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  The Biography Channel - Donald Neilson (The Black Panther) Biography
Donald Neilson was born Donald Nappey on 1st August 1936, and seems to have enjoyed a relatively normal, crime-free childhood, marred only by the teasing and bullying that he was subjected to on account of his surname.
Neilson was persuaded by his wife to give up a career in the Armed Forces, and they settled in Bradford, where he tried various professions, including the building trade and security work.
It is claimed that Neilson spotted a police vehicle in the area at the time of the second drop, and decided not to risk a police trap, aborting the ransom drop.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/1005:0/Donald_Neilson_The_Black_Panther_.htm   (1272 words)

  
 Donald Neilson Information
Neilson married at the age of 19 and had a daughter, Kathryn, in 1960 — it was at this point he changed his surname from Nappey to Neilson because he had been teased about it while at school and while doing national service, and did not want his daughter to suffer the same humiliation.
Neilson was waiting, hooded and carrying a torch with a bottle of ammonia attached, but he only succeeded in squirting himself, forcing him to rip off his mask and reveal his face, just as Mr Grayland's wife entered the scene.
However, Neilson could not be charged with his murder under UK law at the time, which declared that a murder charge could not be brought in respect of a victim who dies more than a year and a day after the incident which brings about their death.
www.bookrags.com /Donald_Neilson   (2871 words)

  
 Donald Neilson Biography (1936– ) (originally Donald Nappey) Online Encyclopedia Article About Donald Neilson ...
Lesley's body was found at the bottom of a ventilation shaft two months later.
Neilson evaded the police until late 1975, when a security guard he had shot and wounded was able to provide a description.
He received life-sentences for the murders and 21 years for kidnapping.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/068/Donald-Neilson.html   (192 words)

  
 Donald Neilson: The Black Panther - Famous Criminal - Homepage - Crime And Investigation Network
Neilson’s hardened criminal behaviour became more entrenched with each robbery and, on 15th February 1974, during a raid on a Harrogate sub-post office, he shot dead the postmaster, Donald Skepper.
Despite the three deaths the media showed little interest in the attacks, and Neilson was dissatisfied with the lack of attention, as well as the relatively slim pickings to be had from the post office raids.
She was discovered hanging naked from a rope tied to the end of a metal hawser in the drainage shaft, and post mortem evidence revealed that she had been killed within days of her kidnapping.
www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk /famous_criminal/15/home/1/Donald_Neilson_The_Black_Panther.htm   (1284 words)

  
 Donald Neilson - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters
He developed a technique that was to become familiar to the West Yorkshire constabulary, using a woodworking brace and bit to drill a hole in the window frame and using a screwdriver or coat hanger to open the catch.
On the lounge table, Neilson left a ransom demand on a box of chocolates which he'd punched out on a roll of Dymo-tape.
As a result, there were recriminations within the two police forces investigating the kidnapping of Lesley — not least the demotion back to uniformed beat officer of the detective in charge of the case.
www.monstropedia.org /index.php?title=Donald_Neilson   (2900 words)

  
  DudleyMall - Lesley Whittle
Neilson thought he had planned and timed events with great precision, while the unfolding events would show how far adrift his militaristic imagination was from the real world.
Neilson had left the car after fleeing from the Dudley Freightliner depot, having shot a security guard, Gerald Arthur Smith, who had disturbed him while he was laying part of the £50,000 ransom trail on January 15th, the day after the kidnapping.
Neilson was sent for trial on 14th June 1976 where he received life sentences for each of his four murders, along with other sentences for attempted murder, burglary and abduction.
www.dudleymall.co.uk /loclhist/kidsgrove/lwmurder.htm   (1319 words)

  
 Lesley Whittle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In January 1975, Neilson kidnapped Lesley from the bedroom of her home in Shropshire, England, in order to acquire a £50,000 ransom from her family.
Neilson had read that Lesley had been left a considerable sum of money by her late father George, who ran a successful coach company.
Lots of recriminations followed but Neilson was ultimately caught and was given a life sentence for Lesley's murder in 1976, along with identical sentences for other killings he had carried out in his criminal career.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lesley_Whittle   (219 words)

  
 BBC - Crime Case Closed - The Black Panther   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Donald Neilson was born Donald Nappey in August 1936 and his surname made him the target for bullies both at school and during his National Service in Kenya, Aden and Cyprus.
Neilson had first got the idea of kidnapping Lesley Whittle in May 1972, when he read an article in the Daily Express which gave details about the £82,500 she had inherited when her father George (who ran a coach company) died.
Neilson decided to go back to post office robberies and one night in December 1975 he was spotted by two police officers acting suspiciously near a sub-post office in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/neilson1.shtml   (1782 words)

  
 serial killer crime index * serienkiller * serienmörder * profiling * serial murder * serial killers * serial ...
Neilson and Sams both had scrapes with the law, enjoyed military-style planning and were determined to outwit the police and show their own intellectual superiority.
Donald Neilson was born Donald Nappey in August 1936 and his surname made him the target for bullies both at school and during his National Service, which he spent in Kenya, Aden and Cyprus.
Neilson set about finding all he could about 17-year-old Lesley Whittle and also sought out a suitable location where he could hold her captive while he obtained the ransom.
www.crimezzz.net /serialkillers/N/NEILSON_donald.htm   (3778 words)

