The Canal Killer: The Case of John Sweeney | World’s Most Evil Killers
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- John Sweeney: A profile of the cold-blooded killer, nicknamed "The Canal Killer" due to the places he dumped the body parts of his victims.
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9:33 how the hell do you find the ex-husband in his ex wife’s closet with a fucking axe, and a knife & then just let him go free with NO charges!? Man what the fuck does a possessive guy gotta do before he’s arrested to protect the female, and future females that may end up with him? Ridiculous.
Plus how do you go back to the person the cracked your skull with a hammer
same way someone gets sentenced to 4 life sentences but can be out in as little as 9 years.
Too many good law provisions for wastoids,
released without charge after hiding in a closet with a knife and an axe.... what the fuck. the criminal system is useless for victims
Language please. Reporting your potty mouth
@@annberlin5811 lemme know when the SWAT team and KGB will arrive
@@annberlin5811 we’re watching a documentary about a man dismembering his domestic violence victims and you’re worried about curse words? Come on now.
@@annberlin5811 you’ve got to be kidding me. This your first time on the internet 🙄
@@trashketchup1497 i never swear its rude. Trash Ketchup? Did your mother not like you or something?
She kept it brutally honest....much appreciated.
How does someone with 4 life sentences have the opportunity for parole after 9 years? You see that is the problem with the British justice system. They seem to enjoy freeing these sick psychotic killers.
Canada is just as BAD
There is no life life sentence here is 25 years
Reality is, the justice system is shit because we don't do fuck all about it. I personally believe they should bring back capital punishment for sick bastards, but that has to be voiced by the people.
@@maikeleissens5088 There is actually a ‘whole life tariff’ or whole life order, but it’s an EXTREMELY rare sentence. As of last year only 60 prisoners were currently serving that type of sentence in England and Wales.
It happens a lot here in the states
I'm so sick of the excuses that the parents were strict or abusive. There's plenty of people who were abused and grew up in a terrible household that go on to raise families and don't abuse others or their children.
Everyone is different and handles life differently! So say whatever you wish cuz you make no sense!
@@11breaper68 I make plenty of sense. You would think they would want better for the people they supposedly care about. They know how horrible it made them feel! The Psychiatrist always say well they had a bad childhood. Not just on here everywhere that's the first excuse they use. People torture and kill their own children it's because they had a bad home life. People go murder and it's because they had a bad home life etc....
@@11breaper68 The comment:Everybody handles things differently makes me wonder about you! Yes we do but not by torture and murdering others!
Its a combination of factors,not only the abuse,but there is something wrong in there brains
No kidding... I was terribly abused and I haven't killed anyone....
Yet :p
Justice system in this country really is a damn joke.. neighbour with the bat though yiu sir are a hero and a legend, you saved that poor womans life
Ya could say she got saved by the bat man!!
During all my years in England as american. When I dated there, many men became jealous of my accent , respect and loyalty towards all during my time in the American Military .They also sometimes hated the English Women I dated and I recall once also in North West England, a English lad came after a woman I dated with a bat just for being with me also. Due to my upbringing in service and respect for all. I walked steadily and fast towards him. He feared and thrown the bat at me personally as I was going to disarm him stopping his further activities basically in real terms take the bat from him to leave him on the street bleeding begging for mercy however he missed bad lol and Ran inside his flat never provoking her and nor I again. I am sorry if you get offended and are English but my experience with English lads is that they are all cowards at the end of the day. I know some are not as the British military has outstanding training for instance but for the lads who one clearly knows is not from any military service or recieved prior training somewhere else such as the ones often seen drinking a lot at pubs and what not, for the most part those lads are cowards.
@@indianastones6032 I really like your screen name lolol .
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 thanks, it started as a in-joke with my mates but somehow I've started using as my profile name all the time!!. Yeah ya get fucking twats that act like that over here! Hope they didn't ruin ya experience too much, but every country has idiots wherever ya go!!
The system needs a complete overhaul. The number of poor women who have suffered because of their incompetence and dismissive approach to domestic violence has caused unnecessary harm to the victims and in many cases, resulted in the needless death of victims who could have been saved had the police taken these dangerous lunatics more seriously. There is too much of a dismissive approach to domestic violence.
