Lionel Tate
Lionel Tate was a troubled 12-year-old who loved wrestling and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. His mother worked part-time at home with a neighbor girl, six-year-old Tiffany Unique. One day, Tiffany was briefly left alone with Lionel - and then was found dead. Lionel stated in court that he and Tiffany played wrestlers, and the girl unsuccessfully hit the table. But the judge did not believe him: 35 injuries were found on the girl's body, including fractures of the skull and children, numerous bruises and abrasions. Lionel, however, continued to insist that the killing was unintentional. The public sided with him, and the court was forced to commute the sentence of life imprisonment for murder to a more lenient one. Two years later, in 2003, Lionel was released on probation - and was immediately re-arrested for armed robbery of a pizza delivery boy and attacking his client. Lionel Tate is currently serving a 30-year sentence in prison.
Eric Smith
In this photo taken during his trial in 1993, Eric Smith is 14 years old. This skinny, bespectacled boy was charged with the cold-blooded murder of four-year-old Derrick Robbie. Smith first strangled the baby, and then crushed his head with stone blows. At the trial, Eric fully confessed to his deed, but showed no trace of remorse. Now he is 37, and next year he is going to apply for a pardon. According to him, he repented and wants to devote his life to helping troubled teenagers. But believing in it is somehow scary.
Jordan Brown
Jordan Brown, 11, shot dead his father's pregnant fiancee, Kenzie Hawke, in cold blood in 2009. He fired several shots at her from his own gun, a gift from his father: a passionate hunter, he taught the boy to his hobby. The court intended to try him as an adult - then he would have had a life sentence. However, the lawyer managed to convince the jury that, despite the brutality of the crime, Brown should be tried as a juvenile delinquent. As a result, he ended up in a correctional colony for juvenile delinquents, and in 2016, at the age of 18, he was released on parole, having received new documents so that his crime-tarnished name would not prevent him from starting new life. What happened to him now, no one knows.
Brendan Dassi
In 2005, 16-year-old Brendan Dassey was charged with the brutal rape and murder of a woman named Teresa Halbach and sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence. Dassi himself fully admitted his guilt. However, lawyers were able to draw the attention of judges and public defenders to the numerous formal violations in the Dassi case. So, a young man with an intellectual lag (his IQ never exceeded 70) was interrogated in the first days without a lawyer and legal representative. It is possible, the lawyers insisted, that the police themselves put the confession into Dassi's mouth. As a result, Brendan was released - and no one still knows whether he is really innocent, or whether the judges released the brutal killer.
Curtis and Katherine Jones
In Florida in 1999, 13-year-old Katherine Jones and her 12-year-old brother Curtis shot their friend Sonia Speight to death out of envy of her better life. Both were sentenced to 18 years in prison. Later, in an interview from prison, Katherine spoke about the constant physical and sexual abuse she and her brother were subjected to in home. Judging by her stories, even in prison, she and Curtis were better off than with her family. Both Joneses have recently been released: Kathryn married a sailor with whom she corresponded before her release, and Curtis became a priest.
Nathaniel Abraham
In 2007, 11-year-old Nathaniel Abraham was convicted of an armed attack on a store that killed a 19-year-old customer. The murder was clearly premeditated: Nathaniel had obtained a gun beforehand and learned how to shoot, telling his girlfriend that he was going to "shoot somebody". However, the jury could not bring themselves to judge the skinny kid as an adult criminal - and Nathaniel was sent to a juvenile correctional colony with the right to release upon reaching 18 years of age. In 2007, at the age of 20, he was released. And by 2012, he was serving a 20-year sentence for drug possession and trafficking, awaiting another trial for attacking prison guards.
Jamie Silvonek
In 2015, 14-year-old Jamie Silvonek had an affair with 20-year-old cadet Caleb Barnes. One day, Jamie's mother, Cheryl Silvonek, caught them in bed. Threatening Caleb with criminal prosecution for having a relationship with a minor, Cheryl said that young people should get married. Seemingly agreeing, Jamie and Caleb decided to do otherwise: after asking Cheryl to take them to the concert, they strangled and beat her to death in their own car. At first, Caleb took all the blame, but it soon became clear that it was Jamie who was the instigator and main participant in the murder of his own mother. Both lovers received 35 years in prison.
Wendy Gardner
Wendy Gardner was the daughter of a drug addict. After her mother died of AIDS, 13-year-old Wendy and her 11-year-old sister Kathy moved in with their grandmother, Betty Gardner. The joint life of the grandmother and granddaughters did not last long: in the same 1994, 13-year-old Wendy and her 15-year-old boyfriend James Evans decided to kill Betty. The granddaughter and her boyfriend strangled her grandmother with fishing line, forcing 11-year-old Katie to watch the murder. Then a couple in the same room had sex. Despite the extreme cruelty of the crime, the court was humane to juvenile delinquents: James was sentenced to 9, and Wendy - to 7 years in prison. Evans was subsequently extended his sentence, and Wendy Gardner was safely released from prison in 2004.
Christian Fernandez
In 2013, the case of Christian Fernandez stirred up all of America. The 13-year-old boy lived with his 25-year-old mother, who not only paid no attention to him, but also constantly left him to watch over his two-year-old brother David, leaving home for a long time. One day, returning home, the boys' mother, Bianella Susanna, found her youngest son unconscious. Not too worried, a few hours later the mother took the child to the hospital, where he soon died. The investigation found out that David was beaten. Soon, Christian admitted that, angry with his brother, he hit him twice on the bookshelves. Both the boy and his mother were in the dock. Christian received 7 years in prison without the right to release until 2018, when he turns 19. But Bianella Susanna was released in the courtroom, having served only a preliminary sentence. Surely this worthy woman will have time to give birth to several more children.
