This is part 2 of my list for Virginia's post Furman execution roster. As mentioned in part 1's opening paragraph, character count limitations forced me into splitting my Virginia's execution roster into two separate posts. For the link to part 1, please click here.
59. Kevin Cardwell (1991-1998, lethal injection): Cardwell intercepted Anthony Brown, a 15 year old drug carrier, while he was at a bus stop. He lured Brown into his apartment and searched his belongings for any drugs. Brown was then dragged into the woods, shot to death, and stripped of the cocaine strapped to his legs.
60. Mark Sheppard (~1980s-1999, lethal injection): Sheppard and his accomplice Andre Graham were invited by their dealers, 40 year old Richard and 35 year old Rebecca Rosenbluth, over to their home to buy cocaine. However, an argument broke out during the transaction, and Sheppard shot the couple to death. The pair then drove away from the scene with the couple's car and a few undisclosed stolen items. Sheppard had a long history of violence that dated back to when he was 9 years old.
61. Tony Fry (1994-1999, lethal injection): Fry and his partner shot Leeland Jacobs, a 42 year old car salesman, while robbing his Ford Dealership. The pair tied Jacobs to a car they stole while he was still alive, and dragged him to death.
62. George Quesinberry Jr. (1989-1999, lethal injection): Quesinberry shot 63 year old Thomas Haynes while breaking into his office with an accomplice. When Haynes survived the initial shooting, Quesinberry hit him in the head with the gun and fractured his skull. The pair stole a total of $200 in the robbery.
63. David Fisher (~1970s(?)-1999, lethal injection): Fisher was paid $7,000 by an associate to kill 18 year old David Wilkey in retaliation for abandoning a murder scheme. Originally, Wilkey was part of a conspiracy to seduce and marry a young woman in order to kill her for an insurance policy, but backed out when he genuinely fell in love with the would be victim. He was tricked into going on a hunting trip with Fisher and shot to death by him. Fisher had 25 previous criminal convictions and was involved with organized crime. He was in the witness protection program at the time of Wilkey’s murder.
64. Carl Chichester (1991-1999, lethal injection): During a holdup of a Little Caesars, Chichester shot and killed the manager, 30 year old Timothy Rigney, for refusing to open the cash register. He and his two accomplices ran off with a total of $110.
65. Arthur Jenkins III (1991-1999, lethal injection): Jenkins and his teenage brother shot and killed their uncle, 72 year old Floyd, and their uncle's friend, 69 year old Lee Brinklow. They then stole their wallets and sacked Floyd's home for any money and valuables.
66. Eric Payne (~1980s-1999, lethal injection): Payne broke into the residences of two women, 61 year old Ruth Parham and 57 year old Sally Fazio, and raped them. Both women were beaten to death with a hammer, and he took money from their drawers and pocket books. He had a history of drug possessions and exposing himself to women.
67. Ronald Yeatts (1989-1999, lethal injection): Yeatts and an accomplice invaded 70 year old Ruby Dodson's home and stabbed her to death. The pair grabbed her purse during the burglary and divided up the money they found in it.
68. Tommy Strickler (1989-1999, lethal injection): Strickler and his partner kidnapped 19 year old Leann Whitlock from a mall and crushed her head with a 70 pound boulder. Whitlock's car and credit cards were stolen during the attack.
69. Marlon Williams (~1980s(?)-1999, lethal injection): Williams was paid $4,000 to murder 44 year old Helen Bedsole by his dealer, who was also her estranged husband. The couple were in the midst of a bitter divorce at the time, and the dealer wanted to both collect a life insurance policy and prevent Helen from dividing up their assets. He suck into the couple’s home, and shot and killed Helen in the kitchen. Williams had an extensive criminal history, which included cutting the throat of his ex girlfriend’s grandmother, 71 year old Virgina Parker, during a bungled attempt on her life.
70. Everett Mueller (1990-1999, lethal injection): 10 year old Charity Powers was dropped off at a skating ring by her mother. She was supposed to be picked up by her mother's friend, but they didn't show up due to failing asleep in their home. While Powers was waiting outside the ring in vain for her ride, she was abducted by Mueller. He raped the girl, slashed her throat, and dumped the body in a nearby forest.
71. Jason Joseph (1992-1999, lethal injection): While robbing a Subway with an accomplice, Joseph shot and killed one of the clerks, 22 year old Jeffrey Anderson.
72. Thomas Royal Jr. (~1991-1999, lethal injection): Royal and 3 other gang members fatally shot a police officer, 29 year old Kenneth Wallace, while he was sitting in his patrol car. Wallace was killed as part of the gang's campaign to target law enforcement agents. Royal and his fellow gang members were also suspected in the shooting of James Smith Jr. (age unknown), a Vietnam veteran, outside his trailer, but the charges were dropped from the lack of sufficient evidence.
73. Andre Graham (~1993-1999, lethal injection): Graham assisted the above mentioned Mark Sheppard in the Rosenbluth murders. He also shot and killed a waitress, 20 year old Sheryl Stack, and injured a 23 year old man while robbing a restaurant on his own, and is suspected in a total of 10 murders.
74. Douglas Thomas (1990-2000, lethal injection): The parents of Thomas' 14 year old girlfriend, 33 year old James and 33 year Kathy Wiseman, barred her from seeing him. In a bid to continue their relationship, Thomas and his girlfriend shot them to death in their home.
75. Steve Roach (1993-2000, lethal injection): Roach shot and killed 70 year old Mary Hughes on her doorstep and stole her credit card. He was caught on tape trying to use Hughes' stolen cards to pull money out of an ATM machine in North Carolina.
76. Lonnie Weeks Jr. (1993-2000, lethal injection): Weeks was pulled over by a state trooper, 50 year old Jose Cavazos, for speeding while driving a stolen car. In the confrontation that followed, he shot Cavazos dead after climbing out of the car, and fled the scene. He was captured hiding in a nearby motel after an hour long manhunt.
77. Michael Clagett (1994-2000, electric chair): Clagett's girlfriend was fired from her job as a hotel waitress by the management, and the couple decided to retaliate by robing the establishment. They shot and killed the owner Lam Van Son, a 41 year old Vietnamese refugee, a waitress, 31 year old Karen Rounds, two other employees, 31 year old Karen Rounds and 32 year old Wendell Parish Jr., and a customer Abdelaziz Gren, a 34 year old Moroccan immigrant, and took $400 in cash from the register. Van Son’s 3 year old son was sleeping in the backroom during the attack, but the couple left him unharmed.
78. Russel Burket (1993-2000, lethal injection): Burket snuck into the home of 30 year old Katherine Tafelski while her Navy SEALs husband was deployed overseas, and sexually assaulted her. Katherine and her 5 year old daughter Ashley were both beaten to death with a "rusty" crowbar.
79. Derek Barnabei (1993-2000, lethal injection): Barnabei seduced a fellow Old Dominion University student, 17 year old Sarah Wisnosky, into a relationship with him and kidnapped her. She was raped, partially strangled, beaten to death with a hammer, and dumped into a river near campus grounds. Due to him being of Italian ancestry, his death sentence and execution sparked outrage in Italy.
80. Bobby Ramdass (1992-2000, lethal injection): Ramdass was condemned for the shooting death of Mohammed Kayani, a 34 year old Pakistani immigrant working as a clerk, during a convenience store robbery. He also shot dead 19 year old Darrell Ferguson in an alley and wounded a cab driver in other robberies.
81. Christopher Goins (1994-2000, lethal injection): Goins broke into the home of his 14 year old girlfriend (who was 7 months pregnant with his child). He shot and killed her parents, 35 year old James and 29 year old Daphne Jones, and her siblings, 9 year old Nicole and 4 year old David. The girlfriend and her youngest sibling, 21 month old Kenya, were also shot in the attack. Both of them survived, but the unborn child was lost in the shooting.
82. Thomas Akers (1998-2001, lethal injection): Akers and his accomplice were driving with their friend, 24 year old Wesley Smith. When they pulled over on a road to urinate, they pounced on Smith. In the attack, he was strangled with a belt and beaten to death with a baseball bat. They pair then grabbed $200 from his wallet and dumped his body in a creek. While on death row, Akers demanded his execution and made threats against the judge who sentenced him if it wasn't carried out.
83. Christopher Beck (1995-2001, lethal injection): Out of anger for being fired, Beck invaded the house of his former employer, 52 year old William Miller. He waited for him and his two roommates, 54 year old Florence Marks and 34 year old David Kaplan, to return home and shot and stabbed them all to death. Marks was also raped in the attack. Although Beck claimed that he "only" staged a sexual assault on her, a medical examination confirmed that she was abused in that manner. Beck stole several guns, bicycles, and money in the robbery.
84. James Patterson (1987-2002, lethal injection): Patterson held his friend's mother, 56 year old Joyce Aldridge, in her home at knifepoint. Enraged that she only had a few coins in her purse, he raped Aldridge, stabbed her 3 times, and left her to die. When Aldridge managed to crawl to a phone to call her son for help, Patterson returned and stabbed her 14 more times. Although Aldridge's murder was left unsolved for years, Patterson was later imprisoned for raping an 18 year old girl, and DNA found at the murder was traced to his samples filed in the inmate database in 2000.
85. Daniel Zirkle (1999-2002, lethal injection): Zirkle's girlfriend broke off their relationship due to his violent behavior and filed protective orders against him. He was arrested for violating them and sentenced to a few months in jail. After his release, Zirkle went to his ex girlfriend's home without her permission to visit their daughter, 4 year old Christina. However, the ex girlfriend's other daughter, 14 year old Jessica Shifflett, blocked him from coming inside. He stabbed her to death and kidnapped Christina. He then drove Christina to the George Washington National Forest, slit her throat, and stabbed himself in a failed suicide attempt.
