Vernon Reynolds

 VICTIMS: 4

The setting for this story is the apparently lovely holiday town of Llandudno in North Wales. And our main character is Vernon Reynolds, a 43-year-old taxi driver. A very pissed off 43-year-old taxi driver in fact.

You see Vernon was upset about his bitch wife leaving him. He had tried his little heart out to get her to take him back but it seems his temper may have been a little off putting for her. So on the fateful News Years Eve of 1991 Vernon decided that if the bitch wouldn't take him back she wouldn't be able to have anything anymore.

Vernon decided to take her out at his former home, the house he was so painfully told to leave just one month earlier. He showed up at the house (named Clovenly House) at 11:00 a.m. to discover his wife holding a party for the rest of the family. I think that Vernon was a little upset at not receiving an invite so he decided to crash the little family do.

As soon as he entered the house he was told to fuck off by his wife. When he didn't go he was hassled by his own children to leave. Apparently this really got to him so he went into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. And this is where the shit really hit the fan.

He went straight for the wife, plunging the knife in several time before she could get out of the house. But she wasn't getting away that easily. He followed her, hacking into anyone that stood in his way, his children, his in-laws, his brothers and sisters. He must have had one hell of a time. Eventually his must have injured everyone in the house and was able to get to the scheming bitch wife again. This time no one jumped in to slow him down and a few deep stabs later he was a murderer. For some reason he decided that she was the only one worth killing at the house, so he just walked back through the house ignoring the others, got into his car and fled the scene.

But that's only one murder - This is supposed to be about Mass Murder isn't it?

Okay, so here comes the mass bit.

Since he left quite a few witnesses behind it wasn't long before the cops started chasing him. So we have a mad taxi driver being chased by a couple of police cars when Vernon decided that he wasn't going to be able to escape. And what does one do when one realizes ones life is basically finished, what else can one do but go out in a blaze of glory.

A car was coming pretty quickly toward Vernon Reynolds when he swerved straight into it, causing one hell of a head on collision, and also causing the deaths of the three occupants of the other car - all teenagers in a hurry to get to a party at a mates place. Amusingly the three kids died instantly while Reynolds was still alive when a rescue team arrived to help. But he died before they were able to cut him from the wreckage.
 

MY OPINION

A very sad tale this one. Personally I fell sorry for the guy. He was just a sad loser who wanted to continue being loved by his wife. The murder was admittedly pretty piss-poor, but the death crash was spectacular, which is why I have a little bit of respect for the guy. I've always had a thing with automotive murder I must admit. Not as spectacular as Priscilla Ford, but a decent effort.