Number 8 Bismark Espinoza Martínez In November of 2018, Florida woman Carla Stefaniak
was visiting Costa Rica to celebrate her 36th birthday. The day before she was due to return,
on the 27th, she disappeared from the Airbnb where she’d been staying, in Escazu. She’d
messaged friends that it was “pretty sketchy” at her resort, as there was heavy rain and no power,
adding that she might ask a security guard to get her a water bottle. Stefaniak’s friends and
family raised the alarm after they’d lost contact with the woman, who’d typically
share the events of her holiday with them and on social media. Police dogs later found her body,
several hundred feet from the Villa le Mas complex, half-naked, wrapped in plastic and
partially-buried. She’d died from stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head. 32-year-old
security guard Bismark Espinoza Martínez was arrested after he’d contradicted himself in the
statements given to the police. He’d claimed to have last seen Stefaniak at around 5 am,
when he’d allegedly helped her load her luggage into a taxi heading for the airport. It was an odd
report, particularly since Stefaniak’s flight was in the afternoon. Investigators concluded
that Martínez had used his position to enter Stefaniak’s room, where he tried to abuse her
and then killed her when she fought back. The security guard, reported as an illegal immigrant
from Nicaragua, then moved the body to a different area and buried it. Martínez was ultimately
sentenced to 16 years in prison and ordered to pay Stefaniak’s family over $50,000. The
victim’s relatives were outraged by the decision as they wanted a maximum sentence of 50 years.
Number 7 Incident at Manchester Victoria Station In October of 2016, a factory worker was caught
smoking at Manchester Victoria Station, in England, and was chased by four security guards,
for an estimated nine minutes. Harrowing body cam footage would show the guards restraining and
pinning 27-year-old Jack Barnes to the ground. Pressure was applied to his neck and Barnes
said that he couldn’t breathe a total of seven times. One of the security guards was recorded
uttering “I'll tell you what…I'll just put him out”. Barnes suffered a cardiac arrest
and the restraint continued for a few minutes before anyone checked his condition. He was
taken to a hospital but never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead
several weeks later. The evidence was initially considered insufficient for manslaughter charges
but a coroner would subsequently rule his killing unlawful, prompting the launch of another inquest.
It was argued that Paul Fogarty, Brian Gartside, Matthews Sellers and Stephen Rowlands had used
excessive and unreasonable force in restraining Barnes. They never expressed any remorse for their
actions in spite of the fact that a “walk away” policy was in place and they were never allowed
to chase down Barnes in the first place. Synthetic cannabinoids were found in the victim’s system but
weren’t believed to have contributed to his death as it was mainly attributed to the violence he’d
experienced at the hands of the guards. Number 6 Stephen Michael Duxbury
In October of 2015, a security guard at an apartment complex in Orlando, Florida,
was arrested for the first-degree murder and assault of a resident. 27-year-old Sasha
Samsudean had returned to her Uptown Place home, following a night of drinking with friends. CCTV
cameras captured her, at around 1:45 am, in the company of 33-year-old Stephen Michael Duxbury,
the building’s only security guard. According to police documents, the footage showed her
bumping into walls, apparently intoxicated. The following day, officers performed a welfare check,
after Samsudean’s worried friends had failed to reach her. The police found her lifeless body
curled up in a blanket on her bed. The young woman had been strangled to death, her blouse was ripped
apart and there was a condom wrapper nearby. Her underwear and purse were missing. In the
aftermath, Duxbury was questioned by the police but said he’d never been to her apartment and had
merely tried to help Samsudean find her keys. He gave the officers a story about a mystery man whom
he’d allegedly seen pursuing her but the evidence against him began to pile up. The day after
Samsudean’s body was found, he had bite marks and fresh injuries on his forearms. The police picked
up Duxbury’s fingerprint from the toilet seat in Samsudean’s bathroom and footprints on the floor
of the crime scene matched shoes recovered from his home. Duxbury’s phone records showed searches
about ways of getting around the keypad lock model on her apartment door. It became evident that
instead of protecting Samsudean, as was his job, Duxbury had broken into her home, abused and then
killed her. It took a jury just four hours to find him guilty and he was sentenced to life in prison.
Number 5 Frantz Arestyl
In August of 2021, an NYU security guard was charged with attempted murder
after attacking his supervisor with a machete-like weapon. 38-year-old Frantz Arestyl and his victim,
who was only identified as a 48-year-old man, were arguing about the mandatory screening process in
effect at the university. The Daily Screener is a set of questions on a smartphone app which needed
to be completed in order to be allowed access to NYU buildings. It was only available to vaccinated
people or those with proof of a negative COVID-19 test. Arestyl had to be sent home
earlier in the week after refusing to undergo the screening process. Following the argument, which
occurred on July the 24th, at around 1 am, Arestyl repeatedly struck the victim with the large knife.
