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Infamous Murders: Stalking the Innocent
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When murderers strike it is almost always an innocent who pays the ultimate price. Infamous Murderers examines three cases of evil killers who selected their victims randomly, taking advantage of complete strangers.
Summer 1976 begun the year of one of New York's most infamous serial killers - the Son of Sam. His real name was David Berkowitz, and over a 12-month period he shot and killed six innocents, and injured many more.
When the police finally tracked him down, he willingly co-operated, and claimed that the murders were ordered by a demon voice speaking through his neighbour's black Labrador. The dog was called Sam.
Another killer chose random victims in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1950s. Peter Manuel was a burglar, who killed the people whose houses he broke into, and also killed girls he came across by chance in isolated spots. On trial for the murder of eight people, Manuel fired his lawyer and defended himself, but it was not enough to save him from the gallows.
The last case is a husband and wife team who worked together in 1978 in the United States. Charlene and Gerald Gallego chose young girls to be their sex slaves, before murdering them and dumping their bodies. When the police finally caught up with them, ten young people had been killed.
Local citizens were determined to get revenge, so they collected half the money needed for the prosecution. Their faith in the justice system was rewarded, when Gerald Gallego was sentenced to death, and Charlene Gallego received 16 years imprisonment.
Summer 1976 begun the year of one of New York's most infamous serial killers - the Son of Sam. His real name was David Berkowitz, and over a 12-month period he shot and killed six innocents, and injured many more.
When the police finally tracked him down, he willingly co-operated, and claimed that the murders were ordered by a demon voice speaking through his neighbour's black Labrador. The dog was called Sam.
Another killer chose random victims in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1950s. Peter Manuel was a burglar, who killed the people whose houses he broke into, and also killed girls he came across by chance in isolated spots. On trial for the murder of eight people, Manuel fired his lawyer and defended himself, but it was not enough to save him from the gallows.
The last case is a husband and wife team who worked together in 1978 in the United States. Charlene and Gerald Gallego chose young girls to be their sex slaves, before murdering them and dumping their bodies. When the police finally caught up with them, ten young people had been killed.
Local citizens were determined to get revenge, so they collected half the money needed for the prosecution. Their faith in the justice system was rewarded, when Gerald Gallego was sentenced to death, and Charlene Gallego received 16 years imprisonment.
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