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19 Jul 26 |
A Cyprus court extended the detention of seven Israeli teenagers out of the 12 who were arrested as suspects in the rape of a 19-year-old British woman. Five suspects were released a day earlier. Links: Cyprus, Israel, Teens Amuck, Rape 
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1864 Jan 8 |
David O. Dodd (17), an Arkansas teenage spy, was hanged by Union forces the grounds of his former school. He reportedly chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause. Links: USA, Arkansas, Teens Amuck, Civil War (US)
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1916 |
In San Francisco a 9-story building at 150 Otis St. was built to serve as the city’s first juvenile hall and detention center. In 2010 plans were underway to convert it to permanent living space for homeless veterans. Links: USA, SF, Teens Amuck
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1940 |
In Florida George Owen Smith (14), disappeared from the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. In 2013 researchers found the remains of 55 people during a four-month excavation last year. Official records indicated 31 burials at the school. In 2014 they said DNA and other tests identified the remains of Smith, but they couldn't say how he had died. Links: USA, Florida, DNA, Teens Amuck
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1963 |
In Louisiana Henry Montgomery (17) shot and killed a white police officer. He was soon convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later the state Supreme Court revisited the case and in a new trial he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. In 2012 the US Supreme Court decided Miller v. Alabama, in which the Court held that mandatory sentencing schemes requiring children convicted of homicide to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole violate the Eighth Amendment. In 2018 a three-member parole panel voted 2-1 to keep Montgomery in prison. Links: USA, Louisiana, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1965 Mar 7 |
In San Francisco a mob of teenage boys and girls rampaged through the Mission district following the film “T.A.M.I” featuring James Brown at the Crown Theater at 2555 Mission Street. Links: USA, SF, Film, Teens Amuck
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1966 Sep 27 |
San Francisco police Officer Alvin Johnson shot and killed Matthew Johnson (16) as he ran from the scene of a stolen car in Hunters Point. The shooting led to 3-days of riots in the area. Links: USA, SF, Teens Amuck
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1970 Nov 20 |
In Oklahoma 3 teenagers in a Chevrolet Camaro failed to return home after a high school football game. In 2013 divers on a training exercize discovered Their skeletal remains in a Camaro in Foss Lake. Links: USA, Tragedy, Oklahoma, Teens Amuck
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1970 |
Eight people were arrested in SF during a protest demanding freedom for Los Siete, six Latino youths on trial for killing a police officer. Links: USA, SF, Teens Amuck
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1971 |
In northern California students at San Rafael High School, who smoked pot and called themselves the Waldos, coined the term 420 (four-twenty) as a shorthand code for meeting at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur at 4:20 pm to smoke pot. Links: USA, California, Education, Teens Amuck
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1975 Sep |
In San Bernadino County, Ca., Lorrie Sue McClary (16) and her boyfriend were arrested for the murder of Anna Mills (79), who had hired her and her boyfriend, Fred Wilson (23). She later claimed that she pleaded guilty to protect her boyfriend. McClary was sentenced 7 years to life and her boyfriend, who testified against her, drew a 4 year sentence. In 1998 her request for parole was denied by Gov. Wilson. Links: USA, California, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1975 |
In South Africa the residential building Ponte City opened in Johannesburg’s inner-city district of Hillbrow. Links: South Africa, Soccer, Teens Amuck
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1976 Aug |
James Byron Haakenson (16), who had run away from his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, disappeared in Chicago. In 1978 police found his body and 26 others in the crawl space beneath the home of John Wayne Gacy, in Norwood Park Township. In 2017 Illinois investigators used DNA evidence to identify Haakenson’s body. Links: USA, Minnesota, Chicago, Murder, DNA, Teens Amuck
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1977 Sep 4 |
The Golden Dragon Massacre occurred in San Francisco’s Chinatown. 5 people were killed and 11 wounded, none of them gang members, during a shootout between the rival Wah Ching and Joe Boys. Four men were convicted. In 1999 Bill Lee, a former gang member, published "Chinese Playground," a memoir of his experiences in the 60s and 70s. Assailant Curtis Tam was released in 1991 after he testified against two others. In 2015 assailant Melvin Yu was paroled. Peter Ng remained in prison in Vacaville. Tom Yu, the chief plotter and not at the scene, was up for parole in 2017. Links: USA, SF, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1978 Aug 20 |
