[Music] Christine Johnson like many little girls dreamed of a Hollywood stars life from childhood being beautiful wealthy and famous she grew up in a loving family had a happy childhood and ambitious plans for the future Christine's desire to become famous came true but unfortunately not due to her talents but because of the cruelty of her killer and the details will shock you because her body was found with a torn-off ear born in 1981 in Santa Clara California Christine soon moved with her parents Theresa and Kirk Johnson to the small town of s tuck in Michigan
it was a cozy and picturesque place with a population of less than a th people where an atmosphere of peace and security prevailed crime here was extremely low so locals didn't even lock their doors not fearing criminals everyone in the community knew each other Christine grew up along with her brother Derek who was a few years older in a family that seemed friendly and happy at first glance however the family Idol was shattered when the parents deci started to divorce despite this they maintained a good relationship for the sake of the children according to the
custody plan Christine and Derek alternately lived with their mom and dad due to such circumstances the girl got involved in household chores early and started helping her mother at the age of 12 including with the family budget striving for financial Independence Christine tried to get any job so as not to ask her parents for money meanwhile her brother went to serve in the Army and then decided to become a career military man while studying in high school Christine having become independent took her life into her own hands intelligence and natural beauty helped her in this
the girl was cheerful fun and an interesting conversationalist she looked great thanks to an active and healthy lifestyle relatives admiring Christine's Beauty advised her to conquer Hollywood the girl got the most pleasure from sailing surfing and other water activities that she enjoyed when visiting her grandmother in California however after returning to Michigan Christine missed her favorite hobbies and needed time to adjust to a different way of life here she became passionate about theater being a member of a small acting group in Winter she worked part-time as a waitress in a local cafe thanks to her
friendliness politeness and sociability Christine became a real find for the owner of the establishment attracting more and more visitors Christine increasingly thought about leaving the small town of SGA tuck the measured life of the province did not appeal to her the girl was convinced that she deserved something more than just serving food in a cafe Christine saw no serious prospects for herself in this town after graduating from high school in 1999 she finally gained enough freedom to start building her own life and path to success having thought over her situation Christine decided to go in
search of herself the girl traveled to different cities worked there and tried her hand at various fields of activity eventually in 2000 she chose California which she loved so much as her place of residence this state attracted her with its wonderful climate and much wider opportunities for realizing her potential at first Christine moved in with her grandmother who lived in the small Resort town of Santa Maria with a population of 100,000 people despite being close to her favorite entertainment the girl first focused on solving important issues first of all she started looking for a job
because providing for herself was very important to her Christine got a job as a system administrator in the city's Electric Power company then she focused on her education and decided to enter the University of California the educational institution was located a 40-minute drive from her grandmother's house Christine successfully passed the entrance tests and bought a car with the money she had earned earlier however even with her own transport daily trips over such long distances took too much of her time therefore the girl began to look for a job closer to the university this is how
Christine first touched her dream Hollywood she managed to get a heart time job with a film crew that was planning to shoot a movie the experience of performing in a theater group helped the girl quickly adapt to the new working atmosphere eventually she was hired as an assistant on the set of a thriller here Christine met people who lived and breathed Hollywood for a girl from The Province it was a real Starry moment she communicated with world famous actors and directors and felt incredible happiness Christine could not believe that she had the opportunity to interact
with celebrities the world of Cinema completely captivated her this work inspired young Christine so much that she wanted to be even closer to the film industry the girl enrolled in professional makeup courses taught by Hollywood makeup artists having mastered these skills she thought about becoming a makeup artist on a film set for this Christine was going to go to the city of her dreams Los Angeles although it was quite a risky Journey curiosity overcame the fear of the unknown the girl was irresistibly drawn to Hollywood eventually Christine moved to Los Angeles a city where several
famous film studios are located at once for a young and attractive girl it was a real period of Trials and temptations but she demonstrated the best manners and decency that only a young lady is capable of despite the popular Trends in the environment she found herself in Christine did not lead a dissolute Lifestyle the girl avoided noisy parties and get togethers remaining a rather modest person she had a relationship with a guy she had met a few years ago and continued to communicate with overcoming the distance between them later he moved to Christine and starting
from 2002 the young people decided to rent an apartment in Los Angeles together since they had not yet achieved Financial stability such a step was beneficial for both of them it was a difficult Adventure but Christine did not lose heart and began to look for a new job on a permanent basis however difficulties arose with this the girl managed to find only temporary part-time jobs and there was no serious work the Lion Share of their joint budget was earned by her boyfriend meanwhile relations between Christine and Todd became more and more tense later the girl
