The Devil's Disciple - Patrick Mackay

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For years, one of Britain's most elusive serial killers stalk
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the streets of London, targeting victims with a level of
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violence that left even seasoned detectives stunned. The press would
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eventually dub him the Devil's Disciple. It was a nickname
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borne not only from his fascination with evil, but from
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the ruthless brutality that followed in his wake. And by
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the time investigators realized they were hunting far more than
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a lone murderer, he had already carved a bloody path
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across England, cementing his name in serial killer history. This
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is the story of the Devil's Disciple. This is the
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story of Patrick Mackay.
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My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked
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and Grim, a true crime podcast. Warning.
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The following material intend more maturial audience listener discretion. We
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were talking earlier about what you would recommend for your
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local area for a tourist, and now it's got me
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thinking of like all the really delicious food spots around town,
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and I'm just hungry now.
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Oh, I feel like we're just I'm always hungry. I
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even think our last episode weren't we talking about snacks
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and how I wish I could sit here and eat snacks.
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That's true.
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I remember. Oh I think it was on yes Spotify comments.
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Someone was like, Ben, you better have got her damn
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snacks and you didn't.
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I'm sorry. I got you today.
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You did.
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Yeah, so there you go.
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I could eat sushi every day, sushi and ice cream.
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Mm mmmmm.
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I'm like, I'm a beer and whiskey kind of guy.
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Although you need food though, I was just about to
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go into food. Although I really like chicken fingers and fries, like,
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give me some like really nice chicken tenders, Like, oh,
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I'm so happy.
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But you have to comment every time you order that.
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It's almost like you're kind of embarrassed or something.
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No, I just think it's funny.
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He's always like, yeah, I'm not a child, but I'm
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gonna get chicken fingers and fries.
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No. I'll be like, I'm gonna go for the most
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adult meal on the middle, chicken fingers and fries please, And.
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Then they'll be like, do you want gravy or garlic
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a olie, and he'll be like, surprise me, yeah.
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For like the fries or whatever. Catch up gravy whatever,
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what kind of dip? And it surprised me.
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Surprise me.
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I'm not a very picky guy, but I am particular
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about what I like. But if I get something I dislike,
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I'm not too upset, you know what I mean.
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Well, when you say something like surprise me, you can't
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be upset for what they bring whatever, right.
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So yeah, it's a surprise, which there aren't.
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Very many surprises in this world anymore. We've also talked
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about that. So there you go. And to be fair,
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are you going to get gravy or garlic, aoli or both?
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Exactly? To be fair. To be fair, if you're ever
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like feeling adventurous and you're going out to eat and
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someone asks you for like what do you want this
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or this on like a side or a dip or
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a drink, just surprise me. It's a fun little adventure. Sometimes.
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I we've gone out for dinner with my I don't
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know if you were probably there with my brother in
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law one time and he said that for his whole
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freaking meal, surprise me.
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Oh, I don't remember that. It's like damn wow, very adventurous.
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Yeah, but then he also like would have preferred something else,
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But any He's like, well, I can't say that. I
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you know, I said surprise me.
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But exactly so, he's in for the adventure.
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Yeah.
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I think we should probably stop talking about food, though, I.
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Know we're always probably making people have to door dash.
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After this, probably maybe we should just start a food podcast.
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I don't know, but I do have a very interesting
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story for you today in the regards of a serial
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killer with the nickname the Devil's Disciple. Patrick McKay. Are
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you ready for this story?
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Dang, I don't know. You don't sure, Let's do it.
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Well, hold on to your butts because it's going to
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be a bumpy ride.
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Yeah, okay, I'm holding on well.
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Patrick. David McKay entered the world on September twenty second,
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nineteen fifty two, in Middlesex, England, two Harold and Marion McKay.
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His father, Harold had served during the Second World War
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before returning to civilian life as an accountant. Friends and
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relatives described him as intelligent who in his personality, had
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been consumed unfortunately by alcoholism and violent outbursts. It seems
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that the family home revolved around his temper. Marion was
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frequently assaulted and well Several later accounts claimed Harold had
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even kicked her in the stomach while she was pregnant
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with Patrick, although that allegation has never been confirmed through
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official records. Now, whether or not that particular incident actually occurred,
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there is little dispute that Patrick spent his earlier years
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in a household where intimidation and violence have become ordinary
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parts of daily life. Marian tried to shield Patrick and
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his two young sisters from all the chaos that was happening,
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but there was unfortunately not a whole lot she could do.
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Harold's drinking steadily worsened, and arguments inside the house they
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often turned physical. As Patrick grew older, those around him
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began to notice that he was beginning to actually mirror
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that violence that was in his home. At school, for example,
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he quickly gained a reputation for behavior that frightened both
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classmates and teachers alike. Former school friends remembered him attacking
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children without warning, often running across the playground just to
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go knock girls to the ground before laughing at their
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realc On another occasion, he deliberately drank urine from a
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flower simply to disgust another boy. He stole from local shops,
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snatched belongings from pub tables whenever an opportunity presented itself,
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and seemed to enjoy breaking rules just to see how
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people would react to it. There didn't seem to be
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any remorse when he was caught either. Instead, actually, he
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often appeared to be amused by the attention that it drew. Now,
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his cruelty, unfortunately, was not just limited to other children.
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See Patrick developed an unsettling fascination with herding animals. He
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collected dead birds and handled their bodies without any signs
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of discomfort. On one occasion, he reportedly burned the family
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pet tortoise alive and then threw its shell over the
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neighbor's fence.
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WHOA, what is wrong with this?
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Cats and rabbits were also said to have been tortured
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by him as well, and the frequency these of these
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events alone were something startling on their own, Like, Yeah,
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it's crazy and terrifying he's doing this to animals, but
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just how often he's doing it too? That in itself
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was rather startling. Now, his violence eventually spread to his
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own family as well. Arguments at home frequently ended with
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Patrick assaulting his mother or threatening his sisters. Relatives were attacked,
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neighbors complained about his behavior, and the local police while
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they became such regular visitors that some officers recognized the
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address before they even arrived.
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So the dad was assaulting the mom and so now
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was the sun correct? Frig that's terrible.
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Now. One incident saw Patrick's standing waist deep in a
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pond holding a heavy concrete block while police tried to
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persuade him to come out. Now it's unclear exactly what
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he was intending to do, but as far as I
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can tell, I think he may have been going along
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the lines of self harm. But that's purely my own speculation.
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On another occasion, he even threatened neighbors with a pitchfork.
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There were also repeated acts of vandalism, theft, and arson,
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including an attempt to set fire to a Catholic church once,
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which ultimately brought him before the juvenile courts. Now, the
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family itself changed dramatically in nineteen sixty two, when Patrick's father, Harold,
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died from complications associated with alcoholism and heart disease. Patrick
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was only ten years old at the time, and, according
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to several people who knew the family, Harold's final words
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to his son were quote remember to be good end quote,
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which in all honesty are amazing final words for your child.
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Well, they really are, but it kind of surprised me.
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I guess same now. Like many who lose a parent,
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Patrick seemed to be very deeply affected by his father's death,
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and he didn't handle it very well either. He reportedly
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refused to accept the fact that his dad was gone.
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In fact, he carried a photograph of him around for
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years afterwards and sometimes in insisted that his father was
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in fact still alive. At home, he began sitting in
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Harold's chair as though he was assuming the place within
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the family in his absence. Now if anyone hoped that
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his father's death would call Patrick's behavior well, they were
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quickly disappointed, because instead, the violence only escalated. By his
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early teens, Patrick had grown into a physically imposing young
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man who was already standing over six feet tall, and
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during violent outbursts he became very difficult for adults to restrain.
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He began attacking his mother so severely, too, that she
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even feared for her own life, and he even later
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attempted to strangle both her and one of his aunts.
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In another account, he assaulted a younger boy so violently
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that witnesses later believed the child might have actually have
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been killed if Patrick had not been pulled away from him.
