She has reportedly asked to wed Mark Heggie, 34, in St Francis Chapel of Rampton Hospital, Retford, Nottinghamshire.

Former slaughterhouse worker Heggie was sent to Rampton in 1992 after attacking 63-year-old Alison Da Costa in Golders Green, London, and then drinking her blood.  And Allitt was sent to Rampton in 1993 after being found guilty of the murders at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire. Her victims ranged from a seven-week-old baby to an 11-year-old child.

Allitt, who is being held indefinitely at Rampton, is said to have set her heart on a traditional white bridal gown and a wedding cake.

http://itn.co.uk/news/20010522/britain/03allitt.shtml

Mark Fuhrman Book Infuriates Police

Saturday, May 19, 2001; 8:21 p.m. EDT

SPOKANE, Wash.  Former Detective Mark Fuhrman has written a new true-crime book accusing Spokane police of bungling a murder investigation, an allegation they hotly deny.

In "Murder in Spokane: Catching a Serial Killer," to be released Tuesday, Fuhrman contends serial killer Robert L. Yates could have been caught two years earlier if police had relied less on technology and more on footwork and intuition.

Yates, who has confessed to killing 14 people, was arrested in April 2000.

The book drew protests from the two police agencies whose members comprised the serial killer task force.

"We're proud of the fact that we caught our killer ... and Mark didn't," said Spokane County sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Dave Reagan. "And we don't want to help him sell his book."

Sheriff Mark Sterk said Fuhrman had no access to law enforcement files or crime scenes.

"How do you write a factual book when you don't have information?" he asked. "This is all about making money for Mark Fuhrman, nothing else."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010519/aponline202143_000.htm

Zodiac killer may be identified soon, newspaper reports

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- DNA evidence may be about to reveal the identity of the notorious Zodiac killer, solving a case that has baffled police for more than three decades, a newspaper reported Friday.

The San Francisco Examiner said saliva on envelopes containing taunting letters from the killer is being matched with samples from one of the key suspects in the case, which dates back to the 1960s.

The man in question is Arthur Leigh Allen, a former Vallejo school teacher who died in 1992.

Leigh "is a primary suspect in the case, but that's all he is," said Lt. JoAnn West, a spokeswoman for the Vallejo police and also for an intercity task force set up in 1998 to continue the investigation.

West wouldn't say if DNA from other suspects was being compared with the sample from the envelope.

The Zodiac spawned a trail of terror in the San Francisco Bay area in 1968 and 1969. He claimed 37 killings, though officials lay six Bay Area slayings at his feet.

The killer helped fan the fear by writing 21 letters to the Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Vallejo Times-Herald, providing details about the crimes that only he could have known. They all started with the chilling greeting, "This is the Zodiac speaking."

Investigators long felt Allen was the killer, but at the time had no way to use the DNA evidence they collected.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?story=N2001-05-18-1115-1.html

Reviled Ng lives quietly on death row

May 11, 2001

Very little has happened to Charles Ng since June 30, 1999, the day he was sentenced in an Orange County courtroom to die for 11 Calaveras County murders -- and that's the way corrections officials want it until Ng is executed years from now. Ng's address these days is Death Row, San Quentin, CA 94964. It is a place where the guards take extra pains to make sure nothing does happen. In Ng's case, that is the big problem, because even among condemned killers Ng is a pariah. He is so loathed he might have to be concerned about his own safety if the state weren't taking such care to see that he lives long enough to receive his just deserts. Evidence against Ng included videotapes of him and accomplice Leonard Lake tormenting women whom they were accused of murdering. Lake swallowed a suicide pill just as he was being arrested even before the case came to light.

 

http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local07_20010511.html

Crown charges McGray with new murder

 

May 7, 2001

MONCTON, N.B. (CP) -- Crown attorneys have resurrected a charge of first-degree murder against serial killer Michael McGray.   The Crown alleges McGray killed 11-year-old Nina Hicks after he killed her mother, Joan Hicks, in their apartment in Moncton in 1998.   McGray pleaded guilty a year ago to slitting the mother's throat, but has always insisted he did not kill the young girl, who was found in a closet in the apartment.

http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSLaw0105/07_crown-cp.html

"Ed Gein" is as plain as its title, which will strike revulsion in the hearts and minds of anyone who remembers that this is the name of the lonely 51-year-old Wisconsin farmer, whose murder of a woman in his tiny town of Plainfield in 1957 revealed a schizophrenic who carried necrophilia and cannibalism to such extremes he inspired "Psycho," "The Texas Chainsaw Murders" and the Jame Gumb-Buffalo Bill character in "The Silence of the Lambs"--among some 40 other movies.

Written by Stephen Johnston, who has stuck relatively close to the facts, "Ed Gein" was directed by Chuck Parello, the director of the not-bad, if redundant "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part II." Steve Railsback, who has played Charles Manson to acclaim, is a most convincing Ed Gein, whom he somewhat resembles physically.

 

As the film portrays him, Ed Gein never had a chance. He was born of a brutal father and an abusive, religious-fanatic mother (Carrie Snodgress), who insists that all women, herself presumably excepted, are whores and that sex is dirty. Unlike his older brother, who saw their mother as a crazy shrew, Ed believed her to be a disciple of God and loved her deeply, no matter how badly she treated him. Clearly, not overly intelligent to start with, Ed began disintegrating mentally upon her death in 1945.

Serial killer shipped back to Wisconsin

Published Wednesday, May 2, 2001

WAUPUN, Wis. (AP) -- Minnesota prison authorities have quietly returned a serial killer to Wisconsin, although his attorney traded his confessions for a guarantee he would be held out of state.

Minnesota corrections officials said Tuesday they shipped David Spanbauer to the Dodge Correctional Institution in October.

Spanbauer, a paroled sex offender, was captured in 1994 and confessed to abduction killings of two children and the murder of an Appleton woman in her home.

He was convicted of killing 10-year-old Ronelle Eichstadt of Ripon in 1992, 12-year-old Cora Jones of Weyauwega in 1994 and 21-year-old Trudi Jeschke of Appleton, also in 1994.

http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84089513

Shipman quizzed over more deaths

Tuesday, 1 May, 2001, 15:57 GMT 16:57 UK

Convicted serial killer Harold Shipman has been interviewed over a further nine suspicious deaths which happened during his time as a GP, police have said.  The deaths occurred in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, between 1974 and 1975.  He was questioned for 30 hours at Halifax police station in West Yorkshire and later returned to Frankland Prison near Durham.  In January a new investigation was launched into whether the former family doctor had carried out other murders. The inquiry followed a report that he may have killed more than 200 patients during his 24-year career.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1305000/1305232.stm

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