Number 10 Judith Ann Black In late April of 2021, an elderly Florida woman
received a felony charge after throwing a Whopper at an African-American Burger King employee
and going on a racially-charged tirade. The root cause of 77-year-old Judith Ann Black’s discontent
was the thickness of the tomato slice in her sandwich. She became enraged and,
when an unnamed employee tried to calm her down, Black threw the Whopper which hit her in the back.
Black, a white woman, then launched a series of slurs at the worker before storming out. She was
tracked down by law enforcement with the help of surveillance footage and eyewitness reports. Black
was later taken into custody and admitted to her behavior, claiming “I was angry”. In accordance
to Florida law, the racist expletives enhanced the charge of battery from a misdemeanor of the first
degree to a felony of the third degree. Number 9 Pecola Duncan
In 2019, a Tennessee woman stabbed her husband as he was napping in a recliner and, upon being
questioned by the authorities, reportedly seemed “cheerful and unfazed” by her actions.
When officers arrived at the Clinton home of Pecola and Harold Duncan,
aged 72 and 66, respectively, they saw the latter exiting the home while holding a
bloody towel to his chest. He was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Pecola told the authorities that she’d stabbed Harold after he became physically violent towards
her and dragged her down the hallway. However, officers noted that there weren’t any signs of
a struggle in the home and Pecola presented no injuries to suggest she’d been attacked.
Before being taken into custody, the elderly woman asked if Harold had died from his wounds,
reportedly saying “I hope he did”. She was charged with first-degree attempted murder and
held at the Anderson County Detention Facility, on a $100,000 bond, while awaiting trial as well as,
most likely, an assessment of her mental state. Number 8 Joseph Stroud
For several months in 2021, the family of Arkansas man Fred Allen McKinney noticed a series
of strange incidents involving his gravesite. McKinney had passed away in 2015, at the age
of 94, and, from May to July of 2021, dead animal carcasses would randomly appear on his tombstone.
His family was given permission by the cemetery to install a hidden camera, facing his tombstone,
hoping that it would provide them with some answers. The footage from the camera would
show someone, disguised in a wig and women’s clothing, placing the carcasses on the tombstone.
One day, McKinney’s granddaughter was out jogging and spotted 79-year-old Joseph Stroud,
a neighboring farmer to the deceased, driving away from the cemetery. She then went to her
grandfather’s gravesite where she found a dead possum as well as eight living baby possums,
inside one of the flower vases. Stroud was ultimately identified as the person in the footage
and he was arrested on August the 10th. It was reported that, as neighbors, he and McKinney
had had many problems throughout the years. Stroud admitted that he was the one placing
carcasses on the tombstone but said he’d done so as a tribute to McKinney, who’d loved animals.
When asked about the disguise, he claimed to have donned it as a way of “agitating” people
who were looking at him or following him around the cemetery. A neurologist would diagnose him
with vascular dementia. Under a plea deal, Stroud pled guilty to the misdemeanor charge of defacing
objects of public respect and pledged to replace the tombstone, which the blood and guts from the
dead animals had reduced to a deplorable state. Number 7 Mary Elizabeth Locke
On January the 17th of 2019, a senior citizen was arrested in Okaloosa County, Florida, for dumping
hot chicken and dumplings on her husband’s lap. An argument erupted between 71-year-old
Mary Elizabeth Locke, her son and her husband. The woman, who’d recently had back surgery, reportedly
became upset that they weren’t properly taking care of her. Her son had made himself chicken
and dumplings for dinner, neglecting to ask if she wanted some. Locke’s 73-year-old husband
then told the woman that he’d make her the dish, but she replied that she didn’t want it anymore.
He later made a bowl for himself and sat in the living room to eat. Locke heated chicken and
dumplings in the microwave, approached him and then dumped the food in his lap. The severity
of the burns he’d sustained remained unspecified. Locke’s son contacted the authorities and she was
taken into custody, on a $1,500 bond. Number 6 Martin Turkiewicz
In September of 2017, a man from upstate New York attacked his partner of 60 years with a hammer at
a care facility in suburban Buffalo. 88-year-old Martin Turkiewicz approached his wife, Rita,
also in her late 80s, and struck her with the tool several times in the head. He then went to
the front desk of the Garden Gate Health Care Facility to report the attack. The police took
him into custody but they didn’t release a motive for the brutal bludgeoning while the facility’s
operators simply described it as a “domestic incident”. There was some speculation about
Martin’s mental state but nothing was confirmed while some sources claimed that he’d actually
attempted a mercy killing. Rita sustained a fractured skull but ultimately recovered.
