it goes like this. my boyfriend and i have been dating for around 9 months already. and when we were together for around 2 months, he suddenly went missing for 3 weeks. only to know from his parents that he had been arrested for fighting. when he came out, he told me that he had gotten into a fight where a group of gangsters had beaten him up and he had retaliated, thus charging him in court for fighting. around august, he was sent into changi for a RTC report for 3 weeks as well. he then was sentenced in september, for "fighting" as he claimed, and he would spend his next 2-3 years in RTC. however, a few weeks after his sentence, i found out that he had not been charged for fighting, but had molested some girl and was charged for outrage of modesty in some news article, which also quoted his name, as well as sentence date, which i could not deny was "so coincidental" that it IS him. i was shocked at first. he was always tolerant and nice to me, and he never hurt me physically. and i found out that he had committed the offence before we were together, but he didn't tell me the truth. his lies were full of loopholes, but i chose to trust him as trust is the most important thing in a relationship. after finding out, i went to clarify with his mother, with her constantly calling me after every prison visit and telling me how he misses me, how he cried when she merely mentioned my name etc.. and kept telling me how much he still loves me and hopes for me to wait for him. i have sent him a letter to prison, asking him what was going on 5 days ago, but yet to receive a reply from him. what should i do now...?
If a guy cannot take care of himself, how he going to take care of you? No point waiting for a guy... not to say becos he entered the prison but becos if he cannot be honest with you about his crime, then telling u how much he loves you is just useless...
just give up and you will find someone better...
i cannot advise what you can do...but lonely guys out there can take your advise to become gangsters to get gals like u so diehard foolish...
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actually, if you break up with him, then when he released from rtc, will he hunt you down? i scared about mentally unstable people, especially related to sexual stuff i.e. molest,rape, bio zao geng till addicted etc.
Originally posted by trolol:actually, if you break up with him, then when he released from rtc, will he hunt you down? i scared about mentally unstable people, especially related to sexual stuff i.e. molest,rape, bio zao geng till addicted etc.
Wow that is some scary shit man.
you sould let your parents know about this. trusted friends and relatives. at least some advice from more matred people. more people knwo he try to be funny at least people near to you can help. just one of the precautions you can take.
even some normal peple also very sticky. they want you to say them good no matter how hard tthey try you still don;t give in they will stalk you all over te place.
Aiya, TS, i got advice for u,
Ask him to tell the truth,
If he admit to molesting another girl, leave him. Cos he really shameless to do this kind of thing.
If he dont admit, leave him. Cos he is only full of lies.
Lucky for u, he could hv kill you. He could hav been killa. Serial Killer Killa.
Here is one eg, of a man who hide his identity as Serial Killa. Your Bf culd hv become Serial Killa. U so lucky he sent to Changi or else...u may become next victom.
Andriy Romanovych Chykatylo (Ukrainian: Ð�ндрій Романович Чикатило; Russian: Ð�ндрей Романович Чикатило, Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo; October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper. He was convicted of the murders of 53 women and children, mostly in Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, between 1978 and 1990 (some victims were murdered in other regions of Russia and in Ukrainian and Uzbek SSRs).
Early life
Andrei Chikatilo was born in the village of Yablochnoye (Yabluchne) in modern Sumy Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. At the time of his birth, Ukraine was in the midst of famine caused by Joseph Stalin's forced collectivisation of agriculture.[3] Ukrainian farmers were forced to hand in their entire crop for statewide distribution. Mass starvation ran rampant throughout Ukraine, and reports of cannibalism soared. Chikatilo's mother, Anna, told him that his older brother Stepan had been kidnapped and cannibalized by starving neighbors, although it has never been independently established whether this actually happened.[4]
Chikatilo's parents were both farm labourers who lived in a one-room hut.[5] As a child, Chikatilo slept on a single bed with his parents. He was a chronic bed wetter[6] and was berated and beaten by his mother for each offense.
