Thursday, February 28, 2013
'Jeffrey Dahmer Files' an unusual take on serial killer trope - Chicago Tribune
‘Jeffrey Dahmer Files’ an unusual take on serial killer trope – Chicago Tribune
‘Jeffrey Dahmer Files’ (February 28, 2013) |
By Mark Olsen, Tribune Newspapers
4:35 p.m. CST, February 28, 2013
Mesmeri ing and haunting, “The Jeffrey Dahmer Files” is an inside-out serial killer movie lacking in gore or cheap psychology and made in part for those who think they never want to see another serial killer movie. A hybrid of documentary and fiction, the film is directed by Milwaukee-based Chris James Thompson in his feature debut. Rather than indulging in exploitation kicks, the film engages more with Dahmer’s effect on the community.
The fictional footage features Andrew Swant as the notorious Dahmer, who murdered and dismembered 17 people; he seems to be a bland, weird-but-harmless blank slate. As Dahmer is seen going about his business, buying a disconcerting amount of bleach or awkwardly transporting an oversi ed plastic drum on a city bus, it all seems mundane in the moment, ghastly in retrospect.
The documentary segments are interviews with three lives altered by Dahmer: Patrick Kennedy, the detective who took his confession; Pam Bass, a neighbor; and Milwaukee’s then-medical examiner Dr. Jeffrey Jent en. Kennedy recalls, for example, how the striped shirt that Dahmer wore for the courtroom appearance (which fixed his dangerous-dork image in the public mind) was actually one he gave to Dahmer because his teenage son didn’t want it.
A moment in which Kennedy recalls one of Dahmer’s more grisly confessions played against an image of Swant just staring off on a couch fuses the two tracks of the film into one hypnotically engrossing portrait. Far from closing the case, “The Jeffrey Dahmer Files” opens up a whole new perspective, acknowledging the banal and the baffling.
‘Jeffrey Dahmer Files’
No MPAA rating
Running time: 1:16
Plays: 11 p.m. Friday, Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday at Facets Cinematheque
'Jeffrey Dahmer Files' an unusual take on serial killer trope - Chicago Tribune
Serial-killers link dropped from defense case - Stockton Record
Serial-killers link dropped from defense case – Stockton Record
February 27, 2013 12:00 AM
STOCKTON – Prosecutors charging a woman with murder say her claims that her husband, the victim, had confessed to being the third wheel in a killing spree led by Loren Her og and Wesley Shermantine are unfounded.
Rebecca Mendo a, 54, claims she shot to death her 50-year-old husband, Michael Laurence Bradford, after he threatened to get rid of her, too.
Prosecutor Jeffrey Derman said the defendant never made those statements until recently.
Bradford’s name is mentioned in reports associated with the serial killers, Derman confirmed. But there is no existing correlation between that investigation and the criminal threats Mendo a alleges Bradford made against her, he said.
Superior Court Judge Brett Morgan on Tuesday found no relevant connection and consequently ordered the reports naming Bradford sealed.
Mendo a’s claims also are drawing protests from Bradford’s ex-wife Sandra Parker.
Parker said Bradford was a friend of Shermantine’s and had been fishing with him the day he was arrested in 1999, but she said Bradford had no involvement in the 15-year killing spree.
Parker, also the mother of Bradford’s four children, ages 14 to 20, said he was the one afraid of Mendo a; that she had knocked out one of his teeth before and had tried to set him on fire.
Mendo a was arrested on suspicion of shooting Bradford during an afternoon dispute in March 2011. He died in a hospital five months later.
But defense attorney Ralph Cingcon said in court papers that Bradford was prone to having violent outbursts because of a brain injury that resulted from an altercation with a K-Mart security officer some time ago.
“During his violent episodes, Mr. Bradford had threatened … that he had killed people before with Loren Her og and Wesley Shermantine,” Cingcon said. “The defendant believed Mr. Bradford’s threats and was afraid of him as he had once helped them clean blood from the seat of a pick-up truck.”
