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[SPEAKER_00]: Hello?
[SPEAKER_00]: We all have disturbed youths in our communities, kids who make everyone uneasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: The warning signs are always there, but not much can be done until one of those signs turns, uproots itself, that comes charging after you down the street, red faced, screaming stop, bad signs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually these kids stop showing them, usually because they've grown out of it, but occasionally because they've grown into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quietly becoming exactly what we all feared.
[SPEAKER_00]: A sleeper cell, dormant, napping until their nefarious nature is fully nurtured, awakening once they see a sign.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Dark Topic of Your Host, Jack Luna.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a true crime happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the late 1980s when the so-called green-shane rapist began terrorizing the sleepy suburb of Plumsted, located in southeast London, England.
[SPEAKER_00]: The green-shane, or the green-shane walk, refers to a thick winding belt of forest, peppered with pathways that run in and around Plumsted Common.
[SPEAKER_00]: an excellent place to raise children.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is until a rapist targeting lone women pushing crams decides to make it his feeding grounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of places to hide along the green chain, a lot of places to run.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it would take five years of authority scratching their heads over the absurdity of nearly 100 unsolved attacks before they could put a name and face to the predator, who managed to do as he pleased.
[SPEAKER_00]: First feasting as the green chain rapist, then gorging on seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: as the Plum-Stead Ripper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me take off my top.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's an unfortunate bit of misspeak there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let me take off my top.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of mistakes and misses by investigators in this case, so maybe fitting unlike my top.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I need to get it off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me take it from the top and explore a handful of these horrific assaults that gripped the green chain before ripping it.
[SPEAKER_00]: August 10, 1989.
[SPEAKER_00]: The green-chain rapist, aka the GCR.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spice from the woods on a two-story brick plump-stead common home.
[SPEAKER_00]: At around 7am, he spots a woman in a night dress, open the back door to a home he's been watching, to let a cat out.
[SPEAKER_00]: In doing so she lets dare the bag, that a single mother, the GCR's favorite, may live here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The green-chain rapist is a prolific peeping tom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Over the next hour, he goes to different vantage points in the woods watching each window closely from the cover of birch trees, his pale face blending with their peeling parchment.
[SPEAKER_00]: A young mother living at pure at road with her children aged eight and five has soon been confirmed by the GCR, as the only adult in the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: The backyard is separated from the common by a chain-link fence that is a need of repair.
[SPEAKER_00]: He steps over it, after observing the mother handout breakfast to the kids, then hand up stairs to get ready for work.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR enters the home, quietly through the front door, and pass the kids who are too busy eating to notice him.
[SPEAKER_00]: At eight thirty a.m. is the mother and maybe he is dressing or applying makeup following her shower, the GCR, wearing a beige scarf to cover the lower half of his face, enters her bedroom holding a utility knife at one hand, and a finger to his guarded lips in the other.
[SPEAKER_00]: The terrified mother, fearing mainly for her children, does as she's told.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a running theme with a GCR.
[SPEAKER_00]: He targets mothers with their kids, as he knows they'll be more compliant with a threat to their baby's looming.
[SPEAKER_00]: GCR demands his victim get on the bed, where he immediately pulls her shirt off, and ties her wrists with flex cord, and then rapes her, ejaculating inside her, quick and dirty, it's just how it was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Later, this perpetrator, the GCR, would become known for his impotence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Most of the rapes occurred in the green chain in public, which perhaps affected his performance, but not here in the relative safety of a home.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before leaving, he untied the victim in order to stay in the corner and count to 20.
[SPEAKER_00]: Upon exiting, he said, But what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to be a bit of advice?
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't leave your back door open.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR then calmly walked downstairs, passed the children, and out the front door.
[SPEAKER_00]: The woman, her name is Julia, watched from her window as he left through the common and soon lost sight of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: She reported the rape to the police and was able to provide a sketch, a white male, mid-twenties, five-hater so, slim-build, face like a potato.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could have been any young man from the whole of England with that description, though not at all one.
[SPEAKER_00]: 5-8 was a majorly misleading number.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR's true height was around 6-3.
[SPEAKER_00]: It turns out he had poor posture, as most insecure young man of height do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though he was no slouch, when it came to approaching women with a utility knife.
[SPEAKER_00]: In October of 1989, a 23-year-old local weirdo named Bob Napper confessed to his mother Paul Leane that he had raped a woman in her home at Plumstead Common.
[SPEAKER_00]: Paul Leane contacted the police to have this investigated and was told that no offensive had reported in Plumstead.
