#7 - Miriam Beelte
A young German woman named Miriam Beelte went on a backpacking trip through Thailand, by herself,
during the spring of 2019. The 27-year-old had been staying in the city of Pattaya when she
decided to ferry out to the nearby island of Koh Sichang, located off the country’s southeastern
coast. Shortly after her arrival, on April the 7th, Beelte was approached by a local man, who was
later identified as Ronnakorn Romruen, aged 24. He initiated a conversation with the young woman
before allegedly asking to engage in intimate relations with her. Beelte emphatically rejected
his proposition and then attempted to leave. As she did so, however, Romruen followed closely
behind. He would later reveal to investigators that, once he eventually caught up to the tourist,
he pinned her to the ground and assaulted her. In an effort to prevent the victim from
reporting the abuse to the authorities, Romruen fatally struck her over the head with a brick
and concealed her body under a pile of rocks and leaves on a secluded hillside. Not long after,
a tourist reportedly contacted local police upon noticing that Romruen’s clothes were covered in
blood. Officers searched the area close to where the man had been spotted and eventually discovered
Beelte’s hidden remains. Romruen was then taken into custody and, after four hours of
interrogation, he confessed to assaulting and murdering the young vacationer while he was
intoxicated on unspecified illegal substances. It was reported that, during his murder confession,
the suspect had actually re-enacted the crime for investigators at the police station. In July of
2019, Romruen was sentenced to death. #6 - The Sharp Family
In March of 2018, Kevin and Amy Sharp, from Creston, Iowa, took their two children on a
vacation to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The family had reportedly arrived in the country on the
15th of the month and were staying at a rental condo unit in the coastal town of Tulum. Amy’s
mother later told investigators that the final communication she’d had with her daughter occurred
on the same day as their arrival at the condo. Relatives in the Sharps’ hometown began to suspect
that something might have happened to the family after they’d failed to return from their trip the
following week. The family was officially reported missing on March the 23rd, two days after they
were scheduled to go back home. Mexican officials ordered a welfare check at their rental property,
at which point local officers made the horrifying discovery that the entire Sharp family had passed
away inside the unit where they were staying. In the days that followed, reports surfaced
that the American tourists had succumbed to the inhalation of toxic gasses, and the condition of
their remains suggested that they’d been dead for anywhere between 36 and 48 hours prior to
being discovered. On April the 4th, the lead investigator on the case, Christopher Martinez,
revealed during an interview with The Des Moines Register that the Sharps’ official cause of death
had been established as “asphyxiation from propane inhalation”. It was also reported that the deadly
gas had been emitted by a faulty water heater that had rusted in the humid Caribbean climate.
#5 - Enzo and Daniela Dalmazzo A Miami Beach couple was jailed during a family
vacation to Hawaii, in August of 2021. According to criminal complaints filed by the state,
Enzo and Daniela Dalmazzo were arrested after it was discovered that they’d falsified
COVID-19 vaccination cards for themselves and their children in order to gain entry onto the
island. On August the 11th, they were stopped by an airport screener who felt that the vaccine
cards belonging to the couple’s children were suspicious. Aged 5 and 4, the children were too
young to have been inoculated by any of the three vaccines that had been approved for use in the US,
making it impossible for their respective vaccination cards to be valid. It was also
discovered that the parents had forged their own cards, and they were thus found to be in violation
of the state’s Safe Travels rules, which led to them being placed under arrest. The Dalmazzo
couple was cited $8,000 and ultimately posted bail. Subsequent reports pointed out the rather
ironic fact that full vaccination wasn’t even a requirement for them to enter Hawaii. The state’s
pandemic mandates at the time stipulated that travelers could alternatively present a negative
COVID-19 test taken 72 hours before a trip. #4 - Zach Davis
On January the 3rd of 2022, Cheyenne Floyd, one of the stars of MTV’s show Teen Mom, flew into
LAX Airport in Los Angeles, California, after a vacation to Mexico with her fiancé and children.
As they made their way through the terminal, the couple were reportedly stopped by customs
officials who’d found multiple outstanding warrants for Floyd’s partner, 29-year-old Zach
Davis. He was consequently taken into custody, although subsequent reports suggested that he
was released a short time later. The warrants for Davis’ arrest had reportedly stemmed from alleged
probation violations in connection to theft and driving under the influence. In the incident’s
aftermath, neither Floyd nor Davis made any mention of the latter’s legal troubles on social
media, and instead uploaded several photographs that had been taken during their trip to Mexico.
