Every year, the U.S. F.B.I. is asked to investigate over 36,000
serious crimes including murder / homicide. And every year the Homicide
Investigations Unit puts out its "Top 20 Homicides of the Year". The
1996 Top 20 was as
follows:
20. Alex Mijtus, 36 years old, was killed by his wife, armed
with a
20 inch long vibrator. Mrs Mijtus had had enough of her
husband's
strange sex practices and one night during a prolonged period
of "fun" she
snapped,pushing all 20 inches of the vibrator into Alex's anus
until it
ruptured several internal organs and caused severe bleeding.
19. Debby Mills-Newbroughton, 99 years old, was killed as she
crossed
the road. She was to turn 100 the next day but, crossing the
road with
her daughter to go to her own birthday party, her wheel chair
was hit
by the truck delivering her birthday cake.
18. Peter Stone, 42 years old, was murdered by his eight year old
daughter, who he had just sent to her room with no dinner.
Young Samantha
Stone felt that if she couldn't have dinner no one should, and
she promptly
inserted 72 rat poison tablets into her father's coffee as he
prepared
dinner. The victim took one slip and promptly collapsed
(Samantha Stone was
given a suspended sentence as the judge felt she didn't realize
what she
was doing, until she tried to poison her mother using the same
method one month later).
17. David Danil, 17 years old, was killed by his girlfriend
Charla
after he attempted to "have his way with her". His unwelcome
advances
were met with a prompt kick in the chest and then four shots
from a doubled
barrelled shot gun Charla's father had given to her an hour
before the date
started, just in case.
16. Javier Halos, 27 years old, was killed by his landlord for
failing to pay his rent for eight years (yes, eight years).
Landlord Kirk
Weston clubbed the victim to death with a toilet seat after he
realized just how long it had been since Mr Halos paid his rent.
15. Mary-Lee Cooper, 11 years old, was killed by her one year
old
sister who climbed on top of her while she was sleeping,
suffocating her.
14. Megan Fri, 44 years old, was killed by 14 state troopers
after
she wandered onto a live firing, fake town simulation. Seeing
the
troopers all walking slow down the street, Megan jumped out in
front of them and
yelled, "Boo!" The troopers, thinking she was a pop up target,
fired 67
shots between them, over 40 of them hitting their target. "She
just
looked like a very real looking target," one of the troopers
stated in his
report
13. Fiona Given, 17 years old, was killed by a hit man hired by
her ex-boyfriend after she broke off their relationship. The hit
man was promised to be paid ?500,000 for the task. The hit man
killed the boyfriend after he found out that a 16 year old high
school student, whose father was in jail for rape and whose
mother
worked as an ironing lady, didn't have access to ?500,000.
12. Louis Zaragoza, 68 years old, was killed as he prepared to
drive to work. His wife, Lee Zaragoza, had been plotting to
kill him for
over a year,and had cut the brakes on his car four times
previously. On
this attempt, Lee was just about to cut the brakes again when
Louis
snuck up behind her. He grabbed her and spun her around. As he
did, she lost
her footing and stumbled into him, stabbing him in the lower
ventricle
of the heart, killing him instantly.
11. Mahmood Foli, 22 years old, was killed by an unknown
member of
the Russian Mafia after he accidentally took away the
gangster's drink
too soon at the nightclub he worked in. The gangster was so
upset that
he forced the waiter to drink over 27 litres of Coca Cola (the
drink he had
taken away) until Mahmood drowned.
10. Julia Smeeth, 20 years old, was killed by her brother
Michael
because she talked on the phone too long. Michael clubbed his
sister to
death with a cordless phone, then stabbed her several times
with the broken
aerial.
9. Helena Simms, wife of the famous American Nuclear
Scientist Harold
Simms, was killed by her husband after she had an affair with
the
neighbour. Over a period of three months, Harold substituted
Helena's eye
shadow with a uranium composite that was highly radioactive,
until she died of
radiation poisoning. Although she suffered many symptoms,
including total
hair loss,skin welts, blindness, extreme nausea and even had an
ear
lobe drop off, the victim never attended a doctor's surgery or
hospital for a
check up.
