10 most ruthless children. The most brutal child killers known to history

1. Mary Bell

Is the Great Outlaw Girl of 1968 UK. The girl became famous for killing two of her own younger brothers.

Mary was the first child in the family; her mother gave birth to her at the age of 17. The child was not wanted; shortly before giving birth, the mother tried to poison herself; the doctors managed to save her. Four years later, she did the same with her daughter. Having many mental disorders, the mother could not raise her children normally. She never sat down to have dinner with her family, only if her plate of food was placed in the corner of the room. The father pretended to be an uncle so that the family would receive benefits.

From childhood, Mary Bell was distinguished by a special mindset and quick wit; she had a wild imagination and was a dreamer. She told stories about her “uncle’s” farm and her personal black stallion. She believed that in the future she would become a nun and constantly read Bibles (she had about five of them). She never allowed any relatives or other children near her, except for her neighbor, 13-year-old Norma. The girls were united difficult life in the worst area of ​​the city.

2. Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

In 1993, ten-year-old John and his friend Robert forcibly took two-year-old boy James Bulger near shopping center. The mother decided to punish the baby in this way and did not take him to the store with her. When she returned, the child was gone.

Surveillance cameras recorded how two guys forcibly took James away. What happened next shocked everyone. John and Robert brought the child to railway, doused him with paint, beat him, raped him and left him to die on the tracks so that the train would run over him and everyone would think it was an accident.

3. Alice Bustamant

Elizabeth Olten was just 9 in 2009 when she was killed by 14-year-old Alice Bustamante. She considered herself a kind of “informal” person, like goths or emo. It was fearless, sharp and a little wild. Having two younger brothers, Bustaman constantly mocked them by playing imaginary games. cruel games.

The girl was ruled by pure interest. “What does a criminal feel when he kills?” - it was to this question that Alice received the answer by beating a little girl, strangling her and finally cutting her throat.

Two months later, the girl confessed where she buried Elizabeth’s corpse. All this time, volunteers combed the forest, but their efforts were in vain.

4. George Junius Stinney Jr.

14-year-old George was sentenced to death for the murder of two little girls.
Stinny admitted that he wanted to make love to the older girl, but she refused. Then he switched to a more cruel method, but his nine-year-old girlfriend still stood in his way. Both victims for a long time resisted and George got tired of fighting. He then took a large iron rod and beat the girls to death with it, repeatedly hitting them on the head with the iron object.

He was charged with first-degree murder the next day. Local residents rioted and the young man was transported to Colombia, where he was sentenced to death the same year.

5. Bari Lucatis

In 1996, Bari, dressed in his best Wild West cowboy attire, walked into his algebra class in Washington, DC. Of course, my classmates did not accept this outfit in the best possible way and started making fun of the guy, calling him stupid. At that moment, they did not suspect that a rifle, a pistol and 78 rounds of ammunition were hidden under their clothes.

In a split second, Bari opened fire directly on his classmates. The first to die was 14-year-old Manuel Vela, followed by a classmate who was shot in the chest. More than 20 students were injured and two were killed. But the guy made a mistake by allowing people to collect the wounded, and the enraged teacher snatched the weapon from Lucatis’s hands.

6. Kipland Kinkel

Kipland Kinkel was expelled from an Oregon high school in 1998 at the “vulnerable” age of fifteen because of a gun he brought into class to show off. Instead of contacting law enforcement agencies the guy was simply sent home.

He returned, but this time he took a rifle with him, making his way into the school cafeteria and opened fire. One student died immediately after the first shots, another died a few minutes later, 8 people were wounded. As a result of the panic and crush, a fire started which injured 10 more students. When police arrived, Kinkel was disarmed and taken into custody, but they underestimated the intelligence of the boy who had hidden the knife. Fortunately for the police, he was not as skilled with a blade as he was with a rifle. Kipland claimed he wanted to commit suicide.

When the task force broke into the criminal's house, they found dead father and mother. There were explosive traps all over the house. To make the scene even more horrific, he booby-trapped the mother's body.

7. Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolk

While Cyndi Lauper was playing on the radio in every home in 1983, Cyndi Collier and Shirley Wolk were having fun stealing cars and vandalizing.

On this day, the girls knocked on the house of an elderly woman. The unsuspecting old lady happily let in two 13 and 14 year old girls for just a nice conversation over tea.

They began to communicate with the old woman, playing with her like a cat with a mouse. Then they dropped all pretense and turned into crazed killers. Shirley grabbed the woman by the neck and held her while Cindy found a butcher knife in the kitchen and threw it to her. Shirley Wolf plunged a knife into the body and repeated this 28 times while the old woman begged not to kill.

The girls happily admitted what they had done and said that they would like to repeat it again someday.

8. Joshua Phyllis

Joshua was 14 years old in 1998 when his 8-year-old neighbor went missing. A week later, his mother began to notice a pungent odor coming from under the bed. What the mother discovered was something she never expected to see in life.

It was the missing girl - dead, bloodied, beaten to death. The mother asked what happened. To which Joshua replied: “I accidentally hit a girl in the eye at a baseball game.” She screamed and I panicked and started hitting her head with a stone.”

But the jury and the judge did not believe in such an excuse, since it is unclear why Joe beat the girl to death and later hid the body.

9. Willie Bosquet

When it comes to crime at a young age, Willie is called an anomaly. At the age of just 15, he already had nearly 2,000 crimes in New York.

All his adult life he did not know his father, he only knew that he was in prison for murder. Willie is proud of his parent’s “heroic” act.

Previously, the law on punishing juvenile offenders was slightly different. Children could not be held responsible for their actions until they were 21 years old. Willie knew this very well and understood that he was in no danger if he killed, stabbed or raped someone.

After the crimes he committed, the laws regarding minors were revised. And after the story with Willy Bosquet, the new law, it read: children are excessive aggressive behavior who are over 13 years old bear full responsibility for the crimes and will be sentenced at the same level as an adult.

10. Jesse Pomeroy

Such criminals come from the “old school”. In a world of mentally unstable, insane, violent child killers, Jesse takes the lead.

In 1874, at the age of fourteen, Jesse was arrested for the murder of a 4-year-old boy. But this was not the first act of violence; Pomeroy spent the last three years abusing and torturing other children. His first arrest was for sexually abusing seven young boys when he himself was barely 11 years old. Then he killed a ten-year-old girl, completely mutilating her body. A little later, his mother’s body was found near the store. Local residents were against the death penalty for such a young guy, so he was sentenced to forty years in prison. solitary confinement.

Elizaveta Dubrovina

On February 24, 2016, 19-year-old resident of St. Petersburg Elizaveta Dubrovina, during an argument, inflicted at least 140 stab wounds on her 17-year-old daughter. my own sister Stephanie. In addition, the victim's eyes were gouged out and his ears were cut off. As it turned out later, the girl committed the crime out of envy. Stefania led a glamorous lifestyle and was successful with the opposite sex. As it turned out, Elizabeth had previously undergone treatment at psychiatric clinic. The court declared the girl insane.

Knackers from Khabarovsk

In October 2016, two 17-year-old girls from Khabarovsk - Alina Orlova and Alena Savchenko - became famous after a series of photographs and videos appeared in which the girls brutally kill animals taken from a shelter. Such an atrocity caused a serious resonance in society, the whole country learned about the teenagers, mass rallies began, and the question arose about tightening criminal liability for minors. Ultimately, the Khabarovsk knackers were found guilty of ill-treatment with animals and robbery. Alena Savchenko was sentenced to four years, Alina Orlova - to three years in a general regime colony.

Garrett Dye

Little Amy Dye's mother often brought rude men into the house. She ended up marrying a freak who abused the girl sexual violence. By the age of nine, Amy already had considerable sexual experience. In 2006, she was sent to live with her great aunt. In February 2011, Amy Dye was murdered by her 18-year-old half-brother Garrett Dye. The girl's body was found in the bush near the farm where the family lived. The little girl was beaten to death with a hydraulic jack. Garrett pleaded guilty to killing the girl "because she couldn't keep quiet."

