In January 2003, 26-year-old Texas mother of two, Susan Wright, lured her husband, Jeffrey Wright, into their room with a promise of sex, tied him up before stabbing him 193 times.
Jeffrey had been abusive to Susan and her two children, and the day she decided to end his life, he had come back from a boxing class drunk, and high on cocaine. She killed him and buried his body in a shallow grave in the family backyard.
Image: The prosecutor can be seen on the family bed in court
When prosecutor Kelly Siegler took up the case, she brought the family’s bed into the courtroom to demonstrate how Susan had tied up her husband before stabbing him multiple times to get his $200,000 life insurance policy.
Susan maintained her innocence and declared she acted in self-defense. But the jury didn’t believe her story. Susan was subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison and was released on Parole in December 2020.
In 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17,000ft, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked halfway out of the aircraft.
The flight attendant Nigel Ogden, who just happened to be entering the cockpit, held onto the captain for more than 20 minutes as the copilot tried an emergency landing. Most of the crew thought the pilot was already dead, but Ogden continued to hold on.
There was also the fear that if he did let go, the body might collide with the plane’s engine, wing, or stabilizer, creating more havoc. All he knew for sure was that the pilot was slipping further and further out the window and his head was repeatedly slamming against the fuselage.
After 20 minutes of flying with a broken window, the plane landed safely at Southampton airport. Ogden suffered frostbite on his face and damaged one of his eyes; he also dislocated his shoulder. The pilot miraculously survived with frostbite and multiple fractures on his arms and hands.
In August 1999, two teenage girls: JB Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, were found dead in the truck of a car by the roadside in Ozark, Alabama.
They were raped and shot in their heads. The semen collected from the crime scene yielded no positive leads as the DNA was not matched with anyone in the database.
The killer, Colley McCraney, who was 26 at the time went back to living his normal life. He even founded a church, and became a bishop with children.
About two decades later he was arrested and stands trial for the murder of the two girls.
Colley was arrested after the DNA sample collected from the crime scene was submitted to Parabon Nanolabs, a company based in Reston, Virginia. They can predict people’s physical appearance using DNA samples.
After Colley’s arrest, the police collected another DNA sample from him which was a perfect watch with the semen collected at the crime scene.
In November 1999, former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth arranged the killing of his pregnant girlfriend, 24-year-old Cherica Adams, who was eight months pregnant with his child. Prosecutors said Carruth wanted her dead because he did not want to pay child support. On the night of November 16, 1999, he used his own car to trap hers so another vehicle could pull alongside and open fire in Charlotte, North Carolina. Even after being wounded four times, Cherica managed to call 911 and identify Carruth’s involvement.
Immediately after she was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center-Main that night, doctors performed an emergency C-section to save the baby, Chancellor Lee Adams. However, the extreme blood loss and lack of oxygen during the attack left him with permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy. He was raised by Cherica’s mother, Saundra Adams, and has needed lifelong care ever since.
Image: Rae’s son, top right & and bottom left
Cherica fought for her life in the hospital for nearly four weeks before she finally passed away from her injuries on December 14, 1999. During that month, she was able to provide critical evidence to investigators, which became the foundation of the case against Carruth.
Carruth was initially arrested on November 25, 1999, while Cherica was still alive, and was released on a $3 million bond on December 6. Once she died, the charges were upgraded to first-degree murder and Carruth fled. He was found on December 15, 1999, hiding in the trunk of a car outside a Best Western motel in Wildersville, Tennessee, with $3,900 in cash, bottles of his urine, and extra clothes.
In 2001, a jury acquitted him of first-degree murder but convicted him of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to 18 years and 11 months to 24 years and 4 months in prison, then released from Sampson Correctional Institution in October 2018 after serving more than 18 years.
A $600 used Chevrolet Monte Carlo turned into a six figure nightmare for Jennifer Fitzgerald, the woman whose name was on the registration.
Fitzgerald said her then boyfriend, Brandon Preveau, bought the car in 2008 from her uncle and registered it under her name without telling her. After they broke up, she said she no longer had control of the vehicle, but the ticket notices kept flooding her mailbox because the city treated the registered owner as responsible.
In late 2009, Preveau allegedly left the Monte Carlo sitting in a Chicago O’Hare parking lot and walked away, and the car stayed there for years while citations piled up. The tickets covered everything from basic parking violations to issues linked to the car deteriorating in place, and the total eventually hit a record 678 citations, reported at more than $106,000. Fitzgerald said the situation cost her peace of mind and even led to her driver’s license being revoked.