[SPEAKER_00]: Paul Leane thought that her troubled potato face boy must be having another one of his fantasy episodes.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a little sick in the head, you see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Police did have a report of a rate, but it did not happen in Plumstead Common.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was recorded to have happened in Winds Common, and by a much shorter perpetrator.
[SPEAKER_00]: Winds Common is where the home was technically located overlooking Plumstead Common.
[SPEAKER_00]: A major oversight, but an honest mistake, though mistakes like this are unforgivable under such circumstances.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps nearly a hundred rapes and three-none murders could have been avoided, had it not been made.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh well.
[SPEAKER_00]: March 10, 1992.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR spots a potential victim walking the darkening woods of the green shane, alone, at around 8.45pm.
[SPEAKER_00]: The victim was making your way through an alley when she heard footsteps about 10 yards behind her.
[SPEAKER_00]: She walked faster through a courtyard and into another alleyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: As she hurried along, the GCR quietly closed the distance and grabbed a right arm from behind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Holding a knife to her stomach, he dragged her over to an open garage and pushed her up against the wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He tried to kiss her and told her to open her jacket.
[SPEAKER_00]: She refused so he forced her clothing up and viciously grabbed her breasts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then without warning, he punched her hard several times on her left cheek smashing her head into the wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He pulled off her jeans and underwear and pushed his prey to the ground, kicking her legs apart.
[SPEAKER_00]: He pulled down his pants and attempted to rape her, but he couldn't get an erection.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR stood up and kicked her in the head six or seven times, then hurried off down the alleyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: The victim managed to get to her intended destination, a friend's house nearby.
[SPEAKER_00]: This friend couldn't recognize her for the damage done, and Bob Napper, whom will meet properly after a few more improper acts, remained unrecognizable as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'd wear a ball of clava often.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though he was openly out in about most days, and when he wasn't stalking women, he was walking them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Home from work, as they feared the green-shane rapist.
[SPEAKER_00]: March 18, 1992.
[SPEAKER_00]: This to field off King John's walk, a link of the green chain.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a more rural area where the walkways run through open fields where horses graze.
[SPEAKER_00]: At about 8pm a woman is spotted by the GCR walking south on King John's walk.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was dark, especially since the area had no lighting at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had chosen it for this reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR knew every link of the green chain walk, intimately, knew every tree for that matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: He spent so much time rubbed up behind them, spying one with the wood.
[SPEAKER_00]: The victim heard his steps coming from behind her, and she turned.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't quite right, something had spooked the GCR, and he walked bristly by, soon disappearing up ahead on the path, a shadow shifting back into the blackness.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was as if he'd never existed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he had, and his quarry can sense that he was now hiding up ahead, which was correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: The young woman then decided to take a shortcut across Vista Field to where a parent's house was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Going off the path at night wasn't advised, that was, unless the green-chain rapist was waiting around the next bend.
[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't get far before the GCR quietly caught up, moving swiftly through the grass, like a six foot snake, soon confronting her with a six inch knife to make up for a six-year-old size.
[SPEAKER_00]: You get the idea, six, six, six.
[SPEAKER_00]: The devil couldn't get it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the knife often would work as substitute.
[SPEAKER_00]: He told her to get down underneath promising quotes that he wasn't going to hurt her or screw her.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just wanted to put his tongue in her mouth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh well, then by all means then, he now between her legs and push her backwards, lifting her clothing and lying on top of her, kissing and sucking at her breasts.
[SPEAKER_00]: And such details are rarely shared, too sexual, too fucked up, but of course this is about power too and it needs to be spoken about.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR took his time terrorizing and often like to make fantasy, pretending perhaps to
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR then asked the girl to co-wrote, go down on me.
[SPEAKER_00]: She pretended not to know what that meant.
[SPEAKER_00]: Frustrated, he tried to rape her, but couldn't get in an erection.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he finally gave up, he placed the knife between her bare legs and said, you could have got this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He moved the knife upper body between her breasts and towards shin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he got up and walked away.
[SPEAKER_00]: The victim dressed and ran to a nearby shop where she called police, who were like, shit, we keep on getting calls like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: May 24, 1992, 2 p.m. Another unnamed victim was traveling the green shane walk.
[SPEAKER_00]: This time in broad daylight, this time pushing a stroller with a two-year-old girl in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her daughter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Up ahead, the young mother noticed the figure of a man in the distance crossing the path,
[SPEAKER_00]: She continued, eventually passing the spot where the shadow had crossed.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR you'd think would have crossed twice once the path and twice this young woman's mind, but news spread funny in 1992, unevenly and not nearly as thick as today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once the GCR was satisfied with the thrill of ambush, he stepped out ten yards behind
[SPEAKER_00]: The victim heard footsteps and felt something fall across her face before it tightened around her neck.