complained to her mother that verbal altercations with her beloved increasingly turned into physical violence on his part she found herself trapped in a toxic relationship complicated by financial hardship Christine's mother began to look for new housing for her daughter so that she could move away from her problematic partner eventually Christine broke up with her boyfriend and settled in a small apartment she continued to get an education remotely during this period her father provided the girl with substantial financial support he believed that his daughter would finally find her place in life and realize her calling so
he sought to help her in every possible way by November 2002 Christine finally managed to get a job at a mobile Communications company but this position was far from her ideals neither the field of activity nor the level of income met the girl's expectations in addition Christine still could not find EX cable housing near her place of work instead her mother found a cozy house in the town of Santa Monica neighboring Los Angeles which had to be shared with two more girls the attractive thing was that it was located next to the beach in a
lively residential area it seemed like an ideal place to get on her feet so Christine moved there during this period the girl transferred to the University of Santa Monica Christine's dreams of Hollywood did not come true she failed to start a career her relationship with her beloved fell apart heart and she was actually forced to start her life from scratch however the girl did not lose heart and continued to steadily go towards her dream on February 15 2003 Christine planned to attend a party before that the Young Beauty visited a shopping center she had a
long phone conversation with her mother during which they discussed the girl's plans for the future this call was Christine's last contact with her loved ones the next day on Sunday February 16th 2003 the mother was eagerly waiting for a call from her daughter hoping to hear about how the previous day had gone however the girl never got in touch the worried woman tried to call Christine herself but her phone was unavailable at first this did not cause serious concern because the daughter could be resting or at work and not hear the call however the next
day there was still no news from Christine around 9:00 in the morning the alarmed mother called her daughter's work Christine was always in touch and answered calls but this time in answering machine worked instead of her then the woman contacted the girl's manager who informed her that she had not shown up for work he emphasized that Christine was a very responsible employee and during the last 3 months she had no delays or absenteeism the girl's absence surprised all her colleagues but they also could not reach her as the manager said Christine was last seen at
work on February 14th one of her co-workers recall that the girl was going to some party the mother of the missing girl visited her daughter's page onal social networks hoping to find useful information about this event but in vain Christine had not published a single photo although previously she actively maintained her profile actually documenting every step of her life the woman also checked her daughter's bank accounts but no transactions had been made since her Disappearance in search of her daughter the mother called all the hospitals but Christine was not registered anywhere so on February 17th
she decided to contact the Santa Monica Police Department with a statement about the disappearance of her 21-year-old daughter the investigators checked whether a girl matching the description had been involved in traffic accidents during these days but found nothing the missing Beauty's neighbors also heard nothing about her since her disappearance the police turned to Christine's ex-boyfriend Todd with whom she had a rather stormy and sometimes violent relationship the version was considered that he could have found his beloved who had run away from him and done something to her but the young man denied seeing the girl
Christine's neighbor were only able to provide superficial information about the last day they saw the girl according to them on Saturday February 15th the missing girl was going to some party but with whom and where exactly they did not know the same information came from the girl's colleagues when they communicated with her mother this clue became the first in the investigation so the detectives began to carefully check it later another detective joined the case while reviewing the collected materials he was struck by the photo of the missing girl crime victim bore a striking resemblance to
another girl who had disappeared earlier and was found dead in 1995 that girl starting her modeling career agreed to a photo shoot for the glossy magazine photographer but these plans were not destined to come true it was about Linda soic killed by photographer Charles redbond he lured the beautiful blonde out of town by deception where he Dishonored and took her life the policemen knew that at the time of Christine's disappearance Linda's killer was already serving a sentence in prison so physically he could not be involved in the new crime however it could be a follower
of Charles who was inspired by his scheme of action detectives needed at least some clue related to the missing girl so they put out an alert for herar a white Mazda maer at the same time while communicating with Christine's mother investigators found out more details about the girl's ex-boyfriend Todd and also learned the name of her new Chosen One Lucas however the woman knew very little about the latter she could not even name his last name which greatly complicated the search more than 48 hours had passed since Christine's disappearance a critical period in such cases
