Steven Ray Newell was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for the sexual assault and murder of an eight year old girl. According to court documents Steven Newell would abduct eight-year-old Elizabeth Ann Byrd who would be sexually assaulted and murdered. Steven Newell would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. On May 23, 2001, Elizabeth Byrd, an 8-year old, headed to school from her mother’s trailer at approximately 8:00 a.m. Steven Newell approached Elizabeth ...

Although the assailant got away, Madison, WI Police Detective Maureen Wall, the lead detective on “The Mall Rapist” case, thought there was a similarity in the girl’s description and “The Mall” suspect. Meanwhile, the FBI had arrested Thomas Redeker, 56, for possession of child pornography in Hancock, NY, and that in turn led the FBI office there to notify the FBI in Madison, WI that James Darryl Perry may be involved with Redeker in making child pornography. Agents in Ma...

The Wichita Massacre, also known as The Wichita Horror, was a murder/ assault/ rape/ robbery spree perpetrated by brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr against several people in the city of Wichita, Kansas in the winter of 2000. The Carrs killed five people and a dog. The crimes shocked Wichitans, and purchases of guns, locks, and home security systems subsequently skyrocketed in the city. The brothers were tried, convicted and sentenced to death in October 2002. Although it ...

Stacey Eugene Johnson is a death row inmate in Arkansas who was convicted of the murder of Carol Heath in a 1993 home invasion. He has maintained his innocence and has been seeking new DNA tests that he believes could clear him of the charges. In June 2023, a federal appeals court ruled that Johnson may sue the state of Arkansas in his push to have new DNA tests run. Johnson posits that DNA evidence may implicate Heath's boyfriend, Brandon Ramsey, as her actual killer. He has spent...

Mesiti’s daughter, Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesiti’s former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared. An autopsy found Alycia died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs. Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48...

Steven J. Duffey (b. August 16, 1961 | age 1963) was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of a coworker. Steven Duffey according to court documents would stab to death a 19yo female coworker in a bathroom at a store where both were employed. Steven Duffey would be arrested; convicted of first degree murder and robbery; and sentenced to death.

Matthew Ogden, who was arrested in 2015 in connection with the death of his month-old daughter, pleaded guilty to reckless child abuse resulting in death. That is a felony with a plea deal stipulation of 30 to 40 years in prison. Ogden faced life in prison on the original first-degree murder charge. The defense said during sentencing that Sarah’s skull fracture came about when Ogden was carrying her out of the bedroom and banged her head on a doorjamb. He said at differe...

The calmness I was telling you about, I still have it. I love you all. I just want you to know that I’m all right. Make sure momma knows. All right? Jermaine, I love you, too, man. You are Mario’s uncle? Correct? I just want you to know that I wronged your family. I received nothing, I was not paid. I took his life for the love of a friend.

Alicia Goemaat, who lived with the toddler's father, his son, and her own toddler, was charged with second-degree murder. On September 27, 2015, police responded to a 911 call from the couple's home in West Seattle and discovered the man's toddler son dead. An investigation was launched after detectives discovered blood and bruises on the child. The MEO determined that the toddler, 17-month-old Drue Lehto, had "substantial abdominal trauma that included a transection of his small bowel, l...

Stop and let the child off!! Kimmy drove the Blazer over a concrete median. Jake slammed into the median, which caused him to bounce up as high as the top of the back window. Driving even faster, over 80 miles per hour. Kimmy got out of the Blazer and looked at Jake's body. Kimmy stated, “I didn't do that,” and reentered the Blazer. The total distance between where the strip mall and where Kimmy was apprehended was about four and a half miles. Jake was pronou...

Robert Consalvo was sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder and robbery of Lorraine Pezza. According to court documents Robert Consalvo and Lorraine Pezza went to an ATM together. After she withdrew money, Robert Consalvo would steal part of it. When Lorraine Pezza attempted to change her locks, she would disappear. Robert Consalvo would use her debit card later that day and be seen driving around in a vehicle that looked like Lorraine Pezza's. Robert Consalvo would be arrested...

Steve Gilbert felled little 12-year-old Samantha Detzler of Lansing, Michigan in his car before unceremoniously dumping her body along a rural Clinton County road. I choked Samantha Detzler. Please don’t let this man out to do this again to any other girl or any other mother.– Sheila Detzler (Mom) It is this court’s intention that you never be free again. – Judge Jeffrey Martlew

Dan Wilson killed Lutz after she drove him home from a bar in Elyria. Somehow—Wilson said he didn't know how—Lutz ended up in the trunk of her black Oldsmobile Cutlass after they left the bar and went to Wilson's house. Wilson let Lutz out briefly after she begged to use the restroom, but forced her back into the trunk even though she promised to forget the ordeal if he ran away. Wilson then set the punctured gas tank on fire and walked off while Lutz burned to death. Wilson claimed h...

Richard Wendorf and his wife were found beaten to death in their Eustis, Florida home. Cigarette burns in the shape of a V, with two dots on either side, were present on the body of Richard Wendorf, and Rod Ferrell had told friends that his sign was a V, with dots on each side to signify clan members. Early news reports suggested that their 15-year-old daughter, Heather, had plotted with this gang to murder her parents. Wendorf and the others were subsequently arrested in Baton Rouge, Lou...

William Kessler Sapp (born William Kessler Lilly; March 22, 1962 | age 61) is an American serial killer and rapist who committed the murders of three women and girls in Springfield, Ohio, in 1992 and 1993, the attempted murder of another, and a possible fourth murder in Florida. Sapp was detained for the murders only in 1996, after already being imprisoned for an earlier rape. He was sentenced to death on October 21, 1999, and is currently awaiting execution at the Chillicothe Correctiona...

On May 15, 1999, Andi Brewer was reported missing from her home, near Mena, in western Arkansas. She was last seen leaving her house in a small red pickup truck. Police initially thought that Andi may have run away from home. After a day or so, however, they decided that was unlikely, and they called in the FBI and the Arkansas State Police to help investigate. They first looked for people known to the family that drove small red pickup trucks. The only two people who fit that description...

Walter Ogrod is an American man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1988, sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to police, Ogrod confessed to Horn’s murder four years after it occurred, but in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false. On June 5 of that year, Ogrod’s conviction was vacated by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and he was ordered to be released from prison. He had spent thr...

In Collier County Florida on 11/4/2016, Gary Cherelus was sentenced to 20 years in prison for two counts of human trafficking and two counts of tampering with a witness. Cherelus was also declared a sexual predator after pleading no contest to the charges. Cherelus coerced his victims with threats, violence and drugs to get them to engage in prostitution. He was part of an organized criminal enterprise profiting from the sexual exploitation of his victims.

 A jury convicted Johnny Johnson of first-degree murder and recommended a sentence of death. The jury also convicted him of armed criminal action, kidnapping, and attempted forcible rape and recommended life sentences for these crimes. … outrageously and wantonly vile ...

Jimmy L. Brooks, Jr. is a convicted murderer who was found guilty of four counts of capital murder in connection with the murder of 12-year-old William Brett Bowyer. Brooks and his accomplice, Michael Carruth, kidnapped Forest Bowyer and his son Brett Bowyer from their home by posing as police officers. The kidnappers stole $47,000 and took the victims to a construction site. Brooks shot Brett Bowyer in the head three times, slit Forest Bowyer's throat, and dumped them both into a shallow...