#6 - Mathew Borges
Massachusetts high schooler Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino was officially reported missing
to Lawrence authorities in November of 2016. The night before the teen disappeared, surveillance
footage had captured him and his Lawrence High School classmate Mathew Borges walking down to
the Merrimack River, where they allegedly went to smoke marijuana. Viloria-Paulino remained missing
until a few weeks later, when a dog-walker came upon his headless body by the riverbank. During
the course of the ensuing homicide investigation, local police began to piece together that Borges,
then only 15-years-old, had not only been the last person to see the victim alive, but also possessed
the clearest motive for committing the killing. He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder,
and in court, prosecutors revealed text messages in which the young man had vowed to “kill anyone
who got in the way of what he wanted”. Leading up to the gruesome murder, Borges had allegedly begun
to suspect his girlfriend of cheating on him with Viloria-Paulino. The prosecution proposed that
the teen had grown so jealous as a result, that he’d lured his friend to the river that night
and fatally stabbed him before removing his head and hands from the rest of his body. The murder
trial culminated with Borges receiving a verdict of guilty on all counts levied against him. He was
consequently sentenced to life imprisonment, with the possibility of being paroled after 30 years.
#5 -
Isaac Argro
20-year-old health care worker Azsia Johnson agreed to meet with her abusive ex-boyfriend,
Isaac Argro, on June the 29th of 2022. The man had reportedly expressed a desire to get back
into Johnson’s good graces when the meet-up was scheduled. While walking near Lexington
Avenue and East 95th Street in Manhattan, pushing her 3-month-old baby in a stroller,
Johnson was suddenly ambushed by a masked assailant, who fatally shot her at point-blank
range. Investigators quickly identified Argro as the prime suspect in his ex’s killing. The
23-year-old man had allegedly called the victim’s family following the shooting, demanding to know
where his estranged child was and threatening further violence against the Johnsons. Argro,
who was described as a “wannabe gang member” who’d been given the nickname “Angry Bird” by
his ex-girlfriend’s relatives, was remanded into custody without bail. He faced charges
of second-degree murder and second-degree weapons possession. Johnson’s grieving mother placed some
of the blame for her daughter’s death on the NYPD, whom she accused of ignoring her previous abuse
and stalking complaints made against Argro. The latter had even allegedly threatened to kill his
ex’s mother at one point, which a domestic abuse counselor had dismissed as “freedom of speech”.
#4 - Masao Kaanga
On May the 18th of 2022, Utah police were asked to perform a welfare check on a teenage couple,
who were eventually located in a vehicle at Hobble Creek Park in Springville. Officers
then discovered that 17-year-old Lily Conroy, and her boyfriend, Masao Kaanga, had each suffered
apparent gunshot wounds to their heads. While the latter was pronounced dead at the scene,
Conroy was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where she was placed on life support. She was kept alive
for 3 days in an attempt to preserve her organs, but ultimately passed away from her injuries,
on May the 21st. In the aftermath, it emerged that Conroy and Kaanga had broken up the night
before their deaths. The young man, who was 19 at the time, allegedly issued some sort of
threat against his ex-girlfriend, although specific details regarding the nature of
that threat weren’t immediately disclosed. The ill-fated pair had reportedly grown up
together on the same street in Springville, and had both attended the city’s public high school,
at which Conroy had been wrapping up her Junior year before her murder.
#3 - Kyle Pickles
A teenager from South Yorkshire, England developed a dangerous fixation on a girl
during the summer of 2021. Court records described how 17-year-old Kyle Pickles became
so obsessed with his unidentified crush, that he’d begun attacking any other boy with whom
she associated herself. For weeks, Pickles stalked the girl’s interactions on social media, and even
used the location feature on Snapchat to track her movements and whereabouts. On one occasion,
a 16-year-old boy she was with was beaten to the ground by Pickles, who proceeded to “kick his head
like a football”. The young man had even broken into the girl’s house to attack her father with
a box cutter. The unsettling situation reached its tragic climax on August the 8th of 2021.
