Number 8 Shelley Vaughn
In 2022, Florida man Eric Adeson got into an argument with his ex-girlfriend, Shelley Vaughn,
at his apartment in Clearwater Beach. As the man would later report, 46-year-old Vaughn had been
drinking and consuming illicit substances leading up to their row. The heated interaction escalated
after, in a fit of rage, the woman had launched Adeson’s keys and cell phone over the railing
of his balcony. Vaughn then grabbed the man’s pug, Bucky, and threw him from the balcony as well. The
incident was witnessed by several residents and the pet dropped seven stories to the parking lot
below, sustaining fatal injuries. The police were called and Adeson subsequently told officers that
he was “devastated” and that the entire incident was “like a blur” in his mind. He claimed that
Vaughn had been violent in the past but noted that he’d never imagined she’d go so far. The
woman was jailed on charges of aggravated animal cruelty, criminal mischief, and domestic battery.
Adeson also filed a civil lawsuit against his ex and, because she lived two floors below him,
obtained a restraining order that prevented Vaughn from making contact with him.
Number 7 Benno Neumair 30-year-old Italian bodybuilder Benno
Neumair was arrested by local authorities in the province of South Tyrol, in late January of 2021,
in connection to the murder of his parents. Teacher Peter Neumair and his wife, Laura,
had been reported missing and the ensuing investigation led the authorities to their
son. He confessed to the double homicide after his arrest and revealed that his murderous rage had
been triggered by an argument with his father. While at their home in Bolzano, the latter had
asked that Benno get out of bed and take the family dog out for a walk. When he refused,
Peter began scolding him and complaining that he wasn’t doing his share of household chores,
reportedly calling him a failure. The bodybuilder subsequently reported “I just wanted silence. So
I shut him up”. He attacked Peter in the hallway and strangled him to death with a
climbing rope. When his mother returned home, a short while later, Benno killed her in the
same manner. The man confessed to have ended her life “without even saying goodbye” before
throwing her and Paul’s body from a bridge into the Adige River. Laura’s remains were discovered
in the water and exhibited signs of strangulation but Peter’s body never surfaced, with only traces
of his blood being found on the bridge. Number 6 Brittney Griffith
On May the 1st of 2022, Georgia woman Brittney Griffith surrendered to Douglasville police in
the aftermath of a shooting on the I-20. At around 4:40 pm, an unspecified road rage incident had
occurred between the 30-year-old and the driver of another vehicle. Even though Griffith had her
three children in the car at the time, she started following the second vehicle, seeking retaliation
for the previous confrontation. She pulled up alongside it, near the Chapel Hill Road exit,
and opened fire with a handgun, striking a teenager who’d been sat in the passenger seat
in the face. The victim was subsequently rushed to a local hospital and was later reported as
being in a stable condition. One of the other passengers in the targeted car had managed to
capture a photo of Griffith before she fled the scene. The police used it to ask for the public’s
help in identifying the woman and later arrested her. She was denied bond after being charged with
four counts of aggravated assault, three counts of cruelty to children, and one count of possession
of a firearm during commission of a felony. Number 5 Nicolette Mazziotti and James McKnight
Two people were arrested in early August of 2019 following a road rage altercation in Greece,
New York. 28-year-old Nicolette Mazziotti had had been involved in a dispute with another motorist
in the area of Denise Road and Hampton Boulevard. As their interaction became more heated, the
woman returned to her car, retrieved a knife and stabbed the other driver’s car in the front tire
before fleeing the scene. The police were called to the scene and the unnamed victim initially
declined to press charges. Officers returned to the site of the altercation within 10 minutes,
responding to reports of a second and more serious attack. 33-year-old James McKnight,
whose relationship with Mazziotti wasn’t made immediately clear, struck the victim with an
aluminum bat, inflicting injuries to the back, arm and torso. McKnight too fled but was ultimately
arrested alongside Mazziotti. The former was charged with assault 2nd degree petite larceny,
as he’d stolen the bat used in the attack, and was denied bail due to a preexisting felony
conviction. Mazziotti was charged with 2nd degree harassment, for the physical
contact she’d had with the victim, as well as with criminal mischief for stabbing the tire.
Number 4 Daria Brown
On June the 3rd of 2022, Iowa City police officers were called to a downtown bar following
reports that a woman was causing damage to the establishment. 22-year-old Daria Brown had begun
hitting the windows, after she’d been denied entry due to her elevated level of intoxication. Law
enforcement learned that Brown had also assaulted a bar employee but no charges were pursued in that
direction. Nevertheless, officers decided to take her into custody because she was intoxicated and
exhibited assaultive behavior. She had a history of being combative towards the police and efforts
to verbally pacify her proved unsuccessful. Brown resisted arrest, assaulting three officers in the
process. One of them attempted to use chemical spray on her but the device failed to deploy.
