James Ray Hart, 51, was arrested in connection with the death of Giselle Salazar-Tapia, a 30-year-old mother of four and Hart’s live-in girlfriend found hanging from a dock in League City. Police suspected a staged suicide. He was charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse. Detectives found Hart on his boat at the Wharf Marina and took him into custody without incident. His recommended bond is $80,000. It’s really weird tha...

Donna Roberts, from Youngstown, Ohio, was convicted in connection with the 2001 shooting of her former husband, Robert Fingerhut. She was given the death sentence and is currently the only woman to be on death row in Ohio. Her partner, Nathaniel "Nate" Jackson, an ex-convict, was also sentenced to death. I just didn't mean to do it, man.

Kiplyn Davis (July 1, 1979 – May 2, 1995) was a 15-year-old American high school student who disappeared from her high school campus in Spanish Fork, Utah. She is one of the featured children on the Polly Klaas Foundation website. In 2011, a classmate was convicted of manslaughter in the murder of Davis and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, the man refused to name his alleged accomplices or indicate where Davis's remains were supposedly concealed. Timmy Brent Olsen, who ...

Over the course of several months in 1997, Michelle Michaud and James Daveggio together planned and committed sexual assaults targeting six young female victims. Their sexually predatory activities culminated in the kidnapping, rape by instrument, and murder of Vanessa Samson. These crimes are briefly summarized here. You're pure evil, and you deserve to die.

On March 24, 2003, Drummond murdered three-month-old Jiyen Dent, Jr. at his home in Youngstown. Drummond incorrectly believed Jiyen's father was involved in the 1998 murder of one of Drummond's fellow gang members. Drummond, 25, and an accomplice, Wayne Gilliam, 21, drove to the Dent household. Drummond got out of the car and fired 11 shots from an AK-47 assault rifle into the house, fatally shooting Jiyen in the head. Drummond later confessed to his cell mate that he was the shooter. Gil...

On May 7, 2006, eight-year-old Savannah Smith disappeared from outside her home in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Joshua Davis, who resided near the Smith home, was identified as an individual with whom Savannah was last seen. Subsequently, Joshua Davis was questioned by Woonsocket Police the night of the disappearance and would later lead detectives to Savannah’s body in a wooded location in Cranston, Rhode Island. In addition, Joshua Davis confessed to driving Savannah from Woonsocket to...

Daniel Miller of West Farmington, OH was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for committing at least 17 sex crimes against seven girls age 4 to 14, including rape (5 cnt), gross sexual imposition 11 cnt) and sexual battery (1 cnt). About 25 members of the Trumbull County Amish community filled the courtroom. … She said she was too young to understand what was happening: When I grew up and actually realized what Dan had done to me, he took something away from me that...

Ammar Harris, the self-proclaimed pimp who murdered three strangers on the Las Vegas Strip, was sentenced to death on November 5, 2015. In February 2013, Harris shot and killed 27-year-old aspiring rapper Kenneth Cherry, Jr., believing him to be a man he had argued with earlier in the evening at the Haze nightclub in the Aria. Tragically, it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Harris’ Range Rover pulled up alongside Cherry’s Maserati in the early hours of the m...

I am not the monster that drugs made me be.Kristen Parker was a surgery “scrub” technician at Rose Medical Center in Denver and then at Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, where she assisted in surgical procedures. She had Hepatitis C while she worked at both facilities. Kristen stole a powerful narcotic drug, Fentanyl, from surgical patients. She would inject herself with a syringe containing the narcotic. She would then fill the same dirty syringe with saline and put it back on the...

Gabul Abdullah Ali arrives at the federal courthouse in Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. He is being tried on piracy and related charges for the April 1, 2010 attack on the USS Nicholas, a Norfolk-based frigate, off the coast of Africa. “I’m being judged on the basis of something I did not commit,” said Gabul Abdullah Ali.

The Townville Elementary School shooting occurred on September 28, 2016, in Townville, South Carolina, located 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Greenville. Fourteen-year-old Jesse Osborne shot three students and a teacher, critically wounding six-year-old student Jacob Hall, who died from his injuries three days later. Osborne, who had also shot and killed his father before the shooting, was arrested as the sole suspect and charged with murder and attempted murder. I hate my life… ...

Shelton Dewayne Jackson was sentenced to death in 1997 for the murder of a friend in Tulsa. According to the prosecutor, he killed her so she wouldn't report him for injuring her 2-year-old son. He had harmed the boy for crying and hidden him beneath a nearby vacant house. The boy was discovered, but he sustained permanent injuries. In 2016, the Supreme Court declined to hear his case.

Babysitter Laughs After Killing Baby & Taking Lifeless Body to McDonald's Pregnant mother-of-five Marissa Tietsort, 28, of Wausau, Wisconsin has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the death of a two-month-old She is said to have caused the baby's death, then dressed him in a snowsuit, put him in his car seat and let his mother pick him up without telling her he was dead Authorities said she passed the infant off to his mother as if he was sleep...

I’ve got God on my side, God’s guiding me. I just go by what God tells me. Jeffrey Hessler was convicted of first degree murder, kidnapping, first degree sexual assault on a child, and use of a firearm to commit a felony. Following Hessler's conviction for first degree murder, the jury found that three statutory aggravating circumstances existed. In its sentencing order, the sentencing panel accepted the jury's verdicts finding that three statutory aggravating circumstances e...

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...

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...

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, ...