When the Soviet Union entered World War II, his father, Roman, was drafted into the Red Army and subsequently taken prisoner after being wounded in combat.[7] During the war, Chikatilo witnessed some of the effects of Blitzkrieg, which both frightened and excited him. On one occasion, Chikatilo and his mother were forced to watch their hut burn to the ground.[8] In 1943, while Chikatilo's father was at the front, Chikatilo's mother gave birth to a baby girl. In 1949, Chikatilo's father, who had been liberated by the Americans, returned home. Instead of being rewarded for his war service, he was branded a traitor for surrendering to the Germans.[9]
Chikatilo was shy and studious as a child, and an avid reader of Communist literature. He was also a target for bullying by his peers.[10] During adolescence, he discovered that he suffered from chronic impotence, worsening his social awkwardness and self-hatred.[9] Chikatilo was shy in the company of females:[11] his only sexual experience as a teenager was when he, aged 17, jumped on an 11-year-old friend of his younger sister and wrestled her to the ground, ejaculating as the girl struggled in his grasp.[12]
In 1953, Chikatilo finished school and applied for a scholarship at the Moscow State University; although he passed the entrance examination, his grades were not good enough for acceptance.[13] Between 1957 and 1960, Chikatilo performed his compulsory military service.[14]
Marriage and teaching career
In 1963, Chikatilo married a woman to whom he was introduced by his younger sister. The couple had a son and daughter. Chikatilo later claimed that his marital sex life was minimal and that he would ejaculate on his wife and push the semen inside her vagina with his fingers. In 1965, their daughter Ludmila was born, followed by son Yuri in 1969.[15] In 1971, Chikatilo completed a correspondence course in Russian literature and obtained his degree in the subject from Rostov University.[16]
Chikatilo began his career as a teacher of Russian language and literature[17] in Novoshakhtinsk. His career as a teacher ended in March 1981[18] after several complaints of child molestation against pupils of both sexes.[19] Chikatilo eventually took a job as a supply clerk for a factory.
Beginning of the murders
In September 1978, Chikatilo moved to Shakhty, a small coal mining town near Rostov-on-Don, where he committed his first documented murder. On December 22, he lured a 9-year-old girl named Yelena Zakotnova to an old house which he had secretly purchased, and attempted to rape her but failed to achieve an erection. When the girl struggled, he choked her to death and stabbed her body, ejaculating in the process of knifing the child. Chikatilo then dumped Zakotnova's body in a nearby river.[20] Despite evidence linking Chikatilo to the girl's death — spots of the girl's blood were found in the snow near Chikatilo's house[21] — a young man, Alexsandr Kravchenko, who had served a sentence for rape and murder before, was arrested, tried and confessed under torture. He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment (the maximum possible length of imprisonment at that time). Kravchenko was retried under pressure from the victim's relatives, and eventually executed for the crime.
Following Zakotnova's murder, Chikatilo was only able to achieve sexual arousal and orgasm through stabbing and slashing women and children to death, and he later stated the urge to relive the experience overwhelmed him.[22]
Chikatilo committed his next murder in September 1981, when he tried to have sex with a 17-year-old boarding school student named Larisa Tkachenko in a forest near the Don river. When Chikatilo failed to achieve an erection, he became furious and battered and strangled her to death.[23] As he had no knife, he mutilated her body with his teeth and a stick.[24]
