Sunderland

The 62-year-old, from Sunderland, knew her husband Andrew, now dead, was responsible for a series of sickening attacks on children in the 1970s and 80s, but did nothing to stop him and made no attempt to report what she knew. 

The revelations came to light after Jeffrey was called to give evidence in an ongoing murder trial. 

Called to appear at Newcastle Crown Court against one of the defendants, regarding a prison conversation the pair are alleged to have had, Jeffrey was then quizzed on her relationship with West. 

Joanna Greenberg QC asked Jeffrey: “Your new best friend is Rose West, is it not?” 

Jeffrey replied: “No, she cleans the floor outside, she speaks to me, she speaks to everyone in there.” 

Miss Greenberg said: “The prison service are concerned and made a report about your new friendship with Rose West?” 

Jeffrey said: “I don’t know.” 

Miss Greenberg said: “May I suggest you have something in common, given your ill treatment of children?” 

Jeffrey replied: “No.” 

Nightmare Vacation III

Parents who sent their children to a summer kids' camp in North Carolina got the shock of their lives recently. The woman who runs Kiddie Kollege Summer Camp is a murderer who killed her own child. Her assistant? Well, she killed her husband a few years ago.

There are murderesses running a children's camp! And no one told the parents!

Doris Bullock and Deidra Gary both go by new names now, names that wouldn't immediately show they're convicted felons who served time in prison. But the discovery of their bloody pasts by parents is opening up a whole new debate on what it means to have served your time for crimes this serious. 

Lowery

She should have left me alone.

That is what Nativa Lowery told cops when she finally admitted she killed celebrity realtor Lisa Stein, a detective testified Tuesday.

Lowery had claimed a black-clad ninja-like man was the real killer, but caved when police told her the intruder could not have gotten into the doorman-protected building without being seen.

No man came through the door, the former personal assistant allegedly told cops.

I snatched the cane and hit her repeatedly with it, hit her with what she had in her hand. She should have left me alone. It was not supposed to hurt like that.

1969

As the cutest of the Manson Girls, Susan Atkins became an overnight sensation in the wake of the 1969 murder of Sharon Tate and her unborn child (as well as the next  murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca).

 

The San Francisco native first met Charles Manson when she took a trip down to Los Angeles. They turned out to be kindred spirits, since Atkins was one of the few Manson Family members who had not emerged from conservative suburbia.

 

 

The lovely brunette had been raised among the budding San Francisco counterculture. Her pioneering hippie upbringing helped make her a natural thrill-killer. It also made her the least believable of the girls to later renounce Manson in favour of Christianity.

Jamila

Nick Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, wants his Tunisian stepmother, Jamila M'Barek, to lose her title, Countess of Shaftesbury.

"It's offensive that she has got that title, especially since she murdered the man she got it from, my father," he said.

The Earl spoke about his father's killing for the first time ahead of a More4 documentary looking at his attempt to rescue the Shaftesbury family name from bankruptcy and ruin.

The Aristocrats is a four-part series exploring modern day high society through historically prominent families.

It follows Nick Ashley-Cooper coming to terms with assuming the title of the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury in 2005, after his father's murder and his 28-year-old elder brother Anthony's sudden death from a heart attack weeks later.

The jury in Jodi Arias' murder trial concluded its second full day of deliberations on Tuesday without reaching a verdict.

Jurors adjourned late Tuesday afternoon and will resume Wednesday morning. They got the case Friday afternoon but only deliberated for about an hour.

Arias, 32, is charged with first-degree murder in the June 4, 2008, death of her one-time boyfriend at his suburban Phoenix home. Authorities say she killed Travis Alexander in a jealous rage after he wanted to end their affair and had been planning to head off on a trip to Mexico with another woman. Arias initially denied involvement, then blamed it on two masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said she killed Alexander in self-defence when he attacked her after a day of sex.

Alexander suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, was shot in the forehead and had his throat slit. His decomposing body was found by friends crumpled in his shower about five days after the killing.

Testimony began in early January. The case has become a cable TV sensation with its lurid tales of sex, lies and betrayal. Hundreds of spectators flocked to the courthouse daily during the trial for a chance to score just a few open seats available to the public inside the courtroom.

As deliberations drag on, dozens of people gather daily on the courthouse steps waiting for a verdict.

Devotees

Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were all sentenced to death for their roles in the carnage that claimed the lives of actress Sharon Tate, the heavily pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, and six others in Los Angeles on the nights of August 8 and 9, 1969. The penalties were commuted to life.

Atkins initially admitted stabbing Tate 16 times. She then scrawled "pig" at the scene with the dead woman's blood. Another Family member has since said she did not actually stab the actress. She died in September 2009, in prison, at the time the longest-incarcerated female inmate in the California penal system. Following her death, Krenwinkel is now the longest serving.