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Each episode that occurred seemed to reinforce the growing concern
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that he represented a danger not only to himself, but
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to anyone that was around him, and eventually authorities decided
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that he could no longer remain at home. Beginning at
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the age of thirteen, Patrick entered a cycle that would
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define much of the next decade of his life. He
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was placed in approved schools, psychiatric hospitals, remand centers, and
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secure institutions, only to be released when his behavior appeared
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to approve. According to several of the professionals involved in
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his care, the apparent progress rarely lasted, though before long
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another violent incident would result in his return to custody
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or psychiatric treatment once again, and by the time he
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reached adulthood, Patrick is believed to have passed through around
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eighteen different placements. One of the institutions where he spent
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a lot of time was Moss Side Hospital, which is
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a secure psychiatric facility. Doctors there documented explosive mood swingsulative behaviors,
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and a profound lack of empathy. Now, among the psychiatrists
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who assessed him was doctor Leonard Carr, who diagnosed Patrick
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as suffering from psychopathy and warned that he was developing
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into what he described as, quote a cold psychopathic killer
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end quote.
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Oh that's scary.
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Yeah, it's an extraordinary assessment to place on a fifteen
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year old because that's how old he.
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Was at the time, Okay, and because he hadn't in
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quotes like killed and he'd harmed people, but he hadn't
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killed anyone yet, correct, Okay.
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Yeah, and this really shows like the concerns that are
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already being voiced by like teachers and all this sort
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of stuff already in police and a lot of people
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who've worked with him at several years at this point already,
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like social workers, they're already seeing this stuff. But now
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you have a psychiatrist who's actually putting it into words,
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and some pretty intense ones at that had a cold
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psychopathic killer.
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So yeah, he knew what he was going to end
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up being one hundred percent, But it's also like, what
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are you supposed to do? Really?
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Yeah? You know, well he hasn't committed a crime yet, right,
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that's the thing. Now, Patrick's behavior inside the hospital was
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often as troubling as it had been outside. He destroyed furniture,
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assaulted staff, other patients, and attempted to escape, and frequently
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flew into rages over seemingly minor frustrations. However, there were
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also periods where he remained calm, cooperative, and even polite.
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Those quieter periods repeatedly persuaded officials that he could safely
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return to a community, But of course that's when other
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serious incidents would just follow. Now. During these years, Patrick
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developed an obsession. He became a history buff, but more specifically,
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he became obsessed with the history and imagery of Nazi Germany.
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He even began decorating his room with swastikas and photographs
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of Adolf Hitler himself. While assembling clothing modeled after the
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SS uniforms, he started insisting that people addressed him as
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quote Franklin Bolvault the first end quote. He was explaining
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that that name, while it would one day be known
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around the world, it would be remembered and feared in
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the same way that it was with Hitler, which is
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probably one of the most terrifying precursors I have ever
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heard in my research of true crime.
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Ever, yeah, this is so uncomfortable because you're just waiting, Yeah,
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and there's nothing that you can do.
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By the summer of nineteen seventy two, after years spent
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moving through institutions that had failed to curb his behavior,
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Patrick was simply released yet again. He was twenty years
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old and again free to make his way through London,
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and although his record already included violence, theft and arson,
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and even repeated admissions to secure institutions, he was still
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viewed large largely as a troubled young offender, rather than
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someone capable of committing multiple murders, for example, even though
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psychiatrists saw the signs instead, all those warnings recorded through
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his childhood remained buried inside medical files and probation reports
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and officer police records and all those sort of situations
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where they're just sitting in a filing cabinet. Outside all
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of that, Patrick was simply just another person and he
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attracted very little attention. He drifted between hostels, temporary accommodations,
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and the homes of people willing to take him in
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for short periods of time. Among them was the Cowdrey
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family in southwest London, who tried to offer him the
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kind of stability and a stable environment that he had
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rarely ever experienced growing up. I hope that structure and
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kindness might help him settle into a normal life, but
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instead Patrick continued living on the fringes of society. He
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rarely held steady employment, he drank heavily whenever he had
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the money, and increasingly he had relied on burglaries and
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street robberies to support himself. And fetamines also became part
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of his normal routines too, further fueling and unpredictable mood
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swings that he already had, you know, things that had
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followed him since adolescence. His obsession with Nazi Germany still
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continued to grow too. The rooms he occupied were continued
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to be decorated with Swastika's photographs and things of Adolf Hitler,
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all that sort of stuff, with military memorabilia, And instead
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of calling himself, you know, by his actual name Patrick,
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he was still telling people to refer to him as
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as Franklin bul Vault the First. He often spoke with
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those close to him about his fantasy of grand power
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and domination, and it was enough, to say the least,
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to put a sour taste in many's people's mouths. By
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nineteen seventy three, Patrick had discovered a pattern of offending,
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though that was proving to be both profitable and difficult
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for police to stop see. Rather than targeting businesses or
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wealthy homes, he decided to focus on elderly people. He
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knew many of them lived alone. He knew that they
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carried cash for daily shopping, and they were naturally inclined
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to trust a polite young man who offered assistance. And
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so with this in mind, Patrick learned that he could
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approach older women on busy streets, carry their groceries for them, say,
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or hold open a door, even simply to strike up
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a friendly conversation before quietly learning where they lived. Sometimes
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he robbed them there in the street. Other times he
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followed them home and forced his way inside. And as
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the months passed, the attacks became more and more frequent,
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increasingly more violent too. Across Southwest London, detectives were beginning
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to notice the rise in offenses involving elderly victims. Reports
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arrived from Chelsea, Belgravia, Kensington and Knightsbridge describing handbag snatches,
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assaults and burglaries. Committed against older women living alone.
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You got to be a right piece of shit to
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target an elderly woman. No kidding, Well that is just well,
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I mean we already know he is not a good person.
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We definitely do now. Individually, none of these crimes seemed
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especially unusual for a city the size of London. I mean,
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these things happen, but together they suggested a persistent offender
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operating across the same neighborhoods. Inside Scotland Yard, the headquarters
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of London's Metropolitan Police, investigators began marking the attacks on
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a very large map with colored pins, and as more
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reports arrived, the patterns started to show itself, so dozens
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of officers were eventually assigned to examine the robberies, comparing
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witness descriptions, methods of entry, and the times of which
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the attacks would occur. Now, while these offenses were unfolding
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in London, Patrick was also making regular trips to Kent,
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a county southeast of the city. It was during this
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period that he met Father Anthony Joseph Crean, the parish
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priest at Corpus Christie Church in the village of Shorne,
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near Gravesend. The two men came from entirely different worlds.
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Father Crean had spent years serving as parish, earning a
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reputation for helping anyone who asked, whether someone needed a meal,
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somewhere to stay, or simply just a conversation. He rarely
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turned anyone away, and Patrick was one of the troubled
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people that the priest believed deserved another chance. Father Crean
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welcomed him into his cottage. He shared meals with him
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and tried to encourage Patrick towards a more stable future,
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and Patrick seemed quite grateful for that kindness. He visited
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regularly and seemed to appreciate having someone who treated him
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with patience rather than suspicion. But the relationship changed, however,
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when Patrick stole one of Father Creane's blank checks. After
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taking the check from the cottage, he forged the priest's
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signature and successfully cashed it at a local bank, obtaining
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between it was either thirty or between thirty and eighty pounds,
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depending on the account that you really read. There's some
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varying sources out there, but fraud, though like this, well,
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it doesn't take long for it to be uncovered, and
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as a result, Patrick was soon to be arrested. The
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following case was relatively straightforward, as he appeared before the court,
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admitted what he had done and was ordered to repay
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the money, but of course he didn't repay it. Although
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the theft damaged the trust between the two men, Father
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Crean did not completely sever any contact, though his instinct
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still remained and it was to help rather than to condemn. Meanwhile,
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Patrick's offending, well, it just continued to escalate. By early
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nineteen seventy four, the robberies around Southwest London had become
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more brazen, but nothing prepared investigators for what they encountered.
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On February twenty sixth, nineteen seventy four, police were called
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to the Chelsea home of Isabelle Griffiths, the eighty four
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year old widow of a surgeon, and she had not
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been seen for nearly two weeks. Concerned neighbors and acquaintances
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had begun asking questions after her usual dependable routines abruptly stopped,
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and when officers entered the property on Cheyenne Walk for
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a welfare check, they found a crime scene unlike anything
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they had expected. When they entered, they found isabel dead.
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Evidence from the scene suggested that she'd been attacked around
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the fourteenth of February, meaning her body had remained inside
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the flat for approximately twelve days before being discovered. Investigators
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believed that she allowed her killer inside voluntarily, either because
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she recognized them or becase because he gained her confidence,
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and the attack itself had been exceptionally violent. Isabelle was
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strangled before suffering repeated blows from a heavy object. Afterwards,
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her body was then dragged through the house and into
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the kitchen, and the killer then drove a kitchen knife
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into her chest, likely to ensure the job was finished,
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and he did so with such force that the blade
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passed right through her body and embedded itself in the
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floor beneath her, effectively pinning her.