On June 12, 1982 Chikatilo abducted and killed a 13-year-old girl named Lyubov Biryuk in the village of Donskoi.[25] By December, 1982 he had killed seven times. He established a pattern of approaching children, runaways and young vagrants at bus or railway stations, enticing them to a nearby forest or other secluded area and killing them, usually by stabbing, slashing and eviscerating the victim with a knife, although some victims, in addition to receiving a multitude of knife wounds, were also strangled or battered to death.[26] Many of the bodies found, bore striations of the eye sockets. Pathologists concluded the injuries were caused by a knife, leading investigators to the conclusion the killer had gouged out the eyes of his victims.[27] Chikatilo's adult female victims were often prostitutes or homeless women who could be lured to secluded areas with promises of alcohol or money. Chikatilo would typically attempt intercourse with these victims, but he would usually be unable to get an erection, which would send him into a murderous fury, particularly if the woman mocked his impotence. He would achieve orgasm only when he stabbed the victim to death. His child victims were of both sexes; Chikatilo would lure these victims to secluded areas using a variety of ruses, usually formed in the initial conversation with the victim,[28] such as promising them assistance, company, offering a chance to look at rare stamps, films or coins, with the offer to show a shortcut [29] or with a promise of food or candy. These victims he would usually overpower once they were alone, tie their hands behind their backs with a length of rope, and then proceed to kill them.[30]
Chikatilo did not kill again until June 1983, but he had killed five more times before September. The accumulation of bodies and the similarities between the pattern of wounds inflicted on the victims forced the Soviet authorities to acknowledge a serial killer was on the loose: on September 6, 1983, the Public Prosecutor of the USSR formally linked six of the murders thus far committed to the same killer.[31] A Moscow police team, headed by Major Mikhail Fetisov, was sent to Rostov-on-Don to direct the investigation. Fetisov centered the investigations around Shakhty and assigned a specialist forensic analyst, Victor Burakov, to head the investigation. Due to the sheer savagery of the murders, much of the police effort concentrated on mentally ill citizens, homosexuals, known pedophiles and sex offenders, slowly working through all that were known and eliminating them from the inquiry. A number of young men confessed to the murders, although they were usually mentally handicapped youths who had admitted to the crimes only under prolonged and often brutal interrogation. One under-age homosexual suspect committed suicide in his detention cell, but as police obtained confessions from suspects, bodies continued to be discovered proving the suspects who had previously confessed could not be the killer the police were seeking; in October 1983, Chikatilo killed a 19-year-old prostitute, and in December a 14-year-old schoolboy named Sergei Markov.[32]
In January and February 1984, Chikatilo killed two women in Rostov's Aviators' Park. On March 24, he lured a 10-year-old boy named Dmitry Ptashnikov away from a stamp kiosk in Novoshakhtinsk. While walking with the boy, Chikatilo was seen by several witnesses who were able to give investigators a detailed description of the killer; when Ptashnikov's body was found three days later, police also found a footprint of the killer and semen and saliva samples on the victim's clothing.[33]
On May 25, Chikatilo killed a young woman, Tatyana Petrosyan and her 11-year-old daughter, Svetlana, in woodland outside Shakhty. Petrosyan had known Chikatilo for several years prior to her murder.[34] By July 19, he had killed three further young women between the ages of 19 and 22 and a 13-year-old boy.
In the summer of 1984, Chikatilo was fired from his work as a supply clerk for theft of property. The accusation had been filed against Chikatilo the previous February and he had been asked to resign quietly but had refused to do so as he had denied the charges.[35] Chikatilo found another job as a supply clerk in Rostov on August 1.[36]
On August 2, Chikatilo killed a 16-year-old girl, Natalya Golosovskaya, in Aviators' Park and on 7 August, he killed a 17-year-old girl on the banks of the Don River before flying to the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent on a business trip. By the time Chikatilo returned to Rostov on August 15, he had killed a young woman and a 12-year-old girl. Within two weeks an 11-year-old boy had been found strangled, emasculated and with his eyes gouged out in Rostov before a young librarian, Irina Luchinskaya, was murdered on September 6.
