A bookkeeper was heard telling a
young barmaid outside a nightclub "I'll get you home safe" before she
was raped and murdered, a court has heard. The body of India Chipchase, 20, was found at a house in Stanley Road, Northampton, on 31 January. Birmingham Crown Court heard Edward Tenniswood, 52, of Stanley Road, Northampton, denies her murder. Christopher Donnellan QC, prosecuting, said Miss Chipchase's body was found on a mattress at the defendant's home.
Mr Donnellan said Mr Tenniswood turned up outside NB's cocktail bar
in Northampton in the early hours of 30 January when Miss Chipchase was
in a "fairly pickled state" and could "barely stand up". "Others
nearby thought from the way he spoke to her, he knew her," said Mr
Donnellan. "He was overheard by others to say 'not to worry' and he'd
get her home safe - he didn't."
The jury heard Miss Chipchase's death "was no dreadful accident" and
that Mr Tenniswood "raped and throttled" her at his home in Stanley
Road. "When
she resisted he gripped her around the throat and squeezed. She
suffered a blunt force trauma to the head and face and appeared to put
up a struggle," he said. After she died, Mr Tenniswood set about tidying up, Mr Donnellan added. "He re-clothed her, covered her in a sheet and left her. He removed her belongings."
'Determined to have sex'
The jury was told Mr Tenniswood had put on clear plastic vinyl gloves that were later found in a bag of rubbish. "He
was obviously aware of what he was doing and put on clear plastic vinyl
gloves," Mr Donnellan said. "They were found in a bag of rubbish -
India's blood on the outside of the gloves and his DNA on the inside. 'Fantasies' Tenniswood turned his sick violent fantasies into reality after he found
India Chipchase in a drunk and vulnerable state outside Northampton’s
NB’s nightclub. When police smashed down the door of his house, having traced Ms
Chipchase’s mobile to the address, they found her fully-clothed body
lying on a mattress in a dimly-lit upstairs bedroom. A sheet was drawn up to her chin and her long black hair had been arranged by Tenniswood in what police described as a ‘halo’. Her body was near a book left open on a page showing romantic images of scantily-clad women. Ms Chipchase was found to have 33 separate injuries on her body
including evidence of blunt force trauma to her head and bruising to
both hips. Following the verdict, press restrictions were lifted and we are now
able to reveal that Tenniswood had previously pinned a teenage girl up
against a wall by her throat and tried to kiss her. Before he moved to Northampton in the late 1990s, Tenniswood had a top-floor apartment on Oakley Street in Chelsea, west London.
Tenniswood bought the flat in the early 1990s with money stolen from his family's business.
A man whose partner bought it from Tenniswood branded the killer a 'weirdo'.
He
told the Mirror: 'He was more than just a loner, he was properly odd. There was all kinds of pornography all over the house when we went to
look at it.'
Edward Tenniswood was given a life sentence at Birmingham Crown Court
with a minimum term of 30 years for raping and strangling India
Chipchase to death.
Was a German serial killer. Between 1970 and 1975, he killed at least four prostitutes from Hamburg's red light district, keeping the bodies in his flat.
At 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m), Fritz Honka was extremely sensitive about his
height. He liked his women shorter, and he also liked them toothless, to
alleviate his fears of mutilation during oral sex. He found relief with aging prostitutes from Hamburg's red light district, killing at least four of them in his small attic room in the Zeißstraße 74 of Ottensen,
Hamburg. Disposal was a problem, given Honka's size and basic laziness.
He kept the bodies in his flat, and fortified himself with alcohol
against the stench. When neighbours griped about unpleasant smells, he
doused the place with quarts of cheap deodorant.
Franz Honka
On 15 July 1975, the mummified remains were found by firemen after a
fire in the house. Honka was not present, being on shift as a night watchman.
He was arrested when he returned home. In custody, Honka said he killed
the women after they mocked his preference for oral sex over "straight"
intercourse. He was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment,
significantly milder than the prosecutors recommendations. The court
found him guilty of one case of murder and three cases of manslaughter.