Kelly Ellard
In 1997, 15-year-old Kelly Ellard from British Columbia was charged with the murder of 14-year-old Rina Werk. It was a typical case of teenage bullying: a company of six girls invited Rina to take a walk, however, when she arrived, they began to beat her severely, extinguish cigarettes on her skin and set fire to her hair. When Rina nevertheless managed to escape, two girls, Kelly Ellard and Warren Glavatsky, went after her and beat her again. And then Kelly, obviously unable to stop herself, dragged the semi-unfeeling Rina to the river and drowned her. Despite the evidence, Kelly's case was reviewed three times until she was sentenced to life in prison in 2005 for brutal murder.
Paula Cooper
15-year-old Paula Cooper was the leader of a street company of girls from 14 to 16 years old. In 1986, they attacked 78-year-old Ruth Pelke on the street, intending to rob her. But it turned out that the old woman took only $10 with her. And then Paula, in a rage, stabbed the woman 33 times. The girls were tried, sentencing Paula's accomplices to terms of 25 to 60 years in prison, and Paula herself to death penalty. Such a cruel sentence for a young girl caused an explosion of indignation: more than 3 million signatures were collected for her pardon, and even the Pope sent a personal appeal to the Indiana authorities urging them not to deprive Paul of her life. As a result, the sentence was commuted to 60 years in prison. As a result, Paula Cooper spent about 30 years in prison and was released early in 2013. Two years later, she committed suicide.
"Elkhart Four"
In 2012, 16-year-old Blake Lyman, 17-year-old Levi Sparks, 18-year-old Anthony Sharp and 15-year-old Jose Quiroz, along with an older friend, 21-year-old Denzel Jones, decided to go on a robbery. They broke into a neighbor's house, thinking he was away. However, the owner of the House, Rodney Scott, was at home. It was he who shot 21-year-old Denzel. However, they blamed not the victim who defended his property, but the surviving unlucky robbers for his death: after all, it was their criminal actions that led to the death of their comrade! As a result, each of the guys received 20 years in prison for robbery, which led to the death of a person. And although many protested against the cruelty of the sentence - after all, the criminals themselves did not commit the murder! - however, if you think about it, there is a higher justice in this approach.
Joshua Philips
In 1998, 14-year-old Joshua Philips killed his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddie Clifton. During the week, the teenager took Active participation in search of the girl, after which Joshua's mother accidentally discovered her body under his bed. The girl was beaten with a baseball bat, in addition, several stab wounds were found on her body, and strangulation marks on her neck. As Joshua himself haltingly explained, he and Maddie were playing baseball and he accidentally hit her in the face with a bat. The girl screamed, blood poured out, and he panicked, afraid that someone would find out about what had happened. So he dragged Maggie into the house and kept hitting her with the bat until she was quiet. Then, to be safe, he hit her several times with a knife and strangled her with a telephone wire. Joshua Philips was sentenced to life in prison without the right to ask for a reduction until September 2017.
George Stinney
This case is the oldest and most controversial in the collection. In 1944, 14-year-old George Stinner was accused of killing two white girls, 11-year-old Betty Binniker and 8-year-old Mary Thames. The girls were picking flowers in the field when someone crept up and hit each one several times with a heavy iron rod. George Stinner was the only one arrested: someone saw the girls, heading for flowers, approaching him and asking for directions. This was actually the only evidence, but the jury had enough of it to sentence a 14-year-old teenager to death for a double murder. George was executed on June 29, 1944. Later, his cellmates, after leaving prison, said: the boy told them more than once that he did not want to die for a crime that he did not commit.
John Winables and Robert Thompson
Despite the angelic appearance, this couple is the most terrible killers in the entire collection. On February 12, 1993, they abducted two-year-old James Bulger from his mother at the mall. Taking the boy on the way behind the railway station, they systematically began to mock the child. The criminals beat him, kicked him, threw stones and sticks at him, trampled him underfoot, and finally brought down a multi-ton iron beam on his head. They caught the criminals by accident: trying to get rid of the body, they carried it to the rails, where they came into the field of view of the video camera. The public rebelled, demanding the most severe sentence - however, both criminals were sentenced to 8 years in prison due to infancy. When released, they received new documents - a chance to start a new life. However, judging by the leaked information, at least John Winables did not take advantage of this chance and went to prison at least once.
Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Ripley, Tony Lawrence
Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tuckett, Hope Ripley and Tony Lawrence were 14-15 years old when in 1990 they brutally tortured and killed their friend, 12-year-old Shanda Shyer. It's hard to believe that Melinda, the smiling curly-haired girl from the first photo, became the instigator of the murder. The reason was that she was jealous of Shanda for her ex-girlfriend. The girls beat their victim and tried to slit her throat, but they did not succeed, and they simply beat Shanda to death. As a result, the main participants in the murder, Melinda Loveless and Laurie Tackett, received 60 years in prison without parole until 2020. Toni Lawrence received the least: frankly admitting her guilt, she received 20 years and was released early in 2000, after 9 years in prison.
1. Vladimir Vinnichevsky, 15 years old - the youngest Serial killer in the USSR, who was sentenced to death
The history of this fanatic freezes the soul and causes nausea. human brain unable to comprehend such atrocities. The sweet-faced boy was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in 1923 and started killing at the age of 15. He killed and raped children between the ages of two and a half and four. It is known about 18 attacks, eight of which ended in the death of the kids - he strangled them, and then subtly finished off with the help of edged weapons. Monster for a long time could not be caught, but in the end he was detained by three cadets of the Sverdlovsk police school - the killer was carrying a little boy into the forest. The rapist was shot in 1940.