William Gorzynski

On October 26, 2009, William Gorzynski angrily plunged a knife into the body of his 14-year-old brother Matthew. The boys quarreled over computer speakers. William was watching TV and asked Matthew to turn the music down. After the quarrel, William went to the kitchen, took a knife and stabbed his brother in the chest. Realizing what had happened, he immediately contacted the rescuers. He said over the phone that his brother had had an accident. The killer was sentenced to 12 months of psychiatric treatment, followed by a period of state-supervised release.

Jordan Brown

11-year-old Jordan Brown shot his father's pregnant fiancée, Kenzie Hawk, several times in 2009. The woman died on the spot, and the child also could not be saved. They wanted to try Brown as an adult. The boy faced a life sentence, but the lawyer managed to soften the jury's decision. As a result, he was sent to a correctional facility for juvenile offenders. In 2016, Jordan Brown was released, when he turned 18 years old.

Christian Fernandez

On March 14, 2011, 12-year-old Christian Fernandez from the American city of Jacksonville (Florida) beat his 2-year-old stepbrother to death by hitting his head on a bookcase. Christian was initially tried as an adult. He became the first teenager in the United States to be sentenced to life imprisonment. State's Attorney Angela Corey said the court was forced to try Fernandez as an adult to protect the public from a young but brutal and serial killer. In 2013, after pleading guilty, the sentence was changed to manslaughter. Fernandez will remain in juvenile detention until he is 19 years old.

Keith Randulich

On May 22, 2009, 18-year-old Keith Radulich slit the throat of his four-year-old sister Sabrina with a knife. This is how he took revenge on his mother, who refused to buy him a gun. The girl begged her brother to stop, but he continued cutting until he felt “that the blade had reached the bones.” The scumbag later told the police that he needed a gun against a relative who was raping the girl. Investigators found no evidence of sexual assault. Keith was sentenced to 40 years in prison. In 2011, his mother sent a letter to the judge, begging for a reduced sentence.

The girls attacked their friend "on orders from Slenderman"

In 2014 in American state Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls - Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier - tried to kill classmate Payton Letner, inspired by the fictional Internet character Slender Man. The girl was stabbed 19 times. Fortunately, Letner survived, but the juvenile criminals were tried as adults. Weier was sent to a psychiatric hospital for 25 years, and Morgan Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a clinic.

Constance Kent

In June 1860, in England, 16-year-old Constance Kent brutally murdered her three-year-old brother Francis Kent. She left many wounds on his body and cut his throat with a razor. Initially, the child's nanny came under suspicion, but detective Jack Whicher drew attention to Constance's behavior. However, the girl was never caught in the crime. Five years later, Constance herself admitted during confession that she killed her brother at night with one of her father's razor blades. She was sentenced to life imprisonment, but she only served 20 years before changing her name and moving to Australia.

Everyone knows the expression “children are the flowers of life,” but it does not always justify itself. History knows many examples when completely young girls and the boys broke the law: they stole, committed petty crimes and were cruel. Today we remember the most famous juvenile criminals who went down in history as cold-blooded killers.

Jesse Pomeroy

Perhaps one of the most brutal child killers is Jesse Pomeroy, nicknamed “Marble Eye.” The little maniac had a specific appearance - a cleft lip and an eyesore. Pomeroy was born in Boston in 1859.

The father beat the boy after stripping him naked. Jesse's aggression adolescence was aimed at children younger age. At age 12, he tied a boy named Payne to a crossbar and beat him unconscious. In 1872, he tortured three more children. Then the police managed to catch the teenager, he was sent to a reform school, where he stayed until 1874.

Jesse Pomeroy almost became the second Jack the Ripper

Shortly after his release, it broke out new scandal: Pomeroy was accused of killing two girls. The body of one victim, Merry Curran, was found in the basement of the house where he lived with his family, and another girl was found mutilated and dismembered in a Boston suburb. Jesse was sentenced to death, but execution was delayed due to his young age. A little later, the punishment was changed, sentencing Pomeroy to life in solitary confinement. He died in 1932 at the age of 72.