His habitual abuse of alcohol was considered a mitigating factor, as it
has seen as a cause for diminished mental capacity.[1] Honka was released from prison in 1993 and spent his last years under the name of Peter Jensen in a nursing home. He died in a hospital in Langenhorn, Hamburg on 19 October 1998.
The victims were-
• Gertraud Bräuer, Friseurin, gestorben 1970
• Anna Beuschel, Hausfrau, gestorben 1974.
• Frieda Roblick, Prostituierte, gestorben 1974.
• Ruth Schult, Prostituierte, gestorben 1975.
When police raided his flat they found the walls coated in pornography and countless magazines and sadomasochistic books.
Internet searches for rape, strangulation preceded woman's death.
A 19-year-old man has been charged
with killing his former high school girlfriend by strangling her in her
bed, and attacking another woman three days earlier. Daniel Joseph Bartelt is accused of murdering 19-year-old actress Jessie Blodgett after she returned to her Hartford, Wisconsin, home from a 'Fiddler on the Roof' cast party on July 15. The
college dropout also confessed to attacking a woman with a knife in a
park on July 12, saying it was a 'spur of the moment decision', just
hours after researching serial killers online.
Forensic experts found Internet searches on Daniel
J.H. Bartelt's computer of websites depicting rape, strangulation and serial killers in the days before a young Hartford woman's death,
according to testimony Friday in his homicide trial.
It was the fourth day of testimony on the first-degree intentional
homicide charge against Bartelt in the July 2013 death of Jessie
Blodgett, a 19-year-old aspiring actress found strangled in her bedroom.
Daniel Bartelt
Blodgett was found with ligature marks on her neck, wrists and
ankles, indicating something had been tied around parts of her body, and
an autopsy determined she died of asphyxia and compression of the neck.
Ashley Boldig, a computer forensics analyst with the state Department
of Justice, testified that an Internet history analysis on Bartelt's
laptop showed Wikipedia searches for serial killers, serial killers by
number of victims such as Luis Garavito and Moses Sithole late July 11,
2013, into the early hours of the next day.
The analysis also shows that on July 15 a music file named "Jessie's
Song," which Blodgett and Bartelt sang together, was deleted. Boldig
also testified that pornographic videos, one titled "poor girl brutally raped and strangled to death," were viewed on the laptop. Blodgett's
Facebook picture was viewed at 3:04 p.m. July 15, the day Blodgett was
found dead.
No one will ever know how many men, women and children Charles Chitat Ng and his survivalist partner in murder,
Leonard Lake, killed in the course of their criminal endeavours.
On June
2, 1985, law enforcement would first encounter this duo outside of a
South San Francisco hardware store when Ng stole a vice, locked it into
the back of a 1980 Honda Prelude and left the vicinity. By the time
police arrived, an overweight, bearded Caucasian sat at the wheel of the
same auto. Preliminary questioning uncovered a driver’s license and
license plates involving two separate individuals. A .22 caliber
handgun illegally modified with a silencer further complicated matters.
The suspect was placed under arrest and at police headquarters he was
confronted with information that the VIN number of the automobile
indicated that it was owned by a third person, who had been reported
missing nine months earlier. The suspect calmly asked for a pen, paper
and a glass of water. After writing a short note, he removed something
from his lapel and swallowed it with a gulp of water. The “something”
turned out to be cyanide which eventually killed the suspect,
subsequently identified from fingerprints as Leonard Lake. Police would quickly locate Lake’s isolated ranch in the remote town
of Wilseyville, California. Lake’s house and adjoining bunker would
yield an extensive cache of weapons, incriminating video cassettes and
photos as well as a diary that indicated how Lake and Ng had tortured,
raped and murdered numerous victims. Males were typically abducted or
lured to the ranch to facilitate the theft of personal possessions,
credit cards, or cash. Subsequently, following several hours of
torment, these victims would be shot in the head. Females were placed
in the bunker next to Lake’s ranch house where they would be assaulted
for several days before being murdered. Any infants or children
involved in these abductions would also be killed. By the time, police
and Calaveras County sheriffs had excavated the entire property and
demolished the bunker, they would find the bodies of seven men, three
women and two small children as well as forty five pounds of burned and
crushed human skeletal material. As many as twenty-five people reported
missing and known to have associated with Lake and Ng may have perished
at the Wilseyville location.