Delia's story is absolutely infuriating. So many many people have their pain and fear dismissed like this. How often do we hear cases where things were dismissed because the police can't (won't) do anything until their stalker or abuser physically harms them, and then often continue to dismiss things when they do by not taking it seriously? It is sickening.
That neighbour is a hero.
Yes he was
Did more than the police ever did for her
She looks like Taylor Swift. What a damn monster. Great video.
YES! Was looking for this comment lol
Melissa is actually my cousin. I never met her because she got murdered two years before I was even born. 😔
@@jessispradlin9733 I am so sorry 😢. May she RIP🙏🏼🕊️🙏🏼
@@bettydamnboop3030 😢 Thank you. 🙏🏻
@@jessispradlin9733 I will never understand why people are evil. I hope you have a blessed day 🙏🏼🌹🙏🏼
Makes me sick to hear how dismissive the police were to Delia when she tried to tell them of Sweeneys murder confession. She was failed, his other victims were failed. This happens far too often, takes a full out in the one attack before they finally take action. And that idiot judge has blood on his hands as well for letting him out of jail. What schmuck lets out a woman abuser because the battered woman pleads for leniency?
💯 agree with you on all of it!
That's our police force for you. We're are they when you need them
If these things happened to them maybe they would've more involved with these cases
They had no proof
I bet that clown of a judge would actually do a better job if that happened to one of his family. members. These sc of the earth are getting off way to easy only to be released too. Early only to be out and to do this again to someone else. Another victim
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 A weak excuse.
Melissa should’ve moved back home to the US, not asked the judge for clemency
That was foolishness on her part and it cost her life
It's honestly a miracle that Delia is still alive
Delia really understood that he was a pos. And did her best to protect herself. The other woman who got him released was bound to be killed. There has to be therapeutic sessions for the women - psychopaths do not change - they have learned an art of manipulation but have no desire to change
Every charmer I met, there was always a superficial element to them. When these cases come up, it sheds light on what might've been lying beneath the surface.
Probably why I have come to distrust charmers and am relieved to find most of them aren't interested in me.
Tjis particular cnt doesn’t seem like a charmer to me. Just looking at a photo ring my warning bells. Y
I am still haunted by memories made in a brief relationship with one that exhibited such charming traits. By nature I am more suspicious but he really managed to win me over. And he spoiled me at the beginning when I was in a vunerable situation my life. Fights got quite scary. After the relationship ended I knew nobody would believe me. I am still haunted by it and often question myself. He is quite capable of portraying a normal & successful facade.
The police failed this Delia lady. My god. Poor woman. They failed her *MULTIPLE TIMES*
I'm always delighted to see what Geoffrey Wansell is wearing.
He reminds me of Christopher Mason 🙂
Nullify your abuser today. Gouge their eyes out of the eye sockets!
What an evil wicked and cruel man.Those poor poor women 💔💔😥😥💔💔
except the first victim who pardoned his crime. Losers like that deserve everything they get.
Here are a few common denominators in all of these Real Crime episodes:
1. The killer appear to get caught early on and get released due to a lack of police evidence or on some vague commitment to keep away from the victim which the police are ready to accept blindly
2. Each episode seems to start off with the bad upbringing of the killer and somehow this gives them an "excuse" for the crimes they have committed
3. Telling us repeatedly how dangerous the person is and how they are truly one of the world's most evil killers
no shit! and no way for anyone to protect himself or herself because a european probably can't even have a stungun/pepper spray...? someone correct me if i'm wrong...
@shawn bianchi A dead one obviously!
@@joeneil5485 you can in most parts of Europe
@@Alex-mc5yn without it being considered a concealed weapon...? Hmmm... 🤔 Cops in Europe generally can't use chemical irritants, right? But the average knucklehead can...?!? My mind is blown...
@@joeneil5485 yeah, you can have it in most of Europe, you only have to have a license for it in Germany, Portugal and Switzerland and the only place where it's actually banned is UK.
