Serial Killer Documentary - Anthony Russell

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2:06Epglyce. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. I-problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have newer worsening eye problems, you should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Epglyce. Before starting Epglyce, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Pay partnership with Lily. Respect your time. Ask your doctor about Epglyce and visit Epglyce.com or call 1-800-LilyRX or 1-800-545-5979. In 2020, pregnant Nicole McGregor disappeared from Lemington Spa, her frantic boyfriend Chris searched for her, helped by a new friend. He had no idea that his friend was stone-cold killer Anthony Russell. Chris saw a newspaper and realized that Anthony was the person that the police were looking for in connection with the two murders in Coventry. The last person to see Nicole alive was wanted for the brutal murders of Julie Williams and her

3:09son David. And now Anthony Russell had killed a third victim. He was saying things to Nicole's boyfriend like, oh, he must be really looking forward to becoming a father. He knew that Nicole was dead. Anthony Russell went on the run, sparking a huge manhunt. It wasn't an act of madness, it was calculated. And that calculation had cost three people their lives. Because of art, because of art. Russell murdered three innocent people and destroyed the lives of those left behind. Daniel didn't want to leave without his mum or without his brother. His week-long murderous rampage left a trail of death and destruction, making twisted Anthony Russell one of the world's most evil killers. The search for 39-year-old Anthony Russell was one of the largest in West Midlands police history.

4:33We launched a huge manhunt. I think we had 200 officers that were working on it. We've got a responsibility to protect the public. That's our number one responsibility. And you've got someone who's already been prepared to kill who's on the loose. The police put in the papers a photograph of him. So, it come on the radio every half hour. This man is dangerous, do not approach him. So, the police already knew what he'd done. And they were frightened for the public. Over the course of a week, Anthony Russell killed three people. This was a murderer without mercy. This wasn't just enough violence to kill somebody. This is what we call overkill. So that's way more violence than is needed to kill that person. The carnage that Anthony Russell left behind will stay with his victims' loved ones forever. You never expect something like that ever to happen to your family.

5:35Ever. He might watch on the television read about it in a book, but to actually have it happen to you, absolutely ripped our families apart. This killer's story begins in the West Midlands City of Coventry. Anthony was born on the 16th of April 1982. He got a number of siblings. He had a difficult childhood and he grew up mainly in care. He used to regularly go missing when he was in care, and he was often difficult to find. So, he would be reported missing on a regular basis, and it would take quite a long time to find him. As he entered adulthood, bad behaviour became criminal behaviour. Anthony Russell had a track record of low-level crime, theft, burglary, possessing weapons. There was a bit of violence in there. I think he was a bit of a robbery crimes that are often

6:35associated with people that have substance issues. It's pretty clear that Anthony Russell had a very big heroin addiction. In 2020, Russell was 38 years old and living in a flat in Reilly Square in the Bell Green area of Coventry. It was a 1960s development. It's sort of a precinct type design. It was built in a quadrant, so you have shops all around the bottom of the quadrant, and then I think there's about four or five stories above that which contains flats. So, a very sort of urban area with local shops, so it was quite a close knit community. On that same estate, living in a one bedroom flat was 58-year-old Julie Williams. Widowed young, she'd raised her sons alone. Julie was my brother's partner. The love of my brother's life.

7:37My brother unfortunately passed away when he was 39. Julie and her eldest son David shared a close bond. David is my nephew. David didn't have long with my brother, which is a great shame because his dad absolutely adored him. He managed brother Daniel. He absolutely adored his mum. They lived together and they went out together. He lived for his mum. He was very family orientated. He had lots of cousins that he got on with everywhere. Everybody absolutely loved him because he was such a happy chap. On Wednesday, the 21st of October 2020, 32-year-old David did not come home as planned. Three days later, Julie still hadn't managed to get in touch with David. My daughter phoenix and she said there's something on the internet. She says that Julie's looking for David.

