Murder Most Vile Volume 22

 18 classic true crime cases from around the world, including;

Over My Dead Body: The divorce was settled amicably in court; the custody dispute was settled with cold-blooded murder.

The Final Prank: A little girl is found raped and strangled. The identity of her killer will shock an entire community to its core.

If I Can’t Have You: If you love someone set them free, if they come back to you, they are yours forever… if they don’t, kill them.

The Body in the Suitcase: A suitcase is found by the roadside. Its contents will send investigators on a desperate hunt to catch a killer before he strikes again.

Murder at the Long Branch Saloon: A much-loved tavern owner disappears from his business in broad daylight, leaving the police with an apparently uncrackable case to solve.

Playing with Fire: Taylor was young and eager to experiment; Ben was older and happy to teach her. It was all fun and games until someone turned up dead.

The Seaside Murders: Four members of the same family are found hacked to death inside their home in a quiet beach community. But who killed them? And why?

A Cain and Abel Story: Its brother against brother in this convoluted tale of money, deceit, and murder for hire.

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Murder Most Vile Volume 22

Serial Killers: Michael Lockhart

Born: September 30, 1960 

Number of victims:  6+   

Date of murders: 1987 - 1988

Method of murder: Shooting / Stabbing   

Location: Indiana / Texas / Florida / Tennessee

A drifter with an apparent grudge against society, Michael Lockhart already had a long rap sheet by the time he was paroled from his latest period of incarceration in December 1986. Yet despite his checkered past, few would have expected the coast-to-coast crime spree that he would unleash over the next 15 months.

Between Christmas 1986 and March of 1988, Lockhart was a man on a mission, traveling the length and breadth of the country and committing rapes and robberies in Wyoming, Florida, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and Louisiana. He also, during that time, committed at least six murders.

On October 13, 1987, Wendy Gallagher was stabbed to death inside her home in Griffith, Indiana. Three months later, on January 20, 1988, a 14-year-old girl was raped and knifed to death in Land O'Lakes, Florida. Three more young women were killed in startlingly similar fashion over the following months, with fingerprints linking Lockhart to each of the crime scenes.

In March 1988, Officer Paul Hulsey, Jr. followed a stolen red Corvette to a motel parking lot in Beaumont, Texas where he confronted the driver, Michael Lockhart. Rather than surrendering, Lockhart drew a gun and fired twice, hitting the officer in the heart and killing him instantly. 

Lockhart was arrested on March 22. Tried in Texas and Florida, he received multiple death sentences. He was executed by lethal injection on December 9, 1997.

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Deadly Women Volume 4

18 classic true crime cases of women who kill, including;

Kelly Cochran: Convicted of two savage murders, Cochran may well be a serial killer. But did she really feed one of her victims to unsuspecting neighbors?

Larissa Schuster: Larissa wanted her husband to disappear. And with her knowledge of biochemistry, she knew exactly how to make it happen.

Inessa Tarverdiyeva: Nursery school teacher by day, home-invading serial killer by night, Tarverdiyeva turned murder into an activity for the whole family to participate in.

Karla Faye Tucker: A controversial case from Texas. Nobody doubted that Karla Faye had committed the brutal double homicide. But did she really deserve the death penalty?

Martha Rendell: The archetypal wicked stepmother, Rendell murdered her stepchildren in the most horrific way possible.

Martha Marek: Known as the “Devil in Petticoats,” Marek went to extraordinary lengths to maintain her standard of living, lengths that included murder.

Audrey Marie Hilley: A suburban housewife with a deadly quirk. She enjoyed feeding poison to her nearest and dearest.

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Dead Men Walking Volume 2

Some killers get away with murder. Others pay the ultimate price.

50 American killers who were put to death for their horrendous deeds, including;

Cameron Willingham: Monstrous father who set his house on fire and watched while his children burned.

John Taylor: Callous Utah child killer who chose to be executed by firing squad.

Father Hans Schmidt: The only Catholic priest ever to be executed in the United States.

Mark Hopkinson: Sentenced to death for a bombing that wiped out an entire family.

Larry Gene Bell: Deranged serial killer who enjoyed taunting his victims’ families.

Charles Brooks: The first US inmate to be executed by lethal injection.

Wanda Jean Allen: Double murderer who gunned down her lesbian lover right in front of a police station.

William Chappell: Vile pedophile who murdered three members of his juvenile girlfriend’s family in an act of revenge.

William Woratzek: Killer landlord who brutally murdered his disabled tenant.

Carl Hall & Bonnie Heady: Killer couple who snatched a 6-year-old boy for ransom and then killed him.

