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The Killer Who Hunted Hunters Is Dead The psychiatric report said Thomas Dillon had killed thousands of animals, including cattle and scores of family pets, since he was 13. When police searched Dillon’s office they found a map of Ohio on which he had drawn 40 circles. They matched the sites of more than 150 fires, mostly involving barns or empty houses. Admitting starting the blazes, which caused millions of dollars’ worth of damage, he said, “I like starting fires. I never knew for sure if there was anyone in the buildings, but I tried to find deserted places.” All along, it appeared, he had been preparing himself for the day when he would get bored killing animals and start killing people. He told a prison psychologist, “Five minutes after I shot the Paxton boy I was drinking a six-pack and had blacked out all thoughts from my mind of what I had just done.” He finished with the chilling words, “I thought no more of shooting Paxton than shooting the neck off a beer bottle at the rubbish dump. He had just become shooting practice.” But Jamie Paxton was only one of Dillon's five victims…Read our report on a cocky serial killer's crimes and capture in True Crime May more »	Daisy Was On A Path To The Gallows On March 5th, 1932, Daisy de Melker's son Rhodes died in Johannesburg. March 8th, she claimed Rhodes’s insurance money, which was paid out on April 1st. Eight days later, she confided to Mrs. Dankworth, a neighbour, that she was having nightmares about her son. In one of them, she said she came across him late at night in the dining-room – dressed up as a policeman. In the vision, he’d told her he was going to a fancy dress party. “I think the boy must be haunting me,” she said. Was this dream some kind of telepathic warning of what was actually happening? The police were at last getting interested in the deaths of so many people close to Daisy de Melker. In comparative secrecy, a warrant was issued for the exhumation of Daisy’s two dead husbands and her son. On April 15th, 1932, excavation work on the three graves began..and analysis of tissues taken from the three well-preserved sets of remains showed the presence of massive doses of arsenic and strychnine…Read the full story of Daisy's life of crime in Master Detective May more »
Waxey Gordon – Profile Of A Gangster It was called “the Noble Experiment.” Now we remember it as America’s Prohibition. It’s long dead. And so are the speakeasies, the poison booze, the hip flasks, and the murderous characters with the “rods” and Tommy-guns – the feudal princes of an underworld empire of crime who reigned with seeming immunity from the law. They are dead, but not forgotten, for they made the Roaring Twenties the chilling, blood-curdling, violence-ridden years they were. Al Capone, Lepke Buchalter, Dutch Schultz, “Legs” Diamond, Frankie Yale, Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll, Owney Madden and Waxey Gordon. And of all those names, few, if any, could surpass Waxey Gordon, labelled for posterity by his own kind as “the smartest guy in the racket,” and now a character in the hit television series Boardwalk Empire. If Waxey Gordon ever made an honest living, no one noticed it. He started out on the wrong side of the law and stayed there for the rest of his life. There has never been a complete account of the origin and development of Waxey Gordon, and there isn’t likely to be, for he was so murderously methodical that he never left anyone around to contribute to his unauthorised biography. But there are many signposts to indicate that Gordon, while not so well-known, was actually as important, as wealthy and as powerful as any of his dreaded criminal contemporaries…Read all about Waxey in True Detective June more »	A Short, Miserable Life And A Violent, Tragic Death Poor Zahra Baker – in the 10 short, brutal years that made up her life, she developed bone cancer, lost a leg, was given away by her mother, went totally deaf. And then, on October 9th, 2010, her stepmother, Elisa Baker went to the local police in Hickory, North Carolina, and reported her stepdaughter missing. Calm and detached, she told Police Lieutenant Bobby Grace: “Zahra has been kidnapped. They have left a ransom note asking for $1 million attached to my car.” What really happened between September 24th and October 9th that year? Elisa Baker wasn’t saying. Somehow – exactly how will never be known – she killed the little girl and then dismembered her, cutting off her head, her limbs, even her hands. Zahra’s bedroom must have been covered in blood, but not content with wiping it up she went out and bought black paint for the floor and pink paint for the walls, and proceeded to re-paint the bedroom. Then she threw away the body parts like so much trash, in the knowledge that wild animals would eat them, and dumped the paintbrushes on a bonfire. Why? What could have been the reason for her cold-blooded torture- murder of a little crippled girl who adored her? Read about the murder that the judge who presided at Elisa's trial said “turns my stomach like no other” in Murder Most Foul 84… more »
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