8:42She put out on the local radio, has anybody seen David, but we just always crushed out one of his friend's houses, you know, and he'll be back in touch. First came to the attention of police on Saturday the 24th of October 2020, and that was a report made by Julie to say that her son David had gone missing. Police will always do a kind of a victimology when they get a missing person report, and that will be largely around vulnerabilities and how unusual it was for this person to go missing. The daily routine involved him being in the local area and associated with friends and spending time with his mother, so it was really unusual for him not to be in contact with her or to come back home. We have a dedicated team that deal with missing persons. Inquiries were started to be made around house-to-house inquiries, looking at CCTV to see

9:46when they could see his last sighting. West Midlands Police identified David as a man struggling with addiction. He didn't want to do drugs, but all those around him were, and unfortunately, David got into that way of living, which changed him as a person, and I think that's why he's my mum always kept an eye out for him all the time. He'd been using drugs, it seems, for some considerable time, and all his connections were in the world of people who had similar predictions. We knew he regularly visited the chemist for medication, so they started to look at see when the last time it was that he picked up his medication, do work around his phone to see when that was last active. The police obtained David's phone records. Amongst the people that he called friends, there were some that worried his mother. She mentioned one person that she was concerned that he owed

10:48some money for drugs, and she'd also received a text from David that said he was, I'm afraid she haven't got out of the area because he owed money for drugs. I think she thought that was unusual because David could often owe money for drugs, but that wouldn't cause him to go missing. The circumstances surrounding David's disappearance were unclear. Police kept an open mind about what may have happened, but on the afternoon of Sunday, October the 25th, just 24 hours after Julie Williams reported David missing, there was an unbelievable twist in the investigation. Julie herself is reported missing by her one of her sisters. Julie kept in touch with her sisters and her brothers every single day, so when she wasn't around, that's why her sister then reported it to the police because she knew that that was out of character. Once we'd done all the background checks into the fact that David was missing, then it became a

11:52real concern, so at this point, they went to Julie and David's address, and they couldn't go response that. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema, so I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglyce? Epglyce, Lebrichizema, LBKZ, a 250-mg per 2-ml.l. injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe Exema. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin, or topicals, or who cannot use topical therapies, Epglyce can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to Epglyce. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. I problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have newer worsening eye problems, you should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Epglyce. Before starting Epglyce, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection, paid partnership with Lily. Respect your time. Ask your doctor about Epglyce and visit Epglyce.com,

12:53or call 1-800-LilyRX, or 1-800-545-5979. Earn your Farm D in as little as 33 months with West Coast University's hybrid program, no bachelor's degree required. Eligible transfer credits may be accepted. West Coast University, as real as it gets. Visit West Coast University.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. Your path to pharmacy can be closer than you think. West Coast University's hybrid doctor of pharmacy program can be completed in as little as 33 months, and no bachelor's degree is required to apply. If you've started pharmacy coursework elsewhere, WCU may accept eligible transfer credits to help students keep moving forward. Learn online, train hands-on at our Center for Graduate Studies in Los Angeles, and prepare for real-world pharmacy practice. West Coast University, as real as it gets, visit West Coast University.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. The police at 11 o'clock that Sunday evening break in to Julie's flat, and they find her dead. The scene that metham was one of carnage.

14:00In the center, lay Julie's bloodied body. Julie been subject to this episode of prolonged beating, essentially, and punching and blunt force injury. Julie had an enormous number of injuries, something like 113 injuries to her body, so that suggests a rage-fueled attack. The final act which caused her death was the application of a ligature. The ligature which was used in Julie's case was an electric flex from an electric fan. The case was allocated to the homicide team with detective inspector Jim Mann put in charge. I am a senior investigating officer, which means that I am the lead investigator for any serious crime. I went there in the middle of the night. It's dark, it's gloomy, so just even the inquiries around trying to establish who was going in and out at the time was going to be really, really challenging.

15:05Julie's family worked to the news of her murder. We heard about Julie, and that was from the papers telling us that they'd found a woman's body. It was so final, it was so traumatic, it was so evil, frightening, that somebody could do that to another human being. And straight away then, I think that's when we felt something bad's happened to David. We obviously then had immediate concerns about the welfare of David because he was still a missing person, but now Julie had been killed, so it just really ramped up in terms of Juan trying to identify who the killer was and secondly to try and find where David was. There were many questions and no answers to what may have happened. Investigators needed to find David Williams. Fast.