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Serial Killers: James Ryan O'Neill

 Born: 1947

Number of victims: 3+     

Date of murders: 1975

Method of murder: Bludgeoning   

Location:Tasmania, Australia





Born Leigh Anthony Bridgart in Melbourne, Australia in 1947, James O'Neill grew up to be an intelligent boy who got good grades at school. After graduating, he worked for a while in real estate before he became a gun dealer. While employed in that trade, he was accidently shot in the head in 1969. Although he escaped serious brain damage, the injury brought about changes to his personality.

In 1971, Bridgart was charged with sexual offenses against four boys. Facing serious jail time if convicted, he skipped bail and fled to the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia.  In 1973, he married a barmaid named Carol, and a year later he showed up in Derby, where he got a job with the Department of Agriculture. However, was soon fired, after he was caught trading food for sexual favors with Aboriginal children.

On August 29, 1974, a 12-year-old named Jimmy Taylor disappeared from a street in Derby. Jimmy had been seen getting into a truck matching the one that Bridgart owned, but Bridgart wasn’t about to hang around to see if the police would connect him to the crime. He absconded for Hobart, Tasmania, where he changed his name by deed poll to James Ryan O’Neill.

Three months later, O’Neill was on his way to the hospital to pick up his wife after the birth of their newborn son, when he spotted 9-year-old Ricky John Smith playing unattended. Luring the boy into his truck, O’Neill drove him to a remote area where he raped him, before pulverizing his head with a rock.

In the weeks that followed, O’Neill tried to abduct two more youngsters but they thankfully escaped. Nine-year-old Bruce Colin Wilson was not so lucky. Abducted in a near identical crime to the Ricky Smith murder, he was raped and bludgeoned to death in April 1975. A month later, O'Neill was caught in the act of trying to abduct a young boy and was placed under arrest. 

At trial, O’Neill tried an insanity plea, citing the bullet wound he had suffered. But that held little sway with the jury who found him guilty after just three-and-a-half hours of deliberation. He was sentenced to life in prison.

James Ryan O’Neill is considered the prime suspect in at least eight more child murders.   
 

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Murder Most Vile Volume 21

 18 classic true crime cases from around the world, including;

Good Night, Sweet Wife: A murder that rocked America, a remarkable and stunning twist in the tale.

A Sunny Place for Shady People: Murder crops up in the strangest of places, even among the rich and famous.

Without a Trace: The killer was meticulous and he was clever, perhaps too clever for his own good.

Death in the Outback: It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime. It ended in a night of pure terror.

The Clairvoyant: Sheila was tortured by visions of a body lying dead on a beach. The question is: Is she a psychic or a psycho?

Without a Trace: The killer was meticulous and he was clever, perhaps too clever for his own good.

Until Proven Guilty: A cold case, a suspect who insists he’s innocent, a detective who is equally certain he’s guilty. One of them is wrong. But which one?

Tortured to Death: A young couple falls into the hands of a gang of vicious miscreants. What happens next is almost beyond the bounds of belief.

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Murder Most Vile Volume 21

Serial Killers: Micajah & Wiley Harpe

Number of victims: 20+     

Date of murders: 1797 - 1804

Method of murder: Shooting / Stabbing   

Location:Tennessee / Kentucky / Mississippi / Illinois

Generally considered to be America’s first serial killers, Micajah and Wiley Harpe were murderers, highwaymen, and river bandits who operated in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Mississippi in the late eighteenth century. The pair were not brothers but were actually cousins whose families emigrated from Scotland around 1760. During the American revolution, they served on the loyalist side, attacking the farms of Patriot colonists, committing rape and murder. Those experiences prepared them well for the carnage they would later commit.

In 1797, the Harpes were driven out of Knoxville, Tennessee after they were accused of killing a man named Johnson, ripping open his stomach and filling it with rocks before sinking him to the bottom of a river. They fled north into Kentucky, where they began preying on travelers along the Wilderness Road, committing so many murders that the Kentucky governor placed as $300 bounty on their heads.

That however, did nothing to slow the Harpes. With wives and children now in tow, they joined up with a river pirate named Samuel Mason and his gang and began preying on river traffic. But even this gang of cutthroats was appalled by the way the bloodthirsty Harpes treated their captives and the Harpes were forced to leave.

Micajah and Wiley showed up next in Eastern Tennessee, where they continued their vicious murder spree. Among their victims was Micajah Harpe’s own infant daughter, who’s head he bashed against a tree after he became annoyed by her crying.

The authorities, of course, had to respond and they did so by forming a posse led by John Leiper. The Harpes were eventually tracked down on August 24, 1799, with Micajah Harpe killed in the shootout. Wiley, however, managed to escape and remained at large until 1804 when he was finally captured in Jefferson County, Mississippi.

Tried and found guilty of murder, Wiley Harpe was hanged on February 8, 1804. Thereafter, his head was cut off and placed on a stake along the Natchez Trace as a warning to other outlaws.

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