Charles Manson speaks

Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal and musician who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's objective.


Manson is associated with "Helter Skelter", a term he took from the song "Helter Skelter", written and recorded by the The Beatles. Manson misconstrued the lyrics to be about an apocalyptic race war he believed the murders were intended to precipitate. From the beginning of his notoriety, this connection with rock music linked him with a pop culture in which he ultimately became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre. The term was later used by Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi as the title of a book he wrote about the Manson murders.

At the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict, who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. Before the murders, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, founding member and drummer of The Beach Boys.

After Manson was charged with the crimes he was later convicted of, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially. Artists, including Guns N' Roses and Marilyn Manson, have covered his songs in the decades since.

Manson's death sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment when a 1972 decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the state's death penalty. California's eventual reestablishment of capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is currently incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison.

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The FBI became increasingly concerned that the Davidians were going to commit mass suicide, as had happened at Jonestown when 900 people killed themselves at their leader's behest. The then-newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno approved the recommendations of the FBI to mount an assault after being told that conditions were deteriorating and children were being abused inside the compound.

Because the Davidians were heavily armed, the FBI's arms included .50 caliber guns and armored vehicles known as combat engineer vehicles (CEVs). A plan was formed which would see the CEVs use booms to punch holes in the walls of buildings and then pump in CS gas ("tear gas") to try to flush out the Davidians without harming them.

The plan called for increasing amounts of gas to be pumped in over two days to increase pressure. No armed assault was to be made, and loudspeakers were used to tell the Davidians that there was no armed assault and to ask them not to fire on the vehicles. Despite this, several Davidians opened fire. Instead of returning fire, the FBI increased the amount of gas being used.

After more than six hours no Davidians had left the building instead sheltering in an underground bunker or using gas masks. The CEVs were used to punch several large holes in the building to provide exits for those inside. However several of these were blocked when the floor above collapsed, and Davidians were scared that they would be shot if they left. At around noon, three fires started almost simultaneously in different parts of the building. Even then, as the fire spread, only nine people left the building.

The remaining Davidians remained inside as fire engulfed the building, with footage being broadcast worldwide by television. In all, 74 died. Jeff Jamar prohibited fire crews access to the burning buildings until after the blaze had burned itself out, due to the danger of explosives within the fire and possible weapons fire from surviving Davidians. Nothing remains of the compound today. Only a small chapel stands on the site, used by a small number of Branch Davidians.

David Koresh The siege

On February 28, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) raided Mount Carmel. The raid resulted in the deaths of four agents and six Davidians. Shortly after the initial raid, the FBI took command of the federal operation and contact was established with Koresh inside the church. Communication over the next 51 days included telephone exchanges with various FBI negotiators.

As the standoff continued, Koresh, who was seriously injured by a gunshot wound, along with his closest male leaders negotiated delays, possibly so he could write religious documents he said he needed to complete before he surrendered. His conversations with the negotiators were dense with biblical imagery. The federal negotiators treated the situation as a hostage crisis despite a two hour video tape sent out by the Davidians in which the adults and older children/teens appeared to explain clearly and confidently why they chose of their own free will to remain with David.

The 51-day siege of Mount Carmel ended when U.S Attorney General Janet Reno approved recommendations of veteran FBI officials to proceed with a final assault in which the Branch Davidians were to be removed from their building by force. In the course of the assault, the church building caught fire. The cause of the fire was later alleged by the "Danforth Report," a report commissioned by The Special Counsel, to be the deliberate actions of some of the Branch Davidians inside the building..

However this hypothesis is disputed in the documentary "Waco: The Rules of Engagement," which argues that the fire was deliberately set when the FBI fired an incendiary device into the building after loading the building with CS gas, which is highly flammable.

At the subsequent trial of the surviving Branch Davidians, the jury listened to edited parts of a tape-recording from hidden microphones inside Mt. Carmel during the final attack and fire of 19 April. These consisted of sounds of static during which one could faintly hear a voice saying "...fire..."

A government expert testified that through electronic enhancement, he had reconstructed some clearly incriminating comments, even if the jury couldn't hear them. It later transpired that the FBI, when meeting Koresh's demands that milk be sent in for the children's wellbeing, also sent in tiny listening devices concealed inside the milk cartons and their styrofoam containers..

Barricaded in their building, seventy-six Branch Davidians, including Koresh, did not survive the fire. Seventeen of these victims were children under the age of 12. The Danforth Report claims that those who died were unable, or unwilling, to flee and that Steve Schneider, Koresh's right-hand man, probably shot Koresh and killed himself with the same gun. "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" claims that FBI sharpshooters fired on, and killed, many Branch Davidians who attempted to flee the flames.

Testimony by the few Branch Davidians who did successfully flee the fire supports this claim. Autopsy records indicate that at least 20 Branch Davidians were shot, including 5 children. The Danforth Report claims that the adults who died of gunshot wounds shot themselves after shooting the children.

David Koresh is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery, Tyler, Texas.

Branch Davidians believe that Koresh will someday return to Earth. Some hoped, based on Daniel 12:12, that this would occur 1,335 days after his death: December 14, 1996. The Hidden Manna faction believed that it would take place on August 6, 1999, then October 20, and now March 2012. Other survivors avoid date-setting.

