Miscellaneous Criminal Cases

It ticks all the boxes, doesn't it, of what stereotypical child abductors the world over look like - dishevelled, drunk and foreign.

Bit more about this on this article:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/woman-charged-over-murder-of-toddler-sanaya-sahib/news-story/1b01d8bcc8ad6bd9f449787ad14e4a3b

Made a full confession but didn't attend the court hearing due to concerns of her mental health.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/italian-woman-sentenced-killing-baby-7743148

I don't recall hearing about this one last year - a baby who was "abducted from a hotel"........

Freedom wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/italian-woman-sentenced-killing-baby-7743148

I don't recall hearing about this one last year - a baby who was "abducted from a hotel"........

Thanks for that, yes interesting, and like you I don't remember this splashed everywhere..

snipped from article (link above)

The 32-year-old, from Chioggia, who had been living and working in the UK since 2013, had initially reported her daughter had been abducted from a hotel.
She had checked into the Lily Hotel near Earls Court on Saturday January 24 with her daughter and a few possessions.
Later the same day, she checked out without Farah before contacting her parents in Italy.

A fair sentence I feel - detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36038228

Parents indicted in cold case murder of Hawaiian boy


Hawaii's most infamous cold case got a major break when the parents of “Peter Boy” Kema Jr. were indicted Thursday in connection with his death 19 years ago.

Peter Kema Sr. and Jaylin Kema were indicted by a Hilo grand jury and charged with second-degree murder in the death of their son. Peter Jr. was 6 when he vanished, and his body was never found.

The little boy, who suffered horrific and extensive abuse from the time he was just days old and endured abuse throughout his short life, became a symbol for critics who called for reform of child care services.






“It was just absolutely horrifying the torture this child was subjected to,” said Meaghan Good, founder and editor of The Charley Project, a website that is tracking 9,500 unsolved murder cases including that of Peter Boy Jr. “I read all 2,000 pages about the case released by the Department of Human Services in 2005, and it very obvious what happened to Peter Boy Jr.”

Speaking to reporters after the indictment, Hawaii County Prosecutor Mitch Roth said the charges were "a long time coming."


"Peter Boy, this Sunday, would have been 25 years old."

- Mitch Roth, Hawaii County prosecutor

"Peter Boy, this Sunday, would have been 25 years old," he said.

Peter Boy disappeared from his Hawaii Island home in 1997. On Nov. 4, both his parents were arrested on unrelated charges. His father was charged with drug and gun offenses, but later released, while Jaylin Kema was charged with welfare fraud.





Peter Boy Sr., and Jaylin Kema, were arrested late last year on unrelated charges.


They had long been the main suspects in their son's disappearance, but police did not have enough evidence to bring charges. It is not known publicly what new evidence led to the indictments.

The Kemas could not be reached for comment. Their public defenders have not been assigned yet, according to the prosecutor's office.

The Kemas did not report him missing for several months after he was last seen alive, and only then after a social worker alerted police. Peter Kema Sr. told he’d taken the child to another island, Oahu, and turned him over to a family friend who he did not know how to reach. Police were unable to locate her or even confirm her existence.

Peter Boy Jr.’s three living siblings agree that although they were all abused by their parents, Peter Boy Jr. bore the brunt.

In 1998, they told authorities Peter Boy Jr. endured frequent beatings, was rarely fed and forced to eat off the floor. He was made to sleep either tied to the bed, on the bathroom or closet floor or outside without bedding, and was often left handcuffed or tied up with rope, they said.

“It was so shocking and repulsive - the kind of abuse this kid suffered at the hands of the people he trusted,” said Michael W. Perry of KSSK Radio, Hawaii’s most well-known radio commentator. “He was so young, and there were so many dark corners over so long a period time.”

In the wake of Peter Boy Jr.'s disappearance, records surfaced showing how time and again, state Child Protective Service officials missed or ignored signs the boys was being abused.

When Roth was elected in 2012, one of his pledges was to solve the island’s many cold case murders, including Peter Boy Jr.’s.

“It has been a long time in coming,” Roth told FoxNews.com. “We are happy able to start to bring closure for the family and for the community.”

In an effort to solve the case, police and prosecutors have looked at the evidence “with fresh set of eyes” Roth said, reviewing thousands of pages of evidence, re-interviewing witnesses and following new leads.

