Melvin L. Knight (b. October 27, 1989) was one of six Greensburg (G6) roommates who were convicted in connection with the torture and murder of 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty. The Mt. Pleasant, PA woman was held captive for more than two days in their apartment, where police said she was beaten, tortured, and stabbed to death. Her body was tied with Christmas lights and garland, stuffed into a trash bin and discarded under a truck in a snow-covered parking lot.According to her relatives, Jenny ...

"No! It's not even conceivable. Not him," said Victoria Law-Thomson, Warner's mother. Matthew Warner killed his daughter in their home Jan. 23, 2015 while the child's mother was at work. Matthew Warner said the newborn had been kidnapped, and a search began for Ellorah Warner. He later led authorities to the infant's body, which he had hidden in the cab of his truck in a nearby parking lot. Authorities charged 30-year-old Matthew for a long list of disturbing acts, which includes...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom, who was convicted of killing a woman during a home invasion in 2005 in Blaine County.  The Justices, without comment, upheld Grissom's conviction. Grissom, 50, has now exhausted his appeals and becomes the 20th Oklahoma death row inmate eligible for an execution date when the state of Oklahoma resumed executions. The state has not carried out an execution since 2015. It abandoned lethal inject...

Hadden Irving Clark (born July 31, 1952) is an American veteran, murderer and suspected serial killer, currently serving two 30-year sentences at Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Maryland for the murders of 6-year-old Michelle Dorr in 1986, and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling in 1992. He was also given a 10-year sentence for robbery after stealing from a former landlord.1 “I like my ladies’ clothing,” he once told his mother. “Don’t try and change me.” “I ...

Sex offender booted from Cambodia headed for Oregon (2006) A convicted sex offender who fled Oregon to south Asia and was expelled from Cambodia headed back to Jackson Cty, OR to face charges of failure to register, sodomy and sex abuse. Terry Darrel Smith (b. Nov 27, 1951 | age 72; hereinafter referred to as “Terry”), and a girlfriend were arrested in September after police accused him of having sex with two girls, ages 13 and 14, in the bedroom of a bar, “Tramp’s Plac...

Brandon Teena, born Teena Renae Brandon, (b. December 12, 1972, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. - d. December 31, 1993, Humboldt, Nebraska), biologically female individual who lived his life as a male and was murdered by two former friends, John L. Lotter and Thomas M. Nissen, after they discovered his biological sex. Teena and his story have been at the center of academic and public debates concerning gender and sexuality rights. While it is unclear whether Teena identified as transgender, trans...

The 2010 Portland car bomb plot involved an incident in which Mohamed Osman Mohamud (b. 1991), a Somali-American student, was arrested in an FBI sting operation on November 26, 2010, after attempting to set off what he thought was a car bomb at a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, OR. He was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction – 1,800-pound bomb. To my parents who held me back from Jihad in the cause of Allah. I say to them ... if you – if you ma...

Gordon Franklin (b. May 22, 1966 | age 56) was found guilty of fatally striking his daughter, Danielle, with a golf club as she slept. The first strike was enough to kill her, according to the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office, but he hit her multiple times. Glisson, a first responder, calls the crime unfathomable: I don’t think there’s any amount of worldly justice that is good enough for that guy. He deserves a whole lot more … and about 100 times more after that...

In Jackson, Mississippi, in the early morning hours of June 26, 2011, a 47-year-old African-American man – James Craig Anderson – was severely beaten and then intentionally run over with a pickup truck in an unprovoked attack by a group of white teenagers from nearby suburbs. Some of the teens yelled racial epithets during this horrific incident, a random act of hate crime violence that resulted in Anderson’s death. After leaving the scene, Deryl Dedmon boasted about beating ...

The Ohio Supreme Court has set an execution date for a former Struthers, OH man who has been on Death Row for twenty years after being convicted of a deadly shooting at a Youngstown bar. The justices on issued an order setting January 10, 2024 as the day 54-year-old Scott Group will be put to death for the shooting death of Robert Lozier and wounding Lozier's wife Sandra at their Downtown Bar. Group was a delivery man for a local wine company when authorities say the shot couple as they w...

