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.

And this one - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs

Baby P, Madeleine McCann, Jamie Bulger send shivers down my spine. Any crime involving children is just so horrendous.
I watched the Ted Bundy film the other day and his crimes were horrific. What a sick individual.

Have any irish people mentionef Graham Dwyer / elaine o'hara
I knew somebody who knew him and somebody else i knew had known Elaine. So shocking and weird.

I second the person questioning earlier why the OP started this thread and then buggered off.

Mikaeel Kular. Dreadful end to a little boys life , and his 'mother' who allowed the townspeople to search for 2 days and nights in the cold of January , in the full knowledge that he would not be found. Those people would have gone home exhausted and emotionally wrung out thinking "if I can keep looking , I might just find a clue ..."

Words cannot begin to express what an utter cow she is

The evil monster Eunice Spry. She should have got much longer in prison !

I agree 70. How that bitch got away with a culpable homicide conviction I’ll never know. I remember the police statement when he was found and the reactions of the journos . It was just so sad :(

I've never forgotten poor Sophie Lancaster. Her mother Sylvia is an inspiration; hers is one of the most unselfish, courageous efforts at returning good for evil I've ever been privileged to witness. Truly humbling.

Also Ivan Milat (Australian backpacker murderer). There's been a whole industry of films made on the back of the acts of this monster, hence I made the mistake of going away and reading about it. I wish I hadn't. It's one of the most depraved things I've ever heard of: difficult to imagine how a 'human being' can even conceive of doing things.

Bradley Murdoch, the convicted killer of Peter Falconio and attempted killer of Joanne Lees, is no pearl either.

It's hard to say which cases have shocked me the most as there seem to be so many. I suppose those that happen 'close to home' or happen to victims that live close by are quite hard to deal with.

When my child was in reception, 2 children at the school were stabbed to death by their father (who also killed himself) during an access weekend after he separated from their mother. My child was fortunately not affected by it as the poor children were a few years above. It was heartbreaking hearing about it. Utterly shocking and just beyond belief.

A murder of a 3 week old baby very recently in my home town, both parents got a 10 year sentence as they couldn't prove which one of them killed the baby. The poor little boy had something like 40 fractures.
It was shocking for me as I knew her family and they are good people obviously something went seriously wrong with her as she was seen doing cartwheels outside the courtroom on the day she got found guilty of his murder.
Makes me cry writing this thinking of what that poor little boy went through in his short life.

Charles Ng & Leonard Lake - I like true crime documentaries but on this occasion I was on the sofa breastfeeding newborn DD, I couldn't find the remote to turn over & sat there while the horror that these sickos inflicted spewed out of the tv. It took me a very long time to try and forget that.

@Crinescene @NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1

I wholly believe that Jeremy Bamber is innocent & his conviction is one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the UK. The evidence is very unstable. Have a google of some of the info & see what you think.

very dodgy evidence to put someone away for life that case patsy

Poor little Sophie Hook

And Sidney Cooke's victims.

Just makes my blood run cold

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

And all he had to do is dial 999. I've done on for just flats I've lived in. 'What's your emergency?' 'Listen to this! This in the flat X,' and held the phone up. 'I don't know what's going on, someone's screaming in there!' and hung up and they've come right away. Also have heard such screaming in a park and called. 'Someone's screaming in X park, listen! Someone is screaming,' and even called out on the other side of a hedge, 'I heard you! I rang 999! I'm watching, till they get here. I rang 999.'

Lindsay Ann Hawker's murder was horrific although not Junko Furuta level.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lindsay_Hawker

The incompetence of the police is staggering. The killer evaded 9 of them and didn't even have shoes on.

One thing that shocked me about Lindsay's murder was that as soon as they increased the reward money, so many people called in to report sightings of him, including the plastic surgery clinic who had operated on him to change his appearance while he was on the run. So shady! Where was their conscience before?

The Lucie Blackman murder was also a shocker. The guy who killed her was estimated to have raped between 150-400 white women in Japan. Many of whom he gave drugs to knock them out and then filmed the rapes. A very sick individual. He was actually acquitted of Lucie's killing, but jailed for the others.

Poor little Alfie lamb. I cannot look at his picture without crying.

I also can’t temember his name, but there was a sicko in the 1970’s in America (driving around California i think). He offered a ride to a hitch hiking teenager, and all was going well, until he knocked her out, raped her repeatedly, cut off her arms at the elbow and left her for dead on the side of the road
She managed to get up and walk down the road holiding her arms up above her head to stem the blood loss until she was picked up by a passing couple! She survived, and testified against him in court. Possibly one of the bravest people I’ve ever heard of

Yabbers - sadly while Freddie grays death SHOULD be shocking I find I'm not shocked. The USA have some serious issues with police actions which they refuse to address - alongside their refusal to acknowledge their obsession with gun ownership! After seeing Michael b Jordan in lie to me and then putting in an Amazing performance in Creed, fruitvale station was played on bbc2 - a similarly appalling tale of police prejudice leading to the death of Oscar Grant.

You know what is REALLY shocking? That in almost ALL these cases the perpetrators had previously been convicted of rape, manslaughter or even murder. WHY are they EVER released?! And obviously not just in U.K. Either so not a cultural softness, but even in countries considered to have strict law and order regulations.

From googling Anita cobby case I came across the Leigh Leigh case - shocking in terms of a very poor police investigation, victim blaming and that even now 30 years later the truth still isn't known and the case apparently still hasn't been properly investigated.

"As far as I know. No charges were ever bought against them.
In my eyes It was murder" I totally agree, I wish we had in this country depraved indifference and death occurring as a result of a crime = murder laws.

Alesha mcphail - I live not too far from there and know people from there. Yes shocking how brazen and unremorseful he is. If he survives prison I'll be amazed.

Puma84 we see it repeatedly here on mn, women meeting a new man, introducing them to their kids FAR too soon despite often HUGE red flags indicating at best indifference and at worst aggression and even KNOWN convictions for violent acts. It makes me SO angry how they prioritise their sex lives over their kids safety!!

IntoValhalla
Is it Lawrence Singleton? He attacked Mary Vincent.

ArDali Yes! That’s him!!
A really sick fucker that one

I wish I hadn't googled a couple of these. Am having nightmares just thinking about it. I wish you hadn't started the thread op.

Totally my own fault I know