2. Arkady Neiland, 15, the only teenager who was shot in the USSR after the war
The boy was born in 1949 in Leningrad. Arkady with his mother, stepfather and two half-brothers huddled in the same room in a communal apartment. Parents beat their children, drank, lived in poverty. Already at 12, the juvenile thief was registered with the police. At the age of 15, Arkady committed a heinous crime, for which he was sentenced to death. He wanted to rob the apartment and entered there under the guise of a postman. The teenager struck the 37-year-old hostess 15 blows with an ax, six blows went to little son George. Leaving behind a bloody mess, the killer had breakfast, took several erotic photographs of the deceased, set fire to the apartment and left. The criminal was shot on the personal orders of Khrushchev.
3. Mary Flora Bell, 11, UK
The girl committed her first crime in 1968 - the day before her 11th birthday. She killed four-year-old Martin Brown. A few months later, Mary and her friend took the life of another baby. Police reports indicate that she returned to the scene of the crime to carve the letter M into the body of the deceased and cut off part of the genitals with scissors. Mary spent 12 years in prison, then was released, changed her name and gave birth to a child.
4. Jesse Pomeroy, 14 years old, USA
Jesse, who was soon given the nickname "the young Boston fiend", was arrested at the age of 14 (in 1897) for the brutal murder of a four-year-old toddler. But already three years earlier, the offender severely mocked and tortured seven other boys. For this, he was sent to a children's reform school. The teenager was released pretty soon, and he mutilated and killed a 10-year-old girl who went into his mother's store. A month later, he kidnapped the child, took it to a swamp outside the city and cut it with a knife until the baby's head fell off. When they showed him the body and asked if he considered himself guilty, the bastard replied: "I think I did it."
5. Jasmine Richardson, 12 years old, Canada
In 2006, a 12-year-old girl killed her parents and then slit her brother's throat and watched him bleed to death among the toys. And then she disappeared. The police, who found the bodies, were at first afraid that the girl had also become a victim of a maniac. But soon Jasmine was found along with her 23-year-old boyfriend. The assassin showed no remorse.
Sometimes teenagers and children show unthinkable cruelty, and their mind is perverted since childhood. the site tells about five child killers who perpetrated reprisals against juvenile victims with special brutality and ruthlessness.
Mary was born in 1957 in the English industrial city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The girl's mother was a seventeen-year-old prostitute, Betty Bell. The father remained unknown, although Mary believed for a long time that it was Billy Bell. A criminal subsequently convicted of armed robbery. The girl grew up in a socially depressed area of Newcastle, attacked other children and wrote obscene graffiti on the walls.
The mother repeatedly tried to kill her young daughter, but nothing came of it. From the age of four, she forced the child to participate in sexual acts with men. Such was the life of a girl until the age of eleven.
On May 25, 1968, Mary Bell took a four-year-old boy to an abandoned house and strangled him. She committed the murder alone. Soon, together with a thirteen-year-old friend, she destroyed the children's institution, leaving inscriptions like "I kill and will be back soon." The police did not attach any importance to this.
Two months later, Mary and her teenage accomplice committed another murder. They strangled a three-year-old boy in a vacant lot. Later, Mary returned to the corpse of the murdered child and carved the letters M and N on the body of the victim, and then scratched the genitals with scissors and cut off a tuft of hair.
The killer was sentenced to indefinite imprisonment and placed in a shelter for antisocial children. However, at the age of 23, she was released, changed her name and received complete anonymity. Four years later, Mary Bell had a daughter who knew nothing about her mother's past until 1998. But the secret, as you know, always becomes clear.
He began his criminal career at the age of four, taking a flashlight from an unfamiliar boy. The future criminal and murderer remembered well the place of the first crime. Eleven years later - when he was fifteen - he would return there to hack a woman and her three-year-old child with an axe.
Neiland was born in 1949 in Leningrad. Father and mother are Latvians. Locksmith and nurse. From his stepfather, Arkady had to endure beatings, he was often underfed. Often he ran away from home, and from the age of seven he was registered in the children's room of the police. At the age of 12, he was expelled from school for theft and poor progress, and then placed in a boarding school. But even there, the juvenile delinquent did not take root. Fights, thefts, enuresis - with such a gentleman's set it was difficult to establish relationships with peers. Unable to find a place for himself, Neiland left for Moscow, but there he was detained by the police and taken back to Leningrad. Until the end of 1963, he worked at the Lenpishmash enterprise. There, too, he stole, and also skipped. And in his free time, he molested girls, attacked passers-by with brass knuckles and climbed into apartments. The cases did not reach the court.
On January 24, 1964, he was once again detained for theft, but he escaped from custody. The teenager decided to take revenge by going on a "terrible murder." At the same time, he wanted to get money. His goal was to go to a resort in Sukhumi and "start a new life there." On January 27, on the eve of his fifteenth birthday, he fulfilled a terrible intention. As a place for the implementation of the criminal plan, he chose the house number 3 on Sestroretskaya Street - it was there that, as a four-year-old child, he took away a flashlight from a passer-by boy.
