True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

This is one of those horrendous cases that just gets worse and worse the more you get into the sickening details of it. I had this case requested by one of my readers last year and as I sat down the other night to do my research to finally cover it, I felt sick every time my pen hit my pad as I took my notes. I was determined to see it through though as difficult as that is and share this story with you, for those who have not heard about it. I warn you to brace yourself for this because I can't even put into words the pure evil that is pictured above in this post. Those eyes...those cold, dead, soulless eyes that belong to Damien Bendall. 

That name might ring a bell to those of my readers and friends that live here in the UK but further afield you might be not be familiar with this particular monster until this moment. As we move through the post (as I stated in the beginning) the details shared will become more difficult and I understand if you cannot continue further, I just wanted to warn you before proceeding. So let's take a deep breath and get into this deeply disturbing nightmare of a case....

Terri Harris was a beautiful, kind and caring 35 year old woman who worked very hard in her role as a careworker looking after vulnerable people at a care facility. It was always in her nature to help others and was always the type of friend who would give you advice and support when times were hard. She was also a very loving mother to her two children, Lacey and John-Paul. Originally a London girl with a huge obsession with the football team 'West Ham', Terri had a great sense of humour and was both a girly girl and a bit of a tom boy too. Never one to shy away from hardwork she also taught her children how to appreciate the little things in life as well as the importance of manners. 

When Terri was 17 she moved to Sheffield with her mother and it must have been quite a difference for her from London. Being the outgoing and bubbly girl that she was it didn't take that long for her to settle in and make friends as well as a romantic interest. Terri met a handsome young man named Jason Bennett and the pair fell deeply in love and eventually married, having the two beautiful children, Lacey and John-Paul. The couple had been through a lot together in their 15 years, you could say that they also grew up together but sadly as some situations can go, they began to drift apart although they still cared about each other. It got to the point that they both decided that the marriage was no longer going to work but they were determined to remain friends and do their best for the children. Jason was in regular contact with Lacey and John-Paul and they were able to work things out where, despite the breakdown of the marriage, the children still felt that they could have a close, regular relationship with their father. 

Whilst I was doing my research about this case, I had various things going through my mind but I did think a lot about Jason and how all of what later happened must have affected him (and obviously still affects him to this very day). There was this beautiful woman who he fell in love with, married, spend years with and had two adorable children with and then.....the most unthinkable, horrendous nightmare of events that came later. Jason lost so much in the most horrendously cruel and evil way. I cannot even begin to imagine what he must be going through. 

So, Terri found herself now a single mother of 2 children at the age of 35 and she was still wanting to have a romantic life which is understandable, she worked hard, did her best for the children and she just wanted some fun time for herself. Lacey was like a little doll at just 11 years old with beautiful blue eyes and blonde hair, she was like a little star, a Diva in the making. She enjoyed acting, performing and dancing. She loved to attend dance classes and was a very loving and giving child. John-Paul was more laid back but wore his heart on his sleeve, always well mannered and polite. There was no mistake about it, Terri and Jason had done a wonderful job raiding these two amazing children. Lacy and John-Paul were close too, they may have had little disagreements here and there but on the whole they surprisingly got on really well for a brother and sister, they were very good at sharing and being patient with each other. 

Terri had been working so hard and missed the feeling of romance in her life and had talked to friends who were members of an online dating site. She was nervous at first but decided to take the plunge and sign up, not knowing what to expect. As predicted she did get some creepy messages and didn't think it was going to be worth the bother but then one guy looked quite promising....a guy who she thought was quite attractive, who loved football (a different team to her beloved West Ham but that didn't bother her), seemed to be a bit of a joker, a charmer and very much a masculine man. He had tattoos and knew what to say to her to get the butterflies going in her stomach. As the weeks went on the feelings and attraction was obviously mutual and it went from messages on the site to phone calls and texts to meeting for dates. 

In person 31 year old Damien Bendall was all stories and 'Jack The Lad' persona but this excited Terri, he had a bit of a 'bad boy' streak about him and would brag about certain things that he had supposedly done in the past. What Terri didn't know about him was that he was full of hot air to put it politely. He didn't tell her the real truth about himself or his 'real' past but he loved to brag that he was a bit of a hard case and if anyone dare upset him three times then it would be the last thing they ever did. A lot of people who knew him described him as very much a 'plastic gangster' who had watched the movie 'The Football Factory' one too many times and fancied himself as bit of a Danny Dyer type of guy. It was all a bit pathetic to be honest and does make one wonder what on earth Terri saw in him but he was good at saying the right things to make her feel good. 

