Samantha Bevans, a woman from Palo, Iowa, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her stepmother, Jodie Bevans. The crime occurred in July 202¹. Samantha Bevans and her boyfriend, Tacoa Talley, were accused of suffocating Jodie Bevans. The prosecution argued that Samantha Bevans committed the murder as revenge for being kicked out of her house. A Snapchat video was presented during the trial, showing Bevans admitting to the killing. Despite the defense arguing that Talley...

Samantha Bevans, a woman from Palo, Iowa, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her stepmother, Jodie Bevans. The crime occurred in July 202¹. Samantha Bevans and her boyfriend, Tacoa Talley, were accused of suffocating Jodie Bevans. The prosecution argued that Samantha Bevans committed the murder as revenge for being kicked out of her house. A Snapchat video was presented during the trial, showing Bevans admitting to the killing. Despite the defense arguing that Talley...

James Ray Hart, 51, was arrested in connection with the death of Giselle Salazar-Tapia, a 30-year-old mother of four and Hart’s live-in girlfriend found hanging from a dock in League City. Police suspected a staged suicide. He was charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse. Detectives found Hart on his boat at the Wharf Marina and took him into custody without incident. His recommended bond is $80,000. It’s really weird tha...

I am not the monster that drugs made me be.Kristen Parker was a surgery “scrub” technician at Rose Medical Center in Denver and then at Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, where she assisted in surgical procedures. She had Hepatitis C while she worked at both facilities. Kristen stole a powerful narcotic drug, Fentanyl, from surgical patients. She would inject herself with a syringe containing the narcotic. She would then fill the same dirty syringe with saline and put it back on the...

Gabul Abdullah Ali arrives at the federal courthouse in Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. He is being tried on piracy and related charges for the April 1, 2010 attack on the USS Nicholas, a Norfolk-based frigate, off the coast of Africa. “I’m being judged on the basis of something I did not commit,” said Gabul Abdullah Ali.

Donna Roberts, from Youngstown, Ohio, was convicted in connection with the 2001 shooting of her former husband, Robert Fingerhut. She was given the death sentence and is currently the only woman to be on death row in Ohio. Her partner, Nathaniel "Nate" Jackson, an ex-convict, was also sentenced to death. I just didn't mean to do it, man.

Kiplyn Davis (July 1, 1979 – May 2, 1995) was a 15-year-old American high school student who disappeared from her high school campus in Spanish Fork, Utah. She is one of the featured children on the Polly Klaas Foundation website. In 2011, a classmate was convicted of manslaughter in the murder of Davis and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, the man refused to name his alleged accomplices or indicate where Davis's remains were supposedly concealed. Timmy Brent Olsen, who ...

On March 24, 2003, Drummond murdered three-month-old Jiyen Dent, Jr. at his home in Youngstown. Drummond incorrectly believed Jiyen's father was involved in the 1998 murder of one of Drummond's fellow gang members. Drummond, 25, and an accomplice, Wayne Gilliam, 21, drove to the Dent household. Drummond got out of the car and fired 11 shots from an AK-47 assault rifle into the house, fatally shooting Jiyen in the head. Drummond later confessed to his cell mate that he was the shooter. Gil...

On May 7, 2006, eight-year-old Savannah Smith disappeared from outside her home in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Joshua Davis, who resided near the Smith home, was identified as an individual with whom Savannah was last seen. Subsequently, Joshua Davis was questioned by Woonsocket Police the night of the disappearance and would later lead detectives to Savannah’s body in a wooded location in Cranston, Rhode Island. In addition, Joshua Davis confessed to driving Savannah from Woonsocket to...

Ammar Harris, the self-proclaimed pimp who murdered three strangers on the Las Vegas Strip, was sentenced to death on November 5, 2015. In February 2013, Harris shot and killed 27-year-old aspiring rapper Kenneth Cherry, Jr., believing him to be a man he had argued with earlier in the evening at the Haze nightclub in the Aria. Tragically, it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Harris’ Range Rover pulled up alongside Cherry’s Maserati in the early hours of the m...

Babysitter Laughs After Killing Baby & Taking Lifeless Body to McDonald's Pregnant mother-of-five Marissa Tietsort, 28, of Wausau, Wisconsin has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the death of a two-month-old She is said to have caused the baby's death, then dressed him in a snowsuit, put him in his car seat and let his mother pick him up without telling her he was dead Authorities said she passed the infant off to his mother as if he was sleep...

I’ve got God on my side, God’s guiding me. I just go by what God tells me. Jeffrey Hessler was convicted of first degree murder, kidnapping, first degree sexual assault on a child, and use of a firearm to commit a felony. Following Hessler's conviction for first degree murder, the jury found that three statutory aggravating circumstances existed. In its sentencing order, the sentencing panel accepted the jury's verdicts finding that three statutory aggravating circumstances e...

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 ...

Marsha's 16-year-old daughter, Calista, died in a house fire on February 27, 2008.  At the time of the fire, Calista was secured to her bed by a dog choke chain around her waist that was attached to the bed frame with zip ties. Autopsy photographs of Calista’s abdomen showed indentations caused by the chain. She restrained Calista in order to prevent Calista from harming herself and others. Calista was a child from hell and Marsha was a saint for taking care of her.

Teen who killed her father, hid his body in a shed and then moved her friends into his eight-bedroom house for drug-fueled parties gets 30 years in prison. Crystal Brooke Howell, 20, killed her father, Michael Howell, 50, in 2014. Howell was a former sports editor and writer for the Columbia County News-Times in North Carolina. She shot her father once point blank in the head while he was napping at their eight-bedroom cabin in a remote area of Sheepback Mountain. She dragged his body t...

Shelton Dewayne Jackson was sentenced to death in 1997 for the murder of a friend in Tulsa. According to the prosecutor, he killed her so she wouldn't report him for injuring her 2-year-old son. He had harmed the boy for crying and hidden him beneath a nearby vacant house. The boy was discovered, but he sustained permanent injuries. In 2016, the Supreme Court declined to hear his case.

2015 saw the guilty plea of Rebecca Lee Lloyd for tampering with physical evidence in the case of a woman who was killed by torture and beatings. She was one of five people accused of being involved in Victoria Annabeth Davis’s slaying. After entering a guilty plea in 2018, Lloyd was given a six-year probationary period. According to VINE, her Supervision Event Date is December 18, 2024 12:00 am CST. Our Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus Christ bless you always and forever. Wr...