October 14, 2011Liberty, South CarolinaSusan Hendricks (48) kills four members of her family According to a statement Susan later told police, she unknowingly walked past a trail of blood in the living room to enter the kitchen to make coffee on the morning of October 14. She then noticed a note on the counter, written…
Woman fatally stabbed by son in her home
January 9, 2018 Downers Grove, Illinois Patricia James (pictured) is fatally stabbed in her home On the afternoon of January 9, neighbors called police upon seeing a man — later identified as Patricia’s son Kevin (23) — wandering in the street near Patricia’s home. Police responding to the scene found Kevin covered in blood in…
Body of teen, killed by his mother because he was gay, found
January 7, 2017 Cravinhos, São Paulo, Brazil The burned and decomposing body of 17-year-old Itaberli Lozano (pictured) is found after he was murdered by his mother On December 27, Itaberli engaged in an argument with his mother Tatiana Lozano Pereira (32), prompting him to leave the house to live with his grandmother briefly. He returned…
Man executed for the axe murder of his family whose ages ranged from 18 months to 84 years
October 29, 1890Perry, GeorgiaThomas Woolfolk is hanged for the murder of his family On August 6, 1887, Thomas ran to the home of Green Sockett, one of his neighbors, to report his family had been murdered. He’d barely escaped death himself, he claimed, when he was awoken by sounds of his father being beaten to…
Man kills young sons with hatchet
January 9, 1999 Manhattan, New York Ronald Short (pictured, center) kills his two sons with a foot-long hammer-headed hatchet On January 9, Ronald and his wife Yolanta argued culminating with Ronald slapping Yolanta. Yolanta left their apartment, threatening to leave him and take their children with her. When she returned to their home, her husband…
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