This document is proof positive that the pro-abortion mentality numbs the human conscience. You can print it out and use it during debates and call-in shows, as well as for research purposes.
       It is a list of known murders committed by abortionists and other pro-abortionists. They have tortured, raped and murdered not only their wives and pregnant girlfriends, but also small children and even newborn infants.
       It is very important to note that none of these incidents is a simple crime of passion. They are all carefully planned and premeditated, and every one of them shows a depraved indifference to human life and degenerate joy in human suffering.
       Older people cannot recall instances when men would murder their wives and girlfriends for not getting abortions before it was legal. Pro-abortionists used to complain loudly about the women who died at the hands of illegal abortionists, but they are now completely silent — not only about the women who die at the hands of incompetent legal abortionists but also about the women who are murdered by men who want them to get abortions. More women are being murdered now because they refused abortion than died of illegal abortion. The message is clear: If you are pregnant and want your baby, and your boyfriend or husband is "pro-choice," watch him carefully. Never turn your back on him, because it may be the last thing you ever do.

       This document lists three categories of murders.

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The first type of murder is when "pro-choicers" such as well-known abortionists or famous pro-abortion activists kill women. Some examples;

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Vocal pro-abortionist Marc Eason, son of abortionist Betty Eason, was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for the ax-murders of his roommates.

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Well-known pro-abortion activist Eileen Orstein Janezic murdered pro-life activist minister and radio talk show host Jerry Simon by shooting him through his living room window "to prove her love for Satan."

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California abortionist Bruce Steir butchered Sharon Hamptlon and then just allowed her to die.

       Nobody can logically deny that 'pro-choicers' are guilty of murder in these cases.

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The second type of murder occurs when men try to force their wives or girlfriends to have abortions and then, when they refuse, murder them. Not surprisingly, almost all of the cruelist and most grisly murders fall into this category. These murders are the most lethal expression of the "entitlement mentality." Spoiled brats who never really grew up expect their lives to be as free of complications as possible, and expect women to cave in to their demands. When the demand for abortion is not met, they go insane with murderous indignation. It is interesting to note that no pro-abortion group has ever shown the slightest concern for these women, either individually or collectively. The slaughter of pregnant women goes on and on, and that is just fine with them.
       Naturally, abortion-pushers are going to claim that the killers in this category are not "pro-choice," but rather "pro-abortion." This is technically true, of course, but these deaths would not be possible without the free and easy availability of the abortion culture that the "pro-choicers" were pushing in the first place! When abortion was strictly regulated in the United States, a man forcing his wife or girlfriend to have an abortion did happen occasionally, but men killing women because they refused to have an illegal abortion was almost unheard of.
       Interestingly, the murder rate of pregnant women in states with tax-paid free abortions is much higher than in states were women actually have to pay to have their preborn children killed.

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The third category of murder is when murderers kill pregnant women for reasons not directly related to the availability of abortion. Pro-abortionists, of course, will argue that such murders are not committed by "pro-choicers," because abortion was not explicitly involved. Here we see a fundamental fallacy in "pro-choice" logic.
       The National Organization for Women and other pro-abortion groups are fond of saying that pro-lifers don't care about the woman, only the fetus, and that we are all, as they sometimes say, "fetus-fetishists."
       Therefore, by "pro-choice" logic, a pro-lifer would never kill a pregnant woman — not because he cares about the woman's life, but because he does not want to kill the fetus. Plainly, someone who murders an obviously pregnant woman is not pro-life, so they must be pro-abortion.

       Descriptions of the most hideous murders of all are preceded with a skull and crossbones (). These murders are truly repulsive, and those with tender hearts or stomachs really should avoid reading them, because they describe the hideous and pitiful pro-abortion torture, rape and murder of pregnant mothers, many in their last month before delivery.
       For a more detailed description of each pro-abortion murder, and for documentation, just click on the underlined name of the killer at the beginning of each summary.