16:13On the 26th of October 2020, the investigation into the murder of 58-year-old Julie Williams in Coventry had just begun. At this point, we were in the evidence gathering stage. There was some blood and what looked like a fingerprint in blood on the radiator. There was only a bedroom and a living room in the flat. David would sleep on a bed in the living room, and Julie would sleep in her bedroom and watch Tally there. Julie was dead on the floor in the room that David occupied. Tally was still on in the bedroom. The neighbours had heard someone approach Julie's flat the night before, but they couldn't really hear what was being said. The person that killed Julie had taken the keys and had locked the door behind them, so it was probably known to Julie for a tour of letting him into the house. For the family, not only the horror of Julie's death,

17:16the worry of David's whereabouts, but also the rumours surrounding the murder. People were saying, David's done that. He's gone disappearing and David's gone and killed his mother, and I said, no, he wouldn't do that. He loves her too much. He definitely wouldn't do that, and he hasn't got a bad bone in his body. We didn't have a suspect at all. The main focus then was on this fingerprint in blood. Now that might have been Julie's fingerprint, but if it wasn't, then it's most likely to be the killer. That became the sort of priority, submission to take a photo, and then see if we can match it to the fingerprint database to somebody on it. Whilst the forensic investigations were underway, the search for David intensified. Accessing his phone records provided police with vital information. When we examined David's phone, we saw that he was in regular contact, quite a lot of contact with an individual,

18:19that when we checked him out on our police systems, was known to supply class A drugs. Now phone activity dropped off at the point where David had been reported missing, so there was an assumption there that that person knew that David was, no longer than we're using his phone. And the Sunday night we had that individual identified, located, and arrested and bought into custody, and he protested his innocence straight away and provided an alibi. Part of David's routine included regular visits to the Riley Square pharmacy, where he collected his methadone prescription. What we found out as our enquiries went through on the Monday was that David had been seen going in and out, the chemist, with an individual called Anthony Russell. We were both drug users, they lived near each other, they used to beg in the area for money, so we were quite keen to trace Anthony. He was the last person, other than Julie, that had seen David alive. Five days after David Williams had been reported missing,

19:22police had a name, 38-year-old local man, Anthony Russell. We realised that he was a close associate of David, and he lived in the area. He would hang around Riley Square, or around the local supermarkets, the surrounding the area, and would beg for money with other people in that community. And then once they'd got enough money, they tended to head towards each other's flats and use drugs. He was a well-known figure in the area, and one with a reputation for trouble. He was unhinged. He wasn't normal. You know, his behaviour wasn't normal, but people were always frightened of him, so he got moved on, but nobody ever did anything about it. He used to go up to the hospital and annoy them. My daughter works at the hospital, and she said that this security had to move him on several times. We tried to locate him, we went to his flat,

20:25we went to his flat, couldn't get any response from the flat. We forced entry into his flat to try and search for Anthony and David. Anthony Russell's sparsely furnished flat was spattered with blood, a brief search uncovered the source. On that Monday evening, we found David's body hidden underneath Anthony's bed. What was evident was that he had been quite savagely beaten, so it had been quite a lot of brute force used on David. Either those injuries were defensive, and came as a result of a full-out fight with his attacker, or again, they could have been about the rage that the attacker was feeling. My daughter found me up, and she was screaming down the phone at me. She says, they found David. We was devastated.

21:27I couldn't eat or sleep. I never time I closed my eyes, I kept thinking about what David must have gone through. He must have been so scared, because he probably wouldn't have believed it. You know, if somebody went to attack him, he'd probably just laugh thinking it's a joke. He wouldn't have realised until it was too late. David's death meant the police faced an entirely different investigation. It had gone from a missing person on Saturday, a murder, and a missing person on Sunday. We've now got two murders. This now is where the investigation really, really ramped up. David had suffered from 81 external injuries, some including a knife, so he'd been stabbed. It got some severe wounds and bangs to his head. Also, there was a lanyard around his neck, which was causing neck compression, which would be very similar to Julie.

22:31The lanyard ordinarily held David's keys, but they were not with his body. Detectives believed his and his mother's deaths were linked. The fact that I could see similarities between Julie's body and David's body supported the notion that it was likely to be just one person, and I could see that the changes in which we're present in David's body would suggest that he was, in fact, the first victim with Julie following on afterwards. We've got two crime scenes that we're working through, working through all the foreign evidence, working through who were the last people to see everyone alive and understanding their background. But the main priority is we've got someone who's killed two people on the loose and is a real danger to the public. The double murder investigation was codenamed Operation Insure and detectives had one person at the top of their list, Antony Russell.

