Mass Murderer: Ronald Gene Simmons
Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr., (July 15, 1940 – June 25, 1990) was a retired United States Air Force master sergeant who killed 16 people over a week long period in 1987. Fourteen of the victims were members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her. He also wounded four others. [...]
White Previledge: Newport Beach white man accused of killing wife is out on bail
A man accused of killing his wife at their Newport Coast home and leaving her body on the U.S. side of the Mexican border was released from jail Wednesday, court records show. Peter Gregory Chadwick, 48, who is charged with murder, posted bail and was released from jail at 1:47 a.m., jail records show. One [...]
Woman sentenced to 30 years for killing her two-year-old stepson by dropping him twice on concrete floor because he wouldn’t stop crying
An Indiana woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for causing the death of her two-year-old stepson by intentionally dropping him in a fit of rage. Autumn Dunn, 30, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of felony neglect and lying to paramedics after initially facing a murder count for her role [...]
‘I heard three whacks’: Boy, 13, describes horrific moment he heard father ‘beat stepmother to death with a baseball bat’
A teenage boy has described the sickening moment he heard his father beat his stepmother to death with a baseball bat. Lawson Dickey, 13, told a jury on Tuesday that his father woke him to say that his biological mother was an ‘angel’ and she would take care of him. He then saw his father [...]
Valedictorian, 22, found guilty of bludgeoning and stabbing his mentally unstable mother to death at their home
A valedictorian and star student at the University of Michigan has been convicted of bludgeoning and stabbing his mentally unstable mother to death in their home. Jeffrey Pyne, 22, had been charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the death of Ruth Pyne in May 2011, but after two days of deliberation, the jury convicted him of the lesser offense [...]
Horror as elementary school music teacher ‘shoots and kills ex-wife in middle of Sunday church service’
An elementary school music teacher walked into a church in the middle of Sunday services and shot and killed his ex-wife as she was playing the organ, according to police in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. Gregory Eldred, 52, has been charged with first-degree murder and accused of twice shooting Darlene Sitler, 53, at the First United Presbyterian [...]
Mother who told 911 her two children were ‘in heaven’ is jailed for life after murdering them in their beds to get back at husband who filed for divorce
A Colorado mother has been convicted of murdering her two young children because she was distraught over her impending divorce. Kelli Murphy, 42, of Castle Rock, was sentenced to two terms of life without parole as family members wept in the courthouse for six-year-old, Madigan, and nine-year-old, Liam, who she smothered to death in May [...]
Husband jailed for four life terms for executing his wife and three kids during trip to waterpark – so he could start new life in Canada
A man who executed his wife and three young children in their SUV will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of their brutal murders. Christopher Vaughn, 37, was sentenced on Tuesday to four consecutive life terms for killing his wife Kimberly, 34, and children Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11 and eight-year-old Blake. [...]
Cross-dressing husband ‘dismembered wife and cooked her body parts in pans on the stove after stuffing her severed head in the freezer’
A 68-year-old California man accused of killing and dismembering his wife was cooking her flesh and bones at the time police officers came to arrest him, according to officials. Police said they responded to neighbors’ complaints about a foul odor coming from the home of Frederick Hengl and his wife, 73-year-old Anna Faris, in Oceanside [...]
Marriage counselor murders ex-wife, her sister and then kills their aunt, 88, at her nursing home… before taking his own life
A marriage counselor murdered his ex-wife and her sister and then drove to her 88-year-old aunt’s nursing home, where he shot her to death as well, on Monday. Colin McGrattan, 45, then killed himself in the elderly woman’s room at the O’Connor Woods Senior Living center in Stockton, California. Police identified the victims as [...]
Man who shot wife and daughter scapes the death penalty
TACOMA, Wash. — A man who murdered his wife and 11-year-old daughter will spend the rest of his life in prison, but will not face the death penalty, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Dean Holmes pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated first degree murder last week, leaving a judge the only choice of sentencing Holmes [...]
Mother ‘killed her daughter, two, with Oxycodone mixed in bag of candy’
A Colorado woman whose two-year-old daughter died from an overdose of Oxycodone before police found drugs mixed with candy in her home has pleaded guilty to charges of child abuse. In a courtroom outside Boulder on Thursday Erin Maison-Everhart, 32, wiped away tears while entering her plea to a reduced charge of negligent child abuse [...]
Father ‘stabbed his children 29 times before killing wife and three others because his marriage was falling apart’
A builder slaughtered six people, including his wife and their two children, in a frenzied knife attack after discovering she was having an affair, a court heard yesterday. During a family barbecue, Damian Rzeszowski grabbed two 12-inch kitchen knives and attacked his father-in-law Marek Garstka, 56, while he was watching TV in his bedroom. Rzeszowski, [...]
Grandma and son kills her 3 grandkids in murder suicide because of custody issue
A Toledo woman and her son allegedly conspired to kill themselves and three young children — her grandchildren and his nieces and nephew — in order to prevent the children’s parents from regaining custody, police theorized on Monday. Police found the five family members — Sandy Ford, 56; Andy Ford, 32; Paige Hayes, 10; Logan [...]
Mother ‘starved two-month-old son to death until he was mere skin and bones and living in a house unfit for human habitation’
A mother has been charged with murder and neglect after her two-month-old son was found starved to death on top of a dresser drawer in a house that was deemed ‘deplorable’ and ‘unfit for human habitation’. Bambi Glazebrook, 29, from Indianapolis, appeared in court this morning where she pled not guilty to the death of [...]
Spiritual leader husband ‘ordered follower to kill his wife and make it look like a suicide after they raped her multiple times and had sex with each other’
The Bible student who confessed to killing a spiritual leader’s wife told police he was acting under the orders of her husband, who told him to make it look like a suicide. The body of Bethany Deaton, 27, from Kansas City, was found in a van on October 30 with a bag over her head, [...]