The World's Most Bizarre Murders

by James Marrison

  Staff. ‘Solved: Hulme’s greatest secret’. The Press, Saturday, 6 August 1994.

  Staff. ‘Woman’s body found’. Press, 23 June 1954.

  Staff. ‘Two teenagers face charge of killing woman. Trial of city girls opens today in Supreme Court’. Star-Sun, 23 August 1954.

  Staff. ‘The Enemy Within. Exploring A Murder Close To Home’. CBS News, 9 August 2002.

  Staff. ‘Ruling on Japan poison-diary girl’. BBC News, 1 May 2006.

  Staff. ‘Parents: Cyber Bullying Led to Teen’s Suicide. Megan Meier’s Parents Now Want Measures to Protect Children Online’. ABC News, 19 November 2007.

  Staff. ‘MySpace Mom Linked to Missouri Teen’s Suicide Being Cyber-Bullied Herself’. Fox News, 6 December 2007.

  Staff. ‘Jeremy Allan Steinke and Jasmine Richardson’. People You’ll See in Hell. (pysih.com)

  Staff. ‘Teen killer to be sentenced today’. CanWest News Service, 7 November 2007.

  Stevenson, James. ‘Accused in Alta Family Slaying Likely to Wait Until 2008 for His Murder Trial’. The Canadian Press, 4 January 2007.

  Stevenson, James. ‘Alberta girl admits stabbing her brother’. The Canadian Press, 3 July 2007.

  Zickefoose, Sherri. ‘Medicine Hat prepares for shocking trial’. CanWest News Service, 26 March 2007.

  Zickefoose, Sherri. ‘Murdered family “gutted like fish”, court told’. CanWest News Service, 27 June 2007.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  Barbano, Rolando; Caneletti, Ricardo; Gambini, Hector. Crimenes Argentinos Grandes Casos Policiales Que Conmovieron Al Pais, Planeta 2001.

  Bennetto, Jason. ‘Serial killer with HIV virus dies in jail’. Independent, February 1995.

  Bird, Paul. ‘Man confesses to killing infant son who lawmen believed died of SIDS’. Indianapolis Star, 24 June 1999.

  Bird, Paul. ‘Man says he killed son to get back at his wife’. Indianapolis Star, 25 June 1999.

  Callahan, Rick. ‘Suspect says he fathered child with intent to kill him’. Topeka Capital-Journal, 28 June 1999.

  El Buho. ‘El loco Poggi’. Trome. (www.trome.com)

  Harding, Nick Paton; Walsh, Luke. ‘Nothing left to lose: grief-crazed murder suspect haunted by family’s air deaths’. The Guardian, 28 February 2004.

  Kawamura, Eiko. ‘Mario Poggi no es imbécil, se hace’. Entrevistas, February 2002. From the online archive of el Universidad de Peru de ciencias aplicadas (www.upc.edu.pe/home_upc.aspx).

  Lar, Rodolfo. ‘Asesinadas a sangre fría Ricardo Barreda eliminó a su familia el domingo Todo terminó antes del mediodía’. Clarin, 15 November 1992.

  Monique, Doctor (pen name). ‘Una Velada con Poggi’. Cronicas de la faradala kitch. (es.geocities.com/doctor_monique/susy/susy.htm)

  Potesta, Orazio. ‘Ya, Pues, ¿Cómo lo Hiciste? Psicólogos de la Policía pueden hacer hablar hasta al delincuente más peligroso y descubrir cómo se convirtió en un criminal’. Carretas Magazine, 28 October 1999.

  Mancinelli, Leopoldo. ‘El crimen del odontólogo, diez años después’. La Plata, 10 April 2004

  Nash, Carlos. Locura resignada – Entrevistas, February 2002, from the online archive of Universidad de Peru de ciencias aplicadas. (www.upc.edu.pe/home_upc.aspx)

  Staff. ‘Penis Slasher put to death in China’. iol, 27 August 2004. (www.iol.co.za)

  Staff. ‘Michael Lupo case summary’. Murder in the UK. (www.murderuk.com)

  Staff. ‘Uni Dropouts Grisly Revenge’. China Daily, 27 August 2004.