Who was David Koresh

Interviews with surviving Davidians state that David Koresh was intimately versed in the Bible and "knew it like he wrote it". Koresh taught that the US government was the enemy of the Davidians, and that they would have to defend themselves. He also professed that the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation was upon them.

In a video made by the Davidians and released during the siege, Koresh stated that he had been told by God to procreate with the women in the groups to establish a "House of David", his "Special People".

This involved married couples in the group dissolving their marriages and agreeing that only Koresh could have sexual relations with the wives. On the tape, Koresh is also shown with several minors who claimed to have had babies fathered by Koresh. In total, Koresh had fourteen young children, who stayed with him in the compound.

A video clip of an interview between Koresh and an Australian television station notes that he was accused of impregnating the aged widow of the founder of Branch Davidianism. He sarcastically said that if the charges were true, if he had "made an 82 year-old woman pregnant... I do miracles, I'm God!" Frequently, only the last two words were seen in news coverage.

On February 27, 1993 the Waco Tribune-Herald began what it called the “Sinful Messiah” series of articles. It alleged that Koresh had physically abused children in the compound and had taken underage brides, even raping one of them. Koresh was also said to advocate polygamy for himself, and declared himself married to several female residents of the small community.

According to the paper, Koresh declared that he was entitled to at least 140 wives, that he was entitled to claim any of the females in the group as his, that he had fathered at least a dozen children by the harem and that some of these mothers became brides as young as twelve or thirteen years old.

Reports from Joyce Sparks, an investigator from the Texas agency responsible for protective services, stated that she had found no evidence that the allegations were true in any of several visits to the Mount Carmel site over a period of months, but said that she was not permitted to speak with the children alone, nor was she permitted to inspect all areas of the site. She noted that safety concerns over construction sites at Mount Carmel were immediately addressed and corrected. Carol Moore, author of the 1994 "The Massacre Of The Branch Davidians—A Study Of Government Violations Of Rights, Excessive Force And Cover Up", published by The Committee For Waco Justice, writes:

(Rick) Ross told the Houston Chronicle that Koresh is "your stock cult leader. They're all the same. Meet one and you've met them all. They're deeply disturbed, have a borderline personality and lack any type of conscience...No one willingly enters into a relationship like this. So you're talking about deception and manipulation (by the leader), people being coached in ever so slight increments, pulled in deeper and deeper without knowing where it's going or seeing the total picture."

Simpson Goldman crime scene very Graphic

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It was the "trial of the century." In 1995, The People vs. O.J. Simpson captivated the nation. The case against the former football star in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman was controversial and racially-charged. When the "not guilty" verdict came in, the nation was changed forever.

Lon Cryer, who sat on the Simpson jury, shared that his decision to rule not guilty stemmed on defense testimony from a top forensics scientist that pointed to the possibility of lab error and DNA contamination. Since the prosecution's case rested largely on DNA evidence, possible erroneous handling of the sample made Cryer wary.

In retrospect, Cryer says that he would render a guilty verdict. He notes the lack of any other viable suspect as well as Simpson's behavior following the trial as altering his decision. "As time has gone, we never had a Perry Mason moment where someone jumped out, 'I did it.' With that in mind and looking at some of the other things going on in Mr. Simpson's life after the fact, it sort of became apparent to me in all probability, that he was the person who went over there and killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman." 

Simpson is currently serving a lengthy sentence following an armed robbery and kidnapping conviction. Experts believe O.J. Simpson may be released from prison soon after his parole hearing Thursday, July 20 at 1pm ET. ***Update, he'll be released at October 1st, 2017.

Being on such a polarizing case—and being sequestered for over eight months—took its toll on Cryer and his fellow jurors. He had a myocardial infarction and severe asthma attack during the trial and points to the "stress at the time." Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran apparently told him after the trial that his health and the well-being of the jurors was top of mind for the defense. In fact, the defense apparently shortened its case for fear of "losing" the jury. "They took it upon themselves to try and shorten their presentation," explains Cryer.

Cryer says that being associated with the O.J. Simpson trial has changed his life and it has kept him in the spotlight. Interestingly, Cryer has been on two more juries since. Although the "trial of the century" centered around a beloved former athlete, Cryer maintains that the focus should be on the victims: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. "Those two people are what this is really all about."

The mother that shouldn't talk Karly Sheehan

Shawn Wesley Field is dead.

He passed away at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute in Pendleton, Oregon.

Shawn did not die an easy death, but it was a much easier death than the one he inflicted upon three-year-old Karly Sheehan, of Corvallis, Oregon.

The jury ruled Shawn had tortured Karly prior to her death.

We will never know why Shawn Field killed Karly. He had a daughter of  his own. C. Field may have been the only person Shawn ever loved more than himself. She paid him a visit in prison this week, to celebrate his birthday. His parents, Hugh and Ann Field, haven’t visited their son in years.

Shawn had cancer. He also had AIDS, had it before he was in prison. Shawn Field was bi-sexual. I suspect he was a gay man, posing. Shawn came from a fundamentalist, legalistic home where being gay would have likely got him cut off financially from his inheritance and the lifestyle he so enjoyed.

At his core, Shawn Field was lazy. He wanted the good life, but never wanted to work for it. He would do anything to keep his gay relationships a secret, do anything to keep his parents funding his lifestyle, including kill for it.

I tried numerous times to interview Shawn Field. He always refused.

He insisted that he did not kill Karly Sheehan. He had no idea who did, even though he was the only person with Karly that day, other than Sarah.

