A case that was not as successful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Huisentruit
A security guard plotted to abduct, rape and murder TV personality Holly Willoughby to fulfil his “ultimate fantasy”, a court heard.
Gavin Plumb, 37, is alleged to have assembled a kit of tools for “highly sexualised” violence against the former This Morning presenter in 2023.
Mr Plumb, from Harlow, Essex, is on trial at Chelmsford Crown Court and denies soliciting murder, inciting kidnap and inciting rape.
“It was not just the ramblings of a fantasist; the defendant had carefully planned what he would do,” prosecutor Alison Morgan KC said.
Mr Plumb was alleged to have developed an “obsession” with the broadcaster over a number of years.
He had a “real intention” to kidnap the broadcaster from her home, “take her to a location where she would be raped repeatedly” and then murder her, Ms Morgan said.
She added that Mr Plumb was arrested after he revealed his plot to an undercover police officer from the US, who he had been talking to online.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxeezeg3km3o
OK the prosecution is making their case here in stark terms.
There was also this case I remember well:
Killing of Jennifer Servo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jennifer_Servo
Her killer has never been identified.