In New Jersey 5 teenage boys disappeared. In 2010 Lee Evans (56) and Philander Hampton (53) were arrested and charged with their murder. Prosecutors said the boys were herded into an abandoned building and burned to death in a dispute over some missing marijuana. On Aug 20, 2010, Evans was freed from jail after relatives put up $950,000 in bail. His cousin remained in jail. On Oct 3, 2011, Hampton (54) was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Under sentencing guidelines he was only required to serve 20% of the sentence. In 2011 a jury found Lee Evans not guilty of 10-murder related counts in the deaths of the teens. Links: USA, Murder, New Jersey, Teens Amuck
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1979 Jan 29 |
Brenda Spencer (b.1962), a teenager in San Diego, shot up an elementary school, killing 2 people and wounding 9. She told police she did it because, "I don’t like Mondays." Links: California, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1981 Jun 13 |
A scare occurred during a parade in London when a teenager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II. Links: Britain, Teens Amuck
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1981 Nov 3 |
In Milpitas, Ca., Anthony Jacques Broussard, a high school student (16), strangled and killed Marcy Conrad, his girl friend (14), dumped her body on a river bank and gave tours to his friends, who never reported the crime. The 1986 film "River's Edge" was later made based on the murder. On December 3, 1982 Broussard was sentenced in a San Jose, California court to 25 years to life for the strangulation death of Conrad. He was to be eligible for parole after 16 years and 8 months (July 1999). Links: USA, Murder, SF Bay Area, Teens Amuck
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1982 |
Rich Skrenta (b.1967), a freshman in Pennsylvania, developed Elk Cloner as a practical joke. It was the 1st virus to hit computers worldwide and later became known as a "boot sector" virus. When it boots, or starts up, an infected disk places a copy of the virus in the computer's memory. Whenever someone inserts a clean disk into the machine and types the command "catalog" for a list of files, a copy gets written onto that disk as well. The newly infected disk is passed on to other people, other machines and other locations. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Computer, Teens Amuck
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1983 Mar 10 |
Dorka Lisker (66) was stabbed to death at her Sherman Oaks, Ca., home. Her son Bruce, age 17 at the time of the murder, was convicted of her murder in 1985 and was sentenced to life in prison. Lisker confessed to the murder in prison, but said he only did so in hopes of getting parole. In 2009 he was freed on bail after a judge overturned his conviction due to false evidence and sloppy defense work. Prosecutors decided not to retry him. Links: USA, California, Murder, Teens Amuck, Matricide
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1983 Nov |
DeWitt Duckett (14) was shot in the neck inside Harlem Park Junior High in Baltimore. Authorities later said he was killed over his Georgetown University Starter jacket. Police soon arrested 16-year-olds Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins, and Andrew Stewart, charging them with murder. Witnesses later recanted and it emerged that police withheld exculpatory evidence, including that several other students identified another man as Duckett's killer. He died in 2002. In 2019 the three men convicted of the murder were exonerated. Links: USA, Maryland, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1984 Dec 11 |
Kimberly Billy (19) of Stockton, Ca., went missing. Her remains were found in 2012 in a compacted well in Linden, Ca., and attributed to Speed Freak Killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. Links: USA, California, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1984 Dec 22 |
Bernhard Goetz shot at four black teens who attempted to rob him in a New York subway. He later claimed self-defense and was acquitted of attempted murder in 1987 in a trial where lawyer William Kunstler represented Darrel Cabey, who was paralyzed in the shooting. 3 other wounded teens, James Ramseur, Barry Allen, and Troy Canty went to jail. Links: USA, NYC, Teens Amuck
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1985 Mar 19 |
In California Cinnamon Brown (15), aided by her sister-in-law, Patti Bailey, fatally shoot her stepmother Linda Brown in Orange County. David Brown (d.2014), a computer businessman, had persuaded the girls to kill his wife and went on to collect $835,000 in insurance before he was convicted in the murder. The story inspired two book and the TV miniseries “Love, Lies and Murder.” Links: USA, California, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1985 Mar 26 |
In Florida Tommie Lou Whiddon (19), a student Okaloosa-Walton Community College, became the first murder victim of Frank Walls. Links: USA, Murder, Florida, Teens Amuck
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1985 May 14 |