86. Walter Mickens Jr. (~1974-2002, lethal injection): Mickens ambushed and sodomized 17 year old Timothy Hall, and stabbed him 143 times. He stripped the boy of nearly all of his clothing, and left him to die in an abandoned apartment. A long time sexual predator and career criminal, Mickens had several robbery and sodomy convictions dating back to the 70s. One of his previous incidents involved breaking into an elementary school, and coercing a teacher of her purse by threatening the life of a 7 year old student. He also had a conviction for sexually assaulting a cellmate.
87. Aimal Kasi (1993-2002, lethal injection): In his efforts to fight against American foreign policy regarding Islamic nations, Kasi attacked the Langley CIA headquarters with a Type 56 assault rifle. He shot dead 2 CIA employees, 66 year old Lansing Bennett and 28 year old Frank Darling, and wounded 3 others. Kasi then fled to Afghanistan, but was lured into his native Pakistan to be captured in a joint FBI-CIA led operation, and extradited back to the United States to face trial.
88. Earl Bramblett (~1970s(?)-2003, electric chair): Bramblett had molested 11 year old Winter Hodges and feared that her parents, 41 year old William and 37 year old Teresa, were planning on reporting him to the police. In an attempt to prevent that from happening, he attacked the family in their home. Teresa was strangled, while William, Winter, and another daughter, 3 year old Anah, were shot dead. Bramblett then set the house on fire to destroy any evidence of the murders. He had several abuse allegations and was also suspected in the 1977 disappearances of two 14 year old girls, Tammy Akers and Angela Rader, that worked for him, but was never charged for any of them.
89. Bobby Swisher (1997-2003, lethal injection): Swisher abducted 22 year old Dawn Snyder from her flower shop at knife point and raped her. He slashed Snyder's throat and dumped her into a nearby river. Despite managing to swim back to shore, Snyder succumbed to her injuries on the river bank.
90. Brian Cherrix (1994-2004, lethal injection): Cherrix ambushed 23 year old Tessa Van Hart while she was trying to deliver a pizza. He sodomized and shot Van Hart twice in the head, and left the body in her car. The crime was left unsolved until Cherrix was arrested for shooting and wounded his brother two years later. In an attempt to secure leniency, Cherrix disclosed some details of Van Hart's murder, but tried pinning it on a deceased cousin. He only confessed when investigators learned that the cousin couldn't have possibly done it.
91. Dennis Orbe (1998-2004, lethal injection): Orbe fatally shot Richard Burnett, a 39 year old clerk, while robbing a grocery store, and seized $90 from the register.
92. Mark Bailey (1998-2004, lethal injection): Bailey shot and killed his wife, 22 year old Katherine, and their 2 year old son, Nathan, while they were laying in bed. He claimed to investigators that the murders were done out of anger for Katherine's alleged infidelity.
93. James Hudson (2002-2004, lethal injection): In a feud over a driveway, Hudson broke into the home of the Cole family (consisting of brothers, 64 year old Thomas and 56 year old Walter, and Thomas' wife, 64 year old Patsy) to confront them with a shotgun. He shot all three of the Coles dead and drove away from the scene. Hudson was captured after nearly a day long manhunt.
94. James Reid (1996-2004, lethal injection): Reid stabbed 87 year old Annie Lester 22 times with a pair of scissors, beat her with a can of milk, and strangled her with the cord of a heating pad. He left the body in her bedroom and fled her house. Although the evidence for his guilt was overwhelming (which included the blood on his clothes matched Lester's DNA, several of his fingerprints were discovered on the murder weapons, samples of his saliva were found on a cigarette butt in her house, and his handwriting was identical to the writing of a death threat sent to Lester), Reid's death sentence and execution was contested on the grounds of him allegedly having brain damage from a car accident, seizures, and alcoholism. The motivations behind Lester's murder remain unknown, but prosecutors suspected that it might have been part of a bungled robbery or rape attempt.
95. Dexter Vinson (1997-2006, lethal injection): Vinson attacked his ex girlfriend, 25 year old Angela Felton, near her home. Felton tried to escape by driving away, but he rammed her car with his, and forced her inside it. She was then dragged into a vacant house, raped, beaten, and stabbed in the face, neck, arms, buttocks, stomach, and vagina. The body was left in the house as Vinson fled the scene.
96. Brandon Hedrick (1997-2006, electric chair): Hendrick kidnapped a sex worker, 23 year old Lisa Crider, while he was cruising for prostitutes. Initially, Crider and Hendrick had engaged in paid consensual relations, but the situation turned violent when he robbed her of $50 at gunpoint. She was then raped, shot in the face, and dumped into a river.
97. Michael Lenz (~1990s-2006, lethal injection): While serving 29 years for a burglary and weapons possession conviction, Lenz stabbed a fellow inmate, 41 year old Brent Parker, to death. Both were part of a Nordic Neopaganism sect, and the killing was committed over Parker allegedly not expressing enough devotion to their deities. Parker was serving a life sentence for killing a friend during a drunken rage at the time of his own murder.
98. John Schmitt (1999-2006, lethal injection): During a holdup of a bank, Schmitt shot and killed the guard, 39 year old Shelton Dunning, and took $35,000 from the vaults.
99. Kevin Green (1998-2008, lethal injection): Green and his teenage nephew stormed a convenience store, and forced the owners, 68 year old Lawrence Vaughan and his wife, 53 year old Patricia, to hand over $9,000 in cash. They then shot the couple, killing Patricia and wounding Lawrence.
100. Robert Yarbrough (1997-2008, lethal injection): Yarbrough and his accomplice tied up 77 year old Cyril Hamby while robbing his grocery store. They subjected Hamby to beatings and nearly decapitated him with a pocket knife. The pair then stole beer, wine, cigarettes, and an undisclosed amount of money.
101. Kent Jackson (2000-2008, lethal injection): Jackson and an accomplice attacked 79 year old Beulah Kaiser in her apartment, and raped her. She was stabbed several times in the neck, beaten, and her cane was shoved down her throat after she was anally penetrated with it. A cigarette butt found at the crime scene was traced to the pair.
102. Christopher Emmett (2001-2008, lethal injection): Emmett was staying at a motel room with a coworker, 43 year old John Langley, while they were working on an out of town roofing job. The pair played cards until Langley went to bed. As he slept, Emmett bludgeoned him to death with a lamp, and stole $100 from his wallet. He used the stolen money to buy crack cocaine.
103. Edward Bell (~1990s-2008, lethal injection): While running away from officers trying to arrest him for a parole violation, Bell shot and killed one of his pursers, 32 year old Sergeant Ricky Timbrook. Bell had a long criminal record, which included several felony and misdemeanor convictions of assault, burglary, carrying conceal weapons, and was found to have stolen a car during the investigations of Timbrook's murder.
104. John Muhammad (~1999-2008, lethal injection): The so called “D.C. Sniper”, Muhammad shot and killed 17 random people between the ages of 21-76 with the help of a teenage accomplice in mostly sniper attacks. The killings took place in the national capital, hence the epithet, and across several states. Due to his affiliation with the Nation of Islam and the accomplice’s accounts of planning terrorist attacks and training camps, Muhammad’s murder spree are often considered to be acts of Islamic extremism in the media. However, experts believe that his real intentions was to kill his estranged wife using the sniper attacks as a mask. Muhammad had a long history of domestic violence, and had abducted his children from his estranged wife on numerous occasions. His accomplice had also accused him of sexual abuse a few years after his execution.
105. Larry Elliott (2001-2008, electric chair): Elliott, a former military counterintelligence agent, was in an online "sugar daddy" relationship with a much younger woman. At the woman's request, Elliott sent her over $450,000, which she used to pay for a home, credit card, car, breast enhancement surgery, and enrolling her children in a private school. The woman was also involved with a bitter custody dispute with her children's father, 30 year old Robert Finch. In an attempt to win the woman's devotion, Elliott shot and killed Finch in his home, and beat Finch's girlfriend, 25 year old Dana Thrall, to death with the butt of his gun.
106. Paul Powell (1999-2010, electric chair): Angry that his friend, 16 year old Stacie Reed, was in an interracial relationship, Powell made an attempt to rape her in her home. When she fought back, Powell stabbed her to death. He also tied up Stacie's 14 year old sister to be raped, stabbed, and strangled, and left the girl to die in the family's basement. The sister managed to survive with the timely arrival of their stepfather, who called the police and the paramedics to the scene. On the mistaken belief that the death penalty was off the table, Powell sent letters flaunting the lewd details of the murder to taunt the prosecutors, judge, and the victims’ family.
107. Darick Walker (~1996-2010, lethal injection): In 1996, Walker walked up to the door of 36 year old Stanley Beale, and angrily accused him of showing up at his home despite the fact that they were complete strangers. He then shot Beale dead in front of his children and girlfriend, and ran away from the scene. A year later, Walker forced himself into an apartment, and shot 34 year old Clarence Threat seven times while he was laying in bed with his girlfriend. Walker had a history of violence and frequently stole from his friends and family. In one reported incident, he kicked the stomach of a pregnant woman in an act of rage.
108. Teresa Lewis (2002-2010, lethal injection): Lewis conspired with two men that she had a sexual relationship with to kill her husband, 51 year old Julian, and her stepson, 25 year old Charles. Charles was about to be deployed to participate in the then upcoming invasion of Iraq, which gave him a $250,000 life insurance policy that Lewis wanted to collect from both him and his father. She let her accomplices inside their trailer, and shot Julian and Charles while they were sleeping. Charles was killed immediately, while Julian, who witnessed Lewis pay the attackers, survived long enough to notify the responders of his wife's involvement.
109. Jerry Jackson (2001-2011, lethal injection): Jackson broke into the apartment of 88 year old Ruth Phillips, and woke her up while he was rummaging through her room. Despite Phillips' pleas for her life, Jackson raped her and suffocated her to death with a pillow. He stole her car and a total of $60 in the break in, and spent the stolen money on marijuana.