23:34Antony Russell is a person of considerable interest in the killing of David and Julie Williams. When we spoke to his family, we found that he had left the area, but he never had a phone. He never had his own mobile phone, so we had no way of tracking his phone or understanding who he was in contact with, and it just disappeared from Coventry. So we'd got a big man hunt on the go, but we had no idea where it was at this point. Where they suspected double murder at large, every precaution had to be taken. The alert on Russell was put out nationwide. They put it on the internet and in Coventry of the Intelligra. They were showing you photos of this Antony Russell saying, do you not approach him, he's very, very dangerous. We were getting sightings all over the country and we couldn't ignore these sightings because we had no way to confirm whether that sighting was correct or not. So we had to link in with all the different police forces

24:36to try and do those inquiries. He didn't have a vehicle of his own, so they weren't using the usual ANPR tracking, that kind of thing. But they would have been looking out all public transport. What we did find is we moved through the tracking on the CCTV, so we'd got some points where people who knew him had last seen him. It's certainly been to a supermarket, which allowed us then to track him from the supermarket, which captured him getting on a bus. Now this bus then, we were able to track him going into Coventry City Centre, but then we lost him within the sort of bus station area, which wasn't covered by CCTV. So we assumed he'd gone into the city centre to then travel onwards but we had no idea where we were to come. Antony Russell had been running away since childhood. By 2020, he was a man's skill in staying under the radar. Antony Russell took it upon himself to adopt various disguises.

25:38He was a man who hadn't lost his senses. He was extremely aware that he was the focus of interest by the police. All the CCTV, when you put together each still of what he looked like, he was changing his appearance all the time. He was stealing glasses. He'd wear different hearts, he'd wear hoods. His clothing was changed quite regularly. Russell was as organised as he was brutal. On Monday, 26th of October, just hours since Julie's body was discovered and David's still lay dead in his flat, Antony Russell was already thinking ahead. He needed cash and he needed a phone. He attacks a 78-year-old man stealing his mobile phone. He goes to Kenworth. Where, believe it or not, Russell attacks a 71-year-old woman and steals 200 pounds. He drags the poor lady along the ground injuring her.

26:42Once again, the actual man who has absolutely no concern for anyone but himself. Anybody coming into this man's path at this time is in danger. On the run from the police, wanted for two murders, Antony Russell was a desperate man with nothing to lose. And his murderous rampage was far from over. It's Paul in America. Make it count. At the Ram Drive-In to Fall Sales event, make it powerful with our strongest Ram 1500 ever. Make it move with the Ram Heavy Duty with an available Cummins diesel and make it go the distance with a 10-year or 100,000-mile powertrain limited warranty. Hurry and now for great deals during the Ram Drive-In to Fall sales event. Excludes fully electric vehicles applied to 2026 model-year vehicles non-transferable, visit MoPAR.com for complete details and a copy of the powertrain limited warranty. Come and visit registered trademark of Cummins Inc. Ram and Hammy are registered trademarks of FCA-US LLC.

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29:05By the 27th of October 2020, Coventry Double Murder Suspect Antony Russell had been on the run for two days. 12 miles away in the town of Lemington Spa, Wattyshire Police received a new report from the police. The police were sent to the hospital to get the report. They were taken for two days. 12 miles away in the town of Lemington Spa, Wattyshire Police received a missing person alert. A man reported that his girlfriend had gone missing. They were begging in Lemington Spa. They had a different spot in the town where they were begging. And when he went to see where she was, when they finished begging, she'd just gone. He made that report on the Tuesday. So Wattyshire Police started a missing person inquiry into a girl called Nicole. Nicole McGregor at this point is five months pregnant and extremely proud of it.

30:06She got a boy-fengal chris. They lived in a flat in Lemington. They were both drug users, but they were trying to get off drugs. Nicole had not been seen since the previous day when she'd spent the morning with her partner and a new friend. By Tuesday afternoon, Chris was frantic with worry. Chris wasn't the sort of person really to interact with the police. I don't think he was particularly fond of the police, but he got so worried by that evening that he actually approached the uniform police officer and said, I'm really concerned that my girlfriend's missing. When the police started to get the information from Chris, he started to disclose that the day before they'd befriended a person called Antony. He was from Coventry. It was at that point when the realisation came in that this might be Antony Russell. That same evening, the investigation into the double murder of Julie and David got a result.

