#childkillers

Daniel Charles Handley was a nine-year-old boy from East London.

On 2nd October 1994, Daniel was fixing a chain on his bicycle near his home when he was approached by two men who claimed to be lost and asked Daniel to show them directions on a map. When Daniel leaned inside to look at the map, one of the men pushed him into the car and the other drove off. They drove Daniel to a flat where they took turns to sexually abuse him, videotaping the abuse. They then strangled Daniel to death and dumped his body in a shallow grave, returning later to bury him deeper. Daniel's skull was found in March 1995, five months after he went missing.

Brett Tyler and his boyfriend Timothy John Morss had been driving the area looking for a young, pre-teen, fair-haired boy to fulfil their fantasy of abducting a boy, raping him and killing him. After the trial, they were revealed to be sexual predators who had abused children in the Phillippines. They had met while in prison for child sex offences, Morss for raping two young boys in 1986 and Tyler for indecency with young boys. After killing Daniel, both men fled to the Philippines, Morss was arrested when he returned to England and Tyler was extradited. Horrifying details of Daniel's abduction have since come forward and after his abduction, Daniel was seen at service stations with multiple men, it is thought by detectives that Daniel was kept prisoner by Morss and Tyler and members of a child sex offenders gang who abused him for up to a month before his death.

Cassidy Senter was a 10-year-old girl who lives in Missouri. She was a cautious girl who carried a personal alarm.

On 1st December 1993, Cassidy arrived home from school and then left to go to a friend's house. She was last seen at an intersection. At 5 pm, Cassidy's mum called her friend's house to ask when Cassidy would be coming home and learnt her daughter had never arrived. Cassidy's alarm was found buzzing on the ground. A frantic search involving neighbours and the police began and continued for over a week.

On 9th December, two pedestrians were walking down an alleyway when they discovered Cassidy's body wrapped in bed comforters and a pink curtain. Her jacket and sweater had been pulled up and her jeans and underwear pulled down past her ankles which were tied with a bedsheet. An autopsy revealed multiple injuries including bruising all over her body suggesting she had been beaten to death.

Amy Renee Mihaljevic was a 10-year-old American schoolgirl who was kidnapped and murder in Ohio in 1989. Her killer remains uncaught and her case open.On 27th October 1989, Amy was kidnapped from the Bay Square shopping centre in Ohio. The abductor had contacted Amy by phone and arranged to meet her to help her buy a present for her mother. Amy was never seen alive again.

On 8th February 1990, Amy's body was found close to the road in a nearby field. Evidence suggested that Amy's body was dumped there shortly after her abduction. Amy's body had yellow/ gold fibres on her body and several items were missing such as Amy's books, backpack, a binder and earrings which police believe the killer may have taken as trophies. Blood, believed to be Amy's, was found on her underwear suggesting she may have been raped. DNA from the crime scene was collected and sampled, it may be used in the future to find her killer.

The case generated thousands of leads, 20,000 interviews took place, and multiple suspects were given lie-detector tests. The search was the biggest in Ohio since 1951. Despite all of this Amy's killer was never found.In November 2006 it was revealed that other young girls had received phone calls similar to the one Amy had received, also offering to buy the girl's mothers a present. The girls who received these calls all lived close to Bay Village, some had unlisted phone numbers. Amy and the others who received calls had all visited the local Lake Erie Nature and Science Center which had a visitors logbook, it has been suggested the girls may have signed the book with personal information, names and phone numbers.

James Bulger, 2 years old, was with with mother shopping in Merseyside, England. For a moment James’ mother looked away and two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, took his hand and led him away. His mutilated body was found on railway line 4km away from the abduction sight. The ten-year-old killers were the youngest convicted murderers in modern British history.

CCTV from the shopping centre showed Thompson and Venables observing children and choosing a target, they were bunking off from school and stealing items like sweets, batteries and blue paint, some of which were found at the murder scene. One of the children later stated they were planning to abduct a child and push him into traffic. At 15.40 James’ mother was momentarily distracted but realised her son was gone. At 15.42 CCTV shows Thompson and Venables leading James out of the shopping centre. Around 34 witnesses saw the older boys leading James away and on the 4km walk to the railway tracks.

When the boys arrived at the railway tracks they began torturing the toddler, throwing blue paint in his eyes, kicking and stamping on him and forcing batteries into his mouth. The boys dropped at 10kg iron bar on the child who suffered 10 skull fractures. The pathologist found James had suffered so many blows, 42 in total, that it was impossible to determine the killing blow. Thompson and Venables then laid James’ body out across the railway tracks, weighting his head down, in the hope this would make the murder look like an accident. The small body was severed in half and found two days later. Elements of sexual abuse were debated by police.

Tia Simone Rigg was 12-year-old a schoolgirl who lived with her mother and grandparents in Manchester. Described as a smiley and happy girl, Tia did not have an easy life. Even before she was born, Tia was on the child protection register due to her mother's drug addiction. In 1998, child protection agencies said that Tia was 'likely to suffer neglect,' and later that she was 'likely to suffer physical abuse.'

At 2.17 pm on 3rd April 2010, Tia's 38-year-old maternal uncle John Maden phoned Tia's mother and asked Tia to go to his house to babysit his daughter. When Tia arrived at the home at 3 pm, he drugged her with Olanzapine.

Maden then inflicted a 'horrific catalogue of sexual injuries' before stabbing and strangling her to death. At 3.45 pm, Maden phoned emergency services and said 'I would like to report a murder,' when asked how the emergency had happened he replied 'my niece has been murdered by me... I have just finished killing her now.' When asked why he answered 'Because I felt like it' and hung up the phone.

Police arrived at the address two minutes later and a 'chillingly calm' Maden opened the door and directed them upstairs. Tia's body was found on the floor of a spare bedroom, naked except for socks, with a ligature tied around her neck and her hands tied behind her back. Next to her body were two knives, a broom handle and sex toy, all of which were stained with blood.

During Maden's trial evidence emerged that he had developed an obsessive interest in paedophilia, rape and torture. He had an extensive library of videos on the topic including folders named 'snuff' and 'brutal rape.'

Dutroux murders: Belgian child-killer’s letter angers parents

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Image caption Dutroux has spent 22 years in jail for abduction, rape and murder

An infamous child killer who abducted, raped and murdered girls in Belgium in the 1990s has enraged victims’ families with a letter offering to answer their questions.

Marc Dutroux was jailed in 1996 and has for…