At dawn, the man was found dead in one of the cityâs parks, with 28 stab wounds and his pants down to the ankles. Shortly after the murder, Adrien Bottollier prided himself of his achievement in front of his friends, who did not take him seriously because they considered him shy and non-violent.
On Facebook, a few hours after the fact, he wrote to a friend living abroad: âFor the first time, my murderous delusions are not delusions. Do you believe me if I tell you that I killed last night?â. âI have never felt so alive, but if you have the opportunity, put me in prison,â he adds. Later, to this same friend who does not believe him, he reminded him that he sent him on Snapchat the photo of a bloody knife the night of the murder.
âI expected to wait next year to kill again but to prove my sincerity to you, it will happen sooner.â Three months later, new message: âI think Iâm going crazy. I donât know what to do anymore, Iâm afraid of myself.â
On the evening of December 25, 2015, Bottollier joined a group of customers in a city bar. He had spoken with one of them at great length. He then invited the man back to his motherâs house.
After having a drink together, Adrien Bottollier took off his T-shirt in order to show his guest a scar, the consequence of an injury he inflicted to himself in order to âsee his heart to feel aliveâ. Noting that his host âhad a problemâ, the guest managed to escape, not without being stabbed twice.
The murdered victim is Mostapha Hamadou. AĂŻcha, his sister is present at the trial, âHe lay dying in the street for hours, he bled to death. I couldnât imagine the atrocity. I finally saw the face of the person who murdered my brother.âÂ
She sees him and learns about his past. Adrien Bottolier broke contact with his father who abused him, and he hurt himself after a chaotic romantic relationship. âI realize today that he is sick. I expect him to have a long sentence. I refuse to see him being placed in a mental health institution. He can be helped but while in prison.â
AĂŻcha explains that this tragedy destroyed her family, âWe are brokenâŠWe are all in pain.â This is not the first time a tragedy hit her family, âWe are cursed.â
After four days of hearing and seven hours of deliberation, the Court of Savoie sentenced Adrien Bottollier to 25 years in prison, but also to a legal supervision of 15 years after his release from detention.
The family of the murdered victim said about the parents of the convicted murderer: âIt pains us, it is their son, we feel for them. We suffer but they also suffer, we understand their pain.â
Adrien Bottollierâs father, who deemed the sentence against his son âfairâ, wanted to thank this empathy, âI want to salute them for their dignity, for me it means a lot. And for Adrien, he realizes that peopleâs empathy exists, it is real, they will never forget what happened but they are really great people.â
The Chicago Tylenol murders are a series of 7 deaths that occured after people unknowlingly took poisoned Tylenol, which is an over the counter painkiller. The deaths happened between September and October of 1982, whereby the perpetrators had opened bottles of Tylenol, laced them with potassium cyandie before placing them back on the shelf for people to buy. No suspect has ever been charged with the killings and they stopped just as mysteriously as they started. This horrific incident led to new tamperproofing laws, fronted by pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson. Which is why now when you buy a bottle of medication, you will see a safety seal accompanied with a child proof lid.
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April 5, 2009, in Casselberry, Florida, 44-year-old Marie Moore and her 20-year-old son, Mitchell Moore, attended Shoot Straight, a local shooting range. What was expected to be a day of bonding between a mother and son ended in a bloody tragedy? When it was Mitchell’s turn, Marie stood behind him and pointed the gun at his head, pulling the trigger. Mitchell slumped to the floor dead as his mother stepped back, placed the gun in her mouth and again pulled the trigger. She died a short time later in hospital. It emerged that Marie suffered from a mental disorder and had been barred from Shoot Straight seven years prior after trying to commit suicide there. Before the murder-suicide, Marie had written two notes which she left at home, one of which read: “King, I love you. I’m so sorry. I had to send my son to heaven and myself to hell. Failed Queen”
Why Edward Wayne Edwards is the perfect suspect for the Peyton-Allan Murders.
Serial Killer Edward Wayne Edwards was arrested in 2009 for the murder of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew. His own daughter, April Balascio, tipped off the police. They investigated her claims and found out a DNA match from the murder victims, Tim Hack and Kelly Drew, both killed in 1980. He was sentenced to life in prison for this double homicide and subsequently confessed to the murder of his adopted son, Dannie Boy Edwards, whom he killed for the insurance money, as he was seeking the death penalty to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison. During a jail interview he also confessed to the killing of Judith Straub and Billy Lavaco in 1977.
Edwards has been connected to other murders but one stick out in particular.
On the evening of November 26, 1960, Larry Ralph Peyton and his girlfriend, Beverly Ann Allan, were killed in Forest Park, Portland, Oregon. Peytonâs body was found inside the car, stabbed 23 times, while Allan was nowhere to be seen even though her purse was still in the car. Her body was found two months later, 30 miles away from the crime scene. She had been raped and strangled to death.
Edward Jorgenson and Robert Brom were later wrongfully convicted for the double homicide.
Why is Edward Wayne Edwards the perfect suspect in this case? Years later, when he was arrested in 2009, he was officially linked to four murders, killing two couples.
In 1977, Judith Straub and Billy Lavaco were shot to death in Silver Creek Park, Ohio.
In 1980, Tim Hack and Kelly Drew were killed in Oregon. Drew was discovered naked in the woods. Hack in a nearby cornfield. According to Phil Stanford, author of the book âThe Peyton-Allan Filesâ, these murders were âa virtual carbon copy of the Peyton-Allan murders.â
Edwards was in the Portland area at the time of the murders and was actually hanging around the crime scene when the police was investigating. One officer noticed a fresh bullet wound on his arm. A bullet hole was in the carâs windshield, and detectives determined the gun was fired from inside the vehicle, which led to believe that Peyton used a gun he presumably kept in his car.
