Number 8 Casey Garcia
A Texas mother was arrested, in 2021, for sneaking into a middle school while pretending to be her
teenage daughter. Casey Garcia later explained her actions as a “social experiment” meant to test
campus security. The 30-year-old woman stood at 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighed around 105 pounds,
a physical frame that easily enabled her to pass as a student. She’d dyed her hair, used skin
tanner and dressed as her child before entering the premises of the Garcia Enriquez Middle School
campus in San Elizario, about 20 miles southeast of El Paso. She wore a facemask and provided her
daughter’s ID number, consequently being allowed access to the building. Videos circulating on
social media showed Garcia greeting others in the school and also attending classes. She’d managed
to make it through the morning and most of the afternoon before she was spotted by a teacher
and ultimately turned herself in to the principal. She was arrested by El Paso County Sheriff's
Office deputies for tampering with government records and criminal trespass. According to
the superintendent for the school district of San Elizario, officials were reviewing and improving
their security protocols in the incident’s wake. Number 7 Sarah Brady
In April of 2020, as stay-at-home orders were widespread across the US, an Idaho mother was
arrested as part of a group urging others in the state to protest anti-coronavirus
prevention measures. Local police approached 40-year-old Sarah Brady at a “Playdate Protest”,
staged at a closed playground in Kleiner Park, in Meridian. The officers repeatedly asked her
and the others to disperse. Brady, who was also affiliated with at least one anti-vaccine group,
refused to leave, turned around with her hands behind her back and
dared officers to arrest her. A video of her being taken into custody subsequently began
circulating on social media. Brady was charged for trespassing and violating city orders but
was released after posting a $300 bond. Less than a week after her arrest, the mother apologized for
her behavior in the police encounter, claiming that her frustration over recent restrictions
had gotten the better of her. Number 6 Lexus Stagg
In June of 2019, a Houston mother was charged with killing her son as a consequence of what
prosecutors reported had been a failed “game of chicken”. Surveillance footage from a community
pool showed that 26-year-old Lexus Stagg had been driving a Lincoln Navigator in reverse
as three children were chasing after it. She then put the vehicle in drive and moved towards them.
Two were able to get out of the way but her son, identified as Lord Renfro, was struck by the
SUV. He later passed away at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Stagg was released after
being interviewed by the police and after it had been determined she wasn’t intoxicated. Her son’s
death was initially investigated as an accident but, after reports of the game emerged, Stagg
was charged with criminal negligent homicide. Speaking on the incident, the Harris County
District Attorney told the media "cars aren't toys and playing chicken with your kids isn't a game".
Number 5 Daphne Melin A video began circulating on Facebook and YouTube,
in September of 2011, of a mother encouraging her preteen daughter to fight a bully, before
attacking a child herself. According to Daphne Melin, her 12-year-old daughter, named as Jade,
had been bullied and threatened online by another student of the William Floyd Elementary School,
in Long Island, New York. Melin, a mother-of-three, reported that she’d spoken
to the school about the incident but was allegedly told that staff couldn’t intervene because
it was an online issue. Melin then drastically took matters into her own hands. She drove Jade
to the school and confronted a group of which her alleged bully was also a part. A number of
outlets wrote that the mother then encouraged Jade to fight the other 12-year-old. However,
it was also reported that Jade didn’t want to take part in the altercation
so a friend of hers took on the bully instead. The police didn’t confirm the relationship between
32-year-old Melin and the preteens in the brawl. As the two girls began fighting,
with Melin egging them on, another girl reportedly told the woman something along the lines of
“You are a mother, you should be stopping this”. It wasn’t clear if the onlooker was connected to
Jade’s bully. Melin then spat and cursed at the child prior to grabbing her hair and attempting
to knee her in the head. After the video surfaced, the mother turned herself in and was charged with
three counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of attempted assault.
Number 4 Tara Aven In April of 2019, a concerned woman from Prescott,
Arizona, reported to the authorities that a long time had passed since she’d seen her neighbor,
74-year-old Sandra Aven. The latter’s daughter and granddaughter lived in a property adjacent to hers
and gave conflicting reports regarding Sandra’s whereabouts upon being interviewed by the police.
Tara and Briar Aven, aged 46 and 24 respectively, would eventually be revealed to have been
involved in the matriarch’s death. Her remains were found in the back bedroom of her home,
in a decomposed state, with duct tape around her wrists and ankles. The cause of death was
determined to have been blunt force trauma. Briar would confess to hitting her grandmother multiple
times in the head with a hammer and then hiding her body after she’d succumbed to her injuries.