Shawn Field went to his death claiming he had been the person wronged. He lived his whole life like that – with a sense of entitlement and a sense of everyone doing him wrong. I have letters from people who have known Shawn since he was a young boy and they all say pretty much the same thing – Shawn was mean. He was especially disrespectful to his mother. He thought he was better than everyone else. He maintained an air of arrogance all of his adult life.

Old girlfriends tell of the nightmares they still endure because of Shawn. I don’t think Shawn’s death will relieve the nightmares those women suffer.

Shawn’s death will not likely make life better for his daughter. C.Field has been the other true victim of Shawn’s. Everyone says C. Field is beautiful and bright young lady now. Her momma put her in therapy after Karly’s death. Anyone in the Benton County Courthouse who heard that then-elementary-school girl testify knows that C. Field felt guilt over Karly’s death.

Karly had been like a little sister to C. Field. She loved Karly. How does a therapist explain to a child that they are not responsible for the murder of another child? How does C. Field find the grace to forgive herself from something she needs no forgiveness from? She didn’t kill Karly. She was a little girl. She couldn’t have stopped Karly’s death if she had stormed into the living room with a baseball bat and beat her dad that night. Such an action would have likely only resulted in C. Field putting her own life at risk.

Her father was a sick man. Perhaps his sickness was the result of having to hide his true self. Maybe Shawn Field was gay and simply couldn’t risk being cut off from the family inheritance by coming out.  Maybe he couldn’t come out because he was afraid of his own father’s wrath. Maybe he couldn’t come out because he couldn’t face his own truth.

Maybe his sexuality had nothing to do with why he tortured Karly Sheehan.  Maybe Shawn Field  had just given himself over to evil. Maybe Shawn Field liked the power evilness afforded him.

We will never know because Shawn Field, unlike Ted Bundy, never could own up to the truth of who he was and what he did.

His death will not restore all that Shawn Field took from David Sheehan and from the entire Sheehan clan, though, perhaps, they will find some measure of grace in knowing that the man who did those terrible things to Karly is now himself going to have to answer to a much higher court than the one he faced here on earth.

Shawn Field died a grim death, but his suffering, for all we know, may have just begun.

I can’t bring myself to ask God to have mercy on his soul.

I want God to bring justice for the torture and murder of Karly Sheehan.

You might want that, too, if you had seen the photos of Karly post-mortem as I did.

Justice is  one of those characteristics of God that we like least. It makes him seem unloving, unforgiving. As if mercy and justice were somehow polar opposites of each other.

But they are not.

Only a just God can grant mercy. It wouldn’t be mercy, otherwise.

Think of the men and women you know who treat others justly. Are  they not usually some of the most merciful and loving people, you know?

When people are dealt with justly, there is no cause to seek revenge.

Shawn Field is dead.

His death brings me no sense of joy, no sense of relief, no sense of satisfaction. The feeling that I have most when I think of Shawn Field is one of overwhelming darkness. Evil embodied.

I wish there had never been a reason to know his name.

Puppet Show Caylee Marie Anthony

Born on March 19, 1986, in Warren, Ohio, Casey Anthony was one of two children of Cindy Anthony and George Anthony, who worked in law enforcement. Casey was a bright, personable young girl, with friends and what many thought was an ordinary American family. However, friends say that a pattern of lying began when Casey was in high school. Cindy and George attended Casey’s graduation, along with Casey’s grandparents—only to discover that she was several credits short of graduating. Casey had stopped attending classes toward the end of the school year, but led her family to believe she would walk with the graduating class.

When she was 19, Casey gave her family yet another shock. She had put on weight, and her parents suspected she was pregnant. Casey denied it, claiming she was a virgin. Seven months into her pregnancy, she told her parents the truth. The identity of the baby’s father, however, remained a mystery. On August 9, 2005, Caylee Anthony was born.

While living with her parents in Orlando, Casey and Cindy had a fight on June 15, 2008. After seeing a photo online of Casey at a “no clothes party,” Cindy accused Casey of being an unfit mother, and threatened to try and get custody of Caylee. The day after the argument, Casey left her parents’ home, taking Caylee with her.

Over the next 31 days, Cindy called her daughter to check on Caylee. Each time, Casey told her the little girl was out with a babysitter, Zenaida “Zanny” Fernandez-Gonzalez.

My own personal note:

1- Zenaida was real but never babysat Caylee, by saying so she ruined this womans life to this day.

2- Her mother retracted the sentence from 911 and justified it in Court as : i would have said anything to put attention to the disappearance of Caylee.

3- No father in the world is going to attend a trial both as witness and a victim is expected to listen to you raped your daughter and if it isn't so leave the court directly, because false accusations drives you mad. However he remained there...

Puppet Show Caylee Marie Anthony

When she was 19, Casey gave her family yet another shock. She had put on weight, and her parents suspected she was pregnant. Casey denied it, claiming she was a virgin. Seven months into her pregnancy, she told her parents the truth. The identity of the baby’s father, however, remained a mystery. On August 9, 2005, Caylee Anthony was born.

While living with her parents in Orlando, Casey and Cindy had a fight on June 15, 2008. After seeing a photo online of Casey at a “no clothes party,” Cindy accused Casey of being an unfit mother, and threatened to try and get custody of Caylee. The day after the argument, Casey left her parents’ home, taking Caylee with her.