[SPEAKER_00]: She instinctively let go of the stroller, it rolled ahead for a moment while the GCR yankter to the ground and landed several hard blows to her head and body.
[SPEAKER_00]: Violence was the main motivation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to hurt women, more than have them.
[SPEAKER_00]: GCR tried to remove her top, but she resisted so he pulled in her shorts to rape her, but again was not able to get in an erection.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gave her another shot to the eye, then stood up suddenly, as if remembering he had somewhere else to be, then pulled up his pants and ran off.
[SPEAKER_00]: The victim was able to stagger to her mother-in-law's door where she collapsed.
[SPEAKER_00]: The stroller again, rolling away a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: She suffered severe bruising to her head and an injury to the right eye that resulted in a loss of vision.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody can see, or understand, where this all could be headed, or where it was coming from.
[SPEAKER_00]: The slew of victims estimated between 80 and over 100 in a five-year span provided a description of the rapist, white, slim, five-seven, five-eight, short-brown, mocy hair parted on the side, spotted complexion between the ages of 20 and 30 years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: DNA samples were recovered from some attacks, DNA was in its infancy, but they still kept it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The DNA would match eventually to one assailant.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many suspects were swabbed, but the one they needed had refused to give a sample.
[SPEAKER_00]: A local weirdo who had been asked through his mother to come to the station, but had to this point failed to show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert Napper had been overlooked and then forgotten.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper would soon wake in stretch, but for now, he remained, a slim sleeping giant.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert Clive Napper was born February 25th, 1966 in Erath London, England.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the eldest son of Brian, a driving instructor, and his mum Pauline Napper.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was witness to the violence and flicking on his mother by his father throughout his childhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the time Napper was nine, his parents divorced and his father, after stalking and terrorizing the family for a while, decided to start over in Australia.
[SPEAKER_00]: Young Napper was devastated, he and his father had been close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper had even opened up to his father at a young age that he thought that he might be going crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't much support for the troubled boy, and even less once dad left.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though he did receive some reassurance from his old man that if little Bobby Napper was anything like him, then yes, he was probably mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper would later be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and paranoid schizophrenia.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though society diagnosed him as… Weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper had difficulties at school.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a loner, never fit in.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was an easy target for bullies.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody hated him, actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Napper hated everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the age of 12, a family friend offered to take Napper camping.
[SPEAKER_00]: And while there he sexually assaulted him.
[SPEAKER_00]: which didn't help matters much.
[SPEAKER_00]: The family friend was arrested and napper became extremely reclusive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unable to sort out what had happened to him and developing a perverse, a district outlook that he practiced on his siblings, beating them up, confining them, spying on his sister in the shower while whackin' off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty normal, older brother stuff in the 70s though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not acceptable today.
[SPEAKER_00]: In August of 1986, 20-year-old Napper experienced his first arrest.
[SPEAKER_00]: He pled guilty to carrying a loaded air rifle in public and shooting it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was given a conditional discharge for one year.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had loads of fantasy stories to tell, which pissed everyone off with their clear fabrication.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper claimed that he'd met the queen while in prison, and that he'd once been taken by the IRA and tortured.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said that his fingers haven't cut off by the IRA, but he was able to miraculously grow them back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Needless to say, Napper should have been locked up early, just not in a prison cell.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a padded one.
[SPEAKER_00]: In his 20s, he found work at a plastic's factory as a machine operator, sorting and packing and snipping.
[SPEAKER_00]: The job was pretty mundane and boring, easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper was described as a good worker and created no real problems, other than being considered a crate by the late 80s, early 90s, when the green-chain rapist and plum-stead ripper were active.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper lived alone in a flat on Plumsted High Street.
[SPEAKER_00]: As mentioned, at night some of his female co-workers who felt on safe walking the green shame, they would ask Robert to walk them home.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper was a strange fellow at work and known privately as, quote, The Creep, for the way he stared at female colleagues and, for the hunched, muddering manner of his whilst working.
[SPEAKER_00]: But still, the girl's felt he was harmless and, and that perhaps his bizarre nature would scare off an attacker.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry, ladies, you're safe with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know the green chain like the back of my father's hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not my father.
[SPEAKER_00]: He left mother and us, but his hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I knew that, oh yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so on and so on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The creep was mostly quiet until he wasn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Despite some early warning signs, Napper managed to blend in.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only one who knew better was his mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that in 1989, Napper confessed to her that he raped a woman in Plumstead Common, and she believed him, even if the police would not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Police later believed that Napper was responsible for most of the 70 to over 100 rapes and assaults in the Commons reported it between 1989 and 1993.