In Indiana Paula Cooper (b.1969) took part in the stabbing death of Ruth Pelke (78), a Bible studies teacher during a robbery with three other teens. Cooper was sentenced to death in 1986, but in 1988 the state’s high court set her death sentence aside and ordered her to serve 60 years in prison. Cooper was released from prison on June 17, 2013. Links: USA, Murder, Indiana, Teens Amuck
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1985 Aug 29 |
Joann Hobson (16) of Stockton, Ca., went missing. Her remains were found in 2012 in a compacted well in Linden, Ca., and attributed to Speed Freak Killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. Links: USA, California, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1986 Sep 16 |
Cynthia Sue Condra (24), a mother of three, was stabbed 21 times. Frank Walls left her body in a wooded area off Lewis Turner Boulevard in Ocean City. Florida. Links: USA, Murder, Florida, Teens Amuck
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1987 Jul 24 |
Frank Athen Walls (19) was arrested by Okaloosa County deputies and charged with killing Edward K. Alger (21) and Ann Louise Peterson (20). Links: USA, Murder, Florida, Teens Amuck
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1987 Jul 27 |
In Warwick, RI, Craig Price (13) crept across his neighbor's yard, broke into a little brown house on Inez Avenue and stabbed Rebecca Spencer 58 times. She was a 27-year-old mother of two. On Sep 1, 1989, he butchered Joan Heaton (39) with kitchen knives she had bought earlier that day. The bodies of her daughters, Jennifer 10, and Melissa 8, were found in pools of blood, pieces of knives broken off in their bones; Jennifer had been stabbed 62 times. Price was scheduled to be released in 1994 but was sentenced to 15 years, seven to serve and eight suspended, following contempt charges and belligerent statements. Fights in prison added more time to his sentence. As of 2007 Price's scheduled release date was February 2022. He will be 48. Links: USA, Murder, Rhode Island, Teens Amuck
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1987 Dec 21 |
In New York City three white teen-agers from the Howard Beach section of Queens were convicted of manslaughter in the death of a black man who was chased onto a highway, where he was struck by a car. A fourth defendant was acquitted. Links: USA, NYC, Black History, Teens Amuck
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1989 Mar 1 |
Three teenagers in New Jersey assaulted a mentally retarded girl with a broom and a baseball bat as up to ten classmates watched. They were sentenced to up to 15 years in a youth facility in 1997. In 1997 Prof. Bernard Lefkowitz wrote "Our Guys," an investigation of the events surrounding the crime. Links: USA, New Jersey, Teens Amuck
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1989 May |
In Portland, Maine, Jessica Briggs (16) was repeatedly stabbed before being thrown into Portland harbor. Hope Cady (13), a lone witness, testified at trial in 1992 that she saw a group of boys surround Briggs and then saw Tony Sanborn (16) stab her. Sanborn was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Cady claimed she’d watched the event unfold from a nearby pier. In 2017 Cady recanted and Sanborn was freed on bond after serving 27 years in prison. Links: USA, Murder, Maine, Teens Amuck
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1990 May 1 |
In Hampton, NH, William Flynn (16) and a friend shot and killed Gregory Smart (b.1965), the husband of Pamela Smart (23) with whom Flynn was having an affair. Flynn was sentenced 28 years to life. Smart had enlisted Flynn to kill her husband and was sentenced to life in prison. On June 4, 2015 Flynn was released from prison. Patrick Randall, who had held a knife to Gregg Smart’s throat, was also released on parole. Links: USA, New Hampshire, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1991 Aug 10 |
Nine Buddhists were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Arizona. Two teen-agers were later arrested; one pleaded guilty to murder, the other was convicted of murder. Links: USA, Murder, Arizona, Teens Amuck
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1992 Dec 9 |
In North Carolina Kevin Dean Hodgin (35), a Domino's Pizza delivery driver, was beaten and killed during an armed robbery outside the Domino's store in Guilford County. In 2021 Shantu Jenkins, one of five young men charged in the slaying, was released on parole. Links: USA, Murder, North Carolina, Robbery, Teens Amuck
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1992 1995 |
Teenage drug use doubled over this period. Links: USA, Teens Amuck
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1992 |
In Pakistan a woman and her two children were killed in an alleged robbery attempt. Gulam Mustafa was convicted in the case, but was later pardoned by the family. Aftab Bahadur (15) was also convicted and sentenced to death. In 2015 two witnesses in the case recanted their statement and declared Bahadur innocent. On June 10, 2015 Bahadur was hanged in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail. Links: Pakistan, Murder, Robbery, Teens Amuck
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1993 Apr 22 |
