#kid killers

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On September 5, 2015, Georgia police received a frantic phone call from a 50-year-old woman named Yvonne Ervin who told them, ‘’Please send someone to my house. My children are trying to kill me.”

It all started at dinner. Cameron (17) and Christopher Ervin (22), her two sons, spiked their cocktails with Xanax. Shortly thereafter, the parents went to attend a football game but came home early because they felt drowsy. They soon went to bed in their groggy state, and the brothers lit candles around the living room, turned up the gas, and waited outside for their house to explode. When nothing ended up happening, they immediately resorted to plan B. They entered their parents’ bedroom and unleashed their brutal attack. They began to strangle and beat their mother and father with the butt of a shotgun to try and kill them. In an attempt to distract their children long enough for his wife to call for help, Zachary began stumbling out of the bedroom, through the kitchen and into the garage to try and blow the car horn. The brothers followed their father through the house and stabbed him a total of ten times. 

Soon, police cruisers were lined up along the street of the Ervin family’s middle class suburban home in Snellville, Gerogia. The brothers were immediately arrested. While sitting in the back of one of the police cruisers, the reality of his actions, and the severe consequences he was about to face, seemed to be sinking in for the youngest brother. ‘’Just kill me now,’’ said Cameron. ‘’I just tried to fucking kill my parents. Who does that?’’ Yvonne and Zachary miraculously survived the vicious attack that was inflicted upon them by their very own children with whom they gave life to and raised, but they didn’t make it out unscathed. Zachary suffered from multiple stab wounds and a severe head injury after being struck with the shotgun, and Yvonne sustained more than a dozen bruises and other related injuries.

Regardless, less than a month after the attack, the boys’ parents openly and publicly stated that they have since forgiven their children for trying to kill them. Zachary called the entire ordeal ‘’one bad moment’’ for his kids, and acknowledged that it was ‘’out-of-character’’ of them to behave in such a violent manner. They pleaded the judge to give their sons 10 years in prison, which was the minimum sentence. In court, Cameron and Christopher had a chance to speak and defend their actions. They spoke about their downward spiral into depression and drug addiction, which caused a lot of familial tension around the house. The judge sentenced the brothers to 20 years in prison.

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Ellie Gould was an intelligent 17-year-old girl with a bubbly temperament living in Calne, Wiltshire, located in southwestern England. She had a love for riding horses and dreamed of joining the mounted police one way. At the time, she was dating another boy her age by the name of Thomas Griffiths, a swimmer and rugby player. The couple went way back, having been in each other’s lives since Year 7 and both attended high school together where they were straight-A students. 

On May 2, 2019, Ellie had confided in friends that she had broken off their three-month relationship and that Thomas wasn’t taking it very well. But, truly, the teenage girl hadn’t the slightest clue just how badly her former lover was handling the rejection until the following morning. On May 3, Thomas walked out of school, entered his car, and made the drive to Ellie’s residence on Springfield Drive. Upon entering her house, he pleaded for her to take him back, but Ellie’s mind was already made up. Consumed with rage, he then unleashed a vicious attack that will come to haunt her parents forever. 

Initially, he attempted to strangle her. Then he grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed her in the neck a total of 13 times. After she was dead, he attempted to clean the bloody murder scene using cloths. He wiped the blade of the knife on an apron before sticking it back in her neck, strategically wrapping her hand around the knife’s handle so as to make it appear as though it was a suicide. When he went home, he changed into new, clean clothes and disposed of the blood-stained cloths as well as other incriminating items in the woods behind his house. 

To explain the series of scratch marks on his neck inflicted by Ellie’s dire attempt to fight for her life, he told a friend that it was a result of self-harm due to his distress over the breakup. He then went back to school and began shooting texts to the now-deceased girl’s phone asking where she was. Ellie’s body wasn’t discovered until 3pm, when her father returned home, walked into the kitchen, and found her laying in a pool of her own blood--a sight that no parent should ever have to see.

‘’The image of Ellie lying there on the floor has haunted me ever since that afternoon,’‘ said Matthew Gould. ‘’It fills my thoughts when trying to sleep and hijacks my mind when trying to go about my day.’‘

Thomas pleaded guilty for the murder in court and expressed remorse. "I feel confused and angry at myself that I was able to hurt someone so special to me." He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 12 years and six months served. 

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Video games can definitely be addictive, there’s no arguing that. While violent video games remain a huge controversy in our society, the APA has found no evidence that correlates violent video games with violent behavior. But one such case would blow up the news headlines that would once again fuel the controversy that video games can drive people mad.

16-year-old Daniel Petric from Wellington, Ohio, was first introduced to the game Halo while at a friend’s house. He liked it so much that he wanted to purchase the game for himself. However both parents, who were devout Christians, were against this idea, thinking that the game was too violent and inappropriate for their teenage son. They warned him that if he was caught with any violent games, they would be confiscated, but he would regularly sneak out of the house anyway to purchase games that were violent in nature, including Halo 3. During a ski accident, Daniel caught a Staphylococcus infection, which led him to become housebound. Feeling ill and having nothing to do all day, Daniel played Halo 3 for up to 18 hours every single day without respite. When he was caught, his father, Mark, took the game away and locked it in his safe cabinet where he also stored his handgun. 

