A number
of child killings have been recorded throughout the years. These often have
involved disturbing acts one can hardly imagine a child suffering through.
These cases are becoming more controversial as the number of child killings
increases every year.
However,
what happens if that innocent and vulnerable-looking child is the one
responsible for the abduction and murders in your neighborhood? Would you
believe the accusations made of someone so young?
Could a
child really commit such crimes? These are not your typical childish crimes of
stealing toys from a friend, or bullying a schoolmate. This is the list for the
top young killers. There is a small amount of overlap from the list of evil
children, for the sake of including people that really do deserve to be on this
list.
Artyom
Alexandrovich, 18 Anoufriev and Nikita Vakhtangovich Lytkin, 17
In the
Russian neighborhood of Akademgorodok in Irkutsk, two teens killed six locals
and attacked nine others. At the time of the first murder in 2010, Artyom
Alexandrovich Anoufriev was 18 and Nikita Vakhtangovich Lytkin was 17. Their
first victim was 12-year-old Danil Semyonov. Just 15 days later, the teens
killed 69-year-old Olga Pirog. The four other victims included Alexander
Maximov, Roman Faizullin, a homeless man, and a homeless woman. The two teens
went as far as to record one of the attacks, which was later found on an SD
card belonging to Nikita’s uncle. The teens carried out the murders by
viciously attacking their victims from behind using a mallet and knife.
Harvey
Miguel Robinson, 18
Harvey
Miguel Robinson is currently biding his time on death row in a Pennsylvania
prison for raping and kill three women. Robinson killed raped and killed his
first victim, Joan Burghardt, in August of 1992 when he was just 17 years old.
In June of 1993, at the age of 18, he raped and killed 15-year-old Charlotte
Schmoyer. Just a month later in July, he raped and killed Jessica Jean Fortney.
Robinson attempted to rape and kill a fourth victim, Denise Sam-Cali, but she
escaped with her life. Robinson became the first serial killer throughout the
history of Allentown, Pennsylvania for his preference of raping and repeatedly
stabbing his female victims.
*** 17 years old ***
Ricky Caso, 17
In 1984, Ricky murdered his friend Gary Lauer's in the
woods behind north port New York while high on LSD Ricky later told police that
Satan appeared to him in the form of a crow to tell Ricky that he was pleased
with the deed.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold , 17
The perpetrators of the Columbine massacre Eric and Dylan
murdered 13 people and injured 25 more during the shooting at Columbine High
School in 1999.
Jaime Rouse, 17
In 1995 Jamie injured four people and killed two at
Richland School in Tennessee he was tried as an adult and sentence to life in
prison without parole.
Harvey
Robinson, 17
Harvey
Robinson is one of the youngest serial killers currently sitting on death row.
Robinson raped and killed three adult women in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the
early 1990s, when he was 17 years old. His fourth victim was raped and beaten
but managed to escape before Robinson could finish the job. Robinson was 19
when he was caught by local police.
Bryan, 16 and David Freeman, 17
Bryan and David were found to have beat their parents and
younger brother to death apparently they had also shaved and tattooed their
heads as a sign of their Nazi affiliation.
*** 16 years old ***
Jacob de la Schmidt Joseph Fiorella and voice Casey, All
16 yrs old
In order for their heavy metal band to become famous
these three teenagers decided they needed a human sacrifice on July 22nd 1995
they murdered 15 year old Elyse paler for exactly that purpose they are all
serving 25 to life in prison.
Brenda Ann Spencer, 16
In 1979, Brenda shot eight kids and one police officer to
death at Cleveland elementary school in San Diego she also killed the principal
and the custodian when asked why she did it she said it was just a lot of fun.
*** 15
years old ***
Willie
James Bosket, Jr., 15
Considered
by many to be New York’s most dangerous inmate, Willie James Bosket had
committed more than 2,000 crimes and his first murders by the time he was just
15 years old. Bosket's first murder conviction was for the shooting death of
two men during separate robbery attempts in 1978. He was sentenced to only five
years of prison time for the murders, the maximum allowed at the time for
someone his age. The public outcry over his light punishment led New York to
become the first state to change its juvenile sentencing laws to allow kids as
young as 13 to be tried and sentenced as adults. They decided to call it the
Willie Bosket Law.
