Smith was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1997.Ħ/15 Child kidnapper and procuress, Enriqueta Martíīorn in Sant Feliu de Llobregat in Spain, she started off as a nanny and maidservant. The pathologist in charge of the case described Kelly Anne's injuries as the worst he had ever seen. He gouged her eyes, scalded her skin, partially scalped her, and mutilated her. Over the period of four weeks, Smith tortured Kelly Anne. I tried everything I could to get Kelly Anne away from him." She was unsuccessful. But she remembered, "As soon as I saw Smith the hairs on the back of my neck went up. Kelly Anne Bates' mother didn't know any of this when she met James Patterson Smith, her 17-year-old daughter's boyfriend.
Shortly after their relationship ended, Smith began a statutory rape relationship with a 15-year-old, whom he also tried to drown. From 1980 to 1982, he had an affair with a 20-year-old woman, whom he beat and attempted to drown while she was pregnant with his child. A resident of Manchester, his wife of ten years divorced him due to his savage nature. James Patterson Smith had a violent history. She was hanged in 1873.ħ/15 The torture and murder of Kelly Ann Bates Police discovered Mary had been poisoning her victims with arsenic in order to collect insurance money. Frederick Cotton died, too, as well as his sister, his son from a previous marriage, and the child he had fathered with Mary.Īfter twenty years of mysterious deaths, all caused by "gastric fevers," Mary started to look suspicious. When her third husband kicked her out for forcing her stepchildren to pawn household items for cash, she found a fourth husband. Soon after, her last remaining child died, as well as two of her third husband's children. Mary remarried, but her second husband died. Not long after, Mary's husband died of a stomach sickness, just like all of his children. When the couple relocated, Mary bore three more children, but they all died, too. Out of their five children, four of them died of gastric fever. In 1852, Mary Anne Cotton married a laborer named William Mowbry, and the two started a family. She was released from prison in 1980 under a new identity. Norma Bell was found not guilty, but Mary Bell was charged with manslaughter. Both Mary Bell and her friend Norma Bell (no relation) seemed evasive, and changed their stories upon further questioning.Įach girl blamed the other for what happened. Police questioned over 1,200 children in an effort to discover what had happened. Three-year-old Brian Howe had been strangled to death, and his body was covered in small cuts. Two days after the body was discovered, a local nursery was broken into, and four notes mentioning the murder of Martin Brown were found on the scene.Ī few weeks after that, another young boy was found dead. The four-year-old boy's lifeless body was discovered in a derelict house, where it was apparent that he had asphyxiated. In 1968, the day before her eleventh birthday, Mary Flora Bell, accompanied by a friend, murdered Martin Brown. Dodd was hanged in 1993.ġ0/15 The murders of 11-year-old Mary Bell When police inspected Dodd's house, they discovered sketches of his victims as well as a homemade torture rack designed to restrain the children he abducted.
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The police caught up with Dodd when he tried to abduct another boy from a movie theater. In October of the same year, Dodd abducted four-year-old Lee Isley, brought the child to his home, raped him, choked him, and left his lifeless body hanging by a rope from the rod in his closet. On September 4, 1989, he bound, raped, and stabbed two brothers, Cole and William Neer, in a park. But each time, he managed to get out of jail. Over time, he became more sadistic, eventually kidnapping and killing three young boys.įrom 1982 to 1987, Dodd had been arrested four times for attempting to prey on young boys. During that time he exposed himself to his victims, fondled them, and sexually assaulted them. Westley Allan Dodd abused as many as 175 children over a fifteen-year period.
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14/15 The serial killings of child molester, Westley Allan Dodd
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