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Down that is savage.
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After this, her body was then partially covered and her
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eyes were closed. Now rather than immediately fleeing the scene,
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the killer appeared to have remained inside the home for
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a considerable period of time. Dishes had been left soaking,
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the radio had been apparently playing, and there were indications
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that he wandered calmly through the home after the killing.
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While looking at the scene and realizing this, even experienced
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detectives found this behavior rather unsettling. Robberies that escalated into
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murder were not unheard of, but offenders almost always flee
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very quickly, as soon as possible. In fact, yet here
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you have a killer who doesn't seem to be in
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a hurry to leave it all. The prolonged stay suggested
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someone felt unusually comfortable in the aftermath of extreme violence,
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which showed they were dealing with a very disturbed individual. Now,
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despite an exhaustive examination of the home, investigators found no
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obvious suspect. Witnesses could not identify anyone seen entering or
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leaving the building at the relevant time, and although fingerprints
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and other forensic evidence were collected, they couldn't immediately be
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batched to any known offender. The investigation remained open, but
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as the weeks turned into months, the trail gradually grew cold.
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Detectives continued reviewing witness statements, checking known burglars, and comparing
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fingerprints collected against existing police records, but nothing identified the
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person responsible. Yet officers had no reason to believe the
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killer had left London. And then, on March tenth, nineteen
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seventy five, another elderly woman was attacked. This time, the
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victim was Adele Price, a widow living alone in an
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elegant flat on Lowden's Square in Knightsbridge. Like Isabelle, Adele
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was known well to those around her for living a quiet,
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independent life. She occupied one of the large flats overlooking
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the square and followed a dependable daily routine. Exactly how
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Patrick gained entry to her home has never been established
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with complete certainty, but detectives believed he almost certainly relied
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on the same approach that had served him well throughout
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his robbery spree, since by this stage he'd become remarkably
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confident when dealing with elderly victims, often presenting himself as polite,
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helpful and not.
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Threatening, so basically like offering help with the groceries or
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something again exactly along those lines.
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Yeah. So, whether he's like you know, offering help or
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assistance you'd asked for a drink of water, whatever it is,
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or simply striking up like a conversation, even he possessed
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like an ability, honestly, an unsettling ability to convince these
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vulnerable elderly strangers that he's he's trustworthy and at least
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you know, he gets them to the point where they
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unlock their door. Yeah, and that's when he well takes advantage.
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Well, I mean this is quite some time ago too,
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but even like nowadays, I mean, we're a little bit
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more not as trusting, I guess, but it's awesome when
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someone offers help, right, you'd be like, hell, yeah, for sure,
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especially if you're like a little bit older and you
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are struggling with like carrying your freaking groceries for example.
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But people do still tell other people to fuck off nowadays.
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In that case, yeah.
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They could, Okay, I just thought of this too. They
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could not want to be rude as well. That's true, right,
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because if someone comes and they want to help you,
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they may not know how to turn them down.
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But it's also it can very well be a cultural
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thing too, right, Yeah, Like if you're in a small town,
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you know, that might be a little bit more acceptable,
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but if you go to a big city, it's like,
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how dare you acknowledge each other? Sort of thing, you
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know what I mean.
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But especially this is in the seventies, so I feel
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like a lot of people would probably just be like.
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Sure, yeah, it's a little more trustworthy out there. Definitely
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a time an age thing or not an age thing,
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but you know what I mean in that age day, yeah,
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that era, yeah the era, That's what I was looking for,
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thank you. But now, like whatever the case, However, he
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managed to get inside. Once he was inside, he attacked
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Patrick strangled Adele before searching the apartment for anything valuable.
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Drawers were open where and opened cupboards were searched, and
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personal belongings were disturbed as he moved methodically through the rooms,
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collecting property he believed that could be sold or traded. Now,
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robbery clearly formed part of the crime, but investigators would
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later conclude that theft alone could not explain everything they
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found at the scene, because, once again, instead of leaving
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immediately after the killing, Patrick remained inside her home. He
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wandered through the flat as though he had nowhere else
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to be. He turned on the radio, made himself comfortable
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in the home, right in front of a woman that
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he just murdered, and at some point he even sat
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down in an armchair and reportedly even fell asleep. Patrick
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again appeared to be almost completely unconcerned by the possibility
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of being caught or anything, or even the fact that
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he just murdered someone. There was a dead body in
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there now. While he was sleeping in this armchair, He
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was eventually woken up by the sound of the apartment's
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inner calm system because outside, Adele's granddaughter had arrived for
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a visit, and receiving no answer, she was repeatedly pressing
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the buzzer, hoping her grandma would respond, and that persistent
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ringing is what woke Patrick up. He then realized someone
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was waiting outside, and he quietly collected himself, gathered the
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property that he had stolen, and made his escape. And
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as Adele's granddaughter entered the building and climbed the stairs,
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that's when she passed a young man walking calmly in
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the opposite direction of her. There was nothing about him
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that immediately drew her attention. He was not running, he
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wasn't sweating, he hadn't made an attempt to conceal his
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face or anything. He just seemed to be another person
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leaving the building. Then, only moments later she reached her
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grandma's flat. Was at the door and she opened and
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the silence inside was deafening. She began to search the apartment,
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and that's when she noticed that one of the interior
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doors leading to a room had been locked from the
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outside of the room and that struck her as unusual.
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Calling out to her grandmother, she unlocked the door and
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stepped inside, and that's when she found Adele Price, her grandmother,
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laying on the floor dead Dead. Police were quickly called
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and officers secured the flat while detectives and forensic specialists
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began documenting every single detail of the scene. As with
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Isabel and her murder, there were signs of a violent struggle,
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followed by a thorough search of the victim's home. Officers
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carefully photographed each room, examined fingerprints, collected trace evidence, and
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documented the condition in which Adele's body had been found.
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And as the investigation developed, detectives began comparing their notes
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with the still unsolved murder of Isabel Griffiths. It seemed
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that the similarities extended well beyond the age of the victims.
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Both women had lived alone in affluent areas of southward
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west London. In neither case did there appear to be
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convincing evidence that the offender had simply forced his way
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inside immediately, so investigators believed the killer had first gained
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each woman's confidence before the violence began. Then robbery had
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followed both attacks. Yet the level of force youth suggested
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something far beyond an opportunistic burglary, and in each home
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evidence indicated the killer had remained inside for a considerable
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period instead of fleeing. As a result, the Scotland Yard
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revisited the entire robbery series affecting Chelsea, Belgravia, Kensington and Knightsbridge.
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Detectives returned to witness statements that had previously seemed unrelated,
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looking once again at elderly victims who had reportedly been
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followed home or approached by a polite young man offering assistance.
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The large incident room map filled with colored pins became
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increasingly important as officers plotted robberies, assaults and suspicious encounters
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across Southwest London in an effort to try and determine
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whether they were dealing with the same offender. Around fifty
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Metropolitan Police officers were eventually involved in reviewing the growing
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body of evidence. Every known burglary against elderly women was
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re examined, Fingerprints were compared once again, and detectives began
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searching for common names appearing across multiple investigations. Now, although
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they now believe they were hunting a serial offender, they
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still had no idea who he was, and while they
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worked through hundreds of reports and statements, Patrick McKay continued
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moving freely between London and Kent.
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Okay, I just have a quick question. Had the granddaughter
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got a good look at him or I guess to
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her it wasn't even she maybe didn't even relate them.
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Never even really related them though. Okay, she kind of
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remembered someone passing, like walking out, but that that was it.
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Not someone she would have assumed just murdered her grandma.
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No, it was just some dude. Okay, walk past person
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and then try and recount what they look like without.
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After especially after you just had like this traumatic experience
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of finding your.
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Grandma exactly Okay. Now, In the morning of Friday, March
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twenty first, nineteen seventy five, Father Anthony Joseph Crean began
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his day much as he had done countless other times.
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The sixty three year old Catholic priest celebrated morning Mass
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at church in the small Kent village of Shorn. He
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spoke with people in the parish and carried out the
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quiet routines that had earned him enormous respect within the community.
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At this point, he had met Patrick roughly two years earlier,
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inviting him into his cottage, encouraging him to try and
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have a more stable future, and then, of course, Patrick
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ultimately stole from him. It was an ordinary spring day
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this day, and Father Crean followed his usual routine. He
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spent time working around the church grounds, including mowing the lawn,
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and later walked his Jack Russell terrier through the village.