31:06The bloodied fingerprint from Julie's flat found a match on the national database. It belonged to Antony Russell. The fingerprint was the confirmation that Antony was the suspect that we were looking for. The chilling revelation that Nicole McGregor had been in the company of a man suspected of murdering two people in cold blood was one police took very seriously. They knew that time was of the essence. We'd scoured Lemonton for CCTV and seized all the CCTV of the town centre. We were able then with the information from Chris to piece together where Nicole was. Then the story, dark although it already is, begets even darker. Because for some reason known only really to Antony Russell, he targets Nicole McGregor. What we saw was that Antony Russell had approached him,

32:07keeping back and over the other side of the road and they'd walked away together. Antony Russell invites Nicole McGregor to join him in a place called Newbold Common, a wooded area in Lemonton Spa. Quite quiet, quite secluded. It was suggested that she'd taken up the invitation because she thought that he could supply more drugs. CCTV showed Nicole and Antony Russell entering the woods together. 40 minutes later, Russell emerged alone. That gave us then the last sighting of Nicole McGregor. We were able to go through the woodland in the area where he could have got to one foot in that 40 minute period. The CCTV cameras captured Russell walking the short journey back to the town centre. He goes to seek out Nicole's boyfriend, the father of her unborn child.

33:09What we were able to do then was track Antony Russell and what we found was that he spent the choose day with Chris, Nicole's boyfriend going around Lemonton looking for her. He was like sympathetic to him and he was inserting himself into an investigation as a good guy. He was saying things to Nicole's boyfriend like, you know, oh, you must be really looking forward to becoming a father. On the 29th of October, three days after Nicole was last seen, police searched Newbold Common. We knew Antony had already killed two people. We've got a girl going missing with Antony. So, you know, our biggest fear was that she was dead. On the Thursday, there was especially police teams that trained to search woodier difficult areas. Do a methodical search to make sure that they search every area and they take it piece by piece.

34:13Storm Barber was hitting the UK. The river was riding quite high, so the terrain was really, really difficult. Her body was found in some bushes and she had been strangled with her own leggings. I received another phone call from the police to inform me that they had found another victim. And this victim was Nicole McGregor. Nicole's body was found with her face down and what I could see was that there was vegetation within Nicole's mouth, which is likely to have been when she was faced down on the floor, but alive. The sheer terror that she must have felt when she was being attacked by this man she thought she trusted. The position in which she was found was very suggestive that she was likely to have been the subject of a sexual assault as well. Both Nicole and the baby she'd look forward to bringing into the world were dead.

35:19It can be a very sobering experience when you perform a post-mortem examination on an expectant mother. When you find the unborn child lying peacefully inside the mum's womb. This woman who was excited about the prospect of being a mum has had that taken away from her. The death of Nicole McGregor meant police suspected Anthony Russell of killing three innocent people in a period of less than a week. Their biggest concern was what he would do next. Russell is becoming more and more dangerous. So he's committed murders. He then is attacking people, taking their money, taking their phones. But again, there's a kind of a logical reason for doing that, even if the methods are brutal and awful. But now he's escalated to kill in for the sake of it because it pleases him.

36:22So at the end of this seven days, he's about as dangerous as he can possibly get. Once again Russell went on the run. A wanted man, he was prepared to do whatever it took to make his escape. It left Lemminton. He'd walked away on foot. We saw that on CCTV and lost the tracking of him as he disappeared. We then found that there'd been a robbery just outside Lemminton. No man called Roy. He'd had a brick smashed over the top of his head. The attacker was a man with a plan, a man without mercy. He steals the car. He leaves the Sanjayi role with a fractured skull in his own front door. Takes the car and leaves. He only survived because there were some people that were doing gardening that had turned up to help with his guard and that actually found him there were able to get paramedics there and do for the state to keep him alive.