Pickles used Snapchat to track the girl down, and upon arriving at her location, attacked teenager
Loui Phillips for his “perceived relationship” with her. The victim was knifed in the chest,
but remained in stable enough condition to give a full account of the incident to the police while
being taken to the hospital. Phillips underwent 2 rounds of emergency surgery, but ultimately passed
away from his injuries 4 days later. Pickles was taken into police custody on a charge of murder,
to which he pleaded guilty in October of 2021. During a hearing at Doncaster Crown
Court two months later, the young man was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum
term of 17 years. #2 - Tanner Flores
Colorado teen Ashley Doolittle was reported missing by her mother in June of 2016 after her
car was found abandoned near Lon Hagler Reservoir in Larimer County. Around that same time,
Doolittle’s ex-boyfriend, Tanner Flores, whom she’d just recently broken up with,
had vanished as well, along with one of his father’s handguns. Investigators subsequently
learned that the young man had likely traveled to Collbran, a community on Colorado's Western Slope,
where his late grandfather had owned an unoccupied residence. A SWAT team was sent to the property,
where they found Flores, whom they observed tossing a potentially bloodied rag in a
field north of the house. The following morning, the teen was taken into custody,
whereupon he allegedly admitted to gunning down Doolittle after becoming distraught over
her decision to end their relationship. The resulting police report detailed how Flores
shot the young woman twice in the head before meticulously cleaning her corpse, which he then
hid in the back of his truck, driving it five hours away to his grandfather’s home. In 2017,
it was reported that Doolittle would be posthumously crowned as Boulder County
Fair’s rodeo queen. Flores, on the other hand, was convicted of his ex’s kidnapping and murder. He
was consequently locked away for the remainder of his life, with no possibility of parole.
#1 - Cynthia Alvarez and Giovanni Gallardo
California teen Cynthia Alvarez confided in her boyfriend, Giovanni Gallardo, that she’d been
abused by her stepfather as a young girl. At the time of the incident, she’d reportedly brought
the allegations to local police, but when pressed, she’d rescinded them, at the behest of her mother.
Gallardo already had a tumultuous relationship with his high school girlfriend’s family,
but learning of the alleged abuse prompted him to take drastic measures against them. He and Alvarez
reportedly began plotting to murder the latter’s parents in the fall of 2011. They ultimately set
their plan into motion on October the 12th. Gallardo arrived at his girlfriend’s mobile
home with a “murder kit” that included a baseball bat, a mask, and rubbing alcohol. While Alvarez’s
mother was preparing dinner, the teen lovers communicated about their plan of action via hand
gestures and handwritten notes. At one point, Alvarez wrote “I’m too scared. I cannot do it”.
Gallardo held no such reservations, and while his girlfriend waited outside, he fatally strangled
her mother. The couple dragged the victim’s body into the bedroom and bound her with tape, then
proceeded to watch TV while waiting for Alvarez’s stepfather to arrive. Once he did, Gallardo struck
him twice over the head with the baseball bat. The man fought back, at which point Alvarez picked
up the bat and swung at him herself, allowing her boyfriend to retrieve a knife. After stabbing the
victim to death, Gallardo and Alvarez took his body to a vacant lot in Long Beach, where they
buried it in a shallow grave. The decomposing body of Alvarez’s mother remained in the back of her
Jeep while the teens bought glow sticks and other materials for an upcoming Halloween Party. They
ultimately buried the woman’s corpse in a vacant lot in Norwalk, where it was found by a jogger a
few days later. Gallardo and Alvarez were quickly identified as the perpetrators of the double
homicide, which they admitted responsibility for almost instantly. They were charged as adults,
consequently facing two counts of murder with special circumstances. Following their trials, the
teens were both sentenced to life in prison. While Gallardo’s punishment stipulated that he had no
chance of parole, Alvarez was granted eligibility for conditional release after serving 51 years.
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