Red flags were there for all to see from day one but for some reason Terri chose to brush them aside and I mean that as no disrespect to her. Sometimes when you fall in love you kinda let some things slide but some of the red flags were too shocking to ignore but she believed that she could change him. He bragged about being a Chelsea Football Club fan and had tattoos dedicated to the club as well as scarves and T-shirts. His knuckles were tattooed 'True Blue' as a tribute to the team....all of this but he'd never actually set foot in the club's grounds! Even more disturbing was his legs were covered in Nazi tattoos, he was obsessed with Nazis but when asked a question about Nazi Germany during WW2 he had no clue how to answer, he had absolutely no idea of the history of the Nazis or Germany but he like to pose because he thought the tattoos made him look like a hard man. 

Damien Bendall was a fantasist who just made ridiculous stories up about himself as he went along. The truth was, that he was a pathetic career criminal who had been committing petty crime since childhood. He was involved in numerous thefts and committed acts of arson for which he was in and out of prison. One of the most horrific facts of his past which demonstrates the sheer evil and sick mind of this monster (and a horrible taste of what he was capable of) was his attitude towards animals. A friend of his had a dog who was very ill and he couldn't afford to take the animal to a vet. Damien offered to sort out his friend's dilemma by offering to kill the dog. He said ''I'll do it for free....with a brick.''

The evil and sick monster killed the dog with the brick and acted like the whole thing was no problem. 

Terri and Damien were growing closer very fast and couldn't keep their hands off of each other so it was no surprise when she fell pregnant. Terri's mother and friends were very concerned because they'd not long met online and she'd fallen very hard and fast for him and now she was pregnant. Despite concerns from those closest to her, Terri decided to follow her heart and moved from Sheffield with the children to a place called Killamarsh in Derbyshire into a house with Damien. So basically in a matter of months, they'd met online, met up, fell in love, Terri fell pregnant and now they were all moving in together, all in the space of 5 months. Despite the red flags, Nazi tattoo's on the legs, things not adding up and......the fact that Damien was a serious drug addict didn't seem to fan any flames for Terri. Damien was taking drugs at various points of the day, it wasn't just a social habit, he needed a hit first thing in the morning and he also had alcohol issues too. He had been having issues with hard drugs and alcohol since his teens. He was also prone to mood swings especially if he couldn't get high. It's not known to what level Terri was privy to this but living with someone 24/7 you would think that she would have an idea but none of us know how the situation played out, he may have taken drugs in the bathroom away from the family, who knows? 

Terri knew he had issues and to what extent remains unclear but she told loved ones and friends that she wanted to help him. He was always in and out of trouble and ended up getting on the wrong side of the law again after committing another act of arson. He was placed on probation and had a tag on his ankle to monitor him for curfew. He was bailed to Terri's address and this was a huge, terrifying mistake because Damien Bendall was a ticking timebomb who was continuing to spiral without the drugs. He attended regular meetings with his probation officer and several warning signs were not noted especially when he threatened that he would murder Terri and her children if the relationship was ever to turn sour. He was a highly dangerous individual and a real threat to Terri and the children but despite his unhinged behaviour and terrifying outbursts and threats, he was deemed 'medium risk' instead of 'high risk'. In reality, Damien Bendall should have been locked up but they just let him walk out, it was a pathetic and downright dangerous thing for the probation team to do. It wasn't just the one officer who dealt with him, there was others too and all of them turned a blind eye. 

So Damien Bendall was in the house with Terri, Lacey, John-Paul and Lacey's friend Connie on the evening of the 18th of September 2021. It was a typical Saturday night and the girls had been out in the park earlier. They had set up a little stall trying to sell sweets to help raise money for Cancer Research. Connie Gent was also just 11 years old and a very good friend of Lacey's. The girls had similar personalities and loved to do things to help other people. Connie was invited to stay over at the house that night and the girls were getting ready to go to the bedroom. John-Paul was getting ready to go to his room too. As the children were getting ready for bed, Damien Bendall was downstairs pacing the floor trying to call his drug dealer over and over again and getting more frustrated. He'd been taking drugs all day long and had run out of them, he wanted cocaine. 

For some horrendous reason Damien Bendall picked up a claw hammer and decided he was going to go on a sickening rampage in that house. He attacked his pregnant partner Terri brutally smashing her skull with the claw hammer. The scene was later described as a bloodbath. He then marched upstairs and found 13 year old John-Paul in the bathroom, the poor little boy enduring the same horrific fate as his mother and unborn brother/sister. He then made his way to where the girls were and using the same method, he murdered 11 year old Connie before turning his attentions to Lacey. Both Lacey and John-Paul was later to have been found during autopsy that they had defensive wounds on their arms indicating that they tried to fight for their lives, it's unbelievably heartbreaking. 