37:25Police suspected the attacker was Anthony Russell. A fugitive held bent at getting away no matter what the cost. Russell is what I would call on a spree, one emotional event. He's not coming down. He's gone up into that rage when he's killed the first person. And he kind of stayed there. Spree killers don't stop until they're stopped. Preventing Russell from killing again was the police's number one priority. We're working closely with Warwickshire Police to locate Anthony Russell as soon as possible. But I appeal to the public. If they've got any information as to where he might be, if they see him at all, make sure that they call us on 999. They put out alerts on the red Ford C Max, he'd stolen. It was picked up on some AMPR cameras and it's headed towards the Staffordshire Police area,

38:28but it pretty much disappeared into the countryside and it hadn't been hitting any AMPR cameras from that point. In October 2020, there was a large police presence in rural Staffordshire due to a recent spike in theft there. In the early hours of the 30th of October, one of the patrol cars made an unexpected find. They came across the vehicle and when they did the check on the vehicle, they realised that it had been stolen in a violent robbery, it might have been linked to our murder suspect. There's the car. Step, step, step. They approached the car. On flight. Found Anthony asleep. On those arms. That's where he was arrested. Anthony Russell, you under arrest for the murder of three people. You did have to serve them, but on me, the fancy, you do not mind to question something with your leader around.

39:29Corners, you do semi-beginning evidence. At 4.17am on Friday 30th of October, the man suspected of killing three people was taken to Peribar Police Station in Birmingham. He refused to be interviewed. He wouldn't leave his cell. So he was eventually asked the questions at his cell and he just put a blanket over his head and ignored all the questions he refused to make any comment. Having caught their fugitive, the police would now need to use all their skills to link Russell to all three murders and make sure a suspected triple killer didn't escape justice. Imagine your friend tells you she's taking an innocent family trip to Greenville, South Carolina. The trip sounds great to you. Hiking at Jones Gap, dinner at Topsoil, a room at the best hotel in town.

40:29Harmless, right? Here's the thing. Emma and her family never returned from Greenville. They disappear. You search for answers, but nothing adds up. Emma had a great life back home. You guys were best friends. What happened? Once Emma realized she could have access to Michelin recognized restaurants, nature, local shops, and performing arts all in one place, everywhere else started to seem a little. Meh. Emma's vacation is a cautionary tale. If you're coming this way, don't forget to tell your friends and neighbors goodbye. Visit Greenville, South Carolina, but you may never want to leave. Learn more at visit GreenvilleSC.com At QVC, fall shopping is more than just checking out. It's discovering the brands you love across beauty, fashion, home, and culinary, all in one place. Whether you're getting ready for crisp mornings, cozy nights, or everyday moments,

41:34QVC has what you need for the season ahead, with brands like Lori Geller, Philosophy, Ninja, and so many more. Shop now at QVC.com. Earn your Farm D in as little as 33 months with West Coast University's hybrid program, no bachelor's degree required. Eligible transfer credits may be accepted. West Coast University, as real as it gets. Visit westcoastuniversity.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. On Monday, the 2nd of November 2020, Anthony Russell appeared via video link from Birmingham Magistrates Court. Touch with the murders of David Williams, Julie Williams, and Nicole McGregor. Nicole's unborn baby was too young to be classed as a victim. He killed Julie, he killed David, he killed Nicola, but they didn't say he killed the baby because she wasn't born. I don't understand how that baby was not even classified as a body.

42:42The violent robberies Russell had carried out whilst on the run were added to the list of offenses. The team that works on it were brilliant. The real fear there is that you can find him within a week, but if you've not got the evidence, hand, he could be back out the door again. So it was really, really key that the team worked as hard as they did to make sure that they got that evidence. Whilst Russell awaited trial, another charge was brought against him. We also charged him with rape of Nicole because we found evidence that it had sexual intercourse with her. We knew that Nicole wouldn't have willingly gone with him to have sex, so we charged him with the rape. In the lead up to trial, the Williams family suffered further heartbreak. For Julie's son, David's brother, Daniel, the loss was too great to bear. Daniel didn't want to live without his mum or without his brother, which is why he decided to hang himself,

43:46which is heartbreaking to think that he's in that much pain that he thought was the best outcome. As a result of the trial, Daniel's death was a very serious problem. As a result of the trial, Daniel's death was a serious problem. As the team prepared for the court case, investigators put together an account of that fateful week in October. We did piece together some things from Anthony's associates and David's associates, and we realised that Anthony thought that David had slept with his girlfriend, so we think that was the motive for killing David. It was all lies, but all this was going on on Facebook saying, Anthony Russell's looking for David because he's been seeing his girlfriend. Police believed that Julie's murder was directly related to her sons. Anthony's never really given us a full account as to exactly what happened,