On September 13, 1984, exactly one week after his fifteenth killing of the year, Chikatilo was observed by an undercover detective attempting to lure young women away from a Rostov bus station.[37] He was arrested and held. A search of his belongings revealed a knife and rope.[38] He was also discovered to be under investigation for minor theft at one of his former employers, which gave the investigators the legal right to hold him for a prolonged period of time. Chikatilo's dubious background was uncovered and although his physical description also matched the description of the man seen with Dmitry Ptashnikov in March, these factors provided insufficient evidence to convict him of the murders. He was found guilty of the theft of the property from his previous employer[39] and sentenced to one year in prison. He was freed on December 12, 1984, after serving three months.[40]
On October 8, 1984. The head of the Russian Public Prosecutors Office formally linked 23 of Chikatilo's murders into one case, and dropped all charges against the mentally handicapped youths who had previously confessed to the murders.[41]
Following the September 6 murder of Irina Luchinskaya, no further bodies were found bearing the trademark mutilation of Chikatilo's murders and investigators in Rostov theorized the unknown killer may have moved to another part of the Soviet Union and had continued killing there. The Rostov Police sent bulletins to all forces throughout the Soviet Union, describing the network of wounds their unknown killer inflicted upon his victims and requesting feedback from any police force who had discovered murder victims with wounds matching those upon the victims found in the Rostov Oblast. The response was negative: no other police force had found murder victims with wounds matching those upon the description within the bulletin.[42]
Surveillance
On November 6, 1990, Chikatilo killed and mutilated a 22-year-old woman named Sveta Korostik in woodland near Donleskhoz Station.[64] While leaving the crime scene, he was seen by an undercover officer.[65] The policeman observed Chikatilo approach a well and wash his hands and face.[65] When he approached the station, the undercover officer noted his coat had grass and soil stains at the elbows. Chikatilo also had a small red smear on his cheek.[66] To the officer, he looked suspicious. The only reason people entered woodland near the station at that time of year was to gather wild mushrooms (a popular pastime in Russia). Chikatilo, however, was not dressed like a typical forest hiker: he was wearing more formal attire. Moreover, he had a nylon sports bag, which was not suitable for carrying mushrooms.
The policeman stopped Chikatilo and checked his papers. Having no formal reason for arrest, Chikatilo was not held. When the policeman came back to his office, he filed a formal routine report, indicating the name of the person he stopped at the train station.
On November 13, Korostik's body was found. Police summoned the officer in charge of surveillance at Donleskhoz Station and examined the reports of all men stopped and questioned in the previous week.[67] Chikatilo's name was among those reports and his name was familiar with several officers involved in the case, having been questioned in 1984 and placed on the 1987 suspect list.[68][69] Upon checking with Chikatilo's present and previous employers, investigators were able to place Chikatilo in various towns and cities at times when several victims linked to the investigation had been killed.[70] Former colleagues from Chikatilo's teaching days informed investigators Chikatilo had been forced to resign from his teaching position due to complaints of sexual assault from several pupils.[71]
Police placed Chikatilo under surveillance on November 14. In several instances, particularly on trains or buses, he was observed to approach lone young women or children and engage them in conversation; if the woman or child broke off the conversation, Chikatilo would wait a few minutes then seek another conversation partner.[72] On November 20, after six days of surveillance, Chikatilo left his house with a one gallon flask for beer, then wandered around Novocherkassk, attempting to make contact with children he met on his way. Upon exiting a cafe, Chikatilo was arrested by four plainclothes police officers.[73]
Upon arrest, Chikatilo gave a statement claiming the suspicion against him was a mistake, and complained he had also been arrested in 1984 for the same series of murders.[74] A strip-search of the suspect revealed a further piece of evidence: one of Chikatilo’s fingers had a flesh wound. Medical examiners concluded the wound was, in fact, from a human bite. Chikatilo's penultimate victim was a physically strong 16-year-old youth. At the crime scene, the police had found numerous signs of a ferocious physical struggle between the victim and his murderer. Although a finger bone was later found to be broken and his fingernail had been bitten off, Chikatilo had never sought medical attention for the wound.[75]
Police knew their case against Chikatilo was largely circumstantial. The strategy chosen by the police force to make him confess included one of the chief interrogators telling Chikatilo that they all believed he was a very sick man and needed medical help. The strategy was to give Chikatilo hope that if he confessed, he would not be prosecuted by reason of insanity. Nine days went by without a true confession of his crimes, only vague hints and evasions. Finally, at the request of Burakov and Fetisov, the psychiatrist who had written the 1985 psychological profile of the then-unknown killer for the investigators, Dr. Aleksandr Bukhanovsky, was invited to assist in the questioning of the suspect. Dr. Bukhanovsky read extracts from his 65-page psychological profile to Chikatilo.[76] Within two hours, Chikatilo confessed to the 36 murders police had linked to the killer. On November 30, he was formally charged with each of these 36 murders.[77]
Chikatilo confessed to a further 20 killings which had not been connected to the case, either because the murders had been committed outside the Rostov Oblast,[78] or because the bodies had not been found. In December 1990, Chikatilo led police to the body of Alexey Khobotov,[79] a boy he had confessed to killing in 1989 and whom he had buried in woodland near a Shakhty cemetery, proving unequivocally he was the killer.[80] He later led investigators to the bodies of two other victims he had confessed to killing. Three of the 56 victims Chikatilo confessed to killing could not be found or identified, but Chikatilo was charged with killing 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990.
