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Top 10 Young Killers
Mirian Calin
May 14, 2011
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 10 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.
10
Eric Smith
January 22, 1980
“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.
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9
Joshua Phillips
March 17, 1984
“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.
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2. Childhood
• She was sexually abused as a teenager
• Pregnant at 14 claiming her brother as the father
• Raised by her grandparents – both abusive “parents”
• Ran away and became a prostitute
• Possibly could have become a murderer due to her father being a child
molester.
3. Adult Life
• Spent most of it being a prostitute • Spent his $10,000 life insurance
on a fancy car that she wrecked
• Sent to jail in May 1974 for later.
disorderly conduct, drunk driving, • In 1986 she met Tyria Moore at a
and firing a weapon from a vehicle gay bar and that relationship
lasted for 4 years.
• hitchhiking to Florida she met a
man, 69-year-old Lewis Fell, and
fell in love. Married in 1976.
Divorced soon after due to a
restraining order against Wuornos
after she hit him with his own
cane.
4. She stated that all the victims
had either raped or tried to
rape her and she killed them
in self-defense.
Motives
5. She would usually use a gun to shoot her
victims with a small-caliber weapon
6. Characteristics of the victims
•Older men
•From the Florida area
•Some were truck drivers
7. Police got calls from people saying that
Wuornos and Moore drove a car away
from an accident scene. They also found
some of the victims’ belongings in
pawnshops and they retrieved
fingerprints. And the fact that Wuornos
already had a criminal record it was easy
8. Charged With
On January 14 she went to trial for the death
of Richard Mallory. During this trial
psychiatrists said that she was mentally
unstable. She then pleaded guilty for all the
other murders. And was sentenced to death.
9. Before Death
Final Words Final Meal
• "I'd just like to say I'm • A cup of coffee
sailing with the rock,
and I'll be back like
Independence Day,
with Jesus June 6. Like
the movie, big mother
ship and all, I'll be
back."
11. Monsters Or Victims
• Some killers would disguise
themselves as other people; they
also would blend in with the
“regular people” They would act
differently to gain the trust of
people.
12. Scene of the Crime
Organized Disorganized
• 1. Planned Offense. • 1. Body left at scene.
• 2. Transports Body. • 2. Known Location.
• 3. Body Hidden. • 3. Crime Scene Sloppy.
• 4. Restraints used. • 4. Sexual assaults after
• 5. Missing weapons / death
evidence
13. Scene of the Crime cont.
Mixed Atypical
• Shows characteristics of • Can’t be classified as any
both organized and of these different crime
disorganized. scenes.
• Could have been
interrupted during the
crime.
14. Surprising Information
•The most surprising information I
found was that there are different
types of crime scenes. I also found out
that murderers are harder to spot then
I thought they would be.