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During the afternoon, he spoke with Sister Teresa, one of
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the nuns from the nearby convent, before returning to his
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modest cottage. Then, at some point that afternoon, Patrick traveled
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from London to Shorn and he arrived at Father Crean's
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place while he was away, But rather than waiting outside,
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Patrick let himself in and he remained inside the house
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until the priest returned home. Now exactly what he wanted
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isn't really known, but some believed he wanted money, while
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others thought maybe resentment from the earlier check. Prosecution still
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lingered either way. When Father Crean entered the cottage, he
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found Patrick there waiting. An argument quickly developed between the
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two men, and the disagreement soon turned physical. Father Crean
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managed to break away from Patrick and ran deeper into
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the house before locking himself inside the bathroom, apparently hoping
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to sturdy the door and provide enough protection for himself
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to summon help or maybe even wait for Patrick to
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calm down or leave, but instead it just trapped him.
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Unable to force the door open, Patrick searched the cottage
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for something to use on the door, and that's when
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he found an axe. He returned to the bathroom and
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repeatedly struck the wooden door over and over again, splintering
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the panel until he created an opening large enough to
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force his way inside, which is very Shining esque, but
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I digress. The violence that followed was brutal. Despite the
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axe in his hands, Patrick initially attacked the priest with
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a knife, inflicting numerous stab wounds, before turning back to
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the axe. The blows delivered to Father Creane's head were
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so severe that investigators later described them as among the
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most devastating injuries they had ever encountered in their careers.
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Blood was splattered all across the small bathroom, staining the walls, floor,
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bath and surrounding fixtures. The damage to the door, together
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with the bloodstained patterns preserved inside the confined space, allowed
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investigators to reconstruct much of the struggle after they arrived
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later that evening. Medical examiners later found father Crean had
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suffered multiple chop wounds to the head from the axe,
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in addition to numerous stab wounds across his body, including
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injuries to his chest that punctured a lung.
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Hey, that is really messed up. And because this is
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some this is a guy that had offered him kindness, right, Yes,
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it is like a place to stay in stuff.
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Correct.
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Ah, that's just mind blowing that you could do something
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like that to someone I know he doesn't have like
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a heart. I guess I.
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Don't think he does. Patrick McKay is the definition of
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a monster. He is full on a psychopath in every
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meaning of the word.
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Yeah, I because I don't know. We've had other cases
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where they use ax as a weapon, and that to
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me just is it's too much.
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It's one of the most brutal weapons I think that
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could be used. But I also think it's one of
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the more personal weapons too, because you are so close,
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you're close to the victim. Right. However, with the acts
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inflicting as much damage as it does, as visceral as
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it gets, not only is their blood. There's going to
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be splatter, it's going to get stuck, it's going to spray,
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it's going to split open, and to strike again and
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again on a victim. In that manner, it means to
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me pure rage, which is you're evil, which is on
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a personal level. It's whether that rage is within you
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or directed at the other person. So I think an
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axe as a murder weapon is one of the most
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personal assaults, physical assaults you can do.
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Yeah, well, I don't know, I feel like it just yeah,
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it's hard for me to understand that as a weapon
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because it's so brutal.
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Yeah. Now, the sheer number and severity of the wounds
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showed that the attack had continued well beyond the point
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necessary to cause death. And when the assault was over,
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Patrick did something that detectives would later struggle to explain.
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He filled the bathtub in that bathroom up with water.
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Then he lifted father Krean's body into the water. He
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was still fully dressed in his clothes that he had
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been wearing when he returned home, including his Duffel coat,
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Wellington boots and hat. Blood slowly spread through the water
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as his body was floating in the bath and Patrick
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stood there. During later interviews, Patrick described standing beside the
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bathtub for around an hour or simply watching the scene
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before him. His eyes slowly absorbed the blood soaking scene
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in front of him, with his victim floating in the water,
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and it slowly becoming darker and darker with his own blood.
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Then eventually he decided to leave.
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That's messed up.
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As he walked through shorn Patrick knocked at a nearby
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house and asked the resident for a glass of water.
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Then he continued walking towards the railway station, where he
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encountered a local police officer. The brief conversation that he
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had there attracted no attention, and Patrick carried on towards
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the station without being stopped. When he later experienced difficulty
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arranging transport back to London, he provided railway staff with
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his name and current address, even temporary address, but still
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an address. But back in the village. As evening approached,
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concern began to spread around the church. Father Crean had
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failed to appear for his usual evening meal, something that
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was unlike him. Around the same time, his lodger Mick,
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noticed the priest, Jack Russell, his dog, standing alone on
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the lawn outside his cottage. Father Crean rarely left his
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dog outdoors unattended, and after bringing it inside, Mick began
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to search the house, unable to shake the feeling that
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something was wrong. At first, there was no reason to
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imagine anything more serious than illness or an unexpected visit
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or whatever, but as time passed, concern really tightened into
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that alarm. People were searching for Father Crean, checking around
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the church, eventually making their way to his cottage, and
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that's where Mick was. The lights were still on inside,
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but there was no answer on the knock on the door.
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Now Finally, Sister Teresa was there helping him search, and
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when they entered, she opened the small bathroom door. The
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scene she encountered was unlike anything she had ever witnessed.
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Father Crean's body still lay floating in a bath filled
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with blood stained water. His brutal and extensive injuries made
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it immediately obvious right away that he'd been murdered and
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this was no accident. Sister Teresa screamed upon seeing this,
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and it immediately brought others rushing into the cottage. As
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police were quickly called to the scene.
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I figured that this was an incident that for him
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being hurt or murdered or whatever was not going to
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go unnoticed for very long.
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Father Cream. Yeah, yeah, he was a very very large
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presence in a lot of people's lives, especially around the
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parish and everything.
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He would have a huge role in so many people's lives.
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Exactly, So it didn't take long for them to discover
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what had happened now. Detectives, including Detective Inspector ken Tappendon,
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arrived later that evening after being summoned from a formal
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dinner in Maidstone, and their examination of the cottage quickly
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confirmed that the priest had fought desperately for his life.
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The shattered bathroom door, the extensive blood staining throughout the room,
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and the weapon that was recovered beneath the stairs, being
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the axe, all pointed to an attack of extraordinary violence.
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Yet amid the devastation, investigators also noticed something else. Unlike
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many homicide scenes, this one contained the beginnings of a trail.
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In fact, the killing and shorn immediately produced several promising
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leads because witnesses had seen the victim alive only hours earlier,
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and several people while they had encountered an unfamiliar young
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man walking through the village shortly after the estimated time
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of the murder. More importantly, that same man had spoken
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to local residents. He had asked one homeowner for a
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glass of water. He provided his name and address to
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staff at the railway station after experiencing difficulty catching a
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train back to London. As officers gathered those statements, Detective
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Inspector Ken t happened In found himself thinking about an
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investigation he had handled eighteen months earlier, and the name
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associated with it was Patrick McKay see. He had dealt
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with Patrick after the theft of Father Kreane's check, and
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he had encountered this individual and it left a lasting
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impression on him. Although the earlier offense had been relatively minor,
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Patrick's behavior during the investigation struck him as unusually intense
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and very unpredictable. So, now standing inside the priest's bloodstained cottage,
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Inspector Tappeneden began to suspect that maybe the man responsible
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was the same one who forged that check, and that
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possibility became the investigation's first priority. While officers continued documenting
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evidence inside the cottage, Tappenden assigned Detective Sergeant Bob Brown
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and Detective Constable Nick Whitlock to locate Patrick McKay before
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he had the opportunity to disappear. Time was critical if
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Patrick was responsible. Detectives believed there was every chance that
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he would leave London altogether, or that he would commit
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another violent offense before they even found him, so the
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officers started their search by following the strongest lead they had,
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King's Cross Station. Detectives learned that Patrick had recently provided
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his name and address where he was staying to the
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railway staff after encountering difficulties arranging onward transport from the station.
