#8 Rhett Carty-Shaw and Kyoro Mori Akhiro
When 17 year old Kyoro Mori Akhiro, discovered that her on-again-off-again boyfriend Rhett
Carty-Shaw, also 17, was still seeing his ex behind her back, she began pushing him to prove
his loyalty. Akhiro stated she felt humiliated and betrayed, and the only solution would be to get
rid of his ex. In May 2019, Carty-Shaw visited his former lover, Iman Nassir, in her house
in Openshaw, Greater Manchester, England. The young woman had just given birth to their child,
only two months before. After having been intimate with Nassir, Carty-Shaw pulled out a knife,
and stabbed her repeatedly in the face and neck while also beating her savagely. Meanwhile,
Akhiro kept control of the situation from afar, texting her boyfriend over 50 times,
demanding he filmed the attack. He left Nassir for dead, letting his girlfriend know that he
had gone through with their plan, stating: “I did it to prove I love you”. Nassir somehow survived
the attack, and had to be hospitalized for four days, while requiring multiple surgeries. She
testified against the pair in court, explaining the injuries made it impossible for her to pick
up her own baby and talking about the emotional and physical damage the attack had caused her.
On December 20th, 2019, Carty-Shaw and Mori Akhiro were each convicted to 16 years in
prison for attempted murder and intentionally assisting a person to commit murder respectively.
#7 Julio Garay On July 14, 2020, Julio Garay ambushed
and murdered his estranged wife on her way to a doctor’s appointment, in Camarena Health Center
in Madera, California. Calley Jean Garay had recently gotten a restraining order against her
husband. It was after seven long years of abuse, being subjected to attacks with screwdrivers, fire
pokers, chainsaw blades and any other household object at hand, that she finally escaped the
marriage along with their three kids, with only $19 in her pocket. On the day of the murder, Garay
approached Calley Jean and their three children and started shooting at them before they could
find refuge. She died at the scene, trying to keep the boys from harm, using her body as a shield.
Dale Blea, the case’s preceding judge, referred to the defendant as “a self-absorbed narcissist
who appeared laser-focused on destroying everything that was important to Calley.”
50-year-old Garay was found guilty of first-degree murder and three counts of child abuse on November
17, 2021. Given the charges, the only possible sentence was life without the possibility of
parole. Soon after the trial, California passed Calley’s law, meant to ensure victims of domestic
abuse are granted the same protection rights that could have saved the mother-of-three’s life.
#6 Jessica Smith
40-year-old mother of two Jessica Smith showed no regrets while addressing the court,
accused of murdering her toddler and harming her 13-year-old daughter on August 17,
2016. Smith and her husband had been involved in a custody dispute back in 2014 when the attack
took place. The family court judge had ordered a one-day visitation regimen in favor of the father,
but Jessica refused to give the children over to her ex, taking them to a motel in Cannon Beach,
Oregon instead. Smith claimed her kids were terrified of their father, and that her daughter
Alana told her she’d rather be dead than live with him. On July 31, 2014, Smith attacked both
her own children with only Alana surviving the ordeal. When police finally caught up with Smith,
they found that she had been living out of her car and was trying to starve herself. It took two more
years for her to be convicted for her crimes. She opted to enter an Alfred plea, in which
the defendant maintains their innocence while admitting that there is enough evidence to find
them guilty. Smith was sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 40 years served.
#5 Kyle Overmyer Former Sandusky County Sheriff, Kyle Overmyer, was
branded a narcissist by judge Patricia Casgrove, who officiated over his 2016 trial. Overmyer was
accused of taking advantage of his office for his own benefit, using public funds to finance family
vacations, meals and his own re-election campaign. He also had developed an addiction to painkillers,
and though he was prescribed over 1000 pills over a two-year period, he still tried to find illegal
ways to feed his needs. Overmyer began to steal discarded drug take-back boxes from four different
police departments under his command. Of the 43 charges he was indicted with, he pleaded guilty
to 13 felony counts on November 22, 2016. Overmyer sobbed as he admitted to his crimes, asking to be
allowed to go into rehab in lieu of a stricter sentence. Judge Cosgrove didn’t believe his
remorse and rejected his plea for mercy. As well as being sentenced to 4 years in prison, Overmyer
was forced to use his state retirement pension to pay the state a restitution of $24,000. Overmyer
was released in April, 2022, spending the last 180 days of his sentence in a halfway house.
#4 Ian Stewart Using what’s known in psychology
as cognitive distortion, murderer Ian Steward was able to carry on with his life as usual
after assassinating not one but two romantic partners, allowing him to avoid suspicion for
over 6 years. On June 25, 2010, Stewart murdered his wife, Diana, at their home in Bassingbourn,
England. The death was considered accidental, in part due to her husband’s 999 call, in which he
claimed to have discovered Diana lying unconscious in their back garden. His wife, he explained,
had a history of epilepsy. It was only after he drugged and suffocated his new fiancee, acclaimed
author Helen Bailey, in 2016, that police took a closer look at Diana’s death. Already serving a
life sentence for Bailey’s assassination, Steward allegedly asked investigators: “Haven’t you got
anything better to do?” Though his first wife’s body had been cremated, Stewart, at the time,
had decided to donate Diana’s brain to science. It had been adequately preserved for six years,
making an autopsy of the organ possible. The inspection led medical examiners to change the
cause of death to “prolonged restriction to her breathing from an outside source”. Psychologists
connected with the case theorized Stewart had narcissistic tendencies and viewed the women
in his life as means to an end. The motive behind both murders was monetary: the defendant received
£100,000 after his first wife’s death, and he stood to inherit £4 million from Helen’s estate.
#3 The murder of Grace Millane
British marketing graduate Grace Millane went missing in Auckland on December 1,
2018, while backpacking in New Zealand. It was the day before her 22th birthday, and she had
planned to celebrate by going on a date with Jesse Kempson, a man she had met on Tinder.
Her family grew concerned after not receiving a response to their happy birthday messages. Two
days after her disappearance, they contacted the Auckland police, who launched an investigation.
Her body would be recovered eight days later, stuffed into a suitcase in a fetal position.
Investigators zeroed in on Kempson as their main suspect after discovering a post on her Facebook
page and realizing that he was probably the last person to have been in contact with Millane. After
being confronted with CCTV videos of himself wheeling the suitcase out of a hotel lobby,
Kempson confessed to the murder. He told investigators that he had purchased the
bag after the crime, and had abandoned it in Waitakere Ranges, a mountainous region west of
Auckland. The trial lasted only 3 weeks, and the prosecution called several witnesses to the stand,
all of which portrayed Kempson as a narcissistic, compulsive liar who had alienated himself from
family and friends, who was obsessed with dating as many women as possible. He had
rused tinder dates into believing he had cancer, had been adopted and neglected
as a child and even that he was friends with several celebrities. Finally, in February 2020,
he was convicted to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 17 years.
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#2 Sherri Papini
On November 2, 2016, California resident Sherri Papini disappeared while out jogging. Local
authorities contacted the FBI and a search party was assembled. She reappeared 22 days later,
150 miles south of her home, claiming to have been kidnapped by two hispanic men.
The mother-of-two seemed to be hurt and in shock as she gave her statement. Authorities, though,
noticed inconsistencies in her story, and an investigation led them to discover Papini had
run away to live with her ex-boyfriend. Police also found all of her wounds to have been
self-inflicted. For six years, the investigation continued, with multiple interrogations being
conducted by both the police and FBI. Papini maintained her version of events, even after
being warned that lying to the FBI was considered a federal offense. She went as far as to apply
for monetary benefits and received over $30.000 from the California victim’s compensation board.
Finally, in March 2022, Papini was arrested, pleading guilty to mail fraud and making a
false statement to federal agents. She claimed to be ashamed of her behavior and issued a public
apology, but County Sheriff Michael L. Johnson, who was involved in the investigation from the
start, denied this was the case. Johnson called Papini out for her behavior, stating the case
was “about some very strong narcissistic behavior, along with deception, deceit and selfishness”, and
that her confession and supplementary apology was the result of a plea deal offered by the state.
#1 Michelle Carter Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy met in 2012
in Florida, and though they only saw each other in person a handful of times, they created a strong
bond over text messages. Roy had been dealing with self-destructive ideation for years. At first,
Carter tried to help him get through it, but after he told her he wanted them to be ‘like
Romeo and Juliet’, her attitude changed. From June 2014 to his death on July 13 of the same year,
the young woman sent Roy hundreds of messages, encouraging him to take his own life. On that day,
Roy drove to a Kmart parking lot in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, carrying a gas-powered water pump
in the backseat. He sat there with his windows up, breathing in carbon monoxide as Carter encouraged
him over the phone. At one point, Roy changed his mind and left the truck, but after a call from
Carter, he got back inside. It took him 20 minutes to die. Two days later, Carter told a friend,
Samantha Broadman, that he was missing. Broadman would later testify in the trial,
stating that Carter’s accounts of the facts kept changing. When Carter’s messages were discovered,
authorities debated themselves on whether charges could be pressed, as there was no
direct precedent. On February 4, 2015, she was indicted for involuntary manslaughter; Carter was
charged as a youthful offender, meaning she could be tried as an adult instead of a juvenile. Judge
Moniz found her guilty on June 16, 2017, finding that Roy had “broken the chain of self-causation”
when he abandoned the car, and that, had it not been for Carter’s “wanton encouragement”,
he would still be alive. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, and five years'
probation. Her first parole request was denied on September 20, 2019, but on January 23, 2020,
Carter ended up being released three months early for good conduct. Criminals in Massachusetts are
unable to profit from the publicity surrounding their case during the duration of both their
incarceration and probation. Since Carter's probationary period came to an end in August
2022, she can now potentially benefit from the ongoing media attention surrounding her case.
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