  Staff. ‘50 Años De Policiales. Los casos más sonados del medio siglo de Caretas. Del Monstruo de Armendáriz al caso Succar, dramas íntimos que captaron la atención de multitudes’. Caretas Magazine, 9 November 2000.

  Staff, ‘Beheaded for Trouble’. Snopes Urban reference page, 28 December 2005. (www.snopes.com)

  Staff. ‘Barreda loco?’ El Dia, 14 November 2004. (www.eldia.com.ar)

  Staff. ‘Swiss court orders release Vitaly Kaloyev, air traffic controller murderer’. Pravda and Associated Press, 11 August 2007.

  Shmelev, Ivan. ‘Swiss court finds Russian man guilty of revenge killing SkyGuide’s employee’. Pravda, 27 October 2005.

  Staff. ‘Free Love Religious Sect Child Sex Allegations Haunt Group Known For Biblical Prophecy, Sexual Freedom’. ABC News, 27 January 2005.

  Wilkinson, Peter. ‘The Life and Death of the Chosen One’. Rolling Stone Magazine, 30 June 2005.

  Zogg, Jeff. ‘Shanabarger found guilty in son’s murder’. Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2002.

  United States, Appellee vs. Stephen J. SCHAP, Sergeant

  U.S. Army, Appellant CASE No. 96-1058.

  Ronald Shanabarger vs. State of Indiana. Appeal from the Johnson Superior Court Case No. 41D01-0402-PC-1, 3 May 2006

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  Charter, David; Watson, Rory. ‘Dinner guest discovers bodies in freezer’. The Times, 6 July 2007.

  Dorsey, Christine. ‘Bierenbaum Sentencing: Former LV doctor gets 20-to-life’. Las Vegas Review-Journal, 30 November 2000.

  Donrey, Tony. ‘Doctor on Trial: Wife had vowed to ruin husband’s career’. Las Vegas Review, 11 October 2000.

  Donrey, Tony. ‘Murder trial for ex-Las Vegan set to begin’. Las Vegas Review, 4 September 2000.

  Finkelstein, Katherine. ‘Doctor Gets 20 Years to Life For the Murder of His Wife’. New York Times, 30 November 2000.

  Finkelstein, Katherine. ‘A New Life Re-examined; After Murder Verdict, Town Questions Doctor’. New York Times, 30 October 2000.

  Finkelstein, Katherine. ‘Minimum Sentence Sought For Doctor Who Killed Wife’. New York Times, 23 November 2000.

  Glendinning, Lee. ‘Pig farmer jailed for six murders’. The Guardian, 10 December 2007.

  Godl, John. ‘The Life and Crimes of Frederick Bailey Deeming’. Simply Australia, Issue 10. (www.simplyaustralia.net)

  Hickey, Brian. ‘Return to the House of Horrors’. Philadelphia Weekly, 13 March 2002.

  Larson, Erik. Devil in the White City Murder, Magic and Madness At the Fair that Changed America. First Vintage Books, 2003.

  Leonard, Tom. ‘Death sentence for alligator child killer’. The Telegraph, 20 October 2007.

  Lohr, David. ‘All about Joe Ball’. Crime Library. (www.crimelibrary.com)

  Masters, Brian. Killing for Company: Case of Dennis Nilsen. Arrow Books Ltd, 1995.

  Matas, Robert. ‘Week 24: Pickton demonstrated how he strangled prostitutes, witness says’. Globe and Mail, 30 November 2007.

  Roberts, Greg. ‘TV grabs Natasha’s story in $200,000 deal’. Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2003.

  Senley, Rick. ‘Lovely home. Shame about the homicidal former tenant’. The Observer, 19 June 2005.

  Shimo, Alexandra. ‘“Horror movie” trial begins of pig farmer accused of killing 26 prostitutes’. The Independent, 22 January 2007.

