Number 7 Kiechaun Newell In 2016, a gang member’s mother reported
him to the police after hearing him brag about murdering a teenager, who’d previously assisted
him in a bank robbery.
19-year-old Kiechaun Newell and Jeffrey Doss, aged 22, had robbed a Citizens Bank in Northfield
Village, Ohio, on August the 15th.
The men, both reported members of the Black Disciples street gang, had recruited 17-year-old
Breanna Fluitt to help them.
However, within a few days, surveillance photos of her robbing the bank were made public.
Newell and Doss became concerned that she would turn on them upon being questioned by
the police.
Four days after the robbery, Newell picked Fluitt up from her home in a stolen SUV, alongside
three other teenagers.
He told them to switch seats with him so that he could “make out” with her.
They drove to East Cleveland, where Newell executed Fluitt.
He shot her two times in the SUV and three more times as she lay dying on the ground,
outside of the vehicle.
Newell’s mother contacted the police after he’d bragged about the killing.
The teenagers provided the authorities with evidence against him in exchange for their
charges to be kept in the juvenile court.
He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 49 years.
Number 6 Katie Price In 2019, British celebrity Katie Price faced
a considerable degree of public backlash and was accused of making light of drunk driving.
The former model’s pink Range Rover had crashed on October the 10th of the previous
year.
Price was found in the backseat and, upon being questioned by the police, claimed that
one of her friends had been driving the vehicle after which they’d fled the scene.
She didn’t, however, provide the authorities with the name of said friend which led to
speculation about her story being a fabrication.
Price was reportedly nearly twice the legal limit as the Range Rover crashed into a hedge
and a parked vehicle, in London.
No one was hurt but the incident was just one of many legal issues involving Price’s
driving in the past, some of which included speeding, running a red light and driving
while on her cellphone.
For the latest incident, she wasn’t found to be a credible witness and was ultimately
given a three-month driving ban on the lesser charge of being drunk while in charge of a
motor vehicle.
She celebrated her conviction outside the courthouse, claiming “Brilliant, I thought
I was about to get two years".
Price was seen pumping her fist in the air and boasted that she was going to go “car
shopping”.
The public viscerally reacted to her attitude.
One woman, whose teenage daughter had been killed in a drunk-driving incident, called
it “disgusting” and a way of trivializing a serious issue.
Price was also accused of setting a bad example and of getting off with a lighter sentence
simply because of her celebrity status.
Number 5 Blake Fischer In October of 2018, an Idaho Fish and Game
Commissioner resigned from his position amidst controversy regarding his recent hunting trip
to Namibia.
In mid-September he’d sent an email with photos, bragging about his expedition, to
over one hundred colleagues and friends.
The images showed Fischer and his wife standing next to the bodies of various kills which
included a leopard, an oryx, a giraffe, a waterbuck and, perhaps most worrisome, an
entire baboon family.
Fischer boasted that he’d killed the latter as a way of introducing his wife to hunting
in Africa, claiming that “she got the idea quick”.
Many of his colleagues found the images and the callous tone of the email unsettling.
Former commissioners of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game spoke out against what they
believed to be a lurid perspective on hunting and an attitude that tarnished the department’s
reputation.
They called for Fischer to resign, which he did, but told a Boise newspaper that he didn’t
feel he’d done anything unethical and immoral.
Number 4 Artur Tomowiak While intoxicated, Artur Tomowiak crashed
his Mercedes S600 into another vehicle and killed its occupant, only seconds after boasting
to a passenger about his drunk-driving skills.
In October of 2018, Tomowiak was speeding down Mort Lane, in Tyldesley, Manchester.
He was doing over 70 mph in a 30 mph area when he collided with a Volkswagen Golf.
71-year-old Kathleen Brogan was a front seat passenger while her daughter, Jill, was behind
the wheel.
The Golf spun 180 degrees and was hurled tens of feet back up the road.
Brogan was killed while Jill was rushed to the hospital with fractures to both legs and
to her pelvis.
39-year-old Tomowiak suffered internal injuries, as did his passenger, Zygmunt Putek.
The audio from dash cam footage revealed a conversation between the two men.
Putek had repeatedly asked Tomowiak to slow down, claiming that he had children to which
the latter replied ''I'm a better driver when I've had a drink.''
Moments later, he crashed into the Volkswagen.
Earlier that day, Tomowiak had downed a third of a whiskey bottle and was double the legal
alcohol limit.
He pled guilty to causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving for which he was
sentenced to 88 months in prison and banned from driving for 9 years and ten months.
Number 3 Murder of Daniel Halseth On April the 9th of 2021, the body of 45-year-old
Daniel Halseth was found, burnt from head to toe, in the garage of his Las Vegas home.
