Number 8 Gerald Peavy
In late January of 2021, Norez Hargrove was a guest in the home of 48-year-old Gerald Peavy,
in the Laurel Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas. At around 11:30 pm, as Hargrove was roaming alone
through the house, he found a handgun in the living room. He pulled the trigger, assuming the
weapon wasn’t loaded, and it discharged. A bullet went through the wall and into the master bedroom,
where Peavy was relaxing with his wife. The projectile cut through the TV and then
fatally struck Peavy. His wife was distraught but physically unharmed in the incident. Initially,
the family thought they’d been targeted in a drive-by and called 911. Hargrove explained
the situation to the responding officers who subsequently took him into custody. As reported
by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, manslaughter charges were pending against him.
Number 7 Sirin Murad In June of 2022, London beautician Sirin Murad was
vacationing in Sunny Beach, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast. At some point during her holiday, she
fell asleep by the pool but had forgotten to put on sunscreen. Her face was red and slightly sore
when she woke up but the 25-year-old didn’t think much of it and continued relaxing. The following
day, however, she was in pain and the skin on her forehead got so tight that it looked like it was
made out of plastic. Murad later shared selfies on social media, to which a number of users reacted
by pointing out that, when she furrowed her eyebrows, the young woman resembled a Klingon,
the fictional alien race from the Star Trek universe. Murad began experiencing relief when her
burnt forehead eventually started peeling, leaving patches of pink and tanned skin. By August,
she’d fully recovered but shared her story as a warning for Internet users to always wear
sunscreen. Unprotected exposure to ultraviolet B rays can result in damage to skin cell DNA,
thus causing defects and mutations that, among other afflictions, can lead to skin cancer.
Number 6 Emily Weinman On May the 26th of 2018,
two seasonal police officers were involved in a physical altercation with 20-year-old Emily
Weinman as she was visiting a beach in Wildwood, New Jersey. Weinman had her 18-month-old daughter
with her at the time and was also accompanied by her boyfriend and a female friend. As shown in
subsequently-released bodycam footage, she was approached by Thomas Cannon and Robert Jordan,
class II officers typically hired by Jersey Shore towns during busy summer months. They suspected
Weinman of underage drinking and asked her to take a breathalyzer test on account of an unopened
alcoholic beverage that was in her proximity. Weinman passed and maintained she hadn’t been
drinking or done anything wrong but the officers remained in the area. Tensions escalated and,
when the young mother refused to give the officers her full name, Cannon told her that she was “about
to get dropped”. Weinman was then wrestled to the ground by Cannon and Jordan, who twisted her arms,
pulled her hair and pushed her face in the sand while repeatedly telling her to stop resisting.
Weinman screamed for help from her companions and her young daughter could be heard crying
in the background. One of the officers was shown in the footage repeatedly punching Weinman in the
head with a closed fist and then placing her in a chokehold. The woman screamed “they’re choking
me!” and “I cannot breathe” but the officers persisted in their attempts to restrain her.
Footage of the incident subsequently went viral and many users were critical of what they argued
was excessive use of force on the officers’ part. Weinman was taken away for processing and
faced several charges, including two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer,
disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Cannon and Jordan had claimed that she’d attacked them
while she was seemingly inebriated. They were never charged in connection to the incident.
Weinman pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in 2019, her other charges were dropped and she was
banned from Wildwood for a year. She subsequently sued the city in federal court alleging she’d been
“brutally and senselessly assaulted” by the officers, while also accusing them of lying
and fabricating evidence against her. A settlement was reached in 2020 and Weinman received $325,000.
Number 5 Jackson Perry and Noah Palmer Two Australian men had to be rescued
after drifting out to sea on an air mattress off the coast of Mandurah, south of Perth, in early
2021. Jackson Perry and Noah Palmer pumped up an old mattress they’d found at the latter’s home,
put some beers in an icebox and went into the water. They’d planned to stay within a few
hundred feet of the shoreline, at most. Perry later told a media outlet “before we knew it,
we were out at sea”. The wind had pushed the air mattress into open water and the men kept
drifting as they couldn’t paddle against the strong current. Palmer claimed that their stress
escalated upon realizing they were low on beer. Their phones were also running out of battery but
they managed to place a call for help. The two men then faced the difficult task of staying afloat
until the arrival of rescuers as they’d started sinking due to previously-undetected holes in
the mattress. Palmer would reportedly jump off it every 10 minutes and blow it back up. By the time
that Mandurah Volunteer Rescuers reached them, the men had been adrift for several hours and had
floated more than 2 miles from shore. They emerged from the incident largely unscathed and were in
high spirits upon being found. Nevertheless, the authorities warned copy-cats that
what had concluded as a lighthearted story for Perry and Palmer could’ve easily turned deadly.
Number 4 Anna Lee Halderman
On July the 15th of 2019, a confrontation between two women occurred at Compo Beach, in Westport,
Connecticut. An unnamed New York woman had driven to the beach with her children. Upon arrival, she
noticed an older man accompanied by a woman, later identified as 28-year-old Anna Lee Halderman,
whom she’d subsequently describe in a social media post as “belligerently drunk”. About an hour into
the beach visit, Halderman removed the top of her bathing suit. The woman approached her and
asked that she cover up, explaining that she had her children with her. As the mother recounted,
both Halderman and her male companion proceeded to “speak unpleasantries” to her. As the conflict
escalated, Halderman removed her top once more as well as the bottom half of her swimsuit,
exposing her buttocks, before bending over in full view of the woman and her children.
