#7 - Hailey Cluster In a video posted to TikTok, in November of 2021,
an Arizona woman revealed how she’d learned that her husband of six years had fathered
her best friend’s child. The mother-of-four, who was referenced under the pseudonym “Hailey
Cluster” by many media outlets, made the shocking discovery after noticing a distinct birthmark
on the baby’s neck. As told in her video, Cluster had been asked to attend the delivery by her best
friend and accepted the invitation. She drove the pregnant woman to the hospital and wore the
wristband traditionally given to the fathers of the newborns. Cluster even claimed to have
given the child her first bath. It wasn’t until a few days later that the woman uncovered that
it was her own husband who’d helped conceive her best friend’s baby. Cluster shared in her TikTok
soliloquy that she’d noticed an odd protuberance on the child’s neck while she was changing
her. The woman immediately recognized it as a hereditary birthmark shared by both her husband
and her oldest son. Her best friend admitted to sleeping with her husband upon being confronted
with Cluster’s revelation. The heartbroken woman reportedly forgave her friend and planned
to continue their longstanding friendship. She ultimately filed for divorce from her husband,
who’d allegedly cheated on her with at least 30 women over the course of their six-year marriage.
#6 - Lloyda Renita Thomas and Angelique Williams On May the 21st of 2015, a woman was fatally
stabbed by her best friend during a dispute that had reportedly been centered on where they were
to be seated in a taxicab. The two individuals involved were aspiring model and mother-of-one
Lloyda Renita Thomas and her best friend of five years, Angelique Williams. The women,
who were described as “inseparable” by those familiar with their friendship,
shared an apartment in Georgetown, Guyana. Thomas and Williams had travelled with some
other acquaintances to the Aracari Resort, in West Demerara. On the night of the deadly altercation,
the group had left the resort and was searching for a taxi to drive them home. Once a cab was
hailed, Thomas and Williams allegedly got in a heated argument regarding the specific seating
arrangement inside the vehicle. Williams, who would later reveal to investigators that she was
intoxicated when the altercation occurred, reached for a broken bottle and stabbed Thomas in the head
and abdomen at least 10 times. By the time that the taxi driver was able to transport the wounded
woman to West Demerara Regional Hospital, she’d already succumbed to her injuries. In April of
2017, Williams pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter and was ultimately sentenced
to 8 years behind bars. She was granted parole after completing a third of her prison term.
#5 - Tyler Ricks and Duane White An 18-year-old boy from Norfolk, Virginia,
faced criminal charges following a tragic accident that resulted in the death of his best friend,
on January the 4th of 2016. Local police were dispatched to the home of Tyler Ricks,
at 8:12 pm, after being alerted to reports of shots fired. Upon arriving at the scene,
officers discovered that Duane White, aged 15, had suffered a critical gunshot wound. The victim was
quickly taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where he ultimately passed away. In the ensuing
investigation, detectives learned that the fatal bullet had been discharged accidentally by Ricks,
who’d reportedly been a very close friend of White’s. As Ricks recounted during his interviews
with the police, the gun involved belonged to his brother, who worked as a security guard.
Ricks was allegedly attempting to remove the bullets from the weapon when he inadvertently
moved the slide and fired a round into his friend, moments after he’d walked into the room.
The bullet pierced White’s right arm before penetrating his chest, hitting his heart
and lungs. The medical examiner in charge of the autopsy determined the victim’s death to have been
an accident but, in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Ricks was formally charged with
second-degree murder. The charge was later reduced to involuntary manslaughter and a
Norfolk judge ultimately handed down a suspended one-year sentence, sparing Ricks any jail time.
#4 - Lauren Walsh and Kelsey Gielinck A 22-year-old woman was accused of stabbing
her best friend with a kitchen knife during a seemingly random outburst, on April the 14th
of 2021. Lauren Walsh, a resident of Liverpool, England, had met the victim, Kelsey Gielinck,
at the nursery where the two women worked. Gielinck at one point described Walsh as her
“sister”, and claimed the two were practically “joined at the hip”. The deadly incident took
place at Gielinck’s residence, in Old Swan, after the young woman had reported her debit
card as stolen to the authorities. What the mother-of-one didn’t know was Walsh herself had
swiped the card and used it to spend nearly $200. While the two women were chatting in the kitchen,
Walsh allegedly grabbed hold of a knife. She subsequently confronted Gielinck, claiming she’d
been responsible for the death of her grandmother, who was actually still alive at the time. Walsh
then relentlessly stabbed the homeowner at least 17 times. Gielinck’s partner, Wesley Pemberton,
attempted to intervene but Walsh stabbed him three times as well. The assailant then fled
the scene barefoot and convinced a van driver that she was the one to have been attacked.
