On March 5, 2001, a school shooting occurred at Santana High School in Santee, California. The gunman, 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams, opened fire with an eight-shot .22-caliber revolver, killing two students and wounding 13 others. Williams was then apprehended by responding police officers and convicted. He is currently serving 50 years to life in prison. If I could go back to that day, I would never have gotten out of bed.

Raymond Mata was sentenced to death by the State of Nebraska for the murder of a child. According to court documents Raymond Mata was upset that his girlfriend was pregnant by another man so he kidnapped the three year old child. Raymond Mata would return back to the home without the child denying he knew where he was. The child would be reported missing and later the police would find a package in Mata’s sister home that contained a crushed skull. Raymond Mata had murdered the child, d...

On October 12, 2011, a mass shooting occurred at the Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, California. Eight people inside the salon and one person in the parking lot were shot, and only one victim survived. It remains the deadliest mass killing in Orange County history. Scott Evans Dekraai, who was involved in a custody dispute with his ex-wife (one of the shooting victims), pleaded guilty to the shooting on May 2, 2014. On September 22, 2017, Dekraai was sentenced to eight ter...

Layton Lester Teen Killer Murders Guard Layton Lester was a fifteen-year-old teen killer from Georgia who was convicted of the murder of his great-aunt and of the murder of Correctional Officer Robert Clark. Layton Lester was convicted of malice murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of Lorrine Bozeman in 2007. He was sentenced to life in prison. As a convicted murderer, in 2023, he used a ‘homemade weapon’ to fatally attack a correctiona...

Clarance Rozell Goode, Jr., was charged, conjointly with Ronald Thompson and Kenneth Johnson, with three (3) counts of first degree murder and one (1) count of first degree burglary. Goode’s case was severed from his codefendants, and his trial commenced on December 3, 2007. The jury found Goode guilty on all four counts and assessed punishment at death on each of the three first degree murder convictions, after finding that both of the aggravating circumstances existed in each...

Timothy Jones Jr. (born December 28, 1981 | age 42) is an American murderer who killed his five children: Merah, Elias, Nahtahn, Gabriel, and Abigail Elaine, in their mobile home along South Lake Drive in Lexington County, South Carolina. Jones admitted to working Nahtahn to death and killed the other four children in a panic. Jones pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but the court rejected this plea. He was found guilty of five counts of murder in 2019 and was sentenced to death. A...

Habitually preyed on underage girls, taking them to nightclubs, providing them with alcohol and drugs, engaging them in consensual sexual relations when possible and, most significantly, sexually abusing them while they were rendered unconscious by drugs that he had provided to them. Marty handed out "lower the drinking age" petitions at concerts and carnivals as a ploy to get the names and phone numbers of girls.

Mark Spotz was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the shooting deaths of four people. According to court documents Mark Spotz would open fire killing his brother during an argument over a gerbil. Over the next three days Mark Spotz would murder three women in three different counties during violent carjackings. Mark Spotz would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Mark Spotz and Christina Noland were young and infatuated with each other. Spotz even brough...

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 former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a judge called his request for compassionate release "the least meritorious" he'd ever seen. David Kwiatkowski was sentenced in 2013 to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood. Despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations, he had worked as a cardiac technologist in ...

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...

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...

The execution of Richard Laird, who was sentenced to death in two different trials for the murder of Pennsylvania artist Anthony Milano, has been put on hold. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed a death warrant calling for Laird to be executed for the murder of Milano in 1987. But Judge Rea B. Boylan granted a stay of execution while Laird's attorneys pursue post-conviction appeals. He gave Laird's lawyers time to file an amended petition, and set a deadline for prosecutors to respon...

Outwardly everything seemed normal, but apparently Holly, who'd been using drugs and having difficulties at school, was suffering miserably inside her grandparent's house. At the center of Holly's troubles was her 16-year-old lesbian lover, Sandra Ketchum. In a poem, Holly describes how depressed she'd been and how she constantly cried herself to sleep because the Colliers had ordered her to stop seeing Sandy Ketchum and insisted she stop using drugs. Holly's poem also contained the words...

Stephen Hugueley was sentenced to death in 2003 for stabbing a prison counselor at Hardeman County Correctional Center. He used a homemade knife, stabbing him 36 times until the knife broke. Hugueley had killed before: his mother in 1986 and then a prison inmate in 1992. He tried to take the life of another prisoner in 1998.Years of this abuse (18 yrs SHU) took a tremendous physical and mental toll upon Stephen. That Stephen withstood this treatment for so long is a testament to the strength ...

Gary Whitton was sentenced to die in Florida's electric chair for the October 9, 1990 beating and slaying of a friend to death, James Mauldin (“Jimmy”), a fellow alcoholic, in a fight that left a motel room covered with blood. The men fought for more than 30 minutes at a motel after Jimmy had gone on a drinking binge. Gary delivered massive blowsto Jimmy's head and neck “that would have brought down a drunk elephant”.