Number 7 Thomas Anthony Mansfield A Welsh personal trainer died, in 2021, after
miscalculating the dosage of a pre-workout caffeine supplement.
An inquiry into the incident reached a conclusion, on March the 1st of 2022, and it revealed
that 29-year-old Thomas Anthony Mansfield had ordered a 100-gram packet of caffeine
powder from Blackburn Distributions, a UK-based sport supplement company.
He prepared a drink shortly after the product’s arrival.
It had a recommended dosage of 60-300 milligrams twice a day but the digital scale used by
the personal trainer had a starting weight of 2 grams, which provided the basis for his
erring calculations.
Mansfield aimed for a mid-range serving but ended up taking 5 grams of the powder.
According to his wife, Suzannah, he took an initial sip before downing the remainder of
the drink.
Within moments, Mansfield clutched his chest and lay down on the sofa before he started
frothing at the mouth.
Suzannah rushed to get help from their neighbors and an ambulance was called to the Colwyn
Bay address.
Paramedics arrived at the scene within minutes and used a defibrillator on Mansfield, who’d
gone into cardiac arrest.
He was transported to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, where resuscitation attempts were stopped at around
4 pm.
A post-mortem examination would list caffeine toxicity as the cause of death.
A coroner determined that the father-of-two had 392 milligrams of caffeine per liter of
blood, which was nearly equivalent to him having ingested 200 cups of coffee.
Number 6 Jamon Rayon Buggs 44-year-old Jamon Rayon Buggs, a personal
trainer from California, was arrested and charged with double homicide following what
the authorities believed had been a jealous rampage. 38-year-old Darren Partch and Wendi
Miller, aged 48, were found dead at the former’s Newport Beach residence, on April the 21st
of 2019.
Both had been executed via gunshots to the head and their lifeless bodies were discovered
by Partch’s roommate.
Buggs, who’d played football at Arizona State College, was a bodybuilding competitor
and the founder of a personal training company called DO IT AGAIN !9.
He was also a convicted felon with a substantial record that included domestic battery and
assault on a police officer.
Buggs was already in police custody for a string of recent burglaries when he was linked
to the double homicide.
It was revealed that he’d been stalking his ex-girlfriend, whose identity wasn’t
revealed, after she’d broken up with him in December of the previous year.
He believed that Partch, a former minor-league hockey player, was dating her and targeted
him at his home.
Partch and Miller, who worked as the CEO of a nonprofit advocacy group, were last seen
leaving a bar in Laguna Beach together.
Miller wasn’t the woman that Buggs had been obsessively pursuing and had met Partch while
out with friends on the night of her death.
Her companions reported that she’d given him a ride home because they lived in the
same neighborhood.
They reached the address where they were gunned down by Buggs, who’d ambushed the pair,
giving them no chance to defend themselves.
Roughly 18 hours later, he went to a neighborhood in Irvine as he continued “hunting” for
the man he believed was dating his ex.
He committed a series of burglaries for which he was eventually arrested after the police
had set up surveillance in the area.
Photos of Partch were found on his cellphone while his address and phone number had been
written on a notepad discovered in his Chevrolet Camaro.
Buggs was charged with double murder with special circumstances and, as of April 2022,
prosecutors had decided not to pursue the death penalty against him while his defense
attributed his actions to the traumatic encephalopathy he’d developed after sustaining repeated
blows to the head on the football field.
Number 5 Michael Howe Michael Howe, a personal trainer from the
town of Widnes, England, was jailed for almost three years, in November of 2020, after a
judge determined he was a “considerable risk to women”.
28-year-old Howe worked for clients across Merseyside, with the stated goal of transforming
and improving lives.
Howe also had 11 past convictions for 27 offences, many of which included assaults on former
partners.
In March of the same year he was handed down a sentence of 12 weeks in prison, suspended
for two years, after being convicted of battery and criminal damage against an ex-girlfriend.
Howe then started dating another woman but didn’t disclose the relationship to the
Parole Services, as per the terms of his sentence, nor did he tell his partner about his past
convictions.
While at the unnamed victim’s home, on the evening of June the 9th, Howe became enraged
when she received a text from a former boyfriend.
He kicked the woman once in each leg, with enough force that she dropped to the floor.
Howe then told her that she needed discipline and pushed her before leaving the home.
The personal trainer returned, two days later, and attacked the woman once again, after accusing
her of telling a friend he was insecure.
The second attack, more vicious than the one preceding it, involved Howe dragging her from
the couch by her ankles as well as hitting the victim in the face with a keyboard, grabbing
her by the throat and slamming her head into a radiator.
The man then threatened to kill whoever found out about the attack.
He was arrested and eventually admitted to assault by beating, assault causing actual
bodily harm and breaching his suspended sentence.
A judge activated his suspended sentence in full and the personal trainer was jailed for
2 years and 8 months.
Number 4 Taye Francis In an attack allegedly fueled by the mental
instability associated with steroid use, a personal trainer stabbed his girlfriend to
death at a hotel in Greenwich, London, in July of 2020.
Taye Francis had been previously jailed, in 2002, for abusing a 19-year-old ex-girlfriend
at axe point.
The victim was first attacked in a train restroom before Francis, then known under his original
name as Ashley Waytt, forced her to an address in Thornton Heath, southeast London, where
he continued abusing her.
