3 Disturbing Cases of Blackmail That Ended in Murder

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The man had also been following our attack. He told Artex specific times he saw him walking and getting in and out of his car, so our attack began to pay the man off in full. He paid him. several hundred dollars on the morning of September 6, 2002, Artec was in the bungalow and Ani had gone out to get them some breakfast shortly after leaving, the

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er knocked on the door and Artec took him to the bungalow, he

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up shooting our attacked several times in the torso the

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er killed him then left in a silver or gray Ford sedan possibly it was a Thunderbird or a Torres Ani told the police about the blackmailer she said he knew a lot about the halfway house and about Our tactic was that the police spoke to the employees of the halfway house and they said that he didn't work there, that they had no idea who the man was.

The lead detective said he has no idea how the man met our technician, but he's sure they knew each other before him. was found guilty the detective said he was trying to find out how the man learned all the information he used to blackmail our attack the detective believes our attack may not have had enough money to pay the man so the man killed him was described to the The killer was black, six feet tall, weighed about 200 pounds, was between 26 and 38 years old, and had a goatee surrounded by stubble. When he killed Artec, he was wearing a baseball cap, a long-sleeved jacket, and jeans, he thought. detective. he could be blackmailing other ex-convicts the man has never been identified and the case remains unsolved number two stephanie rangel when 2007 was coming to an end stephanie rangel was 14 years old she lived in East York which is a municipality of Toronto, Ontario, Canada .

Her friends and family called her a born artist. She att

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an arts space high school and was a member of the school's theater program. Stephanie dressed expressively and often dyed her hair different colors. Stephanie regularly attended church. She was a youth member of her church. she group and helped teach Sunday school. Stephanie lived with her mother and stepfather, both police officers. She was also living with her three brothers, all younger than her, on New Year's Eve 2007. Stephanie's mother and stepfather rented a karaoke machine and the family spent the night together. It was a big night for the mother. by Stephanie.

Patricia appreciates spending time together because she thought that soon her children would start spending New Year's Eve with her friends. New Year's Day was a typical day at the family home. Stephanie went to a friend's house. home for a while but came home early in the afternoon at 6:08 pm, she was in the kitchen eating doritos, then Stephanie got a call on her cell phone from a blocked number and she thought it might have been her ex-boyfriend, a young man. A man named Steve who she had broken up with two months earlier, the person she called told her to go out and meet him.

Stephanie put on her boots and even though she lived in Canada and it was January 1st, she didn't put on a coat for a few Minutes later, a 34 year old accountant was driving down the street and saw Stephanie lying in the snow bleeding. She had been stabbed six times in the upper part of her body with an eight-inch kitchen knife. He parked her car and got out of her. She called and tried. to provide first aid when he got to Stephanie she was still conscious he said the bags were going in that direction and then pointed towards the street an ambulance picked up Stephanie but unfortunately the 14 year old girl was dead within 10 minutes of being stabbed, it turned out that Before she died she had identified her murder bags as a 17 year old boy named David Baksha.

Two years earlier, when Stephanie was 12 and Bagshaw was 15, they dated for a while, doing things like meeting in the park and going out to lunch. , then one day. She left a message on the family's voicemail saying that she liked to be more intimate with Stephanie and that she wanted to have oral sex. Stephanie's mother heard the message and made Stephanie break up with Bagshaw. David Begshaw was a troubled young man when he was a child he was diagnosed with ADHD he had behavioral problems in school and was disciplined several times for being too aggressive in high school he started skipping class he was suspended several times for fighting and cursing he was arrested when he was 14 years old for assaulting his mother on Charges were dropped because he attended anger management classes.

At some point Baksha's parents were separated for much of his life. Begshaw alternated between his mother's and his father's homes when he was 15. He lived in a group home for three months in March 2007, seventeen. One-year-old Begsha began dating fifteen-year-old Melissa Todd Rovick. Todd Rovick came from a stable home. His father was a mechanic and his mother was a nurse at a cookie factory. The family took tropical vacations and owned a cabin. important, todd rovick had a difficult relationship sometimes baksha hit todd rovick he also cheated on her todd rovick was incredibly possessive that he even installed spyware on begshaw's computer shortly after todd rovick and bagshaw started dating she found out that he He had once dated Stephanie Begshaw and told her that he thought Stephanie was pretty, this made Todd Roevik very jealous.