Neiland rang the doorbell and introduced himself as a postal worker. 37-year-old housewife Larisa Kupreeva let him into the apartment. After making sure that there was no one else in the house besides the woman and the child, the criminal locked the front door and began to beat Kupreeva with an ax. So that the neighbors did not hear the screams, he turned on the tape recorder at full volume. He stood in the room. After 15 blows with an ax, the woman stopped showing signs of life. After that, Neiland hacked to death Kupreeva's little son. As the killer put it, so that he does not spin under his feet.
After the murder, he searched the apartment. The criminal's booty was 57 rubles, a pack of bonds, a Zorkiy camera and food from the refrigerator - a bag of oranges and apples. But this was not enough for Neiland. A sick fantasy prompted him to photograph the murdered woman in obscene poses. So he intended to earn more by selling the pictures he took.
Neiland was detained in Sukhumi on January 30th. During interrogations, he was flattered by the attention to his own person, and he actively cooperated with the investigation in the hope that, as a minor, “everything will be forgiven” to him. But he was wrong. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR allowed the application of capital punishment to minors. This decision was dictated by the exceptional cruelty of the double murder, as well as the desire to contain the growing juvenile delinquency in those years. The intelligentsia was extremely dissatisfied with the execution of Neiland, and abroad the Neiland Case began to be cited as an example of disregard for the law under socialism. True, in the United States, a ban on the execution of children under the age of fifteen was introduced only in 1988.
He was born in Boston in 1859. The father drank, had an explosive temper and often beat the children. And he did it in a very sophisticated way: first he stripped naked and only then proceeded to punishment. An unsightly picture will be firmly entrenched in the mind of the future killer, and he will repeatedly recreate it, torturing his victims.
At one time, birds lived in the Pomeroy family, but one day they were found with folded necks. Soon, Jesse's mother saw her son torturing a neighbor's kitten in the yard. All this was a bad sign.
Indeed, in December 1871, twelve-year-old Jesse Pomeroy lured a four-year-old boy into the house, and then proceeded to abuse the child. The juvenile maniac undressed the baby and hung him by the wrists from the ceiling beam. When the boy was discovered - he was lucky to survive - his back was covered in huge red welts.
Two months later, the juvenile pervert went on another crime. He lured a seven-year-old boy to a secluded place and set about fanaticism. The victim's front teeth were knocked out and his nose was broken, and his eyes turned black with blood. A month later, Pomeroy committed his third crime. Eight-year-old Robert Mayer promised to go to the circus, but instead he began to beat the child with a stick and masturbate at the same time.
Parents raised their ears all over Boston, the police carried out mass raids, but the juvenile pervert managed to go unnoticed. Meanwhile, his bullying of children became more frequent and more perverted. To seven-year-old George Pratt, he tore out a piece of his cheek with his teeth, almost gouged out his eye and bit off a piece of meat from the buttock, and to six-year-old Harry Austin, he stuck a knife in the right and left sides. Six days later, he stabbed seven-year-old Joseph Kennedy with a knife and forced him to repeat a parody of prayer. Words from the Holy Scriptures have been replaced with mat. The boy refused to obey the pervert. Then he slashed him across the face with a knife and dipped him in salt water. Six days later, another victim was found near the railway tracks - a five-year-old boy was tied to a pole. It was he who told the police the sign by which they managed to figure out Pomeroy. It was a completely white eye.
He was detained, found guilty and placed in a house of correction. But very soon he was released and again set to his old ways. After his release, three more children became his victims. He beat two of them to death. The question of who did it was not raised. Only the intransigence of the governor saved Pomeroy from the death penalty. He received an indefinite sentence and died only in 1932.
He's not just a killer. He is a maniac. A pretty fifteen-year-old boy raped and killed young children. The investigation could not get on the trail of the fanatic for a long time for one simple reason. It simply could not imagine that a teenager could turn out to be a bloody pervert who committed cruel reprisals against children.
He was born in 1923 in Sverdlovsk into a wealthy family. His father is a foreman in the city public service, his mother is an accountant. They lived in a separate private house in the city center. Vladimir didn't need anything. A suit, leather shoes, a tank helmet and a Swiss penknife - not every teenager at that time had such a boyish set. He also had pocket money. Too big for those times. During his arrest, 20 rubles were found in his possession. A worker's two days' wages.
When committing his vile murders, the perverted teenager showed ingenuity. He went around the yards and said that, as part of the Komsomol order, he was organizing the collection of scrap metal for the sponsored pioneer squad. Hiding behind a legend, he rummaged through the yards in search of victims. Finding the unfortunate child, he took him to the nearest forest and there brutally mocked him. Sometimes he boldly committed crimes right under the doors or windows of the houses in which the children lived.
In order to confuse the investigation, Vinnichevsky traveled several times to other cities in the Sverdlovsk region. So, he committed one attack in Nizhny Tagil, another - in Kushva. The juvenile maniac was distinguished by pedantry and caution. He kept a record of his atrocities, diligently numbering them and making notes in encrypted form. For a number of murders, he drew up a plan on paper.
Vinnichevsky's victims were eight children aged two to four years. In total, he made 18 attacks. He was arrested on October 24, 1939. These were cadets of the Sverdlovsk school of worker-peasant militia. They noticed a suspicious teenager with a child in her arms as he got off the tram. They followed the criminal and soon found him at the scene of the crime - Vinnichevsky was strangling the boy. The victim was saved, and Vinnichevsky was detained.
Parents, having learned about the atrocities of their son, experienced a strong shock. They renounced him and demanded the use of capital punishment - execution. There can be no place for such degenerates in life, they said.
