Killer Grandma? The Case of Sandra Layne
True Crime with Elli Mac
07/07/26
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On the evening of 18 May 2012, in a quiet gated condominium community in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a seventeen-year-old boy dialled 911 from inside.
He was bleeding. He told the dispatcher his grandmother had shot him, and that he was going to die.
Before help could reach him, more shots rang out.
The woman who fired them was not a stranger, she was Sandra Layne, his grandmother.
When police arrived at the scene, she told them: "I murdered my grandson."
What had happened inside that home?
Was this the act of a frightened, elderly woman defending herself against a troubled and volatile teenager?
Or was it something else entirely?
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Leonard Lawson: The Comic Book Killer
July 1
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In Australia in the early fifties, one man had created his own superhero.
Leonard Keith Lawson was barely in his mid-twenties when he gave the country The Lone Avenger — a masked Wild West vigilante, riding out of the fictional town of Redrock to make things right. Children swore the Lone Avenger's Code. They wore the replica gun belts. They queued at newsagents for the next issue.
At its peak, the comic was selling seventy thousand copies an issue across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
He was twenty-six years old, married with three children, and one of the most recognised names on Australian news-stands.
But underneath all of it, something dark had been growing. Something that had been there for a long time — waiting.
And on the morning of the seventh of May, 1954, it finally got out.
Five young women drove into the bush with Leonard Lawson that day. What happened in those trees would change everything — and would end with Leonard standing in a courtroom, a death sentence hanging over his head.
But the sentence didn't hold. After seven years, he walked free.
He was out for just five months, and In that time, he would take two young lives — and set in motion a chain of events that would claim a third.
This is the story of Leonard Keith Lawson. The comic book killer.
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On 29 January 2017, Gillian and her husband, Norbert, left their home in Birmingham to carry out what should have been a routine evening of home visits for the care business they ran together.
But by the end of the night, one of them would be dead.
As Gillian sat in the passenger seat of their car, Norbert reached for a hidden axe and struck her more than 40 times, leaving her body strapped into her seat.
How had a husband and wife who had built a life, a family, and a business together reached this point? And what drove Norbert to commit such a brutal and senseless act?
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