Vintage photo of Ex-detective Rodney Whitchelo

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After months of trying, Cooper was finally arrested after approaching a surveilled cashpoint. He admitted extorting money from SoftCo, but denied involvement in the poisonings. Eventually, he was found guilty on all charges, and condemned to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Experts believe that commercial calculation leads a fair number of companies to pay up. The objective, profit, depends heavily on their ability to maintain a reputation for supplying safe products. In the end, he only got away with about 32,000 pounds but his crime changed how bank cards and withdrawals are managed forever.”

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When I was a young officer in the 1990s, we were chasing a suspect on foot and by car in the northern part of Oakland. It was early in the morning. maybe eight-thirty or so on a week day. Because of the time, our helicopter was not flying. After a couple of hours of yard searches, he was finally arrested. While working as an Inspector in the District Attorney’s Career Criminal Task Force, I had a case with a guy who had committed a string of robberies. After we caught him, he was allowed to post bail. Surprise, surprise! This technique was first reported in the case of Rodney Whitchelo, an ex-police detective who tried to extort pounds 3.75m from Heinz and Pedigree Pet Foods by threatening to contaminate their foods. He was only caught after police manoeuvred him into revisiting a machine he had previously used, and which was by then under observation.

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His ‘day job’ was working as a janitor at the county hospital. About a week before his case was set to come up for a trial, I received word from the Superior Court Clerk’s office that the case was going to be dismissed because the defendant had died. And in 1999 Edgar Pearce, the so-called Mardi Gra bomber, was jailed for 21 years for a four-year extortion campaign targeting Barclays Bank and the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain.

However, she possessed immense charm and made people feel they wanted to help her. One day, as she was telling the Gray’s Inn librarian that she had not been successful in finding a pupillage, she was overheard by the great criminal advocate of his day, CGL Du Cann, father of Richard and Edward, who took her on. Later she joined the set of Edward Cussen, then senior Treasury counsel at the Old Bailey. Whitchelo added: "I am trying to lead an honest life. I havemy own computer firm and I'm trying to avoid any publicity." He told Pearce, who was wearing his trademark Calvin Klein sweater and tinted glasses, that the cost to the public purse in apprehending him after a campaign that had started in December 1994 and finished on his arrest in April 1998 had been enormous. The 1985 Japan Paraquat Murders: During the course of 1985, Japan was affected by a series of poisonings carried out through the product tampering of soft and energy drinks bottles, which were left inside or in the nearings of vending machines. They were mainly spiked with Paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide. The case, which remains unsolved, was linked to further non-lethal poisonings which were later classified as copycat crimes or attempted suicides. Japanese authorities believed multiple offenders were responsible, rather then a single one. Cooper was profiled by FBI experts as a white male in his late twenties to mid thirties, who would be a depressed loner driven by rage, being convinced that society wronged him. His life would be marked by behavioral problems, psychiatric treatment, and repeated failures concerning either education, profession, or relationship with women. Also, he would feel inadequate, which could stem from a physical disability. He would gravitate towards positions of authority, but would have trouble keeping his job. He would drive a large car to compensate for his feelings of inferiority. He committed this crime as the result of a stressor he recently suffered.More successful was a kidnapper who established a chain of accounts in different countries, each with instructions to transfer any deposits to the next immediately. Police were eventually able to follow the audit trail to the final bank account, but by then all the money had been withdrawn in cash. Throughout the three-month long trial Whitchelo refused to admithis guilt, arrogantly claiming he was "set up" by fellowpolice officers.