Mary Bell

Charming little girl Mary Bell received the nickname “spawn of the devil” and “monster child.”

She was born in Newcastle in 1957. Mary grew up in a dysfunctional family, her father did not work, and her mother suffered mental disorders and once tried to poison her daughter with pills. According to other sources, she proposed Mary to men when she was only 4 years old. The girl’s cruel nature was revealed early: at the age of 11, she, together with a 13-year-old friend, committed two murders with an interval of several months. Little boys aged 3 and 4 were strangled. Mary had her initials carved into the body of one of them.

Pretty girl Mary Bell committed two murders at age 11

The court found her guilty of manslaughter and took into account a mitigating circumstance - doctors diagnosed Mary with a psychopathic disorder. She was released in 1980 and now lives in the UK under a new name and surname.

Arkady Neyland

The public attention was focused on the “Neyland case” Soviet Union And foreign countries. Neiland was born in Leningrad in 1949 into a simple family. He began to run away from home early and was registered in the children's room of the police. At the age of 12, his mother sent Neyland to a boarding school, from which he soon fled.

After another arrest for theft, Neyland decided on a “big deal” - robbery and murder. As he later said in court, he wanted to get money and go to Sukhumi to “start new life" On January 27, Neyland, under the guise of a postal worker, entered the apartment where 37-year-old housewife Larisa Kupreeva and her three year old son. Neyland hacked the woman and child to death with an ax that he had previously stolen from their parents. In the apartment he found money and a camera, with which he took several photographs of the murdered woman in obscene poses. He hoped to sell these photos later. Neyland decided to cover his tracks, turned on the gas and set fire to the wooden floor, but firefighters managed to put out the fire almost immediately. He forgot his ax at the crime scene. On January 30, Neyland was detained in Sukhumi.

A USSR court sentenced Neyland to death, although he was 15 years old.

He did not deny it, admitted to what he had done and helped the investigation. He also suggested that “everything will be forgiven” for him as a minor. Trial over Neyland attracted attention not only in the USSR, but also abroad. The teenager was sentenced to death, despite the fact that he was only 15 years old (this penalty could be applied to those who had reached 18). The verdict forced the foreign press and the Soviet intelligentsia to talk about disregard for the law and oppression of individual freedom in the Union. On August 11, 1964, Neyland was shot.

Jon Venelbs and Robert Thompson

These 10-year-olds are responsible for the death of three-year-old boy James Patrick Bulger. The mother left the child unattended in the supermarket, where Venelbs and Thompson noticed him. They took the child away and brutally beat him with an iron rod and stones. After this, the baby was smeared with paint and thrown onto the tracks, hoping that they would be able to present everything as an accident. The crime was discovered thanks to recordings from a surveillance camera in a supermarket.

The trial took place in 1993, the boys were sentenced to 10 years in prison, but were released early. In March 2010, Venelbs was again sent to prison for violating parole conditions. The location of the second killer, Thompson, is being kept secret by UK authorities.

Graham Young

Young was a gifted child who became interested in science very early. Graham's mother died when he was only three months old, and the boy grew up with his aunt's family until his father, who remarried, took him in. Young was an excellent student and one day received a gift from his father - a set of chemicals for conducting experiments. Since then, Graham has been spotted more than once engaged in a strange activity - he rummaged through garbage dumps in the hope of finding ingredients for poisons. Young conducted experiments on mice and frogs, and then on his school friend. One day his stepmother found a bottle of ready-made poison in his possession and demanded that he stop the dangerous experiments. Then the boy began adding antimony to her food. Soon the stepmother died, and Graham was detained on suspicion of murder.

It was not possible to prove anything - the woman’s body was cremated, and it was not possible to conduct an examination. Young continued his experiments, adding poison to the food of his father and classmate. Soon the relatives began to suspect the boy. The police again detained Graham, who did not answer for a long time and began to brag about his knowledge and crimes. At trial, he said that he realized that he was doing “not very well,” but could not stop. Young was declared insane and sent for treatment to a psychiatric hospital, where he could secretly engage in his favorite activity - making poisons.