Jasmine Richardson's brutal massacre of a family shocked the town of Medicine Hat, located in the southeast of the Canadian province of Alberta. In 2006, a twelve-year-old girl killed her father and mother, and then slit her brother's throat and eagerly watched him bleed among children's toys. The boy was only eight years old. The killer explained the cruel reprisal against her own family by the fact that she wanted to please her young man. Who, by the way, was then 23 years old.
I loved him so much. I thought it would bring us closer together,” she said.
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The offender recalled that her brother begged to be left alive. Bleeding, he repeated: “I am very afraid. I don't want to die." But my sister was adamant. She finished off the child with a kitchen knife, stabbing him in the back. At the trial, a teenager told how her brother was dying, trying to breathe with a cut trachea.
Jasmine Richardsdon spent ten years, first in a psychiatric hospital and then in prison. She was released two years ago. True, she was no longer destined to unite fate with her lover. He is serving life imprisonment for the murder.
At the mention of the killers, the blood runs cold, but the worst thing is when these killers are children. It doesn’t even fit in my head that a child can be capable of murder, and even such cruel ones. Before you are stories about bloodthirsty killers in the face of children, causing panic horror.
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Mary Bell is one of the most "famous" girls in British history. In 1968, at the age of 11, together with her 13-year-old girlfriend Norma, with a break of two months, she strangled two boys, 4 and 3 years old. Brian Howe (age 3) was found dead under a mountain of weeds and grass just days after the death of Martin Brown (age 4). His hair was cut, puncture marks were found on his thighs, and his genitals were partially cut off. In addition to these mutilations, there was a mark in the form of the letter "M" on his stomach. When the investigation came to Mary Bell, she gave herself away, describing in detail a pair of broken scissors, which, according to the girl, Brian played with. The scissors became irrefutable proof of Mary's guilt.
Family background may have influenced Mary's unusual behavior. For a long time she thought she was the daughter of a common criminal, Billy Bell, but to this day her real biological father is unknown. Mary claimed that her mother, Betty, who was a prostitute, forced her to engage in sexual intercourse with men - especially her mother's clients - from the age of 4.
The trial ended, but under the law, Mary could not be sentenced to prison due to her minority. The investigation concluded that Mary's stay in a psychiatric hospital or a boarding school for troubled teenagers is also fraught with risk. Therefore, until the age of majority, she was kept in a special shelter for antisocial children, and then in the Mur-Kurt prison with minimal supervision. During the trial, Mary's mother repeatedly sold Mary's story to the press. The girl was only 11 years old, she was released only after 23 years. Now she lives under a different name and surname. This case is well known as the Mary Bell Case.
John Venables and Robert Thompson were sentenced to life in prison, despite the fact that they were only ten years old at the time of the murder. Their crime caused shock throughout Britain. On February 12, 1993, the mother of two-year-old James Bulger left her son at the door of the butcher's shop, thinking it wouldn't take her long to get back, as there was no queue at the store. She didn't think it was the last time she saw her son... John and Robert were outside the same store, going about their usual business: robbing people, stealing from stores, stealing things when the salespeople turned their backs on them, climbing onto chairs in restaurants while they were not kicked out. The guys had an idea to kidnap the boy, so that later they could make it look like he was lost. (Pictured John Venables)
John and Robert dragged the boy by force railway where they threw paint at him, brutally beat him with sticks, bricks and an iron rod, threw stones at him, and also sexually abused a little boy, and then laid his body on railways, hoping that the baby will be run over by the train and his death will be mistaken for an accident. James's body was discovered, but a forensic examination showed that the boy had died before the train ran over him. (pictured Robert Thompson)
A 15-year-old girl killed her younger neighbor and hid the corpse. Alice Bustamant planned the murder, choosing the right time, and on October 21 she attacked a neighbor girl, began to choke her, cut her throat and stabbed her. The police sergeant who interrogated the juvenile killer after the disappearance of 9-year-old Elizabeth said that Bustamant confessed where she hid the body of the murdered fourth-grader and took the police to the wooded area where the body was located. She stated that she wanted to know how the killers feel.
On June 16, 1944, a record was set in the United States - George Stinney, who was 14 years old, became the youngest person to be executed in the United States. George was convicted of killing two girls, eleven-year-old Betty June Binniker and eight-year-old Mary Emma Tames, whose bodies were found in a ravine. The girls had severe skull injuries resulting from blows with a rail crutch, which was later found. George confessed to the crime, as well as the fact that he initially tried to have sex with Betty, but in the end everything turned out to be murder. George was charged with first-degree murder, found guilty, and was sentenced to death in the electric chair. The sentence was carried out in South Carolina and overturned in 2014, 70 years after the execution.
On May 20, 1998, Kinkel was expelled from school for trying to buy stolen weapons from a classmate. He confessed to the crime and was released from the police. At home, his father told him that he would have been sent to a boarding school if he had not cooperated with the police. At 3:30 p.m., Kip pulled out his rifle hidden in his parents' room, loaded it, went into the kitchen, and shot his father dead. At 18:00 the mother returned. Kinkel told her that he loved her and shot her - twice in the back of the head, three times in the face and once in the heart. He later claimed that he wanted to protect his parents from the embarrassment they might have because of his problems with the law.
On May 21, 1998, Kinkel drove to school in his mother's Ford. He put on a long waterproof coat to hide his weapons: a hunting knife, a rifle and two pistols, as well as cartridges. He killed two students and wounded 24. As he reloaded his pistol, several students managed to disarm him. In November 1999, Kinkel was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole. During the announcement of the verdict, Kinkel apologized to the court for the murders of his parents and students of the school.
Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolfe
In 1983, Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf began looking for victims for their entertainment. Usually it was vandalism or car theft, but once the girls showed how crazy they really were. They knocked on the door of an unfamiliar house, and an elderly woman opened it. Seeing two young girls of 14-15 years old, the old woman let them into the house without hesitation, hoping for an interesting conversation over a cup of tea, and she got it - the girls chatted with a cute old woman for a long time, entertaining her interesting stories. Then Shirley grabbed the old woman by the neck and held her, while Cindy went to the kitchen for a knife. Grabbing a knife, Shirley inflicted 28 stab wounds on the old woman. The girls fled the scene but were soon arrested.
On February 2, 1996, there was a shooting and hostage incident at Frontier Public High School, Washington. Barry Lukatis put on his cowboy suit and went to the school algebra room where his class was supposed to have a lesson. Most of the classmates found Barry's costume funny and Barry's behavior a little strange. They didn't know what this suit was hiding, and there were two pistols, a rifle and 78 rounds of ammunition. He opened fire, his first victim was 14-year-old Manuel Vela. A few seconds later, his victims were a teacher and another classmate. The students were held hostage for 10 minutes until the school physical education teacher managed to disarm the boy.
He was also reported to have yelled, "It's more interesting than talking about algebra, isn't it?" This is a quote from Stephen King's novel Fury, in which main character kills two teachers and takes the class hostage. Barry is currently serving two life sentences followed by 205 years.
On November 3, 1998, when Joshua Phillips was 14, his neighbor went missing. Joshua's mother was cleaning his room one morning when she found a wet spot under her son's waterbed. While trying to find a leak, she noticed that the mattress was sealed with duct tape. Inside the mattress, Mrs. Phillips discovered the body of a missing 8-year-old neighbor named Maddie Clifton, who had been searched for by the entire town for seven days.
To this day, Phillips has not given a motive for the murder. He said that he accidentally hit the girl on the head with a baseball bat, she started screaming, he panicked, and then dragged her into his room and began to beat her until she stopped talking. The jury did not believe his story, he was charged with first-degree murder. Since Joshua was under the age of 16, he escaped the death penalty. But he was given a life sentence without parole.
By the age of 15, in 1978, by his own admission, Willy Bosket had more than 2,000 crimes in New York on his track record. He did not know his father, but he claimed that his father had been convicted of murder and considered it a "manly" crime. At that time, in the United States, according to the Criminal Code, minors were not criminalized, so Bosket boldly walked the streets with a knife or a gun in his pocket. On March 19, 1978, he shot and killed Moises Perez, and on March 27, the namesake of the first victim, Noel Perez.
Ironically, the Willy Bosket case set the precedent for revisiting the non-criminal provision for minors. Under the new law, children as young as 13 can be tried as adults for excessive cruelty.
At 13 years old, Eric Smith was bullied for his thick-lensed glasses, freckles, long red hair, and another feature: protruding elongated ears. This feature is a side effect of the epilepsy medication his mother took during pregnancy. Smith was charged with the murder of a four-year-old child named Derrick Robbie. On August 2, 1993, the baby was strangled, his head was pierced by a large stone, and besides, the child was raped with a small branch.
The psychiatrist diagnosed him with an emotionally unstable personality disorder, due to which a person cannot control his inner anger. Smith was convicted and sent to prison. During his six years in prison, he was denied parole five times.
Who would have thought that constantly watching wrestling matches could lead to the murder of a six-year-old girl named Tiffany Ownick. Kathleen Grosset-Tate was Tiffany's nanny. One evening, Kathleen left the baby with her son, who was watching TV while she went upstairs. Around ten o'clock in the evening she yelled at the children to be quiet, but did not go downstairs, thinking that the children were playing. Forty-five minutes later, Lionel called his mother, telling her that Tiffany was not breathing. He explained that he wrestled with the girl, making a hold, and then hit her head on the table.
Later, the pathologist concluded that the girl's death was caused by a ruptured liver. In addition, experts witnessed skull and rib fractures, as well as 35 other injuries. Later, Tate changed his testimony and said that he jumped on the girl from the stairs. He was sentenced to life without parole, but in 2001 his sentence was reviewed due to the prisoner's mental incompetence. He was released in 2004 with a ten-year probation.
Craig Price (August 1974)
Joan Heaton, 39, and her two daughters, Jennifer, 10, and Melissa, 8, were found dead in their home on September 4, 1989. Police said that Joan had about 60 stab wounds, while the girls had about 30. The stabbings were so hard that the knife blade broke and stuck in Melissa's body. Authorities believed the theft was the main motive for the crime, and the suspect, when spotted, grabbed a kitchen knife and, in a fit of passion, inflicted those wounds. It was also believed that the robber must have been someone from the area and must have had a wound on his arm.
Craig Price on the same day was caught by the police with a bandaged hand, but said that he broke the car window. The police did not believe his story. They searched his room, finding a knife, gloves, and other evidence. He also confessed to another murder that had been committed in the area two years earlier. The authorities suspected him of a case that also began with a theft and ended like the Heatons case. Craig was given a life sentence the day before he turned sixteen.
