VICTOR D. TAYLOR, DOB 4-6-60, was sentenced to death May 23, 1986 in Jefferson County for kidnapping, robbery, sodomy and murder. On September 29, 1984 Taylor and another man kidnapped at gunpoint two high school students, Scott Nelson and Richard Stephenson in Louisville, Kentucky. The men took the boys to a vacant lot, robbed them and shot them to death. Taylor was arrested on October 4, 1984. This killer kidnapped, robbed, bound, gagged and executed two high school student...

Debra Denise Brown is an African-American serial killer. The girlfriend and killing mate of Alton Coleman during a summer murder rampage across four states in 1984, was convicted and sentenced to death in both Ohio and Indiana. I killed the bitch and I don't give a damn. I had fun out of it.

Zachary Holly was sentenced to death by the State of Arkansas for the murder of a six year old girl. According to court documents Zachary Holly would abduct Jersey Bridgeman from her Bentonville home on November 19, 2012 and would be sexually assaulted and murdered and left in a vacant house. Zachary Holly and his wife were frequent babysitters of Jersey Bridgeman and her sister became a prime suspect. A DNA test would match Zachary Holly to the crime scene and he would be arrested, convi...

Raymond Twyford was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for a robbery murder. According to court documents, Raymond Twyford and Daniel Eikelberry would lure the victim, Richard Franks, a mildly retarded individual, to a remote location where he was tortured, shot several times, had his hands cut off and then his wallet stolen. Raymond Twyford would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

William Wells was sentenced to death and remains on Florida death row for the murder of a fellow inmate. According to court documents William Wells with the help of Leo Boatman stabbed to death William Chapman at Florida State Prison. Now William Wells who was convicted of five murders committed in 2003 would attempt to murder another inmate in 2008 and would murder another inmate in 2011 before the last murder that took place in 2019. William Wells told the court that he wanted the death...

A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania trial court has granted the application of the Dauphin County District Attorney’s office to withdraw all charges against Samuel Randolph, IV, completing his exoneration of a double murder that sent him to Pennsylvania’s death row in 2003. On April 6, 2022, two days after the SCOTUS had declined to review the county prosecutors’ appeal of a federal court ruling granting Randolph a new trial, DA Fran Chardo filed a motion to enter an order of nolle prose...

Kevin Wayne Dunlap, b. May 15 1972 (age 51), was sentenced to death March 19, 2010 in Livingston County, KY. On October 15, 2008, Dunlap stabbed and killed a 5 year old boy, and his 14 and 17 year old sisters in their home. He then raped and attempted to murder their mother by stabbing her with a knife. When he thought that the mother was dead, he set fire to the home and left. He was arrested on 10/18/2008. He was convicted of the following crimes: Murder (Capital)-3 cts; Kidnap...

Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello was an associate of the Gambino crime family and had ties to former Gambino boss John Gotti. “Big Tony” was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2001 slaying of a prominent Florida businessman, Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis, during a power struggle over a lucrative fleet of gambling ships. Evidence showed “Gus” Boulis was killed by a mob hit man, and that Moscatiello ordered the slaying. "Now, you know what he means ... we need Gus kille...

Donna McClure was born Peter Kevin Langan in 1958 on Saipan in the South Pacific Islands. She grew up in Vietnam, where her father served in the military and CIA, before moving to the United States when Langan was 6 years old. Donna was convicted by a jury of robbing two banks and of using firearms and a destructive device in committing the robberies. In a separate trial concerning the circumstances of his arrest on unrelated charges, Donna was convicted of assaulting a federal officer and of fu...

Longo was convicted of killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. The bodies of the four were recovered from two coastal inlets around Christmas 2001. Longo went on the lam, landing on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list before he was captured in Mexico posing as travel writer Michael Finkel. Sentenced to death 16 April 2003. Commuted by Governor to LWOP in 2022. “I sent them to a better place.”

Stevens was convicted of aggravated murder and numerous sex abuse and rape charges after kidnapping three of his nieces in 1988. One of the children, 5-year-old Nicole Lynae Edwards, was found dead in the attic crawl space in Stevens' house on an Oakville dairy farm. The others were injured but alive. Stevens was sentenced to death a second time after his first sentence was overturned. The second sentence also was overturned. Interesting fact: Prior to strangling his niece, Stevens...

