Larry Dean Bright, born in 1966 in Peoria, Illinois, was a notorious serial murderer who perpetrated at least eight violent murders of Black female sex workers in central Illinois between 2003 and 2004. His harsh techniques included burning their bodies and smashing their bone fragments with a hammer, garnering him the moniker "The Bonecrusher." His reign of terror created dread among the population, resulting in heightened police presence and substantial disruptions to daily activities. ...

Rhanni S. Davis, a 30-year-old Chicago resident, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder following a horrific shooting aboard a CTA Blue Line train in early September 2024. Davis' criminal record covers more than a decade, with many arrests for gun possession and other charges. In 2019, he was caught at a public transit station with a loaded weapon, but prosecutors dropped the charges. In 2021, another loaded handgun was discovered following a traffic collision, but no ch...

Ashley Taylor Phy, a 28-year-old woman from Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing many children. The case featured over 600 recordings transferred to Verizon's Synchronosis cloud storage between August and October 2023, which authorities found after receiving complaints about the uploads. The ages of the youngsters in the movies varied from two to fourteen years old. Phy pleaded guilty to a number of counts, including involuntary deviant sexual ...

Antonio Riaño, 62, of Zapotitlán Palmas, Oaxaca, Mexico, was arrested in Cincinnati on homicide charges in connection with the 2004 shooting death of Benjamin Becarra. Riaño fled the United States to avoid prosecution and was added to the Butler County Sheriff's Office's "Most Wanted" list. The crime entailed a shooting that claimed Becarra's life. Riaño was elusive for nearly two decades. Law enforcement agencies including the US Marshals Service, Butler County Prosecutor's Office, a...

Karen Blackledge is a woman from Quincy, Illinois who was involved in a serious criminal case. She was charged with two counts of home invasion, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated vehicular hijacking, residential burglary, and aggravated criminal sexual assault. Initially, she pleaded not guilty to the charges, but later she changed her plea to guilty. Despite her attempts to withdraw her guilty plea and have the judgment thrown out, her motions were denied in Adams County court. Consequ...

Jeffrey Robert Martin was convicted for the rape and murder of 12-year-old Gabrielle Miranda Bechen in June 2006. Martin, originally from New Geneva, Pennsylvania, and 65 years old as of 2023, has been on death row since being convicted in May 2008. The crime occurred on a horse farm in Dunkard Township, where Martin worked as a farmhand. Gabrielle Bechen disappeared while riding her all-terrain vehicle at the Greensboro horse farm. Her body was found buried on the farm five days...

Nausicca R. Thomas and Tasheaunna R. Williams are facing charges of aggravated battery, endangering the life and health of a child, and reckless conduct in a criminal case involving a 13-month-old child. The incident occurred on December 19, 2024, when the child was found unresponsive and died in critical condition. Authorities launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the child's death. Thomas and Williams entered not guilty pleas during court proceedings, but their...

In February 2025, 16-year-old Miranda Corsette vanished after meeting 35-year-old Steven Robert Gress through a dating app. Authorities allege that Gress and his partner, 37-year-old Michelle Brandes, held Miranda captive in their St. Petersburg, Florida, home, subjecting her to a week of torture before murdering and dismembering her. Gress and Brandes “held the victim against her will for more than seven days and tortured her repeatedly, beating the victim and eventually stuffing a ...

Daniel Marc Lofaro, a former research scientist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory and assistant professor at George Mason University, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for serious child sexual exploitation offenses. Lofaro engaged in predatory activity against kids across many online platforms, including contacting a 12-year-old victim on a social media app and seeking graphic images and videos from a 14-year-old victim via an online dating app. Over the course of o...

 Robert Dale Tweedly Jr., a 40-year-old man from Bay City, Michigan, has been charged with major crimes in the death of Justie Stilwell, a 41-year-old janitor. Tweedly faced two felony charges: one count of open murder and one count of transferring and mutilating a corpse. He pleaded not guilty and is currently being jailed on a $1 million bond. Stilwell was reported missing after not showing up for work on September 18, 2024. Tweedly allegedly attacked Stilwell after drinking beer and u...

