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Incomplete references

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Added references. These do not cover all the information in the article such as the actual crime.--FloNight 00:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Photo.

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I'm trying to find a photo of Campbell. I can only find two photos, each of two completely different guys. One is a photo of a big, bald man with a long mustache, and is wearing an orange jumpsuit. The other is of a thin tall man with bushy hair, walking with his hands cuffed. I've browsed through old newspaper articles, but can't find anything. Can anybody help? Geeky Randy (talk) 04:42, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The bald guy with the mustache is Darold Ray Stenson, he was supposed to be executed in 2008 but his conviction was overturned and the retrial is set to start July 2013. Other photo might be Campbell. Think it's the same one from Ann Rule "Without Pity" (which covers CRC in detail) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.101.131.29 (talk) 22:59, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Charles Campbell Road in Bengaluru, Karnataka was named after this person.

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Should this information be included? Pacmanwiki123 (talk) 13:00, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Murder of Hallie Ann Seaman

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The Seattle times just published an article saying that DNA evidence has linked to camel to a 1975 murder of a woman named Hallie Ann Seaman. [1] I've added a brief note at the end of the "crimes" section, I'll add more later if nobody more qualified than me at edits the article. Jhhillman (talk) 02:58, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming article to "Clearview triple murders" – thoughts?

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It seems that article-naming conventions across Wikipedia regarding crime/criminal biography articles are prioritizing crime victims over perpetrators more frequently. (See Murder of Peter Weinberger, which I initially named after the murderer before a more experienced editor told me it would be more appropriate to name it after the crime and victim respectively – and, very recently, Murder of Felicia Gayle, which I wasn't involved with, but which gained significant press coverage due to the controversy surrounding the execution of the man convicted of her murder, Marcellus Williams; despite this, a discussion on the article's talk page determined that it would be more appropriate to maintain a name that prioritized the crime and victim. Also see Carol City murders for a mass murder involving three killers, two of whom [Beauford White and John Erroll Ferguson] have been the focal point of sustained media coverage due to different aspects of their cases.)

Given this trend, given Wikipedia's notability guidelines re: crime/criminal biographies, and especially given the "Murder of Felicia Gayle" talk page discussion, would it be more appropriate to name this article after the victims/crime? I'm not 100% sure, and I also understand that renaming the article would require a heavy reorganization of information, since the info contained here focuses primarily on the life, case, and execution of Charles Rodman Campbell. Furthermore, I also understand that the nature of Campbell's execution – the highly unusual method (hanging) and the fact that he was the first person involuntarily executed in 33+ years and in Washington State's modern death penalty history – makes him a historically noteworthy crime figure on his own.

However, as I've been attempting to address the numerous missing citations and factual errors throughout the article, an aspect of this crime I've seen in a lot of its press coverage has been the failure of Washington's legal system to notify the victims; this means that a lot of the press coverage focuses on the victims first and foremost, as well as the impact the triple murders of Renae Wicklund, Shannah Wicklund, and Barbara Hendrickson had on Washington's parole system and victim notification systems. I have also noticed that a lot of the case's press coverage focuses on Clearview, the location of the murders; there are several articles featuring extensive interviews with Clearview residents regarding their thoughts on the case, which is why I proposed placing the city in the title.

Although I would personally support renaming the article to something like Clearview triple murders, I could see an argument being made either way for supporting or opposing any change; I'd love to see other opinions on it. I would also love to see other recommendations for potential titles, especially those that may be less vague. In the meantime, I'll continue seeking sources for unsourced information. Afddiary (talk) 11:54, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Afddiary I would, tenuously, say this should be kept how it is, given the complications of the case (gleaned from reading this article of course, so it could be wrong). There appears to be a lot of prior context from the biography that would be lost if it was made more event based. Serial killer articles are typically written with biography based articles, but depends on the case and coverage (also is he a serial killer? the lead says he is but I don't think he is one if I'm reading it correctly). That plus his whole history with getting in and out of prison, and given that from a glance over the sources more people focus it as bio-based vs event based. But as you said some of the later coverage is on the victims as well... but that goes for a lot of serial killer cases. May do a deeper dive later to more clearly form my opinion. I opposed the move on the Williams article because it was moving one event based article to a sort of sub-event based article on his execution, not on Williams or the crime. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:50, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I 100% see your point regarding moving the article. To be completely honest, I think the biographical information I added on him has complicated this discussion; the article did not used to contain anything about Campbell's childhood, and it used to contain very little on Campbell's early crimes, but I found a few sources detailing both and added that information in the past few days. If that new info were removed, maybe the move would be more practical, but as it stands, I totally agree that it would be difficult to do so. I'm assuming the most appropriate way to handle information about the victims' impacts on Washington's parole/victim notification systems would be to use the "Aftermath" section to include information about it (as well as including a brief mention of that impact in the lead, since I think it may be an important aspect of Campbell's case).
Regarding whether or not he is a serial killer... I honestly agree with you. "Serial killer" was already in the lead when I started editing the article, and I haven't checked, but I assume it was added sometime after the 2023 DNA results connected him to a murder in 1975, and I assume that whoever added it, very understandably, was operating under (1) an alternate definition/understanding of a serial killer to include killers who act in only two separate, well-spaced events, rather than three, or (2) the assumption that because he had 3+ victims across just more than one event, that would make him a serial killer.
However, that classification for Campbell never sat right with me. I don't think Campbell fits under the conventional definition/understanding of a serial killer. The conventional definition of a serial killer is someone who commits murder in three well-spaced, separate events. (The citation on the "serial killer" article's definition mentions several sources; one source requires 2 events, while the rest come to a consensus of 3 events.) Campbell murdered four women, but in two well-spaced events, one in 1975 and the other in 1982. I have seen no evidence that he committed murder during any other events. I think I should remove that classification; I don't think it would be controversial to remove that. (This was why I added "mass killer" to the lead, because I think that is a more apt descriptor for him based on the 1982 triple murder: "In the United States, Congress defined mass murders as the killing of three or more persons during an event with no "cooling-off period" between the homicides"). If he's a serial anything, I'd think he could be appropriately classified as a serial rapist (given the number of his victims – Renae Wicklund, the 1975 murder victim, two cellmates, his ex-wife, and an attempted rape against his longtime friend right after the 1982 murders), but not a serial killer.
One last question I wanted to ask – do you consider Radford University's serial killer profiles to be reliable sources? I remember reading those years ago, so I can confirm that quite a bit of the unsourced information here comes from their profile of Charles Rodman Campbell. With that being said, I'm not 100% convinced it's reliable; they misspelled his name as "Charles Rodney Campbell." Afddiary (talk) 16:35, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The definitions of serial, mass, and spree killers can be pretty blurry, someone can technically be one or both or all and the definitions are overlapped or confusing and how many victims one has to qualify as one varies a lot and sometimes their meanings switched between terms. In cases where it's confused like this I would recommend just not saying he is a serial killer based on numbers and instead go with how the sources describe him.
With regard to the fourth victim, how would we cover her death if this was made an article on the triple murder? I agree with you on an aftermath section.
With regard to that source, it doesn't look like RS to me. However, that page seems to be citing the book "Savage Vengeance", so I would wager that a lot of the information there is correct and in that book.PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:55, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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