Being younger and stronger, I just pushed him off and shot him right between the eyes. Just because he pissed me off. He was shot like an executioner would have done it. He fell to the ground lifeless and didn’t even wiggle. Wardlow was 18 when he killed 82-year-old Carl Cole in Cason, TX. Wardlow shot Cole during an attempted robbery in which he said he had planned to steal Cole’s truck to leave the rural town and start a new life with his girlfriend.

The body of 8yo Shane (“Shane”) Coffman (d. c. 7 August 1995) was found in an abandoned freezer outside the mobile home of his mother, Bertha Jean (“Berti”) Coffman, and her boyfriend, Donald (“Donny”) L. Gilson (b. November 10, 1960 | age 49 at execution). An autopsy showed two fractures to the boy's skull, a tooth missing from his right jaw, and fractures to his collarbone, shoulder blades, ribs, legs and spine. Berti said she and Donny discussed: “just dumpi...

This is my revenge. I’m gonna kill you, but you’re gonna suffer. This is not going to be easy. In 1990, Terence Valentine (b. 1949), a Costa Rican man living in Texas, was convicted of the gruesome 1988 killing of Ferdinand Porsche and the attempted murder of Valentine’s ex-wife, Libia Romero. Romero, who is also Costa Rican and who was divorced from Valentine at the time, testified in court that her ex-husband broke into the couple’s home in Tampa, Florida, shot Porsche...

Ron told police that 16yo Barbara Bruzda beat him twice at pool on Oct. 23, 1978, after he stopped at Joe's Place on the way home from fixing a furnace. He said he gave the girl and the unidentified man a ride from the bar. A black truck was waiting for them in nearby Clarksburg, Weiss told police. A blow to the head fractured the girl’s skull. Ronny is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Oct. 22, 2023.

Johnesha Monae Perry wanted to send her son to heaven. So she pushed him in a stroller to the 52-foot Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown, PA. Johnesha kissed her son before pushing him off the bridge. She then jumped but managed to reach shore with a broken arm. The child was pulled out of the water about 700 yards downstream but died six days later. Court documents reveal the young mother had a long history of mental illness. The then 20yo planned to pursue an insanity def...

Willie Seth Crain, a then fifty-two-year-old Hillsborough County fisherman and crabber, was charged with the September 1998 kidnapping and first-degree murder of seven-year-old Amanda Brown. At the time, Amanda was three feet, ten inches tall and weighed approximately forty-five pounds. “Don't worry, you don't have anything to worry about,” and “Just remember, you didn't do anything, you didn't hurt that little girl.” According to the testimony of Miller and Lee, Crain resp...

The Staudte Family Murders case, also known as “The Antifreeze Murders”, was a series of killings and attempted killings within the Staudte family of Springfield, Missouri, during a five-month period in 2012. Family matriarch Diane Staudte and her daughter, Rachel Staudte, committed the crimes together using antifreeze purchased off the internet, with the rationale that antifreeze sold online would not contain the added bittering agent in commercial chemicals making the ethylene glyco...

Michael Brandon Samra was convicted of capital murder and was sentenced to death in 1997 and executed on May 16, 2019 for his role in the killings of Randy Duke, his fiancée, Dedra Hunt, and her two daughters: 6yo Chelisa and 7yo Chelsea. Randy Duke was the father of Michael’s friend and co-defendant, 16yo Mark Duke. Mark Duke planned the murders after he got into a fight and was angry with his father because wouldn't let him use his pickup. His last words were a prayer… ...

Hannah Payne is a woman who was involved in a high-profile murder trial. She was accused of shooting and killing 62-year-old Kenneth Herring during a traffic incident in 2019. Payne allegedly followed Herring, crashed into him, scuffled with him, and then shot him after she witnessed him collide with another vehicle. The incident was captured by a truck driver, Cameron Williams, who described Payne hitting on the window and door of Herring's vehicle. Payne was found guilty on all c...