A sleepy Tennessee town awoke in January 2012 to the news of a horrifying double homicide. Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth, a young couple who lived together, were the victims. They'd been beaten up and then shot in the face. Worst of all, when their bodies were discovered, their 7-month-old baby son was discovered in the room, covered in his mother's blood but otherwise unharmed. As explored in Monsters: Jenelle Potter – The Facebook Murder the police investigations ...

Marsha's 16-year-old daughter, Calista, died in a house fire on February 27, 2008.  At the time of the fire, Calista was secured to her bed by a dog choke chain around her waist that was attached to the bed frame with zip ties. Autopsy photographs of Calista’s abdomen showed indentations caused by the chain. She restrained Calista in order to prevent Calista from harming herself and others. Calista was a child from hell and Marsha was a saint for taking care of her.

Teen who killed her father, hid his body in a shed and then moved her friends into his eight-bedroom house for drug-fueled parties gets 30 years in prison. Crystal Brooke Howell, 20, killed her father, Michael Howell, 50, in 2014. Howell was a former sports editor and writer for the Columbia County News-Times in North Carolina. She shot her father once point blank in the head while he was napping at their eight-bedroom cabin in a remote area of Sheepback Mountain. She dragged his body t...

Jason Demetrius Stephens was sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder of a three year old boy. According to court documents Jason Stephens and a number of accomplices would enter a home and soon it turned into a robbery. After all of the hostages were contained Jason Stephens and his accomplices would rob the home along with the three year old boy. Jason Stephens would strangle the three year old boy Robert Sparrow III causing his death. Jason Stephens would be arrested, ...

2015 saw the guilty plea of Rebecca Lee Lloyd for tampering with physical evidence in the case of a woman who was killed by torture and beatings. She was one of five people accused of being involved in Victoria Annabeth Davis’s slaying. After entering a guilty plea in 2018, Lloyd was given a six-year probationary period. According to VINE, her Supervision Event Date is December 18, 2024 12:00 am CST. Our Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus Christ bless you always and forever. Wr...

First-degree murder of Mary's 13-month-old daughter Tessa who died from injuries sustained at the hands of her father, James Patrick Malicoat, who was convicted earlier of first-degree murder and sentenced to die. Prosecutors claimed that Mary did nothing to stop the beating of her child which occurred over a period of 19 days. The jury recommended life in prison with the possibility of parole. “AN EYE FOR AN EYE & A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH”

Matthew Flugence pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Ahlittia North, the Harvey, LA 6-year-old whose body was found stuffed in a trash can a few feet from the apartment from which she disappeared on July 13, 2013 When deputies asked Matthew if he killed Ahlittia North, he replied, “And I fucked your mother too.”

With a shotgun and automatic rifle he had stolen from his stepfather the day before, Lionell Gonzales Rodriguez (hereinafter referred to as “Lionell”; February 1, 1971 – June 20, 2007) | age 36) joined his cousin, James Gonzales, in driving around town looking for a place to rob. At a stop light at an intersection in Houston, Lionell (who was in the passenger’s seat) noticed a young woman sitting alone at the wheel of a car next to them. Lionell aimed an M1 carbine rifle right...

Darrick C. Boroczk (hereinafter referred to as “Darrick”), a self-described “kingpin” of child pornography on the internet, created hundreds of sexually explicit images and videos involving two of his own children. Darrick pled guilty in 2009 to four counts of manufacturing and one count of possessing child pornography. After a daylong sentencing hearing, the district court imposed four 15-year sentences on the manufacturing counts and a 10-year sentence on the possession count, t...

Hedge fund manager and part owner of A&O Resources Management; convicted in 2011 of stealing $100 million from 800 victims by misrepresenting details about the company and concealing his prior criminal history; several co-conspirators were also sentenced to prison; the story was featured on the CNBC television program American Greed.

Abdulrahman El bahnasawy is a severely mentally ill Canadian citizen who was likely entrapped, arrested and convicted in 2016 of terrorism-related offenses. According to prosecutors, El Bahnasawy plotted via online chat to carry out an attack on Times Square and the subway system in New York City. In December 2018, El bahnasawy was sentenced to 40 years in a US federal prison. There are many calls from experts and human right activists for his transfer to a Canadian prison to get the psyc...

Shocking moment armed robber throws his FECES at attorney when he is sentenced to 40 years behind bars Ricky Hand, 53, carried out string of robberies in Springfield, Ohio As judge sentenced him, Hand said: '40 years? Well, guess what...' Hand pulled out bottles of his own excrement and urine hidden in arm sling Robber now faces five more counts of harassment with bodily substance Did you just give me 40 years, sir? You just gave me 40 years…? Well, guess what?

On February 17, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to a residence where they found an unresponsive two-year-old child who subsequently died. Evidence of abuse led to the arrest and conviction of Lucio, the child’s mother. Melissa Elizabeth Lucio is the first woman of Hispanic descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages...

Richard Allen Davis is an American convicted murderer and child molester whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California's “three-strikes law” for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators. He was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder with special circumstances (burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and an attempted lewd act upon a child under the age of 14) of a 12-year-old girl named Polly Klaas. As of March 2022, he ...

His face – he just didn’t look the same – nothing behind his eyes. They were dark. His eyes were dark. His face was contorted. I knew a couple of boys that were sold to others and used in a few snuff type movies, so their fate was sealed right after they were sold… They didn't know that of course until it was happening to them. I can get all we need to drug them. After that they are gone forever.

Twelve-year-old Teketria Buggs was killed on the night of December 3, 2005, and searchers found her body nearly two weeks later in the Brazos River not far from her Orchard home in rural Fort Bend County. Teketria's body was found floating in the Brazos a few hundred yards from the FM 1489 bridge. She had been beaten in the head and stabbed multiple times.

Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames; born May 26, 1941 | age 82, is a former CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana. Ames was known to have compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer until Robert Hanssen, who was arrested seven years later in 2001.

Melvin L. Knight (b. October 27, 1989) was one of six Greensburg (G6) roommates who were convicted in connection with the torture and murder of 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty. The Mt. Pleasant, PA woman was held captive for more than two days in their apartment, where police said she was beaten, tortured, and stabbed to death. Her body was tied with Christmas lights and garland, stuffed into a trash bin and discarded under a truck in a snow-covered parking lot.According to her relatives, Jenny ...

"No! It's not even conceivable. Not him," said Victoria Law-Thomson, Warner's mother. Matthew Warner killed his daughter in their home Jan. 23, 2015 while the child's mother was at work. Matthew Warner said the newborn had been kidnapped, and a search began for Ellorah Warner. He later led authorities to the infant's body, which he had hidden in the cab of his truck in a nearby parking lot. Authorities charged 30-year-old Matthew for a long list of disturbing acts, which includes...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom, who was convicted of killing a woman during a home invasion in 2005 in Blaine County.  The Justices, without comment, upheld Grissom's conviction. Grissom, 50, has now exhausted his appeals and becomes the 20th Oklahoma death row inmate eligible for an execution date when the state of Oklahoma resumed executions. The state has not carried out an execution since 2015. It abandoned lethal inject...