Cops aren't forbidden from using it either and they also have a lot harsher things to use against people, such as shockers. In some places, even tear gas to disperse protesters. Idk why you're applying the dogshit UK laws to the rest of Europe.
The victim looks like taylor swift. Omg 😳 i just started the video but i cant get past how similar she looks!
Her name is Melissa Halstead. She was actually my cousin, but she was murdered two years before I was even born. 😔
I’ve never heard of this before omg horrifying 😒
Another man turned evil after not being able to pursue an art career.....xD
WTF.!... are the police doing, how many times does he repeat these horrors then released by the police to do the same again as soon as he's out.
The judge let’s them out, not the police
The police should be sued
Congrats to the marvelous british laws that set a 4 times lifer free in.....9 years.Excellent law makers indeed.
It happens everywhere, unfortunately. John Wayne Gacy got something like 8-10 years for buggary and was let out after just a year
The British justice system has always been a joke. They protect the killers more than they protect the victims.
"When you're cutting them into pieces, that's expressing an anger to the victim...." No words to describe how absurd, obscenly naive, and just plain uninformed that statement is.
She's a educated criminologist; the devil is in the details. Wording is intended for all intelligence levels, including yours.
I totally agree, this criminologist always talks nonsense
Never heard this case before, crazy
Thank you. I'm a victim of domestic violence. He spends a lot of time and effort over the YEARS trying to convince me that he does no wrong.
All these lowlifes sick,sadistic. Human pieces of garbage should be punished the same way that they did their victims.😡💯
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Domestic violence should be taught in schools. We should teach our children the line between love, control and hate.. I'm sad to see that even strong women face domestic violence and silently walk away from everyone and next thing u hear, is that they've been killed. I'm so sick and tired of police not taking domestic violence seriously. Domestic violence results to death, so its a very very serious thing and should be taken seriously.
Sick!
The second victim in the thumbnail, Melissa, looks like Taylor Swift.
Evil personified.
Melisa looks a lot like Taylor swift.
I’d say more like Jerry Hall.
Hello, and Thank You for the video! Hope you're enjoying your day!
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It boggles my mind, how women who are abused leave the guy and then take him back. People like that do not change and youre going back to hell.
That actor is way too good looking to be him.
Yessssss
Melissa looks like Taylor Swift 🥺
Yes!!!
I thought the same thing
Right horrible man in he!!!
Great upload, yes seen it before on TV but love this channel 🤘
Delia, you are my HERO?! These damn crazy stalkers need to be hung, in an open court to show what will happen . These are humans that are making it unsafe for half the species! To even go for a walk.
Poor old Melissa with a golden heart pleads for the release of her abuser and eventual killer, hoping he’d change. She deserved so much better and could have done better. R.I.P.
I feel Melissa is mentally ill. I don't think she has a golden heart - Think she has a broken mind.
She was an idiot. I mean for God's sake the guy just bashed your head in with a hammer and instead of escaping the relationship while he's in prison, you beg them to let him out and then you go back to him? There's no helping someone like that, they will keep choosing the abuser.
Delia was tough and her neighbor was a savior that day! I’m so glad she got away from him and helped bring him to justice
I find it amazing after being beaten with a hammer that she would get him out of jail and cause her own murder. There are many women that leave and go back to their abuser.
caused her own murder...yes blame the victum...its never the murdering men....its the women they kill whose fault it is...
just passing on info to you. she did not cause her own murder. that psychopathic depraved thing is the one that caused her death.abuser like him know how to manipulate women to stay even after he has beaten them. I hope you see that.
@@kalpanaperry6709 she got him out jail pleading for his freedom when probably wouldn't have gotten out. She caused her own murder and the murders he committed immediately after hi s release.
The amazing part is the idiot judge that let him go because of her letter. If anyone knows even the smallest amount about the psychology of a battered woman they know she would come to his rescue and her portrayal of his innocence should not be taken into account when deciding his punishment. That judge allowed 2 woman to be murdered and another to be mangled.
@@cynthiaschmidt2726 MY POINT EXACTLY!!!
The police dropped the ball so many times. Why didn't they believe Delia when she called them to her house? Why didn't they investigate her claims and check out the drawings? Why was he repeatedly released from jail?
