A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a judge called his request for compassionate release "the least meritorious" he'd ever seen. David Kwiatkowski was sentenced in 2013 to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood. Despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations, he had worked as a cardiac technologist in ...

Being younger and stronger, I just pushed him off and shot him right between the eyes. Just because he pissed me off. He was shot like an executioner would have done it. He fell to the ground lifeless and didn’t even wiggle. Wardlow was 18 when he killed 82-year-old Carl Cole in Cason, TX. Wardlow shot Cole during an attempted robbery in which he said he had planned to steal Cole’s truck to leave the rural town and start a new life with his girlfriend.

The body of 8yo Shane (“Shane”) Coffman (d. c. 7 August 1995) was found in an abandoned freezer outside the mobile home of his mother, Bertha Jean (“Berti”) Coffman, and her boyfriend, Donald (“Donny”) L. Gilson (b. November 10, 1960 | age 49 at execution). An autopsy showed two fractures to the boy's skull, a tooth missing from his right jaw, and fractures to his collarbone, shoulder blades, ribs, legs and spine. Berti said she and Donny discussed: “just dumpi...

This is my revenge. I’m gonna kill you, but you’re gonna suffer. This is not going to be easy. In 1990, Terence Valentine (b. 1949), a Costa Rican man living in Texas, was convicted of the gruesome 1988 killing of Ferdinand Porsche and the attempted murder of Valentine’s ex-wife, Libia Romero. Romero, who is also Costa Rican and who was divorced from Valentine at the time, testified in court that her ex-husband broke into the couple’s home in Tampa, Florida, shot Porsche...

The execution of Richard Laird, who was sentenced to death in two different trials for the murder of Pennsylvania artist Anthony Milano, has been put on hold. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed a death warrant calling for Laird to be executed for the murder of Milano in 1987. But Judge Rea B. Boylan granted a stay of execution while Laird's attorneys pursue post-conviction appeals. He gave Laird's lawyers time to file an amended petition, and set a deadline for prosecutors to respon...

Outwardly everything seemed normal, but apparently Holly, who'd been using drugs and having difficulties at school, was suffering miserably inside her grandparent's house. At the center of Holly's troubles was her 16-year-old lesbian lover, Sandra Ketchum. In a poem, Holly describes how depressed she'd been and how she constantly cried herself to sleep because the Colliers had ordered her to stop seeing Sandy Ketchum and insisted she stop using drugs. Holly's poem also contained the words...

Stephen Hugueley was sentenced to death in 2003 for stabbing a prison counselor at Hardeman County Correctional Center. He used a homemade knife, stabbing him 36 times until the knife broke. Hugueley had killed before: his mother in 1986 and then a prison inmate in 1992. He tried to take the life of another prisoner in 1998.Years of this abuse (18 yrs SHU) took a tremendous physical and mental toll upon Stephen. That Stephen withstood this treatment for so long is a testament to the strength ...

Hannah Payne is a woman who was involved in a high-profile murder trial. She was accused of shooting and killing 62-year-old Kenneth Herring during a traffic incident in 2019. Payne allegedly followed Herring, crashed into him, scuffled with him, and then shot him after she witnessed him collide with another vehicle. The incident was captured by a truck driver, Cameron Williams, who described Payne hitting on the window and door of Herring's vehicle. Payne was found guilty on all c...

Jessica and Daniel Groves were convicted of murdering their infant son Dylan Groves, and disposing his body at the bottom of a 30-foot well. His body was wrapped in plastic bags and duct tape, then placed in milk crates secured by chains, padlocks and zip ties. Dylan’s cause of death was determined as “homicidal violence”. The child had suffered multiple bone fractures and broken ribs. Methamphetamine and amphetamine were also found in his system. Jessica Groves was convicted on all...

A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania trial court has granted the application of the Dauphin County District Attorney’s office to withdraw all charges against Samuel Randolph, IV, completing his exoneration of a double murder that sent him to Pennsylvania’s death row in 2003. On April 6, 2022, two days after the SCOTUS had declined to review the county prosecutors’ appeal of a federal court ruling granting Randolph a new trial, DA Fran Chardo filed a motion to enter an order of nolle prose...

Kevin Wayne Dunlap, b. May 15 1972 (age 51), was sentenced to death March 19, 2010 in Livingston County, KY. On October 15, 2008, Dunlap stabbed and killed a 5 year old boy, and his 14 and 17 year old sisters in their home. He then raped and attempted to murder their mother by stabbing her with a knife. When he thought that the mother was dead, he set fire to the home and left. He was arrested on 10/18/2008. He was convicted of the following crimes: Murder (Capital)-3 cts; Kidnap...

Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello was an associate of the Gambino crime family and had ties to former Gambino boss John Gotti. “Big Tony” was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2001 slaying of a prominent Florida businessman, Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis, during a power struggle over a lucrative fleet of gambling ships. Evidence showed “Gus” Boulis was killed by a mob hit man, and that Moscatiello ordered the slaying. "Now, you know what he means ... we need Gus kille...

Donna McClure was born Peter Kevin Langan in 1958 on Saipan in the South Pacific Islands. She grew up in Vietnam, where her father served in the military and CIA, before moving to the United States when Langan was 6 years old. Donna was convicted by a jury of robbing two banks and of using firearms and a destructive device in committing the robberies. In a separate trial concerning the circumstances of his arrest on unrelated charges, Donna was convicted of assaulting a federal officer and of fu...

Longo was convicted of killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. The bodies of the four were recovered from two coastal inlets around Christmas 2001. Longo went on the lam, landing on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list before he was captured in Mexico posing as travel writer Michael Finkel. Sentenced to death 16 April 2003. Commuted by Governor to LWOP in 2022. “I sent them to a better place.”

Stevens was convicted of aggravated murder and numerous sex abuse and rape charges after kidnapping three of his nieces in 1988. One of the children, 5-year-old Nicole Lynae Edwards, was found dead in the attic crawl space in Stevens' house on an Oakville dairy farm. The others were injured but alive. Stevens was sentenced to death a second time after his first sentence was overturned. The second sentence also was overturned. Interesting fact: Prior to strangling his niece, Stevens...

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… ...

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...