#7 - Doris Spann Argoe
The police in Charleston County, South Carolina were dispatched to a home on the Isle of Palms
on March the 21st of 2015 after receiving reports of a shooting on the property.
Emergency responders arrived at the scene at approximately 4:15 pm, at which point they
reportedly came upon a victim, later identified as 53-year-old Jonathan Arden Argoe, suffering from
an apparent gunshot wound. He was transported to Medical University Hospital in Charleston,
where he was ultimately pronounced dead. When approached for comment by local news outlets,
neighbors revealed that the victim’s wife, 44-year-old Doris Spann Argoe,
had been taken from the home in handcuffs shortly after the police’s arrival. It was subsequently
reported that the woman had been booked at the Al Cannon Detention Center on murder charges
in connection to her husband’s death. Following an official investigation into the matter,
it was determined that, during a heated argument at the couple’s home, Argoe had armed herself
with a handgun, which she then used to fire the fatal round into her spouse of more than a decade.
Sometime after the shooting, Argoe allegedly cut herself with a knife in order to make it appear as
though she’d been attacked by the victim first and had thus killed him in self-defense. Investigators
quickly rejected this version of the events, however, and, in June of 2016, Argoe pleaded
guilty to voluntary manslaughter, resulting in a consequent prison term of at least 15 years.
#6 - Terry Duane Turner
Texas man Terry Duane Turner contacted the police in the early morning hours of October the 11th
of 2021 and chillingly stated, “I just killed a guy”. As was later detailed in subsequent reports,
the 65-year-old Martindale resident had awoken in the middle of the night to use the bathroom,
at which point he saw “an unknown vehicle with its headlights off” parked next to his pickup
truck in the driveway. Turner told the police that he subsequently retrieved his firearm from
the bedroom and ran outside to confront the trespasser. When he emerged from his house,
he reportedly watched as the driver of the vehicle activated its headlights and
“rapidly backed out of the driveway”. Turner then gave chase, striking the car’s front driver's
side window with the butt of his handgun before firing a fatal round at the driver,
later identified as 31-year-old Adil Dghoughi. In the wake of the incident,
it emerged that Turner had told investigators that he’d fired his gun in self-defense
after Dghoughi had brandished a weapon of his own. According to the resulting arrest report, however,
the victim didn’t have a gun in his possession, and Turner was consequently charged with felony
murder in connection to the shooting. During the course of the ensuing police investigation,
it was determined that, on the night in question, Dghoughi had been driving back to his girlfriend’s
house in Maxwell after visiting his cousin in San Antonio. Detectives theorize that the man
had gotten lost in Martindale and had pulled into Turner’s driveway to look up directions.
In February of 2022, a Caldwell County grand jury returned an indictment on a
charge of first-degree murder for Turner, who reiterated his unfounded claims of self-defense.
#5 - Dayane Cristina Rodrigues Machado
On June the 7th of 2021, police were called to a home in the Brazilian city of Sao Goncalo,
where they discovered the “lifeless, naked, and mutilated” body of a male victim. It was
later reported that the man had been murdered by his wife, Dayane Cristina
Rodrigues Machado, in the early hours of the morning. After the victim was dead, Machado
allegedly cut off his male reproductive organ and cooked it in soybean oil in a frying pan.
The police seized a kitchen knife from the home, which they believed to have been used to both
fatally stab and dismember the victim. Machado was arrested on charges of murder
and corpse desecration, but maintained that she’d killed her husband in self-defense.
She claimed that the man had gotten upset over the fact that their relationship was coming to an end
and had subsequently threatened her with harm, prompting her to respond with lethal force.
According to relatives of the couple, they’d been known to get into extremely heated
arguments during the course of their romantic involvement, and Machado had even reported her
husband to the police on one occasion. As of the latest updates on the case, Brazilian police’s
investigation was still ongoing. However, it was reported that the authorities had
largely dismissed Machado’s contention that she’d acted in self-defense during the fatal incident.
#4 - Michael Murray
On the night of August the 3rd of 2014, Connor Morris, a member of the Head Hunters motorcycle
club, was killed during a street fight in the English village of West Auckland. According
to subsequent reports, 33-year-old Michael Murray had witnessed Morris brutally beating
his younger brother, Stanley. The altercation was reportedly precipitated by a disagreement
involving another member of Murray’s friends group, who’d taken offense to the fact that
Morris had refused to shake his hand. As Stanley was getting “beaten to a pulp”,
Murray shouted, “Leave my brother alone!” before grabbing a sickle that he’d used to cut his lawn
earlier in the day. He approached Morris and “directed a blow so the blade of the sickle
entered the man's head with enough force to break the skull”, as was later detailed by
Crown prosecutors. 26-year-old Morris was killed instantly, and Murray was then taken into police
custody on murder charges. During his interviews with the police and his subsequent criminal trial,
Murray vehemently maintained that his fatal strike on Morris had been performed in defense of his
brother, whose life he believed to have been in jeopardy. Nevertheless, in September of 2015,
Murray was convicted of the murder and consequently sentenced to life imprisonment
with the possibility of parole after 10 years. Murray later appealed his conviction, contending
that media interest in Morris' death had led to an unfair trial. Justices Rhys Harrison, Denis
Clifford, and Brendan Brown ultimately dismissed the appeal, ruling that there had been precautions
put in place during the case’s legal proceedings “to avoid bias on the part of the jury”.
