Wesley Paul Hadsell was found guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a dead body in connection with the death of his 18-year-old stepdaughter, Anjelica "AJ" Hadsell. AJ went missing during her spring vacation from Longwood University in March 2015, causing alarm among family and friends. Surveillance footage revealed Wesley Hadsell's truck near her home, and her body was recovered in a drainage ditch behind an abandoned property in Southampton County. The inquiry uncovered substanti...

Mariann Lorene Belair, a 24-year-old Topeka, Kansas resident, was charged with first-degree murder in the commission of a felony and aggravated child endangerment after accidentally killing her 4-year-old daughter, Lawrencia Perez-Belair. Belair had left her Sig Sauer P226 9mm semi-automatic handgun on the couch while checking her diaper bag, and her two-year-old son shot her accidently. Jurors determined that Lawrencia died as a result of Belair's severe child endangerment, which involve...

Alyssa Jane Venable, a 23-year-old woman from Spotsylvania, Virginia, was wanted in connection with the deaths of her three roommates. The victims, all in their 60s or 70s, were found dead in the home they shared in Spotsylvania County. They were identified as Robert John McGuire, 77; Gregory Scott Powell, 60; and Carol Anne Reese, 65. Venable was charged with three counts of second-degree murder and a firearms charge. She was captured in upstate New York after a high-speed chase th...

Renee Hoberman, a certified social worker and therapist from Plainview, New York, has been charged with major crimes involving the dissemination of child pornography. The charges concern her use of social media to post graphic movies depicting sexually explicit behavior, such as newborns being physically restrained and raped by an adult male. Hoberman is also accused of continuing to upload child pornography and taking part in internet talks about child sexual assault. She was arraigned a...

Warren Robert Gregory, a former Marine, was convicted in 1993 for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of two women, Bernadine Parrish and Bobbie Jean Hartwig. Gregory was found guilty of first-degree murder on the grounds of premeditation and deliberation, as well as felony murder. He was sentenced to death for the crimes. Gregory and his accomplices, Kendrick Bradford and Richard Gonzales, were drinking and driving to a club in Greenville, North Carolina, when they encountered Bernadine Par...

Tyler Sullivan, 31, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in state prison for the death of his four-month-old son. The terrible occurrence occurred on May 24, 2023, when police were called to Sullivan's residence after reports of an infant in cardiac arrest. The baby was discovered unconscious and cold to the touch, and despite CPR, he was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. Sullivan had aggressively shaken his kid at least eight times prior to the child's death, causi...

Samantha Bevans, a woman from Palo, Iowa, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her stepmother, Jodie Bevans. The crime occurred in July 202¹. Samantha Bevans and her boyfriend, Tacoa Talley, were accused of suffocating Jodie Bevans. The prosecution argued that Samantha Bevans committed the murder as revenge for being kicked out of her house. A Snapchat video was presented during the trial, showing Bevans admitting to the killing. Despite the defense arguing that Talley...

Johan Jose Martinez Rangel, a 21-year-old man from Venezuela, was charged with capital murder in Texas for the death of a 12-year-old girl named Jocelyn Nungaray. The girl's body was found in a creek in north Houston. Martinez Rangel and his roommate, Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, were seen on surveillance footage with the girl hours before her body was discovered. Martinez Rangel was arrested and his bond was set at $10 million. Both men had entered the United States illegally.

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.