Over the next 31 days, Cindy called her daughter to check on Caylee. Each time, Casey told her the little girl was out with a babysitter, Zenaida “Zanny” Fernandez-Gonzalez.

My own personal note:

1- Zenaida was real but never babysat Caylee, by saying so she ruined this womans life to this day.

2- Her mother retracted the sentence from 911 and justified it in Court as : i would have said anything to put attention to the disappearance of Caylee.

3- No father in the world is going to attend a trial both as witness and a victim is expected to listen to you raped your daughter and if it isn't so leave the court directly, because false accusations drives you mad. However he remained there...

The guy next door Richard Evonitz

Richard Marc Evonitz (July 29, 1963 - June 27, 2002) was a serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist responsible for the deaths of three girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia and the abduction and rape of a 15 year old girl in Richland County, South Carolina. Evonitz has been suspected of other murders, and confessed a number of crimes to his sister shortly before committing suicide.

Early life and education

Richard Marc Edward Evonitz was born July 29, 1963 at Providence Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina to Joseph Evonitz and Tess Ragin Evonitz. He was the first of three children; two daughters, Kristen and Jennifer, followed him in 1968 and 1971. Known as Marc to avoid confusion with a paternal uncle also named Richard, he graduated from Irmo High School in 1980 at age 16.

Career

After high school, Evonitz worked briefly as the manager of a Jiffy Lube before joining the United States Navy. He served as a sonar technician and received a Good Conduct Medal before being honorably discharged after eight years of service.

Following his stint in the Navy, Evonitz worked steadily at businesses that sold compressors and grinding equipment. He filed for bankruptcy in 1997, unable to keep up with bills following a divorce, and had a house foreclosed on in 1999 following a failed business venture, but at the time of his death had been working at an air-compressor company since moving to South Carolina a few years earlier.

Criminal career

In January 1987, Evonitz exposed himself and masturbated in front of a 15-year-old girl in Orange Park, Florida. He was arrested a month later when his ship returned to port, pleaded no contest and was sentenced to three years' probation.

Evonitz is suspected of a 1994 abduction and rape and a 1995 rape in Massaponax, Virginia.

On September 9, 1996, Evonitz abducted 16-year-old Sofia Silva from her front yard near Loriella Park in Spotsylvania County. Her body was found a month later in a creek off State Route 3 in King George County.

Sisters Kristin and Kati Lisk, ages 15 and 12, were abducted from their front yard near Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 1, 1997; their bodies were found five days later in the South Anna River near Old Ridge Road in Hanover County.

On June 24, 2002, Evonitz abducted a 15-year-old girl from a friend's yard in Columbia, South Carolina. He took her to his apartment, raped her and tied her to his bed. While he slept that night, the victim was able to free herself, escaped and was able to identify her attacker to police. Evonitz fled after finding her gone, ending up surrounded by police in Sarasota, Florida.

Marriage and children

Evonitz was married twice, first to the former Bonnie Lou Gower from 1988 to 1996, then to the former Hope Marie Crowley from 1999 until his death. He had no children.

Death and afterward

On June 27, 2002, Evonitz was surrounded by police near the waterfront in Sarasota, Florida. He was urged to surrender peacefully but kept a pistol in his hand until a police dog was released; after being bitten multiple times, Evonitz shot himself and was declared dead at 10:52 p.m.. Following the return of his body to his family, his remains were cremated and scattered over the Saluda River. If you ask me, way too romantic for someone who did what he did...

Carl Eugene Watts

Finally, there was his reaction to sex. After intercourse, Watts would disappear.


"He would get up and leave the house," Goodwill told police. "He would just get in the car and go. He'd be gone hours and hours."

Police believe they know where he went. Between October 1979 and November 1980, at least 14 women were attacked and eight of those were killed in a similar manner in the Detroit area, in Windsor, Ontario (just across the border), and in Ann Arbor. The attacker either strangled or stabbed his victims. He never raped or robbed, and those who lived usually described him as a muscular black man, often wearing a blue, hooded sweat shirt.

One of the first women killed in Detroit was Jeanne Clyne, stabbed on Halloween in the suburb of Grosse Point Farms.

Watts was out driving, he said, when he saw her walking on the sidewalk. He parked, got out and crossed the street toward her, passing a group of children in trick-or-treat costumes. He approached her from the front, pulled a screwdriver from beneath his blue sweat shirt and stabbed her several times in the chest.

"She kept saying something like, `OK, OK' and she fell back on the grass," Watts later told police. "I just walked back to my car and drove away."

Clyne's killing showed less fumbling than Watt's Kalamazoo assaults. He was improving.

His marriage was deteriorating, however. His range from childish indifference to dark anger had become too much for Goodwill. She finally became afraid of Watts , left him and filed for divorce in January 1980. Watts was unperturbed. He moved back to his mother's home in Inkster, and the series of attacks continued.

They happened in the early morning hours of Sundays in Ann Arbor and began on April 20, 1980, with Shirley Small, 17. Small had argued with a boyfriend at an Ann Arbor skating rink late Saturday night and had walked home. She was found near her front door the next morning, stabbed twice in the heart, expertly.

A little more than two months later another young woman, Glenda Richmond, 26, was stabbed outside her home. On Sept. 14, a third woman, Rebecca Huff, 20, a student, was killed under almost identical circumstances.