Lacey was the last to be murdered and the monster took his time with her as if he had planned it. He later told investigators another pack of lies saying that he had blacked out during the murders and had no idea what he was doing, but that sick freak knew fine well what he was doing! It was like he was acting out a sick fantasy that he had harboured in his mind for some time. Lacey was attacked with the claw hammer and whilst the poor child lay bleeding and dying from her horrific head injuries, he r*ped her, not once but twice and the second time he even placed a mirror in front of himself and Lacey so he could watch himself as he did it. He r*aped Lacey as she lay dying and then committed this horrendous and sickening act of pure evil again when she was deceased. 

He cleaned himself up a little bit but still had some blood on him, he put the games console in a bag and was seen pacing about the streets trying to sell this games console. At some point he had gotten into a taxi and the driver asked him if he had been having a good night to which he replied ''Not too bad....a bit mad.''

He managed to get his hands on some drugs and made his way back to Terri's house where he tried to pathetically end his life with a bread knife but like all raving psychotic narcissists, he couldn't bring himself to do that much damage to himself. He ended up calling the police at 7:26 am that Sunday morning declaring 'I've just murdered 4 people.''

Killamarsh was not known for criminal activity, it was quite a laid back place with nothing much happening but this case shocked the local community to it's core. The police arrived at the house to find Damien Bendall sat outside wearing a long black coat looking calm. There was no red eyes, not a tear to be seen, no emotion at all. The police noticed that he had blood on him and he explained that he had harmed himself with a knife. He told the police what he had done and they called for backup. Keeping him outside, some of the police went in to check the scene and what they found was utterly horrendous. Damien was arrested and taken to the police station.

Throughout everything he never shed a tear, no apologies, no regrets. He joked about the fact that Killamarsh was not used to murder and asked if he had technically murdered five people instead of 4 because Terri was pregnant. He confessed to the murders but not the horrific r*apes. During the autopsy of Lacey's body this sickening fact was discovered with his DNA so he knew there was no getting away from that either. He confessed to everything and was charged with four counts of first degree murder and r*pe of a child under 13. 

In December of 2022, Damien Bendall was given a whole life order meaning he will never leave prison alive. 

Since Damien has been behind bars he has continued to be involved in trouble, in a recent incident he tried to murder a fellow inmate with a hammer. He is set to begin his attempted murder trial in March this year (2026 at time of writing). 

The horrendous failing of the probation staff was called into question and a thorough investigation took place where over 50 failings were found. Apparently they have made a lot of huge changes and spent millions on training, hiring new staff and changing procedures to ensure that this never happens again. Let's hope that it never ever does. 

RIP Terri, your unborn baby, Lacey, John-Paul and Connie. I wish you were still here and you should still be with us. My thoughts also to Jason and the families and friends of all involved. It's so difficult to know what to say but my heart is with them all. 

Further Reading & Sources:

- Damien Bendall: Article | Durham Police

- Damien Bendall: Article | BBC News

- Damien Bendall: Article | The Guardian

- Killamarsh Murders | Wikipedia

- Damien Bendall: Article | The Independent

- Damien Bendall: Court Documents

This was so difficult to write about and research. I know it was a very harrowing read too and I appreciate it if you have made it this far in this post. Thank you to my reader who requested this case and I hope you will all join me in my next post. In the meantime please come say hello on my Socials

I'm currently working on my first book, if you would like to help support and also help keep my regular content going here on my blog, please send a donation to my PayPal here!! Thank you so much, it really helps a lot.

As always, please stay safe and I'll see you next time x

I'm still working on my book as we speak whilst bringing you content here on my blog every week. I'm keeping the exact details of the book under wraps because I'm such a perfectionist and I want it to be perfect! It was never my intention to rush into publishing a book for the sake of it, if I'm going to do it then I'm going to do it right (All of a sudden Wham just popped up in my head lol). 

Anyway, I hope to publish it this year and in the meantime, if you would like to help me with materials, my weekly content etc, please make a donation to my PayPal if you can: here!

I've also been asked about more merch...I am currently working on that too so I will keep you posted!!

If you have any case requests, please send an email to me at jocaledoniankitty@gmail.com

I hope the beginning of 2026 has been kind to you so far and I hope to see you on my Socials too.