[SPEAKER_00]: In 1992, there was a report of a man attempting to print local police letterhead at a print shop.
[SPEAKER_00]: police soon arrested Robert Napper after a short chase from the print shop.
[SPEAKER_00]: With his arrest, they were able to search his one room flat and get his fingerprints.
[SPEAKER_00]: He kept his place very tidy.
[SPEAKER_00]: In it, they found a red metal toolbox containing several hunting knives, a pistol with a bunch of ammunition, and a map with markings on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper was sentenced to three months in prison for attempting to impersonate police and for unlawfully possessing a firearm.
[SPEAKER_00]: The map and the remaining contents of the red toolbox that made up a hitcat were not linked to the green chain rapes, even though this map had notes and markings on locations that corresponded with where some of the green trail rapes had occurred.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the locations clearly marked and circled, a plum-stead common patch of birch trees, the provided cover and a view of the home where a woman had been raped upstairs, back in 1989, while her children ate breakfast.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the A to Z map, everything was, in a way, spelled out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spots to hide, spots to stock, spots special to his free.
[SPEAKER_00]: To napper, it read like a menu.
[SPEAKER_00]: of which murder was about to be added.
[SPEAKER_00]: July 15th, 1992, 10 a.m. Near the windmill on Wimbledon Common London.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, yes, the windmill at Wimbledon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nearby the tennis courts.
[SPEAKER_00]: 23-year-old mother, wife, and part-time model, Rachel Nichols' body was found in the brush of a Wimbledon Park, frequented by hundreds of people a day, maybe 200 people had passed her body in the brush before a man saw her feet that day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not a place you would expect an attack to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whimmel then is a well-off part of London and synonymous with snobbishness.
[SPEAKER_00]: How dare someone kill someone in Whimmel then?
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially publicly, my dear God, weak to hear how it happened, lady.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had been taking a stroll with her dog, Molly, a lab mix, and her son, Alex, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper approached and put a knife to her throat, she dropped the leash in the dog ran away.
[SPEAKER_00]: As his owner was dragged into the woods, the two-year-old boy crying in the drag, Napper smacks him in the head with a red toolbox, his hit kit, and the toddler goes to sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rachel attacks Napper, and for her effort is stabbed, a lot in the brush, then raped.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or attempted to be, the knife does most of the work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper flees and the mother Rachel is left to die beside her baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: Baby Ox soon wakes up, confused by all the damage to mummy, and tries to bandage her up with fallen leaves and trash.
[SPEAKER_00]: A man walking by spots this serious game of doctor, and as he approaches through the trees, hiding the mess, he hears a little voice saying, quote, get up, mommy, Rachel will never get up.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's gone as his napper.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's seen washing his hands in a nearby stream, footprints left by the water or later
[SPEAKER_00]: The two almost three-year-old is questioned, but can only talk about his missing dog, Molly.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happened to Mommy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it was too tough to talk about, especially for a kid just learning how to talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Richel's husband, Andre, gives a statement to the press called, this person has to be found before another person is killed, and another family destroyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had been stabbed 49 times.
[SPEAKER_00]: This level of violence suggests that because he couldn't perform the rate, Napper instead stabbed her at a rage and emulation.
[SPEAKER_00]: The use of a knife seems to often represent an erection for a killer, in such cases.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had been attacked and murdered in front of her two-year-old son-outs.
[SPEAKER_00]: The police had not much to go on, but witnesses were interviewed, including one who had seen Napper washing his hands of the matter, and a sketch was made.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because of his resemblance to the sketch and witnesses putting him in the Wimbledon Commons on the day of the murder, a local weirdo named Colin Stag became the prime suspect.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was taken in for an interview where he adamantly denied the crime.
[SPEAKER_00]: He told police he woke up that morning with a bad headache, so he took his dog out for a walk through the common to clear it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He returned home at 9.30 a.m. and fell asleep on his couch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then was awake in around 10.30 a.m. when he heard helicopters and police banging down his door.
[SPEAKER_00]: Black magic symbols were found all over his house.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which he tried to explain had purpose in the Wica religion and represented life, not the perceived evils of Satan.
[SPEAKER_00]: police still felt confident.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had their man.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a probable suspect.
[SPEAKER_00]: He resembled the witness description of a man seen washing his hands in the creek, then running through the brush around Wemilton through a cemetery on the morning of the murder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stag had a believable story, but no one in his life to confirm his alibi, except his dog.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't run away.