James Pomeroy, born in November 1859 in Charleston, Massachusetts, is cited as the youngest person convicted of first-degree murder in state history. Pomeroy began his violent acts towards other children as early as the age of 11. He lured seven children to deserted places, where he stripped them, tied them up and tortured them using a knife or poking pins into their bodies. He was caught and sent to a reform school, where he was supposed to stay until he was 21 years old. But a year and a half later he was released for exemplary behavior. (Pictured right is Jesse Pomeroy in 1925)
Three years later, he changed - from a bad guy turned into a monster. He kidnapped and murdered a 10-year-old girl named Cathy Curran and was also charged with the murder of a 4-year-old boy whose mutilated body was found in Dorchester Bay. Despite the lack of evidence in the boy's murder, he was convicted of Cathy's death. The body lay in a pile of ashes in the basement of Pomeroy's mother's shop. Jesse was sentenced to life in solitary confinement, where he died of natural causes at the age of 72.
At the mention of the killers, the blood in the veins turns cold, but the worst thing is when these killers are children. It doesn’t even fit in my head that a child can be capable of murder, and even such cruel ones. Before you are stories about bloodthirsty killers in the face of children, causing panic horror.
Mary Bell is one of the most "famous" girls in British history. In 1968, at the age of 11, together with her 13-year-old girlfriend Norma, with a break of two months, she strangled two boys, 4 and 3 years old. Brian Howe (age 3) was found dead under a mountain of weeds and grass just days after the death of Martin Brown (age 4). His hair was cut, puncture marks were found on his thighs, and his genitals were partially cut off. In addition to these mutilations, there was a mark in the form of the letter "M" on his stomach. When the investigation came to Mary Bell, she gave herself away, describing in detail a pair of broken scissors - which is irrefutable evidence, which, according to the girl, Brian played with.
Family background may be responsible for Mary's unusual behavior. For a long time she thought she was the daughter of a common criminal, Billy Bell, but to this day her real biological father is unknown. Mary claimed that her mother, Betty, who was a prostitute, forced her to engage in sexual intercourse with men - especially her mother's clients - from the age of 4.
The trial ended and it became clear that she was too young for prison, but also dangerous for incarceration in a psychiatric hospital or an institution where troubled children are kept. During the trial, Mary's mother repeatedly sold Mary's story to the press. The girl was only 11 years old. She was released after 23 years. Now she lives under a different name and surname. This case is well known as the Mary Bell Case.
John Venables
John Venables and Robert Thompson were sentenced to life in prison, despite the fact that they were only ten years old at the time of the murder. Their crime caused shock throughout Britain. On February 12, 1993, the mother of two-year-old James Bulger left her son at the door of the butcher's shop, thinking it wouldn't take her long to get back, as there was no queue at the store. She didn't think it was the last time she saw her son... John and Robert were outside the same store, going about their usual business: robbing people, stealing from stores, stealing things when the salespeople turned their backs on them, climbing onto chairs in restaurants while they were not kicked out. The guys had an idea to kidnap the boy, so that later they could make it look like he was lost.
Robert Thompson
John and Robert forcibly dragged the boy onto the railroad track, where they threw paint at him, brutally beat him with sticks, bricks and an iron rod, threw stones at him, and also sexually abused the little boy, and then laid his body on the railroad tracks, hoping that the baby would be run over the train and his death will be taken as an accident. But James only died after being run over by a train.
A 15-year-old girl killed her younger neighbor and hid the corpse. Alice Bustamant planned the murder, choosing the right time, and on October 21 she attacked a neighbor girl, began to choke her, cut her throat and stabbed her. The police sergeant who interrogated the juvenile killer after the disappearance of 9-year-old Elizabeth said that Bustamant confessed where she hid the body of the murdered fourth-grader and took the police to the wooded area where the body was located. She stated that she wanted to know how the killers feel.
On June 16, 1944, the United States of America set a record by legally executing the youngest boy named George Stinney, who was 14 at the time of his execution. George was convicted of killing two girls, eleven-year-old Betty June Binniker and eight-year-old Mary Emma Tames, whose bodies were found in a ravine. The girls had severe skull injuries received with a rail crutch, which was later found near the city. George confessed to the crime, as well as to the fact that he initially tried to have sex with Betty, but in the end everything turned out to be murder. George was charged with first-degree murder, found guilty, and was sentenced to death in the electric chair. The sentence was carried out in the state of South Carolina.
On May 20, 1998, Kinkel was expelled from school for trying to buy stolen weapons from a classmate. He confessed to the crime and was released from the police. At home, his father told him that he would have been sent to a boarding school if he had not cooperated with the police. At 3:30 p.m., Kip pulled out his rifle hidden in his parents' room, loaded it, went into the kitchen, and shot his father dead. At 18:00 the mother returned. Kinkel told her that he loved her and shot her - twice in the back of the head, three times in the face and once in the heart. He later claimed that he wanted to protect his parents from the embarrassment they might have because of his problems with the law.
On May 21, 1998, Kinkel drove to school in his mother's Ford. He put on a long waterproof coat to hide his weapons: a hunting knife, a rifle and two pistols, as well as cartridges. He killed two students and wounded 24. As he reloaded his pistol, several students managed to disarm him. In November 1999, Kinkel was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole. At the verdict, Kinkel apologized to the court for the murders of his parents and students of the school.
Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolfe
In 1983, Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf began looking for victims for their entertainment. Usually it was vandalism or car theft, but once the girls showed how crazy they really were. Once they knocked on the door of an unfamiliar house, an elderly woman opened it for them. Seeing two young girls of 14-15 years old, the old woman let them into the house without hesitation, hoping for an interesting conversation over a cup of tea, and she got it - the girls chatted with the cute old woman for a long time, entertaining her with interesting stories. Shirley grabbed the old woman by the neck and held her while Cindy went to the kitchen to get the knife to give to Shirley. After receiving the knife, Shirley stabbed the old woman 28 times. The girls fled the scene but were soon arrested.
