#10 - Nicole Cadwalader On June the 4th of 2018,
Nicole Cadwalader walked into a police station in Montgomery County, Maryland and confessed to
murdering her grandmother, Sharon Burke, whom she referred to as “a wretched, evil woman”. To verify
the 30-year-old woman’s unprompted confession, officers were dispatched to the house that she’d
reportedly shared with the victim, who was 68 at the time, whereupon they discovered Burke’s
body on the bedroom floor. Subsequent reports indicated that the elderly woman had been stabbed
repeatedly in the neck and beaten with both a pan and baseball bat. Prior to the incident,
Cadwalader already had an extensive criminal record that included disorderly conduct,
harassment, theft, and public drunkenness. Two years later, on February the 24th,
Cadwalader pleaded guilty but mentally ill to third-degree murder as part of a plea
deal after having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The presiding judge,
Thomas Branca, sentenced her to 12 to 25 years in prison and ordered her to
undergo psychiatric treatment both during her incarceration and upon her eventual release.
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On August the 5th of 2016, Brittney Jade Dwayet drove to her grandfather's house in Adelaide,
Australia, in order to steal the man’s life-savings, worth over $100,000,
and then murder him. The 21-year-old woman was accompanied by her friend and accomplice,
Bernadette Burns, aged 22. Upon their arrival at the home, Dwayet’s grandfather, identified as
81-year-old Robert Whitwell, reportedly showed her and Burns some family pictures, totally unaware
of his grandchild's evil intentions. Moved by her grandfather’s kindness of spirit, Dwayet
ultimately began to question her greed-fueled plan to rob and kill him. However, she subsequently
received a text from Burns telling her to 'harden up' and encouraging her to go through with the
murder plot. The situation culminated with Dwayet stabbing Whitwell in the neck and chest, but she
didn't immediately flee the scene. Instead, she helped her grandfather apply a bandage
to the wounds she’d inflicted and began doing the dishes as the victim bled out in the other
room. Whitwell's body was found three days later and during their initial probe into the matter,
investigators didn't suspect that the victim's family had been responsible for his death. An
anonymous tip eventually led them to discover Dwayet and Burn's participation in the crime,
and, on August the 26th of 2016, both girls were arrested. Dwayet was ultimately sentenced
to life imprisonment, while her accomplice will become eligible for parole in 2029.
#8 - Andrea Lea Wilson On May the 15th of 2018, 28-year-old
Andrea Lea Wilson paid a visit to her grandmother, Ruby Ross, in Bentonville, Arkansas. After dinner,
Wilson reportedly waited for her grandma to fall asleep, at which point she proceeded to bludgeon
the elderly woman to death in her bed. The following morning, Ross’ daughter arrived at the
house and discovered her body, which had sustained “a large, open wound to the head”. The police were
promptly called to the scene, and upon examining the house, investigators found rubber gloves,
a bank statement in Wilson’s name, and a hammer covered in the victim’s blood and hair,
discarded in a trash bag. Wilson was arrested and ultimately confessed to killing her grandmother,
allegedly believing she would be damned to hell unless she offered God a sacrifice. Earlier on
the day of the murder, the woman had reportedly attempted to run over a cyclist with her car,
consequently ejecting him off his bike. Although the prosecution initially planned to make it a
capital case, they eventually accepted a plea bargain after details regarding Wilson’s mental
health issues came to light. The defendant had reportedly stopped taking her prescribed dose
of lithium prior to the incident, and experts hired to determine whether she understood the
consequences of her actions ultimately offered contradictory opinions. On April the 13th of 2021,
Wilson pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, as well as aggravated assault, and was consequently
sentenced to 36 years behind bars. #7 - Heather Barbera
In April of 2018, Mississippi woman Heather Barbera moved back in with her mother and
grandmother in New Jersey to help her manage some of the problems associated with her prolonged
substance abuse issues. The woman’s already strained relationship with her relatives,
identified as 67-year-old Michelle Gordon and 87-year-old Elaine Rosen, ultimately reached a
boiling point on July the 8th of that same year. 42-year-old Barbera reportedly attacked both women
with a blunt object before fleeing the state. After the bodies were found by Gordon’s brother,
police launched an investigation, leading to the discovery that Barbera had stolen the
victims’ credit cards and had been using them to make purchases in New York City. She was
tracked down to midtown Manhattan and arrested three days later. While in custody, Barbera
admitted to striking her mother with her late father’s police nightstick during a contentious
argument. She then shifted her rage towards Rosen after the elderly woman had tried to intervene.