Tara learned about the killing but, instead of urging her daughter to surrender or report the
incident, actively participated in covering it up. For years, both women collected Sandra’s mail,
bank statements and rent checks and then spent the funds. Briar pleaded guilty to second-degree
murder, among other charges, and was sentenced to 38 years in prison while Tara admitted
guilt to hindering prosecution, tampering with evidence as well as charges of theft and forgery,
for which she was given a sentence of 16 years. Number 3 Lori Vallow
In September of 2019, Tylee Ashlyn Ryan and Joshua Jaxon, from Rexburg, Idaho, were reported missing
by relatives amidst a string of suspicious events surrounding their mother, Lori Vallow,
and her new husband, Chad Daybell. The couple had a well-documented obsession with the end of times
and Daybell had expressed his doomsday-related views in numerous books and podcasts.
Vallow had been an obsessive fan of his leading up the moment they’d met, in the fall of 2018,
after which a relationship ensued. Around the time of the children’s disappearance,
people connected to Vallow and Daybell died in close succession. Vallow’s husband, Charles,
was shot and killed by her brother, Alex Cox, in Chandler, Arizona, in June of 2019. Cox,
who would later claim self-defense, had confronted Charles for allegedly abusing his sister.
Evidence would indicate that Charles had grown fearful of his wife, who’d become an avid follower
of Daybell and his unusual belief system. It was rooted on eternal beings, reincarnation and humans
split into dark and light beings, based on their following of Satan or Christ. On October the 19th,
mere weeks before Lori Vallow and Daybell got married, the latter’s wife,
Tammy, had died. Daybell reported that she’d passed away in her sleep, from natural causes,
and declined a post-mortem or an autopsy. Messages had allegedly been exchanged between Vallow and
Daybell in which the latter expressed his belief that Tammy had been possessed by a
spirit. Vallow and Daybell were married in Hawaii, in November of 2019, and continued living there,
telling others that the former’s daughter was dead and mentioning no other child. They offered no
contribution to the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Tylee and Joshua, an aspect which
enhanced investigators’ suspicions that they’d been involved. In February of 2020, Vallow was
arrested in Kauai and charged with desertion and nonsupport of her dependent children. On
June the 9th, a search warrant was executed at the Idaho home of Daybell. Two sets of human remains,
later confirmed as Tylee and Joshua, were found in a purported pet cemetery. Documents reported on by
NBC News, indicated Vallow had been convinced by Daybell that her children were possessed
and had become zombies. The couple was indicted on murder charges for Tylee, Joshua
and Tammy’s deaths. A sentence hasn’t been pronounced but, based on the latest updates,
Vallow was found incompetent to stand trial while prosecutors expressed an intention of seeking the
death penalty for Daybell. Number 2 Iris Guerrero
A Las Vegas mother was arrested on charges of child abuse and child endangerment,
in November of 2019, after a handgun was found in the backpack of her third-grade son. The child
immediately reported the weapon to his teacher and said he had no idea as to how it had ended
up in his schoolbag. The police were called and, upon investigating the scene, officers found that
the firearm wasn’t loaded and that there was no ammunition in the backpack. The boy’s mother,
36-year-old Iris Guerrero, was contacted and admitted that the gun was hers. Guerrero told
the authorities that she’d placed the gun in her son’s schoolbag but then got distracted and forgot
about it. The man who’d dropped Guerrero off at the school, 30-year-old Sebastian Nava-Guerra,
had parked a Cadillac Escalade in a red zone while waiting for her. Officers approached him
about the parking issue and noticed that the vehicle’s registration was expired.
They asked Nava-Guerra for his license, insurance and registration but the man told them he didn’t
have anything. The police then searched the SUV, while awaiting a tow truck, and found a handgun.
They also discovered methamphetamine in the man’s possession, prompting his arrest on vehicle,
weapons and drug charges. Number 1 Anne Dodge
In the summer of 2017, a mother and daughter, from Sarasota, Florida, were arrested for running an
unlicensed erotic massage parlor out of their home. Neighbors reported that, every day, there
were five to ten cars visiting the residence of 55-year-old Anne Dodge and her daughter Jennifer,
aged 30, with the occupants predominantly consisting of older men. A Backpage.com ad posted
by the women advertised a supposed therapy that brought prospective clients “to a whole new level
of ecstasy.” The authorities followed up on a tip and put together a sting operation. After giving
an undercover officer a massage, Anne was arrested on two felony counts of unlicensed practice of a
health care profession and two misdemeanor counts of operating a massage parlor without a license.
The woman maintained that she was a licensed therapist as well as a religious minister who
performed “laying of the hands”. Jennifer was arrested separately, the following day,
after offering to perform intimate acts on an undercover officer in exchange for $200, as
opposed to the $120 price tag on a simple massage. Court records indicated she had three prior
convictions for soliciting. Anne and Jennifer’s activities were described as being in line with
those of a brothel with the former presumed to have initiated her daughter in the practice.
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