#3 - Justin Dumphrey
During the late evening hours of January the 14th of 2018, Canadian man Justin Dumphrey fatally
stabbed his girlfriend, Holly Hamilton, 17 times inside his Ontario apartment. Shortly thereafter,
the woman was reported missing, and an extensive search effort was set into motion by local
authorities. A few days later, her body was found in the trunk of her car at a parking garage in the
city of Hamilton. The following day, Dumphrey was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in
connection to Hamilton’s death. In December of 2021, the 34-year-old man took the stand
during the case’s legal proceedings and testified that he’d acted in self-defense on the night in
question. He claimed that his girlfriend had arrived at his apartment with a strange man,
who’d brandished a knife when asked to leave. Dumphrey described a chaotic struggle between
him and the alleged assailant, which Hamilton had ultimately joined. The supposed altercation
culminated with Hamilton being stabbed, according to the defendant’s account. Dumphrey also stated
that he’d then discarded her body and cleaned up the bloody scene because he was afraid that their
daughter would awake to find the aftermath of the grisly brawl. Dumphrey’s testimony,
which didn’t align with evidence found at the crime scene, was roundly rejected by the jury,
which ultimately found him guilty of murder. In April of 2022,
he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 18 years.
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comments section below. #2 - Molly Martens
North Carolina man Jason Corbett was found battered to death inside his home in Winston Salem
on August the 2nd of 2015. The victim’s wife, Molly Martens, claimed that she and her father
Thomas, a retired FBI agent, had killed him in an act of self-defense during what she described as a
“life-and-death struggle”. According to Martens’ account of the deadly incident, Corbett had been
the one to initiate the altercation. Martens and her father proceeded to beat him with
a paving brick and a baseball bat after he’d allegedly begun strangling her. Despite their
self-defense claims, Martens and her father were eventually taken into police custody on suspicion
of committing Corbett’s murder. They pleaded not guilty and also reportedly filed a motion to have
their ensuing criminal trial moved out of Davidson County, which was ultimately denied. Following a
5-week trial, they were both found guilty of second-degree murder and each consequently
sentenced to 20 to 25 years in prison. In 2020, however, the North Carolina Court of Appeals
overturned their convictions, citing supposed shortcomings on the part of Judge David Lee, who’d
presided over the trial. Their release, which was met with outrage from the general public,
was relatively short-lived, as it was reported in May of 2022 that Martens and her father would be
tried again for Corbett’s murder. Although, as of recent updates, a date for the retrial hadn’t been
officially set, court officials indicated that it would likely be held in late fall of 2022.
#1 - Linda Doyle
At around 10 pm on July the 30th of 2019, Alabama woman Linda Doyle called
9-1-1 to report that she and her husband had gotten into a violent altercation
at their Foley residence. When officers arrived at the scene a short time later, they found both
Linda and her husband, James, sprawled across the floor with what appeared to be critical injuries.
Paramedics ultimately pronounced James, who’d reportedly suffered a gunshot wound,
dead at the scene, while Linda was airlifted to University Hospital in Foley. There, she
received treatment for the myriad of stab wounds she’d sustained to the stomach and groin area. In
her subsequent interviews with investigators, Linda maintained that she’d shot her husband
in self-defense after he’d attacked her with a butcher knife while she slept. According to
her testimony, the man’s assault of her that night had been the most recent in a long line of spousal
abuse incidents perpetrated over the course of many years. However, following a thorough police
investigation, it was concluded that Linda’s stab wounds had actually been self-inflicted.
The woman had allegedly staged the crime scene to support her self-defense claims, when, in reality,
she’d gunned down her 71-year-old husband in cold blood. Linda had even, at one point, attempted to
solicit the services of a hitman to kill James, but had eventually opted to perform the murderous
deed herself. During her criminal trial at Baldwin County court, Linda’s self-defense
story was rejected by the jury, who ultimately convicted her of murdering her husband. The
67-year-old woman was consequently sentenced to 99 years behind bars at Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka.
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