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...

Charles Rhines admits to being gay and a sociopath. Donnivan Schaeffer came into the office of Dig 'Em Donuts, where Charlie, a former employee of the shop, was going through a desk looking for money. Charlie stabbed him several times with a hunting knife; after Charlie had inflicted the first couple of wounds, Donnivan begged to be taken to a hospital, but Charlie responded with sarcasm and then stabbed him in the neck and skull. Charlie attended Donnivans’ funeral – consolin...

A judge had harsh words and a long prison sentence for a woman convicted in the abuse and murder of her 4-year-old daughter. "You are a female breeder who neglected your child for the love of a bum named Brad," Judge Vonda Evans said in Court as she sentenced 25-year-old Candice Diaz to 30 to 60 years for the murder and abuse of Gabby Barrett. "You assisted this monster in the drowning of your beautiful, precious gift." Diaz's boyfriend, Brad Fields, was sentenced to life in prison for ...

With a shotgun and automatic rifle he had stolen from his stepfather the day before, Lionell Gonzales Rodriguez (hereinafter referred to as “Lionell”; February 1, 1971 – June 20, 2007) | age 36) joined his cousin, James Gonzales, in driving around town looking for a place to rob. At a stop light at an intersection in Houston, Lionell (who was in the passenger’s seat) noticed a young woman sitting alone at the wheel of a car next to them. Lionell aimed an M1 carbine rifle right...

Darrick C. Boroczk (hereinafter referred to as “Darrick”), a self-described “kingpin” of child pornography on the internet, created hundreds of sexually explicit images and videos involving two of his own children. Darrick pled guilty in 2009 to four counts of manufacturing and one count of possessing child pornography. After a daylong sentencing hearing, the district court imposed four 15-year sentences on the manufacturing counts and a 10-year sentence on the possession count, t...

Hedge fund manager and part owner of A&O Resources Management; convicted in 2011 of stealing $100 million from 800 victims by misrepresenting details about the company and concealing his prior criminal history; several co-conspirators were also sentenced to prison; the story was featured on the CNBC television program American Greed.

Abdulrahman El bahnasawy is a severely mentally ill Canadian citizen who was likely entrapped, arrested and convicted in 2016 of terrorism-related offenses. According to prosecutors, El Bahnasawy plotted via online chat to carry out an attack on Times Square and the subway system in New York City. In December 2018, El bahnasawy was sentenced to 40 years in a US federal prison. There are many calls from experts and human right activists for his transfer to a Canadian prison to get the psyc...

Shocking moment armed robber throws his FECES at attorney when he is sentenced to 40 years behind bars Ricky Hand, 53, carried out string of robberies in Springfield, Ohio As judge sentenced him, Hand said: '40 years? Well, guess what...' Hand pulled out bottles of his own excrement and urine hidden in arm sling Robber now faces five more counts of harassment with bodily substance Did you just give me 40 years, sir? You just gave me 40 years…? Well, guess what?

On February 17, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to a residence where they found an unresponsive two-year-old child who subsequently died. Evidence of abuse led to the arrest and conviction of Lucio, the child’s mother. Melissa Elizabeth Lucio is the first woman of Hispanic descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages...

Jason Demetrius Stephens was sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder of a three year old boy. According to court documents Jason Stephens and a number of accomplices would enter a home and soon it turned into a robbery. After all of the hostages were contained Jason Stephens and his accomplices would rob the home along with the three year old boy. Jason Stephens would strangle the three year old boy Robert Sparrow III causing his death. Jason Stephens would be arrested, ...