Much love x Jo 

*Please be aware that the details in this post are very disturbing. As always, I have tried to be as sensitive as I can be whilst sharing the facts of the case. If you have any questions or comments about this post or any case that I have covered and would like to contact me in confidence, please do so at jocaledoniankitty@gmail.com*

You would think that with Robert Hansen being one of the most terrifying and sadistic Serial Killers in American history, that he would be more widely known but surprisingly few have heard of him. Those who may be unfamiliar with his sickening crimes will never forget about him once you learn the horrors of what this monster did during his reign of terror, which reportedly lasted just over a decade (12 years to be exact). 

Those who have watched the 2013 movie 'The Frozen Ground' may have learned about him and decided to look him up online and found yourself on my blog, in which case...hello and welcome! I hope that some of the details that I share in this post will give you even more insight to how truly evil this man was, his background, his crimes and the aftermath. Other people who have joined me in this horrific story in this particular post (my regular readers) welcome back to you too. This is my first post of 2026 and to say I have begun this year on this blog, on a very dark note...is an understatement, but this is reality and these heartbreaking, disturbing stories need to be told, the victims remembered and the monsters put on full display for all to see for we must never forget the pain and suffering such evil individuals have caused. We also have to remind ourselves how fragile we truly are and as much as you can never predict what is around the corner, the best we can all do is try to keep ourselves as safe as possible. 

So with all that being said, let's get into the background and story of the monster nicknamed 'The Butcher Baker'

Robert Christian Boes Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa (USA) on the 15th of February 1939. His father was a Danish Immigrant and baker who ran a successful bakery business which kept the family afloat. His upbringing was quite strict with a lot of focus on hard work, Robert would be under orders to help out in his father's business and that often meant very long hours. Robert's father taught him from scratch how to have a successful career as a skilled baker. His life at school was quite a difficult one, he struggled with social gatherings, was often described as a loner and had battled with low self-esteem due to a stammer which he was viciously mocked for. The more the other kids bullied him, the worse his stammer would get and he would feel powerless to stop it. To add to the difficulties he faced at school, his confidence with girls was also very low and he wouldn't know how to hold a conversation or behave around them, he appeared awkward, strange, and this would add to the bullying with girls laughing at him which he found even more difficult to deal with. He dreamed of a day that he could stand up to everyone, control his stammer and get some sort of revenge on all who wronged him. 

His experiences at school had a profound effect on him and the anger he felt during these times would forever flash back in his mind throughout the rest of his life. To him, the bullying went on beyond just immature kids teasing, he took everything personal and his experiences at school mentally scarred him. From his early beginnings at school all the way up to his teenage years, school continued to be a never-ending nightmare and the bullies had more fuel because Robert had a serious problem with Acne. No matter what he tried to do to help his skin condition clear up, it just got more irritated and worse. It seemed in his mind that he couldn't win no matter what he did and still the girls continued to laugh at him, nobody would go on a date with him, the isolation became immense. 

Overworked as a child, lonely, no confidence and no friends, Robert retreated into himself completely and created his own dark world, a world in which he was truly powerful. Because he couldn't take his anger and frustration out on the bullies and all who he deemed had wronged him, he chose innocent animals who were smaller and weaker than him. He would hunt animals, torture them, kill them and this gave him a sick sense of control and power. He lived in a world of sick fantasies and as well as having a real taste for hunting, he was fascinated with fire and enjoyed destroying things with fire. 

It was clear that Robert was on a really dark road and at this point he became aware of what he was doing and for some reason or another, he decided he wanted to stop and make a real proper go of things at life. He joined the United States Army Reserves and lasted about a year but it wasn't to be, however he did meet a woman and fell in love which gave him a confidence boost but by then the rot had already set in years before. The moment he started to hunt animals and enjoyed their suffering was a pivotal moment. He took joy in destruction, in causing pain, it gave him a sense of control and power which he felt eluded him in the past. By 1960 he was 21 and married but still had an axe to grind due to pent up anger, regrets and scars he couldn't shake off. Along with a friend he decided to set fire to a school bus garage and ended up behind bars. His wife decided she'd had enough and refused to stand by him so at the age of just 21 he found himself divorced, on the wrong side of the law with no direction in life. 

He didn't serve a full sentence for the arson and was released early, instead of this being a lesson to be learned, he managed to get himself into trouble on a regular basis after this, a prison cell became a regular sight at this period of his life. Despite racking up a criminal record he managed to meet and find love with another woman who he married and later had two children with. For some time after his troubled stint on the wrong side of the law it looked like he was ready to settle down. He and his family moved to Anchorage, Alaska and opened a successful bakery which was a hit with the local community, everyone found him to be a pleasant guy, even the cops would drop by and order donuts and pastries from his store. He had a reputation for being a successful businessman who, like his father, had built his business from the ground up so he had a lot of respect from people. 