Daniel claimed to have been suffering from serious withdrawal symptoms at this point. He was desperate for his fix. On October 20, 2007, he approached his parents in the living room. He instructed them, ‘’Would you close your eyes, I have a surprise for you.’’ But unbeknownst to both of them, what he was holding behind his back was a gun, which he had retrieved from his father’s safe. He first shot his father in the face, then turned the gun on his mother and fired at her head, chest, and arms. In an attempt to stage the scene as a murder-suicide, he slipped the deadly weapon in his father’s hand, telling him, ‘’Hey dad, here’s your gun. Take it.’’ When his sister and her husband arrived to the bloody scene, Daniel quickly fled in his parents’ van with his beloved game Halo 3 in the passenger seat. When police caught up with him and arrested him, he told them that his dad shot his mom.

While Daniel’s mother had died, his father ended up surviving the gunshot to his head. When recovering in the hospital, he proclaimed he hated his son, although later went on to forgive him. Daniel’s lawyer tried to argue that Daniel was so addicted violent video games that he was literally incapable of fully comprehending the reality that if he shot his parents, they would not respawn like they do in video games. The prosecutor, however, disagreed, pointing out that Daniel must have been well-aware of the gravity of his actions since he had tried to stage the scene to appear like a murder-suicide and run away after. In the end, Daniel was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 23 years.

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Emma Walker and Riley Gaul seemed like the perfect match. Emma was a bubbly freshman on the cheerleading team, and Riley was a junior on the football team, whom friends described as a ‘’jokester’’ with a secret nerdy side to him, but little did they know, he also had a secret dark side. At first, Emma’s parents were impressed with their daughter’s new beau. Eventually, they began feeling concerned over the high school sweethearts’ relationship when they observed clear emotional abuse being directed at Emma from their online interactions. They banned Emma from ever speaking to him again, however she always found ways to sneak behind her parents’ back to see her boyfriend. But soon enough, Emma dumped Riley for good.

Riley didn’t take this rejection very well and fell into a deep depression after the breakup. He then concocted a ‘’clever’’ scheme to win his past lover back. He began stalking her and sending her anonymous texts claiming to be someone who kidnapped Riley and planned to kill him. Only she could save him by giving him a call. Emma, however, wasn’t falling for her ex’s shenanigans and didn’t take it too seriously. But one incident really spooked Emma. As she was walking to her Tennessee home, she noted a figure dressed in all black. Once she was inside her house, someone kept ringing the bell...it was the black figure. The terrified  Emma promptly called her ex crying for his help and he rushed over to console her. Still, this stunt wasn’t enough to get Emma back, so Riley came up with a more sinister plan to up the ante.

On the night of November 21, 2016, he stole his grandfather’s 9mm Glock pistol and sneaked into Emma’s backyard. He fired two shots through the wall where her bedroom was, one of the bullets flying right into her head and instantly killing her. He subsequently fled the scene. The following morning, Emma’s mother found her daughter’s lifeless body in bed and immediately called 911. The Walker home turned into a crime scene and the police began investigating Riley. Although Riley maintained his innocence, he recruited two of his friends to help him dispose of the firearm in the Tennessee River. Little did he know, this was a set up, and his friends were voluntarily wiretapped. The police apprehended Riley at the river and detained him. Although he claimed he didn’t intend to kill or hurt Emma during the shooting and only hoped to scare her, jurors didn’t buy it. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 51 years.

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Rachel Shoaf, who killed her best friend Skylar Neese along with Shelia Eddy at the age of 16, has allegedly gotten married while behind bars. Rachel, now 23, is currently serving out her 30-year sentence after she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

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Seath Jackson was feeling hopeful when his ex girlfriend, 15-year-old Amber Wright, texted him to discuss potentially getting back together. The two had had an ugly breakup, with Seath allegedly cheating on Amber and hitting her throughout the relationship. After things ended with them, Amber began dating another male by the name of Michael Bargo, who despised Seath. On April 17, 2011, when Seath arrived at the home address in Summerfield, Florida, where Amber instructed him to meet her at, he was immediately ambushed by Michael and three other youths, including Amber’s stepbrother. First, they attacked him with wooden objects. Then, he was shot by Michael and placed in a bathtub where his knees were broken. When they saw that Seath was still alive, they decided to stuff him into a sleeping bag and set it ablaze. With the help of Michael’s stepfather, who was aware of the plan to kill Seath, the teens then dismembered his charred remains and placed them into paint cans that were subsequently discarded in a lime quarry. All who were involved in the gruesome murder of Seath Jackson were sentenced to life in prison except for Michael, the ringleader of the crime, who was handed the death penalty. 

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Michele Avila (left) and Karen Severson grew up together in Los Angeles. The girls had been best friends since they were 8-years-old, but once they entered high school, the two drifted apart as Michele grew in popularity and began spending more time with boys, which fueled Karen’s budding jealousy. Drama began brewing between the two former best friends when Karen spread rumors that Michele had been sleeping around with several boys, which resulted in Michele getting beaten up by a group of girls who accused her of having sex with their boyfriends. During their junior year, Michele began a relationship with a boy named Randy, but Michele broke it off a month later. Shortly after, Karen started dating Randy. On one occasion, Karen witnessed her boyfriend pulling Michele onto his lap. Karen was so infuriated by what happened that the two later got into a physical altercation at the park. On October 2, 1985, Michele was picked up by her school mate Laura Doyle, Karen, and a third teenager, and was driven out to a mountain stream in Angeles National Forest. There, she was confronted by Laura and Karen who accused her of sleeping with her boyfriends. The confrontation escalated into violence when they beat her up, tore out chunks of her hair, and forcibly shoved her head into an 8-inch stream, essentially drowning her. In the aftermath of the murder, the girls attended her funeral and sent her mother a sympathy card. Michele’s mother had no reason to suspect that the girl whom she knew since she was a child was actually the responsible for her daughter’s murder. 

The case remained unsolved until 1988, when the truth finally came out. Karen and Laura were both convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison. They have since been released.