We’ve already talked about some of the world’s worst children and their ghastly actions,
and we’ve given you accounts of various adult serial killers.
According to the website statistica, from 1980 to 2015, serious violent crimes committed
by youths in the U.S. aged 12 to 17 spiked in 1993.
2011 was the best year, in terms of least crimes committed.
When does one become responsible for a crime committed?
That differs from country to country, but in England and Wales, children under 10 years
of age are deemed not criminally responsible for their actions.
From 10-17, they can be taken to court, but will be treated differently from adults.
After that, they are treated as adults.
Today we’ll see what happened to some teens that committed the worst kind of crimes, in
this episode of the Infographics Show, Terrifying Teens Who Killed in Cold Blood.
Seisaku Nakamura
We’ll start with a Japanese serial killer, who was known as the deaf killer because,
you guessed it, he was deaf.
According to reports Nakamura was a clever kid who did well in school, but he was mistreated
by his parents.
It’s also said he spent a lot of time alone watching movies in which people were slain
with Samurai swords.
He didn’t use a sword but a knife, and was convicted of stabbing nine people to death
in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan.
He also attempted to rape girls and stabbed them, too.
This spree started in 1938 and finished in 1941, just after he killed his brother, and
injured other members of his family.
After his arrest he admitted to two more murders.
He started killing at age 14 and finished aged 17.
For his deeds he was hanged.
His father later committed suicide.
Craig Price
Craig Price, aka, the Warwick Slasher, committed his first murder at just 13.
His victims were all in his neighborhood of Warwick, Rhode Island, in the USA.
The first time he killed at that young age his 27-year old victim lived only two doors
down the street.
He broke into her house, took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed her 58 times.
He often stabbed his victims so viciously he broke the blade, which was then found in
some of his victim’s bodies.
He also killed a 39-year old woman and her kids, who also lived nearby.
He stabbed the mother 57 times, the 10-year old daughter 62 times and the 8-year old daughter
30 times.
He also crushed the latter’s skull.
When arrested he admitted to the crimes without much persuasion.
He told police the murders were payback for racism he had been a victim of.
In prison, many years later, he was seen as a dangerous man and was often in trouble,
at one point slashing a prison guard and another time stabbing an inmate.
His release date was set for 2020 but it’s doubtful he will be released due to his mental
condition and behavior in jail.
Price is sometimes called America’s youngest serial killer, but that title should go to
Jesse Pomeroy, the sadistic torturer and murderer we talked about in our world’s most evil
kids show.
Graham Young Born in London in 1947 Graham Young was famous
for poisoning his victims.
At a young age he showed an aptitude for chemistry but used his skills for dark deeds.
His mother died when he was young and after spending some time with his aunt and uncle
he went to live with his father and step mother.
At age 14 he started taking an interest in poison and started testing his homegrown poisons
on his family.
They became violently ill but no one suspected the young boy.
Even Young’s school friends became very ill, as did Young himself because of his contact
with the strange brews he was making.
His stepmother eventually died, and people became suspicious of Young as they knew he’d
been messing with poison, including deadly nightshade that had been found in one of the
victims.
He eventually confessed and was later sent to Broadmoor Psychiatric hospital after being
diagnosed with personality disorder and schizophrenia.
He was then 19.
He was released after nine years with doctors saying he was “no longer obsessed with poisons,
violence and mischief.”
But he was, he poisoned and killed another two people after getting out.
When his diary was found with all his recipes, he actually wrote which people he intended
to kill and who he would just make extremely ill.
He often added his poisons to cups of tea, which British people rarely refuse if someone
is offering to make for them.
Young died in prison in 1990.
Artyom Alexandrovich Anoufriev and Nikita Vakhtangovich Lytkin
This is a killing duo straight from a horror movie.
The two Russian boys were from Irkutsk, Russia, which is one of Siberia’s biggest cities.
The two boys killed 6 people but attempted to kill nine.
They would come up behind people and hit them with a mallet, then mutilate the body with
a knife.
Sometimes cutting off pieces of the body and taking out the eyeballs.
This all started in 2010.
It’s said they were outcasts who met at a party and got along instantly.
They were called the Academy Maniacs as Akademgorodok (Academy Town in English) in Irkutsk is where
the murders happened.
They both came from broken families and from a young age exhibited antisocial behavior.