Despite the success with the bakery and being a family man you'd have thought that the demons of the past that had continued to haunt him over the years had finally been banished. After all, he'd overcome so many challenges, he had a wife and children who loved him and was a well-liked and popular member of the community but no matter the good things in his life (good things that would have been enough for other people) he couldn't shake off the memories and the blood-lust or the craving for the high that he would get from hunting and destroying things. This time however, as sickening as it was that his targets were animals, his fantasies deepened and spiralled out of control. He wanted to have women at his disposal. For years he fantasised about getting revenge for all those years before when they all laughed at him, he still felt not good enough and he wanted people to suffer. 

So he led a double life, one was the popular, hard-working family man, devoted father and keen hunter (it's not my cup of tea as an animal lover but in some cultures, that horrific act is considered a sport. I have my opinions on hunting, I think it should be banned all over the world, but that's another discussion for elsewhere). The other was a complete monster who had a thirst for abducting, torturing, raping and murdering women. His fantasies of what he wanted to do to women was reportedly to have became a terrifying reality around 1972. At first it began with abductions and sexual assaults which soon escalated to murder. He had an addiction to targeting sex workers who he determined to be easy prey, he would pretend to some of the girls that he was a photographer who could help them out with photographs. He would befriend the girls and offer them money to gain their trust. In 1976 there was a brief pause of his evil crimes when he was imprisoned for theft but he was soon back on the streets again. He just went right back to his sick activities. 

Robert Hansen was a skilled flyer and had his own private plane, he would use his plane as part of his sick ritual with his victims. The women would be abducted and he would have handcuffs in his car, one side of the cuffs was locked into the car so that when the victim was in the passenger seat he would grab them and slap the other cuff onto them preventing them from escaping. He said that it became like second nature. He would tell the girls to go along with what he said and do what he wanted, he promised he would let them go. The girls would be taken aboard his plane and flown to his remote cabin in the Alaskan bush. Sometimes on a rare occasion he would let a girl go, take her back on to his plane and she would be able to escape under the threat that if she ever told anyone what happened, he would tell the police that she was a sex worker. With the majority of young girls and women (his victims were aged between 16 and 41) he would take them to the cabin, torture them, rape them and then play an even sickening game of cat and mouse with them along a river known as the Knik River. He would take the majority of his victims there and he would have them stripped naked and set them out into this location where he would take sickening joy chasing these terrified young women and girls for hours and days at a time as they tried to survive the bitter cold and his raging bullets. He would hunt them, shoot them like he did in the past with the animals he killed. Some of the women died due to the freezing temperatures and their bodies later found during police searches, their remains found in the very same places they tried to hide from him. 

The exact known number of murdered victims of Robert Hansen is not known, the number 17 is thrown around but there are victims who have been identified and so many that have not. His weapons of choice were a .22 Caliber Ruger Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife. One of his victims who had managed to escape was a 17 year old girl by the name of Cindy Paulson in 1983. Cindy had been a working girl who had been abducted and repeatedly tortured and raped by Robert Hansen. It was a miracle that she survived and how she did manage to escape is gut-wrenching. Like so many other terrified women and girls, Cindy had been kidnapped by this monster, taken back to his cabin, chained up, tortured and raped for hours before being taken aboard his private plane to be thrown out into the wilderness to be hunted to death. Cindy in a split second took her chance to escape when he was briefly distracted as they were boarding the plane. She got out and ran for her life. Cindy was quick on her feet and in her mind, she made sure that she left her shoes behind on the plane so that if he did catch-up with her and kill her (in the hope that he was eventually captured by the police) there would be evidence on the plane that she had been there and that she had sadly been one of his victims. 

Cindy was able to get to safety by a kind passer-by and told the police everything that happened. One of the sad facts about this horrible case is the police's narrow-minded opinion in regards to sex work and the whole negative opinion about sex workers not being taken seriously as victims. Robert Hansen was seen as this well-liked, hardworking family man and sadly, Cindy was seen as a (in their words) prostitute who was full of trouble and not to be trusted. Cindy described in details everything that happened, everything about Robert Hansen himself, the locations, the furniture, the plane....everything....but the police were not taking her seriously. Robert Hansen told the police that he did meet Cindy for sexual services and that she was just bitter and wanting revenge because he refused to pay her for sex. Robert had also managed to get a friend to lie for him so he had an alibi. Sickeningly, the cops let him go. This alibi was later retracted as his friend's wife came forward to say that her husband had indeed lied for Robert as he thought that he was just helping his friend, who he had believed, at the time, to be an innocent man. 

