As human beings, we have trouble fathoming the idea of a
young girl committing so atrocious a crime as murder. Much less, the murder of
her own mother. The concept becomes even more inconceivable when it pertains to
a beautiful young womanbeautiful young woman with a loving family and the world at her fingertips.
These girls aren't all women in prison now. Some have been released and disappeared into the mainstream. Scary, huh?
Nakisha Waddell
They eventually
mixed a crude concrete mixture and poured it on top of her and finished by
covering her with sticks, leaves, and yard debris. She gives no reason or
excuse other than she was mad from their various arguments. She was sentenced
to 70 years in the penitentiary.
Jasmine Richardson
Twelve-year-old Canadian Jasmine Richardson killed her
parents, Debra and Marc Richardson, and her little brother with the help of Jeremy
Steinkeher, her 23-year-old boyfriend, on April 23rd, 2006. They met at a concert,
but her parents would have none of it. They forbid his presence in her life. Evidence
from a Windows Live account presented in trial showed Jasmine saying she had a
plan to kill her family and live with Jeremy.
A few months later the pair killed
her entire family and ran away together. They were caught a short time later.
She confessed saying she slit her own brother Jacob’s throat and waited while
Jeremy killed the rest of her family.
She said she did it to be closer to Jeremy.
In June 2007, Jasmine Richardson went on trial for three counts of first-degree
murder. She was found guilty on all and sentenced to 10 years in jail, the
maximum amount allowed by Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act.
In 2008, Steinke
was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to three concurrent life
sentences, with an earliest parole date of 25 years. Jasmine has since been
released and lives under an assumed name.
Esmie Tseng
Esmie was the child of strict Chinese immigrants who abused
her to excellence. She was allowed little free time and her mother governed her
every move. She snapped on August 19, 2005, and stabbed her mother, Shuyi Zhang,
repeatedly during a violent fight that tumbled through most of the house in a
quiet Kansas neighborhood. Esmie was a highly talented pianist and high school
honor student. Although the state attempted to try her as an adult, she was
tried as a juvenile. The court sentenced her to eight years. She was released
in 2012.
Sarah Johnson
Sixteen-year-old Sarah shot both of her parents, Alan and
Diana Johnson, in their Idaho home in 2003. She called 911 from the neighbor’s
phone reporting an intruder had killed her parents.
Sarah and her parents had
been fighting over her 19-year-old boyfriend, Bruno Santos, who had Mexican
drug cartel connections. Sarah told police she awoke to hear gunshots and found
her parents dead, but they found a pink bathrobe and latex glove in the outside
trash which connected her.
The jury found Sarah Johnson guilty on two counts of
murder in the first degree. She was sentenced to two life prison terms, plus 15
years, without the possibility of parole. She was fined $10,000, of which
$5,000 was allocated to go to her half-brother, Matt Johnson.
Sandra and Elizabeth Anderson
Canadian sisters, Sandra and Elizabeth Anderson plotted and
carried out the murder of their mother Linda Anderson in 2003. Although the
crime is very real, the names of all involved have been changed because the
girls were under 18 when they committed the crime. They had friends who were
going to Europe. They had swimming pools, and trendy clothes. Sandra and
Elizabeth felt their mother drank away all the money that could be used to
their benefit. They were constantly disappointed in her habit of losing jobs
and moving them around a lot. Fed up, they decided to kill her and collect
insurance money they would use to live a better life. One January day in 2003,
the sisters started getting Linda drunk early, plying her all day with pills
and cocktails. As evening drew near, they ran her a bubble bath and helped her
in. One sister relaxed her with a massage and the other shoved her head under
the water and sat on her until she died. Then they left and went out to eat
with their friends to celebrate their murderous success. Afterward, they went
home and called 911, explaining they had just found their mom dead in the tub. Authorities
initially believed the girls, especially after an autopsy came back with
drowning as the cause of death with high levels of alcohol. They may have
gotten away with it had a young man they bragged to not went to the police. Cops
gave him a wired-up car and he had both sisters confess inside for all to hear.
They were arrested and sentenced to ten years each. They were released in 2009
and 2010. Their real identities remain hidden.
Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whitehead
Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whitehead are 16-year-old twins who
killed their mother, Jarmecca Yvonne "Nikki" Whitehead in January
2000. The twins were primarily raised by their grandmother. Their mother was only
a sporadic presence in their lives. In 2007, the girls turned 13 and their
mother requested custody. The twins did not get along with their mother and
resented her attempts to punish them. When she was awarded custody, the girls
were angry. On May 21rst, 2010, the twins attacked their mother beating,
stabbing, and biting her until she was dead. They called police and said they
found her like that. It took four months for police to implicate them in the
murder with help from DNA tests. Both girls plead guilty. They were convicted
of voluntary manslaughter in January of 2015 and sentenced to 30 years each in separate
prisons. In 2015, Arrendale State
Prison had its first charter high school graduation. Jasmiyah received her high
school diploma and was class valedictorian.
