Major Crimes and True Crime

In July 2005, a retired Florida couple was buried alive by a woman they tried to help. Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Sumner lived in South Carolina before relocating to Jacksonville, Florida, in March 2005. Before they left South Carolina, they were on good terms with Tiffany Ann Cole, the daughter of one of their neighbors. They even sold their car to her at a discounted rate and told her to visit anytime she wanted. In June 2005, about three months after they left South Carolina, Tiffany visited them. Image: Mrs. and Mrs. Reggie Sumner, and the group celebrating after the attack, Tiffany can be seen with money in her mouth. During this visit, they told her they had sold their house in South Carolina and made a $99,000 profit. They were happy to share this with Tiffany, but deep down, she wanted to take that money from the couple. In early July 2005, Tiffany teamed up with three others, and they came to the Sumners' house at night, buried them alive, an...

Patrizia Scifo. He beat her constantly, tortured her. Once he even forced her to play Russian roulette, with a loaded gun. Patrizia Scifo had fallen in love with that man as a young girl, when she was 17. But by the time she realized who he really was, it was already too late. That man was Giuseppe Spatola, a mafioso. Eleven years older than her, after the first few months in which he had successfully manipulated her into going against the family, he revealed himself for what he was: a beast, no offense to beasts. He created a hell from which Patrizia could not escape. But everything changed when their daughter, Angelica Monica, was born. Patrizia's love for that little girl gave her the strength to report everything: the abuse, the torture, the beatings. To report it and leave it. It was June 18, 1983, when he took her to her mother's house in Niscemi. He told her he'd come pick her up the next day, perhaps because he wanted to leave. She never ...

In March 1975, the body of a 16-year-old girl, Sharron Prior, was discovered in a wooded area in Quebec, Canada. She had been śḛxually assaulted and beaten to dḛậth. Despite investigating over 100 śḛx offenders, no arrests were made. Recently, investigators submitted DNA samples associated with the crime to a DNA laboratory. The lab worked out the suspect's family tree and provided the last name "Romine." Further research indicated that a man with the last name had entered Canada in 1975. Image: Colorized images of the victim and the criminal Franklin Romine was an American man born in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1946. In 1974, he was arrested for śḛxually assaulting a woman but was released on a $2,500 bond. After his release, he fled to Canada. Earlier this month, on May 2, Franklin Romine's body was exhumed by the investigators in West Virginia, and his DNA was a perfect match, bringing an end to a 48-year-old mystery The police have sol...

In April 2019, 47-year-old Texas woman Holly Barlow-Austin who was on probation for a misdemeanor offence was arrested for violating the terms of her probation. After her arrest, Holly was locked up in a jail cell managed by LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company in Texas. Between April and June, Holly was denied access to every sought of care because LaSalle was trying to cut costs. She needed her prescription medication to be refilled, but they ignored her and stated that she was faking her illness. Image: Holly before the detention(top left), in jail(bottom), and in the hospital(top right) On June 11, the jailers saw that her condition was getting out of hand and then decided to send her to a hospital. At this time, Holly who walked into the jail in good health had gone blind and became paralyzed. They took her to the hospital so that she would not d1e in their care. Sadly, six days later, on June 17, 2019, Holly Barlow-Austin lost her life after d...

“If somebody did it to your kid, you'd do it, too." On March 16, 1984, Jeff Doucet was led through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in handcuffs. He had just been arrested in California after kidnapping 12-year-old Jody Plauché, bringing him to the West Coast, and repeatedly molesting him in an Anaheim motel room. Now, he was returning to Louisiana to face justice. Little did Doucet or law enforcement know that Jody's father, Gary Plauché, was waiting in the airport with vengeance on his mind and a revolver in his boot. As Doucet walked by in the middle of a police entourage and with local news cameras rolling, Plauché seized the moment and fired a shot straight into Doucet's head, killing him right there and there. Image: Moments before Gary shot him Another Story: Get the best deals here!

In Fresno, California lived a man who claimed he was Jesus and the only righteous man alive. He even wrote his own bible. Marcus Wesson started his chain of abuse with his then 8-year-old niece, Elizabeth. This continued until the age of 14 when she got pregnant and had their first child. Fast forward into the future, Marcus had married three of his nieces and two of his daughters with a total of 15 children. He convinced them that God’s lineage was running out, that he was the only one given the mandate to ensure God still has children on earth. On March 12, 2004 the police was called to the family home after onlookers observed what looked like a troubled situation. Two of the mothers were distraught after they learned Marcus was planning to relocate the kids. Fearing they may never see them again they demanded custody of the boys. This request irritated Marcus who went inside and executed nine of his children. His logic; it is better for them to be together ...

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...