wallin, who was pregnant. Chase shot her, raped her, stabbed her, removed organs from her body and drank her blood. If this was not enough, he went outside, gathered up dogshit and forced it down the throat of the victim. Four days later, on the 27th, he entered the home of 38 year old Evelyn Miroth. Her friend Danny Meredith was there. He shot them both dead. Then he turned his attentions to the children in the house. Her 6 year old son, Jason was shot dead. Then he turned to 22 month old nephew David Ferreira, sparing no quarter. He then went back to the body of Evelyn, raped and cannibalized her. A young boy who knocked on the door, startled Chase who fled in Evelyn`s car. He also took the body of the baby. Police quickly on the scene found a house of horrors, exactly like four days earlier. They found perfect finger and foot prints in the blood. He was quickly apprehended.
On trial for six murders, the only defence to save him from the death penalty was an insanity defence. One point the defence used was that Chase believed he needed to drink blood to stay alive. The jury would not hear of it, and he was convicted and sentenced to death. In prison, he told psychiatrists that he was being stalked and hounded by nazis & ufos. He committed suicide in December 1980, after secretly saving up his medication tablets and taking an overdose. Good riddance.
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