#7 - Clara Kraebber
The 20-year-old daughter of an affluent New York City family was arrested, in September of 2020,
for participating in political riots that resulted in an estimated $100,000 in damages.
The destructive riots, which originated as fairly peaceful demonstrations, had reportedly unfolded
in protest to the death of Daniel Prude, who’d passed away during an encounter with police
in upstate New York, on March the 23rd of 2020. Clara Kraebber, a student at Rice University,
in Texas, was one of the eight individuals taken into custody after police had intervened
to break up the riots. The protestors had allegedly smashed store windows with bricks,
ignited trash can fires, and plastered graffiti on various buildings throughout the
city’s Upper East Side. In a notebook that was later confiscated by the authorities,
Kraebber had expressed her desire for the United States to undergo a process of
wealth redistribution. She’d also detailed plans to occupy vacant luxury apartments around the city
by staging break-ins with the help of locksmiths. The young woman had reportedly cited the likes of
political figures such as Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky as the inspirations for her worldview.
Following their arrests, the protestors were charged with felony rioting in addition to other
related weapons and burglary offenses. Kraebber became the subject of widespread criticism when
the details of her arrest surfaced online. Her detractors viewed her actions as hypocritical,
given the discrepancy between her ideology and her family’s considerable wealth.
#6 - Lorena Daniela Aguirre
In a viral YouTube video from 2016, a Mexican teen was shown attempting to bribe police officers
after she’d drunkenly crashed her car into multiple parked vehicles. The incident was filmed
and uploaded by a man named David Villa. After the video was widely disseminated on social media,
the young woman, identified as 18-year-old Lorena Daniela Aguirre, became known online as “Lady
100 Pesos”. The nickname was a reference to the sum of money, equivalent to about
$5, she’d allegedly offered to officers at the scene. On April the 21st of 2016, Aguirre had
gotten behind the wheel of her Nissan Rogue, while she was intoxicated. She then plowed the SUV into
several cars that had been parked on the street in the city of Guanajuato. As the responding officers
attempted to take the drunk driver into custody, she reportedly offered them the aforementioned sum
in exchange for them letting her go. Throughout the video, Aguirre had her cash and credit cards
in hand as she desperately and fruitlessly tried to persuade the police to release her.
The young woman had been in the car with two male companions, one of whom was reported as being the
son of a local politician. Although it wasn’t made clear whether Aguirre was actually wealthy, she’d
evidently attempted to convey the illusion that she had enough money to make granting her release
worthwhile for the authorities. Nevertheless, she spent the night in jail and was ordered to pay a
fine that was reportedly five times more than the amount she’d been offering to the officers.
#5 - Yun “Lucy” Lu Li and Oliver Karafa
A wealthy Instagram influencer and her boyfriend were arrested on murder charges, in June of 2021,
after they’d spent three months on the run. Yun “Lucy” Lu Li and Oliver Karafa, a couple
that the media dubbed the “Millennial Bonnie and Clyde”, were tracked down by the authorities and
apprehended in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. They were alleged to have carried out the fatal
shooting of their business associate Tyler Pratt in Ontario, Canada, a few months prior.
Li and Karafa had also been accused of attempting to murder Pratt’s pregnant girlfriend in the fatal
altercation, which reportedly erupted during a business meeting. Although the female victim
ultimately survived the gunfire, she was forced to terminate her pregnancy after being hospitalized,
in the incident’s aftermath. Within 24 hours of the shooting, the perpetrators fled to Eastern
Europe, first arriving in Karafa’s native Slovakia before making their way to Hungary.
It was reported that Li belonged to a wealthy Canadian family with ties to prominent figures in
the country’s Liberal Party. Karafa had previously spent 5 years in prison after he’d been found
guilty in connection to a fatal car accident, while driving under the influence of alcohol.
#4 - Saki Sudo
In an autobiography published in 2016, Japanese millionaire Kosuke Nozaki boasted about how he’d
spent roughly $26 million, over his lifetime, in his attempts to court a total of 4,000 women. The
77-year-old real estate mogul also reportedly wrote that his only motivation for making money
was to use his wealth to aid him in his pursuit of attractive women. In 2018, Nozaki married a former
adult film actress by the name of Saki Sudo. The businessman claimed that they’d first met at an
airport when Sudo, who was 22 years old at the time, had helped him to his feet after he’d fallen
to the ground. Nozaki had allegedly told the young woman that she would be his final romantic
partner, a prediction that came to grim fruition, only a few months into their marriage. On May
the 24th of 2018, Nozaki was found dead, at his Wakayama residence, and it was initially believed
that the elderly man had passed away of natural causes. In April of 2021, however, Sudo was taken
into custody on suspicion of fatally poisoning her late husband. It had emerged that the couple were
eating dinner together around the time of Nozaki’s death, and a toxicology report on the man’s corpse
indicated the presence of a lethal stimulant in his system. Upon reviewing the widowed woman’s
Internet search history, investigators learned that she’d researched the same stimulant drug
that was later linked to Nozaki’s death. Sudo stood to inherit a sizeable portion of
the millionaire’s fortune before her suspected involvement in the man’s death came to light.
