Just over a year after the West Yorkshire Police received the first letter, the writer sent a cassette tape that taunted the investigators. Eventually, the police captured the true Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, who they determined did not write the letters or send the tape to the West Yorkshire Police.
Did the letter writer, tagged “Wearside Jack” due to his distinct Wearside accent, kill Joan Harrison?
Authorities began to doubt that Wearside Jack killed anyone. Their thoughts were confirmed when the saliva sample was run through the United Kingdom’s criminal database in 2005 and came back as a match to a man named John Humble, who had been arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct in 2000.
Humble was sentenced to eight years in prison for the “perversion of justice” in the Yorkshire Ripper case. He was definitively proven not to be Joan Harrison’s killer.
But the police in Preston were not any closer to solving Joan Harrison’s murder.
Christopher Smith
In 1975, Christopher Smith was in his late twenties and like Joan Harrison had largely fallen through the cracks of society. He was a heavy drinker, drug user, and known street thug and criminal. By the 1980s, Smith had gained quite the reputation for himself on the streets of Preston. He had convictions for assault as well as property and sex crimes.
Christopher Smith was a one man crime wave.
But by the mid-1980s Smith settled down and had a daughter, who eventually gave him grandchildren. He seemed to have left his criminal life behind, but in 2008 his old life caught up with him in more ways than one.
Suffering from terminal illness that was partially brought on by his hard living early in life, Smith turned back to the bottle and was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in 2008. He was then required to give a DNA sample as per British law.
Six days later, his DNA profile came back as a perfect match with Joan Harrison’s killer.
Since Smith cleaned up his act before the United Kingdom’s criminal DNA database went into effect, he was not on file and therefore evaded justice for over thirty years.
As it turns out, Smith also evaded justice for Joan’s murder, at least in this world. Before the police could arrest him for her murder, he died at home, but not before writing a full confession on his deathbed.
Smith’s note, dated January 29, 2008, read: “I would like to put the record straight. I can’t go on with the guilt. I have lived with it for over 20 years. I am truly sorry for all the pain I have caused to anyone. Please believe me when I say I am sorry. I love my grand kids and my daughter. I cannot go back to prison anymore. Please God help my family who I worship. I have been out of trouble for over twenty years so please God help me. I am so sorry. God forgive me. I love you all forever.”
Conclusion
As humans, there is no doubt that we have a fascination with crime. The fascination is not morbid, but instead concerns the desire for us to understand what makes a people from our communities commit some truly disturbing crimes.
We are also fascinated with the police procedural process and the cat and mouse game between cops and criminals.
The twelve cases profiled in this book provide exciting and disturbing examples of these themes.
Some of these cases, such as the Hinterkaifeck murders and the murder of Chandra Levy, remain unsolved. The motive behind these murders remains as mysterious as the killers who committed them.
Other cases have been solved after several decades through a combination of excellent police work and advances in science. As science progresses, it becomes more and more difficult for criminals to get away with their nefarious activities.
Despite the scientific advances made in the realm of crime fighting, there is no doubt that crime will continue well into the future. As it does, there is also no doubt that there will be more cases that will baffle and intrigue the interested public.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Murder in the making
The consequences of bullying
Somebody would pay
A dangerous outlet
Life, luck, changes
Chapter 2: Murder and a descent into madness
Murders become more dangerous and detailed
California dreams turn to dust
Blood is the drug
Chapter 3: Parents face worst nightmares
Another family faces horror
Troubled boy meets sad fate
Another family faces heartache
Chapter 4: A sick obsession
Hillside Stranglers
The Zodiac Killer
Chapter 5: A bad time to be gay
Are gay men more apt to kill?
Homosexuals as targets
Murders damages civil rights efforts
Hitchhiking made murder easier
A deadly stretch of highway
Sadistic and prolific
Chapter 6: When Kearney went hunting
Grisly deeds unearthed
Nightmares in bags
In death, LaMay helps track a killer
Searching for a killer
Mother protests son’s arrests
Chapter 7: A confession brings horror to an end
Boy’s questions led to death
Police hope for more answers
A tour of death
First court appearance
Kearney pleads guilty
Questions will haunt police forever
His victims remembered
Chapter 8: Why necrophilia?
No chance for rejection
The hints people missed
Killer soon forgotten
Chapter 9: Parole becomes a nightmare for police and families
Family continues to fight against parole
Chapter 10: Confession recanted
Family struggles to rebuild
A life behind bars
Chapter 11: A survivor tells his story
Another’s last moments recalled
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The making of a serial killer
It leaves us always asking why
Serial killers think they’re unique – but they’re not
Nature vs. nurture?
Going inside the mind: Psychopathy and other mental illnesses
Top signs of a serial killer
Trademarks of a serial killer
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Introduction
Patrick Wayne Kearney was eight years old when he began having fantasies of murder.
And you know how it can be with fantasies. Sometimes, the imagination satisfies, and other times, it only accentuates the hunger.
Kearney was hungry, and that need of his was eventually going to be sated.
The oldest of three boys, Kearney was born on September 24, 1939, in Los Angeles, to parents George and Eunice Kearney. George was a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, while Eunice stayed home to care for the children, Patrick and his younger brothers, Michael and Chester.
The City of Angels was a lucky place for a kid to grow up, or would have been, had the future serial killer not been sickly as a child, which made him an easy target for school bullies.
Despite having an IQ of 180 – which makes him, psychologists say, a genius – he was unable to find ways to win over his peers, even after his parents moved to Arizona, where he switched schools and had access to a new group of classmates. But everything’s hotter in Arizona, and so was the bullying Kearney faced at his new school. The bullies were the same, and Kearney was still an easy target.
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