Which Crime story has shocked you the most?

[JoeyBartonHanson]

So I have just been watching a documentary about Becky watts murder and everything about it was so shocking.

The police harassing a woman who had posted on social media that someone with a penis isn’t a woman. Or any other times the Old Bill has abused someone about the vile sewer that is Twitter

Jonestown Massacre in Guyana

I’ll never forget the murder of a woman by her violent ex partner many years ago. He shot and killed her in the street after chasing her and then threw her toddler daughter into the back of his van like a rag doll. Her new boyfriend was filmed waiting at the court on the Monday morning obviously distraught, visibly shaking and crying. The child wasn’t killed, but can you imagine the trauma that poor girl has endured?

Another closer to home was the murder of Moira Jones in Glasgow a couple of years ago

People walking through the park Pat the bush where she was dying, thinking the murderer looked shifty

Worse was the witness who heard her screaming and said to his wife "if we hear about someone being murderer tomorrow, that'll be it". And he did fuck all

I don't think there's any evidence David Parker Ray did actually get his dog to rape his victims, but he definitely threatened it in the tape recording. Not that that makes it any better!

I've read about the cases of Junka Furuta (sp?) and Kelly-Anne Bates. What those poor poor girls went through. Made me feel physically sick.
I wish I'd heeded the warnings not to Google. Unfortunately my curiosity got the better of me. I can't believe I'd never heard of Kelly-Anne. Id have been 20 at the time and I assume it was well publicised.
To anyone who has not Googled these cases. For your own good, please don't.

Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - I was part of the police force that convicted Huntley so have walked the same route the girls took and stared at the house Huntley lived in when it happened, prior to its demolition.

And James Bulger. I was early teens when it happened but the sense of sadness has never left me. As a parent it has if anything deepened because of what Denise went through and the guilt she must have felt.

The Ealing Vicarage rape case. RIP Jill Saward.

Alesha McPhail. Poor little mite and James Bulger too.

Sarah Payne and Holly and Jessica all of whom would have been around the age of my dc had they been allowed to live.

The Jonestown Massacre was crazy. All those bodies everywhere.

I guess it doesn't count as a crime as he was found not guilty, but the shooting of Philando Castile by a cop. I watched the video his girlfriend made and it was just so shocking. Her little daughter was in the car, too. Poor guy never did a thing wrong. He was just targeted for being black.

Dunblane

Such evil

Amelia Dyer, basically in Victorian times women who couldn't look after their children could pay someone who would look after them for you. Instead of looking after the babies in her care she took the money and killed them. She was found guilty of 12 but it's suspected that she actually killed hundreds.

I think she makes a lot of serial murderers look like amateurs.

The amount of children killed by their mothers new boyfriends. It hardly ever seems to be their biological father. I can’t believe the volume of women who put a man before their children.
There was a case in the paper a few months ago about a little girl who died because her mum’s boyfriend had built a cage around her cot. She was the exact same age as my daughter when she died and I kept thinking about her calling to Mummy for help as that was the age my DD has started to say Mummy clearly.
I’ve also listened to podcasts about the Japanese girl and the two British girls mentioned on here and I think about them ever such a lot. Evil beyond belief but also shows what humans are capable of as part of a pack mentality.

Stephen Port. Not just because of the horrific rapes and murders, but because of the catalogue of failures by police that meant he got away with it for long enough to kill more men. Institutional homophobia - “young gay men tend to take drugs, even those that don’t, oh well”.

Yeah it was absolutely insane the way Jim Jones managed to make 900 commit suicide. Well.. The babies were murdered as they didn't have a choice 😭

Someone mentioned Lee Rigby. That makes my blood run cold. Poor young man to be murdered so violently and so publicly at the same time.
Dunblane used to play on my mind a lot as my classroom was easily accessible to members of the public if they had enough will and because of the shape of the room we would have all been trapped in there. I often used to consider how I would protect my class if someone came in.

Mothers who are killed by their sons.

That poor woman in Spain who was beheaded by a stranger in public who was mentally ill. She was literally in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Lee Rigby’s murder will haunt me forever
I was serving in the Army at the time, and we were all called to the parade square as soon as the news broke - ordered to down tools immediately and leg it across the camp to the parade square. None of had a clue what the hell was going on - thought maybe there’s been an accident on camp or something. Never in a million years did I think I’d see our OC standing there will tears in his eyes, giving the entire regiment a mandatory brief on personal security because one of our own had been slaughtered like an animal in the street

Kim Edwards

I can't imagine the evil that goes through those men's minds or the hatred they have for women.

I know that women do it too and that men are also sometimes the victims but the gender disparity of both the murderers and their victims is so skewed that it's mind-boggling that people don't recognise misogyny as a serious problem.

Peter scully (pedofile)
And the Jones town massacre.

Karla Homolka: a serial killer who, along with her husband, raped and murdered young women, including her own sister. The story sounds so unbelievable it seems like fiction. She served a ridiculously short sentence and now lives a perfectly happy life, married to her lawyer's brother. They have three children together and Karla has worked at their school as a volunteer.

The most shocking part of the story for me is that her mother completely forgave her and they have a close relationship now. Imagine forgiving your child for raping, torturing and murdering their sibling.

A case involving people we knew, a TV company callously made a play about the case which only reopened everything for them. It was quite awful.

Karla Homolka Got such a short sentence cause she said she was co erced.Done a deal,then they found out it was her that basically gave her sister to her husband.it was too late and the deal was done.

I dont think she is allowed near the school as there was an uproar

Dunblane
Lin and Megan Russell
April Jones
Philpott children

This one - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie_Routier