Melvin L. Knight (b. October 27, 1989) was one of six Greensburg (G6) roommates who were convicted in connection with the torture and murder of 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty. The Mt. Pleasant, PA woman was held captive for more than two days in their apartment, where police said she was beaten, tortured, and stabbed to death. Her body was tied with Christmas lights and garland, stuffed into a trash bin and discarded under a truck in a snow-covered parking lot.According to her relatives, Jenny ...

You have every right to hate me, every right to want me dead and every right to never forgive me. I take full responsibility for your daughter’s death. But her death was not the worst part, what I did after she was dead was unexcusable, sick, and disgusting. I hate myself for what I did. I am in terrible pain every day because your daughter is dead by my actions. She should still be with you. All I can say is I'm sorry. The words are small but they are so sincere. Sincerely, Craig G...

Charles Manson's “Prison Buddy”. Could be considered a prison “snitch”. Thanks to Mr. William Harder for his insight into this character who is little known in the system. Pictured at left are: Former fiancee Afton 'Star' Burton, 26, Craig Carlisle 'Gray Wolf' Hammond, 65 and Charles Manson, 80

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...

Gordon Franklin (b. May 22, 1966 | age 56) was found guilty of fatally striking his daughter, Danielle, with a golf club as she slept. The first strike was enough to kill her, according to the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office, but he hit her multiple times. Glisson, a first responder, calls the crime unfathomable: I don’t think there’s any amount of worldly justice that is good enough for that guy. He deserves a whole lot more … and about 100 times more after that...

In Jackson, Mississippi, in the early morning hours of June 26, 2011, a 47-year-old African-American man – James Craig Anderson – was severely beaten and then intentionally run over with a pickup truck in an unprovoked attack by a group of white teenagers from nearby suburbs. Some of the teens yelled racial epithets during this horrific incident, a random act of hate crime violence that resulted in Anderson’s death. After leaving the scene, Deryl Dedmon boasted about beating ...

The Ohio Supreme Court has set an execution date for a former Struthers, OH man who has been on Death Row for twenty years after being convicted of a deadly shooting at a Youngstown bar. The justices on issued an order setting January 10, 2024 as the day 54-year-old Scott Group will be put to death for the shooting death of Robert Lozier and wounding Lozier's wife Sandra at their Downtown Bar. Group was a delivery man for a local wine company when authorities say the shot couple as they w...

Elijah Page and two other young men were convicted of killing Chester Poage, a 19 year old “friend”, near the town of Spearfish in the rural west of South Dakota. Poage was kidnapped at gunpoint, then tortured for almost 3 hours before his death. He was forced to drink acid, repeatedly kicked and beaten, stabbed in the head and torso, and forced to remove his clothing in an icy creek. His body was not found until a month later. Upon his arrest in Texas, Page admitted his involvement i...

Slain teens will be “haunting you” a family member tells him. After a jury sentenced Paul Devoe to death, the mother of one of his victims – 17-year-old Danielle Hensley – took the witness stand in a Travis County courtroom and told Devoe it would be nice to know if he cared what she and other victims' family members had to say. "Do you care?" Christina Gribble asked Devoe. Devoe did not react. It could have been the anti-psychotic medication he is taking. Or perhaps ...

James Daveggio was born on July 27, 1960, in San Francisco. California, USA. James Anthony Daveggio and Michelle Michaud were sentenced to death in California in 2002 for the 1997 abduction, rape, torture, and murder of 22-year-old Vanessa Lei Samson from Pleasanton, California and abducted several other women in their minivan between September and December 1997. During the sentencing, Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman called the murder "vile, cruel, senseless, depraved, b...

His IQ plummeted from average into the range of intellectual disability. At age 29, while in federal prison serving a life sentence for kidnapping and carjacking, Coonce and his codefendant, Charles Michael Hall, attacked and killed Victor Castro Rodriguez, another prisoner. Facing the death penalty, he argued that his execution would violate the Eighth Amendment be-cause he has an intellectual disability. The District Court denied Coonce's claim without a hearing, the jury sentenc...

Gregory Lott was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for a brutal murder. According to court documents, Gregory Lott would tie up the victim, 82 year old John McGrath, douse him with lamp oil and set him on fire. Gregory Lott would steal a number of possessions from the home, including the victim’s car. The victim would be found alive, but he would die from his injuries later on. Gregory Lott would be arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death.

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...

Mackenzie Shirilla, 20, sobbed as she learned her sentence for murdering boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and his friend Davion Flanagan, 19. She deliberately drove her car into a wall at 100 mph. killing her boyfriend and a friend in July 2022 in Strongsville, Ohio. The judge told Shirilla the most damning evidence against her was the “chilling and tragic” surveillance footage showing her accelerating into the wall.

Eight-year-old Jessica Rae Delatorre was described as a happy girl who loved to play with her brothers, draw and watch Full House on TV. On April 9, 2005 Jessica and her brothers, ages 4 and 11, were spending the night at their grandmother's house in South Dakota when she disappeared in the night. Sioux Falls police arrested the grandmother's live-in boyfriend on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree rape and kidnapping. Evidence suggested that while Delatorre's brothers ...

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...