To ask if you’ve ever become obsessed with a murder case?

I remember as a young child hearing about this on the news snd feeling completely traumatised

Oh yes that was an interesting case. I worked in Liverpool and I knew someone who remembered him. She said he was very quiet and unassuming.
Another woman I knew lived in Wolverton St, where the murder took place, and said it was a cursed street, tragedies happened often, one was her losing her husband suddenly and unexpectedly when he was only in his 30s.

For those mentioning James Bulger-there's a programme about the case on tonight at 10p.m channel 5. About the trial I think.

I wish somebody had just taken the law into their own hands and killed the guy.
My post might get deleted for saying that, but I don't care.

I know how you feel. There was a bike path near where I used to live where a murder took place. It was five years before I could bear to take that path again.

I just read about the case. So sad 😢 poor girl. And no justice served

My stepdaughter used to live in the same road. When I walked past I always used to shiver. Bit like driving over Saddleworth Moor.

They closed the case, because they knew it was her foster father but he got acquitted on a technicality.

Yes, that’s the one. And she did recover, enough to hold down a job. So almost a happy ending.

OMG! That's horrendous. I had to stop reading it.
It reminds me of the Pig Farmer serial killer, Robert Picton.
I hate the world too.

It was the same case. I'm so glad she recovered

It's an old case but William Herbert Wallace and the murder of his wife Julia in 1931 intrigues me. I first read about it in the PD James novel The Murder Room. As it says in the novel, a lot of the evidence of the case could be used to support both the defence and the prosecution depending on how you view it.

Yes that case has haunted me for a long time as well.
Did you ever read the book on it, Lost Girls? There is also Netflix film based on it.

Was she the girl who got a tape made by Roy Orbison to try and bring her out of the coma? If so I remember the case, and how annoyed I was that I never found out if she'd recovered.

That does sound like it could be the one. It was definitely home counties area so Reading definitely would fit.
I'm glad to hear she recovered well enough to go to work.
Thanks for the information. I always wondered what happened to her because as you say, it was a very big news story.

Yesterday I was out running in some woods and a man on crutches was on the path. I ran faster and round a corner and turned, thinking 'if he appears soon, it means he's not injured and they're a decoy'. Because of bundy I have these thought processes.

This one is my obsession, and it started on the day he was convicted - based on what a body-language expert said about his sky tv interview on the day of her funeral.
This seemed to be a trial-by-media conviction (no DNA from Luke but DNA from other man in used condom near the body).

He was a weirdo, not well liked by his peers, urinated in bottles because he didn't want to pause his game to go to the loo, was a goth and so on.

There was something odd about Jodie's father/uncle/brother/cousin but I'd have to Google what it was.

My opinion is her family didn't like Luke and were quick to point the finger. A sympathetic community and relentless media ran with it and Luke was convicted on 'dislike'.

He's still inside and would have been released on parole years ago if he confessed.

My main concern is that he was convicted of murder based on flimsy circumstantial evidence. In fact, there isn't even any CE when you look at it.

And nobody cares. No politicians up in arms, the community, moj orgs etc. He's been swept under the carpet.

The other cases that have me obsessed are the Moors murders, Soham murders, Denis Nielsen, Jeremy Bamber and Ted Bundy

Gosh how interesting...

The reconstruction was filmed in my home. The article mentions intercom systems to enter the block, what they didn't say is that they had cameras so you could see who was being let in.

Ah yes. Remember seeing this on Crimewatch.

Sorry I got her name wrong: Hewer.

https://thetruecrimeenthusiast.co.uk/who-killed-joy-hewer

Can't see anything about this case online??

The murder of Joy Hewitt is one that i think of often as she was one of my neighbours. It is still unsolved. The actions of the murderer could have cost so many other people their lives too.

@TheRulerofThings He is truly truly evil. I didn’t know that about the American woman!

I find Paul W a bit grating but might give the book as go.

As you say, you couldn’t make up the string of coincidences that got him caught. In some ways it was almost the perfect murder - any other line up of events and he may well have gotten away with it.

Just like the most innocent man in Baltinglass.

I'm intrigued by true crime. And recently (probably sad,yeh🤣). Have watched a lot of the old episodes of crimewatch on YouTube. The first episode is on there through to 2012 I think. It's fascinating, because some of the crimes that have been solved more recently (due to forensic science) feature on there. I remember watching some of them as a kid.
Don't have nightmares..........