[SPEAKER_00]: But unfortunately, it
[SPEAKER_00]: couldn't talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: The pressure from the public to catch the brazen killer kept police focused on stag instead of looking for other suspects.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't help that this occurred in broad daylight to an affluent woman of an affluent area.
[SPEAKER_00]: It shouldn't make it different, but when the rich feel threatened, you know, damn well, that something is going to get done about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if an innocent man needs to be locked up, jobs are on the line.
[SPEAKER_00]: Higher-ups are going to slash them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, they secured a confession of sorts from Colin Stag and he was locked up on suspicion of the murder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which, for the time being, was good enough for everyone around Wilburton.
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, there was no reason to connect this Wimbledon murder with the green-chain rapist and club-stead common due to the distance apart, but 20 miles.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charges against Stag would later be dropped when a judge threw out his case after learning of how Stag had confessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Investigators had used a honey trap sting to secure a shaky confession.
[SPEAKER_00]: A concern lover of stags had come to police believing that because of stags' proclivity for rust sex and knife play, he should be a suspect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Over the course of months, this woman recorded conversations with Stag, where she led him to confess to the woman in murder.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would not openly confess until finally relanting as part of what she posed as a sexual fantasy of hers.
[SPEAKER_00]: To roleplay as the woman in victim and he tell her of all the horrible things he did, much of which was known publicly by this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was of course fucked, and investigators had to know they were setting stag up for a fall here, I mean, what guy can resist cosplaying as a rapist and killer of a mother while her child groggy watches?
[SPEAKER_00]: Any of us, Phil?
[SPEAKER_00]: Could you resist that?
[SPEAKER_00]: DNA from the Wimbledon scene would not be properly recovered until 2004 when the science had evolved enough to test microscopic blood from the victim's sweater, which was eventually matched to Robert Napper.
[SPEAKER_00]: But by then, Stag had been humiliated for a decade after having been arrested, perated by the Wimbledon media like a fruit, the Wimbledon tennis trophy has a pineapple on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then put away for a year until it all blew over and a judge freed him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Colin Stag received 700,000 pounds, a hefty amount, and an apology for having spent nearly a decade as a pariah of the area.
[SPEAKER_00]: Proceeded by 14 months in prison, thought to be the killer of a mother whom he'd first attempted to rape in front of her child, whom he'd hit in the head with a fucking rock was what they thought in broad daylight.
[SPEAKER_00]: which is considered a cool crime to other prisoners, despite it being in Wimbledon, at least most other criminals didn't find this to be a cool crime.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper, who was locked up by then for this next shocking murder, no doubt that what Stag was in for like pineapple, was pretty sweet.
[SPEAKER_00]: The GCR, the green chain rapist, continues to terrorize Plumstead, culminating in another mother murder on November 3, 1993, a year and a half past Wimmelton.
[SPEAKER_00]: The victims were mothers, Samantha Bissett, 27, and her daughter, Jasmine, four years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some background info on the mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha was an only child born February 25th, 1967.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had a comfortable childhood and excelled academically, but when her father died and unexpectedly in 1980, she and her mother moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she didn't adjust very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: She and her father are both an artist and bonded over this.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he died, and when she was at a young teenager,
[SPEAKER_00]: The relationship she had with her mother became strained and Samantha spent most of her time with her grandmother, her great suffered and she fell into a crowd that were into the drug scene.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha eventually dropped to the school and left Scotland, moving to the south of England.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her drug use would continue and she lived the life of a hippie for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometime later she entered rehab and met a man named Andrew McNeil.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a social worker of hers.
[SPEAKER_00]: The relationship was on and off and when Andrew left to return to his hometown of Hampshire, she found herself pregnant by him.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was only 22, and this social worker of hers didn't want anything to do with this situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha, she didn't pursue the matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, she decided to fix her life herself.
[SPEAKER_00]: She gave up the drugs, was able to kick the habit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who said social workers can't make a difference?
[SPEAKER_00]: Jasmine was born in July 20, 1989.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha moved into a hostel for single mothers and there she met Conrad Elem, A.K.A.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kozy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kozy was a true friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: They never became a real couple.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were friends with benefits.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he was kind to both Samantha and Jasmine.
[SPEAKER_00]: They moved in together at one a.
[SPEAKER_00]: He filled Terrace in Winds Common on August 21, 1999, a 1960s three story terraced row of houses that backed onto Winds Common.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha, she worked hard to give her daughter everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was a good mother, strong-minded, and her life-revelled render daughter.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are plenty of home movies that have circulated through documentaries on the case, and they are heartbreaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: Considering what was to become a
[SPEAKER_00]: back to November 3, 1993.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha left her flat to pick up Jasmine at Abbey Wood Nursery.