  
 Site Title - Person Page 1
Donald Allan Cameron married Catherine McDonald, daughter of Donald Angus McDonald (MacBride) and Margaret MacDonell.
Donald Allan Cameron died in 1890; Donald Allan CAMERON did not appear in the 1891 census of Antigonish County, although his wife and several of his children did.
Donald Angus McDonald (MacBride) was the son of Angus MacDonald and Mary MacDonald.
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 Mail Tribune :: Online Edition - Obituaries
Donald was born December 12,1913 to George and Dorothea Neilson in Vancouver, Washington.
Donald's marriage to Mary Vera Peart, July 10,1940, produced a 63-year union before his wife's death in 2003.
The surviving family include: a daughter, Donna Ulrich of Loveland, Colorado; one son, John Neilson of Medford, Oregon; and four grandchildren, Bret Maidman of Phoenix, Arizona, Ian Maidman of New York, NY, and Sean Neilson and Kimberly Ramsay, both of Medford.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0313/obit/obit.htm   (1995 words)

  
 Donald Neilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For five years, he was known as the Black Panther, the man involved in four post office raids in Barnsley, Harrogate, Accrington and Langley, West Midlands.
These resulted in the murders of Donald Skepper, Derek Astin and Sidney Grayland, and the attempted murder of Frances Grayland.
Then on 14th January, 1975, Neilson kidnapped Lesley Whittle, having planned the crime for two years.
web.ukonline.co.uk /ruth.buddell/neilson.htm   (167 words)

  
 Clan Gunn & Macdonalds and Macleans
The cause of Donald Neilson was espoused by Houcheon Mackay, and the clan Gun, who came with an army out of Caithness and Strathnaver, to besiege Neil Houcheonson in the isle of Assynt.
Donald Gorm Macdonald of Slate, when going on a visit from Slate to his cousin, Angus Macdonald of Kintyre, was forced by contrary winds to land with his party in the island off Jura, which belonged partly to Sir Lauchlan Maclean, and partly to Angus Macdonald.
Their object in doing so was to make the clan Lean believe that Donald Gorm and his party had carried off the cattle, in the hope that the Macleans would attack Donald Gorm, and they were not disappointed.
www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/genhist/hist34.html   (2619 words)

  
 Kev’s Cupboard @ EOFFTV » 30. The Black Panther [1977]
As such, the film vanished into obscurity as memories of Neilson and his crimes faded, turning up a couple of times on British video in the early 80s, getting at least one screening on obscure and now long-defunct cable channel HVC and remaining next to impossible to see ever since.
The Black Panther is a genuinely unsettling film - Sumpter’s blank-faced portrayal of the Neilson is startling when he suddenly erupts into uncontrollable rage and the scenes of Whittle and her captor in the drainage shaft she died in are horribly claustrophobic.
With the distance of time, the names Donald Neilson, Lesley Whittle and The Black Panther have come to mean next to nothing for the general public in Britain and probably never meant all that much abroad so, sadly, the chances of a revival for this excellent film seem very slim indeed.
www.eofftv.com /cupboard/?page_id=35   (685 words)

  
 Murder in the UK
When he knew he was going to be in the newspapers and everyone would know, then he gave his real name "Donald Neilson, Grangefield Avenue, Leeds".
Donald Neilson's trial started on 14th June 1976 and he was charged with the following;
Neilson has always claimed that he did not intend to kill Lesley, and that she slipped, he also claimed that all the post office shootings were accidents!!!
www.murderuk.com /serial_donald_neilson.html   (1674 words)

  
 Dr. Donald Neilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Donald “Doc” Neilson, 86, of Moline died November 6, 2006 at Trinity West, Rock Island.
Donald was born on January 2, 1920 in Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan, Canada the son of Charles and Inez Allen Neilson.
Donald was employed as an optometrist at Illinois Optical Company for 30 years, retiring in 1985.
www.esterdahl.com /obit-display.jhtml?DB=update/obits/dbase&DO=display&ID=1162941448_1834   (263 words)

  
 The Ultimate Crime
Donald Skepper had tackled the intruder only this time he was shot and not the ceiling.
The car Neilson had stolen had been found and in it were Leslie Whittle's slippers and a tape recorded message from the girl asking her relatives to co-operate with the kidnapper.
Neilson's trial for the kidnap and murder of Leslie Whittle began at Oxford in June 1976.
www.real-crime.co.uk /Murder1/DOCN.HTML   (2642 words)