Alyssa Bustamante,15
On October 21st 2009 Alyssa decided she wanted to know
what it was like to kill someone after luring her nine-year-old neighbor into
the woods Alyssa's strangled and stabbed her to death although she was only 15
at the time Alyssa was sentenced to life in prison.
Edmund
Kemper, 15
No list
of serial murderers would be complete without a necrophile. Edmund Kemper, who
grew up to be one of America’s most infamous serial killers, committed his
first murders when he was just 15 years old. By August 1964, the California teenager
was already showing all the classic traits of a sociopath — an exceptionally
high IQ, an interest in torturing animals, and a deeply troubling relationship
with his mother. When he was just 15 years old, Kemper shot and killed both his
grandparents while staying on their ranch in North Fork, California. When
authorities asked him about the killings, he said he "just wanted to see
what it felt like to kill Grandma."
Kemper
went on to murder six young women in Santa Cruz, his mother, and one of her friends,
dismembering and sexually molesting their bodies after they were dead.
Kip Kinkel, 15
On May 21st 1998 Kipp murdered his parents and then shot
up his school two students died and 25 were injured since he was 15 at the time
and life sentence would be considered a cruel and unusual punishment for his
age the judge sentenced him to 25 years for killing his parents in the two
students and 40 months for each of the 26 attempted murders he also lunged at
an officer with a knife this means he'll be behind bars for a hundred and
eleven years.
Craig Price 15,
In 1989 Craig was arrested for murdering four people in
his neighborhood since being in prison he's gotten in numerous fights and been
relocated at least once just this year he was convicted of stabbing an
attempted murder of a fellow inmate.
*** 14
years old ***
Barry
Dale Loukaitis, 14
“This
sure beats algebra, doesn’t it?”
On
February 2, 1996, the Frontier Middle School was devastated by a hostage-taking
incident and shooting spree that occurred in an algebra class. It took the
lives of three people (two students and a teacher) and resulted in the critical
injury of one student. The person accused was a 14-year-old boy named Barry
Dale Loukaitis, who was experiencing delusional and messianic thoughts before
the shooting. Barry was dressed to look like a gunslinger from the Wild West in
a black duster, and armed with a .30-30 caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol
and a .25 caliber pistol that belonged to his father. The students were held
hostage for 10 minutes before a gym coach tricked and outwitted the
boy. It was believed that, aside from a history of mental illness
and dysfunctional issues in his family, Barry was influenced by Pearl Jam’s
song and video “Jeremy.” The video shows a troubled youth committing suicide in
front of his classmates and teacher. It was also reported that he said “This
sure beats algebra, doesn’t it?” when he saw his classmates panic. This is a
quote from a Stephen King novel, Rage, in which the protagonist kills two
teachers and takes his algebra class hostage. Barry is currently serving two
life sentences, with an additional 205 years in prison.
Barry Lucas, 14
In 1996 Barry came to school with a gun and killed his
algebra teacher along with two students before being subdued by another
teacher.
Seisaku
Nakamura, 14
A young
serial killer by the name of Seisaku Nakamura, also referred to as Hamamatsu
Deaf Killer, was only 14 years old when he took the life of his first victims.
Authorities believe Nakamura stabbed eleven people to death in Shizuoka, Japan.
The young man, who was born deaf, made attempts to rape two women who resisted
whom, and so he killed them. He also murdered his brother and injured several
of his family members. Although he committed his first murder in 1938, Nakamura
was not arrested until 1942 and was executed in 1943.
Joshua
Phillips, 14
Florida
authorities searched for 8-year-old Maggie Clifton for more than a week before
Missy Phillips noticed water strangely pooled at the foot of her teenage son's
bed. Then, she noticed the smell. When Ms. Phillips pulled apart the base to
check, she discovered Clifton's remains. Her son, 14-year-old Joshua Phillips,
was later convicted of bashing the little girl’s head in and stabbing her in
the neck. At trial, Phillips said he accidentally hit Clifton in the head with
a baseball, then stabbed her to stop her from screaming. The autopsy showed
that Clifton was still alive when Phillips stuffed her into his mattress.
Joshua
Phillips, 14 (2)
“There
should be a sensitivity to the fact that a 14-year-old is not a little adult.”