[SPEAKER_00]: She walked the 25-minute green chain walk there and had a range for a cab to pick her up there at 330 pm when Jasmine got off a school to take her and her daughter back home.
[SPEAKER_00]: Four-year-old Jasmine emerged with another drawing to add to the growing gallery on her bedroom wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: The taxi driver dropped them off at 340 p.m. and he would be the last person to see them alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: After dinner, Samantha gave Jasmine a bath and at about 7 p.m. she took her to a room to read her a book and once Jasmine was asleep, she put her inner caught.
[SPEAKER_00]: A neighbor heard the clattering of dishes as Samantha cleaned up and went to bed.
[SPEAKER_00]: At about three a.m. another neighbor heard screams and looked at her window seeing lights on at one a.
[SPEAKER_00]: He filled terrace.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the bottom apartment.
[SPEAKER_00]: You ever seen the apartment building?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's multiple floors, but they have the bottom of partmosis is accessible from the common, from the green chain trail from the woods from
[SPEAKER_00]: The screaming that this witness heard stopped, almost as soon as it started, and this witness went back to bed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another witness later said that he had heard two men arguing from the flat, and one of these men was heard to say,
[SPEAKER_00]: Later, this would be realized to be napper, talking to himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Likely in the midst of a schizophrenic episode, where he was using two voices.
[SPEAKER_00]: To work himself, through the horror he was inflicting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Other tenants at Heathfield Territz entered their flats through a common entryway.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha's, like I said, was the end unit on the ground floor and had its own separate entryway.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dana flight his stairs along the side of the building, and then up top it had a balcony to the second floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: which you can almost jump to from a little hill below it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if you were like six foot three and standing up straight, Samantha had spotted a facet or window.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two nights previous and I told her boyfriend cozy about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was no doubt the prolific peeper and green chain rapist, and now the Plum-Stead Ripper, the Wimbledon Killer, Robert Napper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper climbed onto the balcony, then got in through the open door there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He met Samantha in a hallway after she had put her baby to bed.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was right to the living room, stabbed a death, sprawled at her back in an awkward position.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ligaments that her knees were cut through to achieve this pose, which some believed to be a mocking of a sexual position.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper maybe had observed Samantha and cozy having sex, that's what some people think, while spying on them, and did this, he rapes her body.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samantha had been cut open from her throat to her vulva.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ribs cut through, organs exposed and disturbed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Later at autopsy her body was pieced back together, and it was discovered that an area of its six square inches of
[SPEAKER_00]: or took it as a keep-sake.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of this would later be discovered by Samantha's trusted friend and sometimes lover, cozy, her roommate, her and Jasmine's roommate, who reported the murder.
[SPEAKER_00]: After coming home after work, police arrived, cozy was on the front stoop, chain smoking his hands were red, from the die used in his profession.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's unfortunate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Red handed.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would be a suspect for some time until cleared by DNA evidence, collected from Napper's rape of the child.
[SPEAKER_00]: After having his fun with the mother, Napper went upstairs and found Jasmine four years old to sleep in her cot.
[SPEAKER_00]: When investigators later entered the girl's bedroom, it appeared as if she was sleeping, but in reality she had been smothered in her cot, and vaginal swabs later taken were staying with blood and seamen indicating, obviously she had been sexually assaulted before her death.
[SPEAKER_00]: The seamen was recovered.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do a quote here from Detective Superintendent Mickey Banks' quote.
[SPEAKER_00]: I walked through to the living room and the body was displayed.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the most horrendous scene I've ever seen and 30 years of police service.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was awful.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was as if a postmortem had been conducted on this poor girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was absolutely horrendous.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every fingerprint from the home was lifted and identified as either Samantha's, Jasmine's, Jasmine's friends or cozy's, Jasmine had recently had a birthday party or fourth birthday party, little kid handprints covered the entire home as a result.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there was only those four sets of fingerprints or fucking who knows how many people were at the birthday party.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there was nothing outside of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're wondering, did the killer wear gloves?
[SPEAKER_00]: He messed up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has been established in criminal law that no two fingerprints can be identical.
[SPEAKER_00]: Investigators had three prints that would soon turn that idea on its head.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was one on the balcony, one on Jasmine's door jam, and one on Jasmine's cot.
