A workplace misconduct scandal decimated the La Vergne Police Department in Tennessee after an
internal investigation was launched in December of 2022. According to a 20-page investigative report
on the matter, Officer Maegan Hall was accused of having repeated intimate relations with several
of her colleagues, including a Sergeant. The employees named in the report were Sergeant Lewis
Powell, Officer Patrick Magliocco, Officer Larry Holladay, Detective Seneca Shields, and Officer
Juan Lugo-Perez, all of whom admitted to having relationships with Hall. Some of the officers
involved in the scandal reportedly had previous policy violations on their records, including
for speeding and smoking in patrol vehicles, using department computers for personal matters,
and even an unrelated misconduct investigation. Hall, who joined the force back in 2020, had been
reprimanded numerous times prior to the latest scandal, and on multiple occasions had gotten into
trouble for crashing her patrol car. The internal investigation uncovered that the accused officers
had had intimate encounters while on duty and on city property. The report also detailed a raunchy
hot tub party, as well as the alleged exchange of explicit photographs between the officers
involved. Hall, who was married at the time, was terminated from her position in the wake of the
report’s publication. Four additional officers were fired, while 3 others were suspended.
#6 - Luis Toledo
In October of 2013, Florida man Luis Toledo, a former gang leader, discovered text conversations
between his wife, Yessenia Suarez, and her married co-worker, which indicated that they
were involved in a romantic affair. Enraged by his discovery, Toledo ended up installing
software on Suarez’s phone to keep tabs on her text conversations. He even confronted her and
her lover at their place of work on October the 22nd. The following day, Suarez’s mother reported
her and her two children missing from their home at 317 Covent Gardens Place in Deltona. It would
later emerge that, earlier that morning, Toledo had woken up his neighbor, Tyshawn Jackson, and
enlisted his help in dumping his wife’s car and other valuables at a Publix supermarket in Lake
Mary. Jackson contacted the police about Toledo’s strange request. When officers were dispatched
to the Covent Gardens Place house to investigate, Toledo locked himself in a bathroom and shattered
a mirror to cut himself. Law enforcement used a battering ram to break down the door,
at which point the man was taken into custody. He later admitted to murdering his wife and her
children in retaliation for her extramarital relationship. In October of 2017, Toledo was
found guilty of 3 counts of murder, 2 in the first-degree and 1 in the second. The following
January, he was sentenced to 3 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.
#5 - Gregory Allen Ringel
In the early hours of March the 29th of 2022, Michigan man Gregory Allen Ringel called the
police to his home in the 4,000 block of Palms Road in Casco Township. The 57-year-old reported
that an armed intruder had broken into the house via the garage. Ringel’s wife was awakened by
a noise in the kitchen, but when she went to investigate, she was met by a shotgun blast.
She shut the bedroom door, successfully keeping the assailant at bay. It was at that point that
Ringel, who was purportedly asleep in another room, emerged with a handgun and shot in the
intruder’s direction. The individual escaped and Ringel immediately dialed 911. As the police began
investigating the incident, they began to detect inconsistencies in the man’s testimony. When
detectives learned that Ringel’s wife had been in the midst of an affair with a co-worker at the
time, they grew suspicious that perhaps the home invasion had been a complete fabrication. Ringel
later admitted as much, telling investigators he’d actually been the one to shoot at his wife
with the shotgun because he was incensed over her infidelity. He subsequently fired the handgun to
legitimize his cover story. Ringel was arrested on charges of assault with intent to murder,
firearm discharge in a building, false report of a felony and two felony firearm violations. He was
held at the St. Clair County Intervention and Detention Center on a $750,000 bond.
#4 - Brittany and Armando Barron
When New Hampshire man Armando Barron learned of his wife’s infidelity, he devised a sinister plot
to punish both her and her lover, a co-worker named Jonathan Amerault. In September of 2020,
Armando beat his wife, Brittany, and strangled her until she passed out, leaving her with a
pair of black eyes. He then used his wife’s phone to lure 25-year-old Amerault to a park just north
of the Massachusetts state line. Armando ambushed the victim, then led him into the back of his car
at gunpoint. It was there that the jilted man allegedly forced his wife to slit Amerault’s
wrists, before Armando fatally shot him three times, twice in the chest and once in the head.
The couple subsequently drove roughly 200 miles north to a remote campsite, where Armando forced
Brittany to decapitate her dead lover with a saw, “so that he couldn’t be identified”. The woman
complied with her husband’s instructions, then wrapped Amerault’s head in tarp and buried it
in a grave. Fish and Game officers came across Brittany, alone at a campsite, two days later.
They subsequently found the aftermath of the gruesome killing, and the Barrons were taken
into custody. Brittany ultimately pleaded guilty to three counts of falsifying evidence, for which
she was given a prison term of 3 and a half to 7 years. Her husband, meanwhile, was convicted of
first-degree murder, among other charges, and was sentenced to life without parole, plus 45 years.
#3 - Lee Rodarte, Jr.
