Number 7: Cassandra Hasanovic In July of 2008, 24-year-old Cassandra Hasanovic
was murdered by her husband Hajrudin, despite measures that had been put in place by the
court system designed to prevent him from being able to come anywhere close to his wife.
Cassandra was sitting in the car with her 2 children in front of her mother’s house
in Bognor Regis, England ready to go to a women's refuge.
She was on her way to the refuge in an attempt to stay safe from her husband.
Out of nowhere, her husband appeared, dragged her out of the car, and stabbed her to death
in the street with a large kitchen knife.
An inquest into her death found that Cassandra was failed by the Crown Prosecution Service
(or CPS) who should have done more to safeguard her life.
In 2007, a non-molestation order was put in place by the courts, but despite Hajrudin
continuously breaching the order, no real attempts were ever made by the police to take
him off the streets; not even with Cassandra telling police exactly where to find her husband.
Cassandra had gone as far as to flee to Australia along with her 2 children in fear and anticipation
of her husband murdering her.
But she was forced back to the UK after her husband took her to court, accusing her of
kidnapping the children.
Upon her return, her husband was made to sign an undertaking to neither approach nor contact
his wife.
Even with the undertaking in place, he still had, on numerous occasions, contacted Cassandra
before the murder.
Despite telling family and friends that “she knew he was going to kill her”, the police
never made any real effort to arrest Hajrudin, eventually resulting in her death on that
fatal day in July.
He was arrested not long after the murder and in 2009, was sentenced to a minimum of
18 years in prison for murder, after the jury had rejected his plea for manslaughter.
The CPS later stated that, “It is now clear that there were shortcomings in the way we
dealt with Cassandra’s case” and that “the murder was a watershed moment from
which they learned many important lessons”.
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Number 6: Jill Meagher Adrian Bayley was out on parole on September
22nd, 2012 when he assaulted and murdered Irish-born Jill Meagher while she was walking
home from a pub in Brunswick, Australia.
Meagher had been reported missing 6 days before her body was found; about 30 miles north of
where she went missing.
CCTV footage eventually pinpointed police to Adrian Ernest Bayley, who was taken in
for questioning and admitted to the murder after a lenghty interrogation by Australian
police.
Anger broke out when the media got word of his confession and subsequently found out
and reported that, at the time of the murder, Bayley was out on parole for a series of sexual
offenses, as well as knocking out a man outside a Geelong pub.
Had Bayley been charged with the Geelong assault that took place while he was already out on
parole, then he would’ve likely been back behind bars at the time of the murder.
The case directly led to the Australian state of Victoria tightening up its parole laws;
a serious parole breach now leads to an offender being automatically sent back to jail.
Number 5: Alina Sheykhet In 2017, 20-year-old Alina Sheykhet had just
gotten out of an abusive and controlling relationship with her former boyfriend Matthew Darby, age
21.
She had sought a protection order against him and had reported to police when Darby
broke into her Oakland, California home in September; a break-in for which he was arrested
and released on bail.
All of the combined steps Alina took to protect herself resulted in a protection from abuse
(or PFA) order.
Unfortunately, the PFA order was unable to protect and save her life.
3 days after procuring the order and 3 weeks after the first break in, Darby broke into
her home again and bludgeoned her to death in the predawn hours of October the 8th, 2017
using a claw hammer and 2 steel knives.
Earlier in March of the same year, Darby was arrested on suspicion of assaulting another
ex-girlfriend of his.
After he’d called her 33 times over the course of a 2.5-hour timespan, she allowed
him to come over and gave him 30 minutes to talk before allegedly assaulting her.
Darby was arrested and released on bail the next day.
Law officials involved in the case argued that when Darby was arrested in September
for breaking into Sheykhet’s home, he should’ve never been let out on bail a second time.
In October of 2018, Darby, in order to avoid the death penalty, pleaded guilty to first-degree
murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
Number 4: Miya Marcano 19-year-old Miya Marcano, a Valencia college
sophomore, was last seen at around 5 pm on September the 24th, 2021.
Seven days later, her body was found in a wooded area 17 miles west of Arden Villas
apartments in Orlando, where she lived and worked in the building's leasing office.
Miya was discovered with her mouth, wrists, and feet bound by duct tape.
Shortly before being officially reported missing, family members decided to enter her apartment
for a welfare check and found her apartment in disarray and with blood on her pillow.
A maintenance worker by the name of Armando Caballero, who worked at the apartment complex,
quickly came under suspicion by family and police.
Caballero had been seen entering her apartment using a master key just shortly before she
vanished.
According to people close to her, Marcano had repeatedly “rebuffed” romantic advances
by Caballero.