In London, England, Stephen Lawrence (b.1974), a black teenager of Jamaican parentage, was brutally killed by a gang of white youths with a history of race baiting. 5 youths were identified, but none were prosecuted. Three of the suspects were acquitted in 1996. In 1999 a play called "The Color of Justice" was made based on the testimony of the trial. The 1999 Macpherson inquiry concluded that the police force’s mishandling of the case betrayed “institutional racism.” In 2000 police arrested 3 men in connection with the killing. In 2002 two of those accused in the Lawrence case, David Norris and Neil Acourt, were convicted and jailed for a racist attack on a black police officer. In 2011 Gary Dobson (36) and David Norris (35) both white men from south London, faced trial for murder. On Jan 3, 2012, Dobson and Norris were found guilty. On Jan 4 Gary Dobson was sentenced to a minimum 15 years and two months and David Norris to 14 years and three months for the murder. Links: Britain, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1993 May 5 |
In West Memphis, Arkansas, Cub Scouts Steve Branch (8), Christopher Byers (8) and Michael Moore (8) were found dead, nude and hogtied. Rumors of Satanism roiled the community in the weeks following their deaths. In 1994 Jason Baldwin (16) was sentenced to life in prison; Jessie Misskelley (18) was sentenced to life plus 40 years; Damien Echols (19) was sentenced to death. The case was largely based on a confession by Misskelley, who was mentally handicapped. In 1996 Jo Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky made an HBO documentary: "The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills." In 2007 new DNA tests and forensic evidence challenged the guilt of the teenagers. In 2011 the defendants, known by their supporters as the West Memphis 3, agreed to a legal maneuver that let them maintain their innocence while acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence against them. Links: TV, Murder, DNA, Arkansas, Teens Amuck
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1993 May 8 |
Keron Thomas (16) disguised himself as a motorman and took a NYC subway train and 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride. Links: NYC, Teens Amuck
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1993 Sep 8 |
Christopher Simmons (17), a Missouri high school student, kidnapped, bound and killed Mrs. Shirley Crooks by throwing her into a river from a railroad trestle. He was arrested the next day, confessed and 9 months later was sentenced to death. In 2003 the Missouri supreme Court changed the sentence to life in prison due to Simmons’ age. In 2005 the Supreme Court ruled against the execution of minors. Links: USA, Missouri, Teens Amuck
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1994 Mar 10 |
Sara Kruzan (b.1978) of Riverside, Ca., killed her alleged pimp after she was forced into prostitution. She was convicted of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Links: USA, California, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1994 May 5 |
Singapore caned American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence was reduced from six lashes to four in response to an appeal by President Clinton, who considered the punishment too harsh. Links: USA, Singapore, Teens Amuck
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1994 Oct 4 |
In France Florence Rey (19), a literature student, participated in a bungled holdup that left 3 police officers, a taxi driver, and her accomplice-lover dead following a car chase. In 1998 she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Links: France, Robbery, Teens Amuck
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1994 Nov 11 |
Eddie Polec (16), a Fox Chase high school student, died after being clubbed to death by students of Abington High School. On March 20, 1996, Carlo Johnson (20) and Bou Khathavong (18) – believed by prosecutors to be the ring leaders in the assault, although neither beat Polec – received maximum five- to 10-year sentences for conspiracy. Prosecutors believe the two organized the rumble and provided the baseball bats. Anthony Rienzi and Nick Pinero, both 18, were sentenced to the maximum 15- to 30-year terms for third-degree murder and conspiracy. Thomas Crook (19) sobbed and apologized to his family before receiving 14.5 years to 30 years on the same charges. Dawan Alexander (18) who was convicted of manslaughter for kicking Polec, received an eight- to 20-year term. Seventh defendant Kevin Convey (19) had pleaded guilty earlier to third-degree murder in exchange for testifying against the others. In February he had been sentenced to five to 20 years. In 2000 Bryn Freedman and William Knoedelseder authored "In Eddie’s Name: One Family’s Triumph Over Tragedy." Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Murder, Teens Amuck
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1995 Sep 24 |
A 16-year-old boy in Cuers, France, killed 13 people before turning a gun on himself. Links: France, Teens Amuck
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1995 |
In California Borey Ai (14), robbed a convenience store in Stockton and killed a Manijeh Eshahgoff (52). He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison and was released in November, 2016. Federal immigration agents then detained Ai for 18 months, but freed him after Cambodia refused to accept him. Links: USA, California, Murder, Robbery, Teens Amuck
