Tyler Roenz is a teen killer from Texas who would plead guilty to the murder of his own mother
According to court documents Tyler Roenz and his mother Michelle Roenz were reported missing from a family member. Authorities would find the car that belonged to Michelle Roenz driving through Oklahoma and Kansas. When Officers attempted to pull the car over the vehicle would quickly speed off and after a nine mile chase it would crash into the back of a semi trailer.
Officers would find sixteen year old Tyler Roenz behind the steering well and his mother dead in the back seat. According to an autopsy report Michelle Roenz died from blunt force trauma and strangulation
Tyler Roenz would be extradited back to Texas where he would ultimately plead guilty to the murder of his mother and tampering with evidence and would be sentenced to forty years in prison with no chance of parole for twenty years
Tyler Roenz Case
19-year-old Tyler Roenz was sentenced to 40 years behind bars, according to Harris County Disrict Attorney Kim Ogg.
“This is an awful tragedy for this family,” Ogg said. “It was important that this defendant took responsibility for what he did, and now he will spend decades in prison for his actions.”
According to a release, 49-year-old Michelle Roenz was killed while the two were at home in October 2022.
Officials said he later put her body in the trunk of a family car and drove north.
A family member arriving at the house after Roenz left suspected foul play and contacted the Harris County Sheriff’s Office about the mother and son missing with the car.
Authorities said after using license plate readers, they were able to track Roenz down as he drove through Oklahoma and Kansas.
A day after the murder of his mother, he was arrested in Nebraska by a state highway patrol trooper who spotted the car.
A Nebraska medical examiner determined that Michelle Roenz died from blunt-force trauma to the head and strangulation.
Roenz also pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence in exchange for a sentence of 20 years. Two other felonies were dismissed as part of the plea agreement.
According to a release, Roenz must serve at least half of the prison sentence before he is eligible for parole. He also can’t appeal the convictions or the prison sentences.
Kevin Bui is a teen killer from Colorado who would set a fatal fire that would lead to the deaths of five people
According to court documents Kevin Bui had his phone stolen and he thought that he had tracked it down using the iPhone find my phone app however he made a tragic mistake
Kevin Bui, Gavin Seymour and Dillon Siebert would go to a store where they would purchase face masks then headed to a Denver Colorado home
The teen killers would break into the home through the back door and would set fire to the home
The fire would quickly spread throughout the home killing Djibril “Jibby” Diol, his 23-year-old wife Adja, and their 21-month-old daughter, Khadija, along with Diol’s sister Hassan and her 6-month-old daughter, Hawa Beye
It turned out that Kevin Bui went to the wrong house as the iPhone app showed a false location
Kevin Bui who was thought to be the ringleader of the group would plead guilty and will be sentenced to sixty years in prison
Gavin Seymour who was also sixteen at the time of the murders would receive a forty year sentence
Dillon Siebert was fourteen at the time of the murders will serve three years in juvenile detention then seven years in state prison
Kevin Bui Case
A Colorado man pleaded guilty to murder charges on Friday for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone that he mistakenly tracked to the house.
Kevin Bui, now 20, was a teenager at the time of the fire but prosecuted as an adult. He has been portrayed by prosecutors as the ringleader of three friends who started the Aug. 5, 2020, fire in the middle of the night in a Denver neighborhood. Bui wrongly believed people who had recently robbed him lived in the home after using an app to track his stolen iPhone to the general area, according to prior testimony in the case.
Bui pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder. A plea deal reached between the defendant and prosecutors proposes a sentence of up to 60 years in prison — 30 years for each count. The maximum penalty for each count of second-degree murder is 48 years and a $1 million fine.
Judge Karen Brody set sentencing for July 2.
Bui was seated at the table with his lawyers during the hearing with his hands cuffed in front of him and wearing a green jail uniform.
He gave perfunctory answers to the judge’s questions as his parents watched from the court gallery and listened to the proceedings as relayed by an interpreter through headphones. Bui’s father told reporters after the hearing that they accepted the plea agreement.