[SPEAKER_00]: That were initially identified to be her mother's Samantha's, but after a review of the initial findings in a double check of the prints, it is discovered that the prints I just mentioned were so similar to Samantha's that they were assumed to be hers initially.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in second look, they didn't belong to Mother Samantha, they belonged to a man named Robert Napper, incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: First, the mistake, but second, that Napper and Samantha's prints were so similar as to make a mistake possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: After gathering background information and a photo of Napper, young white male in his early 20s, short greasy hair, spot a complexion, weak chin, potato face.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another officer commented on how much he looked like the witness photos of the green Shane walk rapist.
[SPEAKER_00]: The woods were closing in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nappers, prints, and DNA would soon reveal them as the dreaded GCR.
[SPEAKER_00]: A footprint in blood at the scene were determined to be from an Adidas low rise trainer size nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Got that print, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Although the same sneaker cast was found by the Creek in Wimbledon, this crime was not initially linked to the Wimbledon case.
[SPEAKER_00]: As there was already a suspect in custody, in that case, LOL.
[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of LOL, and I use that because this is funny, but I don't feel like laughing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Check this out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before the fingerprints were finally sorted out, a crime watch episode was made on this double homicide that was meant to jog the memory of any potential witness or anyone who might know the killer, it was put up publicly on TV in England there, and calls came pouring in afterwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all pointed to one man.
[SPEAKER_00]: who played Napper in the Crime Watch dramatization, L.M.F.A.O.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's fucking people were calling in the actor who played the assailant in the Crime Watch video.
[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta shoot my F- I'm glad they know I've guns here and can- I would shoot myself right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Most people are so fucking stupid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you noticed?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like, why bother sometimes?
[SPEAKER_00]: Eh, I got a good life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus Christ, when you get out there a bit, I'm going home, shooting myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert Nappers' Prince are on file, because in 1992 he was caught making police letterhead at a printing shop.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was arrested on suspicion of impersonation of police.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once the Prince from this murder scene are confirmed to be his, surveillance happens upon him.
[SPEAKER_00]: They watch him taking long walks, taking the train, taking the bus.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's walking all along the green chain trails.
[SPEAKER_00]: He stops at a shop and buys pornography.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks at knives in another shop.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's getting off at bus and train stops beyond his area eventually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then walking home, they realize he's trying to shake the tail that's on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's aware.
[SPEAKER_00]: on May 24th, 1994, not long after surveillance started, I thought they should have fucking arrested him immediately, he got his prints.
[SPEAKER_00]: They arrested him in the morning, Napper didn't get up for work that morning, there were worried he had smelled them out and ran out the back door, maybe in the middle of the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had actually been fired from his job at the Plastics Factory the day before this, so when they're surveilling, they don't see him come out, they go up, they knock on the door, he comes to the door with his shirt off, he's like, hi, oh, what do you guys want?
[SPEAKER_00]: They go into the house, they arrest him, they find his adidas size nine shoes that are a match.
[SPEAKER_00]: to the blood prints at this recent murder and also later a match to the cast done by the creek, but I'll talk about that later.
[SPEAKER_00]: They find the red toolbox with knives and rope and maps again.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had found this in a previous arrest, but they find these again.
[SPEAKER_00]: A detective, Jack-A-Man, brings them in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Napper says, quote, I heard of the murders in the paper, I don't know Samantha best said.
[SPEAKER_00]: And quote, to text a jackman's like, why the fuck you bringin' that up?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he'll go on to write a book about this case.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called Napper, through a glass darkly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have all the information on this case to be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Later a pistol was found near Nappers flat, wrapped in partially buried.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was discovered by two boys who handed it in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Prince on it, match Nappers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ballistics find a match to a recent random shooting through a local woman's window.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was doing a lot of work this guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was terrorizing this entire plum-stead common for five years.
[SPEAKER_00]: After Nappers arrest, police obtained his DNA and they were able to match him to many sex attacks, including the four mentioned in the GCR portion of this episode, the green chain rapist.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not afraid to say it as just a lot to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three of the four women positively identified Nappers from Alina.
[SPEAKER_00]: three of the four women that I mentioned in the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: It had been five years since the fourth woman had been raped, and she couldn't be sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Add to that, on that case, the DNA tests for her case were later nullified due to an error in the lab.
[SPEAKER_00]: So many errors.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's about seven errors in this case.
[SPEAKER_00]: Six or seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was still no doubt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper was responsible for the green chain walk rapes, even though he denies it to this day, though the evidence was overwhelming.