Martin, who was deeply remorseful, pled guilty to assault and was sentenced to 6 months in jail
and 5 years’ probation. An order of protection was issued and he could only see his wife under
supervised circumstances. Number 5 Walter Wolford
In September of 2018, a Pennsylvania man was arrested for using a dog leash to walk his wife,
who suffered from advanced dementia, through the York Fair. Witnesses reported that 66-year-old
Walter Wolford would sometimes tug on the 8-foot leash, wrapped around the throat of his wife,
Catherine. It would cause the woman’s head to move backwards and inflicted red marks on her
neck. Bystanders called the police and arriving officers noticed Catherine’s condition was bad,
as she was being treated by the fair’s medical personnel. The woman didn’t know her name,
where she was and was speaking unintelligibly. The police questioned Wolford who claimed that he
wasn’t the “monster” that fairgoers had made him out to be. He related that he’d taken his wife,
whom he “loved more than anything”, to a fair before and that, because of her medical condition,
she’d run away from him. He maintained that he’d never meant to hurt her and that the
leash had originally been tied around her waist but that it then somehow moved up to her neck.
The couple’s son was contacted and he claimed that Wolford wasn’t an abusive husband. Nevertheless,
he was charged with one count of simple assault.
Number 4 Michael Hubbard
In September of 2018, in an unexpected attack, 81-year-old Michael Hubbard stabbed his wife of 50
years to death at their home in Norfolk, England. Since 2014, Michael had been experiencing changes
in his mental state but he wasn’t deemed a danger to himself or others. A doctor would routinely
check on the pair and a report found that the fatal stabbing couldn’t have been anticipated
by professionals. There were no signs of abuse throughout the half a century that they’d been
together. Michael and Hilda, aged 76, were described as a “self- sufficient couple”. In
their later years, they rode a scooter and sidecar together and, by all accounts, were
managing on their own. They’d be seen walking arm in arm, up to three times a day, and on Sundays
they had lunch at a local pub. On September the 23rd, at around 10:30 am, the police was called
to the report of a woman being stabbed. Neighbors had raised the alarm after they’d spotted Hilda
trying to leave her home. Her bloodied body was found lying in the doorway and she was pronounced
dead at the scene. Armed police officers were forced to shoot Michael with rubber bullets
after he refused to let go of the two knives in his possession and started stabbing himself in
the chest. He was taken into custody and, after being deemed unfit to stand trial, was relocated
to a medical facility. According to a psychiatric report, the senior citizen was suffering from
advanced dementia with Lewy bodies, a debilitating form of the illness that can result in extreme
confusion and hallucinations. Number 3 Onik Derhovansian
On July the 17th of 2021, a senior citizen fatally shot his neighbor following a fight
over loud music. The incident occurred in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Valley Glen,
California. 66-year-old Onik Derhovansian had been feuding with Eduard Avetisyan,
aged 35, due to the alleged ruckus caused by his music. It’s unclear how far back the
dispute went but it was described as “heated” with Derhovansian ultimately daring Avetisyan,
who lived above him, to come downstairs. Avetisyan did so and, at around 2:40 am,
Derhovansian shot him multiple times. Officers arrived to find the victim dead,
at which point they took Derhovansian, who’d remained at the scene, into custody.
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Number 2 Mike Reda In October of 2013,
a senior citizen at a retirement home in Detroit went on a rampage and killed two women whom he
believed had driven a wedge between him and his girlfriend. Mike Reda, a man in his early 60s,
was living alone at the Pablo Davis Elder Living Center. He’d been dating a woman,
whose identity wasn’t released, for several years. His girlfriend then befriended 59-year-old Deborah
Socia and Maria Gonzalez, aged 61. Reda gradually grew angry at the two women at what he perceived
were persistent intrusions into his relationship. After his girlfriend broke up with him, his rage
reached a boiling point. On October the 20th, drunk on brandy, Reda retrieved a Heckler & Koch
MP5 submachine gun from his room. He approached Socia, as she sat with a friend on a bench,
on the center’s grounds. Reda swung his weapon between the two and told the friend to get on his
knees and pray before fatally shooting Socia one time. He then went to Gonzalez’s room, kicked down
the door and shot her twice in the head. Reda’s girlfriend was unharmed in the attack. The gunman
was apprehended by the police as he was coming out of the building. He was given two mandatory life
sentences without the possibility of parole. Number 1 Clifton Bourne
In May of 2021, blood-curdling screams echoed through the halls of a Bronx nursing home
as a dementia sufferer beat his neighbor to death with his bare hands.
87-year-old Clifton Bourne was arrested after he allegedly grabbed Lloyd Godfrey, aged 83,
and repeatedly bashed his head against the concrete floor at the Pinnacle Multicare
Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Godfrey was found lying unresponsive with Bourne next to him,
soaked in his blood. No reason was provided for the killing but, according to the Alzheimer’s
Society, aggressiveness is often a byproduct of dementia. Bourne was taken into custody but
it’s highly unlikely that he’d be deemed fit to stand trial, given his mental condition.
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