Ennis William Cosby, the son of comedian Bill Cosby, was murdered in Los Angeles, California, on January 16, 1997, by 18-year-old Mikhail Markhasev in a failed robbery attempt. Cosby was 27 years old and was shot in the head. Markhasev was arrested in March 1997 for a $100,000 reward offered by the National Enquirer. He was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted robbery in 1998 and sentenced to life in prison. In 2001, Markhasev admitted to committing the murder and requested that...

David Ray Conley III is a man who was involved in a mass shooting incident that took place on August 8, 2015, in Harris County, Texas, near Houston. He broke into his former girlfriend’s house and held hostage Valerie and Dwayne Jackson, Sr., along with six children, including his own 13-year-old son. Over the course of nine hours, he shot and killed the entire family. He then engaged in a shootout with responding police before surrendering. He was charged with capital murder of eight p...

A homeless man in California recalled how he survived a brutal bolt cutter beating at the hands of alleged serial killer Ramon Escobar – just two days before the six-time deportee bludgeoned another transient to death. Ramon Alberto Escobar (born June 5, 1971) is a Salvadoran serial killer who killed seven people during a month-long killing spree between Texas and California in 2018, most of whom were homeless. After pleading guilty, he was convicted and sentenced to life impriso...

Jonathan Michael Hearn is a convicted murderer who was involved in a love triangle with Sabrina Limon, the wife of his lover. He was arrested for the murder of Sabrina Limon's husband, Robert Limon, in 2014. Hearn agreed to testify against Sabrina Limon in exchange for a plea deal of 25 years and four months behind bars. He was sentenced to prison in November 2017 and was expected to be released in November 2035. However, he may be eligible for parole in November 2028 due to a new law tha...

Around 3:00 a.m. on an August morning, Dalton Aiken and his friend, Cory Fitzwater, set out to “fight a homeless guy”. They searched a wooded area near Ogden’s 21st Street pond for encampments and found the victim asleep next to a campfire. According to Aiken, Fitzwater woke the victim and shot him in the head with a .45 caliber handgun. After the shooting, the pair tried to leave the area in Aiken’s truck, but they were stopped by police on suspicion of marijuana possession...

Bradley Yohn is an American criminal sentenced to 130 years in prison after being convicted in July 2023 of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 77-year-old woman, Christine "Tina" Schmitt Lohmann, leading to her death. Yohn was apprehended on charges of home invasion, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated vehicular hijacking, residential burglary and aggravated criminal sexual assault, after the discovery of the body of a Virden man, Derek J. Banker Barnett, in the trunk of a "suspicious" ve...

Shelby Marie Cox, 4, disappeared Nov. 13, 1995. She was drowned in the bathtub of her 18yo neighbor's house. She had her mouth taped shut and was placed in a tub of water and was drowned until she stopped breathing. She was then stuffed inside a green duffel bag and hidden in a cabinet in the neighbor's storage shed. Three months ago, Jeremy Lipscomb Skocz cradled his newborn daughter in his arms. Friends and neighbors say he was gentle, great with kids.

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The murder of Sophie Hook was a widely reported child murder which took place in Llandudno, North Wales, in July 1995. Sophie Louise Hook (May 27, 1988 – July 30, 1995) was a seven-year-old British child who was murdered in Llandudno, Wales in the early hours of July 30, 1995. She was from Great Budworth, near Northwich, Cheshire, but was staying at the Llandudno home of her uncle, Danny Jones, when she was murdered. She had gone missing from a tent where she was camping in her u...

Allan Wayne McLaurin and Darron Bennalford Anderson were convicted in 1993 of robbery, kidnapping and rape of an elderly woman in Tulsa County. Anderson was initially sentenced to 2,200 years in prison; however, he appealed and won a new trial. His second trial also ended in conviction, but this time, the jury sentenced Anderson to 11,250 years. His accomplice, McLaurin, was sentenced to 21,250 years, but upon appeal, his sentence was reduced by 500 years.

Anthony Lacy pled guilty in court in the 2014 Roan Mountain murder of Danny Vance. Lacy hit Vance in the head with a large rock, with the intent to rob him, killing him. A judge sentenced Anthony Lacy to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

 Inmate dies after 33 yrs on Death Row at Polunsky Unit (TX) A diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic with an IQ of 65, Ray Martinez was one of the state's longest-serving death row prisoners. Ray Martinez had been on death row since July 18, 1984, for a capital murder conviction. Respected death penalty lawyer Patrick McCann, who represented Martinez earlier in the appeals process, laughed upon hearing of his former client's death. "He won then," he said.

Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr (née Cross) is an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two of her six children while using the others to facilitate and cover up her crimes. She was born on March 14, 1946 in Sacramento, California. She was married four times and had six children. She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and is currently serving two consecutive life sentences at the California Institution for Women in Chino, California.

Pennsylvania newlyweds "just wanted to murder someone together" Miranda signaled to Elytte, “Did you look at the stars tonight?”, who jumped out and wrapped a cord around Troy LaFerrara's neck as Miranda stabbed him 20 times.

 “Something big's going to happen.” The Heath High School shooting occurred at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, United States, on Monday December 1, 1997. Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on a group of praying students killing 3 girls and wounding 5 others. When it was over, Michael said he'd imagined it all differently. He thought he'd fire one shot, everyone would take off running and he ''could run around and do stuff and take over the school...

Andrew Compton murder, sodomy, tampering with physical evidence and sexual abuse of a corpse | Put the body in a box and disposed of it in a dumpster | Compton's body was never found Andrew's mother, Angela, says her son loved chocolate and dreamed of becoming a chef since he was a child.

A death row inmate is due to die … but the State of South Carolina has none of the drugs it needs to kill him. Bobby Wayne Stone, now 52, was sentenced to death back in 1997 after he was convicted of murder and first degree burglary. On 26 February, 1996, Stone roamed the woods while drinking beer and shooting his guns – a shotgun and a pistol. At one point, he left off gunshots outside a woman’s home and then, when Sergeant Charles Kubala responded, shot three or four mo...

Stephen Edmiston was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the sexual assault and murder of a two year old girl. According to court documents Stephen Edmiston would sexually assault the two year old girl before murdering her. Stephen Edmiston would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

On April 28, 2000, Rick Baumhammers left his home and shot and killed his neighbor, Anita Gordon, at her home which he then set on fire. He then drove to Scott Township where he killed Anil Thakur and seriously wounded Sandip Patel, after which he drove to Robinson Township and shot and killed Ji-Ye Sun and Thao Pak Pam. Finally, Rick drove to Center Township where he shot and killed Garry Lee. The entire series of events occurred within a two hour time period. On May 9, 2001, Rick was co...

Richard Norman Rojem, Jr., 66, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1984 rape and murder of his 7-year-old stepdaughter, Layla Dawn Cummings, in Washita County, OK. He was in the process of getting a divorce from her mother. Rojem kidnapped, raped and stabbed Layla to death while her mother was at work. Her body was found in a field outside Burns Flat. Rojem was on parole from Michigan after serving three years of a six- to 15-year sentence for two counts of criminal sexual...