Orestes Miguel Figueredo-Ortega was convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Delmy Teyul Ba, in Bradenton, Florida. Prior to the murder, he had a history of domestic violence, including an arrest for strangling Teyul Ba in 2020. The fatal incident occurred on September 17, 2020, when an argument escalated into violence, leading Figueredo-Ortega to stab her multiple times before fleeing the scene. He was later arrested and received a life sentence after a tria...

Michael Madison, born on October 15, 1977, in East Cleveland, Ohio, is a convicted serial killer necrophiliac and sex offender. Between 2012 and 2013, he murdered three women—Shetisha Sheeley, Angela Deskins, and Shirellda Terry—bodies were found decomposing in trash bags around his apartment complex. They were choked, beaten and in at least one case raped. Madison's criminal history includes a 2002 conviction for attempted rape, for which he served four years in prison. In 2016, h...

Tasheaunna Renee Williams, a 26-year-old mother from Peoria, Illinois, stands accused of one of the most harrowing cases of child endangerment in recent memory. In December 2024, her 13-month-old son, Hezekiah Williams, was rushed to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center unresponsive and ultimately died of an overdose just days later. A grand jury indicted Williams and her partner, Nausicca Thomas, on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated battery after investigators uncovered evidenc...

Michael Lamonte Evans, a 50-year-old man, has been charged with serious offenses, including forceful rape and rape of an unconscious person, in connection with a 2000 event in Concord, California. The victim was quadriplegic and paralyzed, and DNA evidence was obtained at the site. Evans was arrested in October 2023 for violating his parole, and his DNA was linked to the case using forensic techniques. He is currently in detention in Los Angeles County, awaiting extradition to Contra Cost...

Johnny Joe Avalos, an American serial killer, perpetrated a number of crimes in San Antonio, Texas, between 2012 and 2015. He raped and strangled five people, including four women and a teenage girl. Avalos claimed to have attempted to murder at least twenty additional women, but they escaped before he could carry out his plan. His arrest came in April 2015, when DNA evidence linked him to the murders. Avalos faced capital murder charges but was unable to obtain the death penalty owing to...

Tina Mejia, a 26-year-old mother from Glendale, and her boyfriend Jacob Gano, 23, were arrested in connection with the death of Mejia’s 7-month-old son, Brian Mejia. The infant was brought to a hospital with severe injuries on March 31, 2024. Mejia and Gano told officers that the child had fallen out of bed at their apartment the previous day. Mejia noticed swelling on the side of the child’s head and took the baby to the hospital when the swelling worsened. Prior to this incident, a ...

Cuhuatemoc Hinricky “Tempo” Peraita’s life has been defined by violence, from a traumatic childhood to a series of brutal murders that led him to Alabama’s death row. Convicted for his role in the 1994 Popeyes massacre, which left three employees dead, he was sentenced to life without parole. Even behind bars, he continued his violent streak, orchestrating the 1999 prison killing of Quincy Lewis in a conflict fueled by power, survival, and the dark economy of inmate transaction...

Dakota J. DeGroot, a 27-year-old resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 9, 2024, for possessing child pornography as a repeat offender. The indictment alleges that DeGroot possessed electronic files containing child pornography on or about January 18, 2024. DeGroot was previously convicted of possessing child pornography in Winnebago County Circuit Court in 2016. As a repeat offender, upon conviction of the offense alleged in the federal indictment, ...

Carla Faith is a former daycare owner who was sentenced to six years in prison on child abuse charges and for attempting to influence a public servant. She was found guilty on 26 counts of misdemeanor child abuse. The charges stemmed from an incident where authorities discovered 26 children hidden behind a false wall in the basement of her daycare, Play Mountain Place, in late 2019. The children were found in soiled or wet diapers and were sweaty and thirsty. Many parents reported that th...

His face – he just didn’t look the same – nothing behind his eyes. They were dark. His eyes were dark. His face was contorted.I knew a couple of boys that were sold to others and used in a few snuff type movies,so their fate was sealed right after they were sold…They didn't know that of course until it was happening to them.I can get all we need to drug them.After that they are gone forever. Steven Lorenzo. Autographed Letter, Signed. Handwritten, Commercial #10 (4.125 × 9.5 envel...