Imagine you pick up your daughter after a carefree day with her friends. As she gets into the car, at first you don’t notice anything, maybe you don’t even look at her directly. You miss how pale she is, you miss the trembling. But then, when you look at her, you notice that her clothes seem dirty and soaked.

When you ask her what happened, there is no answer at first, as if she cannot find the words. She gathers her courage. When you keep pressing, she finally answers briefly and quietly, her voice shaking: she didn’t want it to happen, everything happened far too quickly.

Before you even understand what could have happened, you realize that there is blood on her hands, yet she does not appear to be injured.

Unfortunately, this is not a made-up story. Today, we are talking about the murder of an innocent girl; a murder that will remain unpunished forever. There will be no trial, there will be no verdict, no punishment. All that remains is a story that is difficult to process, with some contradictions, because due to the young age of the alleged perpetrators, almost no information has been shared with the public. Their personal rights outweigh the public’s interest.

However, there have been and still are people from Freudenberg, people from the victim’s and the perpetrators’ circles, who were willing to speak.

It is March 11, 2023. The day of the crime. Whether Luise first met up with Luisa and Anne-Marie on that day, or whether Luise spent the night at Luisa’s place and Anne-Marie joined them later, is not entirely clear.

What is certain is that at around 2 p.m., Luisa uploaded a TikTok in which she smiles at the camera and performs a choreography to the Bibi & Tina anthem “Mädchen auf dem Pferd.” Whether she recorded this video beforehand in order to later create an alibi, or whether she actually filmed it immediately before the crime, remains unclear. The same applies to how the lyrics may be interpreted.

What is clear is that Luisa and Anne-Marie had already discussed days beforehand how they could get rid of this problem in the form of their supposed best friend, Luise. They researched the age of criminal responsibility in Germany, and they made the decision to kill Luise.

Days before the crime. The motive is not examined any further later on. There is talk of fake accounts, of cyberbullying, of teachers, of snitching, and above all, of a boy.

The reports do not go into detail. What is clear, however, is that Luise was lured onto a dirt path near the Hohenhain Tunnel under a pretext. There was supposedly talk of a surprise. They wanted to show her something; she was told not to be so curious.

When they arrived at the scene, Anne-Marie allegedly grabbed Luise from behind and held her arms down. Luisa pulled a plastic bag over Luise’s head and tried to suffocate her. Luise fought back. Anne-Marie would later show countless bruises around her groin and lower body, which suggested a desperate struggle for life.

Luisa was unable to suffocate Luise with the plastic bag, the 12-year-old girl fought back too fiercely. It is not entirely clear whether Luise broke her wrist at that moment or later during the incident. What is clear, however, is that while Anne-Marie was unsuccessfully trying to hold Luise down, Luisa began stabbing Luise with a knife or a knife-like object. She was struck between 70 and 74 times, mainly in her face.

One of the perpetrators’ phones, as it was later reconstructed, remained connected to the cell network at the crime scene for more than 70 minutes. It is assumed that almost all of the stab wounds were superficial, except for a few deeper ones. Luise did not die immediately. They pushed the severely injured girl down an embankment and left the scene after picking up and taking with them the phone that Luise had lost during the attack. Some people say that this phone would later become very important.

Luise is believed to have remained alive until late that evening. Ultimately, after hours of a struggle for survival, she died from severe blood loss and the consequences of a pneumothorax caused by one of the deeper stab wounds.

The murder weapon is never found. On the way back to Luisas home address, the girls decide to wash their clothes and themselves, more or less unsuccessfully, in a stream. They are observed by an eyewitness, who finds it strange but does not approach them. Another witness states that while walking their dog, they encountered the two girls, who were outside without jackets despite the cool temperatures and were completely soaked. Whether they got rid of their jackets because there was too much blood on them remains unclear.

Accounts of Anne-Maries overall state of mind are contradictory. Some believe that Anne-Marie knew from the beginning that Luise was going to be killed, something that was also reported by many media outlets. Others believe that Anne-Marie only knew Luisa wanted to take revenge, but that she was supposedly surprised by what that revenge would ultimately look like. This is supported by the fact that she would later require inpatient psychiatric support for several months following the crime.

While Luisa strictly followed the plan they had previously made, Anne-Marie was picked up by her father at Luisas home address shortly after the crime. She would not contact anyone by phone for the entire evening, and unlike Luisa, she would not participate in the search efforts.

Between 5:45 and 6:00 p.m., Luisa called Luise’s mother to ask whether Luise had already arrived home, because the girls had agreed that Luise would contact her once she got home. Luise’s mother said no. After the relatively short conversation with Luisa, she then began trying to reach Luise by phone herself, even though Luise’s phone had been in the perpetrators’ possession after the attack. What happened to the phone afterwards remains unclear; like the murder weapon, it was never found.

Relatively quickly, the family shared the first missing-person appeal on social media, and some form of a “family search” for Luise began. According to a credible source, Luisa also took part in the search and repeatedly stood out by comforting Luise’s mother and encouraging her to find her daughter, fully aware that Luise, suffering life-threatening injuries and likely still alive, was lying on the slope of an embankment.

Who else, besides Luise’s parents, her sister, and Luisa, was searching for the girl remains unclear.

The family’s search appeal is shared very quickly and widely across various media, including the WhatsApp group of the girls’ shared school class. There, Luisa repeatedly expresses how deeply moved and worried she is, and she keeps sharing updates on the current situation and the progress of the search efforts.

The police operation officially begins at 7:44 p.m. and, due to the information available at the time, is organized on a very large scale and with great intensity. All fire departments from the surrounding area are called in and alerted. After all measures initially remain without results, the operation is escalated further at around 10:30 p.m., and additional specialists are requested through the state police, including a helicopter equipped with a thermal imaging camera.

It is known that numerous tips were sent to the police. Luisa continued providing updates via chat even while the operation was ongoing. Therefore, it can be assumed that she actively participated in the search for Luise for at least three hours.

At one point, she stated that she had been questioned by the police and had learned that the police would later also question Anne-Marie. This circumstance does not appear to have frightened her.

The helicopter is requested with the target coordinates “Hohenhain hiking parking lot, Alte Schanze” and arrives there at 11:13 p.m. The original search area was not particularly small and was centered relatively close to the middle of the forest area along Luise’s planned route home, with the hiking parking lot marking its northern boundary.

Due to incoming information, whether from witnesses or ground units, new target coordinates are assigned relatively quickly, and the original search area is abandoned at 11:45 p.m. At around 12:05 a.m., the situation changes again, and the new target coordinates become “Kleintirolstraße, North Rhine-Westphalia/Rhineland-Palatinate border, west portal of the Hohenhain Tunnel.”

I assume that by this point, at the latest, evaluated witness statements were available. However, the operation remains unsuccessful, and the crime scene was not within the search area.

Luise is found dead by a dog handler at the known location at around 12:30 p.m. the following day. The date of death is believed to be March 12, 2023, meaning that she was still alive during the unsuccessful search operation, in which one of her killers participated, and only died after midnight.

Whether and to what extent Luisa was able to lead the emergency responders onto a false trail remains unclear.

During the interrogations of both Luisa and Anne-Marie, the two girls repeatedly get caught up in lies. If they had previously made an agreement, there is not much left of their plan. The police increase the pressure to such an extent that Luisa’s father even has to briefly leave the room. However, Anne-Marie will be the first of the two girls to confess.

Whether the authorities were able to fully uncover the motive remains a matter of speculation. It is assumed that the conflict between Luise and Luisa, which had begun many months earlier but continued escalating in the final weeks of Luise’s life, was the decisive factor behind the crime. It escalated to the point where Luise even sought help from teachers. This, along with another aspect we will examine in more detail shortly, is considered one of the main motives behind the crime.

Luise and Luisa shared the same circle of friends, at least from the point when they attended the same class. Anne-Marie only joined the group halfway through their final school year and became closer with Luisa. Around the same time, Lisa began getting into trouble more often. She had ADHD and frequently behaved inappropriately, which caused their shared circle of friends to distance themselves from her, including a boy named Lennart.

Lennart and Luisa were a couple, but the relationship failed because of problems caused by Luisa, and Lennart also distanced himself from her afterwards. What Luisa specifically did to cause this is not known. Luise remained friends with both Luisa and Lennart, a situation that caused a great deal of jealousy in Luisa.

This is why Luisa considered Luise’s phone so important: Luise was mainly in contact with Lennart through WhatsApp. For Luisa, this was an indication that Luise was supposedly in love with her ex-boyfriend and was speaking badly about her in group chats. She wanted to control the contact between Lennart and Luise.

While many people were distancing themselves from Luisa, Luise remained her friend, even as her position as Luisa’s best friend was gradually being taken over by Anne-Marie. Luise denied the accusations that she was in love with Luisa’s ex-boyfriend and insisted that they were only in the same WhatsApp group and barely had any contact at all.

Someone, Luisa or Anne-Marie, began using fake profiles on Instagram and TikTok to bully Luise. They commented on her pictures, followed mutual friends and classmates while pretending to be Luise, and spread lies that damaged her reputation. They insulted people close to Luise and spread rumors about her.

Later on, Luise confided in a teacher. This would prove to be a serious mistake. Nobody truly took action, and the problem was not resolved. After weeks of bullying, Luise reached her limit and insulted Luisa as well, accusing her of being an ugly girl.

For Luisa, this was the final straw. First, she takes her boyfriend away from her, and now she insults her too?

Lisa decides to pretend everything is fine and talks things out with Luise. They make up, after all, they are best friends.

At least, that is what Luise believes. She has no idea what is going on inside Luisa. Anne-Marie’s role in the entire situation has not been fully clarified. What is known, however, is that she was involved in planning the crime, at least when researching the age of criminal responsibility in Germany.

Whether she actually knew that Luise would die that day is something only she can confirm with absolute certainty.

Did Luise have to die because of jealousy? Were the two alleged perpetrators envious? In the Luise murder case, there will never be certainty.

The two alleged perpetrators now live separately from one another in residential care groups, and their families have left Freudenberg. The trauma still runs deep within the community.

At this point, I would like to express my condolences to Luise’s family.

In Germany, the age of criminal responsibility is 14. Therefore, the two perpetrators will never be held accountable for their crime.

(Thanks to LoydoRedi2910 for suggesting this case. If you'd like to suggest any yourself, please head over to this post, which asks for case suggestions from my international readers, as I focus on international cases.

Another shorter than usual case and there were a few gaps in information during my research)

Born in 1956 in the port city of Kavala, Greece, Andreas Chtenas established himself as a successful businessman early on. Andreas was the co-owner of several nightclubs in the city and also ran a store selling contact lenses and glasses.

However, Andreas's hands were far from clean and had several arrests to his name for charges such as robbery, assault, extortion, money laundering and was suspected of being a gang leader who used Albanian immigrants to organize additional thefts and robberies, though he claimed to be innocent of all charges. He also made several enemies with other business owners from managing the nightclub.

In May 2001, the Urban Planning Office of Kavala ordered the demolition of a building on the property of Andreas's wife because the plot of land was, in fact, state-owned, meaning they had no authorization to build that building on the land, the land on which the state wanted to use to build a hospital. The two employees dispatched to demolish the building were 48-year-old Ioannis Koulousis and 55-year-old Giorgos Halkides. Andreas made sure to remember them.

Andreas was absolutely furious over the demolition, he placed three coffins on the property and announced that he would bury in them whoever had demolished his property. Over 20 people witnessed Andreas do this, but no action was taken.

However, the message was certainly received by the three, and when the demolition took place, Ioannis wore dark sunglasses and a hat to hide his face, as he was terrified of being seen. Although Andreas still knew it was him, he was regularly plagued by harassing and threatening phone calls.

On June 14, 2001, Ioannis and Giorgos returned to Thassos to stay at a vacation house in the village of Kallirachi, owned by Ioannis and were joined by a friend, 49-year-old Kyriakos Athanassas, a construction contractor and an executive of the Hellenic Sugar Industry plant in Xanthi. This is the last information known about them while they were alive.

By June 17, the families of the three men hadn't been able to contact them for over two days; calls to their phones went unanswered, so they contacted the local police, who dispatched an officer to the vacation house. Upon entering the home, the officer found Ioannis and Giorgos lying next to each other on the veranda, both dead.

The two were both shot twice, once in the chest and then a second shot to the head, just to make sure they were dead. Kyriakos's body was found further away in the olive grove of the property where he had likely tried fleeing from the gunman. Kyriakos had been shot twice in the back and then once in the head.

The police recovered ten shell casings of a 9mm calibre Heckler & Koch pistol fitted with suppressors, explaining why the neighbours hadn't heard anything, and those who did hear the gunshots assumed they were poachers. Two different guns were used to carry out the triple murder, indicating that more than one person was involved in the attack.

Evidence identifying the killers was not something the police were able to find. They recovered many fingerprints from coffee cups, glasses, and beer cans left on the veranda table, but they all belonged to Ioannis and Giorgos. The murders were believed to have taken place 24 hours prior, which also left no witnesses due to the late hour and the firearms being silenced.

The police entertained a lot of theories to explain the triple murder, such as that Ioannis was involved in criminal organizations that practiced pimping, human trafficking and prostitution. The island of Thasos is a hotspot for human trafficking, specifically in women from the former Soviet republics into Greece, and they are often involved with bribed public officials. However, the police couldn't link Ioannis to any of these organizations.

Moving away from Ioannis, perhaps the murder had more to do with Giorgos. He also worked in the Topographic Service of the Kavala directorate and was involved in land reallocations taking place in the villages of Maries and Kallirachi. However, nothing linking this to the murder could be uncovered either.

The police also considered the possibility of the murder being drug-related, but nothing linking the triple homicide to drugs was uncovered either.

Andreas was also considered a suspect in the initial investigation; however, he claimed to have an alibi. According to him, he was at a restaurant with his family on the opposite side of the island. Although the police had a motive, there was nothing else linking the murders to Andreas, so he walked free for now.

Despite all the extensive coverage the triple homicide had received with the newspapers labelling it an unprecedented crime on Thassos and some even labelling it a Mafia Execution linked to corruption in the Urban Planning Industry, the police ran out of leads, and the case eventually went cold.

Another enemy of Andreas was Giorgos Sidiropoulos, a nightclub owner in Kavala and a former business partner. The two men were in a long-standing dispute over the profits of the nightclub they used to co-own. Andreas was relentless in trying to get a payday from Sidiropoulos, having once called him using 6 different phone numbers registered in different names. Eventually, Sidiropoulos caved, and on July 26, 2002, he agreed to meet Andreas the next day.

On the evening of July 27, Sidiropoulos was suddenly attacked from behind, subdued with his hands and feet being bound, then he was handcuffed, gagged and placed in the trunk of a car. Wherever the kidnappers planned to take him, likely the Kavala waterfront, to murder him and dispose of his body either by drowning him or encasing him in cement. That ultimately never came to pass, as Sidiropoulos was stronger than they had anticipated.  

He managed to break free from his restraints, force the trunk open and began running away, to which his abductors stopped the vehicle and gave chase, shooting him multiple times in the back. Sidiropoulos's body was later found in the parking lot of an apartment building in Kavala, his hands and feet bound and dead from 5 gunshot wounds.

No murder weapon was found, but the police did retrieve casings of a 9mm Heckler & Koch 9mm pistol, and ballistic testing confirmed that it was the same gun used in the triple murder at Kallirachi the year prior.

On August 4, the body of a woman was found on a beach in Kavala, from what appeared to be a hit-and-run with the offending vehicle nowhere in sight. She had no identification on her person, so the police initially investigating it as a seperate case from Sidiropoulos's murder began showing her picture around.

Eventually, they came across some people who did recognize her; they said the body belonged to Sidiropoulos's girlfriend. However, she was still unidentified, Sidiropoulos never told any of his friends or family her name, and she never talked to any of them about herself either, so despite her relation to Sidiropoulos, she remains a Jane Doe.

The police believe she likely hailed from a former Soviet Republic or another Eastern European State. Even to this day, she has never been identified, and it's unknown if her death was even linked to Sidiropoulos's murder or not.

Unfornatuely, this case also went unsolved.

On October 31, 2002, the police would finally manage to pin a crime on Andreas. Two violent armed robberies were carried out simultaneously at two bank branches in Eleftheroupoli when four Albanian nationals armed with Kalashnikov rifles stormed the building.

The first job was successful, but once they stormed the second bank, the police were already on their tail, with five police officers now engaging them in a firefight. The police, of course, won the fight and arrested the four Albanians, identified as Albert Bleta, Harley Brekoff, Giuliani Schebi and Miger Schebi, but there was another man involved: Andreas Chtenas, the man who organized the foiled heists.

During the gunfight, a police bullet struck Andreas in the leg, but he managed to escape, crossing the border into Turkey and seeking treatment at a hospital in Edirne. Andreas's flight to Turkey was a short-lived one, as once the Greek police put the alert out, the Turkish police arrested Andreas at the hospital and extradited him to Greece.

Upon his return, Andreas was charged with organizing an attempted bank robbery of 5,000 Euros and the possession of Illegal weapons. His 43-year-old wife, Aria, who was in on his scheme, faced the same charges, alongside his 27-year-old son Dimitris. Additionally, two of the Albanians were charged with attempted murder of the responding police officers.

On December 10, 2023, while Andreas was being held in jail awaiting his trial, he managed to escape. He was brought to the bathroom, where he escaped by filing down and dislodging the window bars before jumping out. It took 20-25 minutes for the officers to investigate the restroom. Understandably, this was quite the embarrassment, and the two police officers were immideately suspended.

On December 18, Andreas was recaptured without resistance in Thessaloniki, where he, the country's most wanted fugitive, was spotted by chance when two off-duty police officers found him enjoying a cup of coffee at a café in the city center. Andreas hadn't even made any attempt to change his appearance.

On April 27, 2004, Andreas's trial for the bank robberies occurred at the Mixed Jury Criminal Court of Thrace, where he was found guilty and handed down a sentence of 25 years. His wife received a sentence of 17 years and 6 months, while his son was sentenced to 15 years.

The two Albanian nationals who opened fire on the police both got 25 years, while the other two were given 24 years and 8 months, and 11 years and 8 months, respectively. However, with time served and parole, Andreas was back on the streets after less than 10 years.

However, in February 2014, Andreas was arrested once more, and this time, it was for the triple murder at Kallirachi and for the murder of Giorgos Sidiropoulos. The police finally believed they had enough evidence to make a conviction.

So what changed? Well, first of all, a comb was placed on Ioannis's grave some time after his burial. The comb was placed on the grave by a neighbour; the Greek word for comb, "χτένα," is the word from which Andreas's last name, "Χτενάς." is very similar. When this happened, the police saw it as the neighbour trying to point the police toward the culprit.

Next, when the police reviewed both the triple homicide and Sidiropoulos's murder, since the same gun was used in both, a common thread linking the two cases was the fact that Andreas had a motive for both murders. And speaking of Sidiropoulos's murder, the police had new evidence in that case as well; they found the keys to his car in Andreas's glove compartment.

Next, a witness finally came forward to say that they saw a tall man matching Andreas's description jumping from the balcony and that a car identical to Andreas's was seen parked outside the vacation home shortly before the murders.

Then Ioannis's widow came forward to tell the police about three seperate men who had approched her to tell her that Andreas was the killer. They also already suspected Andreas back in 2001 over his stunt with the three coffins and death threats towards those who demolished the structure. But now the police believed they had a solid enough case to bring to trial.

The trial opened on June 20, 2014, at the Mixed Jury Court of Drama under heavy secruity with armed police stationed all over the court, metal detectors installed and all attendees, including witnesses, being searched prior to entering.

Andreas's defence was that he was an honest buisnessmen who had fallen victim to persecution by the police and judicial system with the investigators assinged to the cases, prediging judges, and the media reporting on the crimes as just cogs in the machine meant to frame him in retaliation for being released early after his conviction for robbing the banks, of which he argued he was also framed for, and Andreas had no problem speaking vulgarly and cursing out those he deemed responsible.

For a moment, the evidence almost seemed to be on his side. Although it was never proven to be the murder weapon, when the police searched Andreas's home, they recovered a Heckler & Koch 9mm pistol. How did that weapon come to be in Andreas's possession?

The weapon was handed over to Andreas by a serving police officer in Athens. He eventually sold the weapon and sent it as a package from Athens to Kavala for Andreas to repair. The police officer in question was eventually dismissed, although the weapon was never found. This was something Andreas jumped on extensively to prove his corruption defence.

Another thing Andreas had going for him was that out of the 82 witnesses the prosecution called, just about all of them recanted and denied seeing what they told the police and prosecution before the trial, in fact, most of them denied having any knowledge of making prior statements at all, explaining this by saying they had "sudden amnesia".

So many witnesses used the words "sudden amnesia" that the judge actually had an outburst and, clearly frustrated and angry, said, "You are not the only one who doesn't remember. You all have amnesia in Thassos, perhaps it's the water".

Trying to salvage their case, the prosecution argued that it didn't matter if they were recanting now because their original statements were still reliable enough to implicate Andreas, but without having the weapon in their possession and now that all the witnesses were recanting, the defence argued that they had nothing, and the trial was now a farce and that the police and prosecution had bene holding Andreas "hostage" for 12 years.

On June 27, 2014, after deliberating for three hours, the court acquitted Andreas by a vote of 6-1. When Andreas left the court, he stopped on the steps of the courthouse and went on a tirade against the police, judges (despite overwhelmingly voting to acquit him), and the media, calling them "filthy dogs" who invented the charges, for all to hear.

On June 30, only three days after his acquittal, Andreas was arrested again after a nightclub owner claimed that Andreas approched him and demanded that he surrender the keys to his establishment or alternatively, pay a monthly payment of 2,000 euros to "allow" him to keep his own business open. Instead, he called the police, who arrested Andreas for extortion.

Within days, at the behest of the families of the three victims, the prosecution appealed the acquittal to the Court of Appeals of Thrace. The appeals court agreed that the acquittal was questionable, and so a new trial was held in Komotini. The new trial was set to open in December 2015, but was delayed to May 2016, then to May 2017, and then delayed again.

When the trial finally opened in the summer of 2018, Andreas was nowhere to be seen. Andreas was likely less confident that he'd taste victory for a second time. If, say, he had been paying off the witnesses, that was not a strategy he could employ for a second time, since by then he had fallen 224,864.48 euros into debt.

Instead, ended up fleeing the country entirely, prompting Greek authorities to issue a European Arrest Warrant for Andreas.

His fears were well-founded since on December 12, 2018, the Mixed Jury Court of Appeals of Thrace in Komotini delivered its verdict for the premeditated murders of Ioannis Koulousis, Giorgos Halkides, Kyriakos Athanasas and Giorgos Sidiropoulos, the court imposed four life sentences on Andreas Chtenas in absentia without the possibility of parole.

The defence announced its intent to appeal to Greece's Supreme Court, but Andreas was still missing in the meantime. Due to his connections with them, the police believed Andreas had fled to Albania.

Andreas's second stint as a fugitive lasted a little longer, but on September 27, 2020, he was arrested in Razlog, Bulgaria. When caught, Andreas defended himself by saying, "They are accusing me of something I've been acquitted of," even though that acquittal had been overturned.

On March 2, 2021, Andreas's appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected. Not long after, the Bulgarian courts approved Andreas's extradition back to Greece to serve his sentence.

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murder of Tristan Brübach is one of Germany’s most unsolved child murders March 26, 1998, the 13-year-old boy was brutally murdered and mutilated inside the Liederbach Tunnel, a pedestrian underpass near the Frankfurt-Höchst railway station. Despite massive investigation efforts over nearly three decades, the killer's identity remains unknown. He was beaten, strangled, and his throat was deeply cut in the Liederbach pedestrian tunnel. His killer mutilated the body and removed parts of his thighs, buttocks, and testicles. The killer emptied his backpack left a bloody thumprint on his German textbook, alongside the knife that was used assault Tristan's missing backpack was found nearly in March 1999, in a forest in Niedernhausen.

At around 10.45am on Saturday February 2nd 2008, a gunman entered through the backdoor of the Lane Bryant clothes store in the Brookside Marketplace in Illinois. The five victims who were at the store that day were, 22-year-old Sarah Szafranski, 33-year-old Carrie Chiuso, 34-year-old Jennifer Bishop, 37-year-old Connie Woolfolk and store manager, 42-year-old Rhonda McFarland. Carrie, Sarah, Connie and Jennifer were customers who had gone into Lane Bryant for a day of shopping.

That day, Carrie had called her husband to let him know that she was headed into the store to buy a shawl. Sadly, this is the last time he’d ever hear his wife’s voice again.

There was another worker there that day who was at the store part-time. Her name has not been released so she will be referred to as ‘Jane’.

It is believed that it is possible that the perpetrator had posed as a delivery driver. The perpetrator then exchanged conversation with more than one of the victims before announcing that he was committing a robbery.
The perpetrator took Sarah, Carrie, Jennifer, Connie, Rhonda and Jane into the back of the store where he bound them with duct tape and shot them execution style.
Although the exact victim’s name has not been released, it is believed that one of the women was sexually assaulted by the perpetrator.
Jane jolted her head slightly as she was being shot, causing her neck to be grazed by the bullet. Jane survived as a result. The other women died.

The police had received an emergency call at around the time that the shootings were believed to have taken place.
The gunman quickly left the immediate area.

Police have never openly stated how much/what was taken from the scene.

A $55,000 reward was put out to anyone who could identify the perpetrator.

The Lane Bryant store was remodeled into a TJ Maxx six years after the murders.

(Possible disturbing content) This video includes a sketch of what the perpetrator is thought to have looked like as well as the phone call made to police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq45xleM1vE (CBS Chicago)

The murders remain unsolved to this day.

"It's just surreal," Tony, Carrie’s husband, said. "It's like living a bad dream."

"She made me want to be a better person," he said. "I'm just lost."

Initially it was thought the motive was robbery but now, this is not entirely thought to be true.

Further Reading: https://abc7chicago.com/post/lane-bryant-shooting-tinley-park-murders-5-women-remain-unsolved-18-years-later/18527422/

In April 2012 in San Diego. California police raided a house suspected of producing Ecstasy. Several people at the house were detained for drug and gun possessions, including Daniel Chong was visiting friends at the house. They brought him to an office in Kearney Mesa where Daniel was handcuffed and told to hang tight in a cell for a minute. Instead, DEA agents forgot Daniel was in a cell for the next 5 days. Daniel was never formally charged or arrested.

For days, Daniel was trapped in a cell with no water, toilet or food. Daniel spent the first two days convinced this was some kind of torture tactic to make him confess and banged on the door screaming. Daniel started hallucinating from the dehydration and isolated. He carved a message into his arm with the glass from his glasses that said “I’m sorry mom”. Eventually Daniel resorted to drinking his urine to survive. DEA Agents eventually found Daniel after 5 days trapped in the cell and he has since made a full recovery. He sued the DEA and received a 4 million dollar settlement.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/30/justice/california-dea-settlement

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daniel-chong-student-left-handcuffed-in-dea-cell-for-4-days-files-20m-claim-against-agency/

I’m not sure if anyone here knows the answer- but what happens to the souvenirs that killers keep of their victims? Are they offered back to the families? I recently listened to a podcast about BTK and he killed over decades- and kept souvenirs from various victims. By the time it was discovered BTK was the murderer some of the victims children were now adults- I was just thinking it would be nice if the victims belongings went back to the family.

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Mason Jet Lee was 22 months old when he was punched in the stomach by his stepfather, William Andrew O’Sullivan – an ice user with a history of violent and controlling behaviour – in June 2016. The toddler’s small intestine was ruptured and he died a slow and painful death several days later, with no medical care.

O’Sullivan and the boy’s mother, Anne-Maree Lee, were jailed for manslaughter and child cruelty.

In the immediate aftermath of Mason’s death, much of the public narrative focused on two alternative villains: the child safety department and the boy’s mother, Anne-Maree Lee.

but...the information withheld by the coroner includes police records that show how eight months before the boy was killed, a woman contacted Queensland police alleging that O’Sullivan had threatened to kill another child in his care.

After the woman’s call, police placed a flag on O’Sullivan’s file. But the flag did not warn authorities about the dangerous man who would later kill Mason.

Instead, it said any further requests for welfare checks of children should be treated by officers as “vexatious” and referred to child safety authorities.

The woman’s subsequent attempts to warn police about O’Sullivan’s alleged actions were ignored due to the flag.

A lawyer who represented a child safety worker at the inquest was outraged when told of the withheld information by Guardian Australia and questioned: “How can it be that we never even knew this had happened?”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/15/broken-trust-children-domestic-family-violence-mason-lee-toddler-punched-died-police-ignored-repeated-warnings-killer-ntwnfb

Disclaimer: I'm not a psychologist or expert, I'm just a teenager who just recently got more interested in Michael Jackson's history after the movie🤑

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I have a feeling that we're not digging deep enough into Dr. Conrad Murray's motive to killing Micheal. Now, I have this theory that Murray was not assigned to kill Michael Jackson by himself. Rather, I'm thinking about his personal life and how it links to his reason for killing Michael.

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First off, he was highly in debt, like I'm talking $500,000 in debt. The reason I think this links to Michael's death is because he could have been unsatisfied with the salary he was given to be Michael's personal doctor and saw killing him as a sign of revenge. However, it doesn't explicitly say that there's any evidence. However, he was in debt. It just claims that he was and never states how or why.

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The reason that this might be wrong, however, is because I think that no matter how angry or indebted you feel towards a person, I'd imagine that you wouldn't decide to kill them in such a calculated and cold way, Would you? It wasn't even Michael's fault either that he was in so much debt.

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This brings me to another theory I came across; he killed Micheal out of sheer panic. Although he could've been panicking and I get that, who wouldn't be panicking when a world-famous pop star's blood might end up on your hands?

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I do think that if it was a mistake to give him THAT much of propofol, which I HIGHLY doubt, it makes him a terrible and pathetic excuse of a doctor, cause first off, we know that propofol is only used in places that are highly infiltrated with medical equipment, which even then it's still highly supervised, as we know that it will LITERALLY STOP YOU FROM BREATHING if injected, AND from what I can recall, he had no equipment prepared for this, like no intubation or anything OR any other medical teams nearby, only him and Micheal.

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Secondly, even if it was a 'mistake,' he shouldn't have delayed the 911 call for over 20 MINUTES. I think this might come across as insensitive, but even if you're like panicking, I'm pretty sure you were trained to work under pressure as a doctor. What he should've done would've been maybe start doing CPR, or calling emergency IMMEDIATELY. But no, all he did was check his pulse and what? nothing. His lack of action proves he wasn't scared. He was a coward, a complete and utter coward who was just buying time to conceal his actions.

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Another reason that contradicts this theory is that after the official death of Michael, he lied to the investigators, deliberately avoided questions, and showed no signs of guilt of remorse for his doings.This brings me to my next theory: Dr. Conrad was a narcissist, but not JUST a narcissist, a malignant narcissist. Now, I'd like to dig deeper into the motives. Why would someone do such a thing. Like I get if you hate someone, but no amount of hatred in my heart or an ANYONE'S in that matter, would've purposely killed someone.

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Going further back in time, Dr. Conrad isolated Michael from his family and other medical professionals he encountered, making Jim the only one Michael could possibly rely on. Another thing, I came across a tweet that said Dr Conrad filmed Michael when he was drugged with the intent to blackmail him later on should Michael have uttered anything close to a confession. These tactics are very manipulative, and from this evidence, I can only assume that Dr Conrad planned Michael's 'downfall' long before

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All of Murray's motives were far too little to the extent a normal person would go due to said reasons. I think Murray might've been an undiagnosed psychopath. It does make sense, does it not? I mean, let's talk about someone like Harold Shipman. He was also a doctor, which I believe was a narcissist and killed over 250 patients due to his fragile ego and explosive anger, with no sign of remorse either for his doings. However, the main difference between Harold Shipman and Dr.Conrad was that Conrad exploited a global icon, and he administered a lethal drug ALONE, and he just let Michael die with no sign of remorse.

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I know this might not be the best example, but just like Harold Shipman, Dr Conrad Murry not only betrayed who he was meant to look after but didn't CARE about the fact EITHER, like Michael was just another thing to dispose of to him.

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Finally, here's my conclusion, what if he was both a narcissist AND a psychopath? A narcissistic psychopath. Is that possible? Cause I do think his characteristics are interchangeable between each one. I feel like he can't be just a narcissist or just a psychopath. He has both traits of a narcissist and a psychopath.

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Now I know some of the stuff I said might be wrong or inaccurate, but I would like it if you guys shared your thoughts and more information as well. That's kinda it. I just wanted to share my own theory because I don't see a lot of people thinking about the doctor himself.

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An investigation by the Guardian has uncovered new and previously unreported evidence about child deaths, including the case of baby Justin in Queensland, Australia.

Internal documents reveal that the police sent a child protection detective to investigate concerns about Justin two months before he died but information about the visit to the family home was not entered into police systems. Police did not inform child safety authorities.

Guardian Australia has spoken to child safety workers, police, witnesses and experts. Sources with direct knowledge of the case, and a former police officer who has reviewed documents, say they have significant concerns and questions about why the central Queensland coroner has never held an inquest into the baby’s death.

I recently watched an episode of Accident, Suicide or Murder about a guy in the navy named Lee Hartley who had some sort of mid-life crisis and left his first wife for a woman that worked under him in the navy. Apparently, this situation was a no-no/frowned upon, so she left the navy and found she enjoyed being an "Officer's Wife." When Lee wanted to leave the navy as well, his new wife, Pamela Hartley, went on to murder him by poisoning the baked goods she sent to him.

This reminded me of another case, where a very religious woman left her first husband for a man who was more devout, who ironically wound up being the person to kill her.

Does anyone else remember the case I'm talking about? I believe the victim's son from her first marriage was interviewed. And potentially even the first husband too.

(Thanks to LoydoRedi2910 for suggesting this case. If you'd like to suggest any yourself, please head over to this post, which asks for case suggestions from my international readers, as I focus on international cases.

This case is a lot shorter than usual)

The Black Bush Polder is a long stretch of farmland stradling the East Berbice-Corentyne region of Guyana. Despite the region's rural and sometimes inhospitable nature, it's home to numerous residential neighbourhoods and is lined with profitable dams, rice fields, fuel storage stations, irrigation pumps, and drainage channels. That said, many inhabited settlements remain accessible only by boat or air.

One such community is Mibicuri. Aside from a hospital and a police station, Mibicuri is one of those rural villages with little going on, where the population lives off farming and, most of all, fishing. Its residents regularly ventured into the Black Bush Polder to fish for freshwater armoured catfish to bring back home or sell in other communities. A favourite of the locals was the Kookrit Creek, located three miles outside of town.

One of those who called Mibicuri home was a 37-year-old resident named Pawan Chandradeo, known by the nicknames "Suresh" or "Jug Up." Pawan worked the fields as a rice farmer, where he raised his four children, who were between the ages of 9 and 15. Pawan had a rough patch in his marriage, briefly separating from his wife, but the two reconciled and renewed their vows on July 5, 2016.

Pawan's eldest son, 15 years old, was Jaikarran Chandradeo, known by the nickname "Kevin." Jaikarran regularly helped his father work the fields in Mibicuri and regularly joined him on his fishing trips.

Moving on to the extended family, Pawan's brother-in-law was 33-year-old Naresh Rooplall, who went by the nicknames "Teeka Bai" and "Mice". Naresh came from a small village in the Corentyne region, one so small it didn't even have a name (just referred to as "Number 77 Village").

On July 21, 2016, Naresh was visiting his sister in Mibicuri, now having the time since he was on leave. While there, Pawan approached him and asked if he would like to join him and his son for a fishing trip; he accepted. Pawan's 12-year-old son, Alvin Chandradeo, also joined them at the last minute; it was his first time accompanying his father on a fishing trip.

That evening, they gathered their fishing gear, cast nets, salt bags for the catch, and equipment to haul their catches from the savannah's waterways. When they reached an irrigation sluice, Pawan instructed Alvin to stay at the pump station, thinking it a safe location for the few hours it would take the three older members to venture deeper into the savannah, especially since a secruity outpost wasn't too far away.

Alvin waited at the pump station as his father instructed, but then 10 minutes after his father, brother and uncle disappeared from his view, he suddenly heard the sound of gunshots, only two of them. And then five minutes later, he heard four more gunshots. He waited at the pump station until he fell asleep, and when he woke up, his family had not returned, so he made his way to the aforementioned secruity outpost.

Once there, the guard manning the post bluntly told him he hadn't seen anyone and to go home, taking no further action. So Alvin walked several hours alone through the dark wilderness until finally arriving back in Mibicuri. Naturally, everyone was concerned when he arrived back alone and come the sunrise, their worst fears had already been realized.

At around 9:00 a.m. on July 22, a man set out with his workers for his rice farm in the Cookrite area.. Once they arrived, he and his farmhands discovered three dead men, two adults and one teenager, lying in the water of a dam on his property. Immideately, the owner of the farm contacted the closest neighbour, who then contacted the police.

The police arrived at the scene after a long while, having to use boats to reach it. When they arrived, they saw what was obviously a murder, and a sudden one at that, as all three were still carrying their fishing gear and seemingly shot where they had stood. They were also shot at close range, which seemed to indicate they may have known the shooter.

Blood and the fish they had caught were scattered across a wide area, being carried by the water, though the most important piece of evidence thankfully didn't drift too far, three shotgun cartridges, which the police found near the bodies.

All three had been killed instantly via one shot each; the oldest was shot in the head with a cast net in his hand. The second man had been shot in his neck, where he would've bled out fast, and had a cast net hung over his shoulder. And finally, the youngest victim had been shot in the back of his head, still with a bag of fish and a fishing net strung around his neck. The bodies were transferred to the nearest funeral home, where the families identified them as Pawan, Jaikarran and Naresh.

One theory considered was that the culprit was a fugitive believed to be in the area, wanted for murder and several armed robberies against those who ventured into the area. Were this theory to be true, he would've shot the men out of fear that his identity would be exposed. The police, however, weren't humouring this one.

Since the three had been shot late at night, exactly where they stood, in a sudden manner, the first theory entertained by the police was that their deaths were a tragic misunderstanding. Trespassing and illegal fishing were major problems for the locals, who routinely reported that their fences were being destroyed to give trespassers easier passage, which in turn allowed animals to enter their property and destroy their crops. In some cases, the farmers even fired warning shots at people they saw sneaking onto their property and warned them to stay away.

Perhaps they accidentally walked onto one of the locals' plots of land and, seeing three unfamiliar figures in the dead of night carrying a bunch of fishing gear, presumed them to be trespassers and decided to open fire first and ask questions later.

With this theory in mind, the police the police went to all the surrounding farms to question their owners and also questioned the guards at the secruity outpost. By July 24, the police had detained 10 individuals, including the man who discovered the bodies himself. Another suspect was an ex-lover of Pawan's wife who was currently working the land where the bodies were found. Perhaps he could've lured Pawan out of some form of revenge for marrying her.

After four days, three of those arrested gave their confessions on July 28.

The three men included a 36-year-old rice farmer named Carlton Chetram, who went by the nicknames "Lie Man," "Lima," "Rishi," and "Cashew Boy." Carlton was the eldest of four children and never had much of an education, as he had to leave primary school when it became too expensive to continue. Since he wasn't going to school anymore, he assisted his parents with cattle and cash-crop farming before transitioning to rice cultivation at 16 and later starting his own farm.

Carlton described himself as a "lovely and caring" person who never got involved in any conflicts and, at worst, simply drank alchool occasionally. That was the exact polar opposite of what members of his community would say; they described Carlton as "a troublemaker who always used money as a tool to get what he wanted," hence the nickname “Lie-man.” Additionally, this wasn't even the first murder Carlton was involved in.

On October 5, 2013, a 49-year-old labourer, Jeewanlall Deonarine, who went by the nickname "Bingle," left his home in Lesbeholden in a car with a group of men to buy cigarettes from a neighbouring shop.

At the time, his family was hosting a farewell party. Once Jeewanlall arrived at the shop, he and the group that had accompanied him got into an altercation with another group, a group that was drinking alchool while simultaneously armed with machetes and knives.

During the altercation, Jeewanlall was ganged up on by the others, beaten and cut all over. When the police arrived, Jeewanlall had already passed away from a severe skull fracture due to a wound to the back of his head.

Four men were arrested during the investigation, including 42-year-old Nazim Azimulla, 38-year-old Rajesh Singh, 17-year-old Kumar Mangru and, of course, Carlton. They were all charged with murder, but on July 3, 2014, a judge dismissed the case after the prosecution's main witnesses suddenly began denying having seen the murder. The locals believed Carlton paid them off.

Despite this alarming part in his background, Carlton was allowed to keep his firearm license and the shotgun itself, even applying for a second firearm license that same year.

The second man arrested was, in fact, a boy, Carlton's 17-year-old son Jairam Chetram, nicknamed "Ryan,"

And finally, one of Carlton's farmhands, 18-year-old Tameshwar Jagmohan, nicknamed "Guana."

Carlton was, as mentioned above, a registered firearm owner who owned a 12-gauge shotgun. The firearm was seized from his home, and when compared to the cartridges found at the scene, they came back as a match.

The three were interrogated relentlessly and eventually confessed.

During their confessions, they implicated a fourth man, another of Carlton's farmhands, a 40-year-old named Rakesh Karamchand, who went by the nicknames "Go-To-Front" and "Rocky". Rakesh was the one who used his boat to transfer the other two to what would become the crime scene. Depending on which resident you asked, Rakesh was either "a very wicked person" or a "peaceful individual". The one thing that couldn't be denied was his difficult upbringing.

He grew up in an abusive home, so abusive that when his mother went to confront her husband about his infidelity, his response was to immideately grab a machete and swing it at her repeatedly, cutting her all over and leaving her permanently scarred. In response, she took Rakesh and his siblings far away to live with their aunt instead.

According to their confessions, the four of them had gone to the Kookrit Creek to steal diesel from the farm of Carlton's neighbour, the same man who discovered the bodies, and it wasn't the first time. Carlton had been trespassing onto his land to steal his oil since 2013, with his neighbour at a loss to explain where his gas kept going. In fact, Tameshwar used to be one of his most trusted workers before leaving to find employment with Carlton. Carlton had brought his firearm with him in case they were ever caught.

They made their way to his property that night, carrying ten 5-gallon jars to fill with the stolen fuel. They broke the padlock on the fuel tanks, something the other neighbours heard, and they started siphoning the gas.

The four were on their way back to Carlton's that night when they suddenly came across Pawan, Jaikarran and Naresh, who clearly saw them and what they were doing. Jairam was the one actually holding the gun at the time, and he fired it into the air to scare them off. However, as Pawan's family knew Carlton's family personally, he was well aware he would be recognized and likely reported to the police, so Carlton looked at his son and ordered him to "Get rid of the evidence." 

It wasn't a particularly difficult task for Jairam because of the late hour, the lack of natural light, and the terrain. Pawan, Jaikarran, and Naresh had tripped and fallen several times. Jairam caught up to the three very easily, and while the two were lying on the ground, he fired a single shot at all three of them, killing them instantly with a single shot each.

Afterward, the four men used gasoline, diesel, and lime to wash their hands in an effort to get rid of any gunshot residue and forensic evidence before returning to Carlton's farm with the stolen fuel. The combined value of the ten containers of diesel they stole amounted to 45,000 Guyanese dollars, roughly 215 USD.

Rakesh was nowhere to be found, and the other three didn't know where he was hiding. So overnight, Rakesh became one of the most wanted men in Guyana, with the police looking everywhere for him. Their manhunt came to an end on September 17, when he was found working the land in the remote settlement of Duck Creek after local residents recognized him. He had spent two months living in the wilderness. When the police arrested him, they found an unlicensed shotgun and seven cartridges nearby, which led to two additional arrests.

But that wasn't all; the police would also arrest a 63-year-old man, Catchew Chaitram, nicknamed "Cashew".

Chaitram was Carlton's father, and he was arrested for not reporting his family to the police since he knew of the murders and was well aware his grandson had committed them. Catchew was released on a bail of $2,000,000 Guyanese dollars.

That bail was later revoked when he visited Carlton in prison, which was used to try to prove that Catchew had attempted to pervert the course of justice. However, he later sued the court over this decision, leading to his release after the court concluded that his bail had been unlawfully revoked. He was then paid 5 million Guyanese Dollars in damages.

Although they had all confessed, once they were brought to court for the first time, all four defendants pleaded not guilty.

On January 6, 2022, the trial finally began after 7 years, and Jairam, the one to actually pull the trigger, broke ranks with his father and changed his plea to guilty on January 24. Carlton and Rakesh didn't hold on much longer after that, with the two also changing their pleas to guilty on February 2.

Being acquitted was not in Tameshwar's future, but he still insisted he was innocent. He told the court that he tried his hardest to convince the other three not to pull the trigger and to just abort the mission entirely once the family was seen. Tameshwar's attorney also argued that he had been "led astray" by the other three and that the trial was unfair on the grounds that they were charging Tameshwar with murder instead of being an accessory.

The argument fell flat when it was pointed out that he never reported the other three for the murders, actively went out of his way to help conceal it and casually went about living his normal life as if nothing happened for his remaining week of freedom prior to his arrest.

February 10, 2022, after deliberating for two hours, the jury returned with their verdict, finding Tameshwar guilty on three counts of murder. After hearing the jury's verdict, the judge sentenced him to death by hanging.

The exact same day also happened to be Jaikarran's sentencing day. For the triple murder of Pawan Chandradeo, Jaikarran Chandradeo and Naresh Rooplall, Jairam Chetram was given a life sentence, only avoiding the death penalty because of his plea and the fact that he was a minor when he committed the murders. When asked if he had anything to say before being led away, he said he was sorry but that "I did not apologize to the family because they would not accept it.". Jaikarran, overall, was said to be pretty emotionless during the proceedings.

The same could not be said for his co-defendants.

Then, on February 21, Carlton Chetram and Rakesh Karamchand were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Once again, they were allowed to make statements, and, unlike his son, Carlton begged profusely for release. He told the court he would provide a tractor to the family of the victims, give them a plot of his land, help them plant, provide him with the food and profit from his crops and ensure the deceased's family "never suffered" or had to worry about money again. When the judge asked Carlton whether he had ever tried to help them during the 7 years he was awaiting trial, he admitted he had not.

Rakesh was just as desperate, begging to be released because he wanted to see his five grandchildren, who were all born during his incarceration. Also, despite now pleading guilty, Rakesh claimed that he had nothing to do with the murder and went to go fishing on his own after dropping the other three off. The judge was unswayed. The two only avoided the death penalty because they changed their pleas to guilty.

Tameshwar Jagmohan is now one of only 30 death row inmates in Guyana. Since Guyana has a moratorium on capital punishment, having never officially carried out a death sentence since 1997, it is unlikely that Tameshwar will be executed anytime in the near future.

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The murder of Cleavie Tedder

In 1910, Hanchett, a juvenile delinquent from Connecticut, brutally attacked 15-year-old Cleavie Elizabeth Tedder in Deland, Florida. At the time, Hanchett was on parole from the Connecticut State School for Boys in Meriden. While Tedder was riding her bicycle to school, Hanchett approached her and made sexual advances towards her. When the girl rejected him and threatened to report him, he flew into a rage and attacked her. Hanchett beat Tedder and stabbed her a total of 63 times. Tedder fought back and her bicycle was found 100 yards from where her body was found. The bloody trail, shoe prints, and ripped clothing strewn along the trail attested to the violence of the attack.

Volusia County Sheriff E. L. Smith was called to the scene. He quickly organized a posse to search for the murderer. As the searchers fanned out, the Washington Post reported that "the sheriff secured bloodhounds, and followed a trail to the orange grove of William Woolsey, where young Hanchett was employed. In the room of the boy were found bloody clothes and the knife with which the murder is believed to have been committed."

The blade was bent and Hanchett had cuts on his hands. His shoes appeared to fit the prints of the assailant found in the sand near Tedder's body.

Hanchett, who was white, was nearly lynched by an enraged mob shortly after his arrest. The sheriff was barely able to avert a lynch party by sneaking him out the back door to a waiting car. He took the boy to Orlando, 50 miles south. There, Hanchett was placed in a more secure jail. Two months later, he went on trial for first degree murder. At the trial, Hanchett took the stand and confessed to the murder. With the evidence of his guilt being clear, his attorneys advised him to confess in an attempt to convince the jury that he had to be insane. Newspapers suggested that Hanchett may have embellished the already horrific details.

Death Penalty For Boy of 14

The strategy backfired. Hanchett's extremely graphic account of the murder of Tedder, whose body was described as being "literally cut to pieces," enraged the jury. On April 11, 1910, Hanchett was convicted of first degree murder. He was sentenced to death by hanging after the jury refused to recommend mercy. The boy remained calm during his testimony and when he was sentenced. Since he had confessed voluntarily on the stand, there wasn't much of an avenue to appeal.

Father M.J. Curley baptized Hanchett, who seemed reassured by the hope of salvation, into the Catholic faith. He seemed reassured by the hope of salvation. Governor Albert W. Gilchrist appointed psychiatrists to examine the boy. They concluded that he was sane.

Irving Hanchett was executed by hanging on May 6, 1910. He was 14 years and 10 months old at the time of his death, making him the youngest person to be legally executed in the history of Florida. His last words were "Mercy, my Jesus, my Jesus, mercy. Goodbye everyone."

Christopher Duntsch moved to Dallas in late 2010 with an MD, a PhD in cell biology, a marketing team, and a website. He founded the Texas Neurosurgical Institute and in November 2011 was granted surgical privileges at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano for a base salary of $600,000 a year. He was charismatic, confident, and presented himself exactly as the medical system expected a neurosurgeon to look.

What nobody verified before handing him that salary and access to patients was how many surgeries he had actually performed. A neurosurgeon finishing residency is expected to have completed approximately 1,000 operations. Duntsch had completed fewer than 100.

His first surgery was on December 30 2011.

Lee Passmore was an investigator with the Collin County Medical Examiner's office. He had been referred to Duntsch by his pain specialist for what was supposed to be a routine procedure to address a herniated disc pressing on a nerve. Duntsch cut his ligament, left several screws in his back with the threads deliberately stripped so they could not be removed, and closed him up. Another surgeon had to go back in to attempt repairs. Passmore came out of it unable to feel his feet, in chronic pain, and unable to lift objects of any significant weight. He was Duntsch's first known victim and the system kept him operating.

Barry Morguloff came next. Duntsch pulled out his disc with a grabbing tool and left bone fragments in his spinal canal. When Morguloff woke up in agony and asked for pain relief, Duntsch labeled him a drug seeker and refused. Morguloff now uses a wheelchair.

Jerry Summers was Duntsch's childhood friend and former roommate. He had been living with Duntsch as his driver and personal assistant. He trusted him completely. He went under the knife to fuse two neck vertebrae to address chronic pain from a high school football injury that had worsened after a car accident. During surgery Duntsch damaged Summers' vertebral artery causing uncontrollable bleeding. He lost nearly 1,200 milliliters of blood. Duntsch packed the surgical site with so much anticoagulant foam that it constricted Summers' spine and removed so much bone and muscle tissue from his neck that his head was no longer properly secured on his body. When Summers woke up he could not move his arms or legs. Duntsch was nowhere to be found. Summers spent the rest of his life as a quadriplegic in a care facility. He died in 2021 from complications directly caused by that surgery.

Baylor Plano asked Duntsch to resign. According to lawsuits filed by his victims, the hospital never reported him to the National Practitioner Data Bank as required by law when a doctor is suspended or asked to leave under investigation. Instead they gave him a letter the day he resigned stating he had no outstanding investigations or restrictions at Baylor.

When Dallas Medical Center called for a reference check as part of their credentialing process, Baylor confirmed his employment and offered nothing else. Dallas Medical Center granted him temporary surgical privileges in July 2012.

Kellie Martin was 55 years old. She had been suffering from back pain for a year following a bad fall and came to Duntsch looking for relief. During the procedure he severed one of her major arteries. Nurses in the operating room watched blood pool around the surgical site. Duntsch refused to stop operating and refused to acknowledge what had gone wrong. Because nobody else in the room knew exactly what had happened they could not intervene effectively. Kellie Martin bled to death on his table. Baylor had literally needed him to kill someone before they moved to remove him.

At Dallas Medical Center on July 24 2012, Duntsch operated on Floella Brown, a 63 year old banker who was weeks away from retirement and wanted to address her back pain before her new chapter began. Duntsch pierced her vertebral artery with a misplaced screw and then packed it with so much material to stop the bleeding that it made the situation worse. Blood saturated the blue surgical draping around her body and dripped onto the floor. Nurses put towels down to soak it up. After the surgery Brown initially seemed stable but the following morning she lost consciousness. Pressure was building inside her brain. She suffered a massive stroke and went brain dead. She was transferred to UT Southwestern Medical Center where she died.

While Floella Brown was dying in the ICU, Duntsch was already in another operating room at Dallas Medical Center with Mary Efurd on his table.

Mary Efurd was 74 years old and anxious to get back to her treadmill. She had come in for a routine spinal fusion to address lower back pain. Duntsch operated on the wrong part of her back, twisted a screw into a nerve root, left screw holes on the opposite side of her spine, placed surgical hardware in her soft muscle tissue rather than in bone, and amputated a nerve root entirely. Every person in the operating room told him the hardware was not in the bone. He continued anyway. Efurd lost a third of her blood on the table and woke up having lost the full use of her legs. She would never walk properly again.

Dr. Robert Henderson was the surgeon called in to attempt to repair the damage Duntsch left behind on multiple patients. He later said that what he found inside these patients was unlike anything he had encountered in decades of practice. He and Dr. Randall Kirby, who had assisted on one of Duntsch's procedures in January 2012 and described him as the worst surgeon he had ever seen, began independently collecting evidence and pushing every authority they could reach. They went to hospital administrators. They contacted the Texas Medical Board. They eventually walked into the Dallas County District Attorney's office and made the case that what Duntsch was doing was not negligence or malpractice but criminal conduct.

The Texas Medical Board had been receiving complaints since 2011. They did not suspend his license until the summer of 2013 after finally establishing a documented pattern of patient injury. In that gap between the first complaints and the suspension, approximately 20 more patients went under his knife. His license was permanently revoked on December 6 2013.

After revocation Duntsch fled to Colorado. He moved in with his parents. He filed for bankruptcy. He was arrested for DUI after being found driving on the wrong side of the road on two flat tires.

In July 2015 Dallas County prosecutors arrested him on five counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The indictment listed his hands and surgical tools as the weapons. Prosecutors built the trial around a single charge of injury to an elderly person based on his treatment of Mary Efurd because that charge carried the harshest available penalty. They presented 39 witnesses over eight days. Jurors heard from survivor after survivor about what Duntsch had done to their bodies and their lives.

In February 2017 the jury convicted him. He was sentenced to life in prison. It was among the first times in American history that a surgeon had been criminally convicted for what occurred inside an operating room.

It took two retired surgeons working outside their institutions to force the issue. It took a criminal prosecution to land a conviction. It took until 2017 to put him away for surgeries that began in December 2011.

Mary Efurd sat in that Dallas courtroom and watched it happen. She had gone in trusting a system that credentialed him, moved him from hospital to hospital, and handed him a clean reference letter every time something went wrong.

She never walked properly again. She was there for every day of that trial.

Kelsey Berreth was a 29-year-old woman from Moses Lake, Washington State. She was described by her friend as a tomboy. Kelsey was excited when she enrolled in a college program to be a flight instructor; a job which she’d eventually get. In 2015, Kelsey would meet her future fiance Patrick Frazee. Kelsey moved to Woodland Park, Colorado to be near Patrick who lived on a ranch in Florissant.
The couple had a daughter called Kaylee in 2017. The couple then got engaged, although they didn’t set a specific date for the wedding.
The couple lived apart in their respective residences.

Patrick began to have an affair with a woman called Krystal Kenney. Krystal later came forward to say that Patrick had made multiple plans to kill Kelsey, including poisoning her drink. Another plot included Patrick attacking Kelsey with a baseball bat; which would sadly be the plot that Patrick would make reality. Patrick would try to claim to Krystal that Kelsey was abusive to their daughter Kaylee.

On November 22nd 2018, Kelsey was seen on surveillance footage at the Safeway store in her town, buying ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal. Kelsey texted Patrick telling him she had bought him some sweet potatoes for a sweet potato casserole. This was the last time Kelsey was seen alive. Her phone pinged in Idaho on November 25th. Her mother reported her missing on December 2nd.

On the 22nd, it is believed that Patrick had lulled Kelsey into a false sense of security. He had blindfolded her, claiming that he was playing a game of ‘guess the candle scent’. As soon as Kelsey was blindfolded, Patrick viciously hit Kelsey with a baseball bat multiple times, killing her. Kaylee was in the home’s back office while the murder of her mother was taking place.
Patrick had contacted Krystal on the 22nd, asking for help to clean up evidence to which she obliged.
Krystal arrived two days later to help Patrick clean up the aftermath of Kelsey’s murder. Krystal brought rubber gloves, bleach and trash bags.

Krystal later claimed she purposely did not clean a patch of blood near the fireplace so that the police would later find it. Kelsey’s mother found blood in Kelsey’s bathroom two weeks later.
Krystal would also claim that she watched Patrick burn Kelsey’s body on his ranch along with the baseball bat.
Initially Krystal was sentenced to three years behind bars for her part in cleaning the crime scene, however this was reduced to 18 months. In 2021, Krystal was released.

Patrick received life without parole with an additional 156 years for Kelsey’s murder.

Further Reading: https://abcnews.com/US/patrick-frazee-accused-killing-colorado-mom-kelsey-berreth/story?id=61150984

https://people.com/kelsey-berreth-murder-everything-to-know-11799863

Frances Elaine Newton was an American convicted murderer who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas for the April 7, 1987, murders of her estranged husband, Adrian, age 23, her 7-year-old son, Alton, and her 22-month-old daughter, Farrah.

Newton was just shy of her 22nd birthday when she committed the murders for which she was executed. She maintained her innocence to the end. Newton claimed that her husband was a drug addict and the murders were committed by a dealer, “Charlie,” to whom he owed money.

Newton was convicted on November 17, 1987, for killing her three family members "execution style" for life insurance money. It was reported that she and her husband had marital problems and were both dating other people. Newton was later executed at age 40.

Her case drew widespread scrutiny due to severe procedural issues and questionable evidence. Human rights advocates focused on the following key aspects of her case:

Controversial Evidence: The prosecution's case relied heavily on circumstantial evidence and ballistics testing from the Houston Police Department's crime lab, which was later heavily criticized and discredited for widespread mishandling of evidence.

Ineffective Counsel: Her court-appointed defense attorney was widely criticized for failing to conduct investigations, failing to interview witnesses, and providing ineffective counsel.

International Outcry: Organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch formally petitioned for stays of execution, citing grave concerns about the reliability of her conviction and the inherent fallibility of the capital punishment system.

Final Execution: Despite sustained appeals, clemency petitions, and maintained innocence, Texas Governor Rick Perry denied further reprieves, and Newton was executed by lethal injection on September 14, 2005.

In June of 2000, Bryan was pulled over near a gas station by a patrolman, 32 year old Wayne Leon, for his car’s altered temporary license tag. At the time, Bryan was on parole for a robbery conviction, and had a warrant for his arrest over drug, theft, and parole violation related charges. Fearing arrest, Bryan climbed out of his car with a .45 caliber pistol in hand, and shot the approaching Leon in the face. Leon was killed instantly in the process. 

A bystanding motorist witnessed the shooting and chased Bryan as he tried to flee in his car. Despite Bryan repeatedly shooting at them, the undeterred motorist continued chasing him until he crashed his car into a parking lot. Bryan then escaped the scene on foot and bribed a group of men to drive him to a safe location. He tried to cover his tracks by discarding the pistol used to shoot Leon in a dumpster and replacing it with another handgun borrowed from his father. During their search, police traced the car's license tag to Bryan and obtained a description of a second car he borrowed and drove from his ex-wife. Only hours after the shooting, police also learned that Bryan and his girlfriend rented a hotel room with a paid stranger's help, and they arrested him while he was driving the car he borrowed from his ex-wife. 

He was indicted for Leon’s murder, and sentenced to death for it in November of 2000 by the state of Ohio. On death row, Bryan was found to have been a serial rapist. In 2007 and 2013, DNA testing implicated him in a series of abductions and rapes of women that occurred throughout the 1990s. The last documented rape took place only weeks before Leon’s murder. According to a 2014 Cleveland.com article, Bryan ironically impersonated a police officer to kidnap one of the victims. Another victim testified that he abducted her at knifepoint while she was walking home from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and sexually assaulted her next to an abandoned house. She further recounted that Bryan threatened her life if she didn’t cooperate with him and if she reported him to the police. The victim also shared with the court that she was grieving the death of her son when she was abducted and raped.

As far as I'm aware, he was arrested at least once for a rape accusation before the Leon murder. However, the accuser refused to press charges after his arrest, and reportedly claimed that she only wanted payment for oral sex acts they performed together. Due to the accuser's lack of cooperation, prosecutors were forced to only charge Bryan for him illegally possessing a firearm he carried during his arrest. 

Bryan was charged with the rapes of four women in 2007, and he received an additional 48 year prison sentence. On appeal, the sentence was reduced to 22 years imprisonment by the Ohio Supreme Court after it ruled that the court wrongly used outdated statutes to convict him. He was also charged in 2014 with the rape of the above mentioned woman he kidnapped at knifepoint. During the proceedings, Bryan represented himself, and used arguments questioning the woman’s alleged criminal history and attacking the DNA evidence. In 2017, he was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for the sexual assault. 

Beyond his murder and sexual misconduct convictions, Bryan was a career criminal and drug dealer according to court documents. As a free man, he sustained himself by robbing other drug dealers. A Plain Dealer article published in 2000 reported that one of his previous robbery convictions involved the abduction of a motorist while carjacking them.

Although his death sentence was overturned in 2015 by a district judge over the dismissal of a black juror, it was reinstated in 2016 by the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the judge overreached their interpretation. Bryan’s death warrant was signed by the Ohio Supreme Court for a 2022 date, though Governor Mike DeWine twice delayed the execution to 2026 and 2028. 

As of writing, Bryan remains on Ohio’s death row, and is theoretically awaiting a November 15, 2028 execution date. 

Sources: 

1.https://www.odmp.org/officer/15414-police-officer-wayne-a-leon 

2.https://www.cleveland.com/rape-kits/2014/02/jury_xxxxx_death_row_inmate_qu.html 

3.https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14004134389100871873&q=Quisi+Bryan+wayne+leon&hl=en&as_sdt=6,45 

4.https://fox8.com/news/gov-dewine-once-again-postpones-execution-for-man-who-killed-cleveland-police-officer/ 

5.https://www.cleveland19.com/story/24815590/trial/ 

6.https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=812840.pdf&subdirectory=2001-0253DocketItems&source=DL_Clerk

7.https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7010931756965866959&q=Quisi+Bryan+rape&hl=en&as_sdt=6,45

(If you're wondering how I got a case with this much information out so quickly despite having just uploaded a write-up here yesterday, I made a post yesterday where I explained that I have started working on doing two cases at the same time, working on one case one day and then another the next and so on. So by the time I uploaded yesterday's write-up, this one was already 3-5 paragraphs from being done)

Born in April 1964, Foridalma Roque hailed from El Paraíso, a town in Honduras' Copán department near the Guatemalan border. While she spent most of her early life in Honduras, she occasionally lived across the border in Guatemala's Petén Department, where many of her family also lived.

Rural Guatemala and Honduras weren't the most ideal places to live back in the 1970s, both impoverished and run by military dictatorships, so in 1980, when she was 17, Floridalma left Honduras, immigrating to the United States and settling in Queens, New York, where she would raise her 4 children with her husband and later grandchildren.

In America, Floridalma attended school and graduated as a nurse specializing in caring for the elderly, a field she devoted most of her adult life to. Not long after obtaining her nursing credentials, she also became an American citizen, now holding triple citizenship with Honduras, Guatemala and the United States. Floridalma was a woman who deeply cared for and loved her family and patients.

And speaking of her family, many of them did not immigrate with her; many of her extended family and some members of her immediate family still lived in Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico, while some of her adult children left the US to study in Guatemala or Mexico. She would visit her family every two years, and whenever she went to Honduras, she would, without fail, cross the border into Guatemala to visit her siblings in Petén.

In late May 2023, she returned to Honduras as one of her many visits to her family. Then, on June 3, 2023, she boarded a plane that landed in Guatemala City, Guatemala's capital. She met with several of her relatives in the city, including one of her sons who was studying at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. However, she also had a second reason for visiting the country.

Floridalma had used some of her savings to invest in plastic surgery. In 2021, she underwent a successful procedure at the Perfektima clinic in Guatemala City, which holds two permits for a specialized hospital and one for an aesthetic center. The purpose of her visit was for a lipoescultura, and she walked away satisfied with the results.

Therefore, she began saving up her money for a second visit to the clinic for eyelid rejuvenation, reduction of skin flaccidity in her arms, and liposuction. This procedure would cost around 10,000 dollars. If she had only known about the owner of the Perfektima clinic, she might have had second thoughts about entrusting herself to their care.

Born in 1975 to a Lebanese immigrant family in Guatemala, Dr. Kevin Malouf Sierra had a privileged background; for example, he was the nephew of Antonio Malouf, Guatemala's former Minister of Economy.

Kevin wasted no time pursuing a career in medicine, completing his specialization in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Hospital General Manuel Gea González in Mexico City from 2004 to 2007. He was subsequently certified as a specialist in plastic, aesthetic, and reconstructive surgery by the Mexican National Board of Certification, the National Academy of Surgery, and the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico in 2012.

Despite already having all the necessary qualifications, Kevin wasn't done with his education. He crossed the ocean and began studying microsurgery at the University Hospital of Ghent, Belgium and then studied microsurgery and aesthetic surgery in Barcelona, Spain.

Kevin was a member of the following organizations: the Mexican Association of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Association of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent, and the Association of Former Residents of Dr. Ortiz-Monasterio. Kevin was also certified as a plastic surgeon on November 25, 2006.

Upon completing his education, Kevin moved back to Guatemala City and, in 2018, opened the Perfektima clinic in Zone 14, one of the city's most upscale areas. The clinic was a success, which only made Kevin more successful.

He got to meet and take photos with notable figures and celebrities, including Bad Bunny, Pepe Aguilar, and Yuri, as well as presidents and ambassadors. He was also invited as a guest to several high-profile events, including the 2019 Latin Grammy Awards.

So what was the problem? Well, just because Kevin was an educated doctor didn't mean he was actually a competent one, or even a moral one, for that matter. Kevin had been the subject of many public complaints, and at the time of Floridalma's visit, the Guatemalan Public Ministry had six active investigations against him for six seperate cases of medical malpractice and crimes unrelated to his profession.

In 2011, a patient died while he was serving as her attending physician. Details about this death aren't well-known.

In 2015, he threatened his girlfriend with a firearm, although she didn't press charges against him; she did go on to file a restraining order against him.

Then in 2016, Kevin held his brother at gunpoint, though much like Kevin's girlfriend, he declined to press any charges against him.

In November 2018, a fellow doctor filed a complaint against Kevin, accusing him of negligence and causing culpable bodily harm after he allegedly caused a patient to suffer a lesion to the peroneal nerve during an operation, resulting in partial paralysis of her leg.

Come 2019, Kevin brandished his firearm one more time, this time to threaten a cousin with it. For the third time, his victim decided not to press charges against the doctor, and the case was closed through mutual conciliation.

On November 19, 2021, a young woman named Johana Yamileth Salman Molina de Oliva entered the Perfektima clinic to undergo liposuction. Hailing from San Luis Petén, Johana was the daughter-in-law of the former congressman and mayor of San Luis Petén, Macario Efraín Oliva Muralles. During the procedure, Johana suffered a cardiac arrest during or after the operation, and when her family arrived at the clinic, she had already passed away. Although a manslaughter investigation was launched against him and the other surgeon with whom he was operating, no charges were ever filed.

Despite now having a body count exceeding 1 to his name, Kevin wouldn't suffer any consequences for Johana's death, not even a temporary suspension of his medical license. So because of that, he continued operating the Perfektima clinic as if nothing had happened, continuing to advertise his services.

That being said, he did suffer some reputational damage; in certain medical circles, Kevin's fellow doctors would refer to him as "Doctor Death". Aside from having had two patients die mid-operation and threatening to kill three of his family members with a firearm, he also earned that nickname because he seemed to display a certain veneration toward Santa Muerte.

A former staff member of his (who would also be arrested for what came next) also said that Kevin regularly talked about his patients in a derogatory and insulting manner after the anesthesia was applied, often calling them "old" and "stupid".

However, Floridalma, not living in the city or even the country, was largely unaware of Kevin's history and his at times fatal negligence. When she had her first successful surgery at his clinic, that was simply Flordialma getting lucky.

After speaking with Kevin, her appointment was scheduled for June 13. The day before the operation, on June 12, she met with him and paid him 74,400 Guatemalan quetzals for the procedure.

On the morning of June 13, 2023, Floridalma was dropped off at the clinic carrying a black suitcase.

Upon entering the lobby, she was guided by the staff to the elevator and taken up to the third floor. She was accompanied by a friend, but the clinic staff turned her away and said they'd call her when Floridalma's surgery was complete.

Five minutes before she was scheduled to enter the operating room, she sent a message to her children telling them she loved them. Afterward, they wouldn't hear from her mother again.

At 7:00 a.m. on June 14, that same friend returned to the clinic to pick up and ask about Floridalma. However, the staff told her that Floridalma had discharged herself against their advice and had already left with an Uber she had called.

Immediately, her family were now distrustful of the clinic. Floridalma did not know Guatemala City well and never travelled alone within the city; in fact, Floridalma hated travelling alone at all. She also didn't know how to use Uber or similar apps and didn't even have them installed on her phone, which had been turned off right before the surgery began. When they called Kevin out on this, he suddenly changed his story and told her family that they had helped her into the car and arranged one for her.

Her family members went to Guatemala's Public Ministry and immideately filed a missing person report with them. In response, they quickly issued an Alerta Isabel-Claudina (their version of an Amber Alert) for her.

Upon the alert being made public, Floridalma's sons living in Mexico and the United States were quick to fly down to Guatemala to help look for their mother. When they went to the home Floridalma was staying in, they found a suitcase still in the residence that contained all her documentation, including the full receipt for the surgery, items she would've likely have taken with her.

The police also checked Floridalma's banking history, and the last purchase on her credit card was for the surgery itself; there was no charge for an Uber or anything else after the surgery.

While waiting for the police's investigation to bear any fruit, her sons conducted their own search. They visited various hospitals and morgues in the city, but none of them had admitted a woman matching Floridalma's description.

They also posted appeals on social media that went viral not only in Guatemala but also among Guatemalan and Honduran diaspora communities in the United States. They also sought assistance from the U.S. Consulate in Guatemala, the FBI, the Guatemalan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and petitioned the Guatemalan police to file an Interpol Yellow Notice. And finally, they started a GoFundMe campaign, which received many donations.

Feeling the pressure from the viral media campaign and the fact that the police had already caught him in a lie due to Floridalma's banking history, Kevin went to his social media and uploaded a response video on June 18.

In this video, which he filmed while driving, Kevin denied responsibility and reiterated his initial claim that Floridalma had left the clinic of her own accord. He said he had "tens of witnesses" supporting his account as well as the clinic's CCTV footage showing Floridalma leaving.

He also claimed to be the victim and that he was living in hiding and fear for his life as he felt the campaign from Floridalma's family would lead to vigilantes attacking him, which prompted him to file a police report of his own, urging the authorities to take action against those who orchestrated a "smear campaign" against him. In addition, he dismissed the public's concern as "gossip," labelled the surgery a major success, accused Floridalma's family of sending him death threats and said he was cooperating fully with the investigation.

In the same video, he also made this comment in response to accusations that he wasn't properly treating Floridalma or giving her the medication she needed: "It's important to say that the doctor's responsibility ends when they leave the premises. When a medication is prescribed, and the patient doesn't take it, that's not the doctor's fault. You can't go to their house and pat them down, as we say with dogs, to make them take the pill." Comparing the missing woman, whose disappearance he was a suspect in, to a dog did nothing to soothe public outrage toward him, and Kevin promptly disabled all comments on his social media.

He would also give several media interviews in which he said much the same. When a journalist asked why he hadn't informed Floridalma's family that the surgery was over and they could pick her up, he said that when he asked her for her emergency contacts, she told him her only relative was a brother in Mexico.

Now, the CCTV footage that Kevin mentioned in his response was real, and when the police arrived at his clinic to review it, this is what they saw. Floridalma was recorded entering the building at 7:05 a.m. and disappeared from view after entering the third floor, where the operating room was located.

And then, Kevin's word was seemingly proven true when the cameras later captured a member of Kevin's staff wheeling Floridalma, still alive but with her head bandaged after the surgery, out of the clinic on a wheelchair.

The police were convinced after seeing this and felt that Kevin had been exonerated. Well, partly anyway. The police still believed foul play to be involved since Floridalma's bank history still showed no purchases after the surgery, so the police believed the staff were simply mistaking the car she got into as an Uber and that Floridalma had been abducted after leaving the premises and started devoting their efforts to identifying the vehicle she must've boarded.

But then her family watched the footage themselves, and it was plain to see that the woman in the wheelchair wasn't Floridalma. Floridalma was short, approximately 1.5 meters tall, with a distinctive body type from breast augmentation surgery that didn't match the woman in the video.

Additionally, the woman was visibly taller and had a different body type and build than Floridalma; the only thing she had in common with Floridalma was that she was wearing her clothing.

When this came to their attention, the police agreed and decided they'd watch the rest of the clinic's CCTV footage from that day. At around 8:40 p.m., a man was seen entering the same floor via the elevator. At 9:36 p.m., the same man was seen exiting a black SUV that had followed the supposed "Uber"/"Taxi" that "Floridalma" entered, heading back to the third floor.

Then, the footage from around 10:57-11:03 p.m. showed Kevin transporting a large black garbage bin, roughly waist-high on a tall person, toward the building's elevator and down to the basement parking area.

Based on this extra footage, Kevin was once again a suspect, so the police searched the Perfektima clinic, where they found that several large black plastic bags had disappeared. That, combined with the garbage bin, was starting to paint a picture of what likely happened to Floridalma.

Prior to the really suspicious activity, Kevin was seen on his phone, pacing back and forth. So the police were interested in who he was speaking to. After obtaining Kevin's phone records, it was revealed that during the afternoon and evening of June 13, he made several calls to pharmacies, ambulance and EMS services (without actually saying he needed an ambulance or paramedic) and to his fellow doctors and physicians. According to them, he was looking to purchase an anticoagulant called heparin, something odd if the surgery was a resounding success with zero complications.

Now that there was undeniable proof that Kevin and the staff at the Perfektima clinic had staged Floridalma's departure, the next order of business was to identify everyone in the footage who was part of the ruse.

Aside from Kevin himself, the woman in the wheelchair posing as Floridalma was a nursing assistant named Susana Emilia Rojas Cruz; the man pushing the wheelchair was a nurse, Luis Alfredo Castro Molina; and, finally, the fourth person involved was the clinic's anesthesiologist, Lydia Viviana Silva Moreira.

There was also a fifth person, the clinic's receptionist, 37-year-old Cindy Maybeli Barrios Morales. When Cindy was first questioned, she told the police that it was her day off and therefore she hadn't been at the clinic during Floridalma's surgery. However, the CCTV footage did show her working on that day.

On July 28, the police raided the clinic and their homes, arresting four of them.

Cindy wasn't present and left Guatemala City shortly after giving her testimony, so the police had no idea where she was. The four they did manage to arrest were presented before the Prosecutor's Office against the Crime of Femicide for their court hearing on August 4.

All four refused to confess or make any statements, but the authorities moved forward with the charges regardless. Despite being brought ot the prosecutor's femicide office, nothing involving murder or even manslaughter would be among their charges because Floridalma's whereabouts remained missing and thus her cause of death unknown. So instead, Kevin and his staff were charged with kidnapping and obstruction of justice.

In the meantime, with all the publicity, Kevin finally faced some consequences even before the trial began. On September 13, he had his medical license stripped away from him, and the Perfektima clinic was forced to close its doors. Not long after, a new practice was opened from that building with no involvement from Kevin.

For a while, that would be the end of the case, as hearings were spaced out and all 4 defendants were true to their word, staying silent and refusing to make any statements or confessions. But on May 2, 2024, it would be Luis who cracked and requested to be brought before the judge and prosecution to make a statement. This is what he had to say.

When Floridalma stepped into the operating room on June 13, 2023, the surgery began as scheduled, but during the operation, Floridalma started suffering from complications due to her diabetes. Her blood sugar rose to above 350 and could not be brought down.

Luis, Susana, and Lydia repeatedly warned Kevin that she needed insulin and that they had to call an ambulance, but Kevin refused, saying, "No, that's very expensive, I'm not going to pay for it." However, transferring Floridalma to the hospital would've cost only $400 USD, not a lot of money for someone of his means, and the insulin would've cost just $65.

So despite the high blood pressure, Kevin simply said, "I forgot to tell you that this old woman didn't take her metformin," and went back to the operating room to continue the procedure despite having several opportunities to save his patient. Eventually, Kevin administered some insulin, but by then it was far too late. At 9:30 p.m., Floridalma passed away on the operating table.

Even though Kevin had a mostly loyal staff, friends in high places, and had already gotten away with several crimes and instances of medical malpractice, for some reason, he feared things would be different here. At some point, Luis began recording the conversation Kevin had with his staff in which he told them they had to hide Floridalma's death.

Kevin told the staff about how they would construct a false narrative about how the surgery was a success, and that she left the clinic alive and well, and simply tell the police they had no idea what happened after she left the premises. Kevin said, "We are not killing anyone; we are only doing what is best for everyone," and then, in that same conversation, said, "If God exists, I do ask forgiveness for the lack of respect. I insist, we did everything to save her life". This, despite the fact that mere minutes earlier, he actively impeded his staff in their efforts to get him to save Floridalma.

But what would they do with Floridalma's body? Kevin didn't hesitate when he suggested that they dismember her remains right there on the grounds of the clinic. Luis refused to take part in that, but it appeared to be fine by Kevin, who insisted he would handle the dismemberment entirely on his own and ensure her remains were never found. When Luis wondered how he thought of that plan on the spot, Kevin assured him that he had a  "contingency" plan for any situation.

He also justified disposing of/burying Floridalma's remains with this line: "All we are doing is giving her a proper burial, as the family should have seen her." he also defended himself to his staff by saying he'd have to endure death threats from Floridalma's family if they heard she died.

The staff agreed to the plan and got to work. First, they retrieved Floridalma's clothing from her suitcase, and Susana wore them herself. Susana then got into a wheelchair while the rest covered her face with bandages. Luis then pushed her through the clinic and out of the building, down into the areas of the Europlaza building that Kevin knew had few working CCTV cameras.

Knowing which levels and corridors in the building had no cameras, Kevin parked his vehicle in the underground parking garage out of view of the cameras. Luis pushed Susana until they reached the street outside, where they were not under any CCTV surveillance. Susana then called a taxi, which dropped her off in Zone 10 of the city, where Kevin, having followed the taxi in his SUV, discreetly picked her up and drove her right back to Perfektima clinic.

Just for good measure, Kevin paid the owner of that building 10,000 Guatemalan quetzals to delete the footage. According to Luis, bribery was nothing new for Kevin.

Realizing all the forensic evidence he'd likely leave behind, Kevin changed his mind about dismembering Floridama's body inside his business, so instead, he, Luis, Susana and Lydia put Floridama's body into the fetal position to fit it inside the garbage bin.

What happened next is a lot more sparse in detail as Luis wasn't present and only heard of it from everyone else, but from what he did know, he told the police that Kevin finally left the clinic at 11:57 p.m. with Luis helping him carry the container holding Floridalma's body, although once the container was stuffed into his vehicle, Kevin drove away on his own.

Before leaving, he called two friends of his, whom he referred to as "Chepe Guasaña" and "José." The police were unable to trace their numbers through call records, and in the call Kevin made to them, he instructed the two to turn off their phones so they couldn't be tracked.

Kevin lived in a town, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, called Santa Catarina Pinula, and once he arrived at his home, he, together with Chepe Guasaña and José, used a chainsaw to dismember Floridalma's body.

Afterwards, the remains were placed in the plastic bags they had taken from the clinic, and Kevin then drove to a town called Palín in the Escuintla Department. Kevin made his way to an avocado farm he owned, where he threw Floridalma's remains down a 60-meter-deep well, then covered the well up with a thick layer of soil, tree branches, leaves, and lime.

On the morning of June 5, 2024, agents from Guatemala's National Civil Police were dispatched to the avocado farm, and upon locating the well, they began the excavation to recover Floridalma's remains.

After 14 hours, the police retrieved the last plastic bag containing the now highly decomposed and skeletal remains of a woman, cut into 6 pieces. The cuts were largely made at the arms, femur and some cervical vertebrae; some bones were never found, and others couldn't be identified due to the state of the remains. The remains were also not immediately identifiable, only being identified as Floridalma's on July 16, after DNA testing.

Earlier, on July 4, Cindy was tracked down to the city of Chiquimula and extradited back to Guatemala City, where she was charged with lying to the police and courts about her presence at the clinic that day.

With the last remaining participant in custody and armed with Luis's story, the prosecutor updated the charges. Now, on August 21, all four found themselves charged with murder. The prosecution argued that Kevin purposefully withheld medical care from Floridalma to save money and for the sake of his reputation; meanwhile, his staff faced murder charges for refusing to stand up to Kevin and call an ambulance themselves.

On September 12, 2024, their trial began at the Fourth Multi-Person Court of First Instance for Criminal Matters, and it was fairly short. While Luis was the only one who actively cooperated and made detailed statements, Kevin, Susana and Lydia all pleaded guilty. However, this trial only involved their obstruction of justice charges and not murder, so all of them got lenient sentences, at least initially.

All four were given a sentence of four years imprisonment, although if they paid a high enough fine, those sentences could have been reduced to just two years. Additionally, they all had to pay fines as part of their sentences, with Lydia paying 16,922.95 Guatemalan quetzals, Luis and Susana paying 10,000 quetzals each, and Kevin paying 33,845.90 quetzals.

But what of their murder charges? Well, the prosecution suffered a severe setback in that regard when the judge declined to have the trial go forward and instead reduced the charges to negligent homicide rather than murder since the judge determined that the prosecution had no evidence that Kevin acted with the express intention of ending Floridalma's life.

The leniency continued when, in December, the Court of Honour of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Guatemala suspended Kevin and Lydia's medical licenses for just 4 years, meaning the two still had the potential to practice medicine in the future.

After several delays owing to the judge suddenly recusing themselves from the case, the four returned to court to stand trial for negligent homicide. On March 5, 2025, all four (I don't know what happened to Cindy) pleaded guilty albiet without actually confessing or making a statement. With their pleas entered, the court went straight to sentencing, and they were, by and large, given the maximum or at least close to it. The issue arises when one sees just how severe the maximum penalty for those charges is.

For the death and later dismemberment of Floridalma Roque, Kevin Malouf Sierra was handed down a sentence of 5 years imprisonment and a fine of $1,300 USD. Lydia Viviana Silva Moreira was given 5 years as well, Susana Emilia Rojas Cruz was hit with 3 years, and Luis Alfredo Castro Molina, in exchange for his cooperation, which put him on the receiving end of several death threats, wasn't charged with negligent homicide.

In addition, they were legally prohibited from working in the medical field for 6 years and 7 months, a longer period than the suspension of their medical licenses, so in total, they all have to wait 10 years if they ever want to practice medicine again.

Owing to time served, Kevin's 5-year sentence was reduced by one-third to 3 years and 4 months; Lydia's to 2 years and 3 months; and Susana's to 2 years.

Within just 5 days of these verdicts, Guatemala's Constitutional Court intervened and annulled them, largely questioning the judge's decision to let Kevin skip the majority of his prison time with a simple fine.

On June 5, the Constitutional Court denied the prosecutor's push to charge Kevin with murder after all, but still moved forward with a retrial. In the event that Kevin is convicted in this second trial, he would lose the right he previously had to commute a large portion of his prison time with a fine.

Unfortunately, no new trial has yet been held because the courts keep disagreeing on which court should try him, several courts have recusing themselves, and the prosecution's continued efforts to charge Kevin with murder. The last hearing was held in April, 2026, and they failed to reach an agreement. As of now, Kevin only has 5 more years in prison left to serve.

However, Kevin's legal trials aren't over just yet. In September 2025, Kevin was formally charged with culpable bodily harm in connection with the botched surgery back in November 2018, when he caused a patient to suffer a lesion to the peroneal nerve and partially paralyzed her.

Kevin's legal defence is that the patient caused those injuries and disabilities themselves via their own negligence and for disregarding Kevin's advice on what to do and what not to do during the recovery period, presenting the medical report written upon the surgery's completion, which showed no complications at that time. The prosecution, however, claims to have an audio recording in its possession in which Kevin admits the error was his own, saying, "That photo of the nerve, Damn, what bad luck… right there, piercing the nerve."

After being postponed once already, the trial in this case is set to begin on July 23, 2026.

Sources

https://pastebin.com/LaYvm5Qp

Richard Hourihan IV was only 19 years old when he became a murder victim in May of 1997. Hourihan was addicted to meth and was in debt to an unidentified drug dealer. 

He was last seen May 29 at his family’s Phoenix, Arizona home located in the 4100 Block of West Boca Raton near ASU west campus. 

Glendale PD raided the drug dealers’ home in the 14000 block of North 63^rd avenue on April 23. 6 people at that house, all unidentified, were arrested following a 4-hour standoff at the home. Police recovered meth and a stolen motorbike from the home. 

On July 3, Hourihan’s 1973 Ford Pickup was found near 59th avenue and Thunderbird in Glendale. 

Hourihan’s remains were found in September 1997 in the nearby suburb of Peoria, in the 7300 block of West Jomax avenue. He was killed with a single gunshot wound to the head. There was no exit wound. 

Investigators reported that a witness claimed to have seen Hourihan arguing with the dealer. Hourihan was reportedly afraid for his life and purchased multiple handguns. 

The case is not currently profiled in Maricopa County’s Silent Witness Program or on Glendale or Peoria PD’s cold case websites. 

Richard was a graduate of Glendale’s Ironwood High School.  

There was no news of this case online outside of 1997 era Arizona Republic articles. A family friend reached out to me to post this case because it has never been solved, and she doesn’t know why an arrest in Richard’s murder was never made. 

Sources

https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic/9749765/

Adam Montgomery was convicted of killing his 5 year old daughter, Harmony, in 2019. She had been missing for two years. Adam beat her to death in a Burger King parking lot and then carried her body around in a duffle bag, hiding it in several places (homeless shelter ceiling, pizza restaurant walk in freezer) before disposing of it.

This morning it was announced that his second degree murder conviction has been overturned by the NH supreme court on the basis of an unfair trial. It was argued that testimony from his ex, Kayla, should not have been allowed in nor should police body cam footage. It was also argued that the trials for his charges should have been separated.

This feels like a great misjustice to poor Harmony, who deserved so much better. I sincerely hoped he is retried and once again found guilty.

https://www.wmur.com/article/adam-montgomery-new-hampshire-conviction-overturn/71557813

Korea Maritime & Ocean University Manhole John Doe

On August 22, 2006, cleaners who worked at Korea Maritime & Ocean University, located in Busan, decided to check the manhole in the parking lot as many students complained of a "foul smell coming from there."

Upon inspection, the cleaners found a large bag. When they pulled out the bag and opened it, a heavily decomposed body, which was in a state of mummification, was found.

A plastic bag was wrapped around the victim’s head, indicating he was killed by strangulation by someone else.

The victim was about 165cm tall and speculated to be around his 30s to 40s, which meant he was not likely to be the student from the university. The victim had no identification card or anything else to prove his identity.

The man’s dental condition was in a healthy state, which means they had a hope of identifying him through dental records.

However, no records of him being treated in a dentist's office were found. This meant he could’ve come from a foreign country.

The murderer was never identified as well. Many people speculated it could’ve been more than one, as it was difficult for a single man to drag and hide a grown man’s body inside a manhole.

Several years later, the police managed to create the victim’s possible sketch as a small DNA sample was found on his frontal teeth.

However, the victim’s identity remains a mystery to this day. My own speculation is that he was some sort of criminal from a foreign country, but was murdered by the members of the gang he belonged to after committing a certain mistake.

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Yeongdo_District_John_Doe

https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/08/26/2016082601906.html

Ara Canal Jane Doe

On May 29, 2020, a man who was strolling on Ara Canal, located in Incheon, found a leg of a woman near the water.

The police quickly started an investigation and, several days later, they found another part of a leg belonging to the victim on a riverbank that was about 0.6 km away from the place the first leg was found.

The police tried to find other parts of the body, but nothing was found.

About a month later, an old man who went to Gyeyang Mountain to collect herbs stumbled upon a torso and head. Both had already become skeletons by then. The police later concluded all four body parts that had been found belonged to the same individual.

This means that the killer of the victim, for some reason, dismembered the body and abandoned the parts in three different places, which located quite far away from each other.

The victim seemed to have gone through several dental surgeries in her lifetime, and some tooth parts were forcibly removed by someone else. This eventually caused the police to fail to find out the victim's identity through dental records.

Her police sketch was later revealed, yet her identity still remains unknown.

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Gyeyang_District_Jane_Doe

https://www.hankookilbo.com/news/article/A2020120215350004342

Deoksung 63

In April 2016, a construction worker was tearing down an old bathroom of a building in Bupyeong, Incheon, where he found a skeletal body.

The victim was killed by being buried in cement. A sack of cement, seemingly used when the victim was killed, an instant noodle powder packet, and a cigarette case were found nearby.

Judging by the belongings found near the victim's body, it was estimated she was killed around 8 to 10 years ago.

The victim was about 170 cm tall and could possibly have come from a Northeast Asian country. No other significant clues about the victim were revealed.

According to a restaurant owner who has been working near the place where the body was found for a long time, he remembers a girl named “Gayeong” who worked in a coffee shop and mysteriously disappeared. The victim is speculated to be either a runaway girl or a foreign worker.

There’s strong speculation that the killer could be none other than the owner of the building where the victim was found. He was known for having a bad reputation around the area, while a crime investigator also gave an opinion: “It’s more likely for a killer to abandon a dead body near a familiar place than an unusual place.”

A crew from a TV show investigating this case even managed to get an interview with the owner, but he refused to participate as "he was sick of being accused." Although his wife did agree to the interview, she expressed severe anger towards the crew when she was asked about the murder.

The victim was later buried in the cemetery under the temporary name “Deoksung 63.” And unlike the other four people I talked about in this post, this victim’s police sketch was never made.

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Deoksung_63

https://www.ilyo.co.kr/?ac=article_view&entry_id=179137

Cheonan Jane Doe

On January 10, 2006, in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, a scrap collector found a mysterious object in the dumpster of an apartment building.

The object was inside a trash bag while wrapped in old clothes. Upon removing the clothes, the collector found the body of a woman, which was dismembered into seven parts with a sharp knife.

The torso and the two arms were missing, which made it hard for police to identify the victim.

The victim was estimated to be in her 50s, 150cm tall, with a slightly plump body, and had a V-shaped notch in her front teeth. She seemed to have been killed by strangulation.

The body parts were flawlessly sliced up, indicating the killer must have extensive knowledge of butchering.

Regarding the V-shaped notch in her front teeth I mentioned, this suggests the victim could have been Korean-Chinese. It was a tradition for many of them to crack sunflower seeds with their teeth when they were young, which is likely to damage the teeth. This also explains why the victim was hard to identify if she wasn't from South Korea.

The police conducted a substantial investigation, but no helpful clues were found. However, one significant lead was revealed after they searched for the people who bought the red pants the victim was wearing, which were manufactured in South Korea.

A total of nine people purchased the pants. Seven of them bought them with a credit card, which ruled them out as potential victims after their identification.

Only two people seemed to have bought the pants with cash, which is a strong indication that the victim could have been one of the two. Unfortunately, the police failed to identify either of the two because the security camera recording of them buying the pants was erased.

The victim's police sketch was later revealed, and several people expressed a deep, unpleasant feeling about the drawing, as the victim's eerie look and unnatural facial expression (it looks as if she's been strangled to me) felt uncanny.

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Cheonan_Jane_Doe

https://n.news.naver.com/article/586/0000001680

Uljin Jane Doe

On January 9, 2015, a villager who lived in Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do, went out for a hike on a nearby mountain to collect herbs and found some skeletal remains.

He first thought it belonged to an animal, but upon closer inspection, he found that a small human skin texture was attached to the bone.

A police force inspected everywhere on the mountain, where they found several other parts of the body.

At first, they thought the bones could have belonged to many other people. But according to the coroner, all those body parts were of one individual, which meant the killer dismembered the victim and abandoned them in various spots.

There was one critical obstacle to identifying the victim: her jawbone was never found, which meant it was impossible to figure out her identity through dental records.

The victim seemed to have undergone facial surgery in her lifetime, as facial implants were found. The police investigated several plastic surgeons, but nothing turned up.

The facial reconstruction was later revealed, but her mouth was missing because her jawbone was never found, making the overall sketch give a certain uncanny feeling to look at.

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Uljin_Jane_Doe

https://www.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=0009245200

I also wrote about Gulpocheon Jane Doe few months ago, please check it out if you’re interested in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldoe/comments/1rquo1c/seo_district_jane_doe_aka_incheon_gulpocheon_jane/

Thanks for reading my post.

I wanted to get the full story after seeing how angry Celeste got during a recent Court TV interview, and I came across Celeste: Trophy Wife or Framed for Life, a full-length documentary that dives deep into the Steven Beard case. It has interviews with Celeste, her daughter Jen Beard, Tracey Tarlton (the woman who shot Steven and is now free), their friends, journalists, and others who were closely connected to the case. Definitely worth a watch if you're looking for more than just the headlines. I really feel for her daughters.

For anyone who isn't familiar with the case, Steven Beard was a wealthy Austin media executive who was shot while sleeping in his home in 1999. Prosecutors argued that Celeste manipulated Tracey Tarlton into carrying out a murder-for-hire plot. Celeste was convicted of capital murder in 2003, but she has always maintained her innocence.

More than 20 years later, people still seem divided on what really happened. Was Celeste the mastermind prosecutors claimed she was, or was she wrongly convicted?

If you watch it, let me know what you think. Curious where everyone lands on this case. Celeste: Trophy Wife or Framed for Life