#7 - Tyrese Devon Haspil
Millionaire tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh was brutally murdered at his upscale Manhattan
residence on July the 13th of 2020. His body was found the following day by his sister,
who’d gone to check on him after his neighbors indicated that they’d heard screaming coming
from inside the apartment. In the incident’s aftermath, gruesome details regarding the nature
of 33-year-old Saleh’s demise surfaced online. According to the police, the computer programmer
had been decapitated and meticulously dismembered by his killer after having been stabbed to death.
Upon conducting a thorough sweep of the crime scene, officers reportedly found Saleh’s torso
placed next to an electric saw, as well as his head and limbs in garbage bags scattered elsewhere
in the apartment. In a subsequent report published by The New York Times, it was detailed how,
on the day of his murder, Saleh had been followed into the elevator of his apartment building by a
man dressed in black clothing. Surveillance footage revealed that the 2 men engaged in
some sort of physical struggle that spilled out of the elevator and into the apartment.
Investigators postulated that the assailant ultimately fled out the backdoor when Saleh’s
sister arrived to check on him. Three days after the body was found, the police announced that
they’d arrested 21-year-old Tyrese Devon Haspil on suspicion of committing the murder. Haspil,
who was Saleh’s personal assistant, was also accused of embezzling upwards of $100,000 from
his former boss. When Saleh discovered the theft, he reportedly created a payment plan for Haspil to
pay the money back. However, after NYPD officials began investigating text messages in which Saleh
mentioned the stolen money, Haspil resorted to killing him in order to cover up the embezzlement.
#6 - Timothy Peel
On January the 27th of 2022, the assistant fire chief in La Habra Heights,
California was arrested on charges of impersonating a police officer and
felony false imprisonment. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office,
34-year-old Timothy Peel used a white 2020 Chevy Silverado equipped with police lights
and a siren to conduct an unspecified number of traffic stops on civilians. He was also accused
of illegally detaining the victims he pulled over, although the official press release didn’t
specify when or where the alleged incidents had occurred. Peel was taken into custody at his home
and later booked into the jail at the Norwalk Sheriff's Station before being released on a
$100,000 bond. In the aftermath of his arrest, local police turned to the public for help in
identifying those who may have been victimized by Peel’s spree of unauthorized traffic stops.
#5 - Robert Herzog
In the early morning hours of December the 24th of 2019, Florida man Robert Herzog
was taken into police custody for violating a restraining order filed by his ex-girlfriend.
Court documents indicated that 36-year-old Herzog had been harassing the woman over
a period of about 3 months, during which time he’d been “constantly contacting her,
showing up at her place of work” and driving by her house. The man, who was the assistant
principal at Cooper City High School, was reportedly released on a $1,000 bond,
but was ordered to wear an ankle monitor and refrain from making any form of contact with
his former partner. A few years later, in April of 2022, Herzog made headlines once again after he’d
solicited a school police officer to illegally run a license plate check on a man dating his
ex-girlfriend. Investigators detailed how the school official would often ask this
particular officer to check the license plates of cars that were improperly parked on campus.
Herzog had allegedly abused the officer’s trust in order to obtain details about his love rival,
and consequently faced a felony charge of criminal use of personal information. In July of 2022,
it was reported that Herzog also faced child neglect charges. The Special Victims Unit of
the Broward County Sheriff’s Office revealed that the man had “neglected to provide relevant
medical information which resulted in serious physical injury and prolonged
suffering to the victim”, although no other details were mentioned in the initial report.
#4 - Anthony Yarand
Deputies of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Florida arrested Tampa resident Anthony
Yarand on March the 8th of 2019 on suspicion of drug trafficking. Acting on a tip that the man,
a physician’s assistant, was dealing illicit substances, officers searched his home in the
Carrollwood Retreat gated community, where they reportedly located a plethora of drugs,
as well as counterfeit U.S. currency totaling approximately $7,400. 38-year-old Yarand,
the reported owner of the Anthony Loren Skincenter in Westchase, was bonded out
on several counts of drug trafficking, possession of counterfeit U.S. currency,
possession of three different controlled substances, possession of drug paraphernalia,
and keeping a public nuisance structure for drug activity. Following the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic, further controversy befell Yarand and his medical practice when he received
numerous Paycheck Protection Program loans despite his pending criminal charges.
