Major Crimes and True Crime

Larry Don McQuay who later confessed to 240 cases of child mô-lêstation was caught mô-lêsting a 6-year-old child in San Antonio, Texas. He got away with šô-domizing the boy for a year before he was caught. In January 1990, McQuay, who was 26 at the time was convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison. While in prison, he begged to be surgically câ-strâted. "Hell is not enough to keep me from re-offending" he declared. McQuay told authorities that he and other child prêdâtors just buy time in prison daydreaming about children. When his pleas for câ-strâtion were denied, he threatened to not only re-offend but to also k-îll his next victims. He was told, "Castration has not been done in this country because it is considered cruel and an unusual punishment." He responded, "What's cruel and unusual is what I will do to children." Finally, he was surgically câ-strâted in 2005 and has not re-offended. Because of this, off...

In February 1988, the city of Rochester, Minnesota, was shaken to its core when a 16-year-old boy took up an axe and brutally ended the lives of his parents and two siblings. Bernard and Paulette Brom had four children. Their eldest son, Joe Brom, was a punk rock music fan who incorporated the music's aesthetics into his life, he was even wearing eyeliners. His parents considered him a disappointment and vowed not to raise another child like him; they tightened up the rules in the house. Joe then moved out. Image: David Brom, and the family home David, Joe's younger brother also grew tired of his parents' strict rules. On the night of February 17, 1988, David argued with his father over the type of music he was listening to. The following morning, he took an axe and brutally mu-rdered his father, his mother, and his two younger siblings. The case was so brutal, that more than 200 parents in Rochester needed the help of a psychologist. David is 52 now and is lock...

Quiana Mann was a 44-year-old woman living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had a 10-year-old son and a 26-year-old daughter. On November 21, 2022, she woke up her son at around 6 a.m. and went down to the basement to do some laundry. The boy woke up, went to her bedroom, and removed a gun from her locked gun safe. He proceeded downstairs to the basement and shot her in the head at close range. Image: Quiana Mann and her home He was angry, first because Mann had refused to buy him a $500 Oculus Virtual Reality headset, and secondly, because she woke him up so early at 6 a.m. when he usually woke up at 6:30 a.m. The boy who remains unnamed will be tried as an adult. The Boy and the VR Headset: Inside the Tragic Story of Quiana Mann In 2022, a 44-year-old woman in Milwaukee was shot to death by her 10-year-old son because she failed to buy a virtual reality headset for him. That woman was Quiana Mann. The Beginning Early in the morning on November 21, 2022, Quiana Mann w...

James Eagan Holmes was born into a privileged home and was a Ph.D. student just before he carried out one of the dea-dliest mass shoo-tings in United States history. At 12.30 a.m. On July 20, 2012, Holmes dressed in tactical clothing entered Theatre 9 at the Century 16 multiplex in Aurora, Colorado. He entered through the emergency exit. The audience thought he was playing a prank, but he wasn't. Holmes waited slightly before throwing a gas canister into the audience followed by several rounds of gunfire. The shooting left 12 people dea-d and 70 others injured. After he was apprehended, he told officers that he had explosives in his apartment. At his apartment, officers found his door was booby-trapped with explosives that were connected to 100L of gasoline stored in his kitchen. five buildings close to his residence were quickly evacuated. James managed to escape the dea-th penalty by pleading guilty by reason of insanity. Was he really insane considering the details ...

On May 14, 2008, a 19-year-old Minnesota man, Brandon Swanson, left the party organized to celebrate the end of the spring semester on his campus. On his way home, he drove his car into a ditch. Swanson not sure of his exact location called his parents to come pick him up. Swanson's parents kept him on the phone as they drove to the location he had given them. However, 47 minutes into the call, Swanson's line went dea-d after he shouted 'Oh sh"t.' His car was found in a ditch in a location far away from where he told his parents he was, but there was no trace of Swanson, not even any of his belongings. It's been more than 15 years, and Brandon Swanson is still missing. The Perplexing Disappearance of Brandon Swanson— What we Know Brandon Swanson, who was born on January 30, 1989, experienced a car accident in the early morning of May 14, 2008, while driving back home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with his class...