#3 - Joseph and Emily Ferlazzo In October of 2021, Joseph and Emily Ferlazzo
took a camping trip to Vermont to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. The couple, who
lived in Northfield, New Hampshire, rented out an Airbnb in the popular ski resort town of Bolton.
On October the 16th, Joseph reportedly told his wife’s family that she’d disappeared after
the couple had gotten into an argument in their live-in camper that afternoon. Two days later,
the family officially reported Emily missing to the authorities. According to a police affidavit,
Joseph ultimately confessed to murdering his wife while being interviewed by investigators. The man
also reportedly revealed that, 12 to 15 hours after fatally shooting her inside their camper,
he’d proceeded to dismember Emily’s corpse and placed her body parts in eight large trash bags.
Vermont State Police subsequently obtained a warrant to search the couple’s Chevrolet Express,
at which point they came upon the garbage bags that Joseph had described
in his confession. When officers found the bags hidden in the camper’s bathroom, one of them had
been left open and a severed human leg, without a foot attached to it, was reportedly visible
inside. Joseph was charged with first-degree murder in connection to his wife’s death. Although
he’d been exceedingly transparent with the police regarding his involvement in the violent crime,
he ultimately entered a plea of not guilty during his arraignment at the Vermont Superior Court in
Burlington on the morning of October the 20th. Today's topic was requested by Adri, tebmc 34
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the comments section below. #2 - Abigail Bieber
In January of 2022, a group of deputies from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, in Florida,
took a vacation to the coastal city of St. Augustine. Two of the officers on the group
trip were identified as Detective Daniel Leyden and Deputy Abigail Bieber, who were romantically
involved at the time. On the night of January the 29th, some of the other deputies reportedly heard
the couple engaged in a heated argument in their room at the vacation rental home where the group
was staying. At about 10 pm, the shouting match was abruptly punctuated by the sound of gunshots.
Following the gunfire, multiple witnesses later detailed how they’d seen a few of the vacationing
deputies evacuating people through a second-story window. They also reportedly called for the gunman
to exit the room with his hands on his head. Local law enforcement were eventually dispatched to the
scene, and it was then discovered that both Bieber and Leyden had succumbed to gunshot wounds inside
their room. A preliminary investigation concluded that the man had gunned down his girlfriend
before turning the murder weapon on himself and taking his own life. In the shooting’s
wake it was reported that Bieber, aged 30, had aspired to become a detective within the Criminal
Investigations Division Special Victims Section. On February the 2nd, the slain deputy’s body was
escorted to her home in Clearwater by the Motor Unit of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
#1 - Scott Hapgood While vacationing with his family
on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, in April of 2019, investment banker Scott Hapgood was involved
in a deadly altercation with a hotel employee. The 44-year-old Connecticut man would later tell
investigators that, on the day of the incident, he had gone back to his hotel room after spending the
afternoon at the pool with his family. His three children, aged 14, 12, and 9, returned to the room
shortly thereafter. Hapgood reportedly heard a knock at the door a few minutes later. When he
opened it, the man on the other side, a hotel worker named Kenny Mitchel, stated that he was
there to fix a broken sink in the family’s room. Although Hapgood hadn’t reported a faulty sink,
he allowed 27-year-old Mitchel into their room regardless. He would later attribute the decision
to the fact that he was wearing an official hotel uniform. Moments after walking inside,
Mitchel allegedly brandished a knife and demanded money from the holidaymakers. Hapgood then grabbed
the man’s wrist in a reported attempt to wrestle away the weapon, leading to an all-out brawl that
spilled into the bathroom. Hapgood’s children rushed to find help, and eventually returned to
the room with other hotel employees. By that time, Hapgood already had Mitchel restrained, and was
allegedly holding him down by the neck. The police weren’t called to the scene for nearly 40 minutes,
at which point Mitchel was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead. It was initially postulated
that the extended period in which the hotel worker had been deprived of medical care had contributed
to his passing. Anguillan authorities subsequently charged Hapgood with manslaughter. A toxicology
report, released in August of 2019, revealed the presence of cocaine and other substances
in Mitchel’s system, and it was thus concluded that the man’s death had been caused by a drug
overdose. In November, Hapgood refused to return to the island for a preliminary court hearing,
and was thereupon considered a fugitive from justice in Anguilla. Following
an inquiry into the situation, Anguillan officials determined that there was enough
evidence for Hapgood’s prosecution on the manslaughter charge to be continued despite
the seemingly definitive piece of exculpatory evidence provided by the toxicology report.
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