Bui is the last of the three friends to enter a plea in the fire that killed Djibril Diol, 29, and Adja Diol, 23, and their 22-month-old daughter, Khadija Diol. Their relative, Hassan Diol, 25, and her 6-month-old daughter Hawa Beye were also killed. Three other people escaped by jumping from the second floor of the home, breaking some bones.
No relatives of the victims were in court, but they watched the proceedings online, said Ousman Ba, program coordinator of the African Leadership Group who is a spokesperson for the family of Djibril Diol and Adja Diol. He also consults with Amadou Beye, whose wife and daughter were killed.
The families supported the deal even though they had originally hoped to see Bui sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Ba said. It is the harshest sentence available in Colorado since it abolished the death penalty and is the automatic punishment for a first-degree murder conviction. However, since people who commited crimes as juveniles are treated differently and allowed parole, the families believed that this plea agreement was the best option to resolve this case after nearly four years, he said.
“We are Muslims. We do believe justice will be served by Allah, our maker,” said Ba, who thanked prosecutors for keeping the families informed about the case.
One of the counts of second-murder that Bui pleaded guilty to was for killing Dijibril and Adja Diol and their child. The other is for killing Hassan Diol and her baby. Sixty other charges Bui had faced, including first-degree murder, attempted murder, arson and burglary, were dropped by prosecutors under the plea deal.
Last year, Dillon Siebert, who was 14 at the time of the fire, was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention and seven years in a state prison program for young inmates. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder under a deal that prosecutors and the defense said balanced his lesser role in planning the fire, his remorse and interest in rehabilitation with the horror of the crime.
In March, Gavin Seymour, 19, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree murder.
Seymour and Bui pleaded guilty after a failed effort to get the internet search history evidence that led to their arrests thrown out.
The investigation of the fire dragged on for months without any leads. Surveillance video showed three suspects wearing full face masks and dark hoodies. Fears that the blaze had been a hate crime led many Senegalese immigrants to install security cameras at their homes in case they could also be targeted.
Without anything else to go on, police eventually obtained a search warrant asking Google for which IP addresses had searched the home’s address within 15 days of the fire. Five of the IP addresses found were based in Colorado, and police obtained the names of those people through another search warrant. After investigating those people, police eventually identified Bui, Seymour and Siebert as suspects. They were arrested about five months after the fire.
In October, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history, an approach that critics have called a digital dragnet that threatens to undermine people’s privacy and their constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
However, the court cautioned it was not making a “broad proclamation” on the constitutionality of such warrants and emphasized it was ruling on the facts of just this case
According to court documents Oscar Ariel Sierra and Marisela Castro met online and agreed to meet up in Houston Texas. What Castro did not know is that Sierra had planned to rob her
When they would meet Oscar Ariel Sierra would be driven around by Marisela Castro and the two would pick up food before heading to a dark area. The two would leave her vehicle and this teen killer would walk behind her and fatally shoot the woman
Oscar Ariel Sierra would be arrested and was halfway through his murder trial when he changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to life in prison
Oscar Ariel Sierra Case
A man pleaded guilty to murder in the middle of trial this week and was sentenced to life in prison for killing a transgender woman in east Houston in 2022, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.
A jury was selected Tuesday for the capital murder trial of 19-year-old Oscar Ariel Sierra, and testimony had begun when Sierra opted to plead guilty to murder in exchange for a life sentence instead of letting the jury decide his fate.
“This was a cold-blooded murder that the defendant planned out, set up and went through with,” Ogg said. “Shooting a defenseless person is cowardly and despicable, and we hope this defendant spends the rest of his life behind bars.”
Sierra admitted he fatally shot 39-year-old Marisela Castro, a transgender woman, on July 9, 2022. He met her online and lured her to a meeting in order to rob her.
Prosecutors said that after they met, she was driving him around in her sedan, including stopping at a fast-food drive thru. After picking up food and drinks, they were driving on a dark street just south of Herman Brown Park, and she stopped the car.
Surveillance video from nearby cameras showed that she got out of the car while Sierra got out of the passenger side with a gun. He then walked behind her to the middle of the street and shot her in the back of the head, killing her and leaving her body there, prosecutors said.
Sierra then got back in the victim’s car and drove away. Police found the car about two blocks away. Castro’s phone and purse were missing, prosecutors said.
