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The Bathtub Girls murder took place in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on January 18, 2003.Two sisters, whose identities along with the victims are protected under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) as they were minors at the time of the crime, conspired to murder their alcoholic, neglectful mother and make it appear as if she had accidentally drowned while taking a bath, in order to ...
The case became known as the Brides in the Bath Murders. As well as being widely reported in the media, it was significant in the history of forensic pathology and detection. It was also one of the first cases in which striking similarities between connected crimes were used to prove guilt, a technique used in subsequent prosecutions .
The jury at Manchester Crown Court took one hour to find 49-year-old Smith guilty of Bates' murder. Sentencing him to life imprisonment, the judge, Mr. Justice Sachs, recommended that Smith serve a minimum term of 20 years. [13] He stated: "This has been a terrible case; a catalogue of depravity by one human being upon another.
A new episode of Dateline will premiere Friday at 8 p.m. CST on NBC, highlighting the 1996 Arlington, Texas murders tied to Dale Devon Scheanette, also known as the “Bathtub Killer ...
AP . Under this fallen tree the decomposed body of a young girl was found, near Woodbine, Ill., April 26, 1958. The body is thought to be that of Maria Ridulph, 7, who disappeared Dec. 3, 1957 ...
Detectives grilled Polly Klaas' 12-year-old friends, who had witnessed the abduction. Was this some kind of prank? Did Polly have a boyfriend? Had she run off with him? Were they covering for her?
Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 2, 1964 [2]) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. [3] The case of Yates—who had exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia leading up to the murders—placed the M'Naghten rules ...
Bathtub and water Frances Elaine Campione [ 1 ] is an Ontario woman who murdered her two children in Barrie , Ontario, on October 2, 2006. Canadian prosecutors argued that she wanted to get revenge on her ex-husband and was afraid he would receive custody.