110. Robert Gleason (2007+(?)-2013, electric chair): In 2007, Gleason shot and killed 54 year old Michael Jamerson, in order to prevent him from testifying about his drug trafficking activities, and was given a life sentence for the murder. While incarcerated, he tied up and strangled his cellmate, 63 year old Harvey Watson (who serving a life sentence for a mass shooting). Prison officials then transferred him to a high security prison to await trial for Watson’s murder, but he managed to strangle another inmate, 26 year old Aaron Cooper (who was serving 34 years for robbery), to death with the wire that separated their cages. Gleason demanded the death penalty, which was given to him by the courts. He also claimed that he committed several other killings before Jamerson, but his additional confessions currently remain unverifiable.
111. Alfredo Prieto (~1984-2015, lethal injection): Prieto was both a serial killer of young women and a member of the Pomona Northside street gang. His sexual crimes involved the abductions, rapes, and shooting deaths of at least 4 females, 24 year old Tina Jefferson, 22 year old Rachael Raver, 19 year old Stacey Siegrist, and 15 year old Yvette Woodruff. Raver and Siegrist’s partners, 22 year old Warren Fulton III and 21 year old Anthony Gianuzzi, were also murdered during their kidnappings. The other known victims, 27 year old Manuel Sermeno, and couple, 71 year old Lula and 65 year old Herbert Farley, were shot dead during robberies. In the home invasion that killed Woodruff, Prieto and his fellow gang members also abducted her 17 year old friend and the friend’s 33 year old mother. The mother and daughter pair were gang-raped, shot and stabbed together, but they managed to escape with their lives. Prieto was sentenced to death in both California and Virginia, but stayed in California’s San Quentin until his death warrant was signed in Virginia. He had also shot and injured 3 gang members over his suspicions of them sleeping with his wife, but was lightly sentenced due to the victims' gang affiliations.
112. Ricky Gray (~2005-2017, lethal injection): Gray and his similarly aged nephew murdered at least 9 people, which composed of a lone woman, 35 year old Treva Gray, and two entire families, the Harveys (consisting of parents, 49 year old Bryan and 39 year old Kathryn, and their daughters, 9 year old Stella and 4 year old Ruby), and the Baskerville-Tuckers (consisting of 21 year old Ashley, her 46 year old mother Mary, and Mary’s 55 year old husband Percyell) in a week long burglary spree. Almost all of the victims were tied up and gagged in their homes, and beaten to death with hammers or had their throats slit. Before she was killed by them with her parents, victim Ashley Baskerville had assisted Gray and his nephew in several of their robberies. The pair stole any items and valuables they could carry, and were reported to have taken money, computers, television sets, wedding rings, and even cookies. They were also linked to several non fatal assaults, one of which involved a 26 year old man being beaten into a coma.
113. William Morva (~2005-2017, lethal injection): Morva, a son of Hungarian immigrants, and an accomplice were arrested while trying rob a grocery store at gunpoint. While awaiting trial, he badly sprained his ankle and wrist in prison, and was transferred to the Montgomery Regional Hospital for treatment. He overpowered a deputy guarding him with a metal toilet-paper container, stole his gun, fatally shot Derrick McFarland, a 25 year old hospital security guard, and escaped. Morva then fled to Virginia Tech’s campus, and shot and killed 40 year old Eric Sutphin, one of the police officers chasing him.

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Here is the list of the currently 73 inmates executed by the state of Alabama that I wrote for my post Furman death penalty project. Alabama has set plans to carry out additional executions in the next few months, and this list might be reposted with the updated information if they happen as scheduled.
Something that should also be clarified is the dates given here are an approximate timeline of their earliest known criminal activities to their executions rather then time spent on death row. Many of the cases here are quite graphic by nature, and I don't shy away from it in my descriptions. Please read at your own risk.
The states I have left are Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Virginia, Oklahoma, and the still in progress Texas. I'll probably post my list for Georgia next whenever I have time next week.
The currently executed 73 offenders:
1. John Evans III (~1976+-1983, electric chair): A year after Evans was paroled, he and another ex convict, Wayne Ritter, went on a two month long crime spree that involved 30 armed robberies, 9 kidnappings, and 2 extortion incidents. Their rampage ended when they shot dead 34 year old Edward Nassar in front of his daughters while robbing his pawn shop. Evans' execution was controversial, as it took 24 minutes and three pulls of the switch to electrocute him. Any information on his crimes before his 1977 spree is unavailable to me.
2. Arthur Jones (1981-1986, electric chair): Jones gunned down Vaughn Thompson, a 21 year old storekeeper, and William Waymon, a 72 year old cab driver, in two robberies.
3. Wayne Ritter (1976-1986, electric chair): Ritter was the accomplice of the above mentioned John Evans. After being released from prison, he assisted him in several robberies, abductions, and the murder of Edward Nassar. Like Evans, Ritter's earlier criminal history wasn't disclosed in the sources on hand.
4. Michael Lindsey (1981-1989, electric chair): Lindsey broke in the home of 64 year old Rosemary Rutland. After tying her up, he shot and stabbed Rutland to death, and stole her Christmas presents.
5. Horace Dunkins Jr. (1980-1989, electric chair): Dunkins abducted 26 year old Lynn McCurry, bound her to a tree, and raped her. He stabbed McCurry 66 times, and left her body on the tree she was tied to. His execution was a source of controversy, as Dunkins was allegedly cognitively disabled.
6. Herbert Richardson (1977-1989, electric chair): Richardson threw a pipe bomb into the home of one of his ex girlfriend's family members in retaliation for her breaking up with him. Her niece, 11 year old Rena Callins, was killed in the attack.
7. Arthur Julius (1972-1989, electric chair): In 1972, Julius beat his boss, 74 year old Herbert Chisenhall, to death during an argument over his wages. He was given a life sentence, but was able to leave custody in 1978 on a one day release. Julius took advantage of his leave to rape his cousin, 29 year old Susie Sanders, in her home. She was strangled to death during the assault.
8. Wallace Thomas (1976-1990, electric chair): Thomas and a partner abducted 21 year old Quenette Shehane from a convenience store. She was raped, robbed, and shot to death.
9. Larry Heath (1981-1992, electric chair): Out of a desire to marry another woman, Heath orchestrated the kidnapping of his 21 year old wife Rebecca (who was 9 months pregnant with their child) with the help of some men he hired. She was abducted from their home and shot in the head.
10. Cornelius Singleton (~1972-1992, electric chair): Singleton was condemned for the robbery of a Catholic monastery that ended with the fatal strangulation of a nun, 51 year old Ann Hogan. His execution was hotly contested by his lawyers and supporters, who have alleged misconduct in the trial and investigation. Despite the controversy, Hogan's stolen watch was found in Singleton's possession. Singleton was previously convicted for a 1972 incident involving arson and burglary.
11. Willie Clisby Jr. (1979-1995, electric chair): Clisby broke into the home of 58 year old Fletcher Handley, beat him to death with an ax handle, and left with $80 in hand.
12. Varnell Weeks (1981-1995, electric chair): Weeks abducted and carjacked 24 year old Mark Batts. He bound Batts, placed a pillowcase on his head, and shot him through it. While driving Batts' stolen car in Ohio, he was flagged down by police officers, and Weeks fired on them in the confrontation. In the shootout, Weeks was captured without any causalities to the responding officers. His execution was controversial, as his lawyers claimed that he was a paranoid schizophrenic.
13. Edward Horsley Jr. (~1976-1996, electric chair): After escaping from prison with Brian Baldwin, Horsley abducted 16 year old Naomi Rolon while she was hitchhiking. Horsley raped and dismembered Rolon with an ax, and ran her body over. Although Horlsey's culpability is an overwhelming certainty, the extent of Baldwin's alleged involvement is a significant source of contention. Horsley was previously convicted of a string of robberies that ended up with a non-fatal shooting of a police officer.
14. Billy Waldrop (1982-1997, electric chair): Waldrop snuck into the home of 72 year old Thurman Donahoo and shot him in the head. He then stole $130 and a 5-carat diamond ring. To destroy any evidence of his crime, Waldrop burned the house down, and fled to California. While in hiding, he was detained by the local law enforcement for a DUI and extradited back to Alabama to face trial.
15. Walter Hill (~1952-1997, electric chair): As a teenager in the early 50s, Hill beat Sam Atmore (age unknown) to death. He was given a 10 year sentence for that murder, and took part in an escape attempt that was temporarily successful because of the watchman's negligence. After his release, Hill became a career criminal and was involved with several abduction robberies, and wound up in a cycle of repeatedly being in and out of prison. During one of his incarcerations, Hill stabbed an unidentified inmate to death, but was cleared of any charges on the grounds of self defense. In 1977, Hill started an illicit "relationship" with a 13 year old girl, and sought the permission of her stepmother, 60 year old Willie Hammock, to marry but she refused. Out of anger, Hill shot Hammock, her 34 year old daughter Lois Tatum, and Lois' 36 year old husband John dead in their home, and abducted the girl and her 16 year old adopted brother. The brother managed to escape, but Hill kidnapped a motorist he encountered in Georgia. The man escaped captivity in North Carolina, and reported Hill and the abducted girl to the local police.
16. Henry Hays (1981-1997, electric chair): Hays was a member of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter, and the son of one of the most prominent KKK leaders in Alabama. In the area, the sentencing of a black man, who was accused of murdering a white policeman, kept on getting delayed due to a string of mistrials. Hays and other members of the KKK chapter interpreted it as a sign that blacks will be able to get away with murdering whites, and sought revenge by lynching a black person at random. The unfortunate victim was 19 year old Michael Donald, who was abducted while walking home from a gas station. Donald was beaten with a tree stump, strangled with a rope, and his throat slit by Hays and his fellow Klansmen. His body was hung on a nearby tree.
17. Steven Thompson (1984-1998, electric chair): Thompson abducted 25 year old Robin Balarzs, a friend's fiancee, from her home. After he tied up and gagged her, Thompson raped Balarz and penetrated her with a knife, shaved her head, and dragged her to death with his car over a distance of 3,000 feet. He stole Balarz's wedding ring and a dollar from her purse, and sexually mutilated her body.
