Chester Allan Poage (1980–2000) was an American man who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by three men in Spearfish, South Dakota, on March 13, 2000. Elijah Page, Briley Piper, and Darrell Hoadley were convicted of the torture and murder of Poage. Page and Piper were sentenced to death, while Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison. Page was executed by lethal injection on July 11, 2007, becoming the first person to be executed in South Dakota since 1947. Piper remains on death row,...

The 2010 Portland car bomb plot involved an incident in which Mohamed Osman Mohamud (b. 1991), a Somali-American student, was arrested in an FBI sting operation on November 26, 2010, after attempting to set off what he thought was a car bomb at a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, OR. He was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction – 1,800-pound bomb. To my parents who held me back from Jihad in the cause of Allah. I say to them ... if you – if you ma...

Scott Cheever was sentenced to death by the State of Kansas for the murder of Sheriff Matthew Samuels. According to court documents Sheriff Matthew Samuels was heading to a residence to serve an arrest warrant on Scott Cheever and when the Officer arrived he was shot and killed. Scott Cheever was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

Samuel Moreland was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for five murders. According to court documents Samuel Moreland would murder girlfriend, 46-year-old Glenna Green, her daughter, 23-year-old Lana Green, and her grandchildren, seven-year-old Daytrin Talbott, six-year-old Datwan Talbott and six-year-old Violana Green, in their Dayton home. Angry because Glenna would not give him money to buy beer, Moreland shot Glenna, Lana and Violana in their heads and pistol-whipped Daytrin and ...

A man who took nude photos of a toddler he was babysitting was sentenced to 21 years and eight months in federal prison. Rocky Sonkowsky will remain on supervised release for the rest of his life. Sonkowsky was convicted of producing child pornography. Sonkowsky pleaded guilty to the fact he "knowingly employed and used a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct," the plea agreement states. According to the criminal compl...

Monique Maestas was sixteen years old when she and her brother Beau Maestas murdered a three year old girl and paralyzed her ten year old sister. According to court documents Monique Maestas and her brother were upset that the dope they bought from the murdered girls mother was fake. They went looking for the drug dealer but found her children instead. This teen killer was sentenced to forty seven years to life while her brother Beau Maestas was given a death sentence. … slaughte...

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...

Alexander Rashad Hamilton was involved in a tragic incident that led to the shooting death of a Pittsburgh police officer. Here are the details: In 2005, when Hamilton was just four days shy of his 18th birthday, he participated in planning a store robbery. During the robbery, his cohort, Andrew Moffett, fatally shot Officer Larry Lasater while attempting to arrest them. Moffett was convicted of murdering Officer Lasater and sentenced to life in prison in 2008. However, because Moffett wa...

Susan Eubanks, a name that evokes a chilling tale of tragedy and darkness. Let me share the harrowing story of Susan Eubanks, a woman whose actions would forever stain her name in infamy. On that fateful day, October 27, 1996, in San Marcos, California, Susan was ensnared in a web of despair, fueled by alcohol and Valium. Her relationship with her boyfriend, Rene Dodson, had reached its breaking point. The argument escalated, and Rene declared that he was ending their relationship and mov...

Colby Delea Martin was a 29-year-old man who was charged with open murder in the death of Melody Rohrer, a 64-year-old grandmother. According to the authorities, Martin intentionally struck Rohrer with his vehicle, took her body, and engaged in sexual acts with it. He was also charged with vehicular manslaughter, failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death when at fault, and concealing the death of an individual. Martin was arrested and booked into Van Buren County Jail...

Jack Greene was sentenced to death by the State of Arkansas for the murder of a retired pastor. According to court documents, Jack Greene was confronted by the retired pastor regarding an arson in the preceding days. Jack Greene would respond to the allegations by bashing his head with the can of hominy, cutting him from mouth to ear, and firing a .25 caliber pistol into his chest. Jack Greene would be arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death. Jack Gordon Greene, (b. March 13, 1...