In the aftermath of Marcano’s disappearance, Caballero was confronted on video by a family
member of hers who told him, "There's evidence of an obsession, something, you're fascinated
with Miya.
As of right now you have sent obsessive texts to Miya, we have all seen the texts, you talked
about giving her your life savings, you cash apped her money and you claim that you weren’t
in touch”.
Police weren’t able to act on these warning signs before her disappearance and not even
in the immediate aftermath of it.
It took police 3 days to make a sufficient case against Caballero, but by the time they
entered his apartment it was too late.
He was found dead from self-inflicted injuries on December the 27th.
It wasn’t until 5 days later that Marcano’s body was found and the investigation into
her murder was closed.
Number 3: Ellie Gould Ellie Gould, an English sixth form student
from Calne, Wiltshire was found stabbed to death at her own home on May 3rd, 2019.
She was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Thomas Griffiths, with whom she’d recently broken
up due to repeated and regular disruptions at her attempts to study, and because he subjected
her to coercive control.
Gould’s father wasn’t a fan of the relationship since Griffiths “never talked”, but Gould’s
mother on the other hand attributed this to “teenage behavior”.
Nevertheless, Gould herself eventually decided to break up with Griffiths after realizing
he was educationally sabotaging her.
The Domestic Homicide Review into the case described it as, “In this case, the perpetrator
appeared to be disrupting Ellie's studying during an important period of revision, displayed
insecurities and appeared to be inducing guilt.
Ellie sought a break from the perpetrator during their revision for mock A-level exams,
but the perpetrator appeared not to accept this.”
Despite all the warning signs, neither Ellie nor the people close to her ever suspected
that Griffiths would be crazy enough to want to murder her in retaliation.
17-year-old Griffiths was arrested shortly after the murder, quickly admitted to it,
apologized for his actions, and was sentenced to a minimum of 12 and a half years in prison.
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Number 2: Marylene Levesque Marylene Levesque was found dead on January
the 22nd, 2020 in a Quebec City hotel room.
She was stabbed 57 times in her chest, stomach, and back by Eustachio Gallese, a 49-year-old
convicted murderer out on day parole.
Gallesse had spent the previous 15 years in prison for the brutal slaying of his wife
in 2004.
Within one year of having been granted day parole, Gallese killed again.
Gallese had met Levesque, an escort worker, in May of 2019 during visits to an erotic
massage parlor.
A joint investigation by corrections and parole officials into the management of Eustachio
Gallese’s case found that there had been warning signs that his case management team
failed to properly assess.
He was permitted by his parole officer to visit the parlor once a month despite his
history of domestic violence; something that should have never been allowed in the first
place.
Permission was subsequently revoked by the Parole Board of Canada in September of 2019,
but Gallese flouted the rules and continued seeing Levesque.
He told police after Levesque's murder that he’d been frequenting the parlor three times
a week and that the halfway house staff where he was staying was unaware of these visits.
At some point when he began feeling as if she was distancing herself from him, Gallese
started growing jealous.
On the fatal day of Levesque’s murder, Gallese had gotten her to meet up with him for dinner,
after which they went back to the hotel where he murdered her.
In February of 2020, Gallese was sentenced to life without parole; a sentence that many
believe should’ve been handed down in the first place after murdering his wife in 2004.
Number 1: Melissa Mathieson Melissa Mathieson was living in a care home
for people with autism in Knowle, England.
In October of 2014, the 18-year-old, who was suffering from ADHD and autism, approached
staff to complain of being stalked by 20-year-old Jason Conroy.
A few hours later, she was found strangled to death.
Despite staff being completely aware that Jason had previously tried to strangle both
a teacher as well as his own mom, Mathieson’s complaints simply weren’t enough.
Mathieson posed as the perfect victim for Jason, who was known to pose a risk to females,
particularly “young, petite women who he feels he can easily overpower”.
Even before her complaints of his stalking behavior, staff had previously seen him on
the landing near her bedroom looking “anxious and agitated”.
On that fatal night, he entered her third-floor bedroom and strangled her before trying to
drag her to his second-floor bedroom.
Staff, who heard a loud bang, found her unconscious on the stairs with him standing beside.
She died four days later.
A review of the case found that Jason, who had a necrophilia fetish, had still been allowed
close to Mathieson despite her complaints and despite staff knowing everything about
his deranged state.
The review also found that Jason was even more dangerous than staff could have known.
In March of 2013, at another residential school, he strangled another female staff member to
the point of unconsciousness, at which point a male staff member intervened.
A case review of the incident found that his actions should have been immediately reported
to the police, but it was not.
In the end, 13 recommendations came from the review (some of them at a national level)
in an effort to prevent such an accumulation of errors from ever happening again.
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