Thank you.
May this video be a wake up call to everyone about getting involved in a serious relationship before getting to know who they really are. Not easy but there are compatibility test out their you can take. Best to take them with a competant counselor.
God bless
Absolutely true, especially of what we see nowadays through social media, a lot get into relationships without fully knowing each other.
I've heard the name before, but never knew anything about him.💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️for the Victims
When your name is Sweeney, its important not to try to emulate your life as a barber. What a horrible man this John was....
This is absolutely disgusting and how dismissive the the police were?? I have have no words. 😢
What!?! that’s a modern day empowered superwoman that is equal to any man. He’s lucky she didn’t take him out with her girl power. Stop being so sexist
Convicted of 4 murders but would get out in 6 yrs needed more??? WTH is wrong with the UK?
A man's man is not in any way shape or form the image of a serial killer or any childish acts that this man displays. What it does show is what Hollywood and the entertainment industry will do to your kids if you allow them to get to them. That's all it is
These crimes have occurred all through time. Some cultures have stronger massively innate concepts of what a "real" man is. Women until rather recently were treated as chattel, things to be used. You are seen as a man when you have 'control' of your things, hence the old-fashioned phrase. "Control your woman!"
@@cdes1776 , you're one of those. I guess you had to try that gay stuff to find out if you were gay huh. Political science works on you very well. You can think the devil that aids doesn't exist anymore and thank him for all that the politicians are doing for you
@@banditeastlick2471 Your comment makes zero sense.
@@cdes1776 sorry I'm not going to watch it again too get the time stamp for you when he mentions "a man's man" to some character that doesn't deserve recognition much less any more attention
ah yes, the No True Scotsman fallacy, a classic!
Also DNA is hard as the police don't have everyone's DNA
This criminologist lady sometimes really tries to see connections that aren't there. I would think dismembering a body most likely is done to make it more easily disposable, or at least make you not stand out as much while you're getting rid of the body.
She instead goes "it's a sign he thinks that person is unworthy and most be destroyed, it's a sign of anger towards this person". No lady, it's not...
You're just an incel.
Makes me sick to hear about police incredulity and incompetence which escalated these crimes. Yes he could hide in plain sight and be a caméléon because the police turn a blind eye!
How could this woman stay with this man after he hit her over the head with a HAMMER???!!
Poor Melissa. She did not understand his evil nature. Such a beautiful girl with probably a very sweet nature. Destroyed by this total scum. That's terribly sad..
Is it just me or does the actor portraying sweeney look like Shia LaBeouf??🤣
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Hopefully those Amsterdam police have a better way to identify a headless body. AND not even listening to Delia!!
I remember first reading about this case, it received quite a lot of media attention because of John Sweeney's macabre paintings.
She had to be Scared to death!! I hope Delia is ok,now.
That's the problem with domestic violence. After 2 Violent assaults he was reprimanded and released.....
The message the perpetrator receives is that his crimes are not taken seriously and he is free to escalate the violence.
Melissa has got to be Taylor Swift's ancestor
Very, very unfortunate for Melissa. She had a bad case of Co- Dependency which got her killed. That's the way it is with many Domestic violence cases.
That has got to be the worst and most F'd up P.O.S. I've ever seen on any of the crime shows
Agreed. I think the death penalty should be brought back for sick people like him.
You have to wonder about some women. He half killed her and she was lucky enough to get away with her life. What does she do? She takes him back to give him a second bite of the Cherry. Which one is the more crazy? Then you have this other one who he hits over the head with a hammer and what does she do? Does she let him rot in prison and get as far away from him as is humanly possible? No, she goes into court and asks for clemency.
Yeah. I keep wondering about that too. I've heard it explained as to why women do that so often, but to be honest, I still don't really get it. If I'd ever treated a girlfriend like that, or for much less, in fact, I would *expect* them to leave and to never hear from them again.
I'll never understand it.
Let's congratulate the police & judiciary for letting a monster run loose. They should suffer the same harms.
The justice system in the U.K. is a joke!