They took videos of their acts, and that is how they got caught in the end as a camera
was found with the boys killing and mutilating a woman.
The camera belonged to one of the boy’s uncles.
It’s sometimes said they created the horrific video “3 guys 1 hammer”, but that was
another couple of maniacs in Ukraine.
However, some sources say it was that video that gave them inspiration.
Nikita got 24 years and Artyom was sentenced to life.
Surprisingly their YouTube channel is still up.
There is nothing gory on there, though.
Nehemiah Griego This young man of 15 killed 5 people on January
19, 2013, in New Mexico, USA.
The victims were his family.
First, he shot his mother, and then went to tell his brother the news.
The brother of course became terrified, so he was shot and killed, too.
Then Nehemiah walked into his two sisters’ bedrooms and shot them.
They had already heard what was going on and were in tears when their brother walked in
their bedroom.
He waited for his father to return home and then shot him, too.
The young man then stole his mother’s car and went to his grandmother’s house to ask
if he could move in for a while.
Obviously, it didn’t take too much detective work to find out who was responsible for the
murders.
Why did he do it?
Only he knows, but reports say the family were hyper-religious and kept the kids away
from secular society as much as possible.
Some reports say his father beat him so bad it left him with a brain injury.
He was sentenced to serve at a juvenile facility and would be released at age 21.
But recent reports state that the New Mexico Court of Appeals overturned that ruling.
It’s not known at the moment what will happen to him.
He has two living sisters, one who told the press, “I personally would like him to stay
behind bars.
I think he is a danger to society, I think he's a danger to our family.”
The other sister said he would end up killing again and she had heard him once say he planned
on a killing spree at Walmart.
Charles Starkweather
Some people compare the killing spree of this young man with the films Natural Born Killers
and Kalifornia, as he and his girlfriend went on a bloody rampage from December 1957 to
January 1958.
He was 19 at the time and his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate was just 14.
His high school friend once said that he could be nice as pie one minute and then fly into
rages, stating, “He could be mean as hell, cruel.
If he saw some poor guy on the street who was bigger than he was, better looking, or
better dressed, he'd try to take the poor bastard down to his size.”
Their killing spree ended with 11 people dead.
It started with the murder of a service station attendant in Nebraska.
Starkweather then went to his girlfriend’s house, where her parents said she wasn’t
home.
He killed them both, and also strangled and stabbed their two-year-old daughter.
Was the girlfriend an accomplice?
Starkweather said that at the start, but he kept changing his story.
Fugate always said he held her hostage and she had nothing to do with the murders.
The courts in the end didn’t believe her.
In 1959 Starkweather was executed in the electric chair in Nebraska and Fugate was sentenced
to life imprisonment.
She got out after 17 and half years and is still alive today.
She only once talked about the murders in a radio interview.
She once said, “I told him I didn’t want to see him again but he came back.
I kept telling him to leave.
I told him to leave and I didn’t ever want to see him again.”
She said the reason was because he was crazy.
She was right.
Many people who have written about this case believe her innocence.
During the radio show call-in one woman told her she always believed she was innocent.
Crying, Fugate replied, “You have to realize this is the first time anybody has ever come
forward on my behalf.”
William Heirens
The last person on this list is well-known for being a teen killer but also something
he did after he killed his second victim when he was aged 17.
For that act he was called, “The Lipstick Killer.”
This was because after a woman in Chicago was found brutally stabbed in her apartment,
someone had written on the wall in lipstick, “For heavens’ sake catch me, before I
kill more.
I cannot control myself.”
He had also killed a woman a few months prior to that.
In both cases no valuables were taken from the apartments.
Shortly after that murder, a 6-year old went missing from a house.
When police arrived, they found a ladder leading to the girl’s window.
They also found a ransom note that read, “Get $20,000 Reddy & wAITe foR WoRd.
do NoT NoTify FBI oR Police.
Bills IN 5's & 10's.
BuRN This FoR heR SAfeTY” It turns out the killer was not very good at spelling as there
were many mistakes in the text.
Later the girl’s arms and legs and head, all removed, were found dumped in multiple
storm drains and a sewer block.
He was later arrested but it was a long drawn out case.
He eventually pleaded guilty but later denied any wrongdoing.
Even some detectives believed he was innocent.
He remained in prison, however, and died in 2012 aged 83.
Unfortunately, there are many more teen killers we could have added to this list, know of
any others from your country?
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