Four young children die in fire after drifter who had a grudge against their parents set home ablaze with a can of gasoline
A drifter has been charged with murder after four young children died when he set fire to their southern Illinois house as they slept, authorities say. Derrick Twardoski, 33, knew the children’s parents and family members say he was exercising a vendetta of some kind because the tires of the cars in the driveway were [...]
Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
The Port Arthur massacre of 28 April 1996 was a killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded, mainly at the historic Port Arthur prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, a suburb of Hobart, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentenceswithout possibility of parole. He is now imprisoned [...]
Tragedy as body of missing 18-month-old girl is found days after she was killed with mother and two men in raid on Kansas farm
A body recovered amid an intensive search is believed to be that of a missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men on a Kansas farm days ago, authorities said Sunday. Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said in a statement that remains recovered in eastern Kansas on Saturday are believed to [...]
Phish Murder-Suicide: Michael Marchines Allegedly Kills Nate Roman, Himself Over Concert Tickets
Two men in Washington, Pa., are dead after an apparent murder-suicide that authorities suspect was sparked by an argument over Phish concert tickets. Nate Roman, 30, was shot multiple times early Thursday morning after a fight with longtime friend Michael Marchines, 31, at a local bar. He later died at a local hospital. Investigators haven’t [...]
Richard Cobb Executed For Texas Store Abduction Slaying
A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago. Richard Cobb, 29, didn’t deny using a 20-gauge shotgun to kill Kenneth Vandever in an East Texas field where two women also were shot and one was [...]
Bank Crimes drove Steven Suppell to Familicide
Steven Sueppel was at the time charged with stealing $559,040 from Hills Bank and Trust Company of Hills, Iowa where he was a vice president, but had pled not guilty to embezzlement and money laundering on February 20, 2008. He was out on bond at the time of the murders with a trial date set for April. According to police, [...]
5 shot to death in Illinois home, suspect killed
Authorities in central Illinois have yet to identify the five people who are believed to have been shot to death in their home by a man who was later gunned down by police. The nephew of Manchester’s mayor shot to death two women, two boys and a man before leading police on a chase that [...]
‘I am the most sick and twisted person you will ever meet’: Murderer gives ‘insulting’ apology after killing a mother with a machete during a home invasion as the daughter who survived the attack looks on
A man convicted of hacking a woman to death with a machete and maiming her daughter during a home invasion said he doesn’t deserve forgiveness and told his lawyers not to argue for a reduced sentence. Steven Spader was a month shy of his 18th birthday when he orchestrated the home invasion in Mont Vernon, [...]
Robert Christian Hansen
Robert Christian Hansen (born February 15, 1939) is an American serial killer. Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen murdered between 17 and 21 women near Anchorage, Alaska. He was convicted in 1983 and is currently serving 461 years in Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska. Robert C. Hansen raped and assaulted over 30 Alaskan women. He is responsible for the murder of [...]
Westroads Mall shooting
The Westroads Mall shooting was a murder-suicide that occurred on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, at the Von Maur department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha,Nebraska, United States. Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins killed nine people (including himself) and wounded four, two of them critically. It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958. At approximately 1:43 p.m. CST (19:43 UTC), Robert Hawkins stepped out [...]
Music teacher busted for child porn also recorded sticking his fingers in students’ mouths as he locked them in classroom
A popular music teacher with a 27-year career, is under investigation for keeping child pornography on his computer, some of which includes disturbing pictures of his own students in their classrooms. Lawrence Joynes, 54, a teacher for 10 years at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland, was arrested in February after police traced emails between him [...]
Charles Whitman: The Texas Tower Sniper
Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an engineering student and former United States Marine, who killed seventeen people and wounded thirty-two others in a mass shooting rampage located in and around the Tower of the University of Texas in Austin on the afternoon of August 1, 1966. Three people were shot and killed inside the university’s tower and eleven others [...]
Terry Ratzmann
Terry Michael Ratzmann was an American mass murderer who killed seven members of the Living Church of God (LCG) before committing suicide at a Sheraton Hotel inBrookfield, Wisconsin in 2005. Ratzmann had left the Sheraton Hotel building 20 minutes earlier. He then returned carrying a 9mm Beretta handgun and fired 22 rounds into the Living Church of Godcongregation, killing the minister and six others including the minister’s son. Four others were wounded; one critically. [...]
Capitol Hill massacre
The Capitol Hill massacre was a mass murder committed by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff in the southeast part of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. On the morning of Saturday, March 25, 2006, Huff entered a rave afterparty and opened fire, killing six and wounding two. He then killed himself as he was being confronted by police on the front porch of 2112 E. Republican Street. [...]
Texas: Luby’s Massacre
The Luby’s massacre was a mass murder that took place on October 16, 1991, inKilleen, Texas, United States when George Hennard (born October 15, 1956) crashed his pickup truck through the front window of a Luby’s cafeteria, shot 50 people (killing 23), exchanged shots with responding police, and then hid in a bathroom and fatally shot himself. It was the deadliest shooting rampage in American history until the 2007 Virginia [...]
Oklahoma: Edmond Post Office Massacre
Patrick Henry Sherrill (November 13, 1941 – August 20, 1986) was a United States Postal Service employee who shot twenty co-workers in Edmond, Oklahoma, killing fourteen of them, before committing suicide. Sherrill’s attack was the third worst single-gunman mass murder in U.S. history at the time. It is credited with inspiring the American phrase “going postal”. Shortly after 7:00 a.m. [...]