Johnesha Monae Perry wanted to send her son to heaven. So she pushed him in a stroller to the 52-foot Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown, PA. Johnesha kissed her son before pushing him off the bridge. She then jumped but managed to reach shore with a broken arm. The child was pulled out of the water about 700 yards downstream but died six days later. Court documents reveal the young mother had a long history of mental illness. The then 20yo planned to pursue an insanity def...

Willie Seth Crain, a then fifty-two-year-old Hillsborough County fisherman and crabber, was charged with the September 1998 kidnapping and first-degree murder of seven-year-old Amanda Brown. At the time, Amanda was three feet, ten inches tall and weighed approximately forty-five pounds. “Don't worry, you don't have anything to worry about,” and “Just remember, you didn't do anything, you didn't hurt that little girl.” According to the testimony of Miller and Lee, Crain resp...

The Staudte Family Murders case, also known as “The Antifreeze Murders”, was a series of killings and attempted killings within the Staudte family of Springfield, Missouri, during a five-month period in 2012. Family matriarch Diane Staudte and her daughter, Rachel Staudte, committed the crimes together using antifreeze purchased off the internet, with the rationale that antifreeze sold online would not contain the added bittering agent in commercial chemicals making the ethylene glyco...

Michael Brandon Samra was convicted of capital murder and was sentenced to death in 1997 and executed on May 16, 2019 for his role in the killings of Randy Duke, his fiancée, Dedra Hunt, and her two daughters: 6yo Chelisa and 7yo Chelsea. Randy Duke was the father of Michael’s friend and co-defendant, 16yo Mark Duke. Mark Duke planned the murders after he got into a fight and was angry with his father because wouldn't let him use his pickup. His last words were a prayer… ...

Was convicted of fatally beating Ronnie Waddell, 35, and James Kepley, 57, in rural Davidson County on March 19, 1984. The two homeless men were killed with a claw hammer. Laws was sentenced to death on August 20, 1985. On July 26, 1989, the North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed Laws' death sentence on direct appeal. Wayne Laws is the inmate who has spent the longest time on North Carolina death row.

Jesse Caleb Compton (b. December 31, 1976 | age 47), a Springfield, Oregon methamphetamine user, killed Tesslynn O’Cull, the 3-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. The girl, whose body was found in a grave near Sweet Home in 1997, had been bound, shocked and sexually assaulted. Prosecutors called it the worst case of child abuse they had ever seen. In 1999, Stella Ann Kiser, the girl’s mother, was convicted of aggravated murder for her role in the death and sentenced to life w...

Patrick Ray Haney was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of 4-year-old Trenton St. Clair. According to court documents Patrick Haney would beat to death four year old Trenton St. Clair his girlfriends son. The child’s mother Heather Forsythe was charged with allowing the child abuse to happen. Patrick Haney would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

Charged with four of the San Diego killings and given the death penalty for two. He was charged with the killings on June 25, 1992, while he was serving a 22-year sentence for sexual assault at Corcoran State Prison. The suspected serial killer was returned to San Diego where he was arraigned on four counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and single counts of rape and sodomy. Jones is believed to have left his four victims in dumpsters within a two-block area in East San Diego.

On May 8, 2010, Somali pirates seized the German merchant ship the Marida Marguerite on the high seas, took hostages, pillaged the ship, looted and tortured its crew, and extorted a $5-million ransom from its owners. Mohammad Saaili Shibin, while not among the pirates who attacked the ship, boarded it after it was taken into Somali waters and conducted the negotiations for the ransom and participated in the torture of the merchant ship's crew as part of the process. The SY Quest I...

Upon arriving at the Walmart, Basham approached a blue BMW sedan driven by forty-four year old Alice Donovan. Basham entered the car and forced Donovan to drive to the back of the parking lot, where Fulks waited. There, Fulks entered the driver's side of the car and drove away; at 4:03 p.m., Fulks used Donovan's ATM card to purchase gas from a service station in Shallote, North Carolina. At 4:30 p.m., Donovan called her daughter to say she was shopping and would be home late. Later that day, sev...