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Following his return from Kent, they learned he was staying
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on Selkirk Avenue in Williston Green. It was the first
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concrete lead investigators had, and Brown and Whitlock wasted no
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time heading there, but by the time they arrived, however,
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Patrick was already gone. Investigators also knew he occasionally maintained
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contact with members of the Catholic Church. Actives contacted priest
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throughout London asking whether anyone knew his whereabouts, and one
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priest eventually confirmed that Patrick had been in touch and
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directed officers towards a hostel in Lewisham, where he was
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believed to have been staying from time to time. When
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Brandon Whitlock arrived, they found the hostile manager standing at
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a public payphone, and he just so happened to be
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speaking to Patrick. The timing could hardly have been more
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fortunate for them, but although officers were unable to intercept
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the call, they immediately learned that Patrick was in fact
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in London somewhere. While arrangements were made to trace his movements,
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detectives searched the room that he'd been using inside the hostel,
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and the search revealed far more than they expected. The
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walls inside were covered with swastikas, photographs of Adolph Hitler
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and Nazi imagery that reflected the obsession Patrick had carried
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since his teenage years. They even found pieces of clothing
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resembling in SS uniform, and together with stolen jewelry, it
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was concealed beneath a cushion. The discovery reinforced investigator's belief
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that Patrick's criminal activity extended well beyond the murder in Kent.
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Although Patrick had slipped away once again, detectives now knew
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he remained somewhere in London. They continued following every lead
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available while trying to locate him before he disappeared again. Now, unfortunately,
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the search took just long enough for him to commit
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one final offense. On the evening of March twenty second,
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only a day after father Kreem's murder, Patrick followed a
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retired nurse as she walked home alone. After watching her
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enter her flat, he forced his way inside and demanded
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money and valuables. Now, unlike several of his previous victims,
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the woman did not resist or attempt to challenge his demands.
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Patrick stole what he could before leaving the property without
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physically harming her. It remains unclear why she survived when
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so many others hadn't, although investigators later believed her willingness
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to comply may have prevented the encounter from escalating any further.
721
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:14.360
Later that same day, detectives focused their attention on the
722
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:19.199
Cowdrey family home in Stockwell, South London. This is where
723
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:24.840
Patrick was known to stay quite regularly. Officers found Patrick
724
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:28.320
inside this house and took him into custody without any
725
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:32.199
sort of struggle. The arrest was honestly almost anti climactic.
726
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:38.880
He appeared calm, compliant and apparently noticeably subdued. Detectives later
727
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.280
said that he was heavily hungover, in fact, having spent
728
00:45:41.400 --> 00:45:43.840
much of the money that was stolen from the retired
729
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.480
nurse on alcohol the previous evening, So whatever thoughts he
730
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:50.960
may have had about resisting arrests seemed to have disappeared overnight.
731
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:55.239
Gosh, this guy is just I mean, everything that you're saying,
732
00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:56.840
I'm like, he's just a real winner.
733
00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:01.599
Yeah, no, shit right, the biggest douche canoe I've run
734
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:02.440
across in a while.
735
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:04.400
Yeah, no, big time.
736
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.280
Oh yeah, no, for sure, a ay bud.
737
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:08.639
Yeah.
738
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:13.440
Now, as officers escorted him from the house, Patrick began talking,
739
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:18.280
and almost immediately he admitted to killing father Crean. He
740
00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:21.840
claimed that a quote white mist had come over him
741
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:25.280
during the confrontation inside the cottage, and he described the
742
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:31.199
attack as an uncontrollable explosion of anger. Detectives carefully noted
743
00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:34.280
the statement, but avoided challenging him during the journey back
744
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.639
to Kent. Their priority was to preserve whatever information he
745
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:43.559
voluntarily gave. A white mist, A white mist of rage.
746
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:46.599
Yes, huh, okay, I've never heard anything described.
747
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:48.679
Like that before. It's definitely a unique one.
748
00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:49.719
Yeah.
749
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:53.280
Now, Before they even reached the police station. Patrick offered
750
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:57.840
another significant piece of evidence too. He allegedly directed officers
751
00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:01.719
to a garage near Clapham and explained that he had
752
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:04.719
thrown away the knife used during the attack on Father
753
00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:08.639
Crean there in a garbage and then returned to London.
754
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:13.440
Detectives went there, They searched the location and recovered the
755
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:18.159
weapon where Patrick indicated it would be. This provided immediate
756
00:47:18.199 --> 00:47:24.039
corroboration for his confessions now. Formal interviews began shortly afterwards too,
757
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:27.000
and Patrick spoke freely about the events inside the cottage,
758
00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:30.039
described the argument, the struggle through the hallway, and Father
759
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:33.320
Crean running to the bathroom to lock himself inside. He
760
00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:35.639
explained how he found the axe smashed through the door,
761
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:40.920
continued the attack after forcing himself inside, and as detectives
762
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:44.000
compared his account with a crime scene, they found his
763
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:48.039
description matched details that had not been released publicly at all.
764
00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:53.000
In fact, it was almost perfect, and rather than appearing
765
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:57.280
distressed or remorseful during this, he became increasingly animated as
766
00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:01.840
the conversation turned towards the violence itself. Discussing the bloodshed
767
00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:05.840
seemed to trigger additional memories too, prompting him to volunteer
768
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:10.239
more details without even being asked. At one point, he
769
00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:13.559
calmly described standing beside the bath for around an hour
770
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:18.440
after the murder, just staring and watching Father Crean's lifeless
771
00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:21.519
body float in the blood stained water, before he finally
772
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:22.320
decided to leave.
773
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.079
So messed up.
774
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:28.199
The interviews had barely begun, and yet detectives were already
775
00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:31.519
realizing they were dealing with something far darker than they
776
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:36.199
had originally thought. Now, detectives did not rush to accept
777
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:40.920
Patrick's confessions, though, especially at at least complete truth, because yeah,
778
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:44.639
he's willing to talk. Sure, that's great, But experienced investigators
779
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:49.159
understood that offenders they sometimes exaggerate their crimes, they claim
780
00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:52.360
responsibility for offenses they had not even committed, or blended
781
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:55.960
facts with fiction, that sort of thing. So every statement
782
00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:59.719
Patrick made had to be tested against the evidence that was,
783
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:03.800
and detectives needed to find more knowledge that only the
784
00:49:03.960 --> 00:49:07.840
killer could have known. And if he began speaking about
785
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:11.800
other crimes, those claims would be subjected to the exact
786
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:12.719
same scrutiny.
787
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:14.840
Okay, I just have to say I am a bit
788
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:18.280
surprised that he's so willing to dish out all his
789
00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:19.840
freaking terrible deeds here.
790
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:21.599
Yeah, why.
791
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.559
I don't know, because in my mind, he's just like
792
00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:28.679
shit at the bottom of my shoe, and I can't
793
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:31.239
imagine him doing anything right and trying to help these
794
00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:34.920
people with like the investigators solve this shit, right, Like,
795
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:38.039
I'm surprised that he is being helpful. I guess.
796
00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:40.599
Is he being helpful though, that's.
797
00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:42.559
The thing, or is he like bragging then maybe or
798
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:43.719
I'm hosting I don't know.
799
00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:46.639
I don't think it's either of those. See, if you
800
00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:53.880
look at Patrick McKay, he grew up very in abusive environments, right, yes,
801
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:57.960
and then he himself became abusive, and he moved into
802
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.800
psychiatric care, hospital care, in and out of interviews, in
803
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:06.519
and out of analysis and different situations where they're asking
804
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:08.559
him questions and why did you do this? And how
805
00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:12.440
did you do that? And then not only that, he's
806
00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:18.199
a psychopath, he doesn't understand emotions, so if people are
807
00:50:18.239 --> 00:50:20.599
asking him questions, well, yeah, I'll just tell you.
808
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:23.679
And he's used to kind of being I guess, I
809
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:26.599
don't know, for lack of better words, like interviewed almost yeah.
810
00:50:26.679 --> 00:50:29.199
So it's not that he as far as I can tell,
811
00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:31.639
it's not that he's bragging. It's not that he's wanting
812
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:34.000
to help. It's just, Oh, you want to know, I'll
813
00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:37.360
let you know. Sure, you're asking, so I'll tell you.
814
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:41.440
But he has to realize or maybe he doesn't even
815
00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:44.599
he realizes that what he's done is like terrible though.
816
00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.559
Very likely, but maybe he just doesn't care. Psychopaths they
817
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:54.880
don't have that emotion, that level of understanding of human emotions.
818
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:57.320
And I mean, I'm not one myself, and I don't
819
00:50:57.360 --> 00:50:59.800
have claim to have all the knowledge on psychopaths, but
820
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:03.480
I do know that they're lacking many certain emotions, like empathy.