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1996 Feb 16 |
In Vista, San Diego County Joshua Jenkins, 15, stabbed his parents and grandparents to death. The next day he axed his sister. In 1997 he was sentenced to 116 years in prison. Links: California, Teens Amuck
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1996 Apr 30 |
In Fort Myers, Florida, members of a teen militia called the Lords of Chaos slew high-school band director Mark Schwebes. They had begun a crime spree on Apr 13 with acts of arson and vandalism. Arrested were Kevin Foster,18, Derek Shields, 18, Peter Magnotti, 17, Christopher Black, 18, Christopher Burnett, 17, and Thomas Tarrone, 16. Links: Florida, Teens Amuck
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1996 May 2 |
John Dylan Katz (16) was beaten up and put into a coma in Windsor, California. He was apparently wearing the colors of a rival gang. Arrested for the assault were Dominque Marie Gaitan (22), and 3 17-year-old youths including a girl. A 5th suspect was being sought. Sonoma County teenagers Jose Juan Madrid (17) was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Thomas Galvan Jr. (15) got 10 years. Links: California, Teens Amuck
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1996 |
In Japan knife crimes by juveniles increased by 30% to 431. Links: Japan, Teens Amuck
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1996 |
In San Diego County Elizabeth Carroll (53) was stabbed 61 times during a robbery by Jarred Viktor and his girlfriend Danielle Barcheers (15). Barcheers became the youngest girl ever convicted as an adult and was sentenced to 25 years. Links: USA, California, Murder, Robbery, Teens Amuck
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1997 Feb 19 |
In southwestern Alaska Evan Ramsey (16) opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun as students assembled in a high school lobby, killing a principal and 16-year-old classmate in Bethel, a town of 6,000. Ramsey was sentenced to a 198-year prison term. Links: USA, Murder, Alaska, Teens Amuck
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1997 Mar 21 |
In Chicago 3 white teenagers attacked and severely injured a 13-year-old black boy. Lenard Clark (13) was left brain damaged. The suspects, Frank Caruso (18), Victor Jasas (17), and Michael Kwidzinski (19) were released on bonds of $150,000 with charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery and a hate crime. Caruso was convicted in 1998 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. The other 2 pleaded guilty to reduced charges and were let off with probation and community service. Links: USA, Chicago, Teens Amuck
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1997 Apr 21 |
Police in Franklin, N.J., arrested 2 teen-agers they say lured two pizza deliverymen on April 19 to an abandoned house before opening fire, killing both men. Thomas Koskovich and Jayson Vreeland were convicted in 1999 of murdering Jeremy Giordano and Giorgio Gallara. Koskovich was sentenced to death, but had the sentence overturned by the New Jersey Supreme Court, and faced a 2nd sentencing trial; Vreeland was sentenced to life. Links: Murder, New Jersey, Teens Amuck
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1997 Jun 24 |
In Freehold, N.J., 18-year-old Melissa Drexler, who gave birth during her prom, was charged with murder in the death of her baby. In 1998 she was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a plea bargain with parole possible in less than 3 years. Drexler later pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, and served three years in prison. Links: USA, New Jersey, Teens Amuck
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1997 Jun 28 |
Japanese police announced the arrest of a 14-year-old boy for the murder and beheading of an 11-year-old on May 27. The 15-year-old boy was convicted and sentenced to a juvenile prison, where he would be treated for mental illness. He could be kept there until age 26. In 2015 the killer published a detailed memoir, which quickly became a bestseller. Links: Japan, Murder, Books, Teens Amuck, Kids
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1997 Oct 1 |
In Pearl, Mississippi, Luke Woodham (16) stabbed his mother Mary (50) to death and went to school and killed his former girlfriend and another student and wounded 7 others. Later Grant Boyette (18) was identified as the leader of the Kroth cult, a Satanist group with a plan of destruction and killing. Woodham was found guilty in 1998 of killing 2 classmates and was sentenced to 2 life sentences plus 20 years. He was also found guilty in the murder of his mother in a separate trial and the sentence was raised to 3 life sentences plus 140 years. Links: USA, Murder, Mississippi, Teens Amuck
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1998 Mar 10 |
In Alabama a teenager killed his parents with an ax and a sledgehammer. Jeffery Franklin (17) also wounded 3 siblings and led police on a "wild car chase" before being captured. Links: Murder, Alabama, Teens Amuck
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