Looks like Taylor Swift, Taylor swift will be perfect for this movie 🎥
I visited London, England in 2000, and creeps me out to hear in this video that he was in London in 2000. I could have passed him on the sidewalk or sat by him in a pub while having my lunch. Yuck!!! He was vile and it astounds me the incompetence of the police to apprehend him after his attacks and the warning from the poor lady who survived. Had they heeded her warning, looked at his artwork and believed her, she might never then lost her finger and been so savagely attacked. And the other lady not murdered. ...Sigh...
Why would woman put up with such abusive CRAP from man ??? Rather be happy or UNHAPPY ALL BY MY SELF !!!
Once was enough for Me years years ago!! I refuse to be beaten on by any man !! Never went back .
You have to wonder what’s wrong with women who get together with these vicious bas’ards….they leave…then go back? Something seriously wrong with Melissa…sorry, the other woman had brains enough to eventually leave. I feel sorry for her family, but can’t feel sorry for her, as awful as it was….c’mon…she could have packed up and left the country while he was in jail.
Victims of domestic abuse get in a cycle of situations like this, it isn’t all that uncommon in these situations. She’s basically been brainwashed.
Okay I’m sorry but does anyone notice that the killer named Sweeney is found on Fleet Street….
She looks like Taylor Swift. He resembles Keanu Reeves.
If you saw Austrian Art, you’d see how violent some male Austrian Modern Art is.
NOTE he moved from one city with legal prostitution Vienna, to Amsterdam.
Men who think of women like chattel approve of prostitution & pimping
Anyone else notice how much he looks like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs in that one picture?
Attacks on women and children are not taken seriously enough. Known fact, but we still don't pay enough sufficient attention.
*Sweeney's murder on Paula was simple, drug users and prostitution go side by side normally but not always in exchange being traded between the two. I am addicted myself to my own prescriptions I receive monthly, not by choice but with ongoing surgeries to my right foot after a accident. I receive three different high milligram narcotics and through the same doctors clinic I have seen users come in to recieve medications with female companions known prostitutes here in Florida with them who offered services that I declined as I am not for that at all being loyal to someone already. One never knows what disgusting disease one may get doing that, No thanks, I will ALWAYS PASS* .
*So obviously Sweeney attracted Paula with drug use since both had a addiction problem before her murder for sex and her murder was a lot faster than the other woman in time frames together than the other victims since she was a prostitute constantly with other men while his jealousy became out of control faster than any of his other victims. He did attract many good looking women also not known prostitutes in the video that of course would of had many other guys attracted to them creating the jealous demeanor in killings to come out once again. But let's face the facts, many men and women both get involved with their partners out of lust often or being attracted for one reason or another but a normal healthy relationship will never result in abuse, jealousy and of course never murder* .
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
in what country do you live where there is still an pandemic?
@@maritzaretief367 lol. I was thinking that as well!
@@mhrgall 🙃
She looks like Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift? 🤷🏾♂️
So he had to destroy, kill so many women for police to take him inn ? So pathetic. Women are really degraded. We have to watch after each other. If u see your neighbour going thru domestic violence, do something. At this stage in life, if l see a man put a hand on a woman, l'll do him in myself. I'm sick of men who think women are inferior
Melissa Halstead looks like Taylor Swift.
I don't understand how people can freeze up like that. If someone takes out an axe, or a knife, why wait around and find out what happens
Then you’ve never had someone pull a weapon on you
Also you’re a man so you live a different life than women. You don’t know what it’s like to be the weaker physically in a relationship
You can always go to the cops afterward.
Plus I have had a weapon drawn on me.
Probably shock.
Why would she take him back after the hammer attack? Mind boggling...something must have been wrong with her also.
Why is no one mentioning the Taylor Swift pic...?
Damn that...
Put your hands on me -- then I'm *DEFINITELY* putting my hands on them..
And I can *GUARANTEE* that my "crazy" is worse than theirs will EVER be. 💯
And I certainly do not rely on any law enforcement to "come to my rescue".. I'll "rescue" my damn self. 💯
(I've RARELY had a decent experience with the law enforcement -- and I was pretty much begging for them to help me.... I was 13/14 yrs old when I sought out for help with the law enforcement. And again at firm 14. I finally gave up when I was 17; which was the very last time I asked for help because I was lost & was assaulted by multiple men. Instead of help, I was detained...)