  Staff. ‘Joe Ball The Alligator Man’. Frances Farmers Revenge. (www.francesfarmersrevenge.com)

  Staff. ‘Justice For Girl Eaten Alive By Alligators: Ex-Con Who Abandoned 5-Year-Old In Everglades Gets Death Sentence’. CBS News and Associated Press, 16 October 2007.

  Staff. ‘Gary Heidnik and His Cellar of Death’. New Criminologist, 14 September 2007.

  Staff. ‘Couple lose house of horror case’. BBC News, 27 February 2004.

  Staff. ‘Pickton appeal hearing scheduled for 2009’. The Canadian Press, 3 March 2008.

  Staff. ‘Pickton gets maximum sentence for murders’. CBS News, 12 December 2007.

  Staff. ‘Alleged Australian murder victim found alive’. The Guardian, 11 April 2003.

  Usborne, David. ‘Canada gripped by lurid case of “serial killer” pig farmer’. The Independent, 15 January 2003.

  Waugh, Rob. ‘Monster left victim’s spine in a plant pot’. Yorkshire Post, 27 February 2004.

  Waugh, Rob. ‘Yorkshire couple who found from a TV programme their home was scene of horrific killing to hear verdict on damages. Gruesome past of a house of horror’. Yorkshire Post, 27 February 2004.

 
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

  Abós, Álvaro. ‘Burgos: el descuartizador de Constitución’. La revista del diario La Nacion Cronicas rojas, 19 February 2006.

  Barbano Rolando; Caneletti Ricardo; Gambini, Hector. Crimenes Argentinos Grandes Casos Policiales Que Conmovieron Al Pais. Planeta, 2001.

  Caixiong, Zheng. ‘Two held for killing & chopping man in “love triangle”’. China Daily, 15 January 2007.

  Canaletti, Ricardo. ‘El misterioso caso del torso de mujer’. Clarin, 7 July 2005.

  DiGrazia, Christopher-Michael. ‘Another Look at the Lusk Kidney’. Jack the Ripper Casebook (www.casebook.org). The dissertation originally appeared in Ripper Notes ed. Norder, Dan. and Vanderlinden, Wolf.

  Diaz, Roberto. ‘Yo no maté a Alcira’. La Cuidad, 27 December 2007.

  Gonzalez, Gustavo; Barcia, Jose. Testimonios y experiencias de un cronista porteno. Historia Press, 1979.

  Manning, Gregg. ‘Trunk Murders’. Real Crime UK. (www.real-crime.co.uk)

  Mead, Geoff. ‘Brave new city, same mean streets. Changing face of Brighton and Hove’. My Brighton and Hove, 22 March 2006.(www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk)

  Pilkington, Ed. ‘A human ear and a liver but no table legs’. The Guardian, 5 March 2007.

  Sassone, Martín. ‘Un asesinato macabre’. Clarin, 4 October 2003.

  Staff. ‘Body parts delivered to Michigan home’. Associated Press, 4 March 2007.

  Staff. ‘Postal Workers Find Human Limbs in Parcel’. Reuters, 24 August 2001.

  Staff. ‘Man gets parcel with human body parts’. Times of India, 11 January 2002.

  Staff. ‘Two held after body parts found in mail’. Reuters; appeared also in China Daily, 15 January 2007.

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

  Allen, Arthur. ‘Mad scientist: A grand jury is looking into the double life of Larry C. Ford, a brilliant doctor who killed himself before others learned about his dark side’. Salon, 26 June 2000. (www.salon.com)

  Atack, Jon. ‘A Piece of Blue Sky Scientology Dianetics, and

  L. Ron Hubbard Exposed’. Published online: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/contents.htm.

  Bell, Rachael. ‘The Mysterious Dr Ford’. Crime Library. (www.crimelibrary.com)

  Brittain, Victoria. ‘After The Apartheid Truth and reconciliation in South Africa’. Le Monde Diplomatique, December 1998.

  Carter, John. Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. Feral House, 1999.

  Chase, Alston. ‘Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber’. The Atlantic Monthly, June 2000.

