Number 8 Magen Fieramusca In November of 2019, Texas woman Heidi Broussard
gave birth to her daughter, Margot.
The woman and her baby then vanished without a trace, a few weeks later, on December the
12th, after leaving their Austin home.
Broussard’s fiancé was the initial suspect but then the authorities followed a lead that
took them to the home of the woman’s best friend, Magen Fieramusca.
Outside the residence, the police found Broussard’s body in the trunk of a car registered in Fieramusca’s
name.
The investigation would later determine that she’d been strangled to death with a dog
leash.
Inside the home, the police found baby Margot, who was unhurt.
Fieramusca claimed that the child was hers.
It was subsequently revealed that she’d pretended to be pregnant in the months leading
up to Broussard’s death, with the sinister intention of murdering her best friend and
stealing her child.
She’d even set a fake due date for December 1st.
Fieramusca was arrested on charges that included capital murder, tampering with a corpse and
kidnapping.
If she’s found guilty, the woman faces the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison.
Number 7 Cheyenne Rose Antoine A selfie posted on Facebook proved instrumental
in the conviction of 21-year-old Cheyenne Rose Antoine for the 2015 murder of her best
friend.
In March of that year, the body of 18-year-old Brittney Gargol was found on the side of the
road in Saskatoon, Canada.
Antoine had initially told the police that she and her friend had gone out drinking and
that she’d seen Gargol leave with an unknown man.
However, security cam footage, from a bar that Antoine claimed they’d visited, showed
they were never there.
She tried to further cover her tracks through Facebook posts asking her friend where she
was and adding “hope you made it home safe”.
A break in the case came from one of Antoine’s friends, who informed the police that she’d
confessed to the killing that same night.
The most important piece of evidence was eventually found on social media.
A belt which had been used by the attacker to fatally strangle Gargol was discovered
near her corpse.
Roughly 6 hours before the body was found, a selfie featuring Antoine and Gargol had
been posted on Facebook.
In it, Antoine was wearing a belt that matched the one from the crime scene.
The woman ultimately admitted that she’d killed her friend, while drunk, after a heated
argument.
She pled guilty to manslaughter and received a 7-year sentence.
Number 6 Matthew Flame On November the 4th of 2018, in a park on
Sydney’s northern beaches, Matthew Flame beat his best friend to death while heavily
intoxicated on MDMA.
Flame, then in his early 20s, had been partying with 26-year-old Liam Anderson, son of famous
Rose Tattoo frontman Gary “Angry” Anderson.
In the early hours of the morning, after reportedly taking a 10th MDMA capsule, Flame left the
house in what was described as a state of mental distress.
Anderson went after his friend.
He caught up with Flame who suffered a psychotic episode and saw him as a demonic entity that
had come to take his life.
Flame killed Anderson after striking him with his fists, his feet and a rock.
He was frothing at the mouth when confronted by police officers, as he believed they were
demons too.
He realized what he’d done a few hours later and maintained that he’d never intended
to kill his friend.
Flame would be diagnosed with treatment-resistant schizophrenia while in custody.
His defense attributed the fervent attack to his pre-existing mental condition while
the prosecution argued the psychosis had been self-induced by the excessive consumption
of drugs.
One forensic psychiatrist agreed with the prosecution, noting that Flame hadn’t suffered
previous episodes and that his mental state improved once he’d sobered up.
Other specialists argued that his schizophrenia, exacerbated by his drug use, was the root
cause.
Flame was ultimately found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Number 5 Murder of Cynthia Hoffman In June of 2019, the body of 19-year old Cynthia
Hoffman was discovered on the banks of the Eklutna River, in Anchorage, Alaska.
Her head and hands had been bound with duct tape and she’d been killed via a gunshot
to the back of the head.
It was ultimately revealed that the murder had been orchestrated by Hoffman’s best
friend, 18-year-old Denali Brehmer.
She’d been tricked into doing so by 21-year-old Indiana man Darin Schilmiller.
While talking to Brehmer online, he’d been posing as a millionaire named “Tyler”.
He offered Hoffman $9 million to kill someone, record it and send him the video.
Brehmer enlisted the help of four of her friends, promising them a cut of the money she was
expecting to receive for the killing.
Hoffman, who was described by her family as having learning difficulties, was lured by
the group to a rural hiking trail on June the 2nd.
It was there that Brehmer was bound and executed.
16-year-old Kayden McIntosh was named as the one to have delivered the fatal shot, with
a gun provided by Brehmer.
She subsequently sent a Snapchat of the killing to Schilmiller.
The case is ongoing but, if found guilty, each of the accused faces up to 99 years in
prison.
