Over a period of twelve days, two sex workers had been picked up from what were known as “the prostitute blocks” on  San Bernardo Avenue in the border city of Laredo, taken to remote areas northwest of the city, and shot in the head. After another potential victim made a daring escape from the killer’s white pickup truck, she led police to his house. Two more women would be shot and killed before he was apprehended. The man turned out to be a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor, Juan Dav...

John Yancey Schmitt, was an inmate executed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia on November 9, 2006. Schmitt was found guilty of the 1999 murder of Earl Shelton Dunning, 39. Schmitt, who was 25 years old when he committed the capital crime, was sentenced to death on February 18, 2000. Before his execution, Schmitt requested for his last meal cheese pizza, a cheese omelet with sausage, green peppers and onions, and white cake with white ic...

Ohio planned to execute Cedric Carter at 10 am local time on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Mansfield, Ohio. His execution had been rescheduled to August 27, 2025. Fifty-year-old Cedric is convicted of murdering 56-year-old Frances Messinger on April 6, 1992, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cedric has spent the last 30 years of his life on death row in Ohio.

In December 2010, the partial skeletal remains of Natalie and Chase were discovered in heavily wooded areas in Alabama and Mississippi, respectively. All that remained of Natalie were 68 bones and 3 teeth, and all that remained of Chase were 21 bones and 2 teeth. It was later determined that Natalie had died approximately nine months earlier in March 2010, when she was four years old, and that Chase had died approximately six months earlier in June 2010, when he was three years old. ...

Eric Patton killed Charlene Kauer in 1994 after he went to he door and asked for money. As Kauer went to get money, Patton forced his way inside the house and stabbed her several times with a barbecue fork and a pair of pinking shears. He was convicted in 1996. Patton previously was convicted in California on four counts of robbery, three counts of burglary and one count of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 10 years. He was transferred to Oklahoma under an interstate compact a...

Payne was indicted on February 6, 2013, on one count of production of child pornography, which carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years and a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison; one count of possession of child pornography, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison; one count of attempted enticement of a minor, which carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life; and one count of attempted travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct, which carries a...

Raghunandan Yandamuri was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murders of 10-month-old Saanvi Venna and her 61-year-old grandmother, Satyavathi Venna. According to court documents Raghunandan Yandamuri would fatally stab Satyavathi Venna before kidnapping Saanvi Venna which he would demand $50,000 from the family.

Jetseta Marrie Gage (August 25, 1994 – March 24, 2005) was an American child whose kidnapping, rape and murder prompted major changes in sentencing laws for those who commit child sex crimes in Iowa. Roger Bentley, a convicted sex offender and friend of Gage's family, was arrested in connection with 10-year-old Jetseta's death. He was convicted of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping on January 31, 2006. On February 24, he was sentenced to two consecutive mandatory sentenc...

HM Prison Frankland is a Category A men's prison located in the village of Brasside in County Durham, England. Frankland is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

Randy Greer (b. 1973 | age 50) was convicted in the armed robbery of the Almo Gun Shop in Bellaire, Ohio that killed Walter Chmiel in June 1991. Greer entered the store and used a semi-automatic gun to shoot Chmiel, the clerk, once in the head. A wrecker driver entered the store and was coerced by Greer into helping him steal weapons as he was removing firearms from the display racks. Greer threatened the wrecker driver's life and then left the store, but not before writing down the sus...

Saginaw, TX – Six-year-old Opal Jo Jennings squealed and giggled as she and two friends poked at an ant hill while playing in a vacant lot next to her grandparents’ house one March afternoon in 1999. The youngsters didn’t even notice the “purpledy-black” car until it stopped beside the yard. A man with long hair in a ponytail, short-sleeve T-shirt, dark pants, dark sneakers, and a red ball cap got out, said “hi” and grabbed Opal. He punched her in the chest, threw the cryi...

Chambers was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering Mike McMahon. Chambers and his companion abducted McMahon and his date Deia Sutton from a Dallas night club parking lot. The couple were driven to the Trinity River where they were robbed, then shot. The couple supposedly survived the initial attack, but McMahon was beaten to death when his abductors heard him call out for Deia. They gotta be dead. I shot 'em in the head.

I could have sworn she said she had a babysitter. I didn’t know her husband was home with the kids. During their search, Keene believed defendant was overly cooperative, pointing out places that the detectives had missed. Keene and Parga looked at defendant’s 4Runner, which was parked in the garage. It seemed very clean inside and out. Parga detected the smell of bleach in the garage. Uncle Dave [David] was in the room and he was being weird and it bothered me [J.N....

The couple was initially charged with homicide felony murder in August 2018. The video of their reaction to the charge subsequently went viral. In June 2020, Seth Welch was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In 2021, Fusari testified that her husband was abusive, and would rape and beat her. She stated that she was not permitted to take her daughter to a doctor, and blamed the abuse for not being able to provide care for Mar...

On March 5, 2001, a school shooting occurred at Santana High School in Santee, California. The gunman, 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams, opened fire with an eight-shot .22-caliber revolver, killing two students and wounding 13 others. Williams was then apprehended by responding police officers and convicted. He is currently serving 50 years to life in prison. If I could go back to that day, I would never have gotten out of bed.

Raymond Mata was sentenced to death by the State of Nebraska for the murder of a child. According to court documents Raymond Mata was upset that his girlfriend was pregnant by another man so he kidnapped the three year old child. Raymond Mata would return back to the home without the child denying he knew where he was. The child would be reported missing and later the police would find a package in Mata’s sister home that contained a crushed skull. Raymond Mata had murdered the child, d...

On October 12, 2011, a mass shooting occurred at the Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, California. Eight people inside the salon and one person in the parking lot were shot, and only one victim survived. It remains the deadliest mass killing in Orange County history. Scott Evans Dekraai, who was involved in a custody dispute with his ex-wife (one of the shooting victims), pleaded guilty to the shooting on May 2, 2014. On September 22, 2017, Dekraai was sentenced to eight ter...

Layton Lester Teen Killer Murders Guard Layton Lester was a fifteen-year-old teen killer from Georgia who was convicted of the murder of his great-aunt and of the murder of Correctional Officer Robert Clark. Layton Lester was convicted of malice murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of Lorrine Bozeman in 2007. He was sentenced to life in prison. As a convicted murderer, in 2023, he used a ‘homemade weapon’ to fatally attack a correctiona...

Clarance Rozell Goode, Jr., was charged, conjointly with Ronald Thompson and Kenneth Johnson, with three (3) counts of first degree murder and one (1) count of first degree burglary. Goode’s case was severed from his codefendants, and his trial commenced on December 3, 2007. The jury found Goode guilty on all four counts and assessed punishment at death on each of the three first degree murder convictions, after finding that both of the aggravating circumstances existed in each...

Timothy Jones Jr. (born December 28, 1981 | age 42) is an American murderer who killed his five children: Merah, Elias, Nahtahn, Gabriel, and Abigail Elaine, in their mobile home along South Lake Drive in Lexington County, South Carolina. Jones admitted to working Nahtahn to death and killed the other four children in a panic. Jones pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but the court rejected this plea. He was found guilty of five counts of murder in 2019 and was sentenced to death. A...