  Cockburn, Alexander; St Clair, Jeffrey, ed. ‘CIA’s Sidney Gottlieb: Pusher, Assassin & Pimp US Official Poisoner Dies’. Counter Punch. (www.counterpunch.org)

  Collins, Anne. In the sleep room: The story of the CIA brainwashing experiments in Canada. Key Porter Books, 1988.

  Conlogue, Ray. ‘The Sleep Room’s Missing Memories’. The Globe and Mail, 1 October 1998.

  Crowley, Aleister. Moonchild. Mandrake Press, 1929.

  Foster, Sarah. ‘Meet Sidney Gottlieb – CIA dirty trickster: He’s the target of more than one lawsuit’. WorldNetDaily, 19 November 1998. (www.worldnetdaily.com)

  Gould, Chandré. ‘More Questions Than Answers: The Ongoing Trial of Dr Wouter Basson’. The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, November 2000.

  Harris, Sheldon. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–1945, and the American Cover-Up. Routledge, 15 August 1995.

  Humes, Edward. ‘The Medicine Man’. Los Angeles Magazine, July 2001.

  Jackson, David. ‘Man Behind the Mask. The accused Unabomber’s lawyers says he’s schizophrenic, but can they use that as a defence?’ Time Magazine, 17 November 1997.

  Jackson, David. ‘He’s Not Crazy, He’s Our Neighbour In Montana. Ted Kaczynski’s acquaintances insist he was normal’. Time Magazine, 3 November 1997.

  Kristof, Nicholas. ‘Unmasking Horror – A special report: Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity’. New York Times, 17 March 1995.

  Lee, Martin and Shlain, Bruce. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. Grove Press, 1994.

  Lifton, Robert Jay. ‘What Made This Man? Mengele’. New York Times, 21 July 1985.

  Lindseth, Shawn. ‘Awesome Or Off-Putting: Dr White’s Monkey Head-Transplants’. Heckler Spray, 8 October 2007. (www.hecklerspray.com)

  MacDonald, Helen. ‘Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories’. Yale University Press, 2006.

  Marks, John. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. W. Norton & Company, 1991.

  Martelle, Scott; Leonard, Jack; Reza, H.G. ‘Suspicious Canisters, Clues Unearthed in Orange County, California’. Los Angeles Times, 10 March 2000.

  Parent, André. ‘Giovanni Aldini: From Animal Electricity to Human Brain Stimulation’. The Canadian Journal of Neurological Science, November 2004.

  Reed, Christopher. ‘The United States and the Japanese Mengele: Payoffs and Amnesty for Unit 731 Scientists’. Japan Focus, 1 August 2006. (A shorter version of the same article first appeared in Counterpunch under the title ‘The Pentagon and the Japanese Mengele. The Abominable Dr Ishii’. 27 May 2006.)

  Segel, Lawrence. ‘To die in Unit 731’. Free Republic. (www.freerepublic.com)

  Staff. ‘The Memory Thief: The Story of Dr Ewen Cameron’. BBC News, December 2004.

  Staff. ‘The Frankenstein Factor’. Cleveland Scene, 9 December 1999.

  Staff. ‘Live Brains in the Lab’. Time Magazine, 19 June 1964.

  Staff. ‘Doctor Death implicates west’. BBC News, 31 July 1998.

  Staff. ‘Kaczynski gets life, says government lied Unabomber, victims speak in court before sentencing’. CNN, 4 May 1998.

  Staff. ‘Who was Josef Mengele?’ The Holocaust History Project. An online archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust. (www.holocausthistory.org)

  Sidley, Pat. ‘Dr Wouter Basson cleared of murder of apartheid opponents’. British Medical Journal, 20 April 2002.

  Tsuneishi, Kei-ichi. (Translated by Orr, James.) ‘New Facts about US Payoff to Japan’s Biological Warfare Unit 731’. Japan Focus. (www.japanfocus.org)

  Wu, Tien-wei. ‘A Preliminary Review of Studies of Japanese Biological Warfare and Unit 731 in the United States’. Century China. (www.centurychina.com)

  CHAPTER NINETEEN

  Allison, Ralph. ‘Difficulties Diagnosing The Multiple Personality Syndrome In a Death Penalty. Case’. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis Vol. XXXII, 1984.