While the motorist was driving her to the police station, Walsh abruptly jumped out of the vehicle,
after announcing she was going to take her own life. She was later remanded into custody and
admitted to investigators that she’d stabbed the victims, both of whom survived the brutal and
unexpected attack. In December of 2021, Walsh was found guilty on two counts of attempted murder.
#3 - Mary Konye and Naomi Oni A London woman was jailed for
throwing sulphuric acid in her childhood friend’s face, on December the 30th of 2012. The suspect,
21-year-old Mary Konye, had reportedly grown obsessed with and jealous of her best friend,
Naomi Oni, also aged 21. Konye was said to have begun copying Oni’s clothes and appearance.
She even attempted to steal the latter’s boyfriend, which led to a falling out between
the longtime friends, in April of 2011. On the night of the horrific assault,
Konye disguised herself in a headscarf and stalked Oni as she left the East London Victoria’s Secret
store where she worked. Oni was approaching her house in Dagenham, Essex, when Konye attacked her,
splashing concentrated sulphuric acid all over her body. The victim’s face was consequently
disfigured, her hair and eyelashes were dissolved, and her tongue was burned. Konye rapidly fled the
scene and her former BFF was unable to identify her. In the incident’s aftermath, Oni described
what had happened to Konye, who, prior to being revealed as the attacker, deceptively offered her
sympathies in response. The victim required extensive skin grafts to repair the damage
caused by the acid and she ultimately suffered permanent scars to her leg, chest, arms, and
stomach. Konye was sentenced to 12 years behind bars as a consequence of the premeditated attack.
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#2 - Cheyenne Wright and Luis Villot A Brooklyn woman was found guilty of
fatally shooting her best friend, on June the 15th of 2016. The incident was contextualized by
a heated argument within a group of women in the courtyard of the Farragut Houses.
According to the Brooklyn District Attorney, 29-year-old Cheyenne Wright left the scene during
the dispute. She later returned with a handgun and fired two rounds in the direction of a crowd
that included several children. As investigators gathered from eyewitness testimony, the victim,
29-year-old Luis Villot, had approached the suspect in an attempt to calm her down,
as his own children had been among those in the line of fire. Wright began to walk away before she
suddenly turned around and fired a third bullet. The projectile hit Villot, whom she’d known since
the two were young kids, directly in the forehead. The victim was declared brain dead in the
immediate aftermath and he eventually passed away at New York Methodist Hospital, three days later.
Wright gave the murder weapon to her mother as she’d initially made the decision to try
and flee from justice. On June the 21st, however, she willingly gave herself up to the authorities.
Wright was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree reckless endangerment
and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. During her appearance in court,
Wright attempted to convey her remorse over the tragic incident that had taken the life
of her best friend, noting that Villot had been “like a brother” to her. In February of 2018,
she was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. #1 - Anel Baez and Erandy Gutierrez
A teenage girl carried out the vicious murder of her best friend, in March of 2014, after making
death threats against the victim on social media. The two friends involved in the tragic incident
were 16-year-olds Anel Baez and Erandy Gutierrez, both of whom lived in the city of Guamúchil,
in western Mexico. The pair reportedly fell out after Baez had uploaded revealing photographs
of them to her Facebook profile. According to Mexican news outlets, Gutierrez then began posting
threatening messages on Twitter, warning her former best friend that she’d be “lucky to survive
until the end of the year”. On March the 19th of 2014, Baez invited Gutierrez to her
home in an attempt to reconcile with the girl she’d previously referred to as her “sister”.
Upon arriving at the residence, Gutierrez requested to use the restroom. It was only
meant to be a distraction as the teen actually went to Baez’s kitchen to grab a knife, which
she then used to stab her unsuspecting victim a total of 65 times. Gutierrez then fled the scene,
leaving Baez to die in a pool of her own blood. She attempted to cover her tracks by participating
in the grieving process along with the rest of Baez’s friends and loved ones. She was ultimately
tracked down by investigators and arrested while she was attending her victim’s funeral.
In accordance with Mexican law, due to her age, Gutierrez was unable to be charged as an
adult. She was therefore tried as a minor and sentenced to seven years in prison. In September
of 2017, she was granted an early release, having only served three years of her term.
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