Graham Young poisoned his stepmother, aunt, father and school friend

According to some evidence, he could synthesize poison from bay leaf. Soon, one of the hospital patients died from potassium cyanide poisoning, but suspicion did not fall on Young. True, several cases of serious poisoning among patients and staff were recorded afterwards. Young left the clinic at age 23. He got a job several times, where he continued his experiments - adding various poisons in the food and drinks of colleagues and bosses. Police arrested Young, charged him with two counts of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. In 1972, at the age of 25, he began serving his sentence. Young died in 1990 in Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight.

Eric Smith

Eric Smith is currently in prison for the murder of a four-year-old boy at the age of 13. Smith lured his victim to a wooded area of ​​a local park, where he strangled him, smashed his head with a rock and raped his body. He claimed that he was venting his anger from the torment he suffered at the hands of local bullies, but was also diagnosed with intermittent temper disorder, which caused his psyche to play out violently and explosively. Sentenced in 1994 to life, Smith was denied parole several times and his parents supported decisions to keep him incarcerated.

Brian Blackwell

One day, an 18-year-old boy in England, Brian Blackwell took out numerous credit cards and loans in his father's name to show off being rich. When his parents found out, he stabbed them to death - but only after first beating them with a claw hammer. He then flew with his girlfriend to New York and Barbados for a luxury holiday. When he was caught, he confessed and was sentenced to life in prison.

Alyssa Bustamante

Alyssa Bustamante killed her nine-year-old victim in Missouri in 2009 at age 15. The young victim was reportedly caught on a forest path, formerly a cemetery, near the two graves of Bustamante's younger brothers, where she plotted the murder. The 9-year-old stranger was strangled, beaten, stabbed in the chest, and ultimately had his throat cut. Bustamante is said to have told an investigator that she "would like to know what it feels like to kill" someone. In her diary for that day, she wrote: “I must say that this feeling is quite pleasant.”

Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf

Fifteen-year-old Cindy Collier and 14-year-old Shirley Wolf killed an 85-year-old woman in her home in Auburn, CA in 1983. After entering under the pretext of making a phone call, Wolf grabbed his victim by the neck. Collier handed him the knife, and with her Wolf stabbed the old woman, stabbing her 28 times. Wolf's diary entry for that day reads, "Today Cindy and I ran away and killed an old lady. It was a lot of fun."

Cristian Fernandez

In 2011, Christian Fernandez was accused of beating his 2.5-year-old brother to death and raping his 5-year-old half-brother. At age 13, Fernandez was the youngest person ever charged with first-degree murder in the history of Jacksonville, Florida.

David Brom

In 1988, 16-year-old David Brom killed his entire family, including his 14-year-old sister and nine-year-old brother, with an axe. In his native Rochester, Minnesota, he went to school the next day as usual, but decided to brag about the murders to his classmates. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Mary Bell

Mary Bell was only 11 when she killed a four-year-old and a three-year-old boy in Scotswood, England. Born to a prostitute mother, Bell was forced from the age of four to engage in sexual acts with men and her father is unknown. It is also suspected that her mother tried to kill her several times during her childhood, hoping to make her death look like an accident. She served 12 years in prison, and lived under an assumed name, beginning after her release in 1980.

Edmund Kemper

Edmund Kemper is best known as serial killer, who killed and dismembered six women and then killed his mother and friend as an adult. In California in 1964, then 15-year-old Edmund shot and killed his grandparents. Apparently five years in juvenile detention wasn't enough to eradicate his desire to kill, and when he turned himself in in 1973 and sought the death penalty, he was sentenced to life in prison - only because California had suspended the death penalty at the time.

Jesse Pomeroy

First arrested at 11 sexual harassment and torment to seven other boys. Jesse Pomeroy continued to kill: a four-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl fell victim to him. In 1874, at the age of 14, Pomeroy was arrested for his crimes and eventually convicted as the youngest person ever convicted of first-degree murder in Massachusetts. He spent most of his life in solitary confinement until his death in 1932.