Special precautions had to be taken while keeping Chikatilo in prison; violent and especially sexual crimes against children are taboo in the Russian underworld. Prisoners accused of raping and/or killing children in Russian prisons are usually "cast down" (опущены) to "untouchable" (опущенный) status, sexually abused, and sometimes killed by their cell mates. The problem was complicated by the fact that some of the relatives of Chikatilo's victims worked in the prison system.
While in his cell, Chikatilo was placed under round-the-clock video surveillance. While the suspect often acted bizarrely in front of his investigators, his behavior inside the cell was normal: He ate and slept well, exercised every morning, and extensively read books and newspapers. Chikatilo also spent a lot of time writing letters and complaints to his family, government officials, and the mass media.
The Soviet Union collapsed on August 18, 1991. On August 20,[81] after completing the interrogation of Chikatilo and having completed a re-enactment of all the murders at each crime scene,[82] Chikatilo was transferred to the Serbsky Institute in Moscow for a six-day psychiatric evaluation to determine whether he was mentally competent to stand trial. Chikatilo was analysed by a senior psychiatrist, Dr. Andrei Tkachenko, who declared Chikatilo legally sane on October 18.[83] In December, 1991, details of Chikatilo's arrest and a brief summary of his crimes was released to the newly-liberated media by police.[84]
The trial of Andrei Chikatilo was the first major event of post-Soviet Russia. Chikatilo stood trial in Rostov on April 14, 1992.[85] During the trial, he was kept in an iron cage in a corner of the courtroom to protect him from attack by the many hysterical relatives of his victims. Chikatilo's head had been shaven - a standard prison precaution against lice - which had the effect of making him look evil.[86] Relatives of victims regularly shouted threats and insults to Chikatilo throughout the trial, demanding the authorities to release him so that they could kill him themselves. Each murder was discussed individually, and on several occasions, relatives broke down in tears when details of their relatives' murder were revealed; some even fainted.[87]
Chikatilo regularly interrupted the trial, exposing himself, singing and refusing to answer questions put to him by the judge. He was regularly removed from the courtroom for interrupting the proceedings.[88] On May 13, Chikatilo withdrew his confessions to six of the killings he had confessed to.[89]
In July, 1992, Chikatilo demanded the judge be replaced for making too many rash remarks about his guilt. His defense counsel backed Chikatilo's claim. The judge looked to the prosecutor and even the prosecutor backed the defense's judgment, stating the judge had made too many rash remarks about Chikatilo's guilt.[90] The judge ruled the prosecutor be replaced instead.
On August 9, both prosecution and defense delivered their final arguments before the judge. Chikatilo again attempted to interrupt the proceedings and had to be removed from the courtroom. Final sentence was postponed until October 14.[91] As the final deliberations began, the brother of Lyudmila Alekseyeva, a 17-year-old girl killed by Chikatilo in August 1984, threw a heavy chunk of metal at Chikatilo, hitting him in the chest.[92] When security tried to arrest the young man, other victims' relatives shielded him, preventing him from being arrested.
On October 14, the court reconvened and the judge read the list of murders again, not finishing until the following day.[93] On October 15, Chikatilo was found guilty of 52 of the 53 murders and sentenced to death for each offense. Chikatilo kicked his bench across his cage when he heard the verdict, and began shouting abuse. He was offered a final chance to make a speech in response to the verdict, but remained silent.[94] Upon passing final sentence, Judge Leonid Akhobzyanov made the following speech:
| “ | Taking into consideration the monstrous crimes he committed, this court has no alternative but to impose the only sentence that he deserves. I therefore sentence him to death. | ” |
After hearing the sentence, the audience, made up of victim's families, broke into applause. Chikatilo was seen saying something as police removed him from his iron cage and led him away.[citation needed]
On January 4, 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin refused a last ditch appeal for clemency. On February 14, Chikatilo was taken to a soundproofed room in Novocherkassk prison and executed by a single gunshot behind the right ear.[
I am happy that you still believe in courtship in this day and age.Maybe you follow Korean/Japanese culture.