821
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:08.639
So he doesn't care. And he's so used to being interviewed.
822
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:11.599
This is part of his life. You're doing things wrong.
823
00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:14.039
Why are you doing those things wrong? Patrick? Oh, I
824
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:16.599
don't know. I just did this, okay, And that's all
825
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:21.159
he's doing. Someone's asking and he's simply telling. Gosh, that's
826
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:22.639
as far as my breakdown goes.
827
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:26.039
That almost makes it seem even more disturbing. He is
828
00:51:26.280 --> 00:51:31.159
so cold, yeah, and yeah, he doesn't even probably remotely
829
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:34.960
understand the impact of what he's done to you know,
830
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:35.920
others or whatever.
831
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.159
Either he may he may not, it's hard to say.
832
00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:44.119
Now these interviews quickly established that Patrick had an extraordinary
833
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:48.559
memory for details well, I mean of the whole crime scene,
834
00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:51.119
the murder, the death of Father Crean, all of it.
835
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:54.840
He accurately described the layout of the cottage, the struggle
836
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:57.519
in the hallway, the priest locking himself in the bathroom,
837
00:51:57.559 --> 00:52:00.599
the acts, all of it. He even recalled details that
838
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:03.800
had never been released publicly, including the position in which
839
00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:06.199
Father Queen's body had been left in the bath, and
840
00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:09.719
he even led them to a murder weapon. Each answer
841
00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:15.559
strengthened investigator's evidence considerably. Then, once detectives were satisfied, they
842
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:21.480
gradually shifted conversations towards unsolved crimes in London, and Patrick
843
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:26.599
offered little resistance. Once again, when asked about Adele Price,
844
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:31.039
he admitted he entered her flat in Knightsbridge. He explained
845
00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:33.159
that he had targeted her because she was elderly and
846
00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:37.920
lived alone, things that he believed made her vulnerable. He
847
00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:41.360
described strangling her before searching the apartment for valuables, and
848
00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:45.880
spoke matter of factly about remaining inside afterwards too. He
849
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:48.639
recalled sitting in an armchair, turning on the radio and
850
00:52:48.679 --> 00:52:51.840
eventually falling asleep until the sound of the intercom woke
851
00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:56.079
them up. Detectives compared his statements with the evidence collected
852
00:52:56.079 --> 00:53:00.480
from the scene, and the details matched once again almost perfectly.
853
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:04.719
His fingerprints even matched the ones that were recovered from
854
00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:08.519
inside her flat. Two. Investigators then turned to the murder
855
00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:14.679
of Isabelle Griffiths, and again Patrick admitted responsibility. He described
856
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.360
gaining access to the eighty four year old's flat before
857
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:20.679
attacking her. He spoke about staying inside the property after
858
00:53:20.719 --> 00:53:24.960
he murdered her, rather than leaving immediately. His account once
859
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:28.440
again corresponded with evidence at the scene, including aspects of
860
00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:30.800
the home, the condition in which the body had been left,
861
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:35.920
and again fingerprint evidence. By this stage, Patrick had admitted
862
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:42.559
responsibility for three murders. But the thing is the interviews
863
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:49.559
while they were just still beginning. Over the following days,
864
00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:54.000
detectives found themselves reopening case after case as Patrick claimed
865
00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:57.639
responsibility for additional killings, stretching back all the way to
866
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:02.119
nineteen seventy three. The names were already familiar to investigators
867
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:06.000
because the deaths remained unsolved. Others belonged to victims whose
868
00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:09.559
murders had never previously been linked to one another at all.
869
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:12.960
Okay, holy shit, there's been more than just the three
870
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:18.000
killings correct, Oh okay. I don't know why, but I
871
00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:18.960
wasn't expecting that.
872
00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:22.599
Among the first was Mary Hines, a woman who had
873
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:26.000
been beaten to death inside her Kentish Town flat during
874
00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:29.719
the summer of nineteen seventy three. Patrick described entering her
875
00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:33.559
home and attacking her with extreme violence. He also claimed
876
00:54:33.599 --> 00:54:37.440
responsibility for the death of Frank Goodman, a tobacconist who
877
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:41.159
had been found murdered inside his shop. Patrick described striking
878
00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:45.159
Frank during the robbery before leaving him fatally injured, and
879
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:48.639
as investigators revisited the evidence from this attack, they recovered
880
00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:52.440
a pair of shoes connected to Patrick that carried traces
881
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:56.000
of blood consistent with Frank's murder. Patrick went on to
882
00:54:56.039 --> 00:54:59.679
speak about the death of Heidi Minilk, a young German
883
00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:03.599
woman who was working as a living childcare assistant whose
884
00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:06.760
body had been found after falling from a moving train,
885
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:10.960
but he didn't stop there. He also spoke about Stephanie
886
00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:15.599
Britton and her four year old grandson, Christopher Martin. He
887
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:21.000
mentioned Sarah Rodwell, Ivy Davies, and an unidentified homeless man
888
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:25.760
who he claimed to have pushed from Hungerford Bridge into
889
00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:32.039
the River Thames. Each confession generated another review of police files,
890
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:37.679
witness statements, and forensic evidence, but not every claim survived
891
00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:43.400
careful examination. Though some investigations contained too little surviving evidence
892
00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:47.960
to either prove or disprove Patrick's involvement. In other cases,
893
00:55:48.440 --> 00:55:53.119
important witnesses had died, memories had faded, or forensic opportunities
894
00:55:53.159 --> 00:55:57.280
had long since been lost. So while Patrick demonstrated knowledge
895
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:03.199
that strengthened investigator's confidence in murders, other admissions could never
896
00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:09.199
be conclusively verified. The review nevertheless revealed a number of
897
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:13.599
striking similarities across the crimes. Investigators believed that he committed.
898
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:18.519
Many of the victims were elderly and living alone. Several
899
00:56:18.519 --> 00:56:22.360
had been robbed, but the level of violence consistently exceeded
900
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:27.079
what detectives would be normally expected during a burglary. But
901
00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:30.880
one of the main hallmark features that appeared repeatedly was
902
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:36.519
Patrick's behavior after the killings. Crime Scene evidence and his
903
00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:40.960
own admissions suggested he often remained with the bodies long
904
00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:44.320
after the murders had taken place. He would wander through
905
00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:48.400
the victims' homes, maybe listen to their radio, or simply
906
00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:54.920
sit quietly before eventually leaving, which is pretty fucked up. Yeah,
907
00:56:55.159 --> 00:56:58.480
detectives found that behavior particularly disturbing. That's literally what I
908
00:56:58.519 --> 00:56:59.199
have written next.
909
00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:04.000
Yeah, like how can you not uh like, how can
910
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:07.039
you just live your life or like probably having snacks
911
00:57:07.159 --> 00:57:09.599
or whatever while these people are that.
912
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:12.679
You just murdered right right there, And it's like there's
913
00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:15.880
no obvious practical purpose for this, and in fact, it
914
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:19.039
only increases your risk and likelihood of getting.
915
00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:19.679
Caught, it does.
916
00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:23.679
Yeah, which again it kind of circles back to that
917
00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:28.000
psychopath mentality. If he just doesn't care. It's not that
918
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:31.400
he's bragging or you know, any of these things. It's
919
00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:33.519
just a matter of fact. It's just the way it is.
920
00:57:33.559 --> 00:57:34.880
And you're curious, I'll tell you.
921
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:38.480
Well, honestly, I think it was adele. If the if
922
00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:41.440
she hadn't lived in an apartment, then the grand like
923
00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:43.119
and she was in a house or something, right, the
924
00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:47.079
granddaughter had just come to the front door, come in,
925
00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:48.360
and he would have been in there.
926
00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:51.480
Yeah. Now I believe like in London there are many
927
00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:54.599
people who live in like townhouses, flats all that sort
928
00:57:54.599 --> 00:57:57.880
of stuff. But I mean it's much of a more
929
00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:02.039
condensed country, so it's much more common. Yeah, but you're right, yeah.
930
00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:04.239
Was it maybe a townhouse where it is a front
931
00:58:04.280 --> 00:58:06.679
door and not a communal door. She could have just
932
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:09.800
entered and found him. But then that also begs a
933
00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:11.679
question of would he have been caught or would he
934
00:58:11.719 --> 00:58:12.239
have killed her?
935
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:13.880
Probably just killed her.
