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Marc Dutroux: Mother of Belgium's most notorious child-killer begs judges not to free him. Marc Dutroux jailed for life in 2004 for kidnap, rape, torture of six girlsFour of the girls died during the kidnapping spree in the mid 1990sBut decision for early release due today as he claims he is no longer a riskMother Jeannine described her son as a 'repeat offender in his soul' By Ian Sparks Published: 13:51 GMT, 18 February 2013 | Updated: 15:58 GMT, 18 February 2013 Murderer: Marc Dutroux, seen being escorted by police officers at Brussels' Palace of Justice, is seeking early release from prison (pictured in court on February 4) Serial paedophile child killer Marc Dutroux has been denied early release from prison amid fears he will re-offend.

Marc Dutroux: Mother of Belgium's most notorious child-killer begs judges not to free him

A Belgian court today turned down a request by the 56-year-old to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home under electronic surveillance. David Birnie. David John Birnie David John Birnie and Catherine Margaret Birnie Catherine Margaret Birnie James Birnie Map of Australia with Perth locator.

David Birnie

Evil serial killer David Birnie was 'a softie inside' - ex prison guard. "A pigeon fell off the razor wire one day and Birnie came to its rescue.

Evil serial killer David Birnie was 'a softie inside' - ex prison guard

He hand-raised it and he used to walk around with it on his shoulder. He never wanted to be parted from it. David Birnie. David John Birnie (16 February 1951 – 7 October 2005) and Catherine Margaret Birnie (born in 1951) were an Australian couple who were serial killers.

David Birnie

They murdered four women ranging in age from 15 to 35 in their home in the 1980s, and attempted to murder a fifth. These crimes were referred to in the press as the Moorhouse murders, after the Birnies' address at 3 Moorhouse Street in Willagee, a working class suburb of Perth, Australia. Biographies David Birnie David Birnie was the eldest of five children. In the early 1960s, his parents decided to move the family to another Perth suburb, where he had met Catherine through mutual friends. Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers. The strange sight of a 47-year-old handcuffed man surrounded by police walking through the woods while wearing a woman's wig must have puzzled many Cape Cod residents on the morning of April 9, 2000.

Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

BAUMEISTER, Herb

Berdella, Robert. Linwood Earl Briley. The Briley Brothers (Linwood Briley, James "J.B.

Linwood Earl Briley

" Briley, and Anthony Briley) were responsible for a killing spree in Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1979. The city and the surrounding suburbs were terrorized for seven months by the killing spree, which struck victims both black and white, suburban and urban, well-to-do and humble. Early lives The brothers were born to a stable home with two parents on the Northeast side of Richmond. With their younger sibling Anthony, Linwood and James were regarded by older neighbors as people who would help neighbors fix cars or mow lawns. However, a surreal and dark world existed inside their house on Fourth Avenue. First murders In 1971, the first killing was committed by the then 16 year old Linwood.

Linwood was sent to reform school to serve a one-year sentence for the killing. Murder spree The Buchers Their first attack came on March 12, when Linwood knocked on the door of Henrico County couple William and Virginia Bucher. Michael McDuffie Escape. Jerry Brudos, notorious serial killer & fetishist — Escape. Portland, Oregon Late in the afternoon on April 21, 1969, Sharon Wood, 24, left her secretarial job in Portland to meet with her estranged husband, who wanted to discuss a divorce.

Jerry Brudos, notorious serial killer & fetishist — Escape

She entered the basement level of a parking garage to look for her car when a tall, pudgy man approached her. She later told police (that Ann Rule accessed for the book The Lust Killer) that she had sensed someone behind her and had tried to return to an area where she could hear other people. But then someone tapped her shoulder and she turned around. The man was holding a pistol. Sharon Wood. Westley Dodd: A Long, Steady Slide Into Dark Desperation. It wasn't police or psychologists, jail cells or prison bars, lie detectors or sexual-deviancy treatment that finally stopped Westley Allan Dodd.

Westley Dodd: A Long, Steady Slide Into Dark Desperation

What stopped him was a creaky old Ford Pinto that stalled out at a crucial moment and a plucky 6-year-old who remembered what his parents told him about strangers accosting him: scream, yell, bite, kick and raise hell. What also helped stop Dodd was his own dark degeneration, a slide into desperation that compelled him to snatch a boy from a crowded theater in Camas in front of witnesses.

When caught in 1989, he had killed three boys and molested or exposed himself to nearly 100 children. Slowly, the story of Dodd's life unfolded, the story of a man on a collision course with death. Many times during his life, Westley Dodd told the truth - or something close to the truth - about the virulence of the sickness consuming his life.

Dean Corll- The Sex, Sadism and Slaughter of Houston's Candy Man, from — The Party. It was truly bad judgment that Wayne Henley used when he decided to bring his good friend Rhonda to Dean Corll's house, considering that Wayne was genuinely concerned about the young woman's safety.

Dean Corll- The Sex, Sadism and Slaughter of Houston's Candy Man, from — The Party

He did not understand the danger to which he had exposed himself and his friends by taking them there. But bring her he did without the approval of Dean Corll. Dean Corll was an electrician for Houston Power and Light, but most of Henley's friends knew him as the Candy Man, so named because he had labored for years in the candy manufacturing plant that he and his mother had once owned. Corll was famous for giving away candy to the kids. Elmer Wayne Henley and his friend Tim Kerley had left the Corll's house in the Pasadena suburb of Houston in the early morning hours of August 8, 1973 in order to meet Rhonda.

With the face of a child and the body of a woman, tiny Rhonda Williams was suffering from some severe emotional and physical traumas.