Convicted in the abduction and murder of 3-month-old Brandon Baugh. Henderson had been babysitting the young boy and his 2 1/2-year-old-sister Megan, for three months prior to the murder without incident. Henderson later told police that Brandon died after she dropped him accidentally on his head. She said she panicked, buried the boy, and fled to her native Missouri, where she was later arrested. Using a map drawn by Henderson, authorities found Brandon's body in a cardboard box in a sha...

Cheyanne Jessie, 29, was found guilty of first-degree murder in Lakeland, Florida. She killed her father Mark Weekly, 50, and daughter Meredith in July 2015. The victims were found stabbed and shot to death behind a neighbor's shed. Jessie initially told detectives that Weekly had taken Meredith to Georgia. She later said she and Weekly got in an argument and she killed him in self-defense and accidentally stabbed Meredith during the struggle. The jury deliberated for 85 minutes before ...

U wanna watch me play with a baby tomorrow a real one ;) Natisha Hillard, 27, sold her four-month-old girl for sex on eight occasions. Christopher Bour paid $500 to molest the baby and use her in child porn. The horrific abuse continued until the infant was 18 months old. Images of the mother's 3-year-old daughter were also found on Bour's laptop. Hillard was in the room during one sick encounter and appeared in photos. She was jailed for 24 years and Bour was locked up for life ...

In the early morning hours of January 4, 1993, three men kidnapped, robbed, assaulted, and repeatedly raped and sodomized Penny Sue Stuckey. An Oklahoma jury subsequently convicted Darron B. Anderson of kidnapping, multiple counts of first degree rape and forcible sodomy, first degree burglary, robbery by fear and grand larceny. The longest jail sentence passed was in the United States—10,000 years for a triple murder. Dudley Wayne Kyzer was jailed for 10,000 years by a court in ...

Running was convicted in 2000 in the love-triangle shotgun slayings of Jacqueline J. Anderson, whom he had dated, and Barbara J. Barb, her sometime lover, in the Ambassador Restaurant and Lounge on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. At trial, Running's attorneys argued that he killed the two women during a psychotic breakdown fueled by alcohol abuse and feelings of abandonment stemming from his adoption. ,,, come outside right now, you fucking bitch. I'm going to kill you. He then pulled ...

Jasper Phillip Rushing (b. 1980) was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder of his stepfather in 2001 when he attacked and killed his cellmate, 41-year-old Shannon Palmer. A correctional officer came to serve them lunch around noon on September 10, 2010, after they had been sharing the cell for about two weeks. Rushing confessed to the officer that he had murdered his cellmate. It was not a healthy environment in there. It makes no sense a...

… on September 1, 2001, a plumbing contractor working in the Andrew home overheard Brenda tell Rob that "she was going to have him fucking killed" In addition, Jim, who had served in the military, was often heard to brag about his involvement in top secret missions. Jim indicated that he was a sniper, an expert marksman, and that he used to kill people for a living ..."I hate the son of a bitch"

The fatal shooting was a result of a dispute between the two over her neighbor and lover, Memford Hamby, loaning Heather Young money over a two-year period, then withholding Young's Suboxone pills from her. Suboxone is used to treat opiate addiction. According to Heather, she said Memford had demanded to hold a large portion of her pills as ransom to try and get repayment for the loans. Heather agreed that her relationship with the Hamby “started going south”, that Hamby refuse...

Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips (born March 17, 1984 | age 39) is an American who was convicted of murder as a child. In November 1998, when he was 14 years old, Phillips killed Maddie Clifton, his 8-year-old friend and neighbor. The following year, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Phillips stated that he killed Clifton to stop her from crying after she was accidentally struck with a baseball while they were playing, and that he feared punishment fro...

Heather Leavell Keaton was convicted of murder made capital because the victim, Jonathan Chase DeBlase (“Chase”), was less than 14 years old. Heather was also convicted of reckless manslaughter in connection with the death of Chase’s sister, Natalie DeBlase (“Natalie”). Heather was sentenced to death for her capital-murder conviction and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for her reckless-manslaughter conviction. Heather put the “demon spawns from hell�...