Stephanie knew one of Todd Vorik's cousins. She told Todd Vorik's cousin to be careful with Begshaw. He was flirting with her and other girls even though he was dating Todd Vorik. The warning came to Todd Vorik and this. it only made his hatred for Stephanie more intense. He decided that he wanted Stephanie to die over the next few months. Todd Vorak harassed and harassed Begshaw into killing Stephanie on October 20, 2007. Begshaw went to Stephanie's house and made her leave. He told Stephanie that Todd Vorik wanted him to stab her, he threw her phone on the ground and said Tavorik would call.

He told Stephanie that when he called he should answer the phone and tell her that she had stopped him. Begshah and then left. Stephanie told her mother, Patricia, about the incident. Patricia called Borg and told him to stay away from her daughter. Todd Vorik was defiant and told Patricia that Stephanie needed to stop spreading rumors about her. patricia threatened to get a restraining order and then hung up on patricia and then gave baksha's phone back to her mom and told her to keep it away from stephanie bigshot the mom agreed so in the week before the new year, melissa He began to sexually blackmail Begshaw, if he killed Stephanie then she would not have sex with him again and would start sleeping with someone.

Additionally, shortly after the murder, police arrested David Begshaw and Melissa Tadborick. It turned out that although Todd Vorg had ordered Stephanie's murder, she had never met her. Melissa Toddvork went to trial in March 2009. The trial lasted less than two weeks over twenty years. For three days, the jury deliberated and found Melissa Todvorik guilty of first-degree murder. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after seven years. David Begshaw pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years. In 2018, nine years after being sentenced, Melissa Todvorak was granted parole for six months of days as a romantic relationship was central to his crime.

She had to report any relationship she was involved in when she was on probation. She became involved in a secret love triangle so her parole was revoked. She appealed the revocation in January 2020. Her appeal was denied. The parole board said it was unwilling or unable to make the necessary changes to address her ability to deceive. and manipulation, therefore, he was a possible danger to the community todd vorg applied for full parole and in August 2020 was denied at the time of this video melissa toddvorik, age twenty-nine, is still incarcerated david begshaw was able to apply parole for the first time in 2019, but there are no public records about it whether she applied for parole or not at the time of this video she is 31 years old, number one, Diane Harold Huffington, is an exclusive town in Lancashire, England, a In early 1999, Colin and Diane Harold moved into a £400,000 house in the village where the house was located. on a half-acre lot and had a pool.

Colin owned and operated a printing press. He also had another business selling recycled books to use as pet bedding. Diane owned and operated a beauty salon. Collins' businesses were lucrative and the couple lived well in In mid-October 1999, Colin traveled to Amsterdam, Netherlands, on October 20. He tried to call Diane, but she didn't answer the phone. Colin called her brother and asked him to come check on her. His brother went to the house and found the back door open. He walked in, it looked like someone had frantically searched the house like they were looking for something, then he saw something that really alarmed him, it was a trail of blood coming out of the door, he decided to go to a local business and ask for help.

The police came and in the pool they found the body of Diane Harold, 36, her body was fully clothed. One strange thing was that Diane's cat was also dead in the pool. Investigators were able to somewhat reconstruct what happened. They believe the murderer. He attacked Diane in the kitchen, hit her in the head with a blunt object and then dragged her into the pool while she was alive but unconscious, throwing her into the pool where she drowned. The killer then tried to clean the kitchen, but he did a terrible job at it. The police weren't sure what the motive for the murder was.

The police found a plastic bag with money in it, so they didn't think robbery was the motive. There were no signs of a break-in or forced entry. Diane's friends said she had recently been harassed, the windows of her business had been broken and someone was calling and making appointments, but they never showed up for the appointments. Diane told her friends that she thought someone was trying to sabotage her business, the police decided to investigate her husband.From Diane, Colin, they found out that he was involved in some shady business. He bought cutting-edge books from publishers they couldn't sell and told them the books would be recycled into pet bedding material, but that's not what happened. he did it with the books, instead he took the books and sold them to stores in England and abroad over the course of a year.

Colin made around £100,000 from this and didn't claim anything when he was filing his taxes. He also imported and exported hardcore pornography magazines. The police also discovered that Colin was not being faithful to Diane on her trips to Amsterdam. He frequented the red light district. In fact, the night Diane was murdered, he was with a sex worker. Colin's first wife spoke. to the police she told that two weeks earlier hill told her that he had been dating another woman and that he was in love with her his ex wife pointed out that it could be expensive to get a divorce diane collin responded that she was working on it several other friends diane approached police and was told that the couple often fought.