  
 SundayMirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: NILSEN AND NIELSEN ARE BEST OF FIENDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Donald Neilson, 70, and Dennis Nilsen, 60, were dragged apart by guards after coming to blows at the jail where they are both serving life sentences.
He then ordered Neilson to treat him with respect and accept he was the more notorious because he had killed more people.
Elderly Neilson exploded with rage and the two men had to be dragged apart as fists flew.
www.sundaymirror.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=16720615&method=full&siteid=62484&headline=exclusive--nilsen-and-nielsen-are-best-of-fiends--name_page.html   (567 words)

  
 Our Century 1976-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Donald Neilson, the notorious Black Panther, was found guilty of murdering Midland teenage heiress Lesley Whittle.
Neilson, a 39-year-old Bradford joiner, had protested his innocence from the start, admitting only that he had abducted Lesley and demanded 50,000 ransom.
Neilson, alarmed by cars moving in the park, was forced to abandon his plan.
www.expressandstar.com /millennium/1900/1976-2000/1976.html   (648 words)

  
 Mark Rowntree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By the time he returned home, the police were waiting for him, armed with the description given by the second victim.
Rowntree gave a full confession to his crimes and complained that he hadn't managed to reach five victims, the same body count as his hero, Donald Neilson.
Diagnosed as schizophrenic, Mark Rowntree pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Leeds Crown Court in June 1976.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Rowntree   (249 words)

  
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Among the best known are the moors murderer Ian Brady, 68, who was convicted of three murders in 1966, and Dennis Nilsen, 60, who is thought to have killed 16 men after luring them to his flat in north London.
Nilsen joins his near-namesake, Donald Neilson, 60 on the list.
The only woman on the list is Rosemary West, 52, convicted in 1995 of murdering 10 young women with her husband, Fred, at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/22/nlife22.xml   (495 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Nottinghamshire | Crash driver swap man sentenced
The crash came just weeks after the couple had been married.
Chakudunga was branded "vermin" by the victim's father, retired policeman Anthony White, 54, who helped to catch "Black Panther" killer Donald Neilson in 1975.
Speaking after the case, Mr White said his daughter told him she had made a mistake and wanted to leave her husband just 30 minutes before she was killed.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/4079871.stm   (297 words)

  
 Dream Targets -Donald Neilson - The Black Panther
Dream Targets -Donald Neilson - The Black Panther
Two policemen, Tony White and Stuart Mackenzie were driving through Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire at 11.45pm, when they noticed a suspicious-looking man carrying a fl holdall loitering near the post office.
They handcuffed the gunman to some iron railings at the side of the bus stop, and when they found two Panther hoods on him, they realised that they had probably caught the most wanted man in Britain.
www.dreamtargets.com /19751211.htm   (228 words)

  
 Books by Keith Neilson
Fair Flung Lines : Studies in Imperial Defence in Honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman
by Keith Neilson, Keith Neilson (Editor), Elizabeth Jane Errington, Elizabeth Jane Errington (Editor), Military History Symposium (Canada) 1994 Military College of Canada)
by Keith Neilson (Editor), George W. Shepherd Jr.
www.allbookstores.com /author/Keith_Neilson.html   (233 words)

  
 Donald Neilson Biography - Biography.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lesley's body was found at the bottom of a ventilation shaft two months later.
Neilson evaded the police until late 1975, when a security guard he had shot and wounded was able to provide a description.
He received life-sentences for the murders and 21 years for kidnapping.
www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9421339   (162 words)

  
 Ancestors and Decendants of the Immigrant Matthew Bayne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Baynes of Tulloch are descended from Neil Mackay, son of the murdered Donald Mackay.
The son Neil came to be known by the name Neilson.
Ian Bheann Neilson (John Bain Mackay-Neilson) was given the nickname Bain to distinguish him from the other John Mackays.
www.bayneweb.com /flcprojects/cisw300/hw5/tulloch.html   (1185 words)

  
 TESTAMENTARY GIFTS/WILLS/ADEMPTION/ESCROW AND CLOSING/TITLE UNDERWRITING
     Aileen Neilson was owner of a residential duplex on Laurel Avenue in Waltham, MA.
     In reply, Donald argued that the purchase and sale agreement adeemed (i.e., extinguished) the devise to Jane under the will, and that questions of Mitchell's authority to extend the closing date were irrelevant because the buyer could enforce the agreement by an action for specific performance.
     The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Donald, holding that the specific devise of real property was adeemed when Aileen, during her lifetime, 'disposed' of the subject real property.
www.firstam.com /landsakes/html/email/091901test.html   (870 words)

  
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Donald Neilson showed 2 proposed maps of the subdivision.
Neilson where the access will be to the large area of open space.
Neilson explained that The Conservation Commission is consirned about the land being a habitat.
www.franklin.ma.us /Town/council/minutes/OCT594.html   (1873 words)

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