Halderman and her companion were escorted off the beach by security. In her Facebook post,
the woman claimed that Westport authorities were “doing nothing” and accused the town of “covering
something or someone up” in connection to the incident. However, following an investigation,
a warrant was issued for Halderman’s arrest on charges of risk of injury to a minor, a felony,
and second-degree breach of peace, a misdemeanor. She turned herself in to Westport police on August
the 17th and apologized for her behavior but maintained having no recollection of what she’d
done on the day in question. For the felony charge, she faced a potential sentence of up
to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. She was released after posting her $50,000 bail.
Halderman’s arrest occurred around the same time that the Supreme Court in nearby New Hampshire
upheld the convictions of three women who’d been arrested for going topless on a Laconia beach in
2016. Heidi Lilley, Kia Sinclair and Ginger Pierro were part of the “Free the Nipple” campaign and
protested the state’s law barring women from being topless in public, arguing it was a form
of gender discrimination. Number 3 Tonya Robinson
An unnamed 31-year-old woman from Cheviot, Ohio, pulled into a parking lot of Glenmore Avenue,
in the early fall of 2018. As she parked her Jeep Cherokee, she reportedly got distracted and,
moments later, heard a neighbor yelling. As the woman had been maneuvering her SUV,
she’d accidentally run over 45-year-old Tonya Robinson, who’d been sunbathing in the parking
lot. Robinson became trapped underneath the vehicle but the driver, her neighbor and other
residents managed to pull her out. Robinson, a mother-of-three and grandmother-of-five suffered
critical crushing injuries. First responders performed CPR on her before transferring her
to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The
driver who’d run her over maintained that she hadn’t seen her lying on the ground and faced
no criminal charges in the immediate aftermath. Today’s topic was requested by Rufus Robinson3,
Ahmed Ismail and Borderline Betty. If you have any other topics you’d like to learn about subscribe
and let us know in the comments section below. Number 2 Edward Stainer
On November the 16th of 2019, David Clarke returned to his home in the town of Basingstoke,
England, to find his grandfather dead. Clarke and 93-year-old Edward Stainer,
a decorated World War II veteran, had lived together for roughly ten years. In the weeks
leading up to his demise, Stainer had had problems with the remote control of his electric armchair,
as nothing happened when he pressed the buttons. Clarke eventually got it fixed. On the day of his
death, Stainer had been relaxing in the chair when, at some point, he made the wrong move and
fell to the floor. In doing so, he inadvertently pressed a button on the remote that operated the
electric footrest. It lowered onto his head and trapped his neck. As later explained by Clarke,
the footrest was “so far between his chin and his chest you couldn't see his face”. The incident
resulted in Stainer fatally suffocating. Number 1 Vladimir Marugov
Oligarch Vladimir Marugov was nicknamed Russia’s “sausage king” and owned some of the country’s
largest meat processing plants. On November the 2nd of 2020, the 54-year-old meat mogul
was relaxing in the sauna with his partner, Sabina Gaziyeva, at his estate in Istra,
near Moscow. It was late at night when two masked men broke into the sauna and tied the couple up,
demanding cash and valuables. Gaziyeva escaped the building naked by jumping through a window,
vaulted a fence on the estate and then called the police from a neighbor’s house. When officers
arrived at the scene, they found that Marugov had been shot with a crossbow and tortured by the
intruders. He’d succumbed to massive blood loss. Law enforcement retrieved the Citroen used by
the attackers from an Istra village but, by then, they’d fled on foot into nearby woods. The two men
involved in the attack were eventually detained by the Russian Investigative Committee and identified
as Alexander Mavridi and Pavel Akhmedov. At the time of his brutal killing, Marugov was
involved in a high-profile property dispute with his ex-wife, poet Tatyana Marugova. Mavridi,
aged 50, was an associate of Tatyana’s and they were rumored to have been in a relationship,
although investigators found no evidence of it. In 2021, Mavridi escaped from an Istra detention
center but was recaptured in Moscow, following a five-week manhunt, after he was detected
by the city’s facial recognition surveillance cameras. Once he was brought back into custody,
Mavridi admitted that he’d killed Marugov in a twisted attempt to impress and win over Tatyana,
whom he had hopes of marrying. As reported by an agent of the Investigative Committee,
the poet had confided in Mavridi that she’d grown weary of arguing over property with
her ex. Mavridi claimed that he had a way to make the oligarch leave her alone and Tatyana
seemed excited by the idea. She allegedly had never fathomed he’d meant murder and wasn’t
considered a suspect by investigators. Gaziyeva passed a polygraph on TV to dispel rumors she’d
been involved in Marugov’s death. She told viewers that she found it “strange” that
Mavridi and Tatyana knew each other in a city as a large as Moscow. It was interpreted as
her implying that the woman, once her love rival, had played a more active role in Marugov’s death.
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