Barbera pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and aggravated manslaughter in October of 2019, but
her lawyer requested that she be given a lenient sentence due to her history of substance abuse
and the “toxic and very unhealthy family dynamic” that had existed in the household. The defendant
was ultimately sentenced to 30 years in prison for Gordon’s murder and 12 years for Rosen’s,
to be served consecutively. #6 - Paula Montoya
On July the 21st of 2016, Los Angeles police were dispatched to the home of 64-year-old
Paula Montoya at the behest of her son, who lived out of state and hadn’t heard from her in several
days. The woman’s body, which presented signs of strangulation, broken ribs, and head trauma,
was discovered inside the bathroom, having been wrapped in plastic. Montoya’s 24-year-old
granddaughter, Sarah, had reportedly been the last person to see her alive. After investigators
learned that Sarah had abandoned her car near the US border and had fled to Mexico with her
children, she became the police’s prime suspect. An international arrest warrant was issued and on
August the 8th of 2016, Sarah was extradited back to Los Angeles, where she faced charges
of manslaughter and kidnapping, the latter of which stemmed from the fact that she’d
fled the country without the authorization of her children's father. While being interrogated, Sarah
allegedly admitted to having “snapped” during an argument with her grandmother, whom she’d choked
to death. The young woman pleaded no contest to her charges and, in July of 2019, was sentenced
to 26 years in prison. #5 - Harlee Swols
A concerned resident of Enfield, Connecticut called 911 on August the 12th of 2021 after
hearing screams coming from her neighbor’s apartment. Police arrived at the scene,
whereupon they discovered the homeowner, 73-year-old Maryrose Riach, unconscious but alive
on the floor. Officers also came upon the lifeless body of the woman’s boyfriend, James Samuel Bell,
as well as her granddaughter, Harlee Swols, who was covered in blood. Riach was rushed to the
hospital, where she would die later that same day. It subsequently emerged that 22-year-old Swols had
been forbidden from entering her grandmother’s home after a previous domestic disturbance in
July. She told investigators that she’d broken in to retrieve her possessions, but that Riach
had caught her before a violent argument ensued. Both Riach and Bell were reportedly stabbed over
a dozen times during the altercation, and displayed severe defensive wounds. As of
the latest updates on the case, Swols was still awaiting the commencement of her criminal trial.
#4 - Angela Wamsley Nellie Sullivan,
a 93-year-old resident of Candler, North Carolina who suffered from dementia, was classified as a
missing person for two years before investigators finally found her body on April the 14th of 2022.
Sullivan’s granddaughter, Angela Wamsley, aged 46, and the latter’s husband, 50-year-old Alan Barnes,
were arrested in connection to her 2020 disappearance. Neighbors had notified the
police that the elderly woman hadn’t been seen for several years. Shortly thereafter, Wamsley and
Barners became the investigation’s prime suspects, as they’d allegedly been cashing Sullivan’s
retirement checks, even after she’d gone missing. It wouldn’t be until the new owners of Sullivan’s
home saw their pet duck running underneath the house that they discovered a drum containing the
missing woman’s remains. Wamsley and her husband were charged with murder and were scheduled to
appear in court on May the 13th of 2022. #3 - Chantima Wongwatkee
In 2022, Thai woman Chantima Wongwatkee was accused of embezzling money from her
grandmother-in-law, Tee Sae Phu. In May of that year, the latter began to suspect
that she’d been deceived into signing official documents that granted 26-year-old Wongwatkee
control over several of her bank accounts. Phu promptly demanded her money back,
but her grandchild refused, instead opting to fatally strangle the 70-year-old woman
to keep the details of her financial fraud a secret. Following the cold-blooded murder,
Wongwatkee made an effort to clean up the scene of the crime to make it look like a robbery
gone awry. Neighbors later told the police that they’d seen Wongwatkee fleeing the victim’s home,
and an arrest warrant was subsequently issued for her. Once in police custody,
the young woman admitted to stealing nearly $6,000 from her grandmother-in-law before committing
the murder. Wongwatkee claimed, however, to have acted under a "sudden, ungovernable mood swing",
and thus argued that she shouldn’t be held completely responsible for her actions. As of
the case’s latest updates, legal procedures against the defendant were still ongoing.
#2 - Sarah Elizabeth Smith In October of 2019, police responded to a home
in Rowan County, North Carolina, where resident Peggy Austin had been found dead at the bottom of
the staircase. Investigators postulated that the 87-year-old woman’s death had been the result of
an unfortunate accident. However, after medical examiners conducted an autopsy, it was concluded
that Austin’s injuries were too severe to support their initial theory. Detectives questioned
Austin’s live-in granddaughter, 28-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Smith, and her boyfriend,
43-year-old Brandon Scot Jones. On December the 23rd of 2019, Smith was arrested and charged with
embezzlement after it emerged that she’d been fraudulently using her grandmother’s money while
she was already under police investigation. During her subsequent interrogation,
the suspect ultimately confessed to pushing her grandmother down the flight of stairs on the night
of the deadly incident, and she was consequently charged with second-degree murder. Her boyfriend
was also criminally charged for allegedly aiding and abetting both the embezzlement and murder.
#1 - Katherine Seeber New York teen Katherine
Seeber was accused of using an electrical cord to strangle her 91-year-old great-grandmother
at her home in Stillwater on February the 12th of 2000. Following her resulting criminal trial
the following year, Seeber was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but the verdict was ultimately
overturned 11 years later. State forensic analyst Garry Veeder reportedly confessed
to tampering with evidence in over 100 cases with which he was involved during his career,
including Witter's murder investigation. Veeder would go on to take his own life in 2008,
before the case against him ever went to trial. Seeber faced a less severe re-sentencing following
her acquittal and was released from custody on July the 16th of 2012. Soon after being paroled,
Seeber reportedly started dating a man named Pedro Sanchez. The relationship quickly turned
violent when the 38-year-old man, having accused Seeber of being unfaithful, fatally
stabbed her in the torso and face in her Queens apartment. Despite his best efforts to cover up
the scene of the slaying, Sanchez was ultimately arrested and charged with second-degree murder,
criminal possession of a weapon, tampering with evidence, and resisting arrest.
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