8. Military Sargent John Joe Winter killed his "two timing
wife"
by loading her car with Trintynitrate explosive (similar to C4).
The Ford Taurus she was driving was filled with 750 kilograms
of explosive,
forming a force twice as powerful as the Oklahoma Bombing. The
explosion
was witnessed by several persons, some up to 14 kilometres
away. No
trace of the car or the victim were ever found, only a 55 metre
deep crater and 500
metres of missing road.
7. Patty Winter, 35 years old, was killed by her neighbour in
the early
hours of a Sunday morning. Her neighbour, Falt Hame, for years
hada
mounted F6 phantom jet engine in his rear yard. He would fire
the jet engine,
aimed at a empty block at the back of his property. Patty
Winter would
constantly complain to the local sheriff's officers about the
noise and
the potential risk of fire. Mr Hame was served with a notice to
remove the engine
immediately. Not liking this, he invited Miss Winter over "for
a cup of
coffee and a chat" about the whole situation. What Winter
didn't know was
that he had changed the position of the engine. As she walked
into the
yard, he activated it, hitting her with a blast of 5000
degrees, killing
her instantly, and forever burning her outline into the
driveway.
6. Michael Lewis, angry at his gay boyfriend, used the movie
'Die Hard
With a Vengeance' as his inspiration. He drugged his boyfriend,
Tony Berry,into an almost catatonic state, then dressed him
only in
a double sided white board that read "Death to all niggers!" on
one side and
"God love the K.K.K." on the other. Lewis then drove the victim
to
downtown Harlem and dropped him off. Two minutes later Berry
was deceased.
5. Jay Newton was killed after a co-worker at Sea World in
Florida
dropped a 20 tonne killer whale on him. The whale had been
hoisted out of
his tank by a Master Tonne Crane, when the victim swam
underneath to inspect
the harness. His colleague, Brian Hartley, released the whale,
crushing
the victim instantly (and emptying a quarter of the water from
the
pool).
4. Carl Densinter, 34 years old, was killed by a fellow worker
trying
to prove a point. The worker, San Amote Pet, disconnected the
internal
landing gear settings on a Boeing 747 test plane (the plane's
gear
automatically retracts after take off). But come landing time,
the landing gear
wouldn't re-engage. The helpless Densinter couldn't do a thing
as the plane
eventually ran out of fuel. In an attempt at an emergency
landing,
the 747 exploded and Densinter was killed instantly.
3. Mary Dridely, Joseph Coles and Haven Gillies were killed as
they
walked past a New York apartment building. David Smee, aged 7,
and his 6
year old sister were left alone in their 27th floor hotel room
by their
parents as they went to the hotel's gaming room. Bored, the
kids though it
would be fun to try to squish the "ant looking things on the
foot path
below" (people).
They started by throwing fruit, then quickly graduated to
chairs,
televisions, even the drawers from the bedroom dresser.
2. Conrad Middleton, 26 years old, was killed by his twin
brother Brian
after a disagreement over who should take the family home after
their
parents passed away. Conrad had a nasal problem and had no
sense of smell.
After the argument, Brian stormed out of the house, then snuck
back
later,and turned on the three gas taps in the house, filling it
with gas.
He then left out a box of cigars, a lighter and a note saying,
"Sorry for the spree, have a puff on me. Brian." Conrad
promptly lit a cigar,
destroying the house and himself in the process.
1. Gail Queens, 23 years old, was killed by her zoo keeper
boyfriend
Matthew Kellaway after she refused sex. He 'invited her' to the
zoo to
see the lions feeding, and at feeding time led her into a room
that had
a large slide away panel. He explained to her that it was a
large
glass viewing window to watch the lions devour their prey. He
'ducked out for a
quick smoke' and locked her in the room. Suddenly the slide
away panel
opened to reveal many people staring at her. She was just about
to yell
and tell them that they were on the wrong side of the glass
when she
realized that it was her on the wrong side. Another panel
opened and three hungry
lions were let into the pen. Gail survived for two days in
hospital
before dying of massive internal injuries.