It was too much for Paul Bunten and Dale Heath, two felony investigators in Ann Arbor, a quiet, picturesque college town on the Huron River, less than 20 miles but fully a world away from Detroit. Old, well-kept homes nestle under the trees that border Ann Arbor's rolling streets. Students from the University of Michigan jaywalk with aplomb. People wave at one another across the city square.

A murdered woman causes alarm in Ann Arbor. Three can cause panic, and this one already had been dubbed "the Sunday morning slasher." Police were without clues until the night of Nov. 15, 1980, when two patrolmen saw Watts and a young woman engaged in a deadly game of maneuvers along Main Street.

As police watched, Watts would drive slowly past the woman, then park just ahead of her. The woman would turn the first corner she came to in an attempt to avoid him, and Watts would follow. The activity continued for nine blocks until the woman ducked into a doorway and Watts lost her.

"He almost went nuts," says Bunten. "The police who were watching him said he got frantic, started craning his head around in the car, trying to see where she'd gone. He even got out and ran around trying to see her."

Watts then spotted the police who had been watching him, and he attempted to drive away. He was stopped and arrested for driving with a suspended license and having expired license plates. In his car, police found a box containing small, rectangular wood files. In the back seat was something that reminded Bunten of the Rebecca Huff killing, something Coral Watts would have little use for.

It was a large, collegiate dictionary. There were no identifying marks in the book, but scratched on its cover, etched there as though by the force of a pen bleeding through from a separate surface was the sentence, "Rebecca is a lover."

Bunten began dogging Watts . The detective finally had a suspect in his baffling murders and he didn't intend to lose him. A cursory check turned up the Kalamazoo assaults and Gloria Steele murder. Watts ' former attorney and psychiatrist told Bunten that, short of implicating Watts , they could tell the detective he need look no further for a suspect in those cases.

Bunten was ecstatic. He now had a target to focus his investigation on. He called a meeting of area police agencies and obtained a court order to place a tracking device on Watts ' car and a search warrant for his mother's house.

The search warrant produced little. Police found another set of woodworking files in the basement, this one used by Watts ' mother in her art classes, but those were free of blood traces. They found what appeared to be blood on a tennis shoe, but it proved to be untraceable.

And they made Watts wary. The tracking device was placed on his car on Nov. 29, 1980, and police began an around-the-clock watch on him, but he did nothing.

"He got paranoid," Bunten says. "He knew we were watching him, and the longer we watched him, the less he'd move around. He got to where he almost wouldn't leave his neighborhood."

For the next two months, there were no more killings of the sort police had seen in Ann Arbor. On Jan. 29, 1981, the tracking device was removed, and Bunten decided to bring Watts in for questioning.

"The whole thing took eight hours," Bunten says. "I used every means I know to get somebody to confess...He's so streetwise, nothing would work.

"He was nice. He was polite. If you can forget about what he does, he seems like a soft-spoken, timid but personable, pleasant person.

"I think I got close once. We knew the women had been attacked from behind. The killer had wrapped his left arm around their throat, then reached over their right shoulder and stabbed them. The blouses were pulled up at the front, and marks on the throat of one, just under the chin, came from a man's wristwatch on a left arm.

"Finally, toward the end of the session, I told Watts , `I not only know you did these, I know "how" you did them.' I got up and walked behind him and said, `You grabbed them like this. Then you pulled their heads back like this, and you reached over with your right arm and stabbed them like this!'

"And he started crying. Just broke down and started crying. It was the first real emotion we'd seen from him. I thought he might break for a minute, but he didn't. He wanted to talk to his mother and we let him - that was probably a mistake - and, after that, he wouldn't say a word. It was all over."

Watts ' life in Inkster was over as well. His anonymity was lost, and the constant police surveillance was frustrating. He began asking co-workers at the trucking company about work prospects in other states, and he settled on Texas and then-boomtown Houston.

Sometime in March 1981, Watts left Michigan. His first stop was in Coalwood, where he visited his grandmother. From there he drove on to Columbus, where two acquaintances from Detroit were working and he soon found work as a diesel mechanic.

Columbus was a hiatus for Watts . Paul Bunten and the worrisome Ann Arbor police were a thousand miles away. For the first time he was living alone. For the first time he had made a major move without consulting his mother.

"He didn't even tell her where he was going," says Lula Mae Young. "He'd never done that before. He'd always lived at home with his mother or stayed with me except when he was in college.

"She didn't know what to think. He'd just gone off and left his whole family."

He wasn't rid of Paul Bunten, however. The policeman had kept up daily checks on Watts and learned he had gone to the Houston area in April. Bunten immediately sent Houston police an 18-page packet on Watts , including pictures, fingerprints, vital information and details of the killings in which he was a suspect.

The packet arrived April 8, 1981, but Houston police couldn't find Watts . Tom Wine, then police chief in Columbus, knew Watts because of the crowd Watts associated with, but he knew nothing of the murders Watts was suspected of.

"As far as we know, he didn't kill anyone while he was in Columbus," says Wine. "We had no unsolved murders during that period. The strange thing is that, later, he always insisted there was one he killed here and buried, but we didn't have any missing persons either, and he couldn't find the grave."

Houston police, operating on the assumption that Watts was working and living in Houston, found no trace of him. A detective was assigned to check on him and found that he was working in Columbus, but nothing else was done. It was a time of political unrest in the Houston Police Department. A new police chief was to be hired, but Lee P. Brown had not yet been chosen. There were complaints of understaffed divisions, no funds for overtime, no time for investigations.