18. Brian Baldwin (~1977-1998, electric chair): Baldwin was the accused accomplice of the above mentioned Edward Horsley, and allegedly helped him with the sex murder of Naomi Rolon after they escaped from prison together. As mentioned in Horsley's section, Baldwin's involvement with Rolon's killing remains hotly contested to this day, and he and his supporters alleged that he was set up by institutionalized racism and tortured into confessing by investigating police officers. He was previously in prison for stealing a car.
19. Victor Kennedy (~1980-1999, electric chair): Kennedy, a career burglar, and an accomplice, Darrell Grayson, broke into the home of 86 year old Annie Orr to search for money. They bound, beat, raped, and suffocated her with a pillow case. When they failed to find any money, Kennedy and Grayson left the residence empty handed.
20. David Duren (1983-2000, electric chair): Duren and an accomplice kidnapped 16 year old Kathleen Bedsole and her date, 17 year old Charles Leonard, and stole $20 that was given to them by Bedsole's father. The couple were tied together, and locked in the trunk for several hours. When Duren stoped his car, he shot both of the teenagers. Bedsole was killed, while Leonard managed to survive and escape.
21. Freddie Wright (1977-2000, electric chair): Wright was convicted of robbing a store owned by couple, 40 year old Warren and 37 year old Lois Green, with 3 other men. The Greens were tied together, dragged into a backroom, and shot to death. Their watches and $900 were stolen in the robbery. His execution was controversial, as his attorneys and supporters push that he was convicted both out of racism and the participants allegedly naming him to avoid death sentences.
22. Robert Tarver Jr. (1984-2000, electric chair): Tarver fatally shot 63 year old Hugh Kite, while he and an accomplice were robbing him outside of his store. Kite was just done closing his store when he was attacked, and had $80 taken from him.
23. Pernell Ford (1983-2000, electric chair): Ford forced himself into the home that 70 year old Willie Griffin shared with her 42 year old daughter Linda. He stabbed both of them to death after a struggle. Several undisclosed items were stolen from the Griffin home, and Ford used their car to flee to Illinois.
24. Lynda Block (1992-2002, electric chair): Block, her common law husband, George Sibley, and her 9 year old son were sitting in car that was parked in a Walmart parking lot. A passerby was concerned by Block's son apparently looking distressed, and reported them to the police. When a police officer, 38 year old Roger Motley, came to question them, Block and Sibley shot him to death. The couple was previously involved in assaulting and stabbing Block's ex husband in a dispute over their home, a crime they were on the run from at the time of Motley's murder.
25. Anthony Johnson (1984-2002, lethal injection): While Johnson and two unidentified men were robbing a jewelry store, they engaged in a gun-battle with the owner, 51 year Kenneth Cattrell, and killed him. Although Johnson's wasn't directly responsible for Cattrell's death and only acted as a lookout, he was the only member of the gang to be captured, and thus bore the brunt of the judicial retributions when he refused to testify against them.
26. Michael Thompson (1984-2003, lethal injection): During a nighttime convenience store robbery, Thompson kidnapped the clerk, 57 year old Maisie Gray. Thompson forced Gray into his car, drove her to a well, and tossed her inside it. He then shot a trapped Gray to death with his married girlfriend holding a torch for him. His girlfriend had a longstanding record for armed robberies, and Thompson's defense tried to use the argument that she goaded him into the killing or did it herself.
27. Gary Brown (1996-2003, lethal injection): Brown and a few other men went to the home of Jack McGraw, a 59 year old Korean War veteran, to "party." On numerous previous occasions, McGraw had paid them for sex acts. They planned on robbing McGraw's house after he passed out drunk, but he refused to drink as he had work the next morning. Undeterred, Brown and his accomplices attacked McGraw, and stabbed him a combined total of 78 times. More specifically, McGraw's back was stabbed 59 times, his throat and neck were slashed 16 times, and he had 3 cut wounds on his head. The group then stole $67 and a VCR set from his home.
28. Thomas Fortenberry (1984-2004, lethal injection): Fortenberry fatally shot four people, 51 year old Wilbur Nelson, 43 year old Robert Payne, Robert's 29 year old wife Nancy, and 21 year old Ronald Guest, while attempting to rob a gas station.
29. James Hubbard (~1957-2004, lethal injection): In 1957, Hubbard shot and killed 28 year old Carl Dockery in what was described as a "domestic disturbance." He was paroled in 1976 with the help of 62 year old Lillian Montgomery, a woman he befriended behind bars. Hubbard repaid the favor by shooting and killing her while robbing a store she owned in the following year. He stole $500 and her diamond watch, and tried to stage Montgomery's death as a suicide despite the fact that he shot her in the face, head, and shoulder.
30. David Hocker (1998-2004, lethal injection): Hocker was living in a motel and didn't have a car at hand. Thus, he asked his boss, 47 year old Jerry Robinson, to drive him around for an errand. When they were in the car together, Hocker stabbed Robinson to death, stole his credit card, and withdrew $400 from it to buy cocaine. Hocker had an extensive criminal history, but the specifics weren't given in my sources.
31. Mario Centobie (1995-2005, lethal injection): Centobie and another prisoner escaped from a Georgia prison during his 40 year sentence for the double kidnappings of his ex wife and son. They fled to Alabama, and were pulled over by local policemen. Centobie opened fire on them and killed Keith Turner, a 29 year old officer, and wounded another. The pair were recaptured in Georgia near the home of Centobie's ex wife. While awaiting trial, Centobie yet again escaped by seducing a guard, but was quickly recaptured.
32. Jerry Henderson (1984-2005, lethal injection): On his sister-in-law's payroll, Henderson lured her husband, 33 year Jerry Haney, outside of his house and shot him dead.
33. George Sibley Jr. (1992-2005, lethal injection): Sibley was the common law husband of the above mentioned Lynda Block, and assisted her in the killing of officer Roger Motley. He also took part in the assault of her ex husband.
34. John Peoples Jr. (1983-2005, lethal injection): Enraged that 34 year old Paul Franklin refused to sell him his car that he coveted, Peoples broke into his home, and beat him to death with a rifle. Peoples stole the car and abducted Paul's wife, 34 year old Judy, and their 10 year old son John. They were also beaten to death with Peoples' rifle.
35. Larry Hutcherson (1992-2006, lethal injection): Hutcherson broke into the home of 89 year old Irma Gray, and slit her throat. He stole her air conditioner and microwave in the robbery.
36. Aaron Jones (1978-2006, lethal injection): After being fired by them, Jones and his partner invaded the home of their former employers, 61 year old Carl and 45 year old Williene Nelson. They shot Carl and Willene dead and chopped their bodies into several pieces. The pair also shot their 3 children, 21 year old Tony, 13 year old Brenda, and 10 year old Charlie, and Carl's mother, 85 year old Annie, but they all managed to survive their injuries.
37. Darrell Grayson (1980-2007, lethal injection): Grayson was the accomplice of the previously mentioned Victor Kennedy, and partook in the rape and murder of Annie Orr and the burglary of her home.
38. Luther Williams (1988-2007, lethal injection): While John Kirk, a 63 year old WW2 veteran, was driving home from work, his truck broke down. He was found and abducted by Williams and 2 other men, and shot to death by them. The trio then stole money from Kirk's body and his truck.
39. James Callahan (1982-2009, lethal injection): Callahan kidnapped 26 year old Becky Howell, while she was walking from a club her fiance was performing to switch laundry that she left at a laundromat. Howell was raped and strangled to death.
40. Danny Bradley (1983-2009, lethal injection): When his wife was hospitalized, Bradley was left to care for his stepdaughter, 12 year old Rhonda Hardin, and his stepson. After he put his stepson to bed, Bradley sodomized Hardin and choked her to death with his bare hands.
41. Jimmy Dill (~1983-2009, lethal injection) Dill shot his dealer, 33 year old Leon Shaw, in the head during a deal gone bad, and stole $200 and a few bags of cocaine. Shaw was left comatose and died of his injuries 9 months later. Dill had an extensive criminal record for theft and drug possession.
42. Willie McNair (1990-2009, lethal injection): McNair and an accomplice went to the home of his occasional employer, 68 year old Ella Riley, to ask for some money. When Riley declined to give them any, McNair tricked her into letting him inside by asking for a drink of water. After walking in, he stabbed Riley in the neck and strangled her to death. The pair then fled with her purse.
43. Jack Trawick (~1972-2009, lethal injection): Trawick was convicted or credibly confessed to a minimum of 3 murders. His verified victims consist of 27 year old Aileen Pruitt, 21 year old Stephanie Gach, and 17 year old Betty Richards. In his known murders, he forcibly abducted his victims from public locations, and raped and tortured them. They were then stabbed and beaten to death with a hammer. Trawick bragged in graphic details about committing other murders on a website made for death row inmates, which he also used to taunt the victims' families. However, investigations into the alleged additional killings brought no results, and are now believed to have been fictionalized by Trawick for clout.
44. Max Payne (1992-2009, lethal injection): Payne robbed a store at gunpoint, and kidnapped the owner, 58 year old Braxton Brown. He took Brown to his sister's house and tried forcing him into giving them money. When his sister objected, Payne dragged Brown to a bridge, shot him in the head, and dumped his body in the nearby creek. A total of $1,085 in cash and many of Brown's belongings were stolen, which included bank deposit checks, rings, cigarettes, food stamps, and a handgun.
45. Thomas Whisenhant (~1963-2010, lethal injection): At the age of 16, Whisenhant fatally shot 72 year old Lexie Haynes in one incident and robbed an unidentified blind woman in another. For uknown reasons, the charges were dropped against him, and he was able to join the air force. A few years later, he assaulted Rose Covington, a 22 year old WAF servicewoman, with an ashtray, and was discharged and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor for the attack. Whisenhant was granted parole in 1972. Another couple years later, he went on a crime spree, and abducted 3 women that worked in convenience stores he robbed. His victims, 44 year old Venora Hyatt, 28 year old Patricia Hitt, and 23 year old Cheryl Payton, were all raped and shot in the head.