Another female Manson devotee, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who was not implicated in the 1969 slayings but was jailed in 1975 after pointing a loaded pistol at President Gerald Ford from two feet away, was released on parole in 2009. Fromme, who was a dominant figure among Manson's female followers, would have been released the previous July but had to serve additional time for a 1987 jailbreak. She escaped after she heard that Manson had testicular cancer, and planned to go to his aid in jail.

Wendi

Wendi Adriano was convicted in the October 2000 killing of her terminally ill husband Joseph Adriano, an apartment manager in Ahwatukee, Ariz. She allegedly tried to poison him by putting pesticide in his soup.

When he didn't immediately die, she allegedly struck him 23 times with a barstool and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife.

The case was prosecuted by Juan Martinez, the same man who is arguing the state's case against Jodi Arias.

Martinez reportedly told jurors Adriano was hoping to cash in on a $20 million payout from a lawsuit connected to the misdiagnosis of her husband's cancer. The jury reportedly ruled she should be sentenced to death after finding the murder was committed in an "especially cruel" manner.

Shawna

In March 2009, border activist Shawna Forde led a home invasion raid in Arivaca, Ariz. - about 10 miles north of the Mexican border - that left 29-year old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter Brisenia dead, prosecutors alleged.

Forde, the leader of the anti-illegal immigrant group Minutemen American Defense, allegedly posed as a police officer looking for fugitives along with two accomplices, CBS affiliate KOLD reported. Then, prosecutors said, the group opened fire.

The mother of the slain 9-year-old, Gina Gonzalez, survived and called 911. 

Prosecutors reportedly said that Forde believed Flores was a drug smuggler and wanted his money to fund Forde's border watch operation.

Forde was sentenced to death on February 22, 2011.

City of Angels

Right outside the City of Brotherly Love, “City of Angels” offered devilishly good entertainment that tackled both film noir and comedy. The superb cast and crew at Eastern Regional High School did a bang-up job with this murderous musical.

Bringing a taste of Hollywood to Broadway, City of Angels snagged the 1990 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Book, and Score. In this multifaceted show, protagonist Stine busily adapts his novel about private detective Stone for the big screen, while Stone pursues the case of a wealthy woman’s missing stepdaughter. Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, Stine’s everyday companions mirror their celluloid alter egos, and his troubled life unravels as his script simultaneously unfolds.

Eastern Regional put on a riveting production, bolstered by the cast’s striking vocals in challenging, jazzy numbers. The company stunningly meshed the black-and-white realm of film with the colorful world of the 1940s, and adding to the inventive nature of the show, actors skillfully portrayed dual parts as "real" and "reel" characters.

Anchoring the musical as Stone, Jonathan Harris mastered the archetypically slick detective with velvety vocals and convincing acting. Opposite Stone as Stine, strong belter Dante Brattelli struck a chord with his impressive range in songs such as “Funny.” Together, the two wowed in their duet “You’re Nothing Without Me.” In the roles of producer Irving and insufferable movie maker Buddy, Jeremy Gubman flaunted his delightful comic chops.

Stabber

A teenager who killed her boyfriend found out she was pregnant with his child on the night she stabbed him with a kitchen knife.

The offender was sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Alice Springs last week after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

The court heard the teenager was treated in hospital for injuries sustained from payback, after she stabbed her partner in the left thigh, severing the femoral artery.

The wound was 11cm deep.

Defence lawyer Tania Collins said it was then, in November 2011, the offender was informed she was pregnant.

Ms Collins said it was one of the most tragic cases to come before the Supreme Court in Central Australia.

On the night of the stabbing the offender had been drinking with friends when she and the deceased, who had been in a relationship for about six months, had a jealous fight at Hidden Valley Town Camp.

The court heard the deceased told the offender he did not want to continue the relationship, and would return to Willowra, 340km northwest of Alice Springs.

The offender then fatally stabbed her partner. He collapsed and an ambulance was called by his father who witnessed the attack, but attempts to revive him failed.

Brossard

In the spring of 2009, the French were mesmerised by a murder trial that had everything needed to whet Gallic appetites: a glamorous mistress, a billionaire victim, and more than a whiff of kinky extramarital sex. Cécile Brossard was judged guilty and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for shooting her lover Édouard Stern, a respected banker and the 38th richest man in France. He had been found dead in his luxury Geneva flat wearing a bullet-riddled, all-in-one latex sex suit; she had fled to Australia.

Régis Jauffret's Severe takes the facts of the case as the starting point for his fiction, but pitches his work as an imaginative investigation rather than a straightforward novelisation. He never names his protagonists. "Don't believe this story is real," he insists, "it is I who invented it." Jauffret's disclaimer, however, did not prevent the Stern family, citing invasion of privacy, from trying to get the book banned.

Jauffret wields his pen like a torch to illuminate a human drama behind the public facts. It is his sparse prose that makes this novel compelling. There is a stylish blankness to the mistress's first-person confession, as she recalls fragments of the affair through a haze of champagne and antidepressants.

This numbness of expression is at odds with the gritty, frequently visceral detail of the story. Her testimony recounts her time as a high-class prostitute before becoming the lover and ultimately "sexual secretary" of the ruthless businessman; he leads her towards dark complicity in shady encounters with politicians, bisexual orgies, and ever more violent S&M roleplay.