There were no continuous watches such as those in Michigan. After Watts moved to Houston late in the summer of 1981, a tracking device was placed on a van he owned, but it was later learned he was using a car he drove from Michigan. At one point - in November, 1981, after Watts had started work for the Metropolitan Transit Authority as a mechanic - a patrolman who lived in his neighborhood in southeast Houston was asked to watch Watts ' house during his time off. A few detectives spent their own time attempting to follow him, but learned little or nothing.

And Watts was busy: Elizabeth Montgomery, 25; Susan Wolf, 21; Phyllis Tamm, 27; Margaret Fossi, 25; Elena Semander, 20; Emily Laqua, 14; Anna Ledet, 34; Yolanda Gracia, 22; Carrie Jefferson, 32; Suzanne Searles, 25; and Michelle Maday, 20, all died at his hands.

Whether Watts killed during the three months he was living in Columbus may never be known. The exact number of women he killed in Texas almost certainly never will be. His first known Texas killing was that of Linda Tilley, a young woman he drowned in a swimming pool in Austin Sept. 5, 1981. During the next nine months he attacked at least 18 women and killed a dozen of those. He stabbed, strangled, hanged and drowned them.

And, finally, he was caught. It took bad luck and overreaching on Watts ' part. He'd already killed in the early morning hours of May 23, 1982, already followed Michelle Maday to her apartment, dragged her inside and drowned her in a bathtub of hot water, but he wasn't satisfied.

Lori Lister was supposed to be next. He'd spotted her turning into her apartment parking lot just before dawn, seen her back her car in and glance toward a nearby fire station before she started for her door. She walked quickly, but Watts was faster. He caught her just before she started up her stairs.

He choked her then, not enough to kill her, just enough to leave her senseless. He dragged her up the stairs, took her keys and opened the door.

And there was her roommate. Melinda Aguilar, standing in a bathrobe staring wide-eyed at Watts , who was only able to stare back. He recovered momentarily, forced Aguilar into her bedroom and bound her with coat hangers. Then he filled the tub and and lowered Lister under the water.

The rest happened quickly. A neighbor, having seen Watts standing over Lister by the stairs, had called police. Aguilar, her wrists still bound behind her, had made her way to a balcony and jumped to the lawn below, just as police arrived. Watts , realizing one of his victims had escaped, attempted to run.

He was arrested in a courtyard just below Lori Lister's apartment.

When lawyer Zinetta Burney arrived at the county jail a few days later, she expected to find a client whose rights had been violated. She didn't expect to be frightened.

"I thought I'd find a young, black man who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and got arrested," says Burney. "When I got there, when I started talking to him and he started telling the things he'd done, I thought he was lying or crazy."

After listening to Watts for a few hours, Burney's attitude changed from incredulity to shock. Within the next few days she had gone to the police with an offer: Watts would clear a large number of unsolved homicides and plead guilty to a lesser crime in return for immunity from prosecution for murder.

Joe Ture Serial killer

Convicted murderer Joseph Ture was indicted by a Stearns County grand jury on four counts of first-degree murder in the 1978 shotgun killings of Alice Huling and three of her four children in their home near Clearwater.

The children, Susan, Patti and Wayne, were shot to death in their beds in the middle of the night. A fourth son, Billy, survived by lying still in his bed after shots were fired at him.

"I'm kind of relieved that it's kind of happening. I can't really say I'm happy, but just relieved," Billy Huling told WCCO-TV today in a telephone interview. "As far as timing goes, I think it all should have gone back 21 years ago, four days after the murder when he was first picked up. Why wasn't anything done then? After that came out, after I got information about that, during this last trial, it kind of upset me, just knowing of the other people he hurt."

According to WCCO, investigators believe Ture broke into the home to rape Susan Huling. Ture has denied any involvement in the murders, reports WCCO. Ture was convicted last year of the 1979 murder of Afton teenager Marlys Wohlenhaus. He already was serving time for the murder of West St. Paul waitress Diane Edwards.

Joseph Edward Duncan the third

Duncan has a long history as a violent sexual predator. His first recorded sex crime occurred in 1978 in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington, when he was 15 years old. In that incident, he raped a nine-year-old boy at gunpoint. The following year, he was arrested driving a stolen car. He was sentenced as a juvenile and sent to Dyslin's Boys' ranch in Tacoma, where he told a therapist who was assigned to his case that he had bound and sexually assaulted six boys, according to a report by the Associated Press. He also told the therapist that he estimated that he had raped 13 younger boys by the time he was 16.

In 1980, also in Tacoma, Duncan stole a number of guns from a neighbor and then abducted a 14-year-old boy and sodomized him at gunpoint. Duncan was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released on parole in 1994 after serving 14 years. While out on parole, Duncan is known to have lived in several places in the Seattle area. He was arrested in 1996 for marijuana use and released on parole several weeks later with new restrictions. Authorities believe that during his parole, Duncan murdered Sammiejo White and Carmen Cubias in Seattle in 1996 and Anthony Martinez in Riverside County, California in 1997; however, both those cases went cold and were not tied to Duncan until after his arrest in the Groene case. Duncan was arrested in Kansas and returned to prison in 1997 after violating the terms of his parole. Duncan was released from prison on July 14, 2000 with time off for good behavior, and moved to Fargo, North Dakota

In March 2005, Duncan was charged with the July 3, 2004 molestation of two boys at a playground in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. On April 5, 2005, he appeared before a Becker County judge, who set bail at US$15,000. A Fargo businessman with whom Duncan had become acquainted helped him post bail; however, Duncan skipped bail and disappeared. On June 1, 2005, a federal warrant was issued for Duncan's arrest on the charge of "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

Do you know they're out?

