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The Silent Victim: Jori Lirette
Emily G. Thompson • 31st August 2024
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In December of 2014, 39-year-old Angela Wrightson was attacked in her home in Hartlepool, England. She was a vulnerable woman who lived alone. The world would recoil in horror when two teenage girls were arrested in connection. They would be more disturbed to learn they had documented the attack on Snapchat.
In 1985, 14-year-old Cinnamon Brown was convicted of killing her step-mother. Years later, however, she would confess that it had been in fact her father who ordered her to carry out the murder.
In 2016, body parts began washing up on a beach in Fiji, including a decapitated head. The remains would belong to Russian couple, Yuri Shipulin & Nataliya Gerasimov. The couple had vanished weeks earlier & their murders remain unsolved today.
In May of 2015, a disturbing Facebook appeared on Randy Janzen's page. He wrote that he had murdered his wife, their daughter and his sister, claiming he had done so because his daughter had been suffering from migraines.
In April of 2001, Misty Leverett made a decision that she would regret for the rest of her life. She left her two young children home alone with Jesse Joe Hernandez, a registered sex offender.
In February of 2013, New Yorkers were horrified to discover the dismembered remains of a woman scattered in garbage bags across multiple locations in the Bronx. The first set of remains were discovered by a dog walker whose dog was attracted to the scent of “meat” emanating from one of the bags. When the dog’s owner went to investigate, he came across the dismembered remains...
In 2011, six-week-old Mirabelle Thao-Lo was discovered inside her mother's home, suffering from third-degree burns and deep tissue burns that were consistent with being placed inside a microwave.
On the 30th of December, 2016, 12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis from Cedartown, Georgia, hanged herself in her garden. The tormented young girl live streamed the heart-breaking event. After the footage went viral, police were powerless to take it down.
In 1981, police in North Yorkshire, England, were called by a well-spoken man who informed them where to find a woman's body. Four decades later and the woman's identity still remains a mystery.
In June of 2004, a teacher at an elementary school in Sasebo, Japan, would be horrified to discover a student bleeding to death in the classroom. Even more haunting, she had been killed by another classmate.
It was the 10th of July, 2001, when police in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, received a very panicked phone call from 20-year-old Sef Gonzales. He exclaimed that he had been returning home from a night out with a friend when he uncovered a particularly gruesome scene. As he entered the home, he saw the words: “Fuck off Asians KKK” painted on a wall. This was only an indication of the horrors that would be found inside.
In 1996, the body of a baby girl was discovered wrapped in a blanket and sweater in Palm Beach County, Florida. Despite an exhaustive investigation, the identity of the baby girl, as well as the identity of her killer, still remains a mystery.