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Serial Killers: Documentary Series on British TV
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Serial Killers: Documentary Series on British TV
Author: Caz
Tuesday, 09 November 1999 - 12:33 am |        | Hi All,
Just wanted to let those brits who can get Channel 5 know that a 5-part documentary series called Serial Killers begins tonight at 22.40.
The first one concerns handsome charmer Ted Bundy.
Caz |
Author: Caz
Tuesday, 16 November 1999 - 02:48 am | | The series continues tonight at the slightly earlier time of 22.30.
This one reveals the gruesome career of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Caz |
Author: Caz
Tuesday, 04 January 2000 - 09:43 am | | This series continues tonight at 22.55 with California's 'Night Stalker', Richard Ramirez.
As a double treat tonight, we brits can look forward to the first in a two-part drama on BBC2 at 21.00, 'Murder Rooms: the Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes.' Quoting the Radio Times: 'This edgy Victorian thriller is based on the true story of forensic pathologist Dr Joseph Bell, who taught Arthur Conan Doyle at Edinburgh medical school and was actually the model for Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1878, this (drama)....sees the pair hunting for a serial killer; it is a dark and atmospheric journey that reveals the underbelly of Victorian society....'
I can't wait, it sounds right up my alley :-)
I was reading Conan Doyle's 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box' yesterday, where I found these interesting snippets concerning two severed ears in the box which had been posted to an address in Croydon. The story was originally published in The Strand Magazine circa 1893.
“You have observed, of course,” said he (Holmes to Watson) at last, “that the ears are not a pair.”
“Yes, I have noticed that. But if this were the practical joke of some students from the dissecting-rooms, it would be as easy for them to send two odd ears as a pair.”
“Precisely. But this is not a practical joke.”
“You are sure of it?”
“The presumption is strongly against it. Bodies in the dissecting-rooms are injected with preservative fluid. These ears bear no signs of this. They are fresh too. They have been cut off with a blunt instrument, which would hardly happen if a student had done it. Again, carbolic or rectified spirits would be the preservatives which would suggest themselves to the medical mind, certainly not rough salt. I repeat that there is no practical joke here, but that we are investigating a serious crime.”
No prizes for guessing what Conan Doyle may have used as the real-life inspiration for this grisly fictional package :-)
And later in the yarn comes this:
…….”As a medical man, you are aware, Watson, that there is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear. Each ear is as a rule quite distinctive, and differs from all other ones. In last year’s ‘Anthropological Journal’ you will find two short monographs from my pen upon the subject. I had therefore examined the ears in the box with the eyes of an expert, and had carefully noted their anatomical peculiarities……”
The murderer, naturally sussed out PDQ by our nonpareil detective, finally makes a full confession, including the following:
“….. ‘You can do what you like,’ says I, ‘but if Fairbairn shows his face here again, I’ll send you one of his ears for a keepsake.’…. ”
The blighter in this case kept his promise....
Love,
Caz |
Author: Bob_C
Tuesday, 04 January 2000 - 12:46 pm | | Hi Caz,
'ere 'ere, what's all that about?
I can't get Brit TV over here, so you'll have to let me know the address in Croyden where the package got sent.
Maybe I could get video copies from Aunty BBC, do you or anyone else know if/how/quanta costa?
Love
Bob (cough cough!)
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Author: Caz
Thursday, 06 January 2000 - 11:16 am | | Hi Bob,
No, the package wasn't sent to me (although I could have done with a fresh pair of ears, I am quite deaf these days, must be all that loud rock music from my misspent youth). It was sent to a fictitious address in Croydon, Cross Street.
I'll see if the Conan Doyle drama is available yet on Aunty Beeb video, otherwise I can send my own copy over if you would like to borrow it.
I watched the second part thisafternoon. By an amazing (I thought) coincidence, out of all the Holmes stories they could have chosen, they had Dr Joseph Bell, played by the superb Ian Richardson, examining, you guessed it, a box containing a pair of severed ears sent by a serial killer in Edinburgh! The dialogue was almost the same as the bit I quoted above too.
And you'll never guess who the killer turned out to be, he was a real-life serial killer and fellow med student with Doyle in Edinburgh. He also appears on our very own casebook JtR suspects lists. His name? It was........well, I can't give the game away for those who haven't seen it, can I? :-)
Oh, BTW, the documentary on Richard Ramirez was interesting too. Here was yet another sk who 'broke all the sk rules' by changing weapons, victim type, MO. The 'signature' he was blissfully unaware of however, until some damnfool cop told the public (and therefore him, enabling him to change even that too), was that he left a rare shoeprint at the scenes of crime. Only one such pair in his size was known to have been ordered by the Los Angeles outlet where he must have bought them. This made me think of your post on another board recently regarding details police may decide to keep to themselves, not for cover-up or conspiracy purposes, but to help unmask the killer while trying to detect hoaxes and prevent copy-cats.
I hope you are feeling a bit better by now, Bob. If not I can always send my nursey friend over with the Doyle video to cheer you up and rub something on your chest ;-)
Love,
Caz |
Author: Bob_C
Friday, 07 January 2000 - 05:03 am | | Hi Caz,
I accept your offers at once, please send vital statistics of nursery friend. To rub on my chest, I would recommend Champagne. My bathtub can support about twenty-five flagons of the stuff.
Unfortunantly the only JtR-bits we get over here on German telly are tommy rot. Mostly at the level of J&H, not JtR, the occasional bits they show aren't worth the bother of switching on.
See yah,
love,
Bob
XXX |
Author: Caz
Friday, 07 January 2000 - 11:29 am | | Hi Bob,
Can I send Nursey (not 'nursery' silly, that really is going too far ;-) ) after the weekend? I need her for a girls' night out.
Her vital statistics are: single, own flat, own car. I can send you photos of the flat and car in advance if you want. :-)
Don't try to talk JtR to her though. Her eyes glaze over if I try to bring him into the conversation.
Have a great weekend.
Love,
Caz |
Author: Bob_C
Saturday, 08 January 2000 - 12:22 pm | | Hi Caz, my dear,
Sorry about the 'r' too much. Makes a difference. Good that you know which statistics are vital. I am interested indeed in your friend. Of course you may retain her until the week-end is over, but please spare her physically. Pictures welcome. I would send a picture of my 50 foot luxury yacht too, but I don't have both. (I have got a 6 foot dingy, if it hasn't sunk in the meantime. I'll take a look tomorrow)
Pity about her and Jack, though. She could have read excerts from the board to me while washing my back and front in Marquis D'Onlonge.
Love,
Bob |
Author: Qbase
Tuesday, 06 February 2001 - 05:52 pm | | Hello,
Anyone in the UK. Channel 5 are showing Jekyll & Hyde with Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd and Jose Ackland at 9.00pm.
This is followed by The Diary Of Jack The Ripper at 11.00pm. This is the one narrated by Michael Winner.
Both these are to be shown on 7th Febuary 2001.
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