Number 4 Eduard Seleznev In 2002, Russian man Eduard Seleznev was convicted
of a double murder, for which he spent 15 years in prison.
Following his release, Seleznev, who’d previously been homeless, was back to living on the streets
and in the shelters of Arkhangelsk.
In 2016, he killed one of his friends, with whom he’d shared a room at a homeless shelter.
After stabbing his victim to death, he used an axe to dismember the body.
Most of the remains he placed in garbage bags and threw in the Volokhnitsa River but some
he kept.
Seleznev liquefied the flesh and slurped it down, as he had trouble consuming solids due
to his lack of teeth.
By March of 2018, one of Seleznev’s drinking companions took him in at his apartment.
Seleznev killed the man and cannibalized him in a similar manner to his 2016 victim.
He continued to live in the apartment and, when the victim’s relatives came by to look
for him, the killer cannibal told them he’d moved to St. Petersburg for a job.
The family was reluctant to accept Seleznev’s story.
The victim’s father became suspicious after finding odd-looking, unpackaged meat in the
fridge.
He then discovered a jacket with Seleznev’s passport, even though he’d claimed having
no identification on him.
The family notified the police and Seleznev, who’d come to be known as the Arkhangelsk
Cannibal, was arrested.
After several interrogations, he confessed to having killed and eaten three of his friends,
over a two-year period.
The victims were stabbed to death after they’d passed out from drinking.
They were dismembered with an axe and partially cannibalized.
As for his motives, Seleznev claimed he had a craving for human flesh and that he’d
heard voices telling him to kill and eat his victims.
In spite of his horrific statements, Seleznev was deemed sane and thus fit to stand trial.
He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
Number 3 Erandy Elizabeth Gutierrez Erandy Elizabeth Gutierrez and Anel Baez,
both 16, were best friends who went to the same high school in Guamúchil, in the Sinaloa
region of western Mexico.
In early 2014, Guttierez and Baez had a falling out after the latter uploaded revealing photos
of them to her Facebook.
A tweet written by Gutierrez, on an account which has since been deleted, read “It may
seem that I am very calm, but in my head I have killed you at least three times”.
She’d also reportedly told Baez she’d be lucky to survive until the end of the year.
On March the 19th, Baez invited Gutierrez to her home in an attempt at reconciliation.
While there, Gutierrez claimed that she needed to use the bathroom.
Instead, she went into the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
She then approached Baez from the back and stabbed her 65 times.
Gutierrez fled the scene and Baez’s family later found her lifeless body in a pool of
blood.
Gutierrez tried to keep up appearances and mourned with common friends.
A week later, she attended Baez’s funeral.
It was there that the police took her into custody.
She was sentenced, as a minor, to 7 years in prison and released in September of 2017.
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Number 2 Brian Winchester In the years that followed his passing, in
2000, the death of Jerry Michael Williams was regarded as an accident.
In December, the 31-year-old Florida man had left his home in Tallahassee to go duck hunting
at Lake Seminole.
He disappeared and was presumed to have drowned.
When his body wasn’t found, the authorities surmised that alligators had devoured his
remains, which was false as they don’t eat in the winter months.
In the years that followed, Williams’ widow, Denise, married his best friend, Brian Winchester.
Their relationship eventually took a turn for the worse and Denise filed for divorce.
Faced with the threat of losing his wife, Winchester kidnapped her at gunpoint but later
released her after she promised not to go to the police.
The woman did, in fact, contact the authorities and Winchester faced 20 years in prison for
kidnapping and domestic assault.
Afraid that Denise might start talking about the past, he entered an immunity agreement
with law enforcement for information regarding the death of Williams.
Winchester revealed that he and Denise were having an affair at the time.
He’d lured Williams to the lake, at her behest, with an initial plan to stage a boating
accident.
When that failed, Winchester shot him.
In 2017, Williams’ body was discovered buried at the edge of the lake and it was concluded
that he’d been killed via a shotgun blast to the face.
Denise was arrested for the murder conspiracy and, in 2019, sentenced to life in prison.
Number 1 Amy Sue Brown In February of 2018, Amanda Hill and Amy Sue
Brown were celebrating the former’s 36th birthday in a camper next to her home in Prosser,
Washington state.
Joining them were Hill’s boyfriend and Brown’s fiancé, Brandon Fayard.
The couples shared drinks until midnight, when Fayard claimed he was going to bed because
he had to work the following day.
Hill followed him inside, saying she had to use the restroom.
As Brown went into the home, she found her best friend in bed with her fiancé.
She flew into a fit of rage and a fight broke out between the two women.
It culminated with Brown fatally shooting Hill, twice, in the torso.
In court, Brown argued that she’d acted in self-defense but was ultimately found guilty
of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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