You may have seen me talk a lot about the legendary John Douglas (FBI Criminal Profiler) and he was instrumental in this case along with a patrolman known as Officer Baker (who had believed Cindy's story from the start). During the investigation into the missing women and discovering of certain victims, the cops suspected they were on the trail of a serial killer, with John's help they were able to have a complete profile of the suspect they were looking for and incredibly, John had described Robert Hansen completely, all the way down to his speech impediment. 

Robert Hansen's property was eventually searched and the amount of evidence was overwhelming. Like so many serial killers, Robert had kept trophies of his victims, jewelry etc. At first he refused to co-operate but gave up in the end when he knew the odds were all stacked against him. The cops had also found a chilling map which covered the location of where Robert would take his victims to hunt them. On this map there was 37 X's in various locations, some of these X's were identified as burial places but the majority have never been identified. As I mentioned before, he is believed to be responsible for more than the 17 murders he was accused of. He was also accused of raping at least 30 women who had survived their horrific ordeal. In the 12 years of horror that this monster had been carrying out these sick fantasies and murders, nobody knows for sure how many deaths he is responsible for and if the unknown and unidentified victims will ever be found. 

Robert Hansen confessed to just four murders as part of a plea deal and was sentenced to four counts of first-degree murder without the possibility of parole. He died at the age of 75 in August of 2014 after suffering years of ill health. 

RIP to all of the victims of Robert Hansen, the small number who were identified and the ones who may never be identified. My thoughts also to the numerous survivors and to Cindy who by some miracle had managed to escape and tell the world what this monster had done. So much respect also to Officer Baker, John Douglas and the cops who did do the right thing and brought this monster to justice. 

Further Reading & Sources:

- The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers | Book by Michael Newton

- The Hunt: The True Story of Alaska's Most Notorious Serial Killer: Robert Hansen | Book by Ryan Green

- Robert Hansen | Murderpedia

- Robert Hansen | Wikipedia

- Hunter's Game: The FBI Files (Documentary)

- The Frozen Ground (Movie based on the Robert Hansen case)

- Robert Hansen Victim Article | Alaska.Gov

- Anchorage, Alaska | Wikipedia

- The Butcher Baker | Discovery Plus (Documentary)

- John E Douglas | Wikipedia

Thank you as always for taking the time to check out my latest post, I hope you will join me in the next one. 

If you would like to help support my work or my upcoming book, please donate here!

In the meantime, I hope you will join me on my Socials

Stay safe, until next time x 

As we approach the Christmas holiday what better way to spend some of it than to binge-watch a bunch of movies that have been inspired by infamous serial killers. I have listed just 5 below and where you can find them as well as a brief backstory of each serial killer that inspired them. Let me know if you have seen any of these movies and what your opinion of them is (in the comments section below or email me: jocaledoniankitty@gmail.com). 

1: No Man of God: This movie is inspired by the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy's regular correspondence and meetings with legendary FBI special agent Bill Hagmaier (played by actor Elijah Wood) in the run up to his execution in January 1989. Ted Bundy was responsible for the numerous sexual assaults, tortures and murders of young women and girls in the mid to late 70s. His youngest victim was just 12 years old. I have covered Ted Bundy's horrific crimes as few times on this blog. You can find my previous posts about him here: Ted Bundy In His Own Words, here: 10 Facts You May Not Know About Serial Killer......Ted Bundy and The Many Faces of Ted Bundy. 

2: Wolf Creek: This horror movie is one of my favourites and will keep you on the edge of your seat. The story is based on the chilling backpacker murders in the outbacks of Australia by the infamous serial killer Ivan Milat. i previously covered his case here: The Backpacker Serial Killer: Ivan Milat, I also wrote about his nephew Matthew: Like Uncle, Like Nephew: Ivan & Matthew Milat. 

3: The Clovehitch Killer: This movie is based on the infamous Serial Killer Dennis Rader otherwise known as B.T.K (Bind, Torture, Kill). It follows the story of a teenage boy who suspects that his father is a Serial killer. I have written about BTK a few times on my blog in stand alone posts and whilst discussing other cases, but some of the posts you may be interested in if you are wanting to know more of a backstory about him from my take, check out: Shocking Facts & More About Dennis Rader AKA...BTK and 10 Facts About Dennis Rader You May Not Know