Following his release and name change, he began dating 18-year-old Khloemae Loy, in
2017.
Francis, then aged 34, had met her as she worked at a pub near Croydon College, where
she was student.
Loy would endure a five-year-long abusive relationship, during the course of which her
parents pleaded with her to leave Francis, fearing he’d eventually kill her.
He was, at one point, convicted of actual bodily harm, after throwing the woman into
a wheelie bin.
Loy managed to secure a restraining order against him before she was eventually drawn
back into the abusive relationship.
Francis reportedly became paranoid about his conviction from the 2002 assault and was convinced
that vigilantes were trying to kill him.
He and Loy had moved house a number of times in the months leading up to the murder.
On July the 4th of 2020, the couple booked into the Greenwich Holiday Inn Express.
Francis called the emergency services the following morning claiming that he’d stabbed
his girlfriend in the neck.
While on the phone with the operator, he sent a photo to solicitors of Loy lying dead on
the bed with the message: "I've killed my girlfriend."
He was arrested and admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility,
claiming his mind state was altered at the time.
However, prosecutors argued that the fragility of Francis’ psyche was of his own design,
and attributed the murder to “roid rage” from his decade-long practice of injecting
steroids.
He was eventually convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison.
Number 3 Dejon Miller Shortly before Christmas, in 2011, North Hollywood
personal trainer Dejon Miller was arrested for beating his girlfriend unconscious.
At the time, Miller, who went by the nickname “Danger”, was already on parole for a
previous domestic abuse charge.
His latest victim, only identified as being in her late 20s, had been beaten so badly
that LAPD Detective Brandy Arzate reported she was “really close to actually passing
away”.
35-year-old Miller ran the websites e2fit.com and sexyisback.com, through which he advertised
personal trainer services that were primarily directed at young women.
He boasted 15 years of experience, adding that his style was “professional, realistic
and a lil' funky at the same time”.
His Facebook displayed photos of a group of models deemed “Danger’s Angels”.
The authorities reported that, aside from the vicious attack on his girlfriend, Miller
had abused at least five other women whom he’d lured through his business enterprise,
either as prospective clients or models.
The man had reportedly met two of them through Craigslist and, like the others, they’d
become victims of extreme physical and emotional abuse.
During a press conference, the LAPD revealed that what he’d done to them resembled torture
but didn’t provide further details beyond Azarte emphasizing they were things she’d
never encountered in her career as a detective.
The police believed that there were more victims of Miller’s abuse in the San Fernando Valley
area and encouraged them to come forward, assuring them that the personal trainer would
be jailed for a long time.
For the attack on his girlfriend, he was charged with attempted murder and held on a $1.3 million
bail as the investigation into his horrendous criminal activity continued.
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Number 2 Jake Toriyen On March the 17th of 2020, personal trainer
Jake Toriyen and Paul Monnes were both at the Alexanders nightclub, in Worcester, England.
The two men were involved in a violent physical altercation that had begun with the latter
dancing in what a judge would later describe as a “slightly drunk, slightly foolhardy
way”.
In doing so, Monnes bumped into Toriyen several times on the dance floor.
The 21-year-old personal trainer, who was successful in his field and reportedly earned
over $10,000 a month, flew into a fit of a rage.
He attacked Monnes with three rapid-fire punches, ending the barrage with a vicious uppercut
that knocked the other man unconscious.
Monnes came to and staggered out of the club before taking a taxi to Worcestershire Royal
Hospital.
He suffered temporary amnesia as a result of the attack which left him needing dental
work as well as with bruising to his eye and severe swelling to the right side of his face.
He told police officers that he felt like his jaw was hanging off and it was reported
that, in the period following the beating, he had nightmares about being assaulted.
Toriyen maintained he’d acted in self-defense but was found guilty of assault occasioning
actual bodily harm.
He was given a sentence of eight months, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay the victim
over $3,000.
Number 1 Greg Plitt After spending five years as a Ranger in the
US Army, Greg Plitt began a successful career as a personal trainer and fitness model.
He became associated with the Met-Rx nutritional supplement brand and, in 2012, was named its
Athlete of the Year.
The work he’d done training military recruits inspired his approach as a personal trainer
and he authored the MFT28 workout program, which was featured in numerous high-profile
fitness publications.
Plitt, who’d also appeared on the Bravo reality TV series Work Out, rose to the top
of the fitness industry.
He received widespread acclaim for his physique which led to him appearing in numerous commercials,
becoming a spokesperson for several men’s fragrances and modeling for brands that included
Calvin Klein, Old Navy and Under Armour.
On January the 17th of 2015, Plitt was recording a video that was reportedly part of a self-produced
energy drink commercial.
He was running between the rails of the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line, in Burbank, California.
A recorder camera mounted in the cab of train 268’s lead locomotive recorded the horrific
incident that followed.
Plitt, who’d been running dressed in all black and carrying a camcorder, was knocked
off the track and out of frame as he was struck by a southbound train.
He was killed instantly.
The police would later tell TMZ that, as part of the commercial, Plitt appeared to be trying
to outrun the train.
He was mourned by many in the fitness industry and one theory that emerged in the aftermath
of his death proposed he may have believed the train was coming up behind him on a parallel
track, not the one on which he was.
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