A biography on the life of John Reginald Christie, the serial killer.
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Facts Behind CHANGELING: The Gordon Stewart Northcott Case (Part 1 of 6)
The case of Gordon Stewart Northcott--the pedophile and serial child killer in Riverside County, California in the late 1920s--inspired the recent Clint Eastwood movie CHANGELING, starring Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins, the mother of one of Northcott's victims. I am James Jeffrey Paul, author of the first-ever biography of Northcott, NOTHING IS STRANGE WITH YOU: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF GORDON STEWART NORTHCOTT. The book is now available from Amazon and other online vendors. (I should add that the script for CHANGELING was not based upon my book, nor my book upon it.) This multi-part video records a talk I gave on the subject to the Riverside Historical Society at the Riverside Public Library on 26 October 2008. The gentleman who introduces me is Mr. Steve Lech, head of the Riverside Historical Society. The photograph is in the public domain, and shows Christine Collins talking with Northcott in the LA County Jail's hospital. Erratum: At one point on one of these videos, I say that the Winslow brothers (Northcott's final two victims) were kidnapped off the streets of Los Angeles. I should have said Pomona.
In early 2004 several murder victims mutilated bodies were found in the Los Angeles county area. The L.A.P.D. later reported that the murder cases were 'solved'. But more and more victims mutilated and decapitated bodies were still being found weeks later. Then by the Summer of 2004, with a body count of up to 50 victims, the L.A.P.D. decided to keep the murders hidden from the press and the public. This was due to the fact that the killer could not be found and because the L.A.P.D. and the FBI then realized that the killer might not be human. Then detectives found a videotape...from the killer. This is that story. The killer has never been found.
taken from the documentary "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer" (1992)
Patty Malone, a former TV news anchor, almost found out the hard way her old high school sweetheart turned into a serial killer. Plus, psychologist Vonda Pelto worked with LA's highest-profile serial killers to keep them alive in prison. She's author of "Without Remorse."
Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 - March 5, 2006) was a convicted murderer and notorious contract killer. He worked for several Italian-American crime families, and claimed to have murdered over 200 people over a career that lasted thirty years.
Cuarto Milenio
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) also known as The Killer Clown, was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men between 1972 and his arrest in 1978, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of "Pogo the Clown."
Murder in Suburbia examines a classic love triangle that rocked suburbia and ended in murder and death for all three protagonists. Edith Thompson had an affair with lodger Fred that resulted in him killing her husband Percy. Although Edith did not participate in the murder, she was hanged for it. While The Blonde Assassin is a tale of sex, lust and jealousy as Ruth Ellis shot dead her unfaithful lover David Blakley outside the Magdala Pub in Hampstead on Easter Sunday. For this crime, she became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
The Great Train Robbery took place in In August 1963, sixteen men pulled off one of the most daring crimes in British History. They hijacked and robbed £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train in an extraordinary feat of meticulous planning. Death at the 'Blind Beggar' follows the crime that shot the Kray Twins to notoriety and led to the eventual downfall of their gang. The Blind Beggar, a pub in the heart of London’s East End was the setting for the point blank killing of rival gangster George Cornell.
Dr Death' follows tale of a gruesome serial killer who used thecover of World War Two to get away with murder. Dr Marcel Petiot promised his 27 victims an escape from Nazi occupied France, but instead murdered them in cold blood in his home.The Monster at Montmarte is about the late 1980’s which saw the colourful Montmartre district of Paris terrorised by a prolific killer, who targeted elderly ladies. The police finally tracked down and arrested a transvestite drug addict and his younger boyfriend.
The Clockwork Orange Murder is murder that led to the Stanley Kubrick withdrawing his film The Clockwork Orange from Britain during his lifetime. This copycat killing saw an elderly vagrant bludgeoned to death in a church graveyard – just like in the film. Part two is the Rhyl Mummy following a mummy discovery in a home. When Leslie Harvey decided to get his mum’s house redecorated while she was in hospital, he hadn’t bargained for discovering a twenty year old mummified body in the landing cupboard. The body was that of a former lodger of his mother’s and it transpired that Mrs Harvey had been helping herself to the victims maintenance payments ever since.
In 1976 Peter Hogg killed his unfaithful wife Margaret, wrapped her body in a roll of carpet and dumped it in the Wast Water in Cumbria. The accidental discovery of the body seven years later led to Hogg’s arrest and details of his ‘awful marriage’ coming to light. The Honeymoon Murder is about two wealthy Chinese newlyweds who arrived in the Lake District in 1928 to enjoy their honeymoon. Husband Chung Yi Mao became distraught when his wife’s body was found dead in local waters. Despite his law degree, he slipped up when giving evidence to the police and it emerged that he had murdered her for her vast fortune
The brutal murder of 22 year old maidservant Rose Harsent has remained unsolved for nearly a century. She was pregnant and her body was badly burned. A man was tried twice for her murder but never convicted. The events of that night still remain a mystery. Part two is about Alma Rattenbury who was accused of bludgeoning her husband to death with a carpenters mallet, although ultimately it was her 18 year old garden boy and lover who was convicted of the murder. Three days later Alma committed suicide, unable to cope with her true loves gaol sentence. However, the true motive for the murder remains in doubt even after all these years.
How was the story of a brutal crime turned into a legend? Christopher Frayling stalks the shadows of 1888.
Michael Winner presents this documentary on the discovery of the alleged 'jack the ripper' diary.
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