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This is a list of murdered American children that details notable murders among thousands of cases of subjects who were or are believed to have been under the age of 18 upon their deaths. Cases listed are stated to be unsolved, solved or pending and, in some cases, where the victims' remains have never been found or identified.
Hudson beat a one-year-old child to death with a board. She was charged with murder. [7] Robert Robertson 7 years, 6 months June 1907 Australia: Forest, Tasmania: 1 0 Robertson beat his two-year-old brother with a piece of wood while he was babysitting. He was charged with murder, then put into state care. [8] Amarjeet Sada 8 years 2007 India ...
In 2003, both Sifrits were convicted, he for one murder and she for both murders. Erika confessed to both murders and Benjamin confessed to their dismemberment in an attempt to spare his wife. Benjamin Sifrit is currently serving 38 years at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, Maryland , while Erika is serving a life sentence ...
After admitting to killing her children, she went on trial, denying that it was murder, but instead pleaded insanity or infanticide. [2] [3] She was found guilty of murdering her three children on 16 August 2023, [4] [5] and was sentenced on 26 June 2024 to 18 years in prison. [6] [7]
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Alice Crimmins (born March 9, 1939, in the Bronx, New York City) is an American woman who was charged with killing her two children, 5-year-old Eddie Jr. and 4-year-old Alice Marie (known as Missy), both of whom went missing on July 14, 1965. [1] [2] [3] Alice Marie's body was found that day, and Eddie Jr.'s was found five days later. [1]
Their mother, Julie Powers Schenecker, was arrested on suspicion of their murder after a confession. On January 29, Schenecker was admitted to Tampa General Hospital but released the next day. She was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, and indicted by grand jury on February 9. Seven days later she entered a plea of not guilty, with ...
Eric Jerome Dickey (July 7, 1961 – January 3, 2021) was an American author. He wrote several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to the West Indies , each having an international cast of characters.