Assistant District Attorneys Tiffany Dupree and Katie Warren, who are both division chiefs in the DA’s Office, prosecuted Sierra.
“This wasn’t a case that was solved in the first 48 hours, but rather took the dedication and persistence of Houston Police Department’s homicide detectives, who left no stone unturned,” Dupree said. “As a result, we were able to successfully prosecute the brutal execution of Marisela Castro, holding the defendant accountable for his horrible actions and ensuring justice for her and her family.”
Sierra was 17 years old at the time of shooting. If convicted of capital murder, the juvenile would have been eligible for parole after 40 years.
By pleading guilty to murder, Sierra will be eligible for parole after 30 years, but he cannot appeal the conviction or the sentence.
Seventeen-year-old Gavon Ramsay sneaked into his 98-year-old neighbor’s house through an unlocked door and took video of her sleeping on a couch.
Wearing plastic gloves, the Wadsworth teen strangled Margaret Douglas until she took her last breath and then spent two hours taking more videos and photographs of her corpse, including several of a sexual nature.
Ramsay then stuffed her body in a small closet, covered her with clothes and a vacuum cleaner and returned to his home five doors down before his parents awoke at 5 a.m.
These were among the brutal details of Douglas’ April 6 death that Medina County Common Pleas Judge Joyce Kimbler pointed to Thursday when she sentenced Ramsay to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Because of his age, this was the maximum possible sentence.
Kimbler said she found Ramsay to be “irreparably corrupt” and “unfit to re-enter society.”
“This crime was depraved and premeditated and of a nature not previously seen in this community,” the judge said.
Gavon Ramsay showed little emotion when Kimbler announced her decision after a long and emotional court hearing that included testimony from the teen’s parents — who blame his actions on misprescribed medication. Stephen Ramsay, his father, wiped tears from his eyes in the back of the courtroom.
Ramsay plans to appeal.
Gavon Ramsay News
Gavon Ramsay, the 17-year-old male who broke into the Wadsworth home of 98-year-old Margaret Douglas, strangled her to death, and then assaulted her body while photographing it will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
This determination came after a several-hours long court hearing Jan. 3 in front of Common Pleas Judge Joyce Kimbler, which included testimony from a forensic psychologist, corrections officials, Ramsay’s parents and victims’ statements from two of Douglas’ relatives.
The
U.S. Supreme Court has ruled a judge can only sentence a juvenile to life without the chance of parole if certain standards are met and taken into consideration. The juvenile suspect must be convicted or be found guilty of murder and has to be considered “irreparably corrupt, beyond redemption and thus unfit ever to re-enter society,” said Kimbler, citing a 2014 California Supreme Court ruling.
“The court finds this was not a crime of passion, but was depraved and premeditated,” she said. “The crime was of a nature not previously seen in this community.”
Juveniles cannot be sentenced to the death penalty, according to a previous
U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Douglas’ body was found in a small hallway closet under clothes and other items by relatives April 9, 2018 after being reported missing; it is believed she was killed early the morning of April 6.
Ramsay reportedly was in Douglas’ home between 2 and 4 a.m. and during that time strangled her, took photos and videos of the body in different positions and hid the body, records show. County Prosecutor Forrest Thompson said multiple times throughout the hearing Ramsay only left the home because he knew his parents would soon be waking up for work. Douglas was asleep on her couch when Ramsay attacked her; he reportedly took photos of her sleeping beforehand.
Photographs and videos of Douglas’ body were found on Ramsay’s cellphone and her wallet was found in Ramsay’s bedroom by police, both of which Thompson said were “trophies” similar to those collected by serial killers.
The photos reportedly showed Douglas’ body in a state of undress and in some of them, Ramsay is shown sexually assaulting the body, records show.
Police also found notebooks by Ramsay expressing his desire to kill people and facts about serial killers he had researched. Officers also found a glove belonging to Ramsay at Douglas’ residence; without this, Thompson said he may have gotten away with the murder and killed others.
