Number 11 Shaylyn Moran
On New Year’s Day 2020, shortly after announcing their engagement on social media, 24-year-old Jack
Doherty and his 18-year-old partner gunned down a woman in Rhode Island. Doherty and his fiancée,
Shaylyn Moran, targeted 54-year-old Cheryl Smith, the mother of Moran’s ex-boyfriend, Leonard
Troufield. He was reportedly at the residence when the shooting occurred but wasn’t hurt.
Smith was found with multiple gunshot wounds to her chest, believed to have been inflicted with
a 3D-printed handgun, and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. The motive remained a
matter of speculation. It could’ve been a failed drug robbery, as the police were seen carrying
several cannabis plants out of Smith’s home and Moran had professed her love of the substance
on social media. Smith might’ve also been killed in retaliation to the domestic abuse
that Moran had allegedly suffered at Troufield’s hands. After the killing, Doherty and Moran,
who had gun sight tattooed on her face, posted photos on social media, one of which boasted
“we some fighters and some shooters” The pair were later arrested at a Hampton Inn and held
on first-degree murder charges. Number 10 Kelsy Karter
In early 2019, Los Angeles-based musician Kelsy Karter shocked her Instagram followers
by announcing she’d gotten a tattoo of One Direction star Harry Styles on her face.
24-year-old Karter posted a photo showing Styles’ face on her cheek, which rapidly became viral and
received extensive media coverage. The attention was focused on the outrageous tattoo itself
but also on Karter’s new single. In April of 2018, she was going through a hard time, after her
relationship had ended, and wrote a song called “Harry” inspired by the pop star. It was shelved
for a few months and then released along with the announcement of the tattoo. A few days later,
in a video entitled “How I rocked the entire world for $300”, Karter revealed that the tattoo was
only temporary and had been done with the help of a makeup artist. She admitted that it was simply
meant to garner attention to the song. While a number of users praised the move and called it
brilliant marketing, the vast majority condemned the hoax, some even referring to it as a “crime”.
Number 9 Puk Kireka
In 2019, the wife of New Zealand man Puk Kireka started a crowdfunding page that would help him
pay for his college education and aspirations of becoming a personal trainer. It was meant to
support the man’s attempt to turn his life around after his massive face tattoo reportedly prevented
him from getting a job. 31-year-old Kireka was part of the Mongrel Mob, one of the country’s
most feared biker gangs, for over a decade. He had the word “notorious”, written in the
gang’s red and black colors, tattooed on most of his face in a manner that resembled a face
mask. Kireka was imprisoned twice and overcame a methamphetamine addiction while locked up.
In an interview with a newspaper that reported on his story he admitted that he “will always be a
mobster” but added that he tried to encourage others towards improving their condition.
Yet, even after turning away from a criminal lifestyle and becoming part of a rugby team,
Kireka still found it hard to get work. While many were sympathetic to his plight and even
donated to the page, others mocked his attempts at bettering his life, including rapper 50 Cent.
He posted a picture of Kireka and concluded his caption with “I wonder why he can’t get a job.”
Number 8 Daryle Guillot In January of 2015, New Orleans
man Daryle Guillot was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cumulative criminal acts, including
a violent carjacking that had occurred in November of 2013. In a grocery parking lot, in Metairie, he
attacked a 68-year-old woman with a broken bottle and forced her out of her Chevrolet Cavalier. The
victim was knocked to the ground and sustained injuries to her head and arm from being struck
with the bottle. A few hours later, he attempted to rob an 18-year-old French Quartet resident
as she walked in the 900 block of Chartres Street. The first victim’s car was found less
than a mile from where Guillot lived. He was easily identifiable due to the word “redrum”,
a reverse spelling for murder, tattooed in capitals across his forehead. Guillot was
arrested a few days later, after he was spotted by a police officer. He ultimately pled guilty to the
carjacking and attempted first-degree robbery. Number 7 Unnamed Welsh Man
In 2015, a man from Swansea, South Wales, went to a bachelor party, in Blackpool,
where, after a night of drinking, he awoke to find some markings on his face. They were in the form
of a pair of glasses, with the misspelled name of the Ray-Ban brand written on the side. At first,
the unnamed man, reported as being in his 50s, believed that someone had used a marker to draw
the glasses on him. However, he subsequently discovered that they wouldn’t come off no matter
how hard he tried. He had no recollection of getting the tattoo which he suspected had likely
been the result of a drunken dare. Upon returning home, in spite of the stares he’d get, he decided
not to have the tattoo removed. However, after being mocked at a pub he started thinking about
his friends and family. He didn’t want them to get embarrassed upon being seen with him in public
and decided to get rid of the glasses. He visited a laser clinic and, after a six-session treatment,
he was free of his drunken mistake. Number 6 Khamprasong Thammavong
On March the 7th of 2016, police in Fresno, California, took 33-year-old Khamprasong
Thammavong into custody, following a traffic stop. Thammavong’s heavily-tattooed face featured the
word Gucci written on his forehead as well as a pattern that covered his entire head, tears below
his eyes, blackened lips and the words “speak no evil” inked beneath his nose in the shape of
a mustache. The officer that stopped him found that Thammavong was on probation and a member
of the Laos Blood gang. He requested assistance with interviewing him from the Southeast Violent
Crime Impact Team. They researched Thammavong to find out his address and then conducted a search
of his Fresno residence. Inside, they found SWAT tactical gear, a semi-automatic handgun
and a semi-automatic rifle. They also found drug paraphernalia and a marijuana grow,
for which he didn’t have a license and which consisted of 38 plants. Thammavong was arrested
on numerous felony charges including cultivation of marijuana and felon in possession of a firearm.
