Houston Wade Young, a convicted sexual predator, was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole for sexual exploitation of a juvenile. He was discovered with a cell phone carrying child pornography photographs that his wife, Jessica Ann Young, had emailed him. Houston Young was found to have sexually abused a seven-year-old child, John Doe 1, and videotaped the crime. He also interacted with a third victim, Jane Doe, whom he met in an online gaming chat room. Jessica Young, the co...

 Verity Beck, a 45-year-old woman from Abington, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders of her parents, Reid and Miriam Beck. The investigation began on January 17, 2023, when her brother discovered them dead after not hearing from them for more than a week. Beck murdered her parents due to financial issues and suspicions of stealing from them. She dismembered their bodies with a chainsaw before surrendering without resistance. Beck was first ...

Gregory Edward McLean, a former naval officer, was indicted in September 2021. He served as the executive officer of the pre-commissioned littoral combat ship Minneapolis-St. Paul until late 2021. McLean pleaded guilty to distributing videos depicting the sexual assault of children and unlawful retention of classified national defense information. He was found to have shared child sexual abuse material and retained national defense information pertaining to foreign combat aircraft ...

Lester “Justice” Ford, a convicted serial murderer and serial rapist, was responsible for the gruesome killings of three women in Queens in 1991. Ford's unlawful actions resulted in his arrest and conviction, with a life sentence. He grew up in a household of five siblings and was involved in several legal troubles. Ford's criminal career started with the killings of Sheilda Dixon and Tracy Covington, and he also committed multiple sexual assaults. A victim of his rape positively iden...

Donovan Scott Sheppard, a 39-year-old youth baseball coach with the Oklahoma Aftermath organization, has been accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. The victim's mother spotted Sheppard raping her daughter when he returned home after a bar fight. Sheppard admitted to being HIV-positive and that he did not use protection during the assault. He has been charged with several crimes, including first-degree rape and rape by instruments. The victim described earlier assaults, includ...

Aaron Aldrich is facing significant accusations for a double murder in Poland, Maine, in February 2023. The case concerns two victims, Shoeb Mohamed Adan and Mohamed Aden, who were engaged in drug-related operations. Aldrich was detained for reportedly carrying a gun and attempting to flee arrest. Prosecutors characterized the case as one of greed for drug money, while Aldrich's defense claimed that his actions were motivated by fear for his own life. Witness testimony focuses on the back...

Charles “Bobo” Rowland is a convicted murderer. He was found guilty of killing Fred and Peggy White during a burglary of their home. The couple was found shot to death a quarter mile from their Twiggs County, Georgia property. Rowland was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Since his arrest, Rowland has implicated himself in at least nine other murders across the state of Georgia. He started admitting to other murders in Georgia during 20 hours of ...

Sean Finnegan, a 56-year-old man from Clinton, Tennessee, was convicted of Jennifer Paxton's violent rape and murder in December 2019. Finnegan and his girlfriend Rebecca Dishman duped Paxton into visiting their home, where she was subjected to extreme physical assault, including being attacked with a baseball bat and then raped. The couple bound Paxton to a bed before strangling her to death. Paxton's body was recovered on August 5, 2020, after authorities began an investigation into her...

John Russell Bellhouse is a former federal correctional officer who was found guilty of sexually abusing inmates at a women's prison in California. Bellhouse was convicted on two counts of sexual abuse and three counts of abusive sexual contact involving two women between 2019 and 2020 at FCI Dublin, a federal correctional institution located about 20 miles east of Oakland. He was sentenced to five years and three months in prison. The case against Bellhouse was part of a larger investiga...

Ronnie L. Oliver, 44, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was involved in a carjacking incident that took place in Monroe, Michigan. The incident began at the Highlander Market where two men, including Oliver, allegedly robbed the market and then carjacked a vehicle. The suspects also reportedly fired a shot at a witness and shot both occupants of the carjacked vehicle before fleeing. One of the victims, Michael Ronald Beck Jr., died from his injuries. The suspects were later located at a rest...