Kipland Kinkel

After killing his parents, Kipland Kinkel shot more than 37 people at his school in Springfield, Oregon in 1998, killing two of them. He had been expelled from school the day before, so he returned and brought a gun to school because of the “voice” in his head that ordered him to kill. After being neutralized by seven fellow students, Kinkel tried to “die at the hands of the police,” rushed at an officer with a knife, and fought in the police station. He failed and was sentenced to 111 years in prison.

Barry Loukaitis

In 1996, Barry Loukaitis, dressed in Wild West cowboy garb, opened fire on his classmates in Moses Lake, Washington. Carrying a rifle, two pistols and 78 rounds of ammunition, Loukaitis killed three and wounded one before being stopped by a gymnastics coach. He was given two life sentences and an additional 205 years in prison.

Lyle and Erik Menendez

Eric and Lyle Menendez, 18 and 21 years old respectively, shot their parents to death with a 12-gauge shotgun. In 1989 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke

Canadian Jasmine Richardson was just 12 years old when she convinced her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, to kill both her parents on April 23, 2006. He went even further and killed her 8-year-old brother by cutting his throat upstairs in the house. Legally too young to be prosecuted as an adult, Richardson was released from psychiatric hospital in 2011, and in 2012 it was reported that its recovery was going well.

Seth Privacky

When his father threatened to kick him out and the rest of the family said nothing, 18-year-old Seth shot them all, along with his father, with a .22 Ruger. He also killed his girlfriend for good measure when she accidentally came into the house and witnessed the murder. Seth was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died there in 2010 - shot dead unsuccessful attempt escape.

Stacey Lannert

Sexually abused by her father at the age of 8, Stacey shot and killed him while he slept in her home in Saint John, MO. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1990 at the age of 18. The sentence was changed at the direction of Missouri Governor Matt Blunt in 2009, and she was released six days later, at age 36, after serving 18 years for her crimes.

Larry Swartz

Larry Schwartz's murder of his parents spawned the best-selling book "Sudden Fur" and the propaganda of TV movies starring Neil Patrick Harris as the killer. In 1984, at the age of 17, Schwartz used a steak knife to stab his stepfather to death, and then the time came bludgeon him foster mother wood cleaver. At the trial, the judge heard about the abuses of his adoptive parents, and sentenced both Schwartzes to 20 years in prison simultaneously.

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

In 1993, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both 10 years old, killed a two-year-old nearby by rail in Bootle, England. They bludgeoned him to death and then left his body on the tracks, as if he had been hit by a passing train, hoping to mislead investigators as to the cause of his death. CCTV footage of their abduction of a boy from a local shopping center led to their capture and they became England's youngest convicted murderers in the 20th century.

Based on materials from www.newsforants.com

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Michael Carneal

A film was made about this many years later.

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Eric Smith

Killed for revenge

In 1993, 14-year-old Eric Smith was driving to summer camp on a bicycle and noticed a four-year-old boy named Derick Roby left unattended. Eric lured the boy into the nearby forest, where he began to strangle the child, and then dealt a fatal blow to the head with a large stone. Smith later claimed that the murder was his response to bullying from his classmates and family.

Mary Bell

Grew up and got better

In 1968, 11-year-old Mary Bell strangled two toddlers for the “pleasure of killing.” She is also known for her habit of carving the letter “M” into the chests of her victims. Now Mary Bell - loving grandmother their grandchildren. WITH new personality she is hiding from people who are still trying to find her for revenge.

Graham Young

"Tea Poisoner"

In 1962, 15-year-old Graham Young poisoned five family members and classmates. He was later sent to an asylum for 9 years and ended up poisoning 70 more people. After the court recognized him as the “Tea Poisoner,” the young man went to prison, where he died of a heart attack.

Edmund Kemper

“I just wanted to feel what it was like to kill my grandparents.”

In 1964, 15-year-old Edmund Kemper shot his grandparents in the head. The teenager explained his action very simply: “I wanted to know how you feel when you kill your own grandmother. I had to kill my grandfather because he would be angry if he found his murdered grandmother.” For the crime he committed, he received less than five years in prison. Upon his release, he killed 8 more women, including his own mother.