Surveillance footage showed him running for his life out of the Broome Street residence hall,
with Arestyl in pursuit. At the time, there were no students present. The victim survived but
required extensive surgery after being left with a collapsed lung and several broken ribs. Artestyl,
a past recipient of NYU's Service Award for his 15 years as a Public Safety employee, was released on
bail pending his next court appearance. Number 4 Robert Pavao
In February of 2020, a woman was killed at Timberland’s headquarters in Stratham,
New Hampshire. The attacker was identified as 20-year-old security guard Robert Pavao. In the
aftermath, he was charged with both first-degree and second-degree murder in the death of marketing
director Catherine Hepner, aged 46. The first charge stemmed from Pavao stabbing Hepner,
either before, during or after abusing her, and the second-degree charge was for him recklessly
causing her death while manifesting “extreme indifference to the value of human life”. Pavao
pled not guilty and was held without bail. A lawsuit that Hepner’s husband subsequently
initiated against Securitas, the security guard’s employer, claimed that he’d been hired negligently
and that there’d been clear red flags which weren’t addressed. They included Pavao using
marijuana and psychedelic drugs at work as well as him allegedly suffering mental breakdowns that
went unreported by his supervisor. Securitas denied responsibility but the case is ongoing.
Number 3 Clive Carter In November of 2012, in a horrific fit of rage,
security guard Clive Carter beat a medical conference delegate to death with a fire
extinguisher. Thai woman Khanokporn Satjawat was meant to attend an HIV drug therapy conference,
at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium, over a five-day period. She was booked at the Marriott and had
previously written on Facebook how excited she was to visit Scotland. 35-year-old Carter was
working security at the conference. Satjawat had reportedly complained about repeatedly
being asked to show him her conference ID pass. This enraged Carter who, by his own account,
heard the words “die, just die” in his head while arguing with Satjawat. The 6-foot-5-inch security
guard followed the pharmaceutical manager, who weighed less than a hundred pounds,
into the women’s bathroom. It was there that he repeatedly struck her with a fire extinguisher
so hard that every bone on the left side of her face and neck was broken and her skull was
shattered to pieces. Two French doctors would later find Satjawat unresponsive,
lying in a pool of her own blood. After the attack, Carter hid his blood-stained blazer
and cleaned the fire extinguisher. He then went to the staff room and calmly ate the sandwiches he’d
brought for lunch. Following his arrest, Carter claimed he had no memory of the events after their
argument and that, as a borderline personality disorder sufferer, he wasn’t responsible for his
actions. It was later revealed that he’d harbored an obsession for fire extinguishers and even had a
photo of one on his computer. Eight days before killing Satjawat, he was working security at a
Holiday Inn Express on Stockwell Street. Stephanie O’Brien, aged 24, was staying with three friends
at the hotel. Carter knocked on their door, with the fire extinguisher, claiming he was there to
put out a fire. O’Brien, fortunately, managed to close and lock the door on him. For the brutal
killing of Satjawat, Carter was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 20 years served.
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Number 2 Christopher Emmons
In June of 2018, on the South Side of Chicago, a liquor store security guard fatally injured a
suspected shoplifter. While reviewing surveillance footage, 57-year-old Christopher Emmons
noticed a man stealing a bottle from the store. He would later be identified as 33-year-old
Herbert Lemon. The next time that he visited the store, Emmons put on a pair of gloves and locked
the door. As Lemon approached the counter, with a beer bottle, Emmons punched him in the face twice,
without warning. The security cameras, which also had audio capabilities, recorded no verbal
exchange between the men. Emmons dragged Lemon outside of the cameras’ view and continued to beat
him. He then helped him to his feet only to strike him a few more times. When officers arrived at the
scene, Lemon claimed that he didn’t want to press charges. A few hours later, his girlfriend found
him unresponsive at his home. He was rushed to the hospital with brain hemorrhage and underwent
emergency surgery. After the operation, doctors observed no sing of brain activity and Lemon was
pulled off life support. The ruling of the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office was
homicide from the multiple blows to the head that he’d sustained. Emmons was charged with murder.
It wasn’t the first charge of its kind that he’d faced. Prior to being hired as a security guard,
he’d spent 23 years in prison for murder and his record also featured convictions for unlawful use
of a weapon as well as arson. Number 1 Steve Bouquet
From October of 2018 to June of 2019 shopping center security guard Steve Bouquet stabbed at
least sixteen pet cats in the seaside resort city of Brighton, England. The affected owners
were left heartbroken upon finding their beloved pets bleeding in the street. Bouquet,
an ex-Navy gunner in his early 50s, killed nine of the felines and maimed seven others
during his campaign of cruelty, although it’s believed he may have been responsible
for many other attacks. The police spent months searching for the faceless and nameless killer
who’d terrorized Brighton residents, leaving them fearful for the safety of their pets.
The break in the case came from footage captured by a CCTV camera, which a homeowner had set up
to monitor the alleyway outside his house. The footage showed Bouquet stopping to pet Hendrix,
a nine-month-old black kitten belonging to the homeowner. Bouquet pulled something from his
rucksack and made sudden jerks forward, causing Hendrix to flee. The pet later died from his
injuries. After the police arrested the security guard, they tied him to other crimes based on
cellphone location data. Additionally, photos of the cats were found on his
phone and feline DNA was discovered on the blade of a knife in his home. In court,
Bouquet claimed that he wasn’t a threat to animals as owners expressed the pain they’d
felt from losing their pets or seeing them suffer. No reason was provided for what one prosecutor
dubbed an “unusual and extremely traumatic offence”. Bouquet, dubbed the Brighton Cat Killer,
was sentenced to over five years in jail. Thanks for watching! For a month,
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