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Murder Category #1: Murders by Abortionists or Well-Known "Pro-Choicers"

BARREIRO:    Abortionist Hipolito Barreiro was charged with manslaughter for the January 1983 death of Shirley Payne. Barreiro had previously killed at least three other women with his "safe and legal" abortions, including Ruth Montero in August 1979; Maura Morales in May 1981; and Marta Baptiste in December 1982 (Florida). BENJAMIN:    Abortionist David Benjamin killed Guadalupe Negron, a mother of four, in July 1993. During the abortion, he lacerated Negron's cervix and punctured her uterus, causing severe bleeding. Then the abortionist abandoned her. Negron's autopsy report attributed her death to massive bleeding causing shock and cardiac arrest. Benjamin was indicted and convicted on murder charges due to "depraved indifference to human life" (New York). BICKHAM:    Abortionist Arnold Bickham aborted Sylvia J. Moore in December 1986, using first-trimester techniques for a second-trimester pregnancy. He lacerated her internal organs so badly that she collapsed. Bickham called her "lazy" and ejected her from his abortion mill. Moore then bled to death. The postmortem report stressed "gross negligence and abandonment on the part of the original treating physician. In consideration of the above, the manner of death is determined to be homicide" (Illinois). BISKIND:    In April 1998, Phoenix abortionist John Biskind aborted Louann Herron's 26-week-old preborn child, then left the abortion mill while she bled to death. In February 2001, a jury found Biskind guilty of manslaughter and clinic administrator Carol Stuart-Schadoff guilty of negligent homicide in the Herron case (Arizona). CARLOS:    Kansas City, Missouri abortionist Lynn D. Weller was shot to death in his home in September 1973 by two masked gunmen who were hired by rival abortionist William Carlos. Carlos was angry that Weller was having an affair with his ex-wife (Missouri). COOPER:    Abortionist Boyd Cooper performed a 23-week abortion on a 2-pound, 2-ounce infant boy, who gasped and attempted to breathe after he was aborted. Cooper made no efforts to revive or help the little one because his parents wanted him dead. So the little baby was placed in a utility room used as an infant morgue. Cooper instructed a nurse, "Leave the baby there — it will die." The nurse testified that the infant was still gasping in the closet when she returned to work 12 hours later (New York). CREAM:    Although he stands in the shadow of Harry Holmes, "America's Arch Fiend," illegal abortionist Thomas Neill Cream also made his bloody mark on Chicago. Cream, who, like many pro-abortionists, despised women, murdered his wife Flora Brooks, aborted and then murdered a young woman in London, Ontario, then moved to Chicago and set up shop as an abortionist. Soon after, one of his botched abortions killed Mary Anne Faulkner and he also killed Ellen Stack by ending her pregnancy with strychnine. He began an adulterous affair with Julia Stott and murdered her husband Daniel when he became suspicious. He fled to Canada, but was sentenced to life imprisonment. He bribed the justice system and was released a decade later, hating women more than ever. He moved to London, England, where he murdered Ellen "Nellie" Donworth, Matilda Clover, Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivell with strychnine. Cream was finally arrested and put on trial for murder and extortion in October of 1892. The jury took only ten minutes to find Cream guilty of multiple counts of murder. He was sentenced to death and was hung on November 16, 1892 (Illinois). DEHENRE:    In April 1998, abortionist Malachi Dehenre, the primary abortionist at the New Woman Medical Center abortion mill in Jackson, Mississippi, murdered his wife, Mysha Rose Dehenre, who worked with him, by shooting her once in the head with a handgun. Dehenre, who had lost his license to practice medicine in New York, Alabama and Mississippi due to bungled abortions, pled not guilty at his first trial in 2002, and the jury's deliberations ended in a mistrial. The prosecution retried Dehenre in 2008 based on new evidence. On January 31, 2008, a Jones County Circuit Court jury unanimously convicted DeHenre of manslaughter after deliberating for just 45 minutes (Mississippi). DRAGIN:    Notorious Chicago abortion mill owner Kenneth "The Creep" Yellen literally died in the gutter after his gangland-style execution in November 1979, from five shots in the head as he walked to work. The primary suspect was Robin Dragin, a professional burglar with mob connections, who organized a Chicago abortion clinic that had been in competition with Yellin's operation. Before abortion was legalized, Dragin was a principal in the operation of an illegal abortion ring in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago (Illinois). EASON:    Marc Eason was a vocal pro-abortionist who worked at the Dadeland abortion clinic in Miami. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for the ax-murders of his two roommates. Eason claimed the murders were "justifiable homicide" because the roommates had "complained about his sloppiness." He also stabbed his abortionist mother, Betty Eason, in the neck with a steak knife (Florida). EDELIN:    In January of 1975, Boston abortionist Kenneth Edelin aborted a live and viable baby boy and then deliberately smothered him. He was subsequently convicted of manslaughter, but the conviction was overturned because of improper jury instructions (Massachusetts). FRANKLIN:    In February 1980, abortionist James Franklin killed Betty Jane Zellers Damato during a botched criminal abortion and was sentenced to three years for manslaughter (Colorado). FRIEDMAN:    On January 21, 1961, abortionist Mandel M. Friedman killed 23-year-old Vivian Grant of New York City during one of his frequent botched abortions. He tried to cover up his crime by contacting a Queens undertaker and asking him to arrange for her burial. Authorities charged Friedman with homicide and falsifying a death certificate. Unfortunately, Friedman was set free on bail to butcher other women. On September 11, 1962, he fatally botched another abortion on 35-year-old Florida socialite Barbara C. Covington. Being an abortionist with very little imagination, Friedman did exactly the same thing he did before. He claimed that Barbara died of heart disease and tried to get an undertaker to bury her without an inquiry. Again, the undertaker notified police, and again Friedman was arrested and charged with homicide (New York). GANDOTRA:    San Diego abortionist Suresh Gandotra killed Magdalena Orteg Rodrigues during a botched abortion in December 1994. Gandotra fled the country to his homeland of India before authorities could formally charge him with an upgraded charge of murder (California). GRATTON:    Edward Gratton, 34, of London, Ontario, raped 16-year old Glenda Tedball repeatedly, and she became pregnant. When her pregnancy became known, Gratton grabbed Glenda and held her down while her own mother, Norma Poore, forcibly aborted her. Glenda died soon after (Ontario, Canada). GWYNNE:    Abortionist John Gwynne was convicted of the first-degree murder of his nineteen-year-old girlfriend (California). HAMILTON:    Prominent Oklahoma City abortionist John Baxter Hamilton was having an affair with a topless dancer he had aborted, and his wife was considering leaving him. On Valentine's Day 2001, Hamilton choked his wife with a necktie, beat her over the head with a heavy blunt object hard enough to smash a hole in her skull, and then slammed her face repeatedly onto the floor. In December 2001, a jury convicted Hamilton of murdering his wife. Amazingly, pro-abortionists tried to get all charges dropped against Hamilton by sending death threats to at least three news agencies, District Attorney Wes Lane and state witnesses against Hamilton. Even more incredibly, Hamilton's lawyer said that police should be investigating local pro-lifers as suspects in the murder, not the abortionist! (Oklahoma) HANNA:    Abortionist Alicia Ruiz Hanna was convicted in 1994 of second-degree murder after Angela Sanchez, a mother of four, died at Hanna's abortion mill. Hanna tried to stuff Angela's body into the trunk of a car in order to dump her body across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. Hanna was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for murder (California). HOLMES:    It comes as no surprise that America's first serial killer, known as "America's Arch Fiend," was an abortionist.        When he was a child, Henry Howard Holmes liked to capture neighborhood pets and perform surgical experiments on them, usually while they were still alive. In one case, he captured a neighbor's cat and set it on fire, then watched in amusement as it ran desperately, terrified, until it died in agony.        While a medical student, he perfected the skills he would use during a lifetime of slaughter and murder. He stole numerous corpses and experimented on how to use them to defraud life insurance companies. He would take insurance policies out on fictitious people, then obliterate the features of the corpses he stole with acid and make claims on them.        