As shown by subsequently-released bodycam footage, Brown then tried to disarm an officer of his Taser
while she was being placed in the back of a patrol car. She was hit multiple times in the back, until
she let go of the weapon, but reportedly didn’t require treatment at the time of her booking.
Brown’s charges included public intoxication, disarming a peace officer and interference with
official acts causing bodily injury. Number 3 Kilee Nicole Cunningham
A young woman from Monroe County, Pennsylvania, became overwhelmed with rage in February of 2019,
after she’d reportedly lost money to a pinball machine at the Blue Valley Lanes bowling alley.
26-year-old Kilee Nicole Cunningham punched the machine’s glass panel and, in an effort to calm
her down, employees reimbursed her money. They then asked Cunningham to leave but she refused,
instead demanding more alcohol. When her order was denied, she threw a cup of water in a worker’s
face and stormed out of the establishment. Officers from the Slate Belt Regional Police
Department were called to the scene and caught up to Cunningham while she was walking with a friend.
They asked the woman to identify herself but she became belligerent and started yelling profanities
at them. Officers decided to take her into custody after determining that she was inebriated to the
extent that she presented a danger to herself and others. As they were struggling to get her into
the patrol car, Cunningham repeatedly unbuckled her seatbelt and attempted to flee while also
persisting in her aggressive behavior. She cursed and spat at officers, kicking one of them in the
chest before head-butting him. Cunningham kicked a second officer as they were escorting her into the
police station. Law enforcement then determined that she needed medical attention due to her high
level of inebriation. The woman kept on spitting on responding EMTs and a spit hood was put on her
as she was being transferred to the ambulance. Once inside, however, she forcefully bit into a
paramedic’s forearm, leaving a mark. Cunningham kept brawling with officers and medical staff
before she was ultimately chemically-sedated. In the aftermath of her violent outburst,
she was charged with three counts of aggravated assault, three counts of simple assault, one count
of resisting arrest and three related offenses. Number 2 Amanda Stanton
In September of 2018, reality star Amanda Stanton was at a co-ed bachelorette party at the Wynn
Encore, in Las Vegas, alongside her boyfriend Bobby Jacobs. At around 3 am, security guards were
sent to the room, following a noise complaint, and Jacobs began talking to them. 26-year-old Stanton,
known for her appearances on The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise, aggressively intervened.
In what was deemed a dramatic overreaction, she forcefully pushed her boyfriend. Even though
Jacobs was taller than her by a foot and three inches, the shove coupled with Stanton’s drunken
demeanor was considered serious enough for the guards to call the police. The mother-of-two was
arrested for misdemeanor domestic battery and later released. As reported by TMZ,
the California native and Jacobs were still together in the incident’s aftermath and suspected
that the former’s behavior had been influenced by someone spiking her drink during the party.
Number 1 Michael Close Close to noon, on June the 10th of 2020,
a man opened fire on a couple with an AK-47 rifle following a dispute over dog droppings on the
3000 block of Fox Street, in Denver, Colorado. The shooting occurred in a rock garden outside Michael
Close’s apartment complex, where he was reported to have confronted Isabella Thallas and Darian
Simon, both in their 20s, as they were walking their dog. He’d become enraged that the pet had
defecated close to his window and asked Simon if he was going to train the dog or just yell at it.
Surveillance camera footage later presented by prosecutors showed Close then opening his blinds,
pointing the rifle at the couple and releasing at least two dozen rounds. Thallas, who’d turned
21 two days earlier, was killed instantly while Simon survived after being shot twice
in the legs. The police were alerted by Close’s girlfriend whom he’d called crying to confess the
shooting before driving towards the mountains in his black Mercedes SUV. Close was arrested,
without incident, by Jefferson County Sheriff deputies after the police had tracked his cell
phone. An investigation revealed that the rifle he’d used had been taken from the
personal collection his lifelong friend, Sergeant Dan Politica of the Denver Police, reportedly
without his knowledge or permission. Close had called him, minutes after the shooting, to say
he’d “done something really bad” and “there’s no going back from this now.” Politica resigned
in the shooting’s aftermath even though he wasn’t being actively investigated for misconduct. Close
faced 22 separate criminal counts stemming from the shooting, including first degree murder,
to which, according to the latest updates, he’d pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
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