4: To Catch A Killer: If you are a regular reader of my blog you just know that I was going to end up mentioning this because I will shout about it until the cows come home. The chilling portrayal of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy by the late, fantastic actor, Brian Dennehy has to be one of the most terrifying and accurate portrayals of a Serial Killer on screen. This movie is decades old but is still one of the best. A lot of books and documentaries about John Wayne Gacy are out there but I know my readers like to read my take on his crimes and the investigation. I have previously talked about John on this blog a few times but some posts that you might be interested in are: ''I May Be The 34th Victim....4 Other People Had Keys To My House...- John Wayne Gacy'',  10 Facts You May Not Know About John Wayne Gacy and the post I had written about the young man Jason Moss who became so obsessed with Serial Killers that he began writing to Gacy and the pair developed a sinister friendship: John Moss: The Young Man Who Wrote To Serial Killers & It Ruined His Life

5: The Frozen Ground: The infamous Serial Killer Robert Hansen also known as the 'Butcher Baker' was responsible for the horrific sexual assaults, abductions and murders of 17+ women. In The Frozen Ground he is chillingly portrayed by the actor John Cusack. Nicolas Cage also stars as the Detective leading the investigation.It's quite a gripping film and of course the backstory is very disturbing. I will be writing about Robert Hansen in more depth in a future post but check out the movie if you can. 

Well, those are 5 movies that I have included in this post but we know there are so much more, what are your recommendations? Leave them below if you like. I hope you have a wonderful holiday and (Merry Christmas) to those like myself who celebrate and.....all the best for 2026!! 

[If you have enjoyed my posts this year and found them informative and want to help support my work, please consider buying me a coffee here, thank you soooooo much!!)

Stay safe & see you in the next post (in 2026!) x 

 (From left to right. Brian Walshe & Ana Walshe. Picture credits: Boston Magazine and Fox Business)

On Monday the 15th of December 2025 we finally got the verdict from the jury in the disappearance of Ana Walshe case. The verdict (as well knew it would be) was guilty: murder in the first degree!! I have followed this case from the moment that Ana was reported missing and it has been one hell of a heartbreaking and very sinister ride. 

I would be asked to write about this case but I never did because I knew that Brian's trial would be coming up and I wanted to respect the law, plus I wanted to give my opinion once it had all been said and done. Now that the verdict is in, we can all talk freely about it. There's no doubt that this psychotic, evil man had murdered Ana. We know that he had sickeningly dismembered her body after researching over and over again on Google....''How to get rid of the smell of a dead body'', ''How to clean up blood?'', ''What tools are best for cutting up a body?''. It was hard enough when Ana went missing but when her husband was arrested and it was clear that he had something to do with her vanishing, the more details that came out were like something out of a horror movie and to see him handcuffed with a creepy smile on his face after what he had done, it really was the stuff of nightmares. 

Brian Walshe was always a very dark and twisted individual, the only person who seemed to have any time for him was his mother (who continues to remain devoted to her son) but the rest of his family disowned him. He was known as a pathological liar, a psychopath who could never be trusted and his petty crimes (selling fake paintings and pieces of art) soon grew into violence and murder. 

Ana was originally from Serbia and had worked so hard to get to where she was in America. She had worked her way up from the bottom of the Hospitality industry and had become very successful in real estate. She had moved to the US in 2005 and had married Brian Walshe in 2016, the pair went on to have 3 children together. 

Ana loved her young sons so much and on her Instagram page she would post about her children, she was such a proud mother. At the time of her reported disappearance her boys were only aged 2, 4 and 6. To anyone from the outside looking in, Ana and Brian had it all, the perfect family and the perfect home in Cohasset, Massachusettes but what nobody knew, was that the picture was far from perfect. Brian Walshe was not the well-mannered family and businessman he had portrayed himself to be. He had suffered from mental health issues since his youth and was a pathological liar who even stole from his own family. His wealth was not down to hard work, grit and determination, it was down to cutting corners and conning people out of money with fake antiques, paintings and other items. 

There was no doubt that Ana had loved her husband but it is unclear when she had found out that his business dealings were not legit or if she had always known. She did use an Ebay account to help sell some of his fake items but it's unclear if she was well aware of the fact that these items were fake. Brian had made a lot of money out of conning people and had built a whole lifestyle on it but eventually it all caught up with him when he tried to con an art expert who collected Andy Warhol paintings. The whole situation backfired on him and before he knew it, the police were involved and all of his dodgy dealings were brought out into the light. 

Whilst Brian was getting his karma, Ana seemed to be riding high in her career, going from strength to strength and soon enough she was earning way more money than her husband. The difference was that Ana's financial achievements were the result of hard work. At some point the marriage began to suffer due to Brian facing a trial for his fraud and Ana having to travel back and forth for work whilst keeping the family afloat financially as Brian's assets had been frozen. 