The police searched Lake's ranch in Wilseyville. It
was clear Lake was a survivalist, his ranch fitted with a bunker and a
stash of weapons. In a diary, Lake had written how he was convinced
there was going to be a global nuclear war, and he planned on
surviving in his bunker and rebuilding the human race with a
collection of female slaves (he named this plan "Operation Miranda"
after a character in the book The Collector by John Fowles).
The police also found videos showing Lake and Ng torturing and raping
women.
The grounds of the ranch were dug up and 12 corpses
were uncovered in shallow graves. Among these victims were two
families: Harvey Dubs and his wife, Deborah, and baby son, Sean; and
Lonnie Bond and Brenda O'Connor and their baby son, Lonnie Bond Jr.
The women had been sexually abused, and killed after their husbands
and infants were disposed of. Five of the bodies were of men lured to
the ranch to be robbed and killed — including Robin Stapley and Paul
Cosner — and the 12th was identified as 18-year-old Kathleen Allen,
who knew Ng because her boyfriend had once been his cellmate in prison.
Police also found charred fragments of human bones (in excess of 45
pounds in total), but they were unable to determine the identity of
the victims or their number. It has been postulated the number of
unknown murdered persons could be as high as 25.
A convicted killer has been found
guilty of murdering missing woman Becky Godden five years after
initially escaping justice due to police blunders.
Christopher Halliwell, 52, initially admitted the double murder of Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan from Swindon in 2011.
Chris Halliwell
But he evaded justice for killing Miss Godden until now due to a police error. Miss Godden's mother thanked police "for bringing my little girl home". A jury at Bristol Crown Court took less than three hours to find him guilty. The ex-taxi driver is currently serving life after stabbing and strangling Miss O'Callaghan, 22 in 2011. The
case came to court after Wiltshire Police unearthed new evidence in the
case which centred on soil on a shovel found at Halliwell's home,
witness accounts and Halliwell's wounds when he visited a GP two days
after Miss Godden disappeared. Police said there was a “distinct possibility” that he could be responsible for other
unsolved killings. Christopher Halliwell, 52, laughed as a guilty verdict was returned at Bristol
crown court on Monday and smiled at relatives of Becky Godden, who went
missing aged 20 in 2003 when she was a sex worker in Swindon. He is already serving life for the murder of 22-year-old Sian
O’Callaghan, whom he abducted from a nightclub in the Wiltshire town in
2011. After the verdict, Det Supt Sean Memory, the senior investigating
officer in the Godden case, said Halliwell may have killed others. “I am really open-minded – there is an eight-year gap between Becky
and Sian,” Memory said. “I would appeal to Christopher Halliwell – if he
wants to speak I’m willing to speak with him. “I can’t rule out that there are other victims. He’s not forensically
linked to outstanding cases. However, that’s not to say he hasn’t
committed other offences.
And when police searched a remote pond where Halliwell dumped O’Callaghan’s boots after stabbing and strangling her in 2011, they discovered dozens of scraps of material that may be clothing.
In common with many violent sexual offenders, Halliwell had a fascination with hardcore pornography, including child abuse and bestiality. Computer search terms he used showed he had an interest in murder, violent sex and rape. After a two-week trial, a jury found him guilty of the murder of
Godden. He became besotted with her after meeting her while working as a
taxi driver in Swindon’s red-light district. In January 2003 he had sex
with her, strangled her and buried her body in a field in
Gloucestershire. Godden’s murder came to light only after Halliwell was arrested over
O’Callaghan’s disappearance in 2011. He led the senior investigating
officer, Steve Fulcher, to where he had left O’Callaghan’s body at the
side of a country road – and to where he had buried Godden’s remains
eight years before.
Sian O'Callaghan
Halliwell initially wrongly believed Miss O'Callaghan was a sex
worker, while Miss Godden was a prostitute. He admitted having sex with
Miss Godden before she died and prosecutors insist that Miss
O'Callaghan's murder was sexually-motivated. Both women were strangled and their bodies were deposited in rural locations close to each other. Miss Godden was buried naked in a shallow grave while Miss
O'Callaghan was found partially clothed - with Halliwell later admitting
he had cut her underwear and leggings in an attempt to remove them. Halliwell described himself as a "sick f*****" before telling Mr
Fulcher that he had strangled Miss Godden after having sex with her.
