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5 Terrifying Examples Of Children Murdering Their Parents by Sirjohn84(m): 8:37pm On May 24, 2016
5 Robert And Jeffrey Dingman
In 1996, 17-year-old Robert and 14-year-old Jeffrey Dingman were two unassuming teenage brothers who decided to shoot their parents to death in their home. Annoyed by their parents’ rules and upset at the constant yelling, the two brothers talked for months, trying to decide how to commit the crime.
They considered methods like poisoning and drowning but finally settled on shooting their parents. Jeffrey took the first shots, badly wounding both his mother and father. Then Robert finished them off, taunting them before he actually killed them.
The boys placed their parents’ bodies in garbage bags, which they hid in the attic and the basement. The brothers partied with friends that weekend, saying that their parents had gone on a spur-of-the-moment vacation.
Coworkers of the murdered couple called police when the two adults failed to show up for work. Although the evidence was overwhelming, prosecutors struck a deal with Jeffrey to testify against his brother . Jeffrey was sentenced to 30 years in prison, and Robert received a life sentence.

4 Alex And Derek King
In 2001, 12-year-old Alex and 13-year-old Derek King beat their father to death and then set fire to their house to cover it up . There didn’t appear to be any specific motive for the crime, although they did live in a house without power and seemed to have a distant relationship with their father.
To fill the emotional hole in their lives, the boys turned to 41-year-old Ricky Chavis, a family friend and convicted child molester . Chavis’ place became a home away from home for the boys, who hid there whenever their father came looking.
After Alex and Derek killed their father, police took a close look at Chavis. Initially, state prosecutors believed that the two boys had been aided by Chavis or that Chavis had been aided by the boys. However, the prosecutors chose to separate the trials.
In a move familiar to those who watched the Netflix series Making a Murderer , the prosecutors argued that the boys were the killers at their trial and that Chavis was the killer at his trial.
Ultimately, Chavis was acquitted. The two boys were originally convicted of second-degree murder but a sympathetic judge threw out the convictions and accepted guilty pleas to third-degree murder and arson. Thanks to their pleas as well as enormous public outcry, Derek was released after only seven years and Alex after only six.

3 Chiyo Aizawa
The trial of Chiyo Aizawa is a historic case in Japan because it spurred the Supreme Court of Japan to change the laws on patricide and matricide. It was the first time that they had ever declared a legislative act unconstitutional.
Physically and sexually abused for nearly her entire life, Chiyo Aizawa had even given birth to five children with her father. When she fell in love with a friend and wished to marry him, her father locked her in the house, refusing to allow her to leave. Aizawa saw no way out and strangled her father to death in 1968. Filial piety, a Confucian philosophic virtue of respect for one’s parents, played a large role in patricide being considered more heinous than the murder of a stranger.
Convicted and sentenced to death , Aizawa took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually decided that the law was unconstitutional. She was sentenced to 2.5 years of hard labor.

2 Sarah Johnson
In 2003, Alan and Diane Johnson were found dead. Both had been shot with a rifle. Their 16-year-old daughter, Sarah, was also at the house, although she was alive. Investigating police found the crucial evidence—a bloody bathrobe and two gloves with DNA inside—in a garbage truck that had almost left the area.
Attention turned to an illegal immigrant named Bruno Santos. Sarah had been seeing Santos, but her parents didn’t approve of him. Although they fully expected Santos to be the killer, the police noticed that Sarah was acting strangely carefree after the murders.
After she changed her story a number of times, the DNA evidence finally came back. It was a match to Sarah. At her trial, prosecutors claimed that Sarah wanted to be with Santos and she wasn’t going to let her parents get in the way. In fact, only a few days before the murders, Alan Johnson had threatened to turn Santos into the police for having sex with a minor. Sarah was convicted of both murders and received two life sentences without parole. A number of appeals have failed to overturn the convictions.

1 Marie Robards
Marie Robards, a great student and a seemingly loving daughter, was the last person anyone would suspect of murder. When her father died in 1993, the autopsy found nothing out of the ordinary, leading authorities to believe that he had died of natural causes.
If not for the guilt which overcame her, the 16-year-old would have gotten away with what the prosecutor called “the perfect crime.” Marie had committed the act by stealing barium acetate (a chemical used to set dyes and stains) and lacing her father’s food with it. Since the equipment to detect the poison is prohibitively expensive, authorities missed it.
Marie eventually confessed to one of her friends while the two of them were reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. During Claudius’s soliloquy, Marie told her friend everything and swore the girl to secrecy.
But the girl turned to the police, who ordered the test and arrested Marie after the results came back. When asked by police why she had killed her father, Marie calmly explained that she had wanted to live with her mother, who was divorced from her father.
In her mind, killing him was the only way out though she claimed that her intention was merely to make him sick. In the end, she was sentenced to 28 years in prison with a mandatory sentence of seven years.
Re: 5 Terrifying Examples Of Children Murdering Their Parents by marshalcarter: 9:24pm On May 24, 2016
Wow....dis is really touching sad




Sum parents sha


Ya papa sey make u no see ya bf/gf...u no gree....as u commot better go slp for the person aus nii grin grin no need for lockin undecided

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Re: 5 Terrifying Examples Of Children Murdering Their Parents by Sirjohn84(m): 6:19am On May 25, 2016
marshalcarter:
Wow....dis is really touching sad




Sum parents sha


Ya papa sey make u no see ya bf/gf...u no gree....as u commot better go slp for the person aus nii grin grin no need for lockin undecided

yes so surprising but they happened even here in Nigeria

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