the police seriously considered the possibility that the girl might already be dead they began to analyze the billing data of her mobile phone it turned out that the last outgoing call was made on February 15th at 1734 Christine called the directory service at 411 which could indicate that she was in trouble and was trying to clarify an address or someone's phone number the convers ation lasted about 3 minutes so this communication could be of great importance for the investigation unfortunately it was not possible to find out the exact content of the dialogue since such calls
were not recorded after that conversation the girl's mobile phone was discharged the last location of the gadget recorded by the system indicated the area of Ventura Boulevard the police decided to involve the media in the investigation the headlines immediately featured messages about Christine's disappearance with hints of the similarity of this case to Linda's murder in search of Clues investigators carefully searched the apartment where Christine lived among the finds was a receipt from a lingerie store dated the day the girl disappeared February 15th the police managed to find out that despite the aggressive behavior of her
ex-boyfriend Christine continued to maintain contact with him sometimes she visited him the last time on February 7th but the detectives managed to find the most serious clue while studying the missing girl's email on February 13th Christine sent a message to the party coordinator in which she expressed a passionate anticipation of the holiday and her intention to buy a ticket in response she was informed about the complete sale of tickets but assured that she would be included in a separate waiting list this is a fairly common practice among organizers of events with the participation of celebrities
in this way they encourage visitors to buy VIP tickets at greatly inflated prices finally the police managed to find Christine's new boyfriend Lucas and talked to him according to the young man he last saw the girl on February 14th the day before her disappearance they watched a movie together after which they parted Lucas successfully passed a polygraph test had a reliable Alibi and did not arouse any suspicion among the investigators later the detectives interrogated Christine's ex-boyfriend Todd but he also had an alibi confirmed by several witnesses it turned out that at the time of the
girl's disappearance Todd was out of town among all the versions the police were most interested in the one that was associated with the party where Christine was heading and from where she never returned investigators were convinced that the key to unraveling the girl's disappearance lies here they contacted the organizers of the event and were shocked by what they heard it turns out that Christine never bought a ticket and did not show up at the party but where did the girl go then to restore the chronology of events on the Fateful evening the police tracked transactions
from the missing girl's bank card this helped to establish all the stores that Christine visited that day Law Enforcement Officers carefully reviewed the recordings from video surveillance cameras in these establishments hoping to identify something extraordinary or stumble upon Clues but this painstaking work took a lot of time in parallel with the analysis of these data the police received an alarming call a woman named Susan Murphy reported a suspicious guy she met at a store he introduced himself as Victor Thomas an employee of a film company that conducts cast for a new Janes Bond movie The
Man began to put psychological pressure on Susan inviting her to the role of Bond's girl and admiring her beauty he persistently inclined the woman to participate in the casting but this seemed extremely suspicious to her Susan barely managed to refuse at the last moment fortunately she went to meet with the stranger accompanied by her husband a former police officer Susan's husband personally spoke with Victor trying to inquire about his true intentions but the Suspects suddenly fled without providing any useful information later Susan decided to check all the data she knew about Victor and found out
that he was lying Victor Thomas had nothing to do with the film industry moreover a person with that name did not exist at all it seems that the man invented a legend similar to Linda cix's killer in order to meet a beautiful woman but for what purpose remained a mystery although Susan's story ended well Victor was still at large and could continue his Shenanigans there for the police urgently began to check the received information and search for the suspicious guy it was quite possible that he had evil intentions investigators studied the recordings from surveillance cameras
of all the stores where Christine made purchases on the eve of her disappearance but found nothing worthy of attention then they decided to go around the shops and interview the staff the salespeople were shown a sketch of Victor who allegedly harassed beautiful girls in one of the stores the cashier recalled seeing a similar man but could could not provide any more details eventually an artist arrived on the scene to compile a sketch of the suspect the Search for Christine was gaining momentum Dog Handlers with dogs and volunteers were sent to the area from where the
girl last got in touch and called the directory service patrols and volunteers continued to look for the missing girl's car and Christine herself there were many messages from citizens that a similar car was seen in different places but all these Clues turned out to be false finally on February 2th fourth an important signal was received by the police in the parking lot of the shopping center that Christine visited on the day of her disappearance her car was found a white Mazda merer the forensic expert who arrived at the scene conducted a thorough inspection of the
Interior seized fingerprints and all potential evidence a bottle of water was found on the back seat and the missing girl's mobile phone was on the front seat but the investigators were most surprised by the story of the parking lot guard the man recalled a strange incident related to this car the car drove into the spot at 1745 although it was reserved for another client some man got out of the car who upon hearing the guard's remark behaved extremely aggressively The Stranger threw the car keys at the guard and left without any explanation there was no