Contact reporter Jennie Rodrigue -Moore at (209) 943-8564 or jrodrigue @recordnet.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/courtsblog.
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Serial-killers link dropped from defense case - Stockton Record
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Morrissey cancels Jimmy Kimmel appearance, calls 'Duck Dynasty' cast 'animal ... - Fox News
Morrissey cancels Jimmy Kimmel appearance, calls ‘Duck Dynasty’ cast ‘animal … – Fox News
Jimmy Kimmel always has the last laugh.
Morrissey learned that lesson on Tuesday night, after the former front man for The Smiths canceled his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” at the last minute because he learned the cast of “Duck Dynasty” would be guest on the same night.
Never one to back away from controversy, Kimmel addressed the cancellation on his show, thanking the band Churchill filling in for Morrissey on such short notice.
Kimmel read the statement Morrissey issued to explain his refusal to appear on the show.
“[Morrissey] is a vegan and a staunch animal rights activist,” Kimmel explained.
Morrissey stated he could not “morally be on a television program where the cast members of ‘Duck Dynasty’ will also be guests.” He added “as far as my reputation is concerned I can’t take the risk of being on a show alongside people who, in effect, amount to animal serial killers.”
Kimmel said Morrissey gave him an ultimatum, saying the comedian had to choose between him and the cast of the A&E show.
“While I respect his stance on this– I really do— there’s a very good reason why I didn’t dump the “Duck Dynasty” guys for Morrissey,” Kimmel said on the air. “It’s because they have guns, and Morrissey doesn’t.
And the late-night host didn’t stop there.
“He keeps finding new ways to depress us,” he quipped of the musician.
Kimmel then ran a spoof, featuring the “Duck Dynasty” cast marketing products for vegans.
The studio audience responded well to the Morrissey digs.
Hopefully now the rocker will think twice before ever messing with Jimmy Kimmel again.
Morrissey cancels Jimmy Kimmel appearance, calls 'Duck Dynasty' cast 'animal ... - Fox News
Criminologist: Teenage Twins are Serial Killers - KTXL
Criminologist: Teenage Twins are Serial Killers – KTXL
STOCKTON—
Teenagers. Twins. Documented gang members.
And, as criminologist John Phillips says, “They’re serial killers.”
That’s because police believe the 19-year-olds, Jerone and Tyrone Sotolongo, are behind three unsolved homicides in Stockton.
“They’ve linked them to two unsolved homicides from 2012, and one from 2011,” said Officer Joe Silva with Stockton Police.
The age may seem so young, as many people at 19 are barely leaving home. But, the two are accused of seriously ugly crimes.
“I don’t want grown-ups having guns that are a tool to kill things unless they know how to use them,” Phillips says.
Let alone kids.
At some ages, it’s harmless playing with toy guns. But, as police have seen this week, how quickly that changes.
Just Tuesday afternoon, police stopped a teenager they say was in possession of a .38 revolver and a box of ammunition.
But the answer to reducing violence lies within these men and women, Phillips says.
“Nowadays, the more police, the less crime,” Phillips says.
And so far in 2013, they’ve reduced the homicide rate by nearly 100% since last year.
Criminologist: Teenage Twins are Serial Killers - KTXL
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A look inside the bizarre world of serial killer groupies - KPTV.com
A look inside the bizarre world of serial killer groupies – KPTV.com
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -
If you type the phrase “serial killer addresses” into an Internet search engine, you’ll get some disturbing results.
A number of websites list the prison addresses of convicted killers, and police investigators told FOX 12 there are plenty of people — serial killer groupies — writing to convicted serial killers.
Portland police homicide detective Jim Lawrence said he once investigated a Portland man who corresponded with two convicted serial murderers.
Lawrence showed FOX 12 some of the correspondence, including a letter he said the Portland man wrote to serial killer Douglas Daniel Clark.
Clark and a partner were known as “Sunset Strip Killers.”
