Lolly's True Crime World

  The Story of John George Haigh The man who almost committed the perfect murders Well quite unusually for me this is a solved crime case but nevertheless has some great history and bearing in mind my investigations into religious cults, this one is very relevant. John George Haigh was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England in 1909 and was brought up in West Riding, Yorkshire. Now interestingly his parents and family were dedicated, fervent members of The Plymouth Brethren church but more of that later. In 1945 Haigh began a killing spree that ended in him being famously known as "The Acid Bath Murderer", although he did not actually kill using the acid baths. Although Haigh was convicted of killing six victims, it is widely believed that actually, he was more likely to have been responsible for a total of nine murders over a span of four years. John George Haigh was not only a killer but also a fraudster on quite a large scale, he would either shot or battered his victims t...

Who Killed Sharon Harper?  Sara Fowler is desperately trying to establish who killed her mum in 1994 I decided to research this case after Jarad Adams published a blog back in the summer, covering the murders of Sharon Harper and Julie Pacey in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1994. I have been struck by this story, so decided to investigate further.  The young woman, pictured above was just five months old when her mother was cruelly murdered on her way home from work in the market town of Grantham, she was killed just two months before thirty-eight-year-old Julie Pacey who was found strangled in the bathroom of her own home.  Sharon Harper was just twenty-one when she was brutally murdered and her body partially hidden in some shrubbery close to a construction site in the early hours of July 2nd 1994, she had been beaten and strangled. Her body was discovered later that day by local children who were playing in the area. Although there was no sign of a struggle, it was reporte...

  East Lancs Ripper Brutally Murdered & Sexually Mutilated Four Women This sadistic killer has never been found - he could strike again

  The Unsolved Murder of Ron Cousins   April 16th 1994 Ron Cousins was found murdered in his own home 78-year-old pensioner Ron Cousins was found dead in his own home April 16th 1994, there were red ligature marks around his neck, chest and back. A knife had been layed on his chest, he was covered in white paint and his bible had been torn up with several pages stuffed into his mouth.  The bath taps had been left running with the water overflowing, the curtains through the house had been closed and the house completely trashed. The police made a very creepy discovery in that the entire contents of Ron's cutlery drawer was in his bedroom with each and every fork and spoon bent in half. Ron was born in 1917 and had spent pretty much his whole life in the same house except for his time away at war during World War Two. He was dedicated Christian and attended church regularly and had become a renowned member of the congregation of Christ Church URC on London Road Chelmsford, ...

  What Happened to Stuart Lubbock - Unsolved One of eight people at Michael Barrymore's party almost certainly killed Stuart Lubbock  What was originally labelled as a tragic drowning accident at a party has been shrouded in mystery ever since with the victim's grieving dad sending out several allegations of rape, and murder over the years, why? The simple fact is that Stuart Lubbock met his unexplained death at a party at the mansion home of TV Strike it Lucky start Michael Barrymore in Royden, Essex UK. The victim was an everyday factory worker and far from the celebrity world of the party where he died. The 31-year-old was found dead in an outdoor swimming pool on March 31st 2001, he had been severely sexually assaulted. In September 2002, an inquest lead by Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray heard that Stuart had consumed the equivalent of nine pints of beer before he was murdered and had both ecstasy and cocaine in his system. He had suffered some quite severe internal injur...

  Lives Ruined by Scientology & Its Scams The lavish reception of The Church of Scientology London This cult/church claims to have some 50 million members and was started by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard apparently to "clear" people of unhappiness. However from my investigations so far, it seems that unhappiness appears to be a very familiar word in the lives of the members of this global scam. According to those that have managed to escape this "organisation" it thrives by intimidating its followers in a style that would be more suited to the mafia instead of a place of religious study and worship.  During the past few years, occasional prosecutions against the "church" of Scientology have curbed its menacing behaviour a little. Eleven of the "Leading" Scientologists including the wife of L.Ron Hubbard were sent to prison during the early part of the 1980s for infiltrating more than a hundred government agencies, what we would today c...