one in the cabin at that time unfortunately there were no surveillance cameras in the parking lot so it was not possible to see the driver having no clues the detectives decided to return to the analysis of Christine's purchase on the day of her disappearance what they found shocked the investigators on the eve of her disappearance the girl bought clothes that exactly match the description provided by Susan when inviting the woman to the casting Victor asked her to wear an extremely short black mini skirt a white blouse stockings and shoes it was these very items that
were paid for with Christine's credit card the police ruled out the possibility of a simple coincidence it seemed that the girl had fallen for the bait of a fraudster whose true motives remained to mystery Christine repeated Susan's fight only the latter was lucky to have an escort in the form of her husband unfortunately no information about the mysterious Victor could be found and law enforcement officers were at an impass they turned to Christine's roommates again the girls recalled that the missing woman was indeed going to some kind of casting but they could not provide any
details during the conversation they managed to remember that the audition was definitely related to a James Bond movie according to them Christine was extremely excited on the eve of the event the description of her outfit of blouse and a mini skirt in which she left the house completely coincided with the officer's fears Christine was very afraid of being late for the casting scheduled for 1730 she was wearing the exact revealing clothes that the villain had asked Susan to wear and possibly Christine herself detectives continued to review the surveillance camera footage over and over again hoping
to find Victor eventually they managed to spot the right man in the store where the employees mentioned him however the video quality was so low that it was impossible to make out facial features still it was at least some kind of lead using eyewitness testimony investigators were able to compile an approximate portrait of the suspect by February 26th a sketch of the main suspect in The Disappearance of the Young Beauty was created one of the experienced detectives having familiarized himself with the case materials recognized Victor paleologus in it who had been released on parole very
recently on January 20th 23 in the past the man had already been convicted of a sexual crime among the episodes of his Rich criminal past there was a case when he lured a woman named Christine kudian to his apartment in a similar manner after inviting her to a supposedly noisy party with celebrities Victor met the victim in an empty quiet house there he began to harass the guest and when she resisted he attacked her the attacker used a rope strangled Christine with it and then tried to tie the woman up for violence but the victim
had enough strength to break free run out of the apartment and call the neighbors for help Victor paleologus used the same scheme luring victims with Promises of casting or invitations to parties this technique worked flawlessly especially near the Walk of Fame many girls came to Los Angeles in search of fulfilling their Hollywood dream and villains like Victor took advantage of this for the first attack on a girl paleologus got off with only a suspended sentence later there was an attempt to dishonor at Katie debono in 1998 and he called himself Brian a movie producer for
this crime he was punished with a minimum term there was reason to believe that Victor was also involved in embezzlement of funds in the company where he previously worked in addition the police identified many other victims women whom paleologus tried to use however all the statements of the victims were ignored by law enforcement officers due to lack of evidence once Victor broke into the house of his ex-girlfriend although he did not managed to bring his criminal intent to the end the man still stole money and jewelry from the home and even for this act he
got off with only a suspended sentence later an even more serious case occurred Victor lured a girl named Heather into a trap as always he insided her to dress in a seductive manner it seems that this particular appearance of the victim excited him the most then paleologus tried to tie the girl up in order to get intimate but Heather miraculously managed to break free somehow she managed to push the attack her away with the sharp heel of her shoe these precious seconds allowed her to run out of the Trap and hide in her own car
the girl filed a statement against the offender for this crime Victor received 2 years in prison but was released on parole on January 20th 2003 this happened just 3 weeks before Christine's disappearance it seems that once at Liberty the repeat offender took up the old by the time the police got on the trail of paleologus he had already been arrested this time he stole a bmwx5 in Beverly Hills and tried to sell the car with forged documents the detain was found to have a wallet with a whole bunch of stolen IDs credit cards and other
documents Victor perfectly matched the type of criminal involved in Christine's disappearance his handwriting completely coincided with what was known to the investigation all the facts pointed to paleologus so the detectives decided to show his photo to Susan who avoided the attack thanks to the intervention of her husband at the police station Susan hesitatingly pointed to Victor's photograph among other pictures later during the identification procedure she again unmistakably identified him noting that she immediately recognized the man despite obvious attempts to change his appearance paleologus slouched a little extended one arm making it longer than the other
and combed his hair in a new way but all these tricks did not help him avoid exposure during a separate check Susan's husband who once tried to detain the criminal also recognized him unfortunately the parking lot guard where the missing girl's car was found could not identify the suspect he only managed to see Victor for a moment from afar and in the dark without seeing his face at the time the photo was presented paleologus was already Behind Bars although on the day of Christine's disappearance he was still at large during the interrogation the suspect denied