(My kids dad thought that attempting to strangle me would "frighten" me... instead -- he found out the opposite. I laughed in his face. That's when he fully realized the level of my "crazy".. I told him he was lucky to breathe the following day. Needless to say -- I left him shortly after. I stayed to "keep my family together" despite the mental abuse.. but damn that. 11 yrs was MORE than enough.. my kids, my stepkids & his family gave me FULL blessing to leave him asap. 💯)
Now -- I prefer to be an Introvert & remain single.
Makes my life MUCH MORE SIMPLE. 💯
BTW....i dont deny the police drop the ball on these guys over and over......thats why as a victim...YOU MUST be totally committed to getting these killers..NOT appeasing them....
It is scary being a single lady, you just don't know who you are meeting up with and trusting
You do know that there's as much if not more violence against men than women in relationships now right?
Men are just luckier to be stronger... otherwise we'd be in hell.
Statistics indicate that it is dangerous for women to date and/or marry. I'm grateful I'm alive and happily single.
Same for a guy meeting a woman.
@@pleidiolwyfimwlad2104 It certainly happens but not as often.
@@deborah7164 still happens tho
Crazy one. TY
John sweeney was on a normal wing at hmp whitemoor max security prison ...i was serving time there too ....we were on a plastering course ..he would only do sculptures mainly of hinself they where perfect look alike to himself ..the only good thing i can say is that he hated prison and lives in the belief he will go home ..horrible man suffees
I glanced at the thumbnail...thought it was Taylor Swift 🤣
Taylor swift?
I cannot believe I have never heard of this guy before! The barber Sweeney is the only one I know of lol. Definitely a bonafide monster. RIP to his victims passed and peace and strength the the rest. May God be with you🙏💔🕊️
You do know Sweeny Todd is a fictional character don’t you?
I never heard of him either during my years in north West England where he is reported from oddly yet I was there in the same time period of years. Of course family life and i.t. work was my main goals, not to much the news. Though I worked with computers at the time and web coding, I learned for the most part, leave your employment task at work and your home life at home as when crossed it could cause problems with a family. Therefore I wanted hardly nothing to do in watching the media as it surrounds a lot of technology . I did a lot of work with major companies in the UK and sometimes abroad. After leaving the UK once again, I gained citizenship in America holding citizenship here also. Now I truly enjoy this channel today being recently retired enjoying life a bit more as well as going out also. America has everything England does owned by other English citizens such as British pubs, chippies, and night life and small and large retail establishments such as Asda plus a lot more. So I feel very comfortable here except missing some family back home. Thank God I retired recently though as I wanted nothing to do with the media for many years. These murder cases back home are indeed shocking to say the least.
@@colmanpm Yes of course! Lol. Seen the movie with Johnny Depp.😉
@@laurametheny1008 😀 Does that make Kung Fu Panda not real? Say it isn't so! 😯😢🙁
Can we drop this criminologist and get Katherine Ramsland instead, please? She's the main expert on BTK and does criminology commentary in other shows, she's so much better than the one always shown on here
I thought that was Taylor Swift on the thumbnail
So, in 2002 he got four life sentences, but he could be out in *nine* years? Erm... Am I missing something?
She looks like if Taylor Swift were an adult in the 80's and had a hard look
She came back, I'm good on feeling bad for them. Once someone punches or slaps you, get outta there. You can only be a victim once, twice and you're a willing participant.
The irony of him going to Rotterdam to dispose of her body. R.I.P. Melissa 🙏
she looks like taylor swift
Is that woman in the preview Taylor Swift?
I fail to see how "the idea that men should be tough, they should be stoic, they should be resilient" somehow logically leads to "so the kind of stuff hes being exposed to in his childhood is teaching him about women - who they are, how they should behave, and that they are inferior to men"
Those have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Teaching toughness incredibly poorly by being an abuser would count here, but nothing about stoicism or resilience has anything to do with women or their roles, wtf?