Michelle Renee is forced to rob a bank in order to save her daughters life after intruders broke into her home, claimed to strap dynamite to their backs and force Michelle Renee to rob the bank that she worked at.

A then 23-year-old woman found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of her 3-year-old daughter posted TikTok videos about the death in the weeks afterward. According to publicly available court information, Nicola Priest was found guilty of child cruelty and manslaughter in the August 9, 2020, death of her daughter, Kaylee-Jayde Priest, in the Solihull, West Midlands area of the United Kingdom. On Friday, Priest received a sentence of 15 years in jail

Children are commonly used to symbolize innocence in literature and media today. But there’s an exception to every rule, and when you’re talking about weird and random acts of violence, you’re talking about these kids.

In 2008, the world was captivated by the bizarre behavior displayed by Casey Anthony. The then-22-year-old single mother from Orlando, Florida, was revealed to have spun a web of lies to cover up for the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, that summer; the Facebook photos of her partying around town and a dearth of emotion in interviews fueling the charges of first-degree murder before Caylee's body was discovered later that year. However, there would be no closure for those outraged by a mother's neglect of her child, as Casey escaped conviction in 2011, while the questions of who killed her young daughter and why were never resolved.

Cruz was a 19-year-old expelled student with a history of mental health and behavioral issues at the time of the "cold, calculated and premeditated" killings, Broward County's State's Attorney Office said in court documents. Cruz told investigators that he heard voices in his head telling him to "burn, kill, destroy" and that he tried but failed to kill himself two months before the massacre, according to a transcript of his first formal interview with detectives.

Anyone who has been wrongfully accused of doing something they know they did not do will understand the immense frustration that comes with it. Fortunately for most people, that boils down to someone saying they took the last donut or let slip a bit of gas. Unfortunately for others, it involves horrible crimes that lead to hard time in prison. Here are ten cases of people being accused and convicted of terrible things they never actually did.

We live in a very dark world. From stories of murderers walking free to killers boasting about their crimes on Facebook to terrorists targeting innocent civilians, experience shows time and again that a real-life “happy ending” is more than most victims can expect. However, sometimes a flicker of humanity can be found in even the most hardened killer’s soul.

On the evening of August 20, 1989, José and Kitty were standing in the den of their Beverly Hills mansion when Lyle and Erik entered the den carrying shotguns. José was shot 6 times, including the fatal shot in the back of the head with a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun. Kitty was shot 10 times in total. Before the fatal shot to her cheek, she was on the ground, slowly crawling and moaning. Lyle then ran to his car to reload, and then fired the fatal shot to her face.