Major Crimes and True Crime

Moment man pulls out a knife and stabs a father to death all caught on doorbell camera A doorbell camera captured the horrific moment a man pulled out a knife and stabbed a father to death. Kane Kotwica, 39, fatally stabbed his 53-year-old neighbour Matthew Cainey and wounded two others in a block of flats on May 28 this year.  The chilling footage from a nearby flat showed the moments leading up to the murder.  It shows Kotwica taking a knife out of his hoodie pocket and stabbing Mr Cainey in his chest as he stood in the hallway of his flat in Gloucester. Mr Cainey's 'heartbroken' daughter said she had moved to the area just nine days before he was killed to be closer to him. She had planned to see him the next day and was looking forward to 'spending more time with him'.  Kotwica, of Gloucestershire, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court last week for murder. He was also found guilty of wounding two other men with intent. Kotwica was sen...

Lindsay Ann Hawker was a 22-year-old British teacher who was k-illed in Japan in early 2007 by a man he met on the train, Tatsuya Ichihashi. On the day of the heinous crime, March 24, 2007, Hawker and Ichihashi had agreed to meet in a cafe for a brief English lesson. She had no idea he just wanted to get in her pants. After the brief meeting, he coerced her to follow him to his apartment. Image:  The victim, Ichihashi before and after facial reconstruction. Days later, Hawker's unclad body was found buried on the apartment's balcony; her body had been sprayed with a substance used to compact and decompose waste. Ichihashi had stra-ngled her as he ra-ped her. Tatsuya Ichihashi was on the run and tried everything to cover his tracks. He paid for facial reconstruction surgery to drastically change his looks. In November 2009, he was arrested in Osaka while waiting to board a ferry to Okinawa. A passenger had contacted port officials after recognizing I...

Miranda Barbou and Elytte Barbour were lovers who later got married. One of the things they wanted to do together was kill someone. Three weeks after their wedding, Miranda placed an ad on Craigslist offering to have s-ex with a man in exchange for $100. Troy LaFerrara was the unfortunate man who responded to the ad. Image: LaFerrara’s wife (bottom left), and LaFerrara. On November 11, 2013, Miranda and LaFerrara met at a parking lot in Hummel's Wharf, Pennsylvania. After the payment was finalized, they drove in Miranda's car to a place where they were supposed to carry out the act, but Miranda's husband, who was hiding in the backseat of the car under a blanket, jumped out and strangled LaFerrara before Miranda stabbed him to d-eath. LaFerrara's body was discovered the next day, and his last phone call led the investigators to Miranda and her husband. On September 18, 2014, they were sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole. In...

3-year-old Adam Broomhall committed only one crime: waking up Richard Fairchild in the middle of the night. Richard was the boyfriend of Adam’s mother, and he had spent the whole day drinking with her the night he brutally ki-lled the little boy in Del City, Oklahoma on Nov, 4th, 1993. The child woke up crying in the middle of the night like every other child does, Fairchild got angry and started beating the boy before burning his body in a furnace. After this, he smashed the little one on the dining table, he became unconscious and never woke up. The autopsy revealed he di-ed as a result of traumatic brain injury, in total he sustained 26 blows to his body. This man was on dea-th row from 1996 till November 2022. One keeps wondering why dea-th row inmates spend so much time before being executed. Footnotes: Richard Fairchild Who mur-dered a 3-year-old for Disturbing His Sleep The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 on Wednesday to deny clemency to c...

On New Year’s Eve of 2011, 18-year-old Sarah Mckinley was home with her three-months-old baby in their home in Blanchard, Oklahoma, when two armed intruders started banging on her door. She quickly called 911 and asked the dispatcher if she was allowed to shoot the men, the dispatcher said,” You do what you have to do to protect your baby.” As soon as one of the men broke in, she shot and k-illed him, 24-year-old Justin Martin. The other man fled and later surrendered to the police. Later it was disclosed that both men were drug addicts who had come to the house to find the cancer medications(painkillers) left behind by Mckinley’s late husband. Go inside the story of Sarah McKinley: The Widow Who Shot an Intruder to Protect Her Baby Sarah McKinley was an 18-year-old widow and mother who made headlines in 2011 when she shot and killed an intruder who broke into her home on New Year's Eve. She was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher who told her to do whate...