With many thanks to our guest writer for their help with this episode!

Neil Rutherford is a name you might not know. But he will forever be remembered by natives of a small costal town, as the perpetrator of the most hideous mass murder in the history of North Wales.

Sources:

Wales online

North Wales Weekly News 1976

Murder most Foul Three towns Forum

North Wales Pioneer By Allan George

North Wales Live by Owen Hughes

The Western Mail

Wikipedia

Hisotic Points.org

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The chatroom that housed teens from across the country, would soon become the basis of a a sinister plan that started with catfishing and ended, with murder.

SOURCES:

https://www.computerhope.com/history/2005.htm

https://livingmgz.com/life/when-catfishing-turns-into-a-deadly-love-triangle/

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/catfish-murders-158410/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/online-love-triangle-deception-end-murder/story?id=14371076

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talhotblond_(2009_film)

https://socialcatfish.com/scamfish/talhotblond-thomas-montgomery/

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/nyregion/07triangle.html

https://lionessrue.medium.com/the-mother-posed-as-her-daughter-and-catfished-a-teenage-boy-online-it-ended-tragically-df709c874f50

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A shorter episode this week, so you've got another one coming on Wednesday!

Officers arrived just after 9pm and Gary pointed them to the car, overturned and lying in the body of water. He said that his wife was still inside- he’d tried to pull her out and to safety but she was unconscious and he couldn’t pull her through the open window. He told them he’d thought there was no point in both of them dying, so he’d decided on saving himself and had been waiting by the side of the river ever since.

SOURCES:

https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/72ef06/pdf/

https://www.lakecowichangazette.com/news/holly-wichan-tv-show-dark-waters-of-crime-comes-to-town/

https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/sum-som-eng.aspx?cas=31016

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.true-crime/c/HYwzNSb02WE

https://the-mystique.medium.com/man-drowns-wife-for-2-million-insurance-payout-51f42929d868 

Dark Waters of Crime documentary 

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/remembering-the-names-of-the-women-carved-in-stone-at-ottawas-womens-monument

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Just after 6am that morning, Lila got a call from Babis’ phone, but on the other end she couldn’t make out what he was saying, it was a garbled panic. Lila woke her husband up and the two headed outside to go round to Babis and Caroline’s house, but before they got there, they heard the sound of sirens, and saw police cars racing round the corner and stopping outside of the house. What officers came across, was chilling...

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The evening started as a birthday celebration for the retired mother and wife, but would soon become a horror story, and the married couples lives would be forever changed. Bodycam footage and a 999 call...

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Thad carried both boxes back to his bed at Fort Worth, and sat down to open them. He chose to open the seemingly less exciting cardboard box first. As he did so, it exploded.

Sources:

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/jurors-convict-robert-ortloff-in-kathleen-smiths-murder-6394417

https://cases.justia.com/arizona/court-of-appeals-division-one-unpublished/CR080508.pdf

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/jurors-convict-robert-ortloff-in-kathleen-smiths-murder-6394417

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/twenty-three-years-after-kathleen-smiths-storied-tempe-murder-a-footprint-will-loom-large-in-her-alleged-killers-upcoming-trial-6430217?showFullText=true

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/bombshell-the-explosive-backstory-in-the-robert-ortloff-murder-trial-may-be-more-fascinating-than-the-case-itself-6394914

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-shoe-still-dont-fit-but-6632450

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/bombshell-the-explosive-backstory-in-the-robert-ortloff-murder-trial-may-be-more-fascinating-than-the-case-itself-6394914

https://bonnie356.rssing.com/chan-10537092/article28.html

http://wolfiewiseguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-murder-of-kathleen-marie-smith.html

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/jurors-convict-robert-ortloff-in-kathleen-smiths-murder-6394417

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On the 19th of November 1992, 2 little boys aged 6 and 4, knocked on the door of a lone house near to Cobb County, Georgia. The homeowner opened up and found the two brothers staring up at him, covered in blood. The eldest went on to say "A bad man shot my mum with a pirate gun."

Sources:

https://www.policemag.com/patrol/article/15349032/the-murder-of-sara-tokars

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/sara-tokars-murder/

https://loriajohnston.medium.com/the-assassination-of-sara-tokars-9a3e09ec98bb

https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Sara-Ambrusko-Fred-Tokars

https://loriajohnston.medium.com/the-assassination-of-sara-tokars-9a3e09ec98bb

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Heather turned to run back towards the way she’d just come from, but as she did so, the man leapt from the passenger side of the car and towards her. He asked if she was alright, before grabbing her by the arm. Heather let out a horrific scream, begging him to let her go, but the man just pushed her further away from the road and toward the woods next to it…

https://www.oxygen.com/in-ice-cold-blood/crime-news/gerald-carnahan-murders-missouri-beauty-queen-jackie-johns

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=CT0pX49PNZoC&rdid=book-CT0pX49PNZoC&rdot=1&source=gbs_atb&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_atb&pli=1

https://www.ky3.com/2022/04/01/jackie-johns-featured-new-program-april-1st/

https://www.ky3.com/2020/10/17/conviction-upheld-judge-refuses-retrial-in-murder-of-jackie-johns/

https://www.abebooks.com/9780425250341/Murder-Lonely-Road-Beauty-Queen-0425250342/plp

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26916601/gerald_carnahan_jackie_johns_details/

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/crimetraveler/crime-traveler-justice-for-jackie/

http://streeterfamilyblogg.blogspot.com/p/person-of-interest.html

https://www.ky3.com/2021/03/12/jackie-johns-murder-case-to-be-featured-on-oxygen-channel/

https://erniewebbiii.wordpress.com/tag/gerald-carnahan/

https://casetext.com/case/carnahan-v-state-11

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https://www.smh.com.au/national/schapelle-corby-released-from-kerobokan-prison-on-parole-arrives-at-luxury-spa-20140210-32avh.html

https://7news.com.au/news/bali/schapelle-corby-15-years-on-from-her-drug-sentence-tells-of-her-new-life-c-1060403

https://coconuts.co/bali/news/schapelle-corby-celebrates-9th-anniversary-of-release-from-kerobokan-with-handmade-clock-giveaway/

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