936
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:18.840
Depending on the scenario and how it played out. As
937
00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:21.960
investigators worked through the growing number of confessions, they became
938
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:27.880
increasingly selective about which offenses could realistically be prosecuted. By
939
00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:32.039
the time the interviews were complete, officers believed they understood
940
00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:35.360
the scale of the investigation in front of them, and
941
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:39.039
when Patrick's case reached the Old Bailey in November nineteen
942
00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:41.960
seventy five or the England's Central Criminal Court in London,
943
00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:45.920
the investigation had grown far beyond the murder that first
944
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:50.599
brought detectives to Shorn Police interviews with Patrick had reopened
945
00:58:50.599 --> 00:58:54.280
a string of unsolved murders stretching back nearly two years,
946
00:58:54.960 --> 00:58:59.800
but prosecutors had to decide which offenses could realistically be
947
00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:04.760
proof beyond reasonable doubt before a jury. In the end,
948
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:09.960
Patrick McKay was charged with a total of five murders. Now,
949
00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:13.480
the trial itself was remarkably brief, considering the scale of
950
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:17.320
the investigation that had preceded it, rather than attempting to
951
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:20.400
prove that the killings had occurred. It's no surprise to
952
00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:22.840
hear that much of the legal arguments centered on Patrick
953
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:26.320
McKay's mental condition and the extent to which it affected
954
00:59:26.360 --> 00:59:31.559
his responsibility for his actions. Jurors heard about a childhood
955
00:59:31.599 --> 00:59:35.960
filled with violence, years spent moving through psychiatric institutions, and
956
00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:40.679
repeated assessments and warnings that he posed a serious danger
957
00:59:40.719 --> 00:59:44.599
to those around him, and among the most significant witnesses
958
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:50.599
was psychiatrists doctor Leonard Carr, whose earlier assessment of Patrick
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as a teenager was examined in court. Years before the murder,
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Carr had diagnosed him to be a psychopath and warned
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that he was developing into what he described as, quote
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a cold, psychopathic killer end quote. At the time those
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words had been written, they represented a prediction, but by
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the autumn of nineteen seventy five they had become one
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of the most widely quoted pieces of evidence presented during
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these proceedings.
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I wonder how that made him feel.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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He just I mean, he knew he was going to
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be in this possession, I think, right, Yeah.
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It seems that way. He called it. He knew and
972
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:36.880
here he is. He tried to warn people, but nothing happened,
973
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and so yeah, he was probably sitting here looking at
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you know, authorities and being like, I fucking told you. Yeah,
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but I mean, what can you do?
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01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:47.159
Well, exactly, yeah you can't.
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You can't prosecute someone for a crime they haven't.
978
01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:53.480
Committed, no, because you think they will correct.
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However, a diagnosis does mean someone should get treatment and
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01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:04.320
live certain ways and have certain guidelines, guidelines and parameters,
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01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:09.119
those sort of things. But anyways, now, other psychiatrists also
982
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:12.679
gave evidence to broadly agreeing that Patrick displayed the correct
983
01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:18.199
characteristics of severe psychopathy. Now, at the time, psychopathy well
984
01:01:18.239 --> 01:01:21.480
presented the courts with a very difficult legal problem because,
985
01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:25.079
unlike some mental illnesses, it was not considered a condition
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01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:29.280
for which there was any recognized treatment likely to reduce
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01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:31.960
the risk of future violence, which is probably part of
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01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:35.800
the reason why it was difficult to handle his situation
989
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:40.400
in certain ways. Now. That distinction became particularly important when
990
01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:43.760
the court considered whether Patrick should be sent to Broadmoor Hospital,
991
01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:48.840
Britain's highest security psychiatric institution, or remain within the prison
992
01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:53.079
system and the medical evidence on hand ultimately persuaded the
993
01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:58.840
court that Patrick's responsibility for the killings had been substantially impaired.
994
01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:04.559
Soon un Patrick pleaded guilty to three counts of manslaughter
995
01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:09.320
on the grounds of diminished responsibility relating to the deaths
996
01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:16.000
of Isabelle Griffiths, Adele Price, and father Anthony Crean. But
997
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:20.280
although the verdict reflected the psychiatric evidence presented during the trial,
998
01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:26.000
the practical outcome offered little comfort to the defense because
999
01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:31.199
the judge ultimately imposed and sentenced Patrick to three concurrent
1000
01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:35.519
life sentences, ensuring that Patrick McKay would spend the foreseeable
1001
01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:37.199
future behind bars.
1002
01:02:37.360 --> 01:02:41.079
Okay, good. I was kind of worried there, Yeah, because
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that I feel like could have been a sentence where
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01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:47.880
he maybe got up out. Yeah, but the judge, the
1005
01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:49.719
judge knew what his job was.
1006
01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:52.239
Yeah, the judge did good. Here, the judge brought the
1007
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:59.400
hammer down. Yeah. Very glad that judge chose that sentencing. Now. Soon,
1008
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:03.239
newspaper across Britain seized upon the extraordinary nature of the case.
1009
01:03:03.679 --> 01:03:08.400
Headlines describe Patrick McCrae sorry McKay as quote the man
1010
01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:13.199
who enjoyed killing quote bloodlust of the Beast in Black
1011
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:19.199
and quote the Devil's Disciple. Much of the reporting focused
1012
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.159
on the brutality of the murders themselves and his obsession
1013
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:25.719
with Nazi Germany, while others decided to question how someone
1014
01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:30.800
who had spent years in psychiatric care attracted repeated police
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01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:35.400
attention and generated so many warnings could still have been
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01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:39.239
free to commit such devastating crimes in the public now.
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01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:42.559
Although three killings had now been dealt with before the courts,
1018
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:46.800
many investigators remained convinced that Patrick's true number of victims
1019
01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:50.679
was considerably higher. The court had dealt with the killings
1020
01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:54.960
of Isabelle Griffiths, Adell Price, and father Anthony Crean, but
1021
01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:00.440
the wider investigation never truly disappeared. Detectives continued reviewing additional
1022
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:04.119
murders Patrick had confessed to, comparing his statements with evidence
1023
01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:08.159
collected years earlier. In several cases, they remained convinced that
1024
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:11.519
he was telling the truth, but without sufficient evidence to
1025
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:15.119
satisfy the criminal standard required by the courts, there was
1026
01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:18.199
nothing that could be done. Now. He do need to
1027
01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:21.599
talk about how, under the sentencing system in place at
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01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:25.679
the time, a life sentence did not automatically mean imprisonment
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01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:29.800
until death. Patrick was eventually given a minimum tariff of
1030
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:33.760
twenty years, making him first eligible to apply for parole
1031
01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:39.599
in nineteen ninety five, and that date arrived, but he
1032
01:04:39.639 --> 01:04:44.519
did not get released. Parole boards reviewed his case repeatedly
1033
01:04:44.679 --> 01:04:48.320
and they all reached the same conclusion he could not
1034
01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:50.480
safely be released into the community.
1035
01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:50.840
Well.
1036
01:04:50.920 --> 01:04:55.159
No psychologists, probation officers, and prison officials were asked to
1037
01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:58.000
assess the level of risk he continued to pose, and
1038
01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:02.760
time and time again they concluded that the danger remained
1039
01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:08.199
too great. As the years passed, Patrick McKay gradually progressed
1040
01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:11.199
through parts of the prison system, and in twenty seventeen
1041
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:15.400
he transferred to open prison conditions, a move that surprised
1042
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:19.280
many people who were familiar with the case, because open
1043
01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:23.559
prisons in the UK are designed for carefully assessed prisoners
1044
01:05:23.599 --> 01:05:28.960
who are approaching possible release, allowing them limited opportunities to
1045
01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:33.079
work outside the prison or undertake supervised activities intended to
1046
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:37.559
prepare them for life beyond the community. During his years
1047
01:05:37.559 --> 01:05:43.599
in custody, Patrick also legally changed his name to David Groves,
1048
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:47.039
something else that attracted a fair bit of criticism, particularly
1049
01:05:47.079 --> 01:05:49.719
after it became publicly known that he had been granted
1050
01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:52.480
supervised day releases from prison.
1051
01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:55.679
The changing of the name thing is not okay. I
1052
01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:57.760
agree that pisses me off.
