Number 7 George Huguely In May of 2010, Yeardley Love
and her ex-boyfriend George Huguely, were close to graduating from the University of Virginia.
Both were star lacrosse athletes and had engaged in an on-again, off-again romance since their
freshman years. Their relationship was turbulent, at times, mainly due to Huguely’s heavy drinking
and violent outbursts while under the influence. At one point he’d attempted to strangle Love and
then sent her an email claiming he wished he’d killed her. His alcohol abuse gradually got
worse when he became a senior and as graduation was approaching. It was also during that year
that he and Love, both 22 at time, had broken up. Huguely’s teammates were on the verge of preparing
an intervention for him but decided to wait until after the upcoming lacrosse tournaments.
As Huguely’s drinking increased so did his aggressiveness. He reportedly beat up a teammate,
while he was sleeping, for leaving a party with Love. On May the 3rd of 2010, Huguely went to
his ex-girlfriend’s off-campus apartment. It was there that an argument erupted resulting in the
drunk and enraged athlete beating Love repeatedly and inflicting fatal injuries by smashing her head
against a wall. Love’s roommates found her lying in a pool of her own blood, with extensive wounds
to her neck, face and jaw. Huguely was arrested following the attack and ultimately sentenced to
23 years in prison for second-degree murder. Number 6 Benjamin Green
On the night that she’d tried breaking up with him, on August the 27th of 2021, a young
marketing executive was stabbed to death by her boyfriend. The incident took place in Kettering,
Northamptonshire, England. 22-year-old Maddie Durdant-Hollamby had been arguing with boyfriend
Benjamin Green, 19 years her senior, about her decision of going on holiday without him. Her
mother later told a media outlet that she’d headed to his home with the intention of putting an end
to their relationship. Friends then wondered why she hadn’t joined a group call
and became further concerned when it emerged that Durdant-Hollamby had missed a work meeting. One
of the young woman’s friends went to her home and contacted the police when there was no answer. As
the authorities checked Green’s residence, they found both their bloody bodies, lying alongside
each other on the floor. Investigators determined that Green had fatally stabbed Durdant-Hollamby
before turning the blade on himself. The couple had been dating for about a year and the horrific
incident shocked all who knew them as there’d been no reports of domestic abuse or signs
to indicate that Green was unstable. Number 5 Iftekhar Murtaza
In May of 2007, one of the most brutal slayings in Orange County history occurred in the Anaheim
Hills community. 18-year-old Shayona Dhanak had broken up with boyfriend Iftekhar Murtaza,
then in his early 20s, because her family didn’t approve of him. It was reported that cultural
and religious differences had also played a role since Murtaza was Muslim while Dhanak hailed from
a Hindu background. The latter’s family threatened to stop paying her college tuition if she didn’t
separate from Murtaza, which she consequently did. A few months later, in an ill-conceived attempt at
getting back together with her, Murtaza planned to kill Dhanak’s family whom he perceived as an
obstacle. Along with two accomplices to whom he’d promised payment, he went to the Dhanak family’s
mansion, in Anaheim Hills, and abducted three of them. Murtaza stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s father,
56-year-old Jaypraykash, at least 27 times and struck him in the head with such force
that he fractured his skull. He then slit the throat of Dhanak’s sister Karishma,
aged 20. She was still alive as Murtaza doused both her and Jaypraykash in gasoline and then
set them ablaze. Their badly-burnt bodies were recovered from near a bike trail in Irvine,
where first responders had been called to reports of a bush fire. Dhanak’s mother, Leela,
was found unconscious on a neighbor’s lawn, close to her burning mansion, back in Anaheim Hills.
She’d been stabbed in the stomach and her throat had been cut open. Leela remarkably survived her
injuries and awoke from a coma, three weeks after the attack, to find that her husband and
daughter had been killed and that her home had been ravaged by fire. Murtaza was subsequently
arrested at a Phoenix airport while trying to return to his native Bangladesh. In 2011,
in a jailhouse ceremony, he married 20-year-old suspected murderer Marissa Starr Bilotti with whom
he’d been corresponding for several months. Their union would eventually be shaken up by the course
of justice as Murtaza was sentenced to death for murder, attempted murder and conspiracy, in 2013.
Number 4 William Riley Gaul In November of 2016, a football
player at Maryville College, in Tennessee, shot and killed his cheerleader ex-girlfriend,
whom he’d reportedly been stalking following their breakup. William Riley Gaul was distraught
after Emma Walker had ended their relationship in what he deemed to have been a “cruel” manner,
as she’d reportedly told him “you need a life”. Walker was subsequently shot through the wall of
her dorm room, as she slept, and suffered fatal injuries. Gaul would tell investigators that he’d
last spoken to her around midnight at which point she’d asked him to stop calling her. He
claimed to have spent hours in the dorm’s parking lot, crying and looking at pictures on his phone,
before going to bed at about 4:45. Cellphone data would place him near Walker’s home at about 3:35
am, around the same time when the gunshots were reported. Friends of his testified that, in the
aftermath of the shooting, he’d asked if they knew how to remove fingerprints from a gun and where
he could dispose of it. He claimed to have stolen the weapon from his grandfather and that he feared
becoming a suspect in light of his connection to the victim. His friends contacted the police. Gaul
was watched by the authorities and intercepted by them as he headed to throw the gun into the
Tennessee River. He’d eventually admit to shooting Walker but claimed he’d only meant to scare her,
hoping that she’d turn to him as a rescuer and their relationship could start anew.