Koreans and Japanese still believe in sexual morality and courtship.But Americans don't believe it anymore.
Have you visited him? Why don't you ask him yourself what was his underlying reasons for committing such acts. But one thing is, be wary of such a guy. I don't really believe a leopard can change its spot. =S
TS, you must ask yourself truefully, do you really want him back or leave him? Cos that concern your life in the future.
Originally posted by likeyou:TS, you must ask yourself truefully, do you really want him back or leave him? Cos that concern your life in the future.
Why want him back. He culd be serial killa. Dump Him.
Originally posted by Mybluemoon:it goes like this. my boyfriend and i have been dating for around 9 months already. and when we were together for around 2 months, he suddenly went missing for 3 weeks. only to know from his parents that he had been arrested for fighting. when he came out, he told me that he had gotten into a fight where a group of gangsters had beaten him up and he had retaliated, thus charging him in court for fighting. around august, he was sent into changi for a RTC report for 3 weeks as well. he then was sentenced in september, for "fighting" as he claimed, and he would spend his next 2-3 years in RTC. however, a few weeks after his sentence, i found out that he had not been charged for fighting, but had molested some girl and was charged for outrage of modesty in some news article, which also quoted his name, as well as sentence date, which i could not deny was "so coincidental" that it IS him. i was shocked at first. he was always tolerant and nice to me, and he never hurt me physically. and i found out that he had committed the offence before we were together, but he didn't tell me the truth. his lies were full of loopholes, but i chose to trust him as trust is the most important thing in a relationship. after finding out, i went to clarify with his mother, with her constantly calling me after every prison visit and telling me how he misses me, how he cried when she merely mentioned my name etc.. and kept telling me how much he still loves me and hopes for me to wait for him. i have sent him a letter to prison, asking him what was going on 5 days ago, but yet to receive a reply from him. what should i do now...?
Mybluemoon - he is already condemn with black record at such a young age !!! Why you want to waste your live with someone like this.
You think he will change ? He is already old enough to think yet still cross the line till molest !!! You think 2-3 yrs in RTC will make him a better man ? I doubt so.
You want to stay with a guy with totally no future - ex-molester, wondering every few year which line he will cross again and when ? So when you married or have kids - is he going away every few years in jail - and you happily waiting for him to be release !!!
Get back to the real world !!! better let him go !!!
can someone ban the guy who post long text. occassional oot posts are okay but please keep the text and post page length short of link it. wanna joke and spam at least keep it simple for people to read or people to skip. the page so long i have small computer screen very difficult to scroll downleh.
Originally posted by Macho Man:
Why want him back. He culd be serial killa. Dump Him.
Shall TS give him a 2nd chance?
Yellow ribbon.
Originally posted by likeyou:
Shall TS give him a 2nd chance?Yellow ribbon.
Everyone deserve a second chance but to TS:don't change him yourself.Let God change him.You just get him saved.
Originally posted by likeyou:
Shall TS give him a 2nd chance?Yellow ribbon.
troublemaker only making excuses. He vely stress bcause he cannot take Angel 7030 rejection. So he blame me. He want to use photography to escape Angel 7030 rejection but still cannot forget Dotaru seduction of Angel. So he blame me bcause more convenient.
Me only serve as Community Person, I want to spread Social Community message of safety to the Sg Public about danger of meeting stranger outside. After reading all long article then all TS know social danger of meeting stranger.
Originally posted by cokeyou:Everyone deserve a second chance but to TS:don't change him yourself.Let God change him.You just get him saved.
Why need GOD?
TS is mature enough to make her own decision.
Not GOD.
Sorry if I offend you with my statement.
Originally posted by likeyou:
Why need GOD?TS is mature enough to make her own decision.
Not GOD.
Sorry if I offend you with my statement.