The pair were convicted for a series of killings in Los Angeles. The letter to Clark included an illustration of a hand with the phrase, ”Who knows what these hands will do, what they’ll do 20 years from now.”
“He really seemed to put a kind of hero worship behind this serial killer, and it was a kind of morbid fascination,” Lawrence said.
Lawrence also showed FOX 12 violent artwork the man received from serial killer Ottis Toole, convicted of killing six people in Florida in the 1980s. Police believe Toole also killed 6-year-old Adam Walsh in 1981. The sketch depicts a decapitated head.
Criminal psychologist Dr. Frank Colistro said serial killers often radiate a perverse charisma that groupies find attractive.
“A lot of them get caught up in the drama that’s associated with these people forever,” Colistro explained.
And the list is long for love behind bars, for killers who’ve been married in prison.
I-5 killer Randy Woodfield, who was convicted for murder and attempted murder and suspected in dozens of other crimes in the early 1980s, has been hitched twice at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and Scott Peterson all have had loyal female followers.
“The Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, convicted of 13 brutal murders in California in the 1980s, had groupies who called themselves, ‘the women in black,’ who attended his trial.
“You do get a lot of inadequate, insecure women,” Colistro said. “In a sense, they’re the perfect boyfriend, the perfect husband. In a sense, you can do a relationship light, so to speak.”
Then there are groupies who want to befriend the notorious. Lawrence said some write to convicted killers for profit, to potentially sell the letters online. He said others have a bizarre admiration for the killers.
Lawrence said he interviewed the Portland man who wrote the detailed, expletive-filled letters after out-of-state police discovered the man’s relationship with killer Ottis Toole.
“So they contacted us and I had a little chat with him,” he said.
He said it turned out the man was trying to get letters and artwork from Toole to sell online.
Colistro, however, said there are some people hoping to become copycats.
“They’ll study the M-O of the offender and they’ll start to duplicate it,” he said.
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A look inside the bizarre world of serial killer groupies - KPTV.com
Monday, February 25, 2013
Serial Killer's Secret Photos Released; Police Need Help Identifying People - W*USA 9
Serial Killer’s Secret Photos Released; Police Need Help Identifying People – W*USA 9
CBS NEWS — Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala was found guilty in 2010 of killing four women and a 12-year-old girl in Southern California in the 1970s.
Alcala, 69, is a former photographer and a one-time dating-show contestant who has been behind bars since 1979. Police in California previously released dozens of photos, including the ones seen here, taken from a storage space rented to Alcala.
Recognize the people in this photo? Please contact Huntington Beach, Calif., Police Det. Patrick Ellis at 714-375-5066 or pellis@hbpd.org.
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Serial Killer's Secret Photos Released; Police Need Help Identifying People - W*USA 9
52-year-old spent six years in police investigative psychology unit - Daily Mail
52-year-old spent six years in police investigative psychology unit – Daily Mail
- 52-year-old spent six years in police investigative psychology unit
- Regularly attended court with Pistorius family during bail hearing
- Cannot be consulted by prosecution for her nephew’s case due to family ties
By Steve Robson
PUBLISHED: 02:24 EST, 25 February 2013 | UPDATED: 08:01 EST, 25 February 2013
Oscar’s aunt Micki Pistorius is a top criminal profiler, it has emerged
The aunt of alleged murderer Oscar Pistorius is one of South Africa’s criminal profilers, it has been revealed.
Micki Pistorius, 52, is the author of ‘Profiling Serial Killers and other crimes in South Africa’ and spent six years in the country’s police department as founder of an investigative psychology unit.
During her role, she was involved in more than 30 serial killer cases and helped train nearly 200 detectives in the investigation of serial homicides.
She regularly attended court with the rest of the Pistorius family during his bail hearing last week, but has not made any public comment about his case as yet.
A prosecution lawyer confirmed to The Independent yesterday that Dr Pistorius will not be consulted about her nephew’s psychology due to her family ties – although the issue is likely to be discussed in court.