Kim Edwards
Kim Edwards, along with her boyfriend Lucas Markham, both
14, killed her mother, Elizabeth and her 13-year-old sister Katie in 2016. They
are said to be Britain’s youngest murderers. Police believe the motivation was
not a star-crossed-lovers-kept-apart deal, but that Kim was jealous of the
close bond between her mom and little sister. Once she met Lucas, the two
became inseparable and it was just one more problem between the mom and
daughter. She complained to him about how miserable she was in her home and how
her mom and sister did not love her. They decided to cut their throats in their
sleep. She let him in the house through a window late one night. He pulled a
knife out of the bag full he’d brought with him and stabbed Elizabeth in the throat
eight times before going into Katie's room and stabbing her. They hung out in
the house for 36 hours. They ate, watched the Twilight movies, and snuggled
until the cops broke in through a downstairs window. They were sentenced to 20
years each in 2017.
Dr. I Kathleen Hagen
Kathleen Hagen was an accomplished woman. She was driven to
accept nothing but success in an attempt to please her parents who were
unusually mentally cruel to her all her life. Nothing she accomplished was good
enough. They insulted and disparaged her when she attended Harvard Business
School at a time when it was unheard of for a woman. They were unimpressed when
she became the first female urology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital
and the head of urology at Rutgers. She developed a mental issue in early
adulthood that plagued her throughout her life. At age 53, her life had fallen
apart. She was divorced, unemployed, mentally ill, and homeless in 1999 so she
moved back in with her parents in New Jersey. She set up house in the basement
and became a recluse. She rarely bathed or came out of the house. Her mother’s
92nd birthday rolled around and when Kathleen offered to make her a
cake, her mother told her she didn’t want anything from her and would throw it
in the floor. Authorities believe this is when her mind began to crack. Several
days later, she smothered them both in their sleep. Later, she said she heard
voices and thought she was transporting her parents to a place where they would
finally love her. A week after the murders, on August 26th, 2000,
she returned to her rational self and realized what she had done. She called
the police and confessed. She was found to be insane at the time of the murders
and incarcerated in a mental hospital for six years before she was released.
Erika de Nardo
Erika de Nardo,
16-years-old, rocked the entire country of Italy with her mother murdering
antics. She and her boyfriend, 17-year-old, Omar Favaro, stabbed her mother, Susy,
and younger brother, Gianluca, more than 97 times. They had planned to kill her
father as well, but he had left to play football with his friends. Erika had
been arguing with her parents about the average teen-years drama; bad grades,
boyfriends etc. One evening, Erika instigated an argument with her mother over
grades. Once the argument became physical, Omar sprung from the bathroom and
helped Erika stab her mother to death. They then went upstairs and stabbed her
brother to death. After the carnage, Erika ran to a neighbor’s home and banged
on the door. She told police later that she had come home to find two men
murdering her family who quickly ran off. She described them as appearing to be
illegal Slavic immigrants which incited the entire country into riots against
the Slavs and Albanian immigrants. Police arrested both teens, however, when Erika’s
story started to contradict itself and police recorded the young couple
discussing the murder while alone in an interrogation room. She was sentenced
to 16-years, and him to life.
Lisa Borch
Fifteen-year-old Danish Lisa Borch
stabbed her mother more than 20 times in October 2014 in Kvissel, Denmark. She
was in a romantic relationship with 29-year-old Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdulla, a
radical Muslim extremist. The two obsessively watched beheading videos from
ISIS before they stabbed Tina Römer Holtegaard to death. Before Abdulle, Lisa
had been involved with a married man. When he left her to go back to his
family, she fell into a depression and that’s when she met Abdulla at a refugee
center. Her relationship with her mother had been worsening to the point that
her twin sister moved out, unable to stand the bickering between Lisa and her
mom. Tina wanted Lisa to stop seeing Abdulla and live a normal life but the two
planned to kill her and run away to join ISIS. After several hours of the
decapitating videos, they rushed into Tina’s room and overtook her. Lisa called
the police saying she heard her mother screaming and witnessed a man running
away from the house. They arrived to find Lisa sitting calmly playing with her
computer. When they asked her where her mother was, she simply pointed upstairs
and continued using her computer. Abdulla was gone, but investigators found his
fingerprints in Tina’s bedroom. She received a nine-year sentence, the longest
ever given to a teen girl in Denmark.
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