#3 - The Couch Family
In December of 2013, a teenager who’d killed four people while driving under the influence
was handed down a controversially lenient punishment by a Texas judge.
The fatal collision had occurred in the city of Burleson, on June the 15th of that same year.
Ethan Couch, aged 16, had allegedly gotten behind the wheel of a pickup while he was intoxicated.
He’d then proceeded to speed through a residential area when he lost control of the truck and crashed
into a group of people who’d been assisting another motorist who had car trouble. The accident
resulted in four deaths and nine injuries, and Couch was consequently indicted on four counts of
intoxication manslaughter. During the ensuing criminal trial, the defense argued that the teen
suffered from a supposed psychological condition called “affluenza”. Couch’s legal team claimed
that the boy couldn’t bear the responsibility for his actions due to the fact that his
affluent upbringing had led to him possessing no understanding of boundaries or consequences.
Although affluenza is not a medically-recognized disease, Couch’s lawyers convinced Judge Jean
Hudson Boyd to spare the teenager any jail time and instead sentence him to 10 years of probation.
It also emerged that Couch’s parents, Fred and Tonya, had had several run-ins with the
law themselves prior to their son’s conviction, including one instance in which they were accused
of driving another car off the road. Fred, who’d made millions of dollars from his sheet metal
manufacturing business, had been charged with assault in connection to a domestic abuse incident
involving Tonya, whom he later divorced. Judge Boyd’s decision in Ethan Couch’s case sparked
outrage among those who considered it to be unjustly merciful towards the teen. Couch was
detained once again, in December of 2015, after he’d failed to report to his probation officer.
He and his mother were eventually located in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta,
and the young man subsequently spent 2 years in prison. In January of 2020,
he allegedly committed an additional probation violation by failing a mandatory drug test.
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#2 - Fotis Dulos
Before she disappeared without a trace, in May of 2019, Jennifer Dulos, aged 50,
had been in the midst of a contentious legal struggle with her husband, Fotis. It had stemmed
from the pair’s divorce and the subsequent battle for the custody of their five children.
In the mid-2000s, the couple had moved to Farmington, Connecticut, where they started
their family and founded the luxury real estate development business that would eventually make
them millionaires. Jennifer had reportedly alluded to the fact that her relationship with Fotis
was eroding in a blog post she’d written in 2012. She officially filed for divorce in 2017,
but vanished before the legal process was completed. Fotis publicly maintained his innocence
in the wake of his estranged wife’s disappearance. However, the real estate tycoon and his girlfriend
were both taken into police custody, about a month later, on charges of tampering with evidence and
hindering prosecution. Those charges were upgraded to capital murder and kidnapping in January of
2020. The authorities had been unable to locate Jennifer’s body during their investigation.
Nevertheless, they’d gathered enough evidence for prosecutors to formally inculpate Fotis in
connection to his wife’s disappearance and presumed murder. The real estate developer
failed to report to court for an emergency bond hearing, on January the 28th, and the police later
found him in a catatonic state in his home after an apparent attempt to take his own life by way of
carbon monoxide poisoning. He was transported to a New York City hospital, where he ultimately passed
away two days later. In a death note he’d left in his car, Fotis once more professed his innocence,
writing, “I refuse to spend even an hour more in jail for something I had NOTHING to do with”.
#1 - Ashton Sachs
Ashton Sachs was born into an affluent family from Orange County, California, in the late 1990s. His
mother, Andra, had built a prosperous real estate business, worth upwards of $80 million,
and the five Sachs children therefore wanted for nothing. On February the 9th of 2014, however,
19-year-old Sachs carried out the murder of both of his parents at their multi-million
dollar mansion in San Juan Capistrano. The teen had reportedly driven 20 hours from Seattle,
Washington, to Southern California in order to commit the cold-blooded double homicide.
Investigators later established that he’d walked through the unlocked front doors of his parents’
residence before fatally shooting them in their bedroom. Sachs went on to fire shots at two
of his younger siblings. His brother was left paralyzed as a result of the attack, while his
sister narrowly avoided a bullet to the head while hiding under her bed sheets. In the immediate
aftermath of the incident, Sachs fully cooperated with detectives as they attempted to track down
his parents’ killer. The young man had reportedly attempted to confuse the investigation by giving
the authorities the names of former business partners and other individuals who may have sought
to harm his family. The police soon identified Sachs as a suspect due to mounting evidence
against him and he ultimately confessed, less than a month after the shooting had taken place. When
investigators asked him what his motive for the violent crime had been, Sachs blamed his parents
for his depression and expressed his belief that he’d been their “least favorite child”. In
October of 2016, he was sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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