– Florida Governor Jeb Bush
What
started as a regular room cleaning ended with the conviction of a 14-year-old
boy named Joshua Phillips. His mother went to clean up his room one morning
after Phillips left for school. Mrs. Phillips noticed a wet spot under her
son’s bed and thought it was a leak from his waterbed. As she was investigating
the bed to see if it needed to be drained, she found electrical tape holding
the frame together. She thought her son had known the about leak but didn’t
want to get into trouble. She removed enough tape to discover her son’s sock
underneath, but she was surprised to feel something cold. The beam of her
flashlight showed her the dead body of Maddie Clifton, an 8-year-old neighbor
who had been missing for seven days. People in the community,
especially the boy’s parents, could hardly believe he could have killed
Clifton. Phillips was one of the neighbors who had volunteered to search for
the missing girl. Because he was under 16, Phillips did not qualify for the
death penalty. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, with no
possibility of being freed. To this day, Phillips has not stated his motives
for killing Clifton. He said he accidentally hit her in the eye with a
baseball bat, and then dragged her to his room where he hit and stabbed her,
but the jury did not believe his story.
Jesse
Pomeroy, 14
November
29, 1859–September 29, 1932
“I might
have done it.”
Jesse
Pomeroy, born on November 29, 1859, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, was referred
to as the youngest person convicted of murder, in the first degree, in the
history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Pomeroy started his cruel acts
against other children when he was 11. He had taken and trapped seven children
in a hidden spot where he would strip, tie and torture them, by using a knife
or by poking pins into their flesh. He was caught and sent to a reform school,
where he was supposed to stay until he was 21, but was released after a year
and a half for good behavior. After three years, he had changed from bad
to worse. He kidnapped and killed a 10 year old girl, named Katie Curran, and
was also accused of the murder of a four year old boy, whose mutilated body was
found in Dorchester Bay. Although there is a lack of evidence that can
conclusively link Pomeroy to the little boy’s death, he was convicted for the
death of Katie when the police found her body in the basement of Pomeroy’s
mother’s dress shop, where it was carelessly left in an ash heap. He was
sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served in solitary confinement; he
died of natural causes at the age of 72.
This
young murderer's story is on the older side, but definitely creepy enough to be
remembered. Any search of the most homicidal children in history will lead you
to the story of Jesse Pomeroy. By the time he was 11 years old, Pomeroy had
already begun sexually molesting and torturing other boys. Pomeroy, who grew up
in South Boston, would trap and attack his victims, even using knives and pins
to torture them. When Pomeroy was 14, he murdered and mutilated a 10-year-old
girl who’d wandered near his mother’s store. He then killed a 4-year-old boy
with a slash to the throat so severe, the child was nearly
decapitated. Pomeroy penned an autobiography while he was in prison,
including his side of the story about the crimes. His defense? "I didn't
do it, but if I did I’m probably insane."
Craig
Price, 14
“As
far as the girls go, it was my utmost intention to let them live.”
Joan
Heaton (39), along with her two daughters, Jennifer (10) and Melissa (8), were
found lifeless, blood-soaked and brutally murdered in their home on September
4, 1989. They were stabbed so fiercely that the knife broke off in Melissa’s
neck. Police reported that Joan had approximately 60 stab wounds, while the
young girls had approximately 30. The authorities believed that burglary was
the suspect’s main motive; the knife used was from the Heaton’s kitchen and the
women had possibly caught the suspect and fought against him. It was also
believed that the burglar must have been someone from the Heaton’s
neighborhood, who would have obtained a cut or wound in the hand, due to the
force and number of times the victims were stabbed. Craig was spotted
by the police with a bandage on his hand, but said that he had smashed a car’s
window. The police did not believe his story. They investigated him and charged
him after finding the knife, gloves and other bloody items when they searched
Craig’s room. He admitted to the crime and to another murder that had taken
place in the neighborhood two years earlier. The authorities already suspected
him as the murderer in that case, which was similar to Heaton’s and had started
as burglary. Craig was tried and convicted before his 16th birthday, and is
still in jail.