Was an American murderer and serial killer. Brandt, a native of Indiana and longtime resident of the Florida Keys, committed suicide in September 2004 after his wife, Teresa "Teri" Brandt, was stabbed seven times and his niece, Michelle Jones, was decapitated
and had suffered severe mutilation. An investigation by police
concluded that Brandt had murdered Teri Brandt and Michelle Jones before
hanging himself in Jones' garage.
Charlie Brandt
It later came to light that Brandt had shot his parents – his
pregnant mother fatally – in 1971, when he was thirteen; he spent one
year at a psychiatric hospital before being released, and was never
criminally charged. Because of this incident – of which Teri Brandt's
family was unaware – and because of Charlie Brandt's efficiency in
killing his wife and niece and his hidden obsessions with human anatomy,
investigators looked into the prospect that he had been a serial killer
who had operated without detection since moving to Florida in 1973.
Police have positively ascribed up to six homicides to Brandt. On the night of January 3, 1971, Brandt, then thirteen, walked into his
parents' bathroom while his father was shaving and his mother, who was
eight months pregnant, was taking a bath. Brandt shot his father point
blank in the back with a gun, then fired several rounds into his mother;
his father survived, but his mother died at the scene. Brandt then
confronted his fifteen-year-old sister, Angela Brandt, but his gun
wouldn't fire. After a physical struggle, Angela managed to calm her
brother down before she fled the house and sought help from neighbors.
Charlie also left the house and knocked on the door of a girl next door
named Sandi Radcliffe, telling her, "Sandi, I just shot my mom and dad."
On September 2, 2004, Charlie and Teri Brandt were evacuated from their home on Big Pine Key before Hurricane Ivan
made landfall. Their niece, Michelle Lynn Jones, invited them to stay
at her residence in central Florida. Throughout the visit, Michelle
Jones kept in regular contact with her mother, Mary Lou Jones, as well
as several friends. On the evening of September 13, one of Jones'
friends, Lisa Emmons, was scheduled to visit her house. However, Jones
discouraged her from coming after reporting that the Brandts had had an
argument after drinking. After that night, Jones stopped answering telephone calls, which alarmed her acquaintances.
On September 15, another one of Jones' friends, Debbie Knight, came
to her house to check on her and the Brandts while on the phone with
Mary Lou Jones. After finding the front door locked, Knight tried to
enter the house through the garage, where she found Charlie Brandt's
body hanging from the rafters; due to sweltering temperatures and the
length of time since his death, Brandt's body was in a state of decomposition.
Knight contacted the police, who entered the house and found the bodies
of Brandt's wife and niece. Teri Brandt had been stabbed seven times in
the chest while reclining on a couch. Michelle Jones, whose body was
found in her bed, had been decapitated and disemboweled, with her heart and organs removed. Jones' head was also placed next to her own body. The weapons used in the crimes had been knives from Jones' kitchen.
Links to other murders
Investigations into cold case
files from throughout Florida eventually linked Brandt to unsolved
murders that bore striking similarities to Michelle Jones' death. They
included the decapitations of the victims and the removal of their
hearts, which detectives established had been the focus of Brandt's
obsession. The search led to twenty-six unsolved murders in Florida
going back to 1973, the year Brandt moved to the state. Some cold cases
have since been positively ascribed to Brandt by the authorities.
Sherry Perisho, 1989
Perisho's partly clad body was found on July 16, 1989, near the North
Pine Channel Bridge at Big Pine Key, where Perisho, who was homeless,
lived on a dinghy.
Perisho's throat had been slashed and her head had been nearly severed;
like Jones, her body was extensively mutilated and her heart was
removed. Perisho was found less than 1,000 feet from where Brandt lived,
and Brandt's appearance matched a composite sketch of a man seen crossing U.S. Route 1 near where Perisho was discovered on the night she was murdered. Based on this evidence, Monroe County investigators determined that Brandt killed Perisho and officially closed the case on May 6, 2006.