Her lawsuit was dismissed in April 2013 on procedural grounds, but a settlement in August 2013 slashed the debt to $4,470, with Preveau paying $1,600 down and Fitzgerald paying monthly to close it out.
66-year-old Roberto Colon of Boynton Beach, Florida, married 45-year-old Mary Stella Gomez-Mullet to help her get an American passport, but in less than one month, police found her buried in his backyard.
Roberto had met Mary on the 25th of December 2020 and promised to marry her to help her stabilize in the country, and in exchange she would take care of his elderly mother. Roberto lived in Boynton while his mother lived in Hialeah, Florida, so he needed someone who would be close to her and look after her.
In less than one month after they were legally married, chaos erupted. His mother complained that Mary was stealing her money, and when Roberto went to the bank to confirm it, he discovered that his mother’s bank account had been drained. Mary had used her debit cards and also signed fake checks to withdraw money from the woman’s account. Then came the next shock: Mary had also put his mother’s apartment up for sale without his consent.
On February 18, 2021, Mary was on a call with one of her closest friends when she screamed, “No, no, no, Roberto!” before the line disconnected. That was the last time anyone heard from her or saw her alive. Roberto had hit her on the head with a metal pipe and sawed off her legs and head before burying her in his backyard.
This sham relationship lasted less than 60 days, and both lives were destroyed, as Roberto was finally sentenced to life in prison.
‘Her dad told her, “If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.” Mary soon learned that most people felt the same way.
The first years of their marriage living in Birmingham were hell– no one would speak to them, they couldn’t find anywhere to live because no one would rent to a black man, and they had no money. But they didn’t give up.
Gradually life became easier. Mary got teaching jobs, ending up as a deputy head teacher. Jake worked in a factory and then got a job at the Post Office. Slowly they made friends, but it was difficult. Mary used to tell people, “before I invite you to my home…. my husband is black.” Some would never talk to her again.
Last year they celebrated their 70th anniversary and they are still very much in love, and never regretted what they did.’
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Thomas Patterson was a 21-year-old antisocial freak who desperately wanted a girl to keep him company. Instead of going the normal route of wooing a woman; he decided to abduct a 13-year-old girl, Jayme Closs.
In the early morning of October 15, 2018, Patterson went to the family house of Jayme Closs in Barron, Wisconsin, to abduct her. He shot and k-illed her parents because he wanted to leave no witnesses.
He took her home and kept her as his own, he would force her under his bed whenever he went out.
Patterson claimed they just played games together, watched TV, slept in the same bed, had conversations and did a lot of cooking together. There was no se-xual assault.
The day Jayme escaped, January 10, 2019, Patterson had shoved her under his bed before he left his cabin. As soon as he was gone, she mustered enough courage to run to freedom. Once she was outside, she met someone that conveyed her to safety.
Patterson was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.
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The image in this post shocked the world. In 1988, a young woman named Tara Calico vanished without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that has captivated the world for decades. On September 20 of that year, Tara Calico went on a bicycle ride in New Mexico.
But she never returned. Despite the efforts of her parents and authorities, Tara was never found. In 1989, a chilling discovery shook the case wide open. A polaroid photo surfaced depicting a young girl and a boy, both bound and gagged. The girl bore a striking resemblance to Tara.
Tara’s mother, a relentless advocate for justice, dedicated years of her life to searching for her daughter. After a long and arduous journey, Tara’s parents passed away without ever finding answers about their beloved daughter’s fate.
To this day, the fate of Tara calico’s dḛậth remains a haunting mystery, shrouded in uncertainty and unanswered questions.
Recently, on June 13, the police announced a breakthrough in the case. Though they have not revealed the identity of the criminal
On December 3, 2021, a woman named K’tirrah Stevens in Beaumont, Texas asked her then-boyfriend, Bryce Ceaser, to babysit her 11-month-old daughter, Ka’oir Stevens, while she went to work at her new job.
Hours later, Bryce called K’tirrah to tell her that her daughter had a seizure and was unresponsive. He claimed the baby was eating a cheese cracker when she started choking. Ka’oir was quickly rushed to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, where she was pronounced dead.
The police were called, and when Bryce was questioned, he initially stuck to his story of the baby choking on cheese crackers, but he later revealed what happened that afternoon. When Bryce was babysitting Ka’oir, he claimed she started misbehaving and was distracting him from playing video games. In anger, he brutally hit the child to make her stop crying.
A CT scan done at the hospital showed that the baby had suffered a fractured skull, brain hemorrhage, bleeding in her left eye, and bruises on her upper back.
Bryce was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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