Cindy and Patricia Leasure, Douglas’ niece and great-niece, spoke during the hearing. Cindy Leasure said Douglas was in relatively good health, allowing her to live independently, and looked forward to celebrating her 100th birthday. She and her husband, who took Douglas to the store and ran errands for her, reportedly found her body.
Patricia Leasure said she thought Ramsay picked Douglas due to her age and vulnerability and wanted to use her as as a “practice run” for other murders.
“I have no doubt he would have continued killing,” she said.
Ramsay lived five houses away from Douglas, close enough for him to go to the residence on foot and back in the middle of the night, said Thompson.
Ramsay previously pleaded no contest to nine counts in November, including four counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, one count of kidnapping, one count of aggravated burglary and one count of gross abuse of a corpse. He was charged as an adult after being bound over from juvenile court; he changed his plea just before his trial was set to begin.
Forensic psychologist Luna Jones of the Akron Psycho-diagnostic Clinic testified she conducted a psychological examination of Ramsay in November and determined he suffered from conduct disorder, where a patient violates rules and engages in destructive and violent behavior, in addition to a sexual disorder where he is aroused by the suffering of others without their consent. For both of these conditions, she said recidivism rates are very high and requires intensive therapy to treat.
She also said Ramsay suffered from depression and ADHD, along with alcohol and marijuana dependency; he reportedly said before the murder he drank up to a fifth of vodka per day and either stole the liquor or took money from his parents to buy it.
Jones said Ramsay told her he didn’t think too much about the murder but said he was remorseful.
Ramsay also briefly spoke during the hearing, saying he could wish he could take what he did back.
“I wish I had the words to express how sorry I am,” he said.
The defense argued during the hearing Ramsay killed Douglas due to the increased anger he experienced after being given a prescription for the anti-depressant Zoloft a few months before the murder. In some patients, the drug can make a patient have violent tendencies, especially if one is given a high dosage (100 mg.) like Ramsay was, said county Public Defender Jocelyn Stefancin.
This point was made by Ramsay’s mother Christine Ramsay during her testimony; she said she had no idea about these potential side effects when she gave her son the drug and only learned about it after his arrest. She also said her son had been sexually abused by an older boy at around age 7 or 8, which caused him to go to counseling for the first time. He had gone to sessions off and on until the day of his arrest by Wadsworth Police.
Thompson said Ramsay’s crime was planned in advance and that he had been on a path of criminal activity for several years. At the time of his arrest, Ramsay was a suspect in a carjacking; he had reportedly met a man on a dating app and then took his car. Ramsay had also robbed other men he had met through the app.
When he was younger, Ramsay had been suspended from school for bringing an Airsoft gun to school and for climbing onto the roof and breaking into Central Intermediate School in Wadsworth. Records show Ramsay had also spray-painted graffiti in a city park
Je’Michael Malloy is a teen killer from North Carolina who was convicted of the murder of fifteen year old Danielle Locklear
According to court documents Je’Michael Malloy and Danielle Locklear had an off and on again relationship. The relationship would take a sudden term when Danielle would tell Malloy that she believed she was pregnant (this is according to Malloy).
Danielle Locklear would leave her home and would never be seen alive again. It would later turn out that Je’Michael Malloy and a friend of his Dominic Lock would meet with Danielle who was taken down to a creek where she would be suffocated with a sock, tied to a cinder block and thrown into the water
The body of Danielle Locklear would eventually be found and soon after Je’Michael Malloy would make a full confession
Je’Michael Malloy would plead guilty to second degree murder and be sentenced to twenty five to thirty four years in prison
Dominic Lock would be sentenced to pleaded guilty to the charge of being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and was sentenced to serve six to eight years in prison
Je’Michael Malloy Videos
Je’Michael Malloy Now
Offender Number:
1504529
Inmate Status:
ACTIVE
Gender:
MALE
Race:
BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN
Ethnic Group:
NOT HISPANIC/LATINO
Birth Date:
06/09/1996
Age:
27
Current Location:
BERTIE CI
Je’Michael Malloy Case
After spending the summer with her grandparents and extended family in Hope Mills, North Carolina, 15-year-old Danielle Locklear decided to stay there instead of going to her mother’s home in Myrtle Beach.
