Sadistic Killers: Profiles of Pathological Predators Read Online Free
Author: Carol Anne Davis
Tags: General, True Crime
second murder
Heath now fled to Bournemouth and booked into a hotel under the pseudonym Group-Captain Rupert Brooke. He loved Rupert Brooke’s poetry and had copied some of his verses into his notebooks and diaries.
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At first he contemplated suicide and asked to be moved to a room with a gas fire as he planned to gas himself. He also wrote to his parents saying ‘life doesn’t mean a thing’, but he didn’t post the note. As the days passed without police interference, he realised that he might literally get away with murder, and his spirits revived.
Whilst out for a stroll, he met a girl he knew and was introduced to her friend, Doreen Marshall. Doreen had been ill so her parents had sent her to Bournemouth to enjoy the sea air. Her doting father had bought her a return train ticket.
Sadly the return portion would never be required.
Heath invited the 19-year-old out to tea and they met up again that evening, dining at his hotel then sitting in the lounge bar with Heath hastily downing numerous beers, gins and brandies. It was evident to others in the lounge that Doreen was increasingly wary of him and at 11.20 p.m. she asked the porter to order her a taxi home.
Moments later Heath cancelled the taxi and insisted that he’d walk her back to her hotel. He told the porter that he’d be back in 30 minutes but Doreen corrected, ‘He’ll be back in fifteen.’
When they reached the comparatively sheltered area of Branscombe Chine, Heath turned on the luckless young woman, punching her in the face and knocking her to the ground.
Whilst she lay there semi-conscious, he tied her hands in front of her with a handkerchief, kneeling on her so hard in the process that he broke one of her ribs. He removed his own clothes and stripped hers off, ripping her underwear from her struggling body, then attempted to rape her. When he failed, he took his large pocket knife and sliced at her throat. He also cut from one breast to the other and threw himself across her, biting her nipples savagely. Then the stabbing continued – marks on her bound hands showed where she’d tried to defend herself from the agonies inflicted by his slashing blade. But another 24
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Neville Heath
stab wound to her throat, which partially severed her vertebral column, provided the fatal blow.
When she was dead, Heath fell on her again with his knife, slashing one of her thighs then pulling the blade upwards to cut deeply into her pubis, stomach and breasts. When he was happy with his handiwork, he took Doreen’s ring and watch from her still-warm corpse and untied the bloodstained handkerchief from her wrists to keep as a souvenir. He dragged her body by the feet to some nearby rhododendron bushes, cutting further branches from nearby scrub to cover it up.
Rifling through her bag, he removed her money, return rail ticket and a small penknife, before throwing the bag behind a bathing hut. Realising that he was covered in blood, he washed himself in the sea, disposing of the murder weapon there, before dressing and walking back to his hotel.
A hastily created alibi
Heath didn’t have a viable explanation for what he’d been doing for the past few hours, so rather than go past the reception desk, he fetched a ladder from the hotel yard and used it to climb into his window. When the porter, unsure if he’d returned or not, peaked into his room at 4 a.m. he was fast asleep. Waking the following morning, the sadist found scratches on his neck and covered them with a silk scarf. He also pawned Doreen’s watch and ring, having pocketed her cash.
Meanwhile the manager of the Norfolk Hotel became alarmed that Doreen Marshall had not returned. Knowing that she’d planned to have tea at the Tollard Royal Hotel with Group-Captain Rupert Brooke, he phoned and asked what had happened. Heath denied knowing Doreen and said that
Heath now fled to Bournemouth and booked into a hotel under the pseudonym Group-Captain Rupert Brooke. He loved Rupert Brooke’s poetry and had copied some of his verses into his notebooks and diaries.
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SADISTIC KILLERS
At first he contemplated suicide and asked to be moved to a room with a gas fire as he planned to gas himself. He also wrote to his parents saying ‘life doesn’t mean a thing’, but he didn’t post the note. As the days passed without police interference, he realised that he might literally get away with murder, and his spirits revived.
Whilst out for a stroll, he met a girl he knew and was introduced to her friend, Doreen Marshall. Doreen had been ill so her parents had sent her to Bournemouth to enjoy the sea air. Her doting father had bought her a return train ticket.
Sadly the return portion would never be required.
Heath invited the 19-year-old out to tea and they met up again that evening, dining at his hotel then sitting in the lounge bar with Heath hastily downing numerous beers, gins and brandies. It was evident to others in the lounge that Doreen was increasingly wary of him and at 11.20 p.m. she asked the porter to order her a taxi home.
Moments later Heath cancelled the taxi and insisted that he’d walk her back to her hotel. He told the porter that he’d be back in 30 minutes but Doreen corrected, ‘He’ll be back in fifteen.’
When they reached the comparatively sheltered area of Branscombe Chine, Heath turned on the luckless young woman, punching her in the face and knocking her to the ground.
Whilst she lay there semi-conscious, he tied her hands in front of her with a handkerchief, kneeling on her so hard in the process that he broke one of her ribs. He removed his own clothes and stripped hers off, ripping her underwear from her struggling body, then attempted to rape her. When he failed, he took his large pocket knife and sliced at her throat. He also cut from one breast to the other and threw himself across her, biting her nipples savagely. Then the stabbing continued – marks on her bound hands showed where she’d tried to defend herself from the agonies inflicted by his slashing blade. But another 24
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Neville Heath
stab wound to her throat, which partially severed her vertebral column, provided the fatal blow.
When she was dead, Heath fell on her again with his knife, slashing one of her thighs then pulling the blade upwards to cut deeply into her pubis, stomach and breasts. When he was happy with his handiwork, he took Doreen’s ring and watch from her still-warm corpse and untied the bloodstained handkerchief from her wrists to keep as a souvenir. He dragged her body by the feet to some nearby rhododendron bushes, cutting further branches from nearby scrub to cover it up.
Rifling through her bag, he removed her money, return rail ticket and a small penknife, before throwing the bag behind a bathing hut. Realising that he was covered in blood, he washed himself in the sea, disposing of the murder weapon there, before dressing and walking back to his hotel.
A hastily created alibi
Heath didn’t have a viable explanation for what he’d been doing for the past few hours, so rather than go past the reception desk, he fetched a ladder from the hotel yard and used it to climb into his window. When the porter, unsure if he’d returned or not, peaked into his room at 4 a.m. he was fast asleep. Waking the following morning, the sadist found scratches on his neck and covered them with a silk scarf. He also pawned Doreen’s watch and ring, having pocketed her cash.
Meanwhile the manager of the Norfolk Hotel became alarmed that Doreen Marshall had not returned. Knowing that she’d planned to have tea at the Tollard Royal Hotel with Group-Captain Rupert Brooke, he phoned and asked what had happened. Heath denied knowing Doreen and said that
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