The athlete has been accused of having ‘a propensity for violence’ during his bail hearing but magistrate Desmond Nair said he was not satisfied this had been proven.
In her book ‘Catch Me A Killer’, Dr Pistorius claimed to have extra-sensory powers of perception which she called ‘cryptesthesia’.
She has also made controversial comments about killers saying: ‘Serial killers are not monsters; they are human beings with tortured souls. I will never condone what they do, but I can understand them.’
Yesterday a picture emerged which is believed to be the last image of Reeva Steenkamp alive before she was allegedly murdered by Oscar Pistorius.
The 29-year-old is pictured grinning broadly behind the wheel of her car – just hours later she was dead.
The picture is taken from CCTV footage that shows the model arriving at the luxury housing complex where Pistorius lived.
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CCTV: The video stills apparently show 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp looking happy as she pulled up at the star’s home in Pretoria, reported the respected South African investigative programme Carte Blanche
On camera: Miss Steenkamp was pictured on a camera pulling into the guarded entrance of the Silver Woods estate in her Mini Cooper car just before 6pm on the day before Valentine’s Day
Miss Steenkamp is seen grinning as security guards let her drive her Mini Cooper into the Silver Woods estate on the outskirts of Pretoria just before 6pm.
Ten minutes later, Paralympic champion Pistorius is also shown arriving in his white BMW.
He uses a lane that is further away from the CCTV camera and it does not capture his facial expression.
The 30 seconds of footage was broadcast on South African television last night.
According to police, soon after the recording was taken the couple started arguing so loudly that his neighbours heard them ‘shouting and screaming’.
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is at home after being granted bail following a gruelling four-day hearing
Then, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, Pistorius allegedly took out his gun and shot Miss Steenkamp in the head, hip and arm as she hid in the bathroom.
Pistorius, 26, claims he mistook her for an intruder.
The television channel also broadcast a brief interview with Miss Steenkamp’s parents, Barry and June, from their home in Port Elizabeth.
In it, Mr Steenkamp said: ‘It’s only Oscar [and] Reeva that know the true story. All I want is that he must just come out with the honest truth.’
Mrs Steenkamp added: ‘We can’t come to terms with this. This is going to be for ever.’
Oscar’s uncle, Arnold Pistorius, said yesterday that Oscar being released on bail was ‘only the beginning of a long road to prove that . . . [he] never intended to harm Reeva’.
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Explore The Mind Of A Serial Killer At Queens Showcase - 4ni.co.uk
Explore The Mind Of A Serial Killer At Queens Showcase – 4ni.co.uk
The inner workings of the minds of some of the world’s most notorious serial killers will be the subject of just one of the talks available at a free psychology showcase at Queen’s University this week.
The Flavour of Psychology event at Queen’s on Wednesday 27 February offers the public and secondary school students an insight into the world of psychology. Talks will cover a wide range of topics including serial killers, the psychology of advertising and teenagers’ attitudes to sexual health.
The free one-day event, organised by the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Psychological Society (NIBPS) in partnership with Queen’s School of Psychology, will feature six top psychologists from around the UK and Ireland, who will showcase their ground-breaking work in different areas of psychology.
Professor Peter Hepper from Queen’s will provide an insight into the murdering minds of serial killers. He said: “Psychology is the study of behaviour, and serial killing is one of the most extreme and bizarre behaviours that humans exhibit. It throws up many challenges for psychology to explain, ranging from our morbid fascination with serial killers to how an individual becomes a serial killer.
“My talk will explore how psychology contributes to our understanding of serial killers. We will discuss common myths, such as the belief that all serial killers are men – the truth is there are female serial killers, but they kill in different ways. Another common misconception is that serial killers ‘must be mad’ – in fact, they are very rational people, although clearly different from the rest of us.
“At Flavour of Psychology we will explore what serial killing is. We will attempt to get into the mind of a serial killer to examine why they kill in the way they do and how they manage to blend into society so well that we don’t know about them until it is too late.”