21-year-old Savannah Page Gold was reported missing to the authorities on August the 2nd
of 2017. Her car and purse had been found in the parking lot of the Bonefish Grill on San
Jose Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida, where she worked as a waitress. Gold’s family received text
messages indicating she’d run away with a “great guy” she’d met, but never heard from her again,
despite repeated attempts to contact her. Police reviewed surveillance footage from the Bonefish
Grill on the night Gold disappeared, whereupon they discovered that she’d been in a physical
altercation with the restaurant’s manager, Lee Rodarte Jr., inside his car. The vehicle was shown
shaking, as the door kept opening and closing, until everything stopped. Rodarte emerged,
walked over to Gold’s car, and took something from inside the driver’s side door. He then punctured
her front left tire, got back into his own vehicle and drove away. At no point did Gold step out of
Rodarte’s car following their struggle. The video of the altercation marked the
final time the young woman had been seen alive. Detectives subsequently noted major discrepancies
in Rodarte’s initial testimony, in which he’d reportedly claimed not to have seen Gold prior
to her disappearance. The man was arrested in connection to an unrelated warrant for driving
with a suspended driver’s license. However, while he was in police custody, he allegedly
incriminated himself in Gold’s killing, as well as the disposal of her body. Rodarte subsequently led
police to the lake in the woods at the dead end of Club Duclay Drive, where Gold’s remains were
recovered. During the ensuing legal proceedings, Rodarte claimed self-defense, asserting that Gold,
his on-again off-again girlfriend, had initiated the fatal confrontation in his car. His claims
were rejected, however, and he ultimately pleaded guilty to second-degree murder,
in exchange for his tampering with evidence and abuse of a dead body charges getting dismissed.
As part of the plea bargain, Rodarte was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for the crime.
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#2 - Jennair Gerardot
On April the 23rd of 2018, estranged couple Mark and Jennair Gerardot scheduled to meet for dinner
to discuss their pending divorce. At the last minute, however, Jennair canceled via text,
and then sent Mark a series of concerning messages, including one in which she said, “I hope
you never find happiness”, and another where she simply wrote, “Bye, Mark”. In an interview with
ABC’s 20/20, Mark revealed that he subsequently drove to his lover, Meredith Chapman’s house,
fearing his estranged wife had gone to confront her. When he arrived, he came upon the lifeless
bodies of both Jennair and Meredith. There was also a 15-page letter, in which Jennair had
detailed her plans to murder Mark’s mistress, as well as her “backup plan”, to kill Mark himself if
he walked in first. The affair that precipitated the deadly incident began in late 2017, when Mark
was hired for a job in the marketing department at the University of Delaware, where Meredith
was also working at the time. The Gerardot’s marriage had already fallen on hard times, and the
physical distance brought on by Mark traveling to interview for his new position, only intensified
their issues. Meredith was likewise stuck in an unhappy marriage at the time, so she and her new
marketing hire immediately made a connection. She eventually separated from her husband and moved to
Philadelphia, where she became an assistant vice president at Villanova University. She
and Mark kept in touch, and Jennair subsequently became obsessed with her husband’s extramarital
activities. She placed a tracking device on his car and even planted audio recorders on his
clothes to listen in on his secret conversations with Meredith. In the end, investigators used
these various pieces of evidence, as well as text messages and emails written by Jennair
before her death, to conclude that revenge had been the woman’s primary motive for the killing.
#1 - Ross McCullam
A workplace romance ended in tragedy for 23-year-old Megan Newborough, who was brutally
murdered by her boyfriend during an encounter at his parent’s Leicestershire home on August the 6th
of 2021. Newborough had reportedly worked as an HR representative at the place where Ross McCullam
worked as a lab technician. The pair sparked up a relationship that lasted for a few weeks,
but things abruptly turned sour on the night of the 6th. The young woman arrived at the residence
shortly after 8 pm. As was later detailed in court, Newborough was allegedly preparing to
perform an intimate act on the man when he went into a “blind rage”. McCullam fatally strangled
her before using a carving knife to slash her throat. He left the house at around 9 pm,
at which point he drove Newborough’s body to a remote country road and threw it over a stone
wall in Woodhouse Eaves. In the aftermath of the murder, McCullam went back home, where he
reportedly watched explicit online videos, a habit he later admitted to practicing at least “an hour
each day”. The man subsequently took painstaking steps to cover his tracks, including by sending
voicemails and text messages to Newborough only hours after the killing in which he professed
his love for her and expressed concern for her well-being. During conversations with the police,
McCullam was similarly deceitful, claiming his girlfriend had left home for a McDonald’s
milkshake and never returned. Eventually, however, he confessed to the murder and
notified law enforcement of where he’d hidden the body. When Newborough’s remains were examined,
investigators found injuries “from her shin to the crown of her head”. Some of the marks seemed
to suggest that a “sustained, long, merciless struggle” had unfolded in the moments before
she succumbed to McCullam’s attack. In court, the latter claimed that the victim had inadvertently
triggered his latent PTSD, stemming from childhood abuse, which had caused him to
lash out in violence. He admitted manslaughter but was ultimately convicted of the more serious
charge of murder, for which he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 23 years.
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