Nine-year-old Rowan Ford was killed in November 2007. Her body was found in a cave in McDonald County, Missouri a week after she was reported missing from her Stella home. Rowan's step-father, David Spears, and his friend, Christopher Collings, are charged with the child's rape and murder. Prosecutors say the men killed Rowan to cover up her abduction and rape. Prosecutors filed information regarding circumstances that would allow a jury to recommend the death penalty...

His uncle opened his home to the young man but soon began having doubts about Chester. The uncle later told investigators that while traveling in Michigan he had observed his nephew, then 20, place his arm around his 13-year-old daughter. In the evenings back in Wisconsin, Chester and his cousins would open the windows and play cards in his bedroom. And it was there that as the frogs croaked one summer night, the girl complained of a pain in her stomach. Chester convinced her that ...

Noel Doorbal was convicted and sentenced for the kidnapping, extortion, and attempted murder of Marc Schiller, as well as the kidnapping and murders of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton.

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...

Tanya Jaime Nelson went to a fortune teller in California and when her fortune did not come true she would murder the woman and her daughter. According to court documents Nelson was in California and went to the fortune teller to find out if her business would succeed if she relocated her business from North Carolina to California so she did and the business failed so she wanted revenge.

Michael Rudkin worked as a security guard at a federal prison in Connecticut. His wife was a prison guard at the same facility. He began having affairs with several female inmates, one of whom he had a long-term relationship, and they plotted to murder his wife. He was arrested for having sexual relations with inmates and sentenced to ten years in a federal prison. While in prison, he solicited assistance from other inmates in locating a hit man to kill the inmate girlfriend, hi...

On September 22, 1993, Timothy L. Hoffner and Archie Dixon kidnapped and robbed Christopher Hammer, then drove Hammer to a remote area where they buried him alive in a shallow grave and left him to die. " Committed to the Fight for Human Rights " " Dedicated to the struggle for human rights "

Doyle's criminal record includes drug possession, prison breach with intent, escaping lawful custody, and property offenses, as well as convictions for second-degree murder and attempted murder.

A killer scalded his girlfriend’s four year-old daughter so badly police found lumps of what they believed to be her flesh in the drain. Brad Fields, 29, began to torture Gabby Barrett because she would not stop wetting herself, and would beat her up before making her sleep on a plastic garbage bag in a freezing trailer. Fields, who was convicted of Gabby’s murder, told his victim’s mother Candice Diaz on Facebook Messenger: ‘It’s going to hurt her real bad if she doesn’t fu...

"I Dee (Maraglino) do hereby give to Ivan (Perez) all my grudges and revenge from my birth till now. I release my anger and entrust justice into Ivan's hands. I accept Ivan will decide, design, and dispense the measure of retribution he deems appropriate to my enemies, tormenters, and violators.” Killgore died from prolonged ligature strangulation, and evidence that defendants engaged in breath play, rope play, choking, and prolonged strangulation was highly probative of their BD...

Shawna Forde was part of an underground network of people who wanted to stop people from illegally entering the country or at least that is what they told people. According to court documents Shawna Forde and Jason Bush would force their way into a home where they would murder a man and his nine year old daughter and attempted to murder the child’s mother. Of course police would learn that Shawna Forde and Jason Bush were actually looking for drugs and money. The pair would go to court ...

James Hutto was sentenced to death by the State of Mississippi for the murder of an elderly woman. According to court documents James Hutto would befriend the victim, eighty-one-year-old Ethel W. Simpson, and after going to a casino together the woman was murdered. James Hutto was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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 ...

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...

Anthony Balaam (born July 9, 1965), known as “The Trenton Strangler”, is an American serial killer who raped and murdered four prostitutes between 1994 and 1996 in Trenton, New Jersey, luring them with sex-for-drugs encounters. Anthony was captured after his would-be fifth victim escaped, and he was later given a life sentence in 2001 for his crimes.i Anthony, 30 at the time of his arrest, showed no remorse and “came off as a nice guy”, “a ‘Yes. Sir. No Sir’ kind o...

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

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...

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...