Danielle looked forward to making new friends at school and spending time with her boyfriend, Je’Michael Malloy, then 17, a high school senior in nearby Fayetteville. The two had began dating in June 2013, cbsnews.com reported.
On March 11, 2014,, while her grandmother was away Danielle told her grandfather she had to go to her friend Alexis’ house for a quick errand around 9:45 p.m.
Danielle never returned. Authorities responded to a call reporting Danielle missing the next day, according to “Final Moments,” airing Sundays at 7/6c on Oxygen.
Officers canvassed a nearby creek area, which teens used as a gathering place. They did not find Danielle, but they discovered a sock that belonged to her. Authorities questioned whether Danielle had gone to the creek, not the friend’s house the night she vanished.
“Alexis told investigators Danielle had not come to her house during the nighttime hours,” said Joshua Hamilton, a detective with Hope Mills PD.
However, Alexis had hung out with Danielle earlier that same day at the creek. Alexis provided photos of Danielle taken hours before she went missing. In the pictures the reflection in Danielle’s eyeglasses revealed others who were present that afternoon.
Caroline Nuzzo, the missing teen’s friend, was one of them. She said Danielle told her a couple days earlier that Malloy had broken up with her.
Police considered the possibility Danielle went to see Malloy, not Alexis, the night she disappeared. When questioned, Malloy said that Danielle was having such a hard time with the breakup that he blocked her from his phone, according to investigative journalist Ana Garcia. He claimed he hadn’t talked to her in days.
Detectives asked Malloy where he was on the night Danielle went missing. He said he was home with his friend Dominic Lock, then 18. Malloy willingly gave his phone to detectives for forensic analysis.
Investigators were shocked to find texts in which Danielle told Malloy that she was pregnant with his baby.
Police also learned from Malloy’s phone that he was texting with other girls the night Danielle went missing. It appeared that he had been home that night as he had previously said.
To unearth fresh clues detectives reviewed surveillance footage from a camera near the creek and subpoenaed Danielle’s cell phone records. They retraced her steps the day she disappeared using the digital data.
Danielle’s last phone ping was to a cell tower at 10:40 p.m. They combed the area for the phone without success.
After the FBI got involved in the search for Danielle, images of her were released to the media to help spark leads. Danielle’s disappearance became national news. Danielle’s mother, aunts, and other family members searched on their own and made flyers. Malloy joined the efforts.
Then, on April 2, just over three weeks after Danielle’s disappearance, an off-duty officer spied a partially-submerged body in a river about 20 miles outside of Hope Mills.
When the body was pulled from the water, investigators saw that cinder blocks had been tied to her waist and feet with yellow rope to weigh it down. The victim was identified as Danielle.
As her family mourned, police learned that a sock matching the one found at the creek had been stuffed into her mouth.
The medical examiner concluded that Danielle died of asphyxiation but couldn’t determine whether the actual mechanism for death was strangulation or the sock, according to Hamilton.
“The only thing they could say was it was from both,” he said.
The autopsy also revealed that Danielle was not pregnant at the time of her death.
The location where Danielle’s body was recovered was less than a mile from Malloy’s residence. The victim’s ex-boyfriend became the focus of the homicide case. Police executed a search of the Malloy residence, where they found cinder blocks and cord matching the kind used to weigh down the victim’s body.
“The cops think this is the aha moment, but Je’Michael doesn’t crack,” said Garcia. “He doesn’t confess.”
Lock was brought in for questioning but he refused to speak with police.
But four days after his initial denial, Malloy confessed. He said that he and Lock picked up Danielle on the night she went missing. During an argument with her at the creek, Malloy said he snapped and killed Danielle.
He asked Lock, who was waiting in the car, to help him move the body. In a taped interview with police Malloy told police that Lock shoved the sock into her mouth “because she was making a noise.”
Police learned that Malloy used a phone app to send texts to make it appear as if he was home at the time of the slaying.
Malloy was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Lock was initially charged with conspiracy, but a day later faced second-degree murder charges along with Malloy, reported abc7.com.
In May 2016, Malloy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 25 to 31 years in prison. Lock pleaded guilty to the charge of being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and was sentenced to serve six to eight years in prison in June 2016.