Prior to being stuffed into a sleeping bag and set ablaze, he’d been stabbed and cut
at least 70 times.
There were also wounds on his body to suggest attempted dismemberment.
The police was only hours into the investigation when they were approached by the parents of
18-year-old Aaron Guerrero.
They were concerned that he’d run away with Halseth’s daughter, Sierra, also in her
late teens.
She and Guerrero had been dating between June and December of 2020, but their parents then
kept them apart after finding out about their plan to run away to Los Angeles together.
As the investigation progressed it was revealed that Sierra had used her father’s debit
cards.
Surveillance cameras from local stores had captured her and Guerrero buying disposable
gloves, a circular saw and saw blades, bleach and lighter fluid.
Many of the items were found at the crime scene, along with a handsaw and two folding
knives.
It’s believed that Sierra and Guerrero murdered Halseth and then tried burning the body and
parts of the house to cover their tracks.
The two had fled to Salt Lake City, where they were arrested on April the 13th.
In the aftermath, the authorities found a disturbing video on YouTube of Sierra and
Guerrero apparently bragging about the murder.
The couple appeared to be inside a tent as Guerrero boasted to the camera “Welcome
back to our YouTube Channel: Day 3 after murdering somebody” as they each held three fingers
up.
Sierra then told Guerrero not to say that on camera before he cradled her head and claimed
that it had been worth it.
Their trial is ongoing but some reports claimed that prosecutors pondered pursuing the death
penalty for Guerrero.
The teens both pled not guilty.
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Number 2 Twain Gotti In July of 2013, a rapper was charged with
double homicide after boasting in his lyrics about slaying a rival gang member.
The case had gone cold for the 2007 murders of 16-year-old Christopher Horton and Brian
Dean, aged 20, who’d been gunned down on the porch of a Virginia home.
Then, in 2011, a break came after a detective newly assigned to the case was tipped off
about a YouTube song called “Ride Out”, performed by 22-year-old local rapper Antwain
Steward, also known as Twain Gotti.
He was reportedly becoming prominent on the music scene, having released several mix tapes,
performing in East Coast shows and signing with a New York based management firm.
In the song that allegedly referenced Horton’s killing, he bragged how everyone had seen
when he “choked him” on the porch but he goes on to imply there were no witnesses
when he “smoked him” and “357 Smith & Wesson scoped him”.
Roughly one year after the charges, Steward was acquitted of the double murder but, instead,
got 16 years for additional charges stemming from the shooting.
They were two use-of-a-firearm counts and one for shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Steward stated an intention of appealing the sentence.
His conviction refueled conversations about First Amendment rights and if rap lyrics,
on which most of the case against Steward had been built, are entirely protected by
freedom of speech or if they may be used as evidence.
Number 1 Jorge Avilla-Torrez On July the 12th of 2009, a welfare check
was performed at the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, after Navy Petty
Officer 2nd Class Amanda Snell failed to turn up for her shift.
The door was unlocked while her purse and ID were still in the room.
Snell’s decomposing body was found inside a closet and it was ultimately determined
that the 20-year-old had been killed through some form of strangulation.
DNA samples were taken from the scene and, because of how tightly-monitored the base
was, the killer was suspected to have been stationed there.
For months, none of the leads had panned out until February of 2010, following the kidnapping
of three women in Arlington.
Their aggressor had taken them at gunpoint and bound them with electrical cords in their
Ballston apartment.
He then took one of the victims to a secluded area in his SUV, repeatedly choked and abused
her before leaving her for dead next to a highway.
She survived, as did the others, and they were able to provide the authorities with
a description of the vehicle and their aggressor.
The information consequently led them to Jorge Avilla-Torrez.
He was a Marine who lived at the base, just two doors down from Snell.
A search of his vehicle tied him to the February attack while his DNA was found to match samples
recovered from that crime scene as well as from the bed sheets in Snell’s room.
Following Torrez’s arrest, his cellmate, Osama El-Atari, approached the authorities
claiming that he’d been bragging about killing Snell.
El-Atari was serving time for defrauding several banks of an estimated $53 million and agreed
to wear a wire in exchange for a lesser sentence.
It would subsequently provide investigators with a chilling recording of Torrez describing
how he’d tied Snell up with the cable from her laptop and choked her to death.
The DNA evidence coupled with the jailhouse confession was enough to secure a conviction
but the series of gruesome revelations was far from over.
After running his DNA through a database, Torrez was connected to a horrific 2005 double
homicide in his hometown of Zion, Illinois, when he was still in his late teens.
The victims had been abused, killed and their eyeballs had been cut out of their sockets.
It’s believed that he’d joined the Marines to lower suspicions.
He was sentenced to death for Snell’s murder as well as the double homicide and is currently
awaiting execution at USP Terre Haute.
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