Professor Carol McGuinness from Queen’s School of Psychology, who is Chair of NIBPS, said: “The Flavour of Psychology day is a great way to get an insight into the broad and fascinating discipline that is psychology. I would encourage anyone with an interest in psychology to come along, and I hope that the talks on offer will inspire future generations of psychologists.”
The Flavour of Psychology event will take place at the Whitla Hall, Queen’s University on Wednesday 27 February from 9.15am-3.30pm. Admission is free but anyone who wishes to attend should book in advance by emailing n.ireland@bps.org.uk or calling 028 9097 4129.
Explore The Mind Of A Serial Killer At Queens Showcase - 4ni.co.uk
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Serial Killers: The Ripper - Syracuse New Times
Serial Killers: The Ripper – Syracuse New Times
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He was the first acknowledged serial killer in history and terrorized the Whitechapel District of London for several months in 1888. Though he was never caught, there were plenty of suspects, including one tied to the British crown. Who was Jack the Ripper?
Infamous historical crimes at the DCL! He was the first acknowledged serial killer in history and terrorized the Whitechapel District of London for several months in 1888. Though he was never caught, there were plenty of suspects, including one tied to the British crown. Who was Jack the Ripper? About the Speaker: Author, librarian, and historian Cheryl Pula returns to the DCL for more exciting ‘moments in history’ programs. She previously presented ‘Crime Spree,’ a look at famous unsolved mysteries. Registration is Encouraged. For more information or to sign up, stop by the library, call us at 315-446-3578, or visit our website: www.dewlib.org.
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Serial Killers: The Ripper - Syracuse New Times
Crime Records Reveal Britain's Worst Ever Serial Killer: Victorian Angel Maker ... - IBTimes.co.uk
Crime Records Reveal Britain’s Worst Ever Serial Killer: Victorian Angel Maker … – IBTimes.co.uk
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Criminal records dating from 1770 to 1934, placed online by the National Archives, have revealed the name of one of Britain’s worst ever serial killers – Amelia Dyer. The data released by the National Archives consists of more than 2.5 million criminal records and includes some of the worst murders.
Dubbed ‘Angel Maker’, Dyer was responsible for the deaths of some 400 babies that she took from their mothers, promising to give the children better lives. For 30 years, Dyer kept taking children from desperate single mothers, who gave her money to have their children adopted by good families. However, rather than looking for good families for the children, Dyer simply strangled them with dressmaking tape and disposed of their bodies in the Thames.
Dyer began her murderous spree in the 1860s in Bristol, where she masqueraded as a friendly face to desperate, unmarried and pregnant women. It must have been fairly easy for her early in her criminal career, for Victorian medicine practices were not yet capable of detecting the difference between, for example, suffocation and still-birth.
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As times changed though, Dyer too evolved… and a far grislier and horrible method of execution surfaced – starvation. It is believed she drugged the babies with laudanum (a powerful opiate) and then starved them.
This continued for a decade, until she was caught and served a six-month jail sentence.
That didn’t stop her.
She returned with a vengeance… and a new plan. She moved to Reading and opened an adoption agency and business was soon booming. Witnesses from the era have been quoted as saying as many six babies entered her agency in a day.
Dyer was finally caught, again, when the body of an infant was recovered from the Thames and the address of her agency was found. Inside, police found several incriminating pieces of evidence and a search of the Thames uncovered 50 bodies. Dyer’s remark: “You’ll know all mine by the tape around their necks.”
She was finally killed – death by hanging – in London in 1896.
And according to information from her file, the description of her last moments goes like this: “On account of her weight and the softness of the textures, rather a short drop was given. It proved to be quite sufficient.”