Karla Homolka was one half of the murderous couple that haunted the people of Canada. Homolka, along with her psychotic husband Paul Bernardo, raped and murdered multiple women, including her own sister. When the couple was discovered in 1993, Homolka turned over evidence on her husband in exchange for a reduced sentence. She was released in 2005 after serving only 12 years in prison.

As one of the scariest serial killers in human history, Pedro Lopez was responsible for the rape and murder of hundreds of women in Columbia, Eduador, and Peru. He was caught in 1980 but only served 14 years in an Ecuadorian prison. Once he was released, he spent three years in a mental hospital in Colombia. He was declared sane in 1998 and released on $50 bail. Lopez is currently free and suspected of further murders in Colombia.

When Mary Bell was just 11 years old, she had already killed two young boys in separate incidents by strangling them and mutilating one with scissors. She was convicted of manslaughter in 1968. Twelve years later, when she was age 23, Bell was freed and able to change her name to start a new life. She won a court order that permanently protects her identity and that of her daughter – a protection for convicts now known as a "Mary Bell order." According to reports as recently as 2009, Bell had become a grandmother. 

In South Africa, Louis Van Schoor killed at least seven men who he claimed were burglars. After each murder, he'd be cleared by officials without so much as a caution. However, he was finally discovered in 1992. After serving only 12 years for the crimes, he was released in 2004.

Cannibal killer Nikolai Dzhumagaliev murdered and ate the remains of at least seven women (with the number probably closer to 50) in the Soviet Union. He was often known as the Metal Fang since he replaced his own teeth with white, metal teeth. He was caught in 1980, escaped in 1989, was recaptured, and then released after 10 years of psychological evaluation. 

Swedish serial killer Nikita Fouganthine (born Jua Veikko Valjakkala) killed three people in 1988. He was caught soon after and convicted of the crimes. Although he received a life sentence in a Finnish prison, he escaped in 1994. During his brief time of freedom, he held a teacher hostage but was soon caught afterwards. He escaped and caught again three more times in 2002, 2004, and 2006. In 2011, Fouganthine escaped from prison, and he has been on the lam ever since.

Italian serial killer Bartolomeo Gagliano was responsible for the death of at least three prostitutes in the late 80s. He was sentenced to eight years in a criminal asylum before the deaths of two of his victims, but he broke out with a fellow inmate in time to kill two prostitutes on Valentine's Day 1989. He said he was targeting people who spread the HIV virus. In December 2013, Gagliano escaped prison again in Genoa, Italy, and is allegedly armed and dangerous.

Norwegian serial killer Arnfinn Nesset worked as a nurse when he killed 22 people and attempted to kill more. Throughout the 80s, Nesset poisoned his patients with a muscle relaxer. In Norwegian law, the maximum time for a prisoner was 21 years; however, he only served 12 years of his sentence. He was released under parole terms, which have since expired. He is currently living under an assumed name in Norway. 

The Lainz Angels of Death, also known as Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Mayer, and Waltraud Wagner, were a group of Austrian nurses who murdered their patients. In most cases, they gave them purposeful overdoses of morphine, or forced water into their lungs. The exact number of people that they killed in Lainz, Vienna, between the years of 1983 and 1989 is unknown, although they confessed to 49 of them. Wagner and Leidolf received life sentences at their 1991 trials, while Mayer and Gruber were given lighter sentences on charges of manslaughter and attempted murder. As of 2008, all have been released from prison and are living under assumed names. 

Aleksandr Rubel killed 6 people in Estonia between November 1997 and June 1998. His methods of attack varied, but most of his victims were stabbed, beheaded, or had their throats slashed. Rubel was a minor at the time of his crimes, so he received a mandatory sentence of 8 years. He was released on June 8, 2006, and now reportedly lives in the Ukraine. 

Mika Muranen killed three people over a three-day period in 1994. His first victims were his Kotka, Findland-based neighbors, Reino and Sirkka Vulkko. He shot them with arrows fired from a crossbow. Two days later, on April 19, 1994, he used an assault rifle to kill a local mailman, Matti Olli. This led to an epic shootout with police that ended with Muranen's incarceration. He served 20 years in prison, and was release in 2014. He remains in Finland.

Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan killed at least 7 people in a violent spree that began in August, 1977 and ended in March, 1984. They called themselves "Ludwig," used the a symbol that was a combination of a swastika and a Nazi eagle, and traveled around Italy doling out their own twisted form of justice. The two were caught in March, 1984, and were sentenced to 30 years in prison in 1987. Furlan was released in 2009, while Abel was freed in 2013. 

Charlene Gallego, alongside her husband Gerald, raped and killed ten women, most of whom were teenagers. They were active killers in Sacramento, California, between the years of 1978 and 1980. Both were captured in 1984, and went to trial shortly thereafter. Charlene testified against her husband in exchange for a lighter sentence of 16 years and 8 months in prison. Gerald received a death sentence, and he died in prison in 2002. Charlene was released from prison on time, moved to the Fair Oaks, California area, and reportedly changed her name.

Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden are not traditional serial killers - instead, they are school shooters. In fact, they are the only school shooters in the United States who are not currently in prison. In 1998, they brought guns with them to Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. They killed four students and one teacher, and wounded ten other people. Since they were minors at the time - Johnson, 14 and Golden, 12 - they were only imprisoned until they were 18. Johnson has been in legal trouble since his release, but is no longer in prison for those additional crimes. 

Genene Jones technically hasn't been freed yet, but she is scheduled to walk out of prison as a free woman in 2018, thanks to Texas laws designed to prevent inmate overcrowding. Jones committed her crimes and was sentenced prior to 1987, so she falls within a legal loophole that lets her good behavior credit drastically reduce her sentence. Her crimes? She gave children under her care (she was a pediatric nurse) purposeful overdoses, killing many of them - although she was only charged with the deaths of two. 

Ken and Barbie transcripts from court GRAPHIC

The Bernardo-Homolka crimes – apart from their impact on the victims and their families – had a wide-ranging impact long after the trials concluded. The videotapes showing the rape and murder of their victims were ordered destroyed by an Ontario court. Bernardo's lawyer Ken Murray, who initially retrieved the tapes from their hiding place in the Bernardo home, was charged in 1997 with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice for failing to turn the tapes over to police. Murray was acquitted of those charges in 2000.

In 1996, a government inquiry into the investigation of Bernardo found that police had made numerous mistakes, that rivalries among police agencies had further harmed the investigation, and that some of Bernardo's crimes might have been prevented if his DNA sample had been processed and matched more quickly.

Karla Homolka served her full 12-year sentence and was released from prison in 2005 under a series of judge-imposed conditions, including restrictions on her movement and a ban on any contact with anyone under the age of 16. Those conditions were overturned by another judge only months later, prompting criticism from the Mahaffy and French families. Homolka settled in Montréal, where she gave birth to a son in 2007.

Homolka then lived on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe under the name Leanne Bordelais – along with her new husband, Thierry (brother of her prison lawyer Sylvie Bordelais), and her then three children. In 2012, after being discovered in Guadeloupe by a Canadian journalist, Homolka returned to Québec.

How do you give parole a bad name

 As if he was a victim, he stated:

"I'm ready to be released," McDuff, 52, said when asked by Warden Jim Willett if he had any final statement. "Release me."

He made no other comments, gasped several times and then exhaled before slipping into unconsciousness. 8 minutes later, at 6:26 p.m. CST, he was pronounced dead.

It was a quiet ending to a nearly three-decade history of ghastly murders that earned him the tag of predator and monster. He also was believed to be the only condemned man ever released from one of the nation's death rows to be returned there for another killing.

McDuff's 1st death sentence was commuted in the 1970s when the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional.

While McDuff asked for a final meal, his attorneys were at the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a delay so additional tests could be conducted on hair samples that authorities said linked him to Ms. Northrup's slaying.

Both requests were denied. And the high court refused Tuesday night to stop the punishment from being carried out.

"I want you all to know I'm very glad," said Brenda Solomon, who watched McDuff die and said he "looked like the devil."

McDuff was put to death for killing her daughter, Melissa Ann Northrup, 22, of Waco.

"He's going where he needs to go," she said. "I feel happy. I feel wonderful."

Ms. Northrup was abducted March 1, 1992, from a Waco convenience store where she worked. Her body surfaced weeks later and dozens of miles away in a Dallas County gravel pit. Her hands were tied behind her and she had been strangled with a rope.

McDuff also had a 2nd death sentence for the 1991 abduction and slaying of 28-year-old Austin accountant Colleen Reed, and authorities say he may have killed as many as a dozen other people, primarily in central Texas between Austin and Waco.

Confessions John Hughes

"This defendant viciously murdered two people in two weeks. He stabbed

his first victim to death, stole his gun, and then used that gun to kill

another innocent man," Platte County prosecutor Eric Zahnd said in a

statement. "For the safety of society, it is good that he will never

live outside prison walls again."

Hughes admitted wanting to rob Kirilchuk, who he spotted parked in a

rest area on Interstate 29 north near Dearborn on September 8, 2008.

Hughes' girlfriend, Dana Tutor, allegedly went to Kirilchuk's

truck and told him she needed $100. Kirilchuk went into the rest area's

main building with Tutor. Once inside, Hughes forced Kirilchuk into a

men's bathroom at gunpoint.

Hughes tried to rob Kirilchuk, who fought back. Hughes shot Kirilchuk in

the head one time with a 9mm handgun at close range. Hughes took

Kirilchuk's wallet, which had $200 in it, and a cell phone.

Police arrested Hughes for DUI in York County, Nebraska. During the

arrest, police found the 9mm, which they used to link him to Kirilchuk's

killing. Hughes stole the 9mm after robbing and stabbing David Durben

to death in Zanesville, Ohio.

In an interview with KMBC, Hughes claimed that he killed

15 to 20 people. He also showed off his lion tattoo

(you know, he's a lion among men) and a biblical quote

tat about the Antichrist (yes, he thinks he's the Antichrist). 

Hughes will never see life outside of prison again. He pleaded guilty today to charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and

armed criminal action. A judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He is also serving a life sentence in Ohio. 

Tutor has been charged with second-degree robbery and second-degree murder. Her next court date is November 16.