The Murder Of Milly Dowler
On March 25th 2002 pretty 15 year old blonde school girl Milly Dowler was on her way home from school with friends when she decided to get off the train early and have a snack and a bit of gossip with her friends, when she finished her chips and said goodbye she would never be seen alive again and be part of Britain's biggest missing person searches. At first authorities and media had decided that she had left of her own will and either ran away or had met someone and was in hiding, which was derived from police reading her diary.
Pretty blonde Marsha Louise McDonnell, a 19-year-old teen was returning from a night out with friends when she was attacked with a hammer and molested after getting off of a bus, she was found only yards from her home, she died two days later and although in the same area that Milly Dowler went missing (West London) police did not see a connection. It was almost a year later when pretty school girl Kate Sheedy was on her way home from with friends when she'd got off a bus and noticed a white labourers van with darkened windows and she had a creepy feeling that she was being watched so she crossed the street to avoid it. As she did the van accelerated and mounted the sidewalk and ran her over, rolling down the window the driver looked to see if she was dead, when he noticed her still breathing he ran over her again. This time seeing she wasn't moving he sped away into the night.
But the driver had made a fatal mistake, although seriously injured, Kate Sheedy was still alive. When police interviewed her she described a fat sweaty man driving a white labourers van. They now were looking for a white van and a suspect but had yet to connect the crimes although all three girls looked remarkably alike. Am'elie Delagrange was a 22-year-old French student visiting the UK and was returning from having a few drinks with friends after work. Tired and a bit tipsy she fell asleep and missed her stop, when she asked the driver how long she would have to wait for a return bus, she decided 15 minutes was too long and made the fatal mistake mistake of taking a short cut through the park. She was attacked on the green with a hammer and molested and died that night.
It was after this murder police realised the girls where all almost identical and had all disappeared after getting off of a bus. Looking at hours and hours CCTV footage they saw that each bus the girls were on had been followed by a white labourers van. When policed the description of the white van driven by a fat sweaty man to the media, a woman called police and said that it sounded like her ex-husband, who had what she described as an un-natural hatred for pretty young blonde girls.
When police put him under surveillance, they witnessed a man approaching young pretty blonde school girls at bus stops saying lewd things to them and offering them rides. They also discovered that his girlfriend only lived a couple of hundred feet from where Milly Dowler had disappeared out of thin air, they knew they had their man.
Levi Bellfield , night club bouncer and wheel clamper was arrested on November 22nd 2004 for the murder of Marsha Louise McDonnell and subsequent charges would follow for the man who had West London in terror, known as The Bus stop killer and Hammerman.
The Murder of Millie Dowler still remaind on the U.K's most shocking crimes in the fact it happed in broad daylite on a main road with CCTV camera's everywhere.
CLASSIFICATION: Serial Killer/ Pedophile
ORIGIN: England
ACTIVE YEARS: 21 March 2002-19 August 2004
METHOD: hit and run, strangulation, Hammer, torture and .
NUMBER OF VICTIMS: 4 (high probability of more)
DATE OF ARREST: November 22nd 2004
STATUS: Currently serving a life sentence