Number 5 Christopher Breaker In August of 2017, Texas law enforcement arrested
25-year-old Christopher Breaker for robbing a Walgreens in Cypress. They were able to quickly
identify and locate Breaker due to the black streaks tattooed on his face, which contoured his
eyes and ran down his cheeks, nose and cheekbones. Witnesses from the store told officers that
Breaker had been behaving strangely and eating food right off the shelves. He then jumped over
the pharmacy’s counter, flashed a knife and then started hitting the backdoor with a fire
extinguisher. He eventually fled through the front entrance and left behind the donuts that he’d
attempted to steal. A witness, who’d recognized Breaker’s facial artwork, from a previous mugshot
pointed the police in the right direction. He was charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly
weapon, which is a second-degree felony. Number 4 Adam Roberts
In March of 2013, an Illinois man was arrested for a string of robberies in his southwestern hometown
of Godfrey. 24-year-old Roberts was instantly recognizable due to his full-face skeleton tattoo.
The police suspected that, during the previous month, Roberts and an accomplice had stolen from
as many as 28 storage units and then sold the goods to unsuspecting members of the public.
One officer referred to Roberts’ tattoo as the oddest thing he’d seen in over two decades of law
enforcement. The suspect was held on a $60,000 bond. His distinctive artwork made it easier
for the police to track down the items that he’d sold which included, among others, televisions,
fishing equipment, a refrigerator and paintings. Number 3 Michael Vine
In June of 2018, South Carolina man Michael Vine was involved in a car crash in the city
of Greenville. Vine, who had a handgun tattooed on his forehead, was, ironically, federally
prohibited from carrying a firearm. As he exited the vehicle, the city’s firefighters spotted him
throwing something in the grass. They discovered that the item was a fully loaded Smith and Wesson
.38-caliber revolver. Vine was arrested and charged with driving too fast,
driving on a suspended license and unlawful carrying of a firearm.
Number 2 William & Lawrence Bottoms In August of 2019, a heavily-tattooed
man was found guilty of a double homicide which had occurred in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
in 2017. His legal defense team had feared that a jury would judge William Bottoms Jr because of his
numerous face tattoos that included a skeletal smile on his mouth, an eye in the middle of his
forehead, a devil with the eyes crossed out on his chin and many others. In early June,
according to his then-girlfriend, she and Bottoms were in the same car with 23-year-old
Dedrick Dewayne Williams and Mohamed S. Hussain, aged 29. They’d reportedly bought some heroin.
Bottoms, sitting in the front passenger seat, then became paranoid from the drugs. At around 3 am,
without warning or provocation, he shot Williams and Hussain as they sat in the backseat. Both
victims were shot multiple times in the head. They were then abandoned in a rural area, along with
the vehicle, and covered with a sheet that matched others owned by Bottoms. The jury deliberated for
about an hour before finding him guilty and he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms.
A few months before he was convicted, his twin brother, Lawrence, was fatally shot by deputies
in Mississippi. They were trying to serve him a high-risk warrant for illegal firearm possession,
when Lawrence pulled out a gun and pointed it at them. Lawrence also had abundant facial ink that
included a skull and bones on his chin, a crown of thorns, tribal markings on the cheeks and,
like his brother, a skeleton mouth. Number 1 Michael Mann
In 2018, a Cincinnati man with extensive facial tattoos was arrested for kidnapping in what
was his 54th run-in with the law. 35-year-old Michael Mann’s artwork included, among others,
a large dollar sign over his eye as well as lip marks and a heavily tattooed left ear.
In October, he entered a check cashing store and a held a woman against her will unless her sister
returned with $100. The police responded to the 911 call and took him into custody.
Earlier in the year, he was arrested on domestic violence and aggravated burglary charges. He’d
crawled into the home of his child’s mother, through an open window, and proceeded to choke
and assault her. Mann’s extensive record featured arrests for burglary, robbery and drug possession.
For his most recent criminal offence he was held on a bond set at $200,000.
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