46. John Parker (1988-2010, lethal injection): Parker and his accomplice Kenneth Smith was hired to kill 42 year old Elizabeth Sennett, by her husband, who wanted to use her life insurance policy to fund his ministering. Her husband was also Parker's landlord. The pair tricked Sennett into letting them inside the house by pretending to be hunters inquiring about for a hunting spot, and stabbed her to death. Sennett's husband then gave Parker and Smith their stereo and video cassette recorders to make it look like a robbery.
47. Michael Land (~1990-2010, lethal injection): Land kidnapped 30 year old Candace Brown from her apartment after he cut her telephone line. He raped Brown, shot her in the head, and stole her purse. Land had prior convictions of burglaries and receiving stolen goods, and previously met Brown in prison when she ministered to him.
48. Holly Wood (~1981-2010, lethal injection): In 1994, Wood shot his ex girlfriend, 34 year old Ruby Gosha, at point blank range in front of her children at her mother's home. He had also (non-fatally) shot another ex girlfriend from outside her bedroom window several years before Gosha's murder. His criminal history was extensive, and had 18 different felonies on his record. Some of the charges pertained to incidents of assault.
49. Phillip Hallford (~1978-2010, lethal injection): Hallford was jealousy enraged that his 15 year old daughter, whom he had been sexually abusing since she was 7, was dating 16 year old Charles Shannon. He forced her to lure Shannon to a bridge, gunned him down, and stole his wallet. With the coerced help of his stepson, Hallford dumped Shannon's body into a river. As a memento, Hallford forced his daughter to wear a necklace with the shell casing used in the murder.
50. Leroy White (1988-2011, lethal injection): White shot his estranged wife, 35 year old Ruby, dead while she was visiting her sister out of anger at their upcoming divorce. Ruby's sister was wounded in the shooting. White had also previously shot and injured Ruby's leg during an argument.
51. William Boyd (1986-2011, lethal injection): Boyd and a partner broke into the home of married couple, 76 year old Fred and 41 year old Evelyn Blackmon, and duped them into thinking that Evelyn's daughter (whom Boyd previously dated against her mother's wishes) was kidnapped. They made the couple believe that they had to pay a $3,000 ransom for her safe return. The couple were then both tied up, forcibly separated into their captors' cars, and beaten and shot to death.
52. Jason Williams (1992-2011, lethal injection): Under the influence of cocaine, Williams shot his roommate, 46 year old Gerald Paravicini dead in the trailer they shared. William then walked over to his neighbors, the Barber family (consisting of parents, 50 year old Freddie and 45 year old Linda, and their sons, 22 year old Bryan and 16 year old Brad) and intruded into their home. He shot and killed Freddie, Linda, and Bryan, and wounded Brad. Cash and credit cards were taken and Williams fled in the family van.
53. Eddie Powell III (~1990s-2011, lethal injection): Powell broke into the home of 70 year old Mattie Wesson, and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Wesson was beaten and shot in the attack, but she managed to drag herself to a neighbor's house for help before she succumbed to her injuries. Powell had several previous convictions for burglary, theft, and assault.
54. Derrick Mason (1994-2011, lethal injection): Mason held up a convenience store, and forced the clerk, 25 year old Angela Cagle to turn off the cameras and undress. However, he shot Cagle in the head before any assault could occur. He then tried to open the register, but ran off when he failed to open it.
55. Christopher Johnson (2005-2011, lethal injection): To avoid paying child support and to spite his estranged wife, Johnson smothered his 6 month old son Eilas with his fingers, and struck him in the head.
56. Andrew Lackey (2005-2013, lethal injection): After being told about the existence of a vault inside the home of Charles Newman, a 80 year old WW2 veteran, by Newman's grandson, Lackey decided to steal it from him. He invaded Newman's house, and shot and stabbed him 70 times in the ensuring confrontation. Despite Lackey waiving his appeals and actively petitioning for his own execution, his death sentence attracted controversy due to him being diagnosed with Asperger's.
57. Christopher Brooks (1992-2016, lethal injection): Brooks snuck into the apartment of 23 year old Jo Campbell. He sexually assaulted Campbell in her bedroom, and bludgeoned her to death with a barbell. Several items, including a credit card, were stolen from the scene.
58. Ronald Smith Jr. (1994-2016, lethal injection): Smith and some accomplices robbed a convenience store, and fatally shot the clerk, 26 year old Casey Wilson. According to Smith's attorneys, Smith and Wilson were allegedly involved in a love triangle with a local stripper. If such accounts are to be believed, he shot him dead in a dispute over her, and Smith staged it as a robbery to avoid embarrassing his parents. However, the stripper strongly denied having any connections with both men. His execution sparked controversy, as witnesses reported him coughing and heaving for 13 minutes during it.
59. Thomas Arthur (1982-2017, lethal injection): Arthur's married girlfriend hired him to kill her husband, 35 year old Troy Wicker, for his insurance policy. He gunned down Wicker while he was sleeping in his bedroom. To mislead investigators, Wicker's wife claimed that an intruder broke into her home, shot her husband dead, and raped her.
60. Robert Melson (1994-2017, lethal injection): Melson and his partner held up a Popeyes store at gunpoint. They rounded up the employees, 23 year old Darrell Collier, 18 year old Tamika Collins, 17 year old Nathaniel Baker, and 17 year Bryant Archer, into a freezer, and shot them. Archer was the sole survivor, and identified Melson's accomplice, a former employee, to the police. Although Melson's accomplice was initially given a life sentence due to him being a minor at the time, he was later also sentenced to death for killing a cellmate, and is currently awaiting execution.
61. Torrey McNabb (1997-2017, lethal injection): McNabb skipped bail when he was facing charges for receiving stolen property and drug possession. He was tracked down by a bondsman sent to bring him back to court, but he shot at him when he appeared at his doorsteps. The bondsman then called the police for support. One of the responding officers, 30 year old Anderson Gordon, was killed in the standoff with McNabb.
62. Michael Eggers (2000-2018, lethal injection): Eggers and his ex employer, 67 year old Bennie Murray, were in talks about him returning to his former job at her carnival. While Murray was driving Eggers and his 15 year old son, they got into an argument. During the fight, Murray slapped Eggers, which enraged him. He beat and choked her with his hands until she went unconscious, and tossed Murray out of her car. Eggers continued to beat and kick Murray, and crushed her throat with a tree branch. After she was killed, Eggers stole money from Murray's purse, and drove away in her car.
63. Walter Moody (~1972-2018, lethal injection): In 1972, Moody was building a bomb to kill an auto dealer that repossessed his car. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, and critically injured Moody's then wife instead. Although Moody was cleared of charges relating to the construction of the bomb, he was still convicted of it being in his possession. His appeals were thrown away, which gave him a resentment against the justice system. After Moody was released from prison, he murdered a federal judge, 58 year old Robert Vance, and a civil rights attorney, 42 year old Robbie Robinson, and injured Vance's wife, in two separate bombings. To disguise his attacks, Moody sent bombs and hate letters to various NAACP targets.
64. Domineque Ray (1992-2019, lethal injection): Ray shot and killed two brothers, 18 year old Ernest and 13 year old Reinhard Mabins, for refusing to join his gang. In the following year, Ray and his gang members kidnapped 15 year old Tiffany Harville from her home and raped her. Her throat was slit and she was dumped in a remote cotton field.
65. Michael Samra (1997-2019, lethal injection): During an argument over a pick up truck, Samra and his teenage friend shot and killed his friend's father, 39 year old Randy Duke, and step mother, 29 year old Dedra Hunt. The pair also slit the throats of Dedra's two children, 7 year old Chelsea and 6 year old Chelisa.
66. Christopher Price (~1990-2019, lethal injection): Price invaded the home of Bill Lynn, a 57 year old pastor, while he was busy wrapping Christmas presents for his grandchildren. He stabbed Bill 30 times with a sword and injured his wife Bessie when they confronted him. Despite being only 19 at the time, Price had an extensive criminal history that involved trespassing, auto theft, and "criminal mischief."
67. Nathaniel Woods (~2004-2020, lethal injection): A squad of 4 police officers, 58 year old Carlos Owen, 40 year old Harley Chisholm III, 37 year old Michael Collins, and 33 year old Charles Bennett, were searching a drug house that Woods, a long time dealer, had been operating in. As they were arresting Woods, one of his associates opened fire on them and killed Chisholm, Bennett, and Owen. Collins was wounded, but managed to flee to safety. Wood's execution was extremely controversial, as he wasn't the triggerman in the shootings. His supporters and the shooter himself claimed that he was an entirely innocent party, while the prosecutors pushed that he deliberately lured the officers to their deaths.
68. Willie Smith III (1991-2021, lethal injection): Smith kidnapped 22 year old Sharma Johnson at gunpoint near a bank, and forced her to withdraw $80 from an ATM machine. He locked Johnson in the trunk of her own car, and shot her dead while she was trapped in it. The car was then burned to destroy the evidence.
69. Matthew Reeves (1996-2022, lethal injection): Reeves and two other men pretended to be hitchhikers on a remote highway as a ruse to lure motorists. The target they ensnared was 38 year old Willie Johnson Jr. They robbed Johnson of $360 when he stopped to pick them up, and Reeves shot him to death with a shotgun. Reeves then attended a party reportedly still covered with Johnson's blood, and celebrated by pretending to pump the gun and mockingly mimicked his death throes to the other guests.
70. Joe James Jr. (1993-2022, lethal injection): James tracked down his ex girlfriend, 26 year old Faith Hill, at her friend's apartment. She was in the company of her children, her friend, and her friend's children. The friend shielded the children from James with her body, while Hill tried desperately to calm him down. Despite her efforts, she was shot dead. His execution sparked controversy for it taking over 3 hours to complete, and caused the state of Alabama to delay executions until 2023. James was previously arrested and reported several times for harassing Hill's family, which included an incident of him burglarizing her grandmother's home.
