A sleepy Tennessee town awoke in January 2012
to the news of a horrifying double homicide. Billy Payne and Billie
Jean Hayworth, a young couple who lived together, were the victims.
They'd been beaten up and then shot in the face. Worst of all, when
their bodies were discovered, their 7-month-old baby son was
discovered in the room, covered in his mother's blood but otherwise
unharmed.
As
explored in Monsters: Jenelle
Potter – The Facebook Murder the
police investigations ...
Lisa Mitchell and Anthony Yonko were arrested after their
seven-year-old daughter died of severe starvation and potential
mistreatment. The girl was pronounced dead at Saint Anthony's Midwest
Hospital in Oklahoma, weighing 25 pounds, which was much lower than
the typical weight for her age. Both parents were charged with
first-degree murder, torture, maiming, and causing the death of a
child by injury. Medical examination found several black and dark
crimson discharges from the child's li...