1053
01:05:57.840 --> 01:06:02.960
I highly agree. In twenty twenty three, newspaper photographs showed
1054
01:06:03.039 --> 01:06:07.000
this then seventy two year old man walking through Bristol,
1055
01:06:07.159 --> 01:06:10.639
wearing a baseball cap and a goatee beard while chatting
1056
01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:14.360
casually with members of the public. A few of the
1057
01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:17.960
people passing him appeared to recognize that they were standing
1058
01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:20.559
beside a serial killer who once carried out one of
1059
01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:26.280
Britain's most violent murder sprees. The images reignited public debate
1060
01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:31.000
over whether someone responsible for crimes of such severity should
1061
01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:34.719
ever be considered for release, regardless of how many decades
1062
01:06:34.719 --> 01:06:40.559
have passed. But despite the conversations, parole hearings continued. By
1063
01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:44.880
twenty twenty six, the year of this recording, Patrick McKay
1064
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:49.360
has spent more than fifty years behind bars, and he'd
1065
01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:55.320
appeared before parole boards thirteen times. During his latest review,
1066
01:06:55.360 --> 01:06:59.840
the panel heard evidence from psychologists, probation officers, prison staff,
1067
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:04.559
and even Patrick himself before reaching their conclusion, and his
1068
01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:08.280
release was again once again refused.
1069
01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:12.000
Oh my gosh, I didn't breathe for that last minute.
1070
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The parole Board stated that it was quote not satisfied
1071
01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:20.000
that release at this point would be safe for the
1072
01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:22.519
protection of the public end quote.
1073
01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:25.639
I just have to say, what a waste of resources,
1074
01:07:26.159 --> 01:07:28.880
because it's very clear that he should never, ever, ever
1075
01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:32.480
be out. But they've had to do this thirteen times.
1076
01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:36.639
I know, I know, Okay, well whatever, I guess I'm
1077
01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:39.280
just preaching to the freaking choir here because that makes
1078
01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:40.000
no sense to me.
1079
01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:44.000
Yeah, for many, they believe that the risk has never
1080
01:07:44.119 --> 01:07:47.639
truly disappeared with this man. Nothing to date has ever
1081
01:07:47.679 --> 01:07:52.320
suggested Patrick would be capable of safely living within any community.
1082
01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:56.360
And here we are still even today asking the most
1083
01:07:57.079 --> 01:08:00.199
enduring questions surrounding this case. And it's not whether or
1084
01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:03.920
not he should actually be released, though, it's how many
1085
01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:09.639
people did he actually kill? Legally, the answer hasn't changed.
1086
01:08:09.679 --> 01:08:13.599
Patrick McKay has admitted responsibility for numerous killings, but he
1087
01:08:13.679 --> 01:08:19.039
ultimately pled guilty to manslaughter of Isabella Griffith's Adele Price
1088
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:22.800
and father Anthony Crean on the grounds of diminished responsibility,
1089
01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:27.600
receiving three concurrent life sentences for those deaths. Legally, he
1090
01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:32.119
has killed three people, but estimates of his true number
1091
01:08:32.119 --> 01:08:37.800
of victims have always varied. Some investigators believed he could
1092
01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:44.119
be responsible for at least eleven murders. Others believe the
1093
01:08:44.159 --> 01:08:48.079
total may be even higher than that. What has never
1094
01:08:48.119 --> 01:08:51.760
been seriously disputed, though, is that those three killings dealt
1095
01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:55.920
in the court system almost certainly represented only part of
1096
01:08:55.960 --> 01:09:00.079
the violence uncovered during this investigation. That is not a
1097
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:03.800
debate that that is the bare minimum of what he
1098
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:08.720
had done. Patrick McKay has now spent more than half
1099
01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:12.520
a century behind bars, making him one of Britain's longest
1100
01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:17.279
serving prisoners. His name remains largely forgotten outside of true
1101
01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:22.239
crime circles, but the people whose lives he destroyed, those
1102
01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:27.079
names should not be forgotten. Isabel Griffiths was an elderly
1103
01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:30.720
widow who spent nearly two weeks undiscovered after welcoming the
1104
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:35.239
wrong person into her home, Adele Price. She lost her
1105
01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:38.479
life in the place where she should have felt safest,
1106
01:09:38.920 --> 01:09:42.560
while her granddaughter unknowingly passed her killer on the staircase
1107
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:46.640
moments before making the discovery no family member should ever
1108
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:51.239
have to make. Father Anthony Crean devoted his life to
1109
01:09:51.319 --> 01:09:55.680
helping people who had nowhere else to turn. His willingness
1110
01:09:55.680 --> 01:09:58.520
to see hope in a troubled young man is what
1111
01:09:58.680 --> 01:10:03.800
ultimately lost him his own life. More than fifty years
1112
01:10:03.800 --> 01:10:09.680
after Patrick's arrest, investigators, historians, criminologists all alike continue to
1113
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:13.399
debate the true extent of his crimes and whether the
1114
01:10:13.399 --> 01:10:18.479
final total of his victims is three eleven or maybe
1115
01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:23.479
somewhere in between. The same conclusion has been reached. Patrick
1116
01:10:23.560 --> 01:10:28.199
McKay is a dangerous and brutal man who does not
1117
01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:32.880
deserve to walk free, because if he does, he poses
1118
01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:40.800
a risk to every single person he encounters. And that's
1119
01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:44.960
the story of Patrick McKay, the Devil's disciple.
1120
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:48.560
Frick.
1121
01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:54.279
Frick the hell that's frick? That's your response after that case?
1122
01:10:54.439 --> 01:10:55.119
Just frick?
1123
01:10:55.600 --> 01:10:59.079
Yeah, that one was very I don't know, I was
1124
01:10:59.159 --> 01:11:02.880
just like all over the place. I'm a kind of
1125
01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:05.239
surprised that he hasn't hurt anyone in prison.
1126
01:11:06.279 --> 01:11:08.359
Yeah, you're right, really, I agree, it's.
1127
01:11:08.199 --> 01:11:10.079
A bit surprising to me. But I guess he like
1128
01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.720
he has everything he needs in there, right, like food
1129
01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:16.319
and at least a sleep and shit.
1130
01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:17.239
That's true.
1131
01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:21.800
But oh man, I feel like he also maybe is
1132
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:24.760
getting these nicknames or this nickname because one of his
1133
01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:27.600
victims was a priest as well, Like that's probably helping
1134
01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:31.000
him get this this fancy ass nickname.
1135
01:11:31.199 --> 01:11:34.039
It's possible. I'm not too sure where the Devil's Disciple
1136
01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:36.880
exactly originated from. Like I know it came from like
1137
01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:39.920
headlines and sensationalism on newspapers and that sort of thing,
1138
01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:42.600
but I'm not sure who typed it up. Where they
1139
01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:45.119
drew that from. If it comes from you know, murdering
1140
01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:48.520
a father, you know, having that religious counterpart in your
1141
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:51.880
your repertoire of your victims, or if it's just a
1142
01:11:51.920 --> 01:11:55.319
matter of he was really into some dark shit and
1143
01:11:55.439 --> 01:11:59.399
Nazi memorabilia and loved Hitler and so it's like, damn,
1144
01:11:59.479 --> 01:12:03.800
that's basically Satan right there, Okay, and then it's generated
1145
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:04.239
from there.
1146
01:12:04.319 --> 01:12:06.079
He's a scary dude, he is.
1147
01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:11.199
Very much so. And he's still alive today and he's
1148
01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:13.000
still trying to get parole.
1149
01:12:13.640 --> 01:12:16.159
Huh. I don't know why, but I wasn't. I was
1150
01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:19.000
kind of like not expecting him to still be alive.
1151
01:12:19.479 --> 01:12:22.680
I know, like after everything that he's done and he
1152
01:12:22.760 --> 01:12:26.359
gets to freaking live and tell he is in you know,
1153
01:12:26.479 --> 01:12:29.359
his old age. How the shit Is that fair?
1154
01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:33.439
Not fair at all, not fair in the slightest. But
1155
01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:37.359
here we are. Well. If you have thoughts, let us know.
1156
01:12:37.720 --> 01:12:40.399
Reach out to us Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, all those sort
1157
01:12:40.439 --> 01:12:42.960
of things, email, whatever you want to do, give us
1158
01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:46.800
a reach out. Stuff is in the description of this podcast,
1159
01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:50.600
tough Stuff. I'm tired. Okay, it's things. Stuff and things
1160
01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:54.199
is down there. Check it out. Do your stuff and things.
1161
01:12:55.600 --> 01:13:00.760
Thanks for being here and until next time, stay a
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b oh oh oh