He was kicked out of medical school, but a widow who owned a drug store hired him as a druggist. After a few months, he committed his first murder by eliminating the widow and taking over the store.        Holmes decided to construct an edifice that would help him satisfy his murderous inclinations. It was a three-story castle-like structure designed to facilitate murder. Some of its features included soundproof torture rooms that locked from the outside, secret passages, dozens of secret peepholes, false floors, rooms equipped with torture devices (including a rack that would stretch a person to twice their original height), greased chutes that emptied into a cellar, and a very large stove and vats of acid for the disposal of complete human bodies.        When his "castle" was complete, Holmes lured young women into it, seduced them, and drugged them. Sometimes he'd fill one of the building's fireproof rooms with flammable gas and incinerate a young woman. He would watch them die horribly, and then slide their bodies down the greased chutes, where large vats of acid awaited them. Then he would sell their bleached skeletons to Chicago-area medical schools.        Julia Connor, the wife of a man Holmes had hired to run a jewelry store on the first floor of his "castle," became pregnant by him. He performed an abortion on her, but botched it horribly. Instead of taking her to a hospital, he murdered her, dissolved her body in acid, and sold her skeleton to a local medical school. He also poisoned her three-year-old daughter Pearl.        Holmes married a third time and then hired an assistant named Herman Pitezel, who planned to enlist Holmes' aid in making him disappear so the two could split the insurance proceeds. Naturally, Holmes smothered Pitezel with chloroform, burned him alive with acid, and kept all the money for himself. He also murdered three of Pitezel's five children, burning one of his young boys alive in a stove.        Eventually, Holmes became careless. He murdered two sisters from Texas and tried to claim the insurance money. Finally, authorities launched an investigation and Holmes left Chicago.        The Pinkertons finally captured him Massachusetts, charging him with multiple counts of murder. On the return trip to Philadelphia, Holmes bragged that he had committed enough crimes in his lifetime to be hanged a dozen times over.        On November 4, 1895, a jury convicted Holmes of the first-degree murder of Herman Pitezel. Members of the jury said afterwards that they had taken only sixty seconds to reach the guilty verdict, but remained sequestered longer "for the sake of appearances." Holmes soon wrote out a long confession for The Philadelphia Inquirer, saying that he was born to be a murderer. It was his life's goal, he said, to become the most notorious murderer the world had even seen. He gave details on 27 murders, including that of Pitezel. Official estimates put the total of his murders at a minimum of fifty and a maximum of two hundred. His "Castle of Horrors" yielded up many grisly secrets, including a pile of human bones in its basement.        He showed no remorse for any of his murders, and, in fact, said that "I was born with the Evil One as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world."        On May 7, 1896, Henry Howard Holmes finally died at the hands of the Moyamensing Prison hangman (Illinois). JANEZIC:    In 1993, pro-abortion activist Eileen Orstein Janezic murdered pro-life activist minister and radio talk show host Jerry Simon in Huntsville, Alabama. After killing Simon, she held police at bay with a pistol for six hours while spouting quotes from Anton LaVey's "Satanic Bible." In October 1994, a jury found her guilty of murder, and she was sentenced to life in prison (Alabama). KARMAN:    Harvey Karman of Los Angeles, the developer of the menstrual extraction technique of early abortion, had a three-page police record, including an arrest for murder in the death of an abortion client (California). KETCHUM:    When New York legalized abortion on demand in 1970, abortionist Jesse Ketchum immediately set up shop in a Buffalo motel suite and began performing late-term abortions. Soon after, Ketchum was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after killing Margaret Louise Smith. A pathologist determined that Margaret bled to death from "laceration of the entire length of the cervix, lower segment of the uterus, and the broad ligament" (New York). KLVANA:    In 1989, Los Angeles abortionist Milos Klvana was sentenced to 53 years in prison