He was sentenced to life, with parole eligibility after 51 years, for first-degree murder, stalking
and tampering with evidence. Number 3 Yvonne Wu
In October of 2021, NYPD officer Yvonne Wu was charged with murder and attempted murder after
shooting her former girlfriend and the woman’s new partner. 31-year-old Wu had dated Jenny Li, eight
years her junior, for about 2 years before they’d broken up, about a month prior to the incident.
Wu, described as jealous and possessive in their relationship, was unable to move past the breakup,
according to friends familiar with the situation. In the weeks leading up to the shooting, Li and
her new girlfriend, 24-year-old Jamie Liang, had been involved in an altercation with Wu. Li didn’t
report it to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, believing she’d be able to handle the conflict on
her own. In October, Wu lay in wait and ambushed the couple as they returned to their Brooklyn
apartment. She opened fire striking both Li and Liang multiple times. The former survived and
recovered in a hospital but Liang succumbed to her injuries. Wu told the police that she’d wanted to
take her own life after the shooting but both neighbors and arresting officers reported she
seemed calm and collected at the scene. Based on the latest updates on the case, she was
taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. Today's topic was requested by GhetemStr8, Jess
The Dark Angel and Cristian. If you have any other topics you'd like to learn about, subscribe & let
us know in the comments section below. Number 2 Ahmed Shabaz
On November the 14th of 2019, Swedish teenager Wilma Andersson, from the town of Uddevalla,
was reported missing. The local police authorities, with support from the Swedish armed
forces, searched for her in an operation that also involved divers and a mini-submarine. Within a
week, her ex-boyfriend, 22-year-old Ahmed Shabaz, became the main suspect in her disappearance
and he’d been confirmed as the last person to have seen Andersson alive. On November the 28th,
the authorities searched his home and found Andersson’s severed head stashed away in a trolley
in his bedroom. The head was wrapped in tin foil and the authorities suspected Shabaz had kept it
as a sickening memento. In spite of overwhelming evidence, he maintained his innocence.
The authorities believed that Andersson had gone to the home to retrieve some of her belongings,
after the recent breakup, at which point she was murdered and dismembered by her
enraged ex. Following a psychological evaluation, experts would determine that Shabaz didn’t suffer
from a serious or invalidating mental illness but that he exhibited what was described as
narcissistic personality traits as well as a remarkable lack of empathy. He was sentenced to
life in prison but never admitted his guilt while the rest of Andersson’s body was never found.
Number 1 Thomas Montgomery
In May of 2005, two people using the handles MarineSniper and Tallhotblond
struck up a relationship in an online chat room. As they began conversing, Tallhotblond revealed
she was a softball-playing high school senior from West Virginia named Jessi. MarineSniper
was actually Thomas Montgomery, aged 46, a married father-of-two from Buffalo, New York,
but he decided to pose as a young Iraq-bound Marine named Tommy in his talks with Jessi.
The pair exchanged photos seemingly confirming their identities, with factory worker Montgomery
using those from his army bootcamp, when he was younger. They eventually confessed their love
to each other and had virtual relations but also exchanged love letters and mementos, with Jessi
sending Montgomery a pair of red panties. Speaking about the relationship, Montgomery
later told a media outlet it "became more real to me than real life” and compared it to a drug.
Notes written to himself revealed that he’d begun to lose touch with reality, as he claimed his old
self no longer existed and that he’d become his avatar. Problems arose after Montgomery’s wife
found out about his cyberlife and sent Jessi a letter with a photo of him revealing who he truly
was. Jessi promptly broke off the relationship and began talking to one of Montgomery’s work
colleagues, a 22-year-old machinist named Brian Barrett, who used the screen name “Beefcake”.
Montgomery watched their love blossom in the same chat room and his subsequent messages became
violent. Montgomery told Jessi that “Brian will pay in blood” and became enraged upon learning
that they were planning to meet in real life. On September the 15th of 2006, maddened by jealousy,
Montgomery used a military rifle and executed Barrett in the parking lot of the factory where
they both worked. The police learned about the love triangle from co-workers and believed that
Montgomery would target Jessi next. Upon arriving at her home address,
they were greeted by a middle-aged woman named Mary Shieler. A shocking revelation followed
as she admitted to being Tallhotblond. She’d been talking to both Barrett and Montgomery while using
the pictures of her daughter, the real-life Jessi, without her knowledge. Shieler wasn’t charged with
anything but her husband divorced her and Jessi cut ties. Montgomery, concretely linked to the
killing of Barrett by DNA from a peach pit found at the scene, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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