71. James Barber (2001-2023, lethal injection): Barber assaulted 75 year old Dorothy Epps, who was both his ex girlfriend's mother and a former employer, with a claw hammer in her home. Despite her efforts at fighting him off, Epps was beaten to death, and Barber stole her purse.
72. Casey McWhorter (1993-2023, lethal injection): McWhorter conspired with a 15 year old friend and a 16 year old friend to kill 34 year old Edward Williams, the father of the 15 year old. The group tried to force Williams to had over a safe, but he tried to fight back. They shot him a total of 11 times with a .22 rifle equipped with a makeshift silencer in his home and took his truck, wallet, and an undisclosed amount of money. The stolen truck was destroyed in order to sell the parts for scrap metal.
73. Kenneth Smith (1988-2024, nitrogen hypoxia): Smith assisted John Parker in the contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett on the behalf of her husband. His case attracted controversy when he survived a botched execution in 2022, and received international attention for being the first inmate in history to be executed with the controversially experimental nitrogen hypoxia method.

i've watched stephanie's videos for years now. crime weekly was my favorite podcast. i used to think that the people accusing her of talking over derrick too much or being flirty were exaggerating. i brushed off the moments where she was inconsistent to push her own bias because i enjoyed her storytelling and the amount of depth she went into covering cases. i also liked how long her episodes are since most of the other people i watch only do 30-40 min videos. there were many times i disagreed with her but kept listening because no one is perfect.
however, the cracks have gotten bigger and bigger. recently i've been struggling to listen. not only do her ads feel like they're getting longer and longer, but half the time they don't even stay on topic. i used to like the banter but they end up going on so many tangents because stephanie can't stand it when derrick disagrees with her on anything. or anyone else for that matter. that's why every case ends up being so many parts, because they never stay on topic. i've stopped listening for several weeks at a time recently (piketon massacre series) because they would go in so many circles that i lost track of what was actually going on in the case. i was interested in the menendez case because jose sounds a lot like my own abuser based on what the brothers have said and i do believe them, but i'm so tired of her armchair diagnosing people. yes, you can say that someone has narcissistic tendencies or behaviors, but when you're not a mental healthcare professional you should not be throwing out npd and bpd diagnoses... even actual professionals would never do that on youtube!
i didn't even know there was a snark for her until i happened to see a comment on her most recent ig post. i had no idea that she was going through a divorce. i'm not going to speculate on it right now out of respect for her kids, but the way she is parentifying her adult daughter and having her make little PSA posts about the kids instead of coming out and talking about the situation herself is in very poor taste imo. whether she encouraged her to or not, i don't think she should be having her daughter run around defending her online.
anyway, the main point of my post is that i'm looking for better podcasts or videos to listen to that have similar length and detail. i like georgia marie and bella fiori but their videos tend to be less than an hour. i also listen to case file. i don't like people like bailey sarian who do makeup during true crime videos and i stopped listening to crime junkie because i hate the constant "full. body. chills." and the way they overdescribe and exaggerate details that would never be in an actual crime report.

I was watching an episode of Crime Weekly where at the end of the episode Derrick said to always “travel In pairs.” They had a quick discussion then Stephanie said, “A couple of weeks ago I met a new friend and she invited me to a concert in Toronto. I talked to Derrick and asked him to go with us.” She basically was saying she was taking him as a safety measure. From what it sounded like to me, he went. They didn’t come right out & say it. So, in my mind, that was an unintentional confirmation of their divorces. In no world, would it be acceptable for either one of them to be married & actively with their spouse and be comfortable enough to invite the other party to a concert.

Idk if this has been discussed here already cuz I just joined this subreddit yesterday… but I was looking through his IG and I found a picture of him and Stephanie before I saw his wife. Actually I don’t think I see her at all…. I googled it and it says they’ve been married since 2011. So? Maybe she’s just really private?

I’m wondering this because Abby has been doing a lot …. And I mean a lot of posts where she’s fishing for compliments either from their “fans” or even from her own husband. Her swimsuit try on and her “I’m gonna make a cake for Matt for the song about my flaws” …. And of course all of his compliments to her in them do not seem genuine at all along with being too over the top (like a certain Derrick Beeston). And now Abby posts a GRWM tiktok about how she thought the cashier at her shake spot was flirting with her and she got excited about it?? Like idk if I should feel bad for her or what but …. She’s starting to get really desperate…. You sure about divorce not being an option Abby???

Hi all!! I used to listen to Crime Weekly every week. Life got me and I haven’t listened in a year or so. I was gonna start listening again, but was getting notifications on Reddit about Stephanie getting a divorce. And that she’s different on the podcast? I fell into a rabbit hole and read Derrick & his wife separated. I am blown away. I follow them on Instagram but guess I haven’t paid much attention. Does anyone even have facts on any of this? Or is it all just rumors or guessing? This makes me sad.
PS : Yes, I do think Stephanie is naturally flirty with men in general. But I have always thought her & Derrick were unusually flirty (mostly Stephanie) & close for them to both be married. Not sure if that has anything to do with anything.

I've had this thought several times with the recent focus on narcissism on CW and Stephanie's channel, and just wonder if anyone else feels the same now with all the drama online happening with Adam.
I am in no way choosing sides, but she has been ranting passive aggressively about narcissists in every recent video, which is basically publicly dragging Adam and she knows it, especially when you think about people who personally know them hearing it. I think Adam thinks it's the only way to show people (both strangers and people he knows) that she's not an innocent victim in this who is helplessly at the mercy of some egomaniac.
The tricky part for him is the conundrum of the narcissist: anything you do or say after being accused of being a narcissist can be used to further prove it. If Adam had just posted something saying "guys, a false narrative is being painted I am not a narcissist etc" it would be like "well sure that's exactly what a narcissist would say! Trying to gaslight us!" And now he's showing all this stuff which can also be seen as "see, a narcissist will do anything to try to get people to think that they are the victim and everyone should feel bad for them." It's like when you get accused of being insane, and then everything you do to try to prove you're not, makes you look more insane lol.
I definitely agree that neither of them should taking any of this to social media, so I'm not defending him. I just think that if he's not as bad as Stephanie is implying, and she's going off to her millions of viewers, there's really nothing he can do about it. If Derrick has gotten divorced, he did it the right way, because none of us know if he is or anything about his situation or how he feels about his wife/ex. All we see is no ring and an apartment. That's the way to do this without creating more chaos.
ETA: I really ENJOY the way Stephanie absolutely eviscerates narcissists in so many of the cases she/they cover. I like to imagine certain people who are or will be out free (lookin at you Wendi adelson, Sherri Papini, many many dudes who got away with a crime) watching and being enraged by her absolute read on them. I just enjoy it more when it's a more unbothered, "lol this freakin narcissist I cant even, she thinks we don't see how utterly ridiculous she looks" vs a 15 min bitter angry rant that is clearly closer to home than a case.

Harald draped a heavy cloak of finest wool over his shoulders and headed out into the afternoon. The cloak was of sufficient quality, dyed a charcoal gray and trimmed in cobalt blue, that he’d not be bothered by the guards despite his otherwise plain training gear.
He left Sam behind to contemplate her life as he set out to think on his.
Change.
He’d embraced it, had made big decisions and spoken even grander words. That moment of heartfelt unity with Sam had easily been the best thing that had happened to him in the longest time—if you discounted the blessings of a demon—but it left him with a singular question: now what?
So he set off down Baldric Avenue, no destination in mind, determined to find the answer.
For an hour or so he just walked. Stepped out onto the Eternal Circuit and followed its grand spiral tighter and tighter into the heart of the city. Lost himself in the crowds, taking comfort in the bustle and sound of Flutic, the greatest metropolis on the Known Continent.
But despite the wonders that presented themselves, he didn’t really see them. He ignored the cries of costermongers, skirted around crowds that gathered in the squares to observe performers, ignored the long dead overhead scale-carriage-line, and allowed his feet to guide them where they would.
His thoughts were loose and inchoate. He ruminated on recent events. Derrick introducing him to Yeoric at the Burnished Goose, their firm handshake, Yeoric’s measured nod. It had been the other man’s reticence that had so assured Harald; Derrick’s effusive promises were as nothing compared to the other warrior’s solemn appraisal.
He thought on Vic, on Evernessa and the others. The nights of debauchery, the time they were all arrested for freeing a dancing bear and leading it into the Kitty Kat Club. The wild nights, when he’d felt feverish and eternal, as if he’d be young forever, as if Vic’s near supernatural charisma could compensate for his own lack.
The dungeon portal, ever shifting.
His father’s portrait.
That frisson of wonder and delight when he’d taken his new blade to the orchard at the back of his estate and set to slicing falling leaves like Gustav, the warrior-king from legend.
His astonishment when he’d actually razored one in twain.
Sam’s faith. His father’s disdain. Vic’s endless amusement. Yeoric’s cruel rejection. Lucine’s tinkling laugh. Evernessa’s lips at his ear.
And in the center of it all, lost and desperately searching, Harald Darrowdelve.
He passed his hand self-consciously over his short hair. Resolutions didn’t change who he was. Actions did.
So what came next?
Finally he fetched up in the Academy Square. Surprised, he glanced around himself, not realizing this had been his destination all along. All around him raced students, the young scions and hopefuls of the noble houses. Dressed in the sober black and silver of the Academy uniform, they looked dashing and dangerous. Most wore blades at their hips, and all had a slash of color at the shoulder signifying their House allegiance.
Harald found a bench and sat. Rested his elbows on his knees, and considered the Academy proper.
Hidden behind high walls, it was an august building and an essential part of Flutic’s history and success. Over four centuries old, it had trained and graduated some of the greatest legends. Barillo the Bold had come from its halls, Yvette Queencutter. The infamous Skull Harvester had studied there for a semester, along with the doomed identical twins Raveena and Gliselle who’d both descended into madness and killed each other on the 73rd Level.
The names went on, and Harald knew most of them. He’d grown up on the adventure stories written for Flutic’s youths that detailed the legends and their exploits. All of them members of or sponsored by the noble houses.