#3 - Ernest Roberts
Kameela Russell, a teacher and test proctor at Miami Norland Senior High School in Florida,
went missing on May the 15th of 2019. About 2 weeks later, her body reportedly turned up in a
canal in Miami Gardens. A medical examination concluded that her death had been caused by
blunt force trauma to the head, and the case was subsequently classified as a homicide. The ensuing
police investigation uncovered that Russell had last been seen alive entering the home of her
childhood friend, Ernest Roberts, who’d formerly served as the assistant principal at Norland. As
was captured by Roberts’ neighbors’ security cameras, the man had gotten into Russell’s
car and driven it away from his home less than an hour after her initial arrival. The woman
didn’t appear in the video herself, however, leading investigators to theorize that Roberts
might have been responsible for her murder. The police ultimately obtained a search warrant for
the man’s home after one of his co-workers revealed that he’d asked them about how to
make a car “disappear”, as well as how to clean up blood in his house that had purportedly been
left there following an altercation with an intruder. The former assistant principal was
eventually taken into police custody on a charge of first-degree murder. Subsequent reports
suggested that Roberts would likely face the death penalty in connection to Russell’s slaying.
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#2 - Davonte' Neal
Former University of Arizona football player Davonte’ Neal was arrested in the summer of 2022
in connection to the murder of 25-year-old Bryan Burns roughly five years earlier. Court records
detailed how, at about 3 am on November the 11th of 2017, Burns had been fatally shot in his car
after being involved in a minor traffic accident near Interstate 10 and Elliot Road in Phoenix. In
the wake of the incident, the victim’s girlfriend requested that the police question Neal,
whom she’d dated prior to the start of her relationship with Burns. During his
interview with investigators, Neal provided an alibi for the night of Burns’ killing,
claiming to have been at an Applebee’s with a friend before the 2 went back to his Scottsdale
residence. The former college athlete was released following the line of questioning,
and in January of 2022, he was reportedly hired as an assistant coach by the Idaho State University
football team. In June of that same year, the police in Pocatello, Idaho reported that Neal
had been indicted on a first-degree murder charge by a grand jury in Maricopa County, Arizona. As
of the latest updates on the matter, it wasn’t revealed why it had taken investigators nearly
5 years to positively identify Neal as Burns’ killer. However, the Phoenix Police Department
Crime Lab reportedly tested the man’s 2010 Honda Accord, which was found to have sustained damage
consistent with the accident in which Burns had been involved prior to the shooting. Forensic
analysts also found gunshot residue in samples taken from inside the car. Following Neal’s
arrest, officials at Idaho State University publicly announced that he’d been placed on
administrative leave and that the school had initiated proceedings to terminate his contract.
#1 - Gowun Park
On the evening of February the 15th of 2020, Iowa police received a call about a person
who’d been found unconscious at a condominium in the city of West Des Moines. Upon their arrival,
officers encountered the 9-1-1 caller, identified as Gowun Park, performing CPR on the distressed
individual, who was later determined to be her husband, 41-year-old Sung Woo Nam. The latter,
who was reportedly unresponsive and had ligature marks on his neck,
was quickly taken to a nearby hospital, where he was ultimately pronounced dead. A few days later,
shocking details emerged regarding the specific nature of Nam’s death, as well as his wife’s
personal involvement in it. According to a police report on the matter, Park, an assistant professor
of economics at Simpson College in Indianola, had bound her husband’s hands and feet with
cable ties before restraining him to a chair on the morning of his eventual demise. The woman
allegedly stuffed an item of clothing in Nam’s mouth and placed a piece of duct tape over it to
ensure he stayed quiet. It was also detailed how she’d wrapped a towel around the victim’s head,
restricting his field of vision. He reportedly pleaded with her to untie him over the course
of the next several hours, but she refused. Then, at around 6:45 pm, Nam lost consciousness,
prompting his wife to contact 9-1-1. Following an investigation, West Des Moines police took Park
into custody on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges. Court records revealed that Park,
who pleaded not guilty to the charges, maintained that her husband had been abusive towards her,
and had actually given her permission to tie him up whenever he became violent. A subsequent
Iowa Court of Appeals ruling blocked most of the statements Park made to the police from
being used in the case’s eventual trial. The judges cited certain deceptive statements made
by officers during their initial interrogation as the reasoning behind their consequential decision.
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