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.

God yes @NoSauce Shirley Leach,I grew up.in Bury ,horrific murder and only solved by chat chance ,my Bil was in his class at school

Freddie Grey.

Millie Dowler.

Junko is the worst I’ve ever read. It’s so horrific. I read about it about a year ago and it still plays on my mind and makes me feel physically sick.

The Yorkshire ripper.

Women who had survived attacks told the police the attacker had a Yorkshire accent but they were ignored because of the tape.

Women who were not prostitutes who reported attacks were ignored because they were not prostitutes.

The murders happened when I was finishing primary school and going into secondary and a move from West Yorks to Lancashire.

Mary Ann Leneghan and her friend. I don't know why but I've never been able to forget it.

I watched the film NightStalker when I was in my teens and it absolutely terrified me, about the serial killer Richard Ramirez.

Also Robert Black as those murders were happening while I was growing up and I was very frightened by them.

Jamie Bulger is definitely up there. I was really young at the time but remember it clearly enough to recall my Mum being overly protective over me. Now I have a DS who is the same age and it breaks my heart all over again.

Not a murder but the case of Shannon Matthews really got me. How a mother would purposefully imprison her child to gain sympathy and continue the charade for weeks is beyond me.

Baby P, Victoria Climbie, anything like that just horrified me.

James bulgers murder.
Brianna Lopez's abuse and murder still haunts me.

Brexit.

Arron Banks was on verge on bankruptcy and then within a year or so he apparently found £8m to donate to brexit campaign. He met with Russian ambassador several times.

Something absolutely stinks but Theresa May and Corbyn have probably been taking dodgy donations too so they won't order a criminal inquiry.

Meanwhile the country is about to make a colossal mistake based on a referendum result that would have been held to be illegal had it been non-advisory.

All the child killings etc - there are awful people out there, always have been, I don't think the number is rising and obsessive coverage of those cases leads to people keeping their kids under lock and key which results in greater harm in the long run.

James Bulger.
I remember I was standing on my bed changing a lightbulb when the radio announced that two 10 yr olds had been arrested.
Then watching the hordes of vigilantes banging on the sides of the police van and shouting and thinking that inside there were also children. Children who for whatever reason in their lives had never stood a chance.

Milly Dowler shocked me because of the wall to wall coverage of it. A teenager had been found murdered near me the same week. Never even made the news. Who gets to decide the newsworthiness? I still don't know if that nameless child's murderer has been brought to justice.

Baby P. I didn't read about it because it's too sickening, but what I remember is a MNer putting together a photo montage of his pictures set to Hallelujah and linking it and me thinking that on the Weird scale, she'd just broken it.

The child whose torso was found in the Thames. Why don't these children get the publicity that "nice" families get. The murder of a child must not be placed in a hierarchy. Yet they are, always. And it's wrong.

All of these but there’s one that’s currently going through the courts locally that’s a horrific murder plus more attempted murders of old people for their inheritances. Long term befriending of old people, then drugging them and making them think they were going mad... google maids Moreton murders. Found it a really chilling read - the reports now the trial has started with the details in - before that they just say on trial for murder which gives no hints of the planned, sustained horror.

I stupidly Googled Junko.

Utterly horrific.

@TheCanterburyWhales. Milly Dowler's sister's book is beyond heartbreaking. Very well written but very hard to read. As is Sara Paynes.
I bought SP book before I got on a train to Birmingham. I had to put the book away as people were looking at me as I was sobbing...

Sorry I ment Victoria Climbié. I didn’t know about the Junko Furuta case. I just read about it, absolutely awful. They all are.

Breck Bradner. Absolutely tragic and chilling because the murderer was so young himself.

MaryBeth Tinning.

Was the first true crime book I read when I was about 14.

I forget the name of the poor wee soul, but it was the little boy who was murdered by his father and his fathers gay lover whilst on an access visit and dumped in a wheelie bin.

A local one to me

Steven Donaldson. His daft wee girlfriend lured him to meet her then her new boyfriend and his mate attacked him, drove to a car park and murdered him in the most brutal way

The two gormless, spineless low lives were found guilty of murder and the spoilt, evil twat got culpable homicide last week. Sentencing is at the end of the month

You have to wonder what kind of "normal" has people going to their uncles house to borrow a baseball bat. That's the kind of lives these scum bags led

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Peter Tobin. That he got away with the 2 murders for so long and that Vickys mum died without finding out what happened to her daughter.

So many massively shocking crimes.. Which are often perpetrated against women and girls. The other day I saw a story about an Australian couple who had fed their toddler an extreme vegan diet. So her growth and development were that a a few month old baby. I found this so shocking because they'd had years to realise it was effecting her and continued with their actions.

@Noeuf

That murder has stuck with me too. I think I first read about it in a magazine years ago and it often pops into my head

Sylvia Likens. Heard about it on MN. Horrifying, what they did to her and the amount of people that were involved as well.

Oh another one that broke my heart - Sophie Lancaster - the girl who was beaten up with her boyfriend because she had an alternative lifestyle (goth). What they did to her was horrific .

Blake Leibel, Kelly Anne Bates, Chris Watts, Wayne Trotter.... I’m a true crime buff and they all chilled me.

But the worst I’ve ever heard about has to be the Victoria Martens case. Utterly utterly horrific. Poor child