any involvement in the girl's disappearance and flatly refused to admit the fact of communicating with Susan despite the presence of irrefutable evidence to the contract Victor refused to testify without a lawyer explaining this by his recent parole and fears that he was being framed so the detectives continued to collect evidence against him soon a new witness came forward a realtor who had been working with Victor for the last few weeks and noticed some Oddities in his behavior paleologus was looking through a real estate agent for a house worth up to $700,000 they inspected several properties
every day when suddenly a message came about The Disappearance of documents and keys from one of the houses then the realtor did not even suspect that his client could be involved in this but as soon as he saw Victor's photo in the news summary everything fell into place the witness also identified the suspect according to him their last meeting took place just a day before Christine's disappearance then Victor behaved strangely he was somewhat nervous in one of the inspected houses he went to the toilet and began to shout loudly from there allegedly checking the quality
of sound insulation the police suggested that this way the man could look for a place for his criminal actions where the screams of the victims would remain unheard detectives examined all the houses that paleologus visited they paid special attention to the object that so intrigued the suspect interestingly this dwelling was located in the same area where Christine's mobile phone signal was last recorded investigators literally turned the house upside down looking for at least some evidence of Victor's involvement in the girl's disappearance or her possible body but found nothing meanwhile searches continued in paleologus apartment photos
of women in clothes that the suspect seemed to especially like were found on his computer a short skirt a white blouse stockings and high heeled shoes it had been 12 days since the start of the investigation but the missing girls family still cherished the hope of Christine returning home alive Victor continued to deny everything and was in no hurry to share any information with the police he only confirmed the fact of meeting the girl after which according to him they went their separate ways and he did not see her again Victor paleologus was born in
1962 in Pennsylvania into an ordinary family he was the youngest of five brothers the man graduated from college with a bachelor's degree after which he entered graduate school in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1993 he was married interestingly some facts indicated that in 1991 Victor could have tried to poison his wife when she filed a statement against him all of paleologus attempts to organize his own restaurant business failed it seemed that this was a world weary loser who had slipped into a life of crime it seems that Victor's fetish for beautiful women forced him to
cross a dangerous line and he began to attack them for the purpose of intimacy and sexual gratification regarding the evening of Christine's disappearance paleologus together with his lawyer provided an alibi allegedly Victor had dinner with an acquaintance in a restaurant this information was indeed confirmed but Law Enforcement Officers UND OD that despite this the man still had enough time to play out another criminal drama and kidnap a new victim on March 1st another witness called the police according to his statement on February 15th he saw the missing girl she stopped near his house in search
of some mansion that resembled a castle the man could not help her because he himself did not know where this building was located instead his wife hearing their conversation told Christine the direction the incident occurred around 1730 now it became clear for what purpose the girl dialed the number of the directory service 411 she needed navigation to a building that looked like a castle investigators had a new lead moreover it was in such a house that Victor checked the quality of sound insulation everything pointed to him while the detectives were working with this data a
new event occurred on March 3rd 2003 four Teenage friends were walking through the Hollywood Hills admiring the picturesque Panorama of Los Angeles suddenly one of the guys approach approaching the edge of a cliff noticed some strange object below 100 m from him at first the young men thought it was a manquin they tried to go down to take a closer look at the find but could not overcome the entire distance however this was enough to understand that it was a human body the frightened guys for a long time could not decide what to do next
because none of them took a mobile phone with them eventually they went to the police station on the way the teenagers met a woman who was walking dogs and told her about the horrendous find she approached the body to make sure the guys were not mistaken the victim was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt her legs were tied and wrapped in blue fabric the hands of the deceased were behind her back and a hair band was on her right wrist below the waist tattered stockings were visible frightened by what she saw the woman called the police
soon law enforcement officers and Rescuers arrived at the scene they had to sweat a lot to get the mutilated body from the heart to reach area obviously the criminal hoped that his victim would never be found here perhaps this would have happened if it were not for the quick witted teenagers who accidentally wandered into this deserted area the forensic expert identified the deceased as the missing Christine Johnson her body was found not far from the house that Victor liked so much during the real estate viewing with the realtor the girl's parents were immediately informed about
the tragic news who could not believe the reality of what had happened and did not hold back their despair over the loss of their daughter Christine's entire body was covered with with bruises and scratches indicating desperate attempts to resist the corpse was in a terrible condition and had time to undergo significant putrefactive changes lying under the scorching Sun for more than one day in addition it rained one day the face was especially disfigured which was facilitated by both numerous injuries and the unnatural position of the deceased's body with her head lowered someone tore off the