His father had laughed scornfully at his request to attend.
“You? Attend the Academy? You’re joking. First, you’d never get accepted. Unless you were planning to apply to join the kitchen staff? Second, why bother? The Academy’s nothing but a playground for the idle rich these days. Nobody of note has graduated from there in decades.” His father had leaned in, eyes narrowing, all mirth leaving his face. “You want to become a true dungeon raider, Harry? You do the work yourself. You train yourself. You prove to me you’ve got fire in your gut and the gravel in your eye, and I’ll find you a proper tutor. Until then? Don’t waste my time.”
The gilded domes of the Main Arena could just be seen over the top of the walls, emerging from the thick canopy of the quads. That was where the greatest duels were fought, where the Angel Tournament was fought each year, where the deadliest students were invested with scales so as to continue their path in Ascending to their Thrones.
Harald frowned.
You do the work yourself.
The Academy wasn’t the answer. Technically his ‘lineage’ was sufficient to warrant his putting in an application, but he’d not the wealth to pay the tuition. And scholarships were merit based; he could already envision how poorly the testing would go given his complete lack of skills.
You train yourself.
His father had been a brute and a bully and a sadist, but there was no denying how he’d pulled himself up from the slums to achieve his successes. Few men had been as feared and respected in his time as Darius Darrowdelve. Even now the name could open doors.
But was this what Harald wanted?
For awhile longer he watched students rushing across the square, intent on reaching their classes or who knew what. Purposeful, innocent in their dedication, in their knowledge that everything was being taken care of for them.
The Academy. The dungeon. Scales. Power. Raiding.
Was that what he wanted?
Harald grimaced and rubbed at his eyes. It’s what he’d always said he desired. But why? Once he’d have laughed and gone on about restoring Darrowdelve Manor.
Now?
Harald inhaled deeply.
What did he want?
He saw the dire rats swarming up his body, his blood everywhere, his sword falling to the floor.
Saw Yeoric pinning him to the ground, holding him down effortlessly, his face cold and inscrutable.
Saw himself swinging his blade in the orchard, grunting and cursing till at last that leaf had floated apart in two halves.
And a realization seized him by the throat: he did want power. Strength. Skill. More than that, he wanted to Ascend his Thrones, he wanted more Endowments, to acquire Artifacts, Servitors, all of it.
Just like the heroes from his childhood books.
He wanted to plumb the dungeon. Down past the initial twelve Iron levels, down into the real depths, down where the nightmares slithered and the demon princes held court.
Harald stared at this soft palms. Felt his gut resting against his upper thighs. He wanted to become more.
Why?
A fierce emotion arose within him. It was akin to a hawk’s hunting cry. He studied that emotion. Tried to put it into words.
He wanted to become strong because… because he no longer wanted to be weak. He no longer wanted to make excuses. To live in dreams. To tell himself that one day he would ascend.
But more than that.
He wanted… did he want to best Yeoric? To hack apart the rats? Yes, but that wasn’t the reason why. It wasn’t to prove anything to his father, to others.
Then?
Harald scowled and pushed his thumbs into his eyes. Red stars danced upon the depthless field of night.
In mastery there was… grace. Exaltation.
In finding the limits of what he could become there was… truth. About whom he was.
He wanted to be great because…
“Huh.”
Harald sat up.
A memory had come to him. Sitting in the arbor, back when it had been twined with roses and the pond clear and filled with fish. He’d been… six? In his memory, his arm was in a cast, so a week or two after his confrontation with Max. He’d been reading about Gustav the Just, the leper king of Flutic who’d laid down his life to seal the 83rd level of the dungeon from a demon incursion.
“What are you reading?” his mother had asked, sitting down next to him on the bench swing.
He’d told her, his tone enthusiastic, his voice shining with admiration.
“And that’s what you want to be?” she’d asked, smiling indulgently, her hair shining gold in the sun. “The king of Flutic?”
“No!” How amazed he’d been at her lack of understanding. “I want to be great like him!” He’d leaped up and swung an imaginary sword.
She’d watched him, still smiling. “What made him great?”
He’d paused, frowned. “He saved everyone from the demons.”
“So saving people makes you great?”
“Of course! That makes you a hero.” He’d swung his imaginary blade through Silenthros the demon prince. “The stronger you are, the bigger the demon you can kill, and the more people you can save.”
“So heroes have to be strong?”
“The strongest!” He’d turned to her, eyes wide. “Mom! That’s what I want to be. The strongest hero that ever lived. So when the biggest danger in the world shows up, I’ll be the only one who can stop it.”
“My darling boy,” she’d said. “And you’ll sacrifice yourself for everyone?”
“If I have to.” He’d considered. “Gustav the Just was the only one who could stop Silenthros. If he hadn’t been strong enough, then the demon would have destroyed all of Flutic.”
“We are all greatly indebted to him,” agreed his mother placidly.
“That’s the reason to be strong,” Harald had said.
“Strong people get to be wealthy, too.” Her mother had considered him. “They get to be respected, admired, and make decisions about how everyone should live.”
“But those aren’t the reasons to be strong.” He’d waved away her words. “No. I want to be stronger than Gustav. Stronger even than the Queencutter. I want to be so strong that one day, if the world needs it, I’ll be there, ready to save it. I’ll…” He’d stared off into the middle distance, trying to envision a demon so massive it made even Silenthros seem insignificant. “I’ll say, ‘It’s all right. Don’t worry. I’m here.’ And then I’ll… I’ll do whatever I need to do to protect everyone.”
“Oh Harry.” She’d pulled him in and kissed his cheek. “You’re the best, most noble, most wonderful boy a mother could ever dream of having.”
He’d laughed, squirmed free, and run off across the lawn, waving his imaginary sword as he chased demon princes back into the dungeon.
Harald blinked.
He’d not thought of that moment in forever. Sam’s words must have brought the memory back to him.
“That’s the reason to be strong,” he whispered, testing the words he’d not spoken in fourteen years.
They felt right.
They felt true.
Harald scowled at his hands and slowly clenched them.
His father had laughed when he’d explained his ambition at the dinner table that night, and he’d grown ashamed of his naivete.
But he was past shame now.
And that reason, childlike and true, called to his soul like nothing else ever hand.
“Strength,” he whispered. “So that one day, when I’m needed, I’m ready.”
He shivered as goosebumps broke out across his arms.
Then he sighed and looked up at the Academy once more. Within were instructors, specialists, classes and lectures on everything related to the dungeon and its denizens. But he’d have to learn without all that.
He’d have to train by himself.
Harald stood with a laugh. And before he could even think about real training, he had to get in shape. He slapped his gut. He couldn’t even run more than six blocks at the moment, much less defeat the demon prince Silenthros.
There was a lot of work to be done.
And sitting around here wouldn’t get him started.
Gathering his cloak about himself, he turned his back on the Academy and began walking home.
Where to begin?
He summoned his window, and studied his stats:
Strength: 6 Dexterity: 6 Constitution: 5 Ego: 18 Presence: 8
His Strength, Dexterity, and Stamina were abysmal. A 10 was considered respectable for your average adult, but actual dungeon raiders like Yeoric would have those stats up in the low teens. Yeoric’s Strength was probably around 14. That allowed him to not only pin Harald effortlessly, but move around in all that plate armor without growing exhausted.
Harald dismissed his window.
When he’d decided to hire a raiding team in a last ditch effort to save Darrowdelve Manor, he’d sworn that he’d get his Strength and Constitution to 7 before even making inquiries. At the time he’d thought that a respectable goal, and had trained hard to accomplish it within three months.
Now, divorced of all desire to lie to himself, he knew his training had been mediocre at best.
He’d run a mile each day around mid-morning, and then rested and napped till late afternoon, when he’d done a half bell of lifting weights in his father’s old training gym. He’d discovered some manuals in the library, and fashioned a workout plan from them, and, to his delight, had achieved results.
But all told? He’d trained and exercised for less than two bells each day. The rest of the time he’d lolled around reading, spent time with Vic and the others, or wasted the hours researching the dungeon and reviewing everything he’d already known.
Harald grimaced.
Two hours a day? That would never get him where he wanted to go.
Nor would waking mid-morning.
Rubbing at his shorn hair, he considered how he might alter his approach.
He couldn’t afford to hire a real trainer, so instead he’d simply… well. Go all out till he couldn’t train any more. Then keep going.
Harald blinked.
As far as plans went, it was pretty rudimentary. He knew that the Academy had finely tailored plans for each student, with goals set according to their objectives and ambitions. But Harald was starting from so far behind that he didn’t need nuance, didn’t need careful calibration.
He simply needed to grow stronger, faster, and more resilient.
Even this walk up the Eternal Circuit had worn him out.
He thought on the bright boy he’d once been, energetically cutting apart imaginary demons with his blade, and then looked down at himself. He’d already sweated through his tunic, and that was just by walking for a bell or so.
“You’ve a long way to go,” he whispered to himself, but instead of dampening his enthusiasm, it seemed to only add fuel to his resolve.
Curious, he summoned his window again, and summoned the description for his Soul Nature, Insatiable Void:
Insatiable Void: You are the aching heart of ambition, the howling hunger that yearns to consume the world. A child of darkness, you will always seek the light, but will destroy all that you pursue.
The aching heart of ambition? Hardly. He’d merely resolved to grow stronger. Anyone could do that. The demon’s gift was overblown.
He turned to his Soul Ability:
Condemnation of Success Description: Every success can be outdone. There is no end for you, for every end is but a beginning, and always will your eye be drawn to the horizon. Every peak shall prove false, and every victory bitter. Nothing shall suffice, and this shall be your goad, your lash, your blessing, your torment.
Again he frowned. On some level that was in accord with his childhood wishes, to grow to be the strongest that had ever lived, but for every victory to be bitter?
Harald shook his head. Grandiloquent nonsense. He wasn’t about to become some demon’s plaything, a hollowed out monster of ambition and torment.