Eric
Smith, 13
“You may
think I’m a threat to the well-being of society. And I can understand why you
would feel that way. The fact is that I’m not. I’d be an asset to
society.” At 13, Eric Smith was bullied because of his thick
glasses, freckles, long red hair and one other quality: He had protruding,
elongated ears. These were believed to be a side effect of medicine his mother
had taken for her epilepsy when she was pregnant. Police charged Smith with the
murder of a four-year-old boy named Derrick Robie. The younger child had been
strangled, had large rocks dropped on his head, and had been
sodomized with a small stick. When asked why he did it, Smith cannot give
a definite answer. A psychiatrist diagnosed Smith with intermittent explosive
disorder, a condition in which a person cannot control inner rage. Smith was
convicted and went to prison. As of today, he’s been in prison for six years
and has been denied parole five times
George
Stinney, 14, October 21,
1929–June 16, 1944
Note: In
December 2014, Stinney was exonerated on the basis that his confession was
coerced and that he was wrongfully convicted without a fair
trial. On June 16, 1944, the United States set a record when
they executed George Stinney (14 years old), the youngest person to be legally
executed in the US during the twentieth century. George was convicted of the
murder of two girls named Betty June Binnicker (11) and Mary Emma Thames (8)
who were both found in a muddy hole. The girls suffered severe fractures to
their skulls, inflicted by a railroad spike found some distance from the town.
George confessed to the crime and said that he wanted to have sex with Betty
but ended up killing the girls. He was tried and sentenced to death in the
electric chair; the case was not appealed because his family had no money to
pay for a continuation.
Lionel
Tate, 14
“I was
imitating the professional wrestlers”
What
might be thought of as a regular TV wrestling match led to the death of a
six-year-old girl named Tiffany Eunick. Kathleen Grossett-Tate was trusted to
babysit Tiffany and brought her over to her house one evening. She left Tiffany
with her son Lionel, age 14, to watch the television when she went upstairs.
Around 10 p.m., she yelled at the children to be quiet, but didn’t check what
the noise was about, thinking that they were just playing. 45 minutes later,
Lionel called to his mother and told her that the girl was not breathing. He
explained that they had been wrestling and he had her in a headlock as he
slammed her on the table. Authorities were called and a medical
examiner reported that the cause of death was due to forceful stomping that
lacerated Tiffany’s liver. Aside from that, experts testified that the girl
suffered a fractured skull and rib, swelling in the brain from a beating that
lasted from one to five minutes, and 35 other injuries. Tate changed his
statement later and said that he jumped on her from the staircase. Tate was
sentenced to a lifetime of imprisonment without parole in 2001, but his
sentence was overturned on the basis that he was not given a mental competency
hearing before, or during, the trial. He was released in 2004 with 10 years’
probation.
Graham
Young, 14, September
7, 1947 – August 22, 1990
“It grew
on me like a drug habit, except it was not me who was taking the drugs.”
At an
early age, Graham Young had been fascinated with chemistry, particularly types
of poison and their effects on people. His other great interest was idolizing
murderers such as Dr. Hawley Crippen, William Palmer, Adolf Hitler and others.
Young started experimenting with poisons when he was 14. He usually lied about
his age, and explained that a given poison was for a school experiment so he
could buy the chemicals he needed. His family and friends were his victims. His
father, upon becoming ill, originally thought he just had a virus of some sort.
Then the apparent illness struck his wife and daughter. All suffered from
continuous vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pains. In 1962, the mother of Young’s
stepmother died from poisoning. At 14, Young already had the expertise of a
postgraduate chemistry student, all self-learned through library books. He
sometimes became a victim of his own poisoning when he forgot on which foods he
had placed his toxic chemicals. Young was caught when his teacher inspected his
desk one evening after school, suspicious about the odd experiments Young was
suggesting to the class. The teacher found poisons, essays about famous
prisoners, and sketches of dying men. These revelations led him to call the
police. Young was sent to a maximum security hospital, but this did not stop
him from poisoning hospital staff and fellow inmates (one of whom died). His
knowledge was so broad that he could extract cyanide from laurel bush leaves.
Young was released when he was 23 and went to live with his sister. His
poisoning spree continued—his victims most often were coworkers. Young was sent
back to prison and eventually died there.
Pierre Phil Yo, 14
Pierre murdered both his parents his brother and injured
his sister with a gun on October 30th 2004 he committed the murders with Shrek
playing in the background and would intermittently stop to watch as he waited
for more family members to return home.