after being found guilty of the intentional murder of eight newborn babies and the stillbirth of another infant (California). LAUFE:    Abortionist Leonard Laufe aborted the 32-week pregnancy of a woman who falsely claimed that she had been raped. The prostaglandin abortion resulted in the baby being born alive. He then allowed the fully viable baby to die. The entire episode, including closeups of the baby gasping and kicking, was filmed for "educational purposes" (Pennsylvania). LOOPER:    Pro-abortionist Byron Looper, a Monterey, Tennessee county property assessor running against pro-life state Senator Tommy Burks, shot Burks in the left eye with a large-caliber handgun near a pumpkin patch where he planned to take schoolchildren on a hayride that same day. A witness said that Looper told him after the murder that "I did it, man, I did it! I killed that dude!" (Tennessee). MELNICK:    In May 1990, abortionist Joseph Melnick was convicted of allowing a viable and healthy 32-week baby girl, who weighed 3 pounds and 9 ounces, to die by ordering "no care" to be given her after she survived his botched third-trimester abortion attempt. The aborted girl was only 13 years old (Pennsylvania). MONTALVO:    Abortionist Angel Acevado Montalvo killed at least two women during the time period 1984-1988 and was prosecuted for one of the botched abortions. The day after he was found guilty in trial, he was back scheduling illegal abortions for women in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico). REYNOLDS:    Oklahoma City Abortionist Joe Bills Reynolds performed breast implants, a hysterectomy, and numerous liposuction procedures on his wife. He tried to collect $500,000 on his wife's life insurance after she bled to death after he opened a two-foot long incision in her abdomen, ostensibly for liposuction, on September 7, 1989. Reynolds would not allow paramedics to aid her until he had finished stapling the huge incision. He told his wife's father that she was assisting in surgery and just "fell dead." The abortionist was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter. The punishment the abortionist received for carelessly killing his own wife? A one dollar fine! (Oklahoma). SHERMAN:    Abortionist Robert Sherman killed 16-year-old Carmen Rita McDowell by intentionally performing an incomplete second-trimester abortion upon her in March 1975, so he could collect additional fees. The girl collapsed and was taken to a hospital, where emergency treatment removed a mangled preborn child. She died the next day from a septic abortion. The abortionist was paroled after 22 months in prison. His indictment said that he had a "malicious interest in making more money, cutting his costs and saving his time in disregard for the life and health of his patients." After he was paroled, he began doing abortions again in Massachusetts and Virginia (Washington, D.C.). SHOWERY:    During an April 1984 abortion, Raymond Showery tore Mickey Apodaca's uterus and severed her uterine artery. She hemorrhaged for two hours before Showery would allow her transfer to a nearby hospital. She bled to death during emergency surgery to remove her uterus. The abortionist was indicted for manslaughter. Amazingly, while Showery was in jail, six pro-abortion women protested in Showery's defense outside the courthouse, asserting that Showery "is a good man who helps the poor." He performed this abortion while still on bail pending appeal of his conviction for murder in the case of a late-term aborted baby (weighing five pounds) who survived his 1979 abortion attempt. Showery deliberately drowned the viable baby. Showery was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Showery is an Adolph Hitler aficionado who owns an arsenal of guns and reads voraciously about Hitler. Showery said that "Hitler was one of the most misunderstood men in history. He was really a great man" (Texas). STEIR:    Abortionist Bruce Steir was charged with murder after Sharon Hamptlon bled to death after Steir ignored her perforated uterus during a December 1996 abortion. Showing a callous and total disregard for the safety of women, pro-abortionists raised money for Steir's defense on the Internet, encouraged their friends to put pressure on elected officials and the California Medical Board, and urged the Riverside County prosecutor to drop the charges (California). TAN YEN:    In January 1989, abortionist Connie Tan Yen was charged with infanticide after allowing a third-trimester aborted baby to die of deliberate neglect (Pennsylvania). UNKNOWN ABORTIONIST:    Nurse witnesses testified that an unnