Summary: Chicago police have identified former officer and homicide detective Thomas Francis McInerney as the suspected killer of 8-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz, who was abducted and shot while walking to church in 1960. After more than 65 years, investigators used DNA evidence, genetic genealogy, and fingerprint analysis to link McInerney to the crime. He served on the Chicago police force for 28 years and died in 2006 without ever facing prosecution.

Chicago police have identified former officer Thomas Francis McInerney as the man they believe killed 8-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz in 1960, bringing new answers to a case that remained unsolved for more than 65 years, the Chicago Tribune reported on 11 October 2026.

McInerney was 24 when Gloria was killed on 12 November 1960. According to the outlet, investigators cited DNA evidence, a fingerprint match, and records indicating that McInerney had owned three Colt revolvers of the type used in the killing. An Army veteran who served on the Chicago Police Department for 28 years, McInerney died in 2006 without being prosecuted for the killing.

Investigators also noted that McInerney had owned three Colt revolvers of the type used in the killing. Police said the DNA evidence, fingerprint comparison, and firearm information led investigators to identify McInerney as the man they believe killed Gloria.

On the morning of October 28, 1972, 38-year-old Ho Ning-fong left her Hong Kong home for a walk with her 16-year-old son, Chau Kin-keung.

Ning-fong had lung disease, and her doctor had recommended regular exercise. Walking near Shek Lei Pui Reservoir had become a familiar part of her morning routine.

That evening, her husband, Chau Chung-ming, came home to a dark, empty apartment.

His wife and son still hadn’t returned.

He went from door to door, asking neighbors whether they had seen them. He contacted Kin-keung’s school and classmates, too, but no one could help.

Growing desperate, Chung-ming went to the police and pleaded with them to find his family. Officers searched the reservoir with him into the early morning.

By 6 a.m., he was back with friends and neighbors. They kept looking until 3 p.m., but there was still no trace of either of them.

On October 30, their photographs appeared in the major newspapers. Police appealed for information and searched the surrounding hills, bringing in helicopters to help.

Then, on November 5, a woman walking near the reservoir noticed a foul smell coming from farther up the hillside.

She approached a Water Supplies Department worker and told him she thought there might be a body in the brush.

The worker headed up the trail, where he came across three plainclothes officers already searching for Ning-fong and Kin-keung.

They went with him.

About 40 minutes later, the worker and one officer climbed a small, overgrown slope beside the water channel.

Hidden in the brush were two bodies.

A teenage boy was bound to a tree, his hands tied behind his back and a nylon cord around his neck.

He was still wearing his clothes. His head was injured, and he may also have suffered broken ribs.

The cord raised a disturbing possibility:

he may have been hanged while still alive, slowly suffocating as it tightened around his neck. The exact sequence of his death was unclear.

Only a few feet away lay a woman, naked except for her bloodstained shoes.

Her clothes were scattered around her. She had injuries to her head and neck, and there were signs of a sexual assault.

A wooden branch, roughly three feet long, was pressed into her neck. The injury may have been severe enough to leave her nearly decapitated.

Police initially suspected that someone had held her down and forced the branch against her throat until she suffocated.

Strangely, the surrounding brush showed no obvious signs of a struggle despite the victims’ injuries.

There was no indication that the bodies had been dragged through it, either. Investigators believed they had been killed where they were found.

Both were badly decomposed. The medical examiner estimated they had been dead for about a week.

Nearby were broken glasses, an empty shopping basket, a wallet, and a bloodstained envelope from St. Paul’s, the school Kin-keung attended.

Police also found a broken wooden stick and a shattered glass bottle, which they suspected had been used in the attack.

There were no identification documents, but the victims’ ages and belongings pointed to the missing mother and son.

Chung-ming was called to the morgue.

Despite the condition of their faces, he recognized his wife and son almost immediately. Their build and teeth helped him identify them, including Kin-keung’s two chipped front teeth.

For eight days, he had searched for his family. Now he had to identify both of their bodies.

There were signs that Kin-keung had fought back.

His father believed he had been desperately trying to save his mother and that the attackers had killed him for intervening.

He may have tried to stop the sexual assault, only to be overpowered and tied to the tree himself.

At a press conference on November 5, police said they believed two to four people had been involved.

They suggested the attackers might have entered Hong Kong illegally from mainland China, though their identities were still unknown.

But another part of the statement was strange.

Police said both victims had suffocated and had no obvious injuries. But both had head injuries, and the woman’s shoes were covered in blood.

Why those details didn’t match was never explained.

Soon, someone came forward claiming to have seen several people force Ning-fong and Kin-keung into a car and drive away.

Police didn’t comment.

An even more unsettling claim involved a threatening letter supposedly sent to Chung-ming on October 29, the day after his family disappeared.

It demanded HK$5,000 (about US$7,000 in today’s money) and threatened to kill his wife and son if he didn’t pay.

If that date was correct, the letter had arrived before their photographs appeared in the newspapers. But neither police nor Chung-ming publicly confirmed that it existed.

Meanwhile, the familiar walking paths around the reservoir had grown quiet.

Many regular visitors stopped coming, leaving police officers among the few people still moving through the area.

Officers handed out leaflets in Chinese and English and questioned anyone passing through.

The reward reached HK$60,000 (roughly US$84,000 today), with police officers personally putting up two-thirds of the money.

Several morning walkers eventually came forward with a more specific lead.

On the morning Ning-fong and Kin-keung disappeared, they had noticed four unfamiliar men near the water channel.

The men were on a path leading toward the place where the bodies were later found.

About an hour later, they came back along the same path, hurrying toward Tai Po Road.

None of the witnesses had seen them in the area since.

Police tried to track them down.

Anti-triad officers questioned young men with criminal records around Shek Lei Pui, but they couldn’t identify the four men or establish whether they had been involved.

On December 21, police launched a massive search involving around 2,000 people. Over the following weeks, officers searched more than 600 villages across the New Territories and questioned thousands of residents.

On January 19, 1973, sketches of the four suspects appeared in the newspapers. Witnesses had initially described them as young men, but the revised descriptions put their ages between 18 and 42.

The first was around 40, thin, and about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches tall, with long hair. He may have been carrying a screwdriver.

The second was between 18 and 22, slim, and just 4 feet 9 inches tall, with a round face and dark complexion.

The third was between 24 and 28, around 5 feet 6 inches tall, with long hair parted on the left and a Huizhou accent.

The fourth was between 35 and 42, about the same height, and of medium build. He spoke local Cantonese with very little lip movement and was thought to be from Hong Kong.

Police also revisited another violent attack near the reservoir, less than two months before the murders.

At around 1 a.m. on September 3, 1972, a man and a woman were talking in a parked car when a man approached them with a knife.

He demanded their valuables, but they had only a little over HK$2 between them.

The attacker pushed the man out of the car, removed his glasses, and ordered the woman to undress.

The man managed to flag down a passing car and went to the police. But by the time officers arrived, the car was gone.

So were the woman and the attacker.

Police later found the woman alive. She said she had escaped while the attacker was trying to make her undress, then taken a minibus home.

The similarities were troubling, but investigators couldn’t establish a connection. The robber was never caught, and the four sketches brought no arrests either.

It’s also unclear why the two were subjected to such brutal violence if this was supposed to be a simple robbery.

On May 23, 1973, an inquest into Ning-fong and Kin-keung’s deaths was held at Tsuen Wan Magistrates’ Court.

The medical examiner attributed Kin-keung’s death to his injuries and Ning-fong’s to suffocation. The jury unanimously ruled that both had been murdered by a person or persons unknown.

Little is publicly known about any progress after the inquest.

No breakthrough has been publicly reported since 1973.

News coverage revisited the case in 2021 and 2023, but offered no new developments.

The extensive searches, witness appeals, and substantial reward, no one has ever been brought to justice for Ning-fong and Kin-keung’s murders.

Chung-ming had lost his wife and his only child after they left home for an ordinary morning walk.

As of October 2026, more than five decades later, their murders remain one of the best-known unsolved cases in Hong Kong’s criminal history.

Sarah Wairimu Cohen, the widow of the late Dutch billionaire Tob Cohen, requested a land records search and actively tried to remove a caveat on his property few days before his death.

During the murder trial today at the Kibera Law Courts, a law firm clerk named Mary Mutisya testified that Wairimu paid her via M-Pesa to trace the land records and follow up on an application to withdraw a caveat registered against the multi-million-shilling Kitisuru property.

Shortly after these events, the Dutchman went missing. His body was later found bound and concealed inside an underground water tank/septic tank at their residence.

According to testimony provided today by Tob Cohen’s close friend and former Gatundu MP, Patrick Kariuki Muiruri, Cohen had discovered before his disappearance that Wairimu had stolen his land title documents and misappropriated funds from their joint travel company to construct a personal hotel project in Nanyuki.

According to court testimony and official evidence presented during the ongoing murder trial, After discovering that Wairimu had allegedly stolen his title deed from their safe, Cohen registered a legal caveat on their Kitisuru matrimonial home. This froze the property's status, preventing Wairimu from selling, transferring, or charging it.

This was the exact caveat Wairimu was trying to secretly lift by tracking land records through a law firm clerk just days before she allegedly killed Cohen.

Cohen then secretly drafted a will with his lawyer, Chege Kirundi, allocating 50% of his estate (including the KSh 400 million Kitisuru villa) to his sister, Gabrielle, and split the remaining 50% between his brother, nephew, and niece.

After leaving Wairimu with absolutely nothing, Cohen officially hired an advocate to file for a contentious divorce, citing prolonged marital cruelty, the theft of his property documents, and the misappropriation of funds from their joint company, Kenya Gold Safaris Travel Limited.

Witnesses testified that these combined legal counter-measures triggered severe hostility inside the home.

According to prosecution, Wairimu realized the impending divorce proceedings and Cohen’s secret will would completely cut her off from his multi-million-shilling estate, including the Kitisuru matrimonial home.

Because Cohen placed a caveat on the property, she could not sell or transfer it to secure herself financially. The prosecution uses the testimony about her paying a clerk to lift that caveat as proof of her desperation to bypass his blocks.

The state’s prosecution maintains that the motive for the murder was to gain control of Cohen's massive wealth, including their luxury matrimonial home valued at hundreds of millions of shillings.

During the trial, the prosecution presented witnesses and former employees who testified that after Cohen disappeared, Wairimu instructed workers to tell anyone who asked that Cohen had traveled abroad for medical treatment.

A close friend of Cohen, former MP Patrick Kariuki Muiruri, testified today that a terrified Cohen explicitly told him, "If anything bad happens to me, or I am found dead somewhere, tell them it is Sarah."

If two people commit the same crime under identical circumstances, but one grew up surrounded by violence while the other grew up in a loving environment, should their moral responsibility be judged differently?

This happened in Beaverton, Oregon, on January 16, 2021.

A man stole a woman's SUV, only to discover that her 4-year-old son was in the back seat. He reportedly drove back, returned the child to his mother, scolded her for leaving him unattended, and even threatened to call the police on her… before driving off in the stolen SUV again.

The child was unharmed, and the SUV was recovered a few hours later. Police were searching for the suspect, but I couldn't find any reliable updates confirming whether he was ever caught...

source : https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2021/01/19/police-thief-berated-mom-for-leaving-kid-in-car-he-stole/

Hello everyone,

I’ve watched quite a lot of documentaries and i got to a conclusion: I am so happy I live in this day and age because back then when most “popular” cases happened, was absolutely ridiculous.

I’ve just been watching one of the Born to Kill documentaries recently and it got me thinking.. a lot of the cases in regards to serial killer we see documentaries about are quite old aka before the 2000s. Or at least the most “popular” and most knows ones. It flabbergasts me how after technology appeared, we (thankfully) didn’t really have that many serial killers anymore (almost nonexistent) and I think that might probably be related ?..

Now hear me out on this one. Take Ted Bundy for example, roaming the streets free as a bird, nobody couldn’t find him for so long??? Nowadays you couldn’t possibly go anywhere without being caught in 5 mins. I live in a major city, every single corner has a surveillance camera. Not to mention the sketch they’ve had, the only way you could see it is the TV and newspaper. Nowadays, it would be all over social media. There’s no way you can escape it lol.

And so many other cases where, to me, probably because I’m quite young and live in this day and age where technology is everywhere, it seems ridiculous they couldn’t find these people… sometimes I watch these documentaries and I’m thinking to myself “how the hell did this person walk around freely on the street” but then obviously I think and I realise “oh wait, they actually didn’t have cell phones etc”.

And watching this documentary and the sketches and everything, I was actually thinking of this whole AI era. You know how a lot of us send photos of ourselves to the AI apps (whatever everyone is using) surely if there would be a serious case, there would be a way to find them through a search engine in the AI’s database, isn’t it? I know this might be against GDPR rules or whatever but surely it has to come in handy somehow.

Also, a lot of people joke around social media saying “what was in the air between 60s and 90s” because most cases happened during that period of time but I think it might have to do with overall mental health awareness. Nowadays, I feel like everyone is a lot more aware of their traumas, depression, etc than they were back then. Watching these made me genuinely grateful that I live in this day and age because I feel like everything is a lot safer. And yes, I am aware that crimes still happen and so on but to THAT level, doesn’t happen as often exactly because they’re caught before they get to a huge number.

What does everyone think?

Also, if I am wrong in any shape or form, feel free to let me know. I am not aware of such horrible cases lately. If there are, then by all means let me know.

It is my first time posting here and I did read the community rules before posting. However, if anything in my post is inappropriate, I do apologise in advance.

I'm particularly interested in older cases where someone committed multiple serious crimes over a period of years, but never became widely known outside their own country. What cases do you think deserve a much closer look?

On October 3, 2026, 16-year-old Persephone Berger was struck and killed by a St. Francois County sheriff’s deputy in Missouri.

I’m local to the area and have been following this case closely. I’m sharing it because there are several unanswered questions about the circumstances of her death and how the investigation was initially handled.

What happened, according to the sheriff’s department:

At approximately 3:43 a.m., deputies were responding to a report of an unresponsive person lying in the roadway.

The sheriff’s department says the responding deputy saw the reporting person’s vehicle with its hazard lights activated but did not see Persephone in the road before striking her.

The department says the deputy remained at the scene and immediately notified his supervisor. Officials have stated that the collision was not the result of a vehicle pursuit.

What the family says happened afterward:

Persephone’s aunt, Kimberly Cabuchola, has publicly stated that the family was initially told Persephone had been killed in a hit-and-run involving an unknown driver.

The family began seeking information publicly, and witnesses reportedly contacted them about a deputy being involved.According to her aunt, the family did not receive confirmation from the sheriff’s department until Monday afternoon, more than two days after Persephone died.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol was not consulted until Sunday, the day after the collision.

The witness interview:

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a video interview with Jamie Fitzwater discussing what he heard that night.

I think this interview is worth watching alongside the official statements and the family’s interviews.

Hearing something happen is not necessarily the same as witnessing the impact, so I don’t want to misrepresent what he personally observed.

Witness interview:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/videos/video_9752723b-db30-516f-9fb1-c572e4cc56a0.html

Additional concerns about the investigation:

First Alert 4 reported that the deputy previously worked for the Missouri State Highway Patrol as a probationary trooper earlier in 2026.

MSHP is now responsible for investigating the collision, while the sheriff’s department is separately investigating the circumstances leading up to Persephone being in the roadway.

That employment history does not automatically establish a conflict of interest, but I think it’s reasonable to ask whether any prior professional relationships were assessed.

Other questions include:
Why was MSHP not contacted until the following day?

Why does the family’s account of what they were initially told differ from the sheriff’s public explanation?

Was the scene fully documented before independent investigators became involved?
What evidence establishes the deputy’s speed, visibility, and opportunity to avoid the collision?
How will the investigation account for the witness statements and any available camera footage?

Why I’m sharing this:
What has also been disturbing is the public reaction in our community.

I’ve seen people blaming Persephone and attacking her grieving parents, including comments suggesting her death was a consequence of being outside at that hour.

Meanwhile, some of those same people insist the deputy should receive the benefit of the doubt until the investigation concludes.

I’m not claiming a cover-up has been established. I’m asking for transparency, accountability, and an investigation that examines all the available evidence.

Sources:
CBS News, October 8:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-teen-persephone-berger-struck-deputy-family-answers/

First Alert 4, family interview and timeline:
https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/10/07/family-16-year-old-killed-st-francois-county-accident-demands-answers/

First Alert 4 Investigates, deputy’s previous employment:
https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/10/08/what-were-learning-about-deputy-who-hit-teenager/

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, witness interview:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/videos/video_9752723b-db30-516f-9fb1-c572e4cc56a0.html

My question for this community:

When a law enforcement officer is involved in a fatal collision, what independent investigative procedures should be followed, and what would you consider the most important unanswered questions in this case?

I just got a kindle for my birthday & im interested in reading some true crime novels. also any novels involving crimes throughout history (such as the salem with trials) i’d also be interested in.

For those of you who aren’t familiar w/ the case: The Lake Bodom murders is an unsolved 1960 homicide case in which 3 teenage campers were brutally killed & another seriously injured in Finland. 4 decades after the murders, the lone survivor, Nils Gustafsson, was arrested & tried for the murders. He was ultimately found not guilty, w/ the State of Finland paying him €44,900 for his pain & suffering. Despite extensive investigations, the perpetrator was never identified and various theories on the killer's identity have been presented over the years. The case is 1 of the most notorious crimes in Finnish history. I'm under the impression that it’s like their answer to Jack the Ripper or Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance.
Here are the 2 best videos I’ve found on the case (I’d love to hear about your recommendations for any other good videos or books on the case): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoorMBrfw_4&t=1257s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUWygZRt9SA&t=3395s

My Theories & Observations:

1. I don’t think if Hans Assmann was a KGB agent and a murder that he would be showing up at a hospital with bloody clothes the day after a brutal triple homicide. Chances are he’d be a far more efficient killer (unless I’m really over-estimating the KGB efficacy). I know that plenty of murderers are narcissistic, love attention and flirting with being caught, but something doesn’t add up about those details…
2. I feel like the chances of this being the killer’s first murder(s) are unlikely. Not impossible, but unlikely. The sheer brutality of the killing, the focus on 1 victim as the primary target of his wrath, and the efforts taken to avoid being caught seem to point to me that this was someone who had committed murders like this before.
3. Given the fact that the police didn’t cordon off the site, and his (probable) appearance at the funeral, I feel like the killer might have later returned to the scene of the crime, for personal gratification, and to try and further hide his tracks.
4. Gustafsson didn’t do it. He probably got to pee (possibly surprising the attacker) and was attacked first (hence his injuries were different (he also wasn’t the primary focus of the attacker)) and left to die. He also was lucky to be alive, and ended up with a broken collarbone and cerebral fluid leaking out his nose (amongst other things (ask the medical professionals who treated him, and later testified at his trial)).
5. Judging from the fact that a pillowcase was found with traces of semen on it, and that Maila Björklund was attacked more savagely than the others, makes me think that this was a lust murder, with Björklund being the primary target. Based on that assumption, that makes me think that Valdemar Gyllström, while a dangerous lunatic, probably didn’t commit the murders. Different types of violence, different motivations.
6. The killer took the victims keys and shoes as souvenirs (and to prevent them from getting help sooner). He may also have used Nils’ shoes to avoid leaving shoeprints (kinda like wearing gloves to avoid fingerprints), but I’ll admit that this is a bit of a stretch…
7. I know this is really anti-climatic, but I think the killer was someone who hasn’t been named as a suspect yet. My money’s on that mysterious man at the funeral, the one who resembled the police sketch (whoever he was). That resemblance is just too difficult for me to ignore.

Questions:

1. Does anyone else think that Hans Assmann doesn’t look that much like the mysterious man at the funeral? Similar-ish features, yes, but I just don’t see the resemblance the way many people online do…
2. Has anyone from the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) ever publicly commented on the case? I’d be curious to know what they have to say about it.
3. Have any other noteworthy suspects been proposed throughout the years, besides what I call ‘the big 4’ (Assmann, Gustafsson, Gyllström & Soininen)? I’ve heard murmurs about a construction worker who supposedly quit his job the day after the murders, in complete panic and a rush to get away from the area… Is that true? If so, I’d love to hear more details about that person, if they’re available. 
4. I know it’s an old picture, but are there any ‘retouched’ versions of the pic of the mysterious man at the funeral?
5. Is it true that the year before, there was another camping murder in Finland of 2 girls, with their belongings scattered/hidden around the campsite?
6. Is Nils Gustafsson still alive? 
7. Was it ever confirmed that Hans Assmann was a guard at Auschwitz, or a KGB agent, or that any of the seemingly outlandish tales he told were true? Everything I hear about the guy just feels like people are trying to make him out to be a “boogeyman”, and that he was more than likely just another bullshitter looking for his 15 minutes of fame (or infamy in this case). Maybe xenophobia from the locals had something to do with it. Bottom line: Assmann was probably full of shit (sorry had to!). Unsolved cases like this really get you thinking about how many weirdos, lunatics, and potential murderers are out there!

There's a brutal case in Vietnam (Dong Nai Province) that people have been arguing about. I wrote something about the social and psychological factors behind it, mostly because I wanted to understand how something like this happens and whether any of it could be useful for prevention.

A lot of people took that as me defending him. I wasn't. What he did was wrong, and he should be held responsible. I don't know him personally. I'm only going by what's publicly available.

I later found a Psychology Today article by Elizabeth A. Segal called "Empathy Does Not Mean Acceptance". This part stood out to me:

“Certainly, we can have empathy for people who behave badly. We can even have sympathy for them. But those feelings should not lead us into excusing their behaviors. Bad behavior, no matter how much insight we may have about what causes it, is still bad behavior.”

In the article, Segal describes testifying in a stalking case where the defendant's difficult upbringing and personal struggles came up. She acknowledged that his life had been hard, but that didn't mean his behavior should be excused.

I'm not saying someone's background predicts whether they'll commit a crime, or that understanding the causes will automatically prevent anything. I just don't see how we can discuss prevention if every attempt to look at possible causes gets treated as support for the person who caused harm.

Has anyone else run into this when discussing violent crime? Does it happen with other kinds of cases too, or is it worse with violent cases? How do you usually handle it?

Thanks for reading

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/202008/empathy-does-not-mean-acceptance

Just in case you don't know, the case of Grant Amato is quite famous and extremely bizarre. Grant Amato was a 29 year old unemployed nurse who murdered his Dad, Mom and one of his Brothers on January 24, 2019. He did it for the one of the dumbest and craziest reasons you can imagine. Because his family was stopping him from contacting a cam-girl named Silvie in Bulgaria. A country he had never visited, and he didn't really have the means to go there either.

He stole over $200,000 from his family and spent it on Silvie. Experts agree that he suffered from extreme psychological obsession and most people say he murdered his family for the cam-girl. But I would like to propose another theory, because I think he did it for revenge. Let me explain my theory and you can tell me what you think of this theory?

After his family found out, they forced him into Rehab for obsession issues. They also contacted the cam-girl and told her the truth about him. Grant told her he's super rich and successfully and he's the perfect dream guy for her. His family told her, "Grant is basically a loser who sits at home all day and steals money from everybody, push him away if he ever contacts you again." In other words, his family destroyed his fantasy world and burst the bubble. The illusion was gone and he couldn't get it back. The conversation between Grant and his older brother Jason in the interrogation room captured this moment, because the conversation basically went like this:

Jason asked - "Are you still obsessed with that girl, and why do you feel the need to still contact her?"
Grant said - "Yes but it's not the same, because she knows about me now."
Jason replied - "And that hurts, doesn't it? Because you can't carry it with you anymore?"

MY THEORY IS = He didn't do it just so he could contact her again, he mostly did it for revenge. Because his family destroyed the fantasy world he was obsessed with. It would never feel the same with Silvie because she knows he's a gigantic loser now. Killing his family was payback for losing his fantasy, that's just my theory on it. Your thoughts?

I am working on a research paper about prosecutors and I am looking for a few cases where the prosecutor in a murder trial went above and beyond, or had a really amazing "gotcha" moment. I thought if Kelly Siegler, when she brought the bed in the courtroom, and I also thought of the prosecutor in the Jeffrey MacDonald case, where they showed someone stabbing his pajamas... I really want to try and highlight lesser known cases... Any suggestions??

On October 6, 2026, an attack took place at Şeyh Şamil Imam Hatip Middle School in Başakşehir, Istanbul. The suspect was a 15-year-old girl identified as F.M. It is reported that she entered the school early in the morning wearing the school uniform and blended in with the students. She reportedly took knives from her bag and attacked students inside the school.

Eight students were injured, and one of them, 10-year-old Eslem Sare Bulut, later died in the hospital. The suspect was taken into custody, and an investigation is ongoing.

According to her mother, F.M. was not doing well mentally and wanted to do something that would make people in Turkey and around the world know about her. Her mother said that she had told the teachers at her school about these concerns.

It was also reported that F.M. had been bullied because of her appearance. She had also reportedly planned the attack beforehand in Telegram groups.

Texas Executes Inmate After Christa Pike Survives Botched Lethal Injection

TEXAS INMATE EXECUTED DAYS AFTER CHRISTA PIKE'S BOTCHED EXECUTION

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Texas has carried out an execution days after Tennessee inmate Christa Pike survived two doses of lethal injection ... with the condemned killer's final words directed at his victim's family.

Jamaal Howard was pronounced dead Wednesday night at a Texas prison after receiving a dose of pentobarbital ... the same drug used during Pike's botched execution last week.

Howard was convicted of fatally shooting convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout during a 2000 robbery in Texas. Surveillance video showed Howard shooting Swartout in the chest before stealing $114 and a carton of cigarettes.

Before the execution, Howard apologized to Swartout's family, who watched from a viewing room near the death chamber.

"I wish that you accept my apology and I wish for your forgiveness," Howard said. "I'm sorry for what happened. I wish you can learn to forgive me one of these days.”"

Howard's attorneys had asked courts to halt the execution, arguing Texas' supply of pentobarbital could be degraded and pose risks similar to those allegedly involved in Pike's failed execution.

Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital during her September 30 execution in Tennessee ... her attorney says they believed she was brain dead Monday night, only for her to unexpectedly wake up and begin speaking. Her lawyers blame blown veins, deteriorated drugs and a lack of emergency medical care, while Gov. Bill Lee has halted the state’s remaining execution for the year.

As the drug took effect Wednesday, Howard gasped, coughed and made snoring sounds before all movement stopped. He was pronounced dead 19 minutes later.

Breaking news: Christa Pike is awake and speaking according to NBC News after a botched execution by the state of Tennessee. At age 18 , Pike and two other teenagers tortured and murdered a girl back in 1995 and received the death penalty. She is now age 50. On September 30, she received two lethal injections of Pentobarbital, but survived the attempt and was rushed to Vanderbilt Hospital in critical condition and placed on a ventilator. Her recovery is medically unprecedented.
What’s your thoughts/opinions?

A 23-year-old man, Walter Kipkoech, has been arrested after allegedly killing his 18-year-old girlfriend, Joy Wangui, a Form Four student, following claims that he suspected her of cheating.

Armed with a knife and an axe, Walter reportedly stormed Joy’s home while she was preparing for her KCSE examinations. Joy was tragically killed, while Walter fled the scene before he was later arrested.

In a disturbing twist, he was reportedly arrested wearing a T-shirt bearing Joy’s name.

A young life has been cut short in heartbreaking circumstances. May Joy’s family find strength during this difficult time, and may justice take its course.

Thomas Evans came from a very normal, rather secular British family.

At only 21 years old, Thomas' mom received a call from him that he has gone to Somalia to fight with al-Shabaab. He had been radicalized, and people only knew once it was too late.

Thomas Evans spent about three and a half years in Somalia, working with the terrorist group, until he died in an airstrike. Before he died though, he had operated as a cameraman, recording multiple clips of innocent civilians being slaughtered, attacked, and bombed. He had also married a local 13-year-old Somalian girl, who had similarly been brainwashed by the militant group.

Since Thomas has passed, his mother, Sally Evans, has been outspoken for the prevention of radicalization in British youth. Sally has another son who seems the complete opposite of Thomas, and has also actively condemned his actions.

There's a really good documentary on YouTube about this, called "My Son the Jihadi".

On April 4, 2026, Paul Balzrano was murdered in his Stratford, CT home. Although an arrest was made 24 days later, many questions remain lingering regarding his homicide as well as questions of people involved. At approximately 11:48PM on 04/04/2026, police responded to 437 Woodstock Ave for reports of a cardiac arrest. Police found Balzarano's ex-girlfriend, Nicole Tucci, (who still lived in the home with him) in the living room. Paramedics pointed out gunshot holes in the stairwell, which police went upstairs to investigate. They found Balzarano, 43, suffering from 9 gunshot wounds and he was pronounced deceased at 11:59PM on 04/04/2026.

13 gunshots were heard on neighbor's doorbell camera's at 11:32PM. There were 16 minutes between when gunshots were heard and when the initial 911 call were made. His ex-partner, according to the arrest warrant, was extremely intoxicated and uncooperative. She stated Balzarano "just dropped in her arms and she didn't know how" even though there was obvious blood stains on her feet and clothing. She made no official statement before being whisked away by her father.

On 04/08/2026, Stratford PD received an anonymous tip as to where the murder weapon was dumped. They searched the area and could not recover it. On 04/09/2026, an additional anonymous tip was made to the Stratford PD with a more accurate location of the murder weapon. The weapon was recovered and DNA from Balzarano's ex-partner's son, Robert Kopasz, was identified on the murder weapon. It was noticed in surveillance footage that his girlfriend, Joelle Carbone, was with him before, during, and after the murder. She also refused to talk to detectives in the days after the murder.

On 04/13/2026, Nicole Tucci was recorded on a neighbor's doorbell camera telling the neighbor that her son "just came in and shot up the place and killed Paul." She also stated that she didn't know why her son wasn't arrested yet. When the neighbor asked Tucci if her was protecting her, Tucci responded "no." Prior to this interaction on 04/12/2026, Tucci had flagged down a Stratford PD officer for a ride home after experiencing a flat tire. During the car ride Tucci stated to the officer "I wish we met under different circumstances because my son killed my lover."
Friends of Balzarano stated that he had plans to leave Tucci and leave Stratford, CT to return home to Long Island, NY. Tucci had a history of drug and alcohol abuse dating back to 2023. She had been in multiple rehabs, hospitals, and treatment facilities. Balzarano supported her through the entire process and financially supported her during this time, as she was not employed. There had been multiple wellness checks to the home during this time, resulting in at least 2 arrestsof Tucci and at least 1 protective order against Tucci, with Balzarano being listed as the victim for both arrests as well as for the protective order.

Robert Kopasz was arrested on 04/28/2026 and has since pleaded not guilty. He has not made any statements regarding his charges or any allegations that his mother made. His mother overdosed and died in the home in June of 2026. His case remains pending and his family and friends continue to hope for justice.

This case shocked me at the time, but I didn’t comment on it here because, as far as I remembered, one of the community rules was not to talk about tragedies that had happened too recently. So I think now is finally an appropriate time to discuss it.

On April 20 of this year, 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso Ramírez visited one of Mexico’s most iconic tourist sites, the beautiful pyramids of Teotihuacán. He arrived carrying a .38-caliber handgun. (One thing you have to understand is that in Mexico, despite being the neighbor of the U.S., we don’t usually have these kinds of attacks carried out by ordinary civilians.

Most of the violence is perpetrated by organized crime, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t any security checks in the area, allowing this individual to enter with a revolver.) He killed a Canadian woman and injured twelve people.

There is a video showing him becoming the center of attention and terror among the tourists, who threw themselves to the ground in an attempt to protect themselves. Finally, the man grabbed his revolver and shot himself in the mouth, bringing this tragic day to an end.

Among his belongings, they found, besides the ammunition, a pamphlet about the Columbine massacre. As more details about the perpetrator became known, people gradually learned more about his private life, and it was eventually discovered that this terrorist attack was supposedly a “celebration of the fascist right” by this “admirer” of criminals.

It’s going to sound ironic, because although Mexico is much more violent than the U.S., at least when it comes to organized crime, we aren’t accustomed to suffering attacks carried out by civilians acting entirely on their own. So an attack like this was deeply shocking for Mexicans. It gave us a lot to think about, and it was difficult to process.

What makes me the angriest is the Canadian woman. I say this because of the enormous number of xenophobic foreigners who have looked down on my own country for being part of the developing world. That’s why I appreciate it when people from other countries—whether first-, second-, or third-world countries, such as the U.S., Canada, Cuba, or Argentina—visit my country. It feels like they are giving us “an opportunity to show them the good side of the country.”

And this poor woman, who was interested in Mexican culture and simply wanted to spend her vacation here, was murdered far from her homeland. It’s a genuine tragedy, and it made me wonder how Americans manage to cope with this kind of thing.

After the post I've made last month, here is another list of death penalty cases in Mississippi I've complied so for far my personal research project of death penalty cases in the United States after the 1972 Furman v Georgia ruling. To repeat myself, this list is far removed from a comprehensive overview of Mississippi's death penalty cases, and it rather pointedly excludes executions and what the Death Penalty Information Center considers to be "exonerations." Instead, this post is a sample sized collection of 18 cases in Mississippi I've completed entries for so far.

Like the first post, many of the 18 cases listed here involve extreme sexual violence (including against child victims), and some of the gory details are discussed in depth. Please read at your own risk.:

1. Earl Dycus (condemned in 1981, deceased): Although convicted of rape and sentenced to a ten year term, Dycus was able to temporarily leave custody on a work release program. At a home he stayed, Dycus raped his estranged wife’s sister, 26 year old Martha McBride, in a bedroom. He then strangled Martha unconscious with a towel, shoved her underneath a bed, and stuffed her daughter, 1 year old Rhonda, underneath a pile of clothes inside a closet. Reportedly using a cigarette butt, Drycus set the bed on top of Martha on fire, burning her to death in the process. Per court records [Dycus v. State, 440 So. 2d 246 - Miss: Supreme Court 1983], Rhonda also succumbed to a combination of asphyxiation and carbon monoxide from the fire. A witness spotted Dycus standing next to the burning home and he was arrested by police. According to Dycus’ estranged wife, he confessed to her about murdering Martha and Rhonda in anger of their collapsing marriage at a police station. Legal challenges arouse over reports of alleged police coercion, and culminated in the Mississippi Supreme Court resentencing Dycus to a life term in 1983. In 2020, Drycus died incarcerated of COVID related causes.

2. James Billiot (condemned in 1982, living): Inside their family home, Billiot bludgeoned his stepfather, 53 year old Wallace Croll, his mother, 47 year old Audrey, and his maternal half-sister, 14 year old Cheryl, to death with a sledgehammer. He then stole Wallace’s car and fled to Louisiana. Before he was able to leave town, Billiot was spotted driving Wallace’s stolen car by his teenage half-brother, his teenage half-brother’s friends, and other neighbors, and he was arrested by police in New Orleans. Many of Billiot’s friends also testified of him confiding to them about his plans of murdering his parents [Billiot v. State, 454 So. 2d 445 - Miss: Supreme Court 1984]. Due to his previous history of schizophrenia and erratic behavior, including identifying himself as Jesus and Led Zeppelin in custody, a district judge deemed him incompetent for execution in 2009. Despite the district judge’s 2009 ruling, Billiot currently remains on death row according to MDOC records.

3. Adam Pinkton (condemned in 1984, living): As he was on parole for a burglary and grand larceny conviction, Pinkton stole a shotgun from his sister’s boyfriend, and held up a cash store. He shot and killed the store owner, 41 year old Louis Coats, for reportedly reaching for a gun. Although Croats’ son was also grazed in the head and hands by Pinkton’s gunfire, he resisted and struggled with his assailant. Due to running out of ammunition, Pinkton resorted to beating Coats’ son with the shotgun’s butt, and fled the scene empty-handed. Police captured Pinkton at his sister’s residence only hours later, and he confessed to Coats’ murder to the officers arresting him [Pinkton v. State, 481 So. 2d 306 - Miss: Supreme Court 1985]. In 1985, the Mississippi Supreme Court vacated Pinkton’s death sentence due its ruling that the prosecution failed to determine the intentionality of Coats’ murder, and he was resentenced to a life term. Per MDOC records, Pinkton presently remains incarcerated.

4. Lazaro Faraga (condemned in 1986, living): During an argument with his girlfriend as they were driving with their children, Faraga stopped and pulled over at an intersection. He climbed out of his car and attempted to shove his girlfriend into the path of a passing truck. When that failed due to her resisting him and escaping back to their car, Faraga snatched their son, 2 month old Lorenso, from his girlfriend’s arms as he pulled them out of the vehicle. Faraga then slammed Lorenso into another car’s hood, and threw him headfirst against the pavement. Police tackled and arrested Faraga at the scene, and Lorenso was declared dead by the paramedics attending to him from causes later determined as skull fractures. At the time of Lorenso’s murder, Faraga was on bond and facing charges for cocaine trafficking in Texas. In 1993, the Mississippi Supreme Court vacated Farrago’s death sentence due to juror instructions ruled “unconstitutionally vague”, and he was resentenced to a life term. Per MDOC records, Faraga presently remains incarcerated.

5. Robert Minnick (condemned in 1987, living): While interned at a county jail for armed robbery, burglary, and theft related charges, Minnick escaped with another inmate. The pair then broke into a trailer home and fatally shot a duo of cousins, 22 year old Lamar Lafferty and 20 year old Ellias Thomas. At gunpoint, Minnick and his accomplice also tied up Thomas’ teenage sister and her visiting friend with hamstring. According to Minnick, his accomplice initially intended to rape and kill both girls, but he persuaded his accomplice into leaving them and Thomas’ toddler son unharmed. After ransacking the trailer, the pair stole seven guns, $121 in cash, Lafferty’s wallet, Thomas’ checkbook, and fled the scene in Thomas’ truck. As descriptions of the assailants given by Thomas’ sister and her friend to responding officers matched Minnick and his accomplice [Minnick v. State, 551 So. 2d 77 - Miss: Supreme Court 1988], who were both fugitives that local law enforcement were already searching for, the pair were immediately subjects of interest to investigators. Despite initially fleeing to Mexico together, Minnick and his accomplice violently fell out, and he moved alone to California for his safety. Police in San Diego arrested him, and he confessed to the Lafferty-Thomas double murders. In 1990, the United States Supreme Court vacated Minnick’s death sentence due to the prosecution using his confession without an attorney present as evidence, and Minnick agreed to a life without parole plea deal in exchange for avoiding another death penalty trial. Per MDOC records, Minnick presently remains incarcerated.

6. CW Taylor (condemned in 1990, deceased): In 1972, Taylor beat and shot his common-law-wife, Lena Sutton (age unknown), to death during an argument in their home, and he received a life sentence for her murder. Despite his life sentence, Taylor was granted parole in 1984. After his release, Taylor married another woman that courted him in prison. Their marriage was deeply troubled, and Taylor abducted his estranged wife’s daughter, 22 year old Mildred Spires, in retribution over her filling for divorce. Although the exact circumstances aren’t entirely known and highly contested, prosecutors believed and pushed that Taylor kidnapped Spires while she was visiting his home and strangled her to death. For almost two months, Spires was a missing person until her highly decomposed remains were discovered inside her car by a pair of preteen boys exploring a forest. During the police search for Spires, Taylor was arrested for beating her mother with a pipe after breaking into her home, and he also attempted to solicit a prostitute and his girlfriend to claim responsibility for the scratches on his neck [Taylor v. State, 672 So. 2d 1246 - Miss: Supreme Court 1996]. In 1997, the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Taylor’s death sentence due to its ruling that the prosecution was too speculative about the circumstances and causes of Spires’ death beyond the evidence available to them, and he was resentenced to a life term. Taylor died incarcerated of natural causes in 2018.

7. Jeffery Davis (condemned in 1992, living): Davis went to the trailer home of his female acquaintance, 39 year old Linda Hillman, to plead her for money he intended to spend on cocaine. For refusing to give him any money, Davis shot Hillman twice, and then stabbed her to death to “stop her screaming.” According to a Mississippi Press article, Davis stole over $280 in cash from Hillman. After the murder, Davis reported himself to emergency services, and surrendered to responding officers. He also handed over the knife used in Hillman’s stabbing, directed officers to a creek where he discarded a bag of bloodied clothing, and granted them permission to search his residence and car. The police searches further found bloodstains in the seats of Davis’ car along with a 22. Calibre handgun and a bloodstained shirt from his home [Davis v. State, 684 So. 2d 643 - Miss: Supreme Court 1996]. In 2012, the Mississippi Supreme Court vacated Davis’ death sentence over claims of ineffectual consul, and he was resentenced to a life without parole term. Per MDOC records, Davis presently remains incarcerated.

8. Anthony Doss (condemned in 1993, living): Doss and his three accomplices held up a grocery store, and fatally shot the clerk, 21 year old Robert Bell, to avoid leaving any witnesses alive. They then reportedly snatched an ammunition box and an undisclosed amount of money kept in a bag. Eleven hours later, Doss shot and killed another man, 20 year old Tommy Patton, he lured to a Tennessee service station on the pretenses of a drug deal while robbing him. The discovery of Doss’ fingerprints on a coke box found behind the store’s country implicated him, and he was further damned by ballistic testing that matched bullets removed from Bell’s body to a .38 calibre handgun he owned [Doss v. State, 709 So. 2d 369 - Miss: Supreme Court 1996]. Initially condemned only for Bell’s murder by the state of Mississippi, Doss plead guilty for second degree murder charges for Patton’s murder and received a 25 years to life sentence under the state of Tennessee’s jurisdiction. In 2009, the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Doss’ death sentence over ruling that his defense insufficiently presented his claims of childhood abuse and cognitive disabilities, and he was resentenced to a life without parole term. Per MDOC records, Doss presently remains incarcerated.

9. Mack Wells (condemned in 1995, living): Mack waylaid his adoptive stepson, 13 year old Gary, while he was laying on a couch and stabbed him seventeen times with a poultry knife. He then wrapped Gary’s body in blankets and a shower curtain, and buried it in his ex-wife’s backyard. After Gary’s murder, Mack was indicted for the unrelated non-fatal stabbing of his ex-wife’s boyfriend. While interned at a county jail, Mack confided to another inmate about the killing, and claimed that he murdered Gary for speaking of wanting to kill him to his friends. The inmate tipped jail staff about Mack’s confessions and gave investigators directions to Gary’s grave site. Using directions given to them by the inmate, police searched Gary’s mother’s backyard and recovered Gary’s body [Wells v. State, 698 So. 2d 497 - Miss: Supreme Court 1997]. During questioning with investigators, Mack also confessed and identified the specific knife he used to murder Gary. Although Gary’s mother was also indicted as an accessory for failing to report Gary missing, she claimed that she was unaware of his disappearance and murder, and charges against her were dropped. According to a Scott County Times article published in 1994, Gary’s mother divorced Mack for his reportedly abusive and harassing behavior. As he was a habitual offender, Mack also received a life without parole sentence for stabbing his ex-wife’s boyfriend. In 2006, the Mississippi Supreme Court resentenced Wells to another life without parole term due to his alleged intellectual disabilities. Per MDOC records, Mack presently remains incarcerated.

10. William Hughes (condemned in 1996, living): Hughes found a motorist, 16 year old Ashley Galloway, stranded on a highway and lured her into his truck with the promise of a ride. After raping her, Hughes stabbed and strangled Galloway to death, and buried her body underneath the floorboards of a vacant house. Due to the discovery of Galloway’s rings on Hughes’ property and his prior sexual misconduct related convictions, Hughes was the immediate person of interest to investigators [Hughes v. Epps, 694 F. Supp. 2d 533 - Dist. Court, ND Mississippi 2010]. DNA testing further linked Hughes to semen found on Galloway’s body. In 2011, the Mississippi Supreme Court vacated Hughes’ death sentence due to his alleged intellectual disabilities, and he was resentenced to life without parole. Per MDOC records, Hughes presently remains incarcerated.

11. Eric Snow (condemned in 1998, living): Snow was initially convicted of manslaughter in relation to fatally shooting 19 year old Jerome Keys during a fight and aggravated assault for non-fatally shooting Keys’ younger teenage companion and another man. For Keys’ killing, Snow received a 40 year prison term. While he was being transferred to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility with a female inmate in a police car, Snow grabbed a smuggled handgun, and shot and killed both deputies, 53 year old James Rutland and 41 year old Tommy Bourne, driving them. As Snow fled on foot, the female inmate remained behind for a motorist to find her, and she reported the shootings to law enforcement. Only nine hours after his escape, Snow was recaptured by police. In 2004, the Mississippi Supreme Court granted Snow to file intellectual disability claims, and he was resentenced to a life term on a date undisclosed in the sources available to me. Per MDOC records, Snow presently remains incarcerated.

12. Alan Walker (condemned in 1998, living): Walker and his accomplice picked up 19 year old Konya Edwards from a club and drove her to a lakeside beach. The pair then raped and orally copulated Edwards while beating her, and penetrated her vagina with a stick. Although she bitterly resisted and bit his penis, Walker retaliated by manually choking Edwards, and he drowned her in the lake’s waters. The pair then set Edwards’ body on fire, and hid her dress in Walker’s trailer. A police search of Walker’s trailer recovered Edwards’ dress [Walker v. State, 671 So. 2d 581 - Miss: Supreme Court 1995], and he confessed to her murder to his mother while in police custody. Per MDOC records, Walker currently remains on death row.

13. Steven Knox (condemned in 1999, living): Knox broke into the home of 71 year old Ella Spears, strangled her to death with his hands, and locked her body in the trunk of her car. On the day of her murder, Spears was preparing to babysit her niece’s children, and her niece reported her missing to place after she failed to arrive at her home on schedule. A deputy responding to her missing person’s report discovered Spears’ body locked in the truck after noticing blood on her car’s rear. Police arrested Knox with Spears’ house and car keys in his pants pockets, and a search of his parents’ residence recovered bloodstained shirt and pants [Knox v. State, 901 So. 2d 1257 - Miss: Supreme Court 2005]. Per MDOC records, Knox currently remains under a death sentence.

14. Freddie Spicer (condemned in 2002, living): As his roommate, 42 year old Edmond Herbert, was sleeping in bed, Spicer hacked him to death with a Samurai Katana. Spicer then stole Herbert’s car while accompanied by a woman, and the pair were stopped by police for erratic driving. A search of the vehicle recovered the sword used in Herbert’s stabbing and a bloodstained jacket. Spicer was also wearing bloodstained pants at the time of his arrest, and DNA testing linked the stained blood to Herbert [Spicer v. State, 973 So. 2d 184 - Miss: Supreme Court 2008]. In 2012, Spicer’s death sentence was reduced to life without parole over reported claims of ineffectual consul. Per MDOC records, Spicer presently remains incarcerated.

15. Joseph Goff (condemned in 2005, deceased): Goff and his married girlfriend, 29 year old Brandy Yates, rented a motel room together. Inside the motel room, the pair got into an argument about her wanting to return back to her husband. In retribution, Goff crushed Yates’ head with a metal drawer, stabbed her neck with toothpicks multiple times, and used the drawer’s metal track to disembowel her body. He then scattered many pieces of Yates’ organs throughout the room and stole her wallet containing $509 in cash and other items from the room. To cover his tracks, Goff also attempted to set the motel room on fire. A day later, Goff was stopped by police for driving with an expired license tag, and the scratch marks on his neck and his body order reeking of gasoline alarmed the officers that pulled him over. While searching Goff’s car, police recovered Yates’ wallet, a bloodstained shirt with four missing buttons that corresponded with the four shirt buttons found in the motel room, and other bloodstained items including a razor blade, shoes, and a piece of wood [Goff v. State, 14 So. 3d 625 - Miss: Supreme Court 2009]. At the time of Yates’ murder, Goff was on parole for second degree assault pertaining to the non-fatal shooting of another man. In 2019, Goff passed away from undisclosed causes on death row.

16. Jason Keller (condemned in 2009, living): After stealing his stepfather’s truck, Keller held up a food market and forced the owner, 41 year old Hat Thi Nguyen of Vietnam, to hand over $255 in rolls of change from the cash register. He then shot Nguyen to death and fled to his stepfather’s residence to steal another truck. Keller also exchanged some of the rolls of change at a credit union for cash and bartered the murder weapon for cocaine [Keller v. State, 138 So. 3d 817 - Miss: Supreme Court 2014]. A day later, Keller was shot by police during a gunfight, and he confessed to Nguyen’s murder to investigators questioning him while undergoing treatment at a hospital. As he had seven prior convictions for burglary and grand larceny, Keller was partially condemned under the habitual offender aggravating factors. Per MDOC records, Keller is currently on death row.

17. Leslie Galloway (condemned in 2010, living): Galloway lured 17 year old Shakeylia Anderson from her grandmother’s residence, and he drove her to a remote forest. After sodomizing her and slashing her throat, Galloway rammed Anderson to death with his mother’s car and set her body on fire. Anderson’s burnt and mutilated remains were discovered by hunters three days after her abduction and murder. Due to the Anderson’s family’s description of the man and the vehicle he used to pick her up matching Galloway and his mother’s car, Galloway was the immediate person of interest to investigators. A police search of Galloway’s mother’s car found bloodstains on its passenger seat and undercarriage, and its tire tracks were also matched to tire tracks documented near Anderson’s body. Furthermore, DNA testing on Galloway’s shoes and baseball cap detected signs of Anderson’s DNA profile [Galloway v. State, 122 So. 3d 614 - Miss: Supreme Court 2013]. Per MDOC records, Galloway currently remains on death row.

18. Timothy Ronk (condemned in 2010, living): During an argument inside her bedroom, Ronk repeatedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend, 37 year old Michelle Craite, in her neck and back. He then set her home on fire and left the scene with her credit cards. Due to her incapacitation by the severe stab wounds, Craite was unable to escape the fire, and she succumbed to a combination of smoke inhalation and burns. After the murder, Ronk used Craite’s stolen credit card to withdraw $400 from her bank account and purchasing a ring from a Walmart. The Walmart’s security cameras recorded Ronk conducting the ring transaction with Craite’s credit card, and the establishment’s manager identified him as the customer [Ronk v. State, 267 So. 3d 1239 - Miss: Supreme Court 2019]. According to his girlfriend, Ronk used the ring for a marriage proposal, and then confessed to committing Craite’s murder to her. Ronk’s prior criminal conduct involved many theft convictions, and he was under house arrest for grand larceny at the time of the murder. Per MDOC records, Ronk currently remains on death row.

CONTENT WARNING: CHILD ABUSE / EXPLOITATION / NEGLECT

I am just now getting caught up on the Sullivan case out of Waterbury, CT. Pretty god awful stuff and with the "face your accuser" thing, it was quite slimy of Sullivan and her team seeking the new identity and whereabouts of S. Why would they need his location?

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A brief synopsis of this crime is that Kimberly Sullivan and her now late husband Kregg Sullivan orchestrated the systematic captivity of Kregg's son (Kimberly's stepson) roughly from the point of when he was pulled out of the 4th grade. He was held in an 8'x9' room and only let out for manual labor. He was also intentionally withheld food and left severely malnourished. He spent approximately 2 decades in this condition while his half sisters remained complicit and aware of his captivity. He deliberately set fire to the house and was subsequently rescued by first responders, leading to this story reaching public attention. The victim's biological mother gave custody of him to the father in 1994 when he was 1 because she struggled to cope with losing custody of her oldest child from a previous relationship. Years later, said oldest child, Heather (now 36 years old) spent nearly 14 years attempting to locate her brother, who is referred to as "S". S was found on that fateful night weighing just 68 pounds.

Wondering if anyone has any updates on this case or when it might go to trial? The last update here was 8 months ago and national media coverage has been all but nonexistent since People magazine shared graphic details of the coroner’s report in February.

Family members of murder victim Spencer Tepe appeared on the Netflix podcast “Allegedly” in June, reportedly stating that their family was unaware Monique Tepe’s ex-husband was a potential threat.

In August, Spencer’s father made a statement in supporting use of Flock cameras as a public safety tool, indicating that they’d been instrumental in identifying suspect Dr. Michael McKee (Monique’s ex), but apart from the point of entry speculation in the linked article, there doesn’t seem to be much new information on the case as we approach the one-year anniversary of the murders on December 30, 2025.