“We want the public and the family members to know we have not forgotten, and we are still looking for answers and justice,” Roth said

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/30/parents-indicted-in-cold-case-murder-hawaiian-boy.html?intcmp=hphz28

What a terrible story:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/jailed-carer-who-fleeced-pensioner-out-of-54000-raid-to-pay-for-gastric-band-op-a3239606.html

A carer who fleeced a pensioner with dementia out of her £54,000 life savings to pay for a gastric band operation has been jailed for 32 months.

Maria McCalla, 31, withdrew more than £38,000 from 82-year-old Vera Haselden’s account, and convinced the pensioner to sign cheques to her for £10,000 and £6,000.

The single mother, from Wembley, spent the money on the operation and her children’s school fees as well as an X-Box games console and clothes.

Harrow crown court was told that McCalla had been Miss Haselden’s carer for two months when she started the fraud, in June 2014. She had huge debts on 17 credit cards and the pensioner had offered to lend her £16,000.

“The consequences for Miss Haselden have been enormous because she lived in fear of entering a care home and the whole point of employing you was so she could stay at home,” he said.

“She now has no capital and as a consequence has gone into a care home.

“She told the police she feels like she is in a prison, ending up where she did not want to be.”

McCalla, who has children aged six and 11, blamed her money woes on depression and gambling. She was also ordered to pay £500 costs.

Grim stories there, Andrew.

Strange that The Sun names the people allegedly involved while The Mirror doesn't.

It's hard to understand how in the 21st century a child can disappear for 11 years with apparently nobody noticing or doing anything about it.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/677440/David-Mcgreavy-Monster-of-Worcester-impaled-children-murder-released-prison

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3627622/Notorious-Monster-Worcester-killed-three-children-babysitting-impaled-bodies-spiked-garden-railings-prepared-release.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McGreavy


Never heard about this shocking crime before until reading the above in the news.

Life should certainly mean life in these sort of cases and IMO, he should not be getting released. Ever.

I do remember the case though it received scant coverage by today's standards.

I don't think that anyone guilty of anything as horrific as this could ever be considered safe to release.

This is a case from the 1990s which haunted me at the time, thinking what it must have been like for a mother to return home and find her 7 year old son and his teenage babysitter dead in the most appalling circumstances.

I am thankful to learn belatedly that the killer is now dead.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12659529.Mother_returns_at_midnight_to_find_scene_of__apos_total_carnage_apos___Boy_and_babysitter_murdered/

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/1404322.double_child_killer_dies_in_jail/

Never heard of that one either.

Horrific stuff.

Not sure if anyone believes in the supernatural side of this story but just seen that the house where it all happened is on the market...

Yours for $850k dollars.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/amityville-horror-house-six-family-8137913

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3630505/Amityville-Horror-house-six-family-members-brutally-murdered-goes-sale-850K.html


Some further info:

http://www.amityvillemurders.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_DeFeo,_Jr.

I'd love to buy it lol!

I bet you wouldn't spend one night there, ddl..

Be back on the market the next day.

I'm just surprised it was never demolished back in the day and a new house built on the plot.

Oh I'd love to live there, get those emf and sensor things, be great fun X

I wondered about it not being demolished too but maybe that's just something that has become common in the U K in recent years? 

Thinking of the Wests' home in Gloucester, Ian Huntley's in Soham and the houses where Tia Sharp and April Jones were murdered - just off the top of my head, there's probably more.

Never heard of this case either. Just reading about it in today's DM.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3636902/Who-REALLY-killed-Carl-Bridgewater-Murder-young-paperboy-40-years-ago-remains-one-country-s-terrible-unsolved-murders-mystery-finally-SOLVED.html



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Four

Yes, it was a well-known case.

It seemed like another instance where some local undesirables were fitted up in the police's understandable anxiety to solve a horrible crime.

P.S. I'm now reading the Mail article and Professor David Wilson, friend of Mark Williams-Thomas, is involved which inspires me with zero confidence.

Here is the link for the programme when it becomes available.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/interview-with-a-murderer?promo=coming_soon


It happened a month to the day after the disappearance of Genette Tate, another mystery that has yet to be resolved.

I've just watched the programme. I won't say much now to let people make up their own minds but there can be no secret that the person who may have killed Carl was and still is a nasty piece of work.

I had to laugh though when he told David Wilson that he's a nutcase who ought to see a psychiatrist!

I recorded it last night.

Will watch it soon.

Yes freedom ,I sat and watched that too. I felt rather quickly he maybe a psyc. Wanted this programn to be made,and controlled it too .He reminded me of some of our parents that lost their daughter. he absalutly felt he was in control .And could lie so well too and feel like he was right. Good thing his first wife at the end told her truth,we sgould see him again ,no doubt in my mind .joyce1938