[SPEAKER_00]: The A to Z maps had murder sites and rapesites marked over 100 places of interest on his maps.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those maps found an apper's red toolbox with later show he had circled the locations not only of rapes or attempted rapes, but of where he would watch the women before attacking them and roots he'd like to stalk.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would act on the mother's instinct to protect her children for being harmed, and would attack and rape women in front of their children because, as I've mentioned, he saw the child as a way to keep her complicit, no, active, and responsive during the rape.
[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of good that day because it's going to get up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also some psychologists think enjoyed seeing children in pain and crying and all that shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that's not the case that he enjoyed it, but does it really fucking matter?
[SPEAKER_00]: He played guilty in the Samantha and Jasmine for your old Jasmine visit case.
[SPEAKER_00]: Napper, he was convicted of manslaughter by a reason of diminished
[SPEAKER_00]: He was sent to a maximum psychiatric hospital, the infamous broadmore, and I know that man slaughtered by a reason of diminished responsibility, sentence.
[SPEAKER_00]: bothers people, it bothers me a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he was sent, he sent for life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, once he's in broad more, he's staying.
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy is actually very crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: On October 9th, 1995, this is when that happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: As for the Wimmelden Rachel Nickel case, if you remember, I don't want to go over it, but
[SPEAKER_00]: She was dragged into the woods.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was stabbed 49 times in front of her two-year-old Alex.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was hitting the head with the red toolbox knocked out when he was crying and when he woke up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was trying to help his mom with leaves playing a game of doctor like I said.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess I said the whole thing again.
[SPEAKER_00]: The A to Z map later showed a faint marking.
[SPEAKER_00]: More of a scratch around the Wimbledon Commons area where Rachel had been murdered.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps he was ashamed of that one and trying to scratch it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would take a decade, but once the science caught up, in July of 2004, forensics was able to obtain microscopic blood samples from Rachel's clothing and discovered a small amount of blood that was not hers.
[SPEAKER_00]: To remind you, that's the Wimbledon scene.
[SPEAKER_00]: DNA was then run again in the Rachel Nickel case, and finally, it was matched to Napper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, a flick of red paint that matched his red toolbox recovered from little boy at the time, Alex is here after being bashed with the
[SPEAKER_00]: Fucking toolbox was matched to that toolbox, eventually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, Napper's shoes, I think it's a different set where we covered from storage, and they said this miraculous that they were able to recover these shoes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those were matched to the cast taken by the creek from the Wimmelden situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of this a little late.
[SPEAKER_00]: And nothing surprises me anymore with this particular case.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd figure the shoes, whether they're the same shoes or other shoes, should've been like a sign that he had something to do with that, because they're size nine Adidas.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I might not have done my research right, and you know, that's always a possibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: But fuck, I mean, I think I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd figure the shoes could have been solved way sooner in this case, but I apparently they were in storage, and everyone had to wait 10 years to officially connect all this.
[SPEAKER_00]: two obviously connected cases.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean the mother and child attacks and murders stopped in the green chainsaw drop of about 100% in rapes and attacks once Napper was put to bed safe and sound and Rodmore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well I shouldn't call Rodmore of all places safe or sound.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, it drives you crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: On December 18, 2008, Robert Napper was convicted of the man's slaughter of Rachel Nichol on the grounds of diminished responsibility whoops, I accidentally fucking put a knife to a throat writer in the woods and stabbed her 49 times after smashing her two-year-old kid in the head with my toolbox.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oops, man, slaughter, and speaking of being driven to crazy, he was quickly given a lift back to broadmore, after sentencing, where he will remain dormant once again, for life, Napper!
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know the drill a dark topic plus for exclusive content, links in the show notes, lots of exclusive content if you want it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to let that case rest as is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes when I ramble here at the end, I steal the show, or at least unnecessarily distract from the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope all I'm doing really well here that how I said I'm doing well guys How you guys doing out there?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so cold here in my drafting studio.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I should have wore pants Snow pants.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean I think earlier I talked about taking my shirt off now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got my pants off.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm completely naked as super cold.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go inside and take a nap
[SPEAKER_00]: put some clothes on first and I don't like to nap when I'm completely naked.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't sleep naked.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me feel like someone could just come into the house and then I got to get up naked and I'm running around and trying to put pants and shirt on and horrible things are happening to my family.
[SPEAKER_00]: What about this happening?
[SPEAKER_00]: Also sleeping naked just doesn't feel right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think my nipples are fairly sensitive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, I don't want to talk anymore at the end here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please rate review, share, and until next time, keep those eyes cocked, those doors locked.
[SPEAKER_00]: And stay paranoid.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could have sworn I'm hearing things in my fucking mic at the end there.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's something fucking weird going out of my mic anyways.