  Boren, Roger (Justice). ‘The Hillside Strangler Trial’. Loyola Law Review, Volume 33.

  Crary, David. ‘Manipulation, self-deception often involved when women fall for hard-core criminals’. Police One, 11 August 2005. (www.policeone.com)

  Fimrite, Peter and Taylor, Michael. ‘No Shortage of Women Who Dream of Snaring a Husband on Death Row: Experts ponder why deadliest criminals get so many proposals’. San Francisco Chronicle, 27 March 2005.

  Leon, Harmon. ‘Women Who Love Murderers Too Much’. Harmon Sacramento News and Review, 10 July 2004.

  Ramsland, Katherine. ‘Serial killer Groupies’. Crime Library. (www.crimelibrary.com)

  CHAPTER TWENTY

  Boyes, Roger. ‘Cannibalism Copycat Who Kept a Man in His Fridge’. The Times, 4 May 2005.

  Davey, Pauline. ‘Operation Thornhill Revealed the Sinister Life of a Sadistic Killer Who Longed to Kill Again’. Frontline Newspaper, Issue no. 79; April/May 2001.

  Hall, Allan. ‘This is What We Wanted’. The Sun, 4 December 2003.

  Harding, Luke. ‘Victim of Cannibal Agreed to be Eaten’. The Guardian, 4 December 2003.

  Harrison, Ben. Undying Love: The True Story of a Passion That Defied Death. St Martin’s True Crime Library, 2001.

  Huwash, Ali. ‘Woman Tortured, Killed Maid for Being “Lazy”’. Arab News, 8 June 2007.

  O’Shaughnessy, Patrice. ‘17 years don’t diminish fire tragedy’. New York Daily, 20 March 2007.
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  Robins, Derek. ‘Cannibal Shocker on Five’. The Sun, 10 October 2007.

  Roman, Silvia. ‘El aprendiz de caníbal’. El Mundo, 6 May 2005.

  Smith, Martina. ‘Shooter killed after Wisconsin gun rampage’. The Telegraph, 2 October 2007.

  Staff. ‘Sad Misfit Who Chose Victim and Killed in Cold Blood’. This is Nottingham, 5 December 2007. (www.thisisnottingham.co.uk)

  Staff. ‘A Murder of Small Significance’. The Times, 27 August 1951. Posted on Ain’t No Way to Go. (www.aintnowaytogo.com)

  Staff. ‘Nurse convicted of murder’. BBC News, 19 June 2001.

  Staff. ‘Nurse accused of murder at nursing home’. Northern Echo, 8 June 2001.

  Staff. ‘Murder trial nurse “bored and lazy”’. Northern Echo, 12 June 2001.

  Staff. ‘Fin de un Reality’. El Universo, 12 October 2007.

  Staff. ‘The Revolt of Leo Held’. Time Magazine, 3 November 1967.

  Staff. ‘Sale del aire Nada más que la verdad’. El Colombiano, October 2007.

  Stanley, Alessandra. ‘25 Years to Life for the Arsonist at Happy Land’. New York Times, 20 September 1991.

  Tomasson, Robert. ‘Shock Lingers as Happy Land Trial Starts’. New York Times, 9 July 1991.

  Velasco Luz, Adriana. ‘Con polémica, finaliza temporada de “Nada más que la verdad”’. El Tiempo, 5 October 2007.

  Court Case: Details of the sentence as handed down by the Hon. Justice Bell (Neutral Citation Number: [2005] EWHC 2541 [QB] Case No: 2004/109/MTS) in the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division Royal Courts of Justice. 15 November 2005.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

  Ekman, Paul. ‘Would You Lie to Me?’ The Observer, 27 April 2003.

  Fleming, Rebecca B. ‘Scanty Goatees and Palmer Tattoos: Cesare Lombroso’s Influence on Science and Popular Opinion’. The Concord Review, 2001.

  Havelock, Ellis. The Criminal. Adamant Media Corporation, 2000.