With the troubles and stress in the marriage, Ana began a close relationship with a man who was a friend at first but it soon developed into something more. Brian had suspicions that his wife was seeing someone else and together with his mother they hired a private investigator to follow Ana for a year. They soon got word from the private investigator that their suspicions were true. 

The last time that Ana was seen alive was on New Year's Eve of 2022, both her and Brian had spent the evening drinking champagne and having dinner with a close friend. Ana had also sent text messages throughout the evening to her friends and family. In the early hours of the 1st of January 2023 she had attempted to make some phone calls to her mother, sister and another close friend but she wasn't able to reach them. 

On the 4th of January both Brian and her employer had reported Ana missing. Brian claimed that Ana had left their home due to an emergency with one of the houses she was involved with back in Washington, D.C. and had to board a flight but although there was a record of her due to take a flight back to work she did not board and none of her bank cards had been used either. 

Brian's behaviour for a husband who's wife had gone missing was quite bizarre, he didn't seem to be that much upset or concerned. The police kept a close eye on him and after a proper investigation they found that he had been using Google Search to look up how to dispose of a dead body, how to get rid of the smell of a dead body etc, he'd also been captured on CCTV cameras at DIY stores buying cleaning products as well as various tools. It was very disturbing footage because you knew what he was buying all of those items for, to dismember his wife and dispose of her body. 

He was soon in police custody and two years after Ana was originally reported missing, he stood trial in December of 2025 where he came up with the most ridiculous story that he did not kill Ana, he claimed to have found her deceased in bed and panicked. He claimed that he didn't know what to do so he just dismembered her body and dumped her remains in trash bags. Throughout the whole trial there was not a flicker of emotion from him, not even when pictures of Ana were shown or the details of the blood and DNA found in the house. There were no tears and not a shred of remorse. 

The jury found him guilty of first degree murder and when they read out the verdict he just stood there and nodded in agreement. Still no tears or emotion, it was like this monster had no human emotion in his body. 

He is due to be sentenced in two days time and will most likely be a life sentence as is should be but I will update this post when I know of the exact term. 

It's a heartbreaking story of a beautiful woman who came to America for a better life after working so hard to make a good life for her, her boys and her family, only to be murdered and for what was an amazingly inspirational story to turn into the most horrific story, it's just so heartbreaking. Brian had previous violence incidences with Ana and had threatened to kill her and a friend but for some reason or another, Ana decided to continue the marriage with him even when he physically abused her. 

All we know is, that Ana is sadly no longer with us because of this cold-hearted monster and there are some people who have made comments about the fact that she had an affair, whatever went on, Ana did not deserve to be murdered and her boys did not deserve to have their mother taken away from them. Brian Walshe is 100% responsible for everything that had happened. He was a ticking timebomb who got by on taking advantage of others. 

RIP Ana you will never be forgotten and my heart goes out to your boys. 

Further Reading & Sources:

- The Murder of Ana Walshe | Wikipedia

- Brian Walshe: Article | NPR

- Ana Walshe | Instagram

- Brian Walshe: Article | CBS News

- Brian Walshe: Trial | Court TV

UPDATE: Brian Walshe was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on the 18th of December 2025. As usual he displayed no flicker of emotion as he learned his fate. We may never know the true events of what happened to Ana and why he did what he did but that monster is now behind bars where he belongs. Ana's boys will be on everyone's minds and the one positive of all of this is that Ana's family and friends have expressed that they are going to do everything in their power to ensure that the boys are well looked after and will always know what a truly amazing woman their mother was. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my latest post and please feel free to leave your thoughts below or email me at jocaledoniankitty@gmail.com 

Stay safe, until next time....x 

 (Join me on Instagram as well as my other socials, check out my Linktree page) 

Hey everyone, I know you've probably clicked on my blog expecting to see what my latest post is about, well, you were probably aware that it was my birthday a few weeks ago. I originally planned to take just a little bit of time to enjoy my birthday and come back all refreshed, however...life got in the way as it often does and I ended up taking a break for a little bit longer than I wanted to. I just wanted to put a note on here to let you know that I will be posting again next weekend and I will make up for my absence. I have been really busy in my personal life, something unexpected happened and I had to work really hard to sort it all out, I didn't have time to sit down, study and to be honest, I couldn't focus. 

Now I am ready to get stuck into another case and my usual routine will be back to normal as of next week! I also want to say a HUGE thank you for 1,704,303 views on this blog....that is INCREDIBLE!!! You don't know how much it means to me. 

So, mark your calendars cause in the words of the legendary Arnie (as the Terminator).....I'll be back (next week lol)

PS: In the meantime, I will be on all of my Socials as usual. If you would like to help support my work, please make a donation via my PayPal 

Thank you x