On February 2, 1996, the state secondary school in connection with the incident with the shooting and hostage-taking. Barry Lukatis put on his best suit cowboy and went to the office where his class was supposed to take an algebra lesson. Most of his classmates found Barry's costume ridiculous, and himself even weirder than usual. They didn't know what this suit was hiding, and there were two pistols, a rifle and 78 rounds of ammunition. He opened fire, his first victim was 14-year-old Manuel Vela. A few seconds later, several more people fell victim to it. The students were held hostage for 10 minutes until the coach outsmarted the boy.
He was also reported to have yelled, "It's more interesting than talking about algebra, isn't it?" This is a quote from Stephen King's novel Fury, in which the main character kills two teachers and takes the class hostage. Barry is currently serving two life sentences followed by 205 years.
On November 3, 1998, Joshua Phillips was 14 when his neighbor went missing. One morning, Joshua's mother was cleaning his room. Mrs. Phillips found a wet spot under the bed and thought her son's waterbed was leaking. She examined the bed to see if the mattress needed drying, but noticed the duct tape holding the frame together. She peeled off the tape and found her son's sock, which was stuffed into a hole in the mattress, but suddenly stumbled upon something cold. The flashlight beam illuminated the corpse of an 8-year-old neighbor named Maddie Clifton, who had been missing for seven days.
To this day, Phillips has not given a motive for the murder. He said that he accidentally hit the girl in the eye with a baseball bat, she started screaming, he panicked, and then dragged her into his room and began to beat her until she stopped talking. The jury did not believe his story, he was charged with first-degree murder. Since Joshua was under the age of 16, he escaped the death penalty. But he was given a life sentence without the right to be released.
By the age of 15, in 1978, Willy Bosquet had over 2,000 crimes in New York on his record. He never knew his father, but he knew that the man had been convicted of murder and considered it a "manly" crime. At that time, in the United States, according to the Criminal Code, minors were not criminalized, so Bosket boldly walked the streets with a knife or a gun in his pocket. On March 19, 1978, he shot and killed Moises Perez, and on March 27, the namesake of the first victim, Noel Perez.
Ironically, the Willy Bosket case set the precedent for revisiting the non-criminal provision for minors. Under the new law, children as young as 13 can be tried as adults for excessive cruelty.
At 13, Eric Smith was bullied for his thick-lensed glasses, freckles, long red hair, and another feature: protruding elongated ears. This feature is a side effect of the epilepsy medication his mother took during pregnancy. Smith was charged with the murder of a four-year-old child named Derrick Robbie. On August 2, 1993, the baby was strangled, his head was pierced by a large stone, and besides, the child was raped with a small branch.
The psychiatrist diagnosed him with an emotionally unstable personality disorder, due to which a person cannot control his inner anger. Smith was convicted and sent to prison. During his six years in prison, he was denied parole five times.
Who would have thought that constantly watching wrestling matches could lead to the murder of a six-year-old girl named Tiffany Ownick. Kathleen Grosset-Tate was Tiffany's nanny. One evening, Kathleen left the baby with her son, who was watching TV while she went upstairs. Around ten o'clock in the evening she yelled at the children to be quiet, but did not go downstairs, thinking that the children were playing. Forty-five minutes later, Lionel called his mother, telling her that Tiffany was not breathing. He explained that he wrestled with the girl, making a hold, and then hit her head on the table.
Later, the pathologist concluded that the girl's death was caused by a ruptured liver. In addition, experts witnessed skull and rib fractures, as well as 35 other wounds. Later, Tate changed his testimony and said that he jumped on the girl from the stairs. He was sentenced to life without parole, but in 2001 his sentence was annulled due to mental incapacity. He was released in 2004 with a ten-year probation.
Craig Price (August 1974)
Joan Heaton, 39, was found with her two daughters, Jennifer, 10, and Melissa, 8, at their home on September 4, 1989. A knife was thrust into them so hard that it broke off in Melissa's neck. Police said that Joan had approximately 60 stab wounds, while the girls had approximately 30. Authorities believed the theft was the main motive for the crime, and the suspect, when he was spotted, grabbed a kitchen knife and, in the heat of passion, inflicted these wounds. . It was also believed that the robber must have been someone from the area and must have had a wound on his hand.
Craig Price on the same day was caught by the police with a bandaged hand, but said that he broke the car window. The police did not believe his story. They searched his room, finding a knife, gloves, and other bloody evidence. He also confessed to another murder that took place in the area two years earlier. The authorities suspected him of a case that also began with a theft and ended like the Heatons case. Craig was given a life sentence the day before he turned sixteen.
James Pomeroy, born in November 1859 in Charleston, Massachusetts, is cited as the youngest person to be convicted of first-degree murder in state history. Pomeroy began his violent acts towards other children as early as the age of 11. He lured seven children to deserted places, where he stripped them, tied them up and tortured them using a knife or poking pins into their bodies. He was caught and sent to a reform school, where he was supposed to stay until he was 21 years old. But a year and a half later he was released for exemplary behavior. (Pictured right is Jesse Pomeroy in 1925)
Three years later, he changed - from a bad guy turned into a monster. He kidnapped and murdered a 10-year-old girl named Cathy Curran and was also charged with the murder of a 4-year-old boy whose mutilated body was found in Dorchester Bay. Despite the lack of evidence in the boy's murder, he was convicted of Cathy's death. The body lay in a pile of ashes in the basement of Pomeroy's mother's shop. Jesse was sentenced to life in solitary confinement, where he died of natural causes at the age of 72.
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