Diane wanted children and Colin, who had children with his first wife, did not want any more children. The problem for the police was that Colin could not have committed the actual murder. was hundreds of miles away in a different country, during their interviews, police learned that colin had a best friend named darren lake, they had been friends for over a dozen years, hillary kevin collins, the godfather of his first wedding, blake had recently gone through difficult economic times, he had lost a series of jobs and was not dead the police asked Lake if they could take his fingerprints he finally agreed and they took his fingerprints in the kitchen of the herald's house the police found a plastic bag with some cash in it police found the killer picked up the cash from the house put it in the bag but left it behind in a hurry to get away from the crime scene police found fingerprints on the bag turned out to be leg fingerprints the police concluded that Lake killed Diane in Collins at the behest of the place they searched Lake's apartment and found two letters that were hidden in the letters.

Lake admits that Colin had him killed. Diane. Both Colin and Lake were arrested on November 12, 1999, just under a month after the murderer in custody, Darren confessed to the murder and he said he did so at the request of Colin Harold went on trial in July 2000 the witness star was his best friend darren lake lake said colin wanted to leave diane because he no longer found her attractive and also his business was draining him financially because he was losing money colin said he didn't want to pay for the divorce about six weeks before the murder blake said He was working at Colin's house Colin made him come to the pool Blake said Colin offered him twenty thousand pounds to kill Diane Colin said it would be easy, all he had to do was hit Diane on the head and push her into the pool .

Everyone would think it was an accident. He was in debt and the money would have been helpful. Blake said that before she could answer Colin. took out a decade old photograph that he didn't know existed years before, lake and colin went on holiday to tenerefe, which is part of the canary islands, one night after colin had gone to bed, lake was drinking with three men, Blake said he got very drunk and then he and two of the men went to a nearby beach on the beach, the paraman raped him on the lake and he said that unbeknownst to him, one of the men took a camera out of his jacket pocket and He photographed the rape and then put the camera back away. in his jacket pocket after the rape lake he explained the cuts and bruises on him to call saying that he had fallen down a flight of stairs when they returned home.

Blake gave her his camera to call and asked her to develop the film. He had no idea. that there was a photograph of him being raped by two men on the film reel. Colin obviously saw the photo and saved it. Lake told the court that Colin threatened to send the photo to his father's girlfriend and ex-girlfriend if he didn't take it. Kill Diane Lake said they thought the photograph would cause problems with her son's visitation rights, so he agreed to kill Diane. The plan was to make it look like Diane drowned after falling into the pool because she tripped on a pool slab while she was searching. her cat, the idea was to hit Diane with a pool slab lake, she said she was having trouble balancing the slab, so she went to a home renovation store and bought a three foot Newell Post lake, then went to the Diane's house and started having coffee with her Blake. he said the plan fell apart when he hit Diane with a pole, this caused blood to splatter everywhere after hitting her, he dragged her into the pool, he pushed her into the problem was the blood in the kitchen made it clear that It wasn't like that.

In one accident, Lake said she went to a grocery store and bought a bag of cleaning supplies that had fingerprints on it. It was from the supermarket. She then came back and tried to clean up the blood, but didn't have much luck. Cohen's mistress testified and said she had sex with Colin in their marital bed just weeks before killer Colin Harrell testified on his own behalf admitted he had been involved in some shady business practices evaded paying taxes had met with prostitutes on several different occasions but called Diane his soulmate and said she had nothing to do with her murder claimed he did not blackmail Lake and said the photo of him being raped simply did not exist the trial lasted 10 days then the jury deliberated for nine and half an hour, the jury finally found Colin Harold not guilty of all charges, as he was acquitted.

He could never again be charged with the murder of his wife. He was also eligible to receive all of his life insurance payments and inherit all of his possessions and money minutes later. colin was acquitted he walked out of the courtroom a free man when the judge was sentencing darren lake he said he believed lake and what he said was probably essentially true minutes after colin left the courtroom lake received two life sentences for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. After his trial, Colin continued dating the woman he had been having an affair with when Diane was murdered.

He continues to live what is described as a life of luxury. That's all for today. Thank you very much for watching.