Harald snorted. “Nice try, Vorakhar.”
He’d awaken at dawn the next day to go for his first run. His legs were already sore from all the walking yesterday, and today’s trip around the Eternal Circuit had worn him out.
Best to start fresh. To put on clean training clothes and go for a healthy morning jog. A dawn jog, even. He’d ask Sam to awaken him at the Seventh Bell. Maybe the Sixth? He’d go for a good run, up nice and early, and then come back to shower and have a healthy breakfast.
That sounded good.
Harald started walking quicker.
A healthy run.
A reasonable run, first thing.
Tomorrow.
Today he’d rest.
The words kept playing over and over in his mind.
Today he’d rest.
He’d take it easy.
Tomorrow he’d run.
Tomorrow he’d try.
Today, rest.
Today, nothing.
Today he’d just lie around like a fucking animal and dream about tomorrow’s successes.
Today he’d be nothing. Today he’d be the same as ever, making promises.
He was breathing hard, he realized, arms pumping as he strode forcefully through the crowd. People stared at him in annoyance as he barged past them.
Tomorrow he’d become strong.
Or maybe the day after.
Sure, why rush it? He could just lie around for a week, really make sure he was recovered from the dungeon, absolutely leave nothing to chance. In fact, he could eat nothing but bacon and drink nothing but grease till he was well and truly obese, and then he’d start training, because that would be more admirable, right? In fact, he should just never train, just lie around all the time telling the world that he would begin any day now -
He was running.
His heart was pounding, and his fury was a terrible thing, a storm cloud wracked by lightning, dark and fulminous.
Fine. He’d run today. But he should go easy now. He was still miles from home. He should walk the rest of the way, then fold his cloak just within the gate and go for his run.
Running now was stupid.
He should wait till he could run his old path down Baldric and around Season Park.
Instead he found himself running faster. The pain in his legs grew, and sweat coated his brow. A stitch was growing in his side, sharp and piercing.
The more he reasoned with himself the angrier he got.
Unable to keep dodging people, he dropped off the sidewalk and ran down the shoulder of the Circuit itself, his cloak flapping against his calves.
But his fury couldn’t fuel him for long.
The pain in his calves grew agonizing, his breathing labored, the stitch a mortal wound. Gasping, he drew up. He was wheezing, panting for breath like a dog.
It was unreasonable to think he could just start running as if he’d been training for months. It hurt. It felt uncomfortable. He probably looked a fool.
Harald came to a complete stop, hands on his hips, head hanging. Sweat ran down to the tip of his nose. He was breathing so hard he was scowling. Thick spit coated the back of his throat.
Damn it. All that big talk and he couldn’t run for more than five minutes.
But it wasn’t his fault.
His legs hurt.
He was out of breath.
Nothing shall suffice, and this shall be your goad, your lash, your blessing, your torment.
“Damn it,” he hissed, and began running again.
Carriages rolled by, the drivers staring curiously at him. The pedestrians watched him jog past, then glanced behind him to see if he was being chased by the world’s slowest dog.
The pain was immediate.
It shot up his shins, stabbed him in his gut.
Gasping, looking an idiot, he ran. His cloak was choking him, so he tore it off and wrapped it around his arm.
One more step. Just till that lamp. Just around this next curve. One more step. Just… just a little more.
Harald forced himself to keep going. The slight, gentle downward slope of the Circuit helped. And then, to his surprise, the pain in his side began to recede. The pain in his legs. It didn’t make the running easier, exactly, but he no longer felt like he was about to collapse.
Panting, dripping, he ran on, marveling at himself.
Where had the pain gone?
On he ran. When he drew close to Baldric Avenue the pain returned, but it felt different now, more of an ache in his ankles and knees than in his muscles. He could barely breathe. But sheer momentum kept him moving.
His legs felt like blocks of wood by the time he reached his gate. His jog was only marginally faster than a walk, and but when he broke its gait he staggered and nearly reeled off to the side.
Gasping, nauseous, he reached his gate and grabbed hold of the bars. Held on so that he’d not fall over, and pressed his brow to the cold metal.
He’d done it.
The sound of metallic stars ringing out against the void filled his mind:
The Demon Seed Has Stirred
Your Constitution has risen from 5 to 6
Blinking away stars, he at first grinned, then frowned.
A raise already? After just one bleeding run?
But wait. What? The Demon Seed had… ‘Stirred’?
Wiping sweat from his face, he felt a fierce elation out of all proportion to what he’d just done. Even his pang of concern couldn’t prevent him from feeling as if he’d conquered the world.
He knew it didn’t take much to raise such a ridiculously low stamina as his own, but to do so after one run… Were they connected, the two statements? Had his raising his Constitution caused his Demon Seed to stir, or had they both happened independently of each other due to his burst of will?
Or—and he shuddered to think this—had his Demon Seed caused his Constitution to rise so quickly?
Exhaustion and delirium made it hard to care. Regardless, this had been his effort, his desire, his victory.
Fuck tomorrow.
Fuck getting a proper rest.
“Nothing will suffice,” he gasped, then pulled the gate open so that its damned hinges screeched like dire rats. “Nothing.”
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Some might recall that I stated yesterday that I was reading this dumpsterfire of a story. And it was actually quite entertaining. Thrilling enough to binge it basically.
All it took was to just stop caring about wholesome romance and consider this to be a drama/tragedy of sorts. I loved Lady Devil, which despite the subject matter of incest, abuse and god knows what topics you wouldn't bring up in polite society, to be actually one of the best-written historical fantasy romance manhwas I read, given it doesn't just touch the cursed, it uses the cursed topics well to establish its tragedy, it has excellent pacing throughout and I never felt that it actually fumbled the ball. It just kept going, engaging me with its plot, with the incredible mess that were the characters and their interactions and was supported by solid art that drove home the subtleties. Obviously, not going to be for everyone, as it is straight up twincest-themed, but well...
Anyway, I didn't come to gush about Lady Devil, nor do I think Post-Possession Damage Control is on the same level. But I have to admit, once I decided that I want to read it for the drama, not the romance, there's little I can really complain about.
The cast of characters is a bunch of pretty damn terrible people, none of which make romance material and whom I would want to date as human beings, but on the flipside, it's delightful to just watch how things unfold. The premise is interesting and it opens the doors for interesting things. One of which to me is one criticism I had for many other stories, which is, the abused FL/ML is the most lovable person, more so than their wicked environment. Here, I feel Kanna is actually a more realistic character, as she isn't morally bancrupt, but she certainly isn't the most righteous and can be petty. Yet her strength to stand up stems not from some hidden inner strength, but from having actually been for a decade in an environment that would foster more mentally healthy people. Apart from that, while I'm personally not sold on alternative medicine, it is an interesting expertise to bring and use.
The people around her are mostly just different shades of awful. In 43 chapters, I have witnessed like three characters that are genuinely just alright people (Lucy, Leah and Amelia). Rest ranges from suspicious to outright trash, with most tending towards the latter. Unlike Lady Devil, it's sadly not the case where you get to see the internal logic of the different main characters (which allowed to partially sympathise even with people who otherwise were absolutely horrid), so the trash seems far less human and just more like trash. But it still is a nice story to read if you just have no hope for some proper relationship, just embrace that this story is straight up just Kanna dealing with the godawful cards she gets dealt and looking cool in the process and whoever she'll end up with is just another cursed element in the story.
One thing there also to me is that I feel like the issue with Post Possession Damage Control is that other stories we get are usually happy, badass FLs divorcing their husbands leads to new greener flag ML and it'll be one day be wholesome, maybe. So we approach a story with that mindset. But nothing says it has to be a wholesome story. And reading it, I also never really felt like this story was particularly trying to sell itself as a drama where Kanna overcomes the toxic adversity and gets her happy ending with a nice guy. Rather, Kanna kind of manages to deal with her problems, but it never really gets massively better (short of no longer being an abused doormat from when she returned to being Kanna). Frankly, unlike crap like I am a Child of Castiello or however it was called or other such works, the thing is, nothing in this ever seems terribly romantic. I don't feel like this is a story that was supposed to be cute but has a cursed element. It's a cursed story without a real cute element. Without spoilers, I wouldn't even be surprised if Kanna would just die at the end or something, somehow still sticking it to one of the guys in the process.
Anyway, to finish this long post, imo, the story is cursed, but I wouldn't actually call it bad. It isn't wholesome romance, but if one is up for just losing oneself in Kanna's battles even just to have a place, with a decent amount of suspense, with satisfaction not from getting love, but from telling people off, it's pretty good read imo, keeps me engaged and I don't actually feel bad making this my new "guilty pleasure" read (is it that if I don't even feel bad for it?). I kinda at times felt like this is Villains Are Destined to Die, if none of the MLs were redeemable, if it didn't have proper romance and just was more of the stuff like up to S2 ending (screw you Derrick!!) The art also is beautiful and consistently good.
In the end, the only thing it could mess up would be if it actually tried to have wholesome romance. I can settle for cursed. Just no Kanna going bathump please, unless it's the excitement of handing Orsini another L.

Hey! I don’t know why I didn’t know sooner there was a Crime Weekly thread but am glad to have found it.
I followed Stephanie for years before Crime Weekly and have definitely noticed a difference since she is grown quite a bit.
I do look through some threads and dang. I am bit surprised her and her husband are getting divorced. She has always been pretty private in regards to her romantic life. More of a … I don’t need to post it to prove it kind of person, but when she actually did, she was very loving toward him and would claim he was her safe spot. Seeing some of the screen shots in other posts I was just surprised. I have been on social media as much as I used to or following every word said - so I only started to realize something may be up when she posted in her patreon.
What I am confused about is Derrick. I didn’t know much about him before Crime Weekly. What I got from watching him was that he loved his wife and daughters. When he mentioned he lived in an apartment, I thought they all did. Not just him. Is there legitimate proof or comments that have been made that they are no longer together?
Sad all around. I know things are always different behind the lenses, but it does make me sad to see a family break apart.