Crime Records Reveal Britain's Worst Ever Serial Killer: Victorian Angel Maker ... - IBTimes.co.uk
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
Hotel with corpse in water tank has notorious past - CNN
Hotel with corpse in water tank has notorious past – CNN
- Cecil Hotel is featured in “Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice” tour
- “It’s the place where serial killers stay,” a tour guide says
- Serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger stayed there while on sprees
- It was known for suicide jumpers in the 1950s, ’60s, guide says
Los Angeles (CNN) — The Cecil Hotel’s dark past earned it a spot on Los Angeles tours long before a woman’s body was found inside its rooftop water tank.
“It’s the place where serial killers stay,” said tour guide Richard Schave.
Schave and his wife, Kim Cooper, conduct a “true crime and oddities” tour they call “Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice.”
The new mystery surrounding Elisa Lam’s death will be added to Cooper’s spiel during the tour stops at the Cecil Hotel, she said.
Cooper and Schave have made it their job to compile details on those who have killed or been killed while staying at the Cecil.
The killers
The most famous on their list are serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger.
Firefighters work to remove a body found inside a water tank on the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 19. A young woman’s body had likely been decomposing for more than two weeks, police said. 
A team works to remove the body. The body of Elisa Lam, 21, of Vancouver, Canada was found in the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank by a maintenance worker who was trying to figure out why the water pressure was low on Tuesday. 
Authorities stand on the rooftop of the hotel as the recovery continues. 
It was not clear whether the water presented any health risks to those who drank it. 
Firefighters leave the Cecil Hotel after removing the body. 
Lam is shown in this undated image released by the Los Angeles Police Department. Lam’s parents reported her missing in early February and the last sighting of her was in the hotel on January 31, according to police. Body found in hotel water tank
Body found in hotel water tank
Body found in hotel water tank
Body found in hotel water tank
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Hotel guests: Discovery ‘sickening’
Ramirez, known as the “Nightstalker,” now resides on California’s death row, but in 1985 he was living on the Cecil’s top floor in a $14 a night room, Cooper said.
The Cecil, filled then with hundreds of transients living in the cheap rooms, was a good place for Ramirez to go unnoticed as he killed 13 women, Schave said. He was “just dumping his bloody clothes in the Dumpster at the end of his evening and going in the back entrance.”
Jack Unterweger worked as a journalist covering Los Angeles crime for an Austrian magazine in 1991 when he moved into the Cecil.
“We believe he was living at the Cecil in homage to Ramirez,” Schave said.
He is blamed with killing three prostitutes in Los Angeles while a guest at the Cecil.
The killed
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Cecil had a reputation as a place where people would kill themselves by jumping out upper-floor windows, Cooper said. “It’s just what people do when they are at the end of their rope,” she said.
Helen Gurnee, in her 50s, leaped from a seventh floor window, landing on the Cecil Hotel marquee on October 22, 1954, she said.
Julia Moore jumped from her eighth floor room window on February 11, 1962, she said. She left behind a bus ticket from St Louis, 59 cents and an Illinois bank account book showing a balance of $1,800.
Pauline Otton, 27, jumped from a ninth floor window after an argument with her estranged husband on October 12, 1962, she said. Otton landed on George Gianinni, 65, who was walking on the sidewalk 90 feet below. Both were killed instantly.
Not everyone on Cooper’s list committed suicide.
“Pigeon Goldie” Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found dead in her ransacked room on June 4, 1964, Cooper said. Osgood, known for protecting and feeding the pigeons at nearby Pershing Square, was stabbed, strangled and raped. The crime has not been solved.
Not an ordinary hotel
Schave and Cooper have theories about why the Cecil’s past has been so sordid.
It was built in the 1920s as a hotel “for businessmen to come into town and spend a night or two,” Cooper said.
But it was soon upstaged by nicer hotels in a better part of town, she said. When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, it became more of a transient hotel. Eventually, it transitioned into a single room occupancy business, known as an SRO. Long-term tenants rented individual rooms and shared bathrooms with neighboring residents.
“This was just a place where people who were really down on their luck were going,” Schave said. “These hotels are filled with people who are at the edge of being integrated in society.”
