Two True Dead Times

Time traveling criminals, especially Thomas Aldous Rawling, began kidnapping convicted and already (or already about to be!) executed criminals, and ensaring them in their time travel crimes, in an essentially enslaved, or at least lowly subordinate position.

These criminals, who were already damned, had no choice but to become involved in crime after crime at the behest of their more powerful criminal masters.

Sometimes, pedophiles about to be executed, would be kidnapped out of the recent past, and shown their "true" selves being executed for their crimes, leading to the origins of the phrase 'Two True Dead Times', essentially meaning they had no hope but to be involved in ever increasing amounts of criminal activity.