Only God can change a person to become better.We human beings are unable to do it no matter how powerful we are.
A group of ppl fighting will not be charge under "fighting", it will be classified under rioting.
From the start, he already lie to you, just that you donno how to found out.
From the fact that he was sentence to RTC means that he is underage. Most likely some xiao didi. ![]()
So my advise to you is to go to RTC, visit him and break up with him. Show your middle finger as a parting shot.
And you better grow up as well. Go and study.
Imagine you have a new bf then he came out of Rtc and kill your bf! Cool right.
Got one story about Old BOYFREN come out kill NEW BOYFREN in UK.
BOYFREN serial killer
Raoul Moat was raised by his grandmother in NewcastleWhen gunman Raoul Moat recently left prison, he believed that he had "lost everything".
Within days he had gained national notoriety and for almost a week he became the subject of a huge police manhunt. It ended in him apparently shooting himself dead after a six-hour stand-off with armed police in the market town of Rothbury, in Northumberland.
On 1 July, the 37-year-old was released from Durham Prison, following an 18-week sentence for assault.
Days later, the father-of-three was being sought by armed officers in connection with the shooting of his ex-girlfriend, her new partner - who was killed - and a police officer last weekend.
Before the attacks started the suspected gunman's Facebook status was changed to read: "Just got out of jail, I've lost everything, my business, my property and to top it all off my lass has gone off with someone else.
"Watch and see what happens."
End Quote Yvette Foreman Former girlfriendThe only time I saw his dark side was in his letters - I remember he once talked about someone who was going to get done with a baseball bat”
Moat was described as 6ft 3in tall and of muscular build and relatives painted a picture of a man who was prone to "eruptions of anger".
They also revealed that he used body-building steroids, which some research has linked to aggressive behaviour.
It has emerged Moat previously had a girlfriend in Rothbury, where the manhunt for him came to a conclusion.
During that time he is understood to have camped in the area and got to know it well.
The woman, Yvette Foreman, 35, spent weekends camping with him when the pair were both were in their 20s.
She said her ex-boyfriend had been a "lovely lad" and a practical joker who was "daft as a brush".
'Dark side'
But old letters he sent her provided a glimpse into the suspected gunman's volatile personality.

End Quote Charlie Alexander Raoul Moat's uncleHe was asking for us. He said he had no family and he had no dad”
One of the letters, which is among a number taken from Miss Foreman by police, contained a violent fantasy in which he described plans to beat a rival.
"The only time I saw his dark side was in his letters. I remember he once talked about someone who was going to get done with a baseball bat," she said.
"He was saying how he and his mates were going to take a bat to somebody because they'd fallen out with somebody.
"I never really paid it any attention, until now."
Raoul Moat was raised by his grandmother in Newcastle's West End, close to where his father and mother both lived.
His uncle, Charlie Alexander, 72, told the BBC he had offered to go to help police negotiations with his nephew on Friday night.
He said: "He was asking for us. He said he had no family and he had no dad.
"If I went up he would have had someone that loves him and it would possibly have turned him that little bit that he needed to, to say, 'I'm going to give myself up'."
Mr Alexander, whose late wife Barbara was the sister of Moat's mother Josephine, described his nephew as a "soft" figure.
"He was so gentle with us. There was no aggression, no fighting, no arguing, he was so soft.
"My family called him the gentle giant. Where it's all gone wrong has changed him.
"But I am still shocked that he's dead, he's gone."
Police arrests
Prior to Moat's term in Durham prison, he had worked as a doorman at a nightclub in Newcastle's Bigg Market, an area of the city famous for its nightlife.
His life in recent years appears to have been punctuated by a number of encounters with police.
Northumbria Police confirmed he had been arrested on 12 occasions and was charged with seven separate offences as a result.
At his trial for possession of an offensive weapon - a knuckle-duster police had found in the car he was driving - he told the court he would not have considered using it as a weapon.
"My hand barely fits through it," he said.
"It is an ornamental item. I wouldn't like to hit someone with this.
"I am a big lad and I would have thought if I punched someone with this it would take the skin off my knuckles right down to the bone."