***13 and
younger *** [Including double killers]
Andrew Golden,11 and Mitchell Johnson Andrew, 13
When they shot 15 people to death in the West Side middle
school playground they were tried as juveniles and have since been released.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Wire, 12
In order to impress a fictional character called
Slenderman Morgan and Anissa both 12 years old at the time stabbed their other
friend Payton Leutner 19 times and left her for dead Payton survived by
crawling to the nearest road where she was rescued by a passing cyclists.
Mary
Bell, 11
(b. May
26, 1957)
“Murder
isn’t that bad; we all die sometime anyway.”
Brian
Howe was found dead and covered with purple weeds and grass, days after the
death of Martin Brown who died of asphyxiation. His hair was cut away, puncture
marks were found on his thighs, and his genitals were partially skinned. Apart
from these marks and injuries, a letter “M” had been imprinted on his stomach.
This was originally an “N,” but Mary added a line to make it look like an “M.”
The three-year-old boy had been strangled to death. When the investigation
narrowed down to Mary Bell, she implicated herself by describing in detail a
pair of broken scissors—which was confidential evidence—that had been played
with by an 8-year-old boy whom Brian was allegedly with, according to
Bell. Mary’s family background may be responsible for her unusual
behavior. She thought for a long time that her father was Billy Bell, a
habitual criminal who had been arrested for armed robbery, but her biological
father is unknown to this day. Mary claimed that her mother, Betty, who was a
prostitute, had forced her to engage in sexual acts with men—particularly her
mother’s clients—at the age of four. Mary ended up at an all-boys facility
after her trial; she was too young to be held in prison and too dangerous to be
kept in an unequipped mental hospital or an institution that housed troubled
children. Her mother repeatedly sold Mary’s story to the press at the time of
her daughter’s conviction. Mary was only 11 at that time. She was released
after 23 years and fought and won the case for both her own anonymity and that
of her daughter. This order is consequently known as a Mary Bell Order.
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, Both 10 years old (Born: August 13, 1982, August 23, 1982)
James
Bulger’s mother left her two-year-old son at the butcher shop’s door thinking
that it would not take her long to return, since there was no queue in the
store. Little did she know that it would be her last time she would see
her son alive. Jon and Robert, who were at the same mall as
the Bulgers, were participating in their usual activities: skipping class,
browsing the stores, pocketing things when the salespeople turned their backs,
and climbing chairs in the restaurants until they were chased out. The boys
came up with an idea to have a little boy get lost outside so that he would get
knocked over by a vehicle. It was reported that the boys had a similar previous
attempt on a boy before James, which failed because the mother had become aware
of her missing child and found him before they could take him
outside. During their two-mile walk, the 10-year-old boys had
punched, kicked, picked up and dropped James on his head. Some of the acts were
seen by passersby who ignored them, thinking that they were just two older
brothers who didn’t know how to take care of their younger brother. Jon and
Robert brought James onto the local railway, where they flung paint in his left
eye, threw stones at him, beat him with bricks, and hit him with an iron bar.
They also sexually assaulted him and laid his body on the railroad track,
covering his bleeding head with bricks when they thought he was dead. It was
reported that James died sometime before the train hit him.
Despite
the gruesome nature of their crimes, Venables and Thompson were released in
2001 when they turned 18. Both men were given new identities and lifelong
protection from having those identities revealed.
Amarjeet
(Amardeep) Sada, 8
Amarjeet
Sada might be India’s youngest serial killer. In 2007, 8-year-old Sada stunned
news outlets worldwide when it was discovered that he'd murdered three
children, including his sister. Sada reportedly told local investigators that
he took each of the babies to a nearby field, hit them with a stone, and killed
them. None of Sada’s victims had yet reached their first birthday.
Kristy
Lee McFarden, 7
In 2006,
while playing with matches in her parents house, In Bonn, Germany, Kristy
caused a fire to break out that, she ran from and did not call for help, the
fire resulted in the deaths of her Parents, David 34 and Sheron, 32, brothers
Michael, 13, James, 14, and Christopher, 10, her two sisters (twins), Charlyn
and Carolyn, both 8 years old, the neighbors child, Millessa (Spelling is
correct) Croughter, age 3, the results of this action has caused authorities to
change Kristy’s name and move her to another unknown city.
As
always, be safe !
-Bird
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