During the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, hundreds of people who were “down on their luck” called the Cecil home, he said. “They were all hustling to make ends meet.”
“It’s not like that any more, of course,” Cooper said.
New owners converted three of the floors back to hotel rooms around 2007, but most of the building remains SRO, Schave said.
Another section serves as a hostel that is marketed toward European tourists, he said
It was not clear if Lam was staying in one of the hotel rooms, which offer more privacy, or the hostel.
Repeated calls by CNN to the Cecil Hotel management were not returned Wednesday and Thursday.
Hotel with corpse in water tank has notorious past - CNN
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Notorious serial killer Russell Williams reportedly moved to Quebec prison - Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
Notorious serial killer Russell Williams reportedly moved to Quebec prison – Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
Ottawa police only learned about most of Russell Williams’s break-ins in Orléans when he confessed to them.Two of Canada’s most notorious serial killers will be getting new addresses in Quebec, according to a report that hints prison overcrowding could soon become a larger issue.
An official source told QMI Agency that Russell Williams was moved from Kingston Penitentiary to Quebec’s Port-Cartier Institution on Tuesday, while Paul Bernardo is expected to make the same move soon.
Williams, an ex-colonel, was sentenced to life in prison in 2010 for the murder and sexual assault of Jessica Lloyd and Marie-France Comeau — committed while he was the base commander at CFB Trenton.
Bernardo, meantime, first arrived at Kingston Penitentiary after he was found guilty in 1995 of murdering two Toronto-area women and raping 14 others.
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A spokesperson for Corrections Canada could not confirm details about prison transfers, but it was only a matter of time before the two noted killers were shipped to a new pen.
Kingston Penitentiary, long the centerpiece of Canada’s maximum security prison system, was among several institutions slated for closure last year.
The century-old prison and an adjacent psychiatric assessment centre, as well as a medium-security institution in Laval, Que., were said to be outdated and no longer fit to house inmates. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said in April they would need to find new homes for about 1,000 inmates before the facilities close their doors.
At the time, the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers expressed concern that the Kingston closure would lead to overcrowding and double bunking at other facilities.
“Double bunking represents a very real danger for our correctional officers,” UCCO Ontario president Jason Godin said. “Every time they open the door of a cell with two inmates, they are exposed to more attacks and greater violence.”
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Godin also said that Kingston Penitentiary was home to some of the most “unique, dangerous offenders in the country.”
The massive facility features a segregated wing where some of its more notorious inmates were kept isolated from the general prison population. Bernardo and Williams were said to have been housed in that area of the institution.
Port-Cartier Institution is a maximum-security facility capable of housing 237 inmates. Nearly everyone sentenced to Port-Cartier face more than 40 months behind bars. Forty-one per cent of Port-Cartier’s population has been given life sentences.
Port-Cartier also features a long-term segregation unit, which will come in handy should the reported transfer of Williams and Bernardo be accurate.
If Williams and Bernardo are being transferred, you can bet they are not the only Kingston inmates making the move. Which means those fears of overcrowding could soon be realized.
Notorious serial killer Russell Williams reportedly moved to Quebec prison - Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Watch Hugh Dancy Hunt Down Serial Killers in the Chilling New Trailer for ... - Broadway.com
Hugh Dancy has an appointment with Dr. Lecter in ‘Hannibal’
Get ‘em, Hugh! Venus in Fur alum Hugh Dancy is taking on the world’s most notorious serial killers in the new TV thriller Hannibal, and NBC just released the first trailer for the sure to be creepy series. Dancy stars as badass FBI agent Will Graham, and if these clips are any indication, he explores some seriously disturbing crime scenes in an attempt to outwit criminal masterminds. When Will is reunited with his mentor, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the fun really begins. Click below to see Dancy in action, then watch the first episode of Hannibal on April 4!
Watch Hugh Dancy Hunt Down Serial Killers in the Chilling New Trailer for ... - Broadway.com
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