Edwards was later arrested in Portland for impersonating a federal officer, firing shots at a residence and turning in false fire alarms. The detectives working on the Peyton/Allan case planned to interrogate him about the murders but he escaped jail the day following his arrest.
Even after being arrested for murder Edwards was never asked officially about this case.
How did prosecutors prove that Aaron Hernandez was guilty of the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd?
Former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez was found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, authorities say.
Hernandez was serving a life sentence for killing the semiprofessional football player Odin Lloyd, 27, whom Hernandez knew socially, in 2013.
One week prior to his suicide, Hernandez was acquitted in a separate murder case stemming from the death of two men in a 2012 drive-by shooting that prosecutors felt were linked to Lloyd’s death. While the acquittal did not affect the Lloyd case directly, some legal experts felt it could have assisted Hernandez’s chances in an appeal, since it was considered part of the motive.
In the opening statements of the Lloyd trial, the prosecution, led by assistant district attorney Patrick Bomberg, laid out its argument — that Hernandez and two of his associates drove Lloyd to an industrial park close to Hernandez’s house and fatally shot him six times.
[The three men rode in] a Nissan Altima, rented in Hernandez’s name, outside Lloyd’s house at 2:33 a.m. on June 17, the day of Lloyd’s death. Hernandez allegedly picked Lloyd up, and the prosecution showed a series of text messages Lloyd sent to his sister indicating he was with someone referred to as “NFL” before he died.
The screenshot above, from Hernandez’s personal home-surveillance footage, showed Hernandez walking through his house, shortly after returning without Lloyd, carrying a dark shape in his hands. The prosecution wanted the jury to believe it was a gun — a Glock, even more specifically.
Although police never recovered the weapon used to shoot Lloyd, five .45-caliber shell casings were found at the scene of the crime. The investigation also found that the same firearm, with characteristics consistent with a Glock, fired all the shots, according to Bomberg. Another casing, found in the Nissan Altima that Hernandez rented, showed evidence of the former Patriot’s DNA.
A Colorado man has been charged with murdering his wife and two young daughters, after being interviewed by local television stations and pleading for their safe return.
Police first visited the home of Chris and Shannan Watts in Denver, after a friend asked officers to check on Shannan, who was 15 weeks pregnant and had missed a doctorâs appointment. She had just returned from a business trip and hadnât returned repeated phone calls and text messages. Chris Watts allowed detectives inside the house where they found Shannanâs cell phone stuffed inside a couch cushion, and a suitcase packed with her clothes at the bottom of their stairs. Chris told detectives that in the middle of the night, he and his wife had had an âintense conversationâ in which he told her that he wanted a separation. He said they were âboth upset and cryingâ and that she said she would go to a friendâs house. He said he left for work at 5:27am and when he returned home, his wife and daughters were gone. When they didnât return the next day, the investigation broadened to include the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of investigation. In an interview with local television stations, he pleaded âShanann, Bella, Celeste, if youâre out there, just come back, If somebody has her, just bring her back. I need to see everybody, I need to see everybody again. This house is not complete without anybody here.â
Investigators learned that Chris Watts was âactively involved in an affair with a co-workerâ, something he had previously denied. During interviews with the police, Watts asked to speak to his father. Following this conversation, he agreed to tell police âthe truthâ. Watts claimed that after discussing the separation with his wife, he walked downstairs for a short while. When he returned to their bedroom to speak with her, he looked at the baby monitor in the room and saw his daughter Bella âsprawled out on her bed and blue and Shannan actively strangling Celeste.â Watts claimed he went into a rage, and strangled Shannan to death. He then loaded all three bodies into the back seat of his truck and took them to the property of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, where he worked. He said he buried Shannan ânear two oil tanks and dumped the girls inside the oil tanksâ. The girls had been submerged in crude oil for four days when their bodies were found.
Watts has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of killing a child under 12, one count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body. In court on Tuesday, August 21st 2018, Watts did not enter a plea. His next court date is on November 16th. The investigation is ongoing.
Chris Watts has pleaded guilty to killing his wife and two daughters in a plea deal that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. Watts pleaded guilty to all nine of the charges he was originally facing, as well as unlawful termination of a pregnancy, as his wife Shanann was pregnant, and three counts of tampering with a deceased body. Watts will be sentenced on November 19th, 2018.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 25, 1991â A police officer suspended for returning a 14-year-old Laotian boy to Jeffrey L. Dahmer, who has since admitted killing 17 people, said he had agonized over how he might have prevented the boyâs death.
âGod as my witness, I just didnât dump a little boy in the hands of a murderer. Thatâs not what happened,â the officer, Joseph T. Gabrish, told The Milwaukee Journal in a story published today.
On May 27, neighbors called the police to report seeing a naked and bleeding boy run from Mr. Dahmerâs apartment building. After interviewing Mr. Dahmer, Officer Gabrish and two fellow officers accepted his explanation that the youth was an adult and his lover and that the boy was drunk. The officers went with Mr. Dahmer and the boy to Mr. Dahmerâs apartment. The other officers were also suspended. Incident Led to Protests.
After Mr. Dahmer was arrested in July, he told the police that he strangled the boy, Konerak Sinthasomphone, soon after the officers left. He also said the body of another victim was in a bedroom during the officersâ visit.
The police say Mr. Dahmer killed four more times after the brush with the officers. News of the encounter with the Laotian boy led to protests by people who said the police had missed a chance to stop Mr. Dahmer. Others accused the officers of racism and homophobia.