Tanya

Forty year old Tanya Doyle admits killing Paul Byrne at their house in Pairc Gleann Trasna, Aylesbury in Tallaght, on September 4 2009 but denies his murder.

Dr Paul O'Connell said he originally formed the view from interviews with Tanya Doyle that she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was insane at the time she killed her husband.

He said he revised that opinion on the basis that she knew what she was doing, knew it was wrong and could have refrained from doing it as she had had a meal and engaged in conversation with Paul Byrne before stabbing him more than 60 times.

 

Hiding

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Martinez asked Arias yet again to take the court through the act of killing Alexander. She contended that she killed Alexander in self-defense when he became enraged and attacked her during a nude photo shoot at his home. While taking the photos, Arias says she accidentally dropped Alexander's camera, he became infuriated, and the next thing she knew, he slammed her into the floor of the bathroom. "At that point, Travis flipped out," Arias said, and called her a "stupid idiot," USA Today reported.

Soon after, Arias said, Alexander was chasing her down the hall of the bathroom and she ran into a walk-in closet where she remembered he kept a gun. "He had already almost killed me," she said. "I was terrified."

Martinez then noted photographs taken by police of the crime scene seemed inconsistent with her version of the killing. He drew the court's attention to the fact that nothing in the crime scene appeared to have been disturbed by what Arias has claimed was an extremely violent "frantic" brawl that led to Alexander's killing.

Arias has already admitted to lying about Alexander's death to just about everyone. She first claimed she was never at Alexander's home the day he was killed, then she invented the masked intruder angle, and finally she backtracked to admit she killed the victim, but claimed it was in self-defense, as he attacked her in the shower, forcing her to fight for her life.  

Barring

Convicted killer Christa Gail Pike is asking a federal court to bar the state from killing her.

Having exhausted — for now, at least — state court appeals, Pike is now turning to U.S. District Court in what is proving an 18-year battle to escape death row for the 1995 slaying of romantic rival Colleen Slemmer at the now-defunct Job Corps training program for troubled youth, then in Fort Sanders.

In a 123-page petition filed on Pike's behalf, Assistant Federal Defender Stephen A. Ferrell lists a host of reasons why Pike's constitutional rights were violated in both the 1996 trial in Knox County Criminal Court and penalty phase and those violations ignored by Tennessee's appellate courts.

Among them is a claim that executing Pike via lethal injection would amount to "cruel and unusual punishment" because she was "a mentally ill, cognitively impaired, immature adolescent" at the time of the killing.

Old Time Murder

Nineteen year-old Madeleine Smith may have been charged in 1857 with poisoning her lover, Emile L’Angelier, but her real sin was having sex – a lot of sex – out of wedlock.

Her mistake was to write him frank and passionate letters, described by the trial judge as ‘without any sense of decency’, which L’Angelier threatened to send to her father when she cooled on the idea of marriage, having secretly engaged herself to someone else.

No Choice

A jury of eight women and four men will start deliberating Friday morning in Erie County Court in the homicide trial of 31-year-old Rachel A. Kozloff.

The prosecution and defense ended their closing arguments at about 3:55 p.m. today, and Judge Shad Connelly adjourned the courtroom for the day. He said he will give the jury its instructions at 9 a.m. Friday, with deliberations to follow.

The defense in its closing argument characterized Kozloff as an abused and frightened girlfriend who acted in self-defense when she fatally shot her boyfriend, Michael Henry, 31, in April because he attacked in a rage whose origin Kozloff could not specify.

"She was forced to kill a man she cared for," Kozloff's court-appointed lawyer, Jamie Mead, said in his 55-minute closing argument. "No one wants to do that ... but she had no choice."

Meidinger

It took three tries to kill Jennifer Daugherty after she was tortured by six roommates in a Greensburg apartment two years ago, an accused accomplice testified Thursday.

Melvin Knight repeatedly plunged a kitchen knife into Daugherty, but she was still alive, Amber Meidinger testified Thursday. Ricky Smyrnes grabbed the knife and slit Daugherty's wrist, Meidinger said.

“Ricky comes out and says the (expletive) still ain't dead,” Meidinger told the Westmoreland County jury who must decide if Smyrnes should be convicted of first-degree murder.

When that did not work, Smyrnes directed Knight to get Christmas lights they used to wrap around Daugherty's neck and choke her, Meidinger said.

She spent nearly five hours on the witness stand as prosecutors seek the death penalty against Smyrnes, 26, formerly of Irwin and McKeesport.

Knight, 23, formerly of Swissvale, was sentenced to death in August.

Meidinger, 23, of Greensburg testified she has no plea deal and faces a possible death sentence if convicted.

The witness, speaking slowly and at times sobbing, said Daugherty's killing came after Smyrnes called “family meetings” of the group.

Smyrnes devised the murder plan and forced Daugherty to write a fake suicide note, Meidinger said.

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