Elijah Page and two other young men were convicted of killing Chester Poage, a 19 year old “friend”, near the town of Spearfish in the rural west of South Dakota. Poage was kidnapped at gunpoint, then tortured for almost 3 hours before his death. He was forced to drink acid, repeatedly kicked and beaten, stabbed in the head and torso, and forced to remove his clothing in an icy creek. His body was not found until a month later. Upon his arrest in Texas, Page admitted his involvement i...

Slain teens will be “haunting you” a family member tells him. After a jury sentenced Paul Devoe to death, the mother of one of his victims – 17-year-old Danielle Hensley – took the witness stand in a Travis County courtroom and told Devoe it would be nice to know if he cared what she and other victims' family members had to say. "Do you care?" Christina Gribble asked Devoe. Devoe did not react. It could have been the anti-psychotic medication he is taking. Or perhaps ...

You have every right to hate me, every right to want me dead and every right to never forgive me. I take full responsibility for your daughter’s death. But her death was not the worst part, what I did after she was dead was unexcusable, sick, and disgusting. I hate myself for what I did. I am in terrible pain every day because your daughter is dead by my actions. She should still be with you. All I can say is I'm sorry. The words are small but they are so sincere. Sincerely, Craig G...

Cory Deonn Morris (born May 10, 1978), known as “The Crackhead Killer”, is an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile who killed at least five prostitutes at his trailer in Phoenix, Arizona between a period of eight months from September 2002 to April 2003. Morris was convicted of all 5 murders, resulting in a death sentence. Morris kept the bodies after they began to decompose because he enjoyed the odor of decomposition.

Paul Warner Powell (April 13, 1978 – March 18, 2010 | age 31) was an American man convicted and executed for the murder of his friend Stacie Reed, 16, in 1999. He also raped, strangled, and stabbed the girl's sister Kristie, 14, who survived. Following the vacature of his capital murder conviction upon appeal, he wrote letters boasting about his crimes under the mistaken belief that he was exempt from punishment by the principle of double jeopardy. His letters were used as evidence ag...

A man who took nude photos of a toddler he was babysitting was sentenced to 21 years and eight months in federal prison. Rocky Sonkowsky will remain on supervised release for the rest of his life. Sonkowsky was convicted of producing child pornography. Sonkowsky pleaded guilty to the fact he "knowingly employed and used a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct," the plea agreement states. According to the criminal compl...

Monique Maestas was sixteen years old when she and her brother Beau Maestas murdered a three year old girl and paralyzed her ten year old sister. According to court documents Monique Maestas and her brother were upset that the dope they bought from the murdered girls mother was fake. They went looking for the drug dealer but found her children instead. This teen killer was sentenced to forty seven years to life while her brother Beau Maestas was given a death sentence. … slaughte...

Eight-year-old Jessica Rae Delatorre was described as a happy girl who loved to play with her brothers, draw and watch Full House on TV. On April 9, 2005 Jessica and her brothers, ages 4 and 11, were spending the night at their grandmother's house in South Dakota when she disappeared in the night. Sioux Falls police arrested the grandmother's live-in boyfriend on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree rape and kidnapping. Evidence suggested that while Delatorre's brothers ...

His IQ plummeted from average into the range of intellectual disability. At age 29, while in federal prison serving a life sentence for kidnapping and carjacking, Coonce and his codefendant, Charles Michael Hall, attacked and killed Victor Castro Rodriguez, another prisoner. Facing the death penalty, he argued that his execution would violate the Eighth Amendment be-cause he has an intellectual disability. The District Court denied Coonce's claim without a hearing, the jury sentenc...

Gregory Lott was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for a brutal murder. According to court documents, Gregory Lott would tie up the victim, 82 year old John McGrath, douse him with lamp oil and set him on fire. Gregory Lott would steal a number of possessions from the home, including the victim’s car. The victim would be found alive, but he would die from his injuries later on. Gregory Lott would be arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death.