44:48so we've never understood the real motive support we think Julie reporting David missing was the potential motive for killing Julie. Russell calculated that he couldn't keep up the charade of David having disappeared and decided in a cold, bloody, premeditated manner to kill David's mother, Julie. The police said that Anthony Russell probably not done Julie's door because she wasn't shutting up and she weren't going away. My heart breaks thinking she's just been told that her son's dead and now you're next. In the case of Nicole McGregor, the evidence suggested Russell had raped her, then killed her to cover his tracks. The team put together a case which the Crown Prosecution Service felt confident of winning. It was really, really challenging because we used to dealing with one murder, one crime scene,

45:51and instantly we were finding murder, murder, murder scene, scene, scene. The investigation gathered almost 9,000 hours of CCTV footage and put together a timeline which Sean Light on the message Julie had received from David about leaving town due to drug deaths. We believe that that text message has actually been sent by Anthony after David had been killed too Julie to try and put her off the centre of it being Anthony III killed him. It was 14 months after the murders before Anthony Russell was tried for his crimes. On the 14th of February 2022, his trial began at Warwick Crown Court. Everyone was there and it was before the jury was sworn in. So we were expecting quite a lengthy trial, but then he pleaded guilty on the first day.

46:52They pleaded guilty to everything apart from the rape. That's not unusual actually because murdering somebody has some kind of mckismo to it. You can hold your head up in the prison when you get your sentence, you're much more likely to get sympathy because you can say, I thought this and I thought that and I was being treated badly. He can't say anything like that about a rape. So that left us with a decision then whether we were going to proceed just with the rape or not and we decided we were to try and for the rape. Julie's sister went to the court every single day. I couldn't go because I kept thinking if I go and I see something, I won't be able to unsee it. The thing she's seen, the photo she's seen, and what she heard, that never came out in the papers. I think people would be very, very shocked if they'd known just how bad he was. The jury heard the testimonies of those involved in the case.

47:56The focus of the trial was whether or not Anthony Russell had raped Nicole prior to a death. The fact that she was found in a state of undress, the position in which her body was found, would suggest to me that she had been subject to a sexual assault. Call to give evidence for the prosecution was Nicole's boyfriend Chris, who'd searched for Nicole with the very man who'd killed her. It was the first time we'd seen Anthony since Anthony had been with him. He was unable to give any evidence in a calm way because he reacted so badly to seeing Anthony in the courtroom. And that resulted in a jury failing to reach a verdict. A new trial date was set for the following months, and on the 7th of March 2022, at Wally Crown Court, Russell returned to face the charge of raping Nicole McGregor. We ran exactly the same trial and the second time round, I think,

48:59because Chris had actually seen Anthony, he had faced him. He was able to stand and give evidence. Chris's evidence was quite compelling. When the jury came back, they found him guilty after only deliberating for 83 minutes of the rape of Nicole McGregor. At his arrest and during the trial, Russell had remained relatively silent. When the time came for sentencing, he declined to leave his cell. Russell is so uncooperative, he isn't even prepared to leave his jail cell to go to court to hear his sentence. He got a whole life term, which means he will never, ever be released. And that is reserved for the most serious offenders. I think there's less than 100 people that have received that sort of sentence in the UK. It was the result everyone had hoped for, but there was little cause for jubilation.

50:01The families of the ones that are doing the sentence, not Russell, he's got the easy bit to do. But the people that have to live, what he's doing, is unbearable. It's really difficult to feel any good feeling from it, because it's just so horrific. But the only satisfaction you get is that he's in prison now, he won't come out, and he won't hurt anybody else. The bodies weren't released until after the court cases. David and Julie had a funeral together at the Hanley Crematorium, and they also had a picture of Daniel and his ashes were there, so that they could include three of them. And we're all sat there all looking at each other, like everything's surreal, because you might see on the television you might read about in the newspaper, but that doesn't happen to people like us, just ordinary people. If only Julie hadn't opened the door to Anthony Russell,

51:04if David had realised what an evil, evil person his friend was, you know, the story would be completely different. Anthony Russell was a man who took what he wanted and gave nothing back in return. A man motivated only by serving his own needs, who terrified the elderly victims he brutalised and stole from, who subjected three people who trusted him to sadistic and tortuous murders. To this day, he's refused to explain or apologise for his actions, making Anthony Russell one of the world's most evil killers.

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