girl's ear the expert also noted large bruises on Christine's head and neck which indicated a traumatic brain P injury and strangulation initially this was recognized as the cause of death but soon even more horrific details were clarified investigators had no doubt that it was Victor paleologus who was involved in the murder of Christine Johnson however it was necessary to prove that at the time of the girl's death the suspect did not have an alibi for this purpose the detectives went to Joey an acquaintance with whom Victor allegedly had dinner that fatal evening but it turned
out that in fact it was not a friend but a casual acquaintance during a thorough interrogation the man admitted that he and Victor had agreed to meet much later than the incident with Christine occurred according to Joey they met paleologus only the day before on February 15th Victor was late for the meeting arriving around midnight although they initially planned to meet much earlier the suspect's face had fresh scratches which he explained as an accidental injury during the move the police step by step recreated the probable sequence of events that preceded The Disappearance of Christine Johnson
according to the investigation the criminal noticed a beautiful young girl in a shopping center where he often hunted for victims and decided to act according to the usual scenario he introduced himself as a film industry worker and offered Christine to audition for the role of James Bond's girl Victor was remarkably convincing acting according to a well-established scheme he showered the girl with compliments assuring that she was perfect for this role given Christine's Youth and Ambitions she believed the villain and could not refuse the tempting offer paleologus scheduled a meeting in one of the houses that
he recently inspected with the realtor explaining that this was where the audition would take place Christine somewhere deep down suspecting a trap still prepared for the casting and dressed the way Victor asked she arrived at the place with a slight delay as she got lost on the way and contacted the directory service this is how the girl found herself in the clutches of a deadly trap from which she never got out during the meeting Christine became a victim of Victor's harassment but desperately resisted and even managed to scratch his face but she had nowhere to
run and the physically stronger man quickly overcame the resistance paleologus Dishonored the helpless girl and then killed her to get rid of an unwanted witness first he hit her on the head and strangled her and only then threw the mutilated body into the Hollywood Hills but the most terrible thing was that the traumatic brain injury and strangulation did not lead to Christine's instant death the girl only lost Consciousness and the inhuman victim took it for death by throwing the body off a cliff he doomed the victim to a slow and painful death Christine having fallen
from a considerable height received numerous fractures and internal injuries she regained Consciousness for some time but never waited for rescue bleeding to death alone only a few hours later the girl finally died from her injuries on May 12th 2003 the district attorney officially charged Victor paleologus with kidnapping violence and first-degree murder however the defense was fully prepared to defend the client's innocence because there was a lack of direct evidence of his guilt the prosecution faced a difficult battle so forensic experts used all the available weighty arguments Victor's lawyers questioned the time of the victim's death
referring to the insects found on the body instead prosecutors emphasized the Striking similarity of the Killer's handwriting with previous attacks on women the cases were so identical that it was impossible not to mention them in court preparation for the trial was delayed so Victor paleologus appeared before the jury only in July 2006 the defense emphasized that the prosecution actually had no material evidence against the defendant no DNA analysis no fingerprints no video surveillance recordings that would link him to the murder this was explained by the fact that Christine's mutilated body was found only 2 weeks
after her disappearance and during this time most of the traces had time to deteriorate however the testimony of women accusing Victor of harassment and attacks was more than enough after their statements the sympathies were on the side of the prosecution without exception all the victims talked about Victor's remarkable talent for manipulation the man was so careful and convincing that even the most cautious victims like Susan Murphy initially believed his sweet promises and agreed to take part in the alleged casting not even suspecting what was really waiting for them it seemed that after hearing this no
one had any doubts that it was Victor paleologus who killed the unfortunate Christine but but the defendant had a last Ace up his sleeve to avoid the death penalty Victor proposed to make a deal with the investigation and plead guilty to a less serious crime now the fate of paleologus was in the hands of the relatives of the deceased girl at that time the exhausting trial had been going on for 3 weeks and threatened to drag on for a long time given the uncertainty of the verdict and the burden of the grief experienced Christine's family
agreed to make concessions in exchange for a confession however Victor unexpectedly changed his mind and on the day of sentencing sent the judge an 11-page petition asking to cancel his confession fortunately the law was on the side of justice and it was no longer possible to cancel the previous statement the court found Victor paleologus guilty on all counts and sentenced him to life imprisonment with the right to parole no earlier than after 25 years if you like this story support the author with a like and subscription to the channel and in the comments share your
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