Major Crimes and True Crime

Julissa Thaler, a 28-year-old woman from Minnesota, was found with the body of her son in the trunk of her car in the early morning of May 20, 2022. She told the officer someone had shot his son, but that wasn't the case. Thaler had lost custody of her son, 6-year-old Eli Hart, due to her drug abuse and history of mental illness. Eli was placed in foster care while Thaler and Eli's biological father, Tory Hart, battled over who would have custody. However, Thaler was finally granted full custody despite her history with substance abuse. On the day Eli was fatally shot, Thaler became angry when he refused to go to bed early. She took him downstairs, strapped him into her car seat, and fired nine shots into his tiny body. This occurred just 10 days after she was granted full custody. The details revealed in court were so gruesome that the jurors were offered crisis counselors. Thaler was recently sentenced to life in prison A 29-year-old Min...

Robert Maudsley, one of Britain's most vicious serial ǩillḛrs was born on this day, June 26, 1953. Maudsley grew up in a family of twelve children with abusive parents. At one point, he was locked away in a basement for six months, only ever visited by his dad, who would beat him multiple times a day. Maudsley committed his first m̃urdḛr in 1974, strangling a man named John Farrell after learning that Farrell was a child molester. He surrendered to the police and was sent to a mental hospital. Image: Maudsley has been locked up in a specially built glass cage in the basement of Wakefield for decades In 1977, Maudsley and another patient brutally tortured and ǩilleᶁ an inmate accused of child śḛxual abuse. This incident led to Maudsley's transfer to Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire, England. In 1978, while at Wakefield, Maudsley committed two m̃urdḛr in one day. He showed no remorse for these m̃urdḛr, stoking fear among his fellow prisoners and lea...

In 2019, 18-year-old Denali Brehmer from Anchorage, Alaska, started chatting with a stranger online. This stranger claimed he was a millionaire and was obsessed with m̃urdḛr. He claimed he was willing to pay $9 million dollars for videos and pictures of someone getting ǩilleᶁ. Brehmer agreed to the plan and recruited two others to join her in the plan. In June of that year, they lured Cynthia Hoffman who was Brehmer’s “best friend,” they promised her they would go hiking, but instead they took her to Thunderbird Falls trail in Alaska where they duct taped her, shot her in the head, all the while they recorded the incident. Image: Denali Brehmer(top left), and Cynthia. Then Schilmiller Unknown to Brehmer, the rich man who made the promise was actually a 21-year-old man named Darin Schilmiller from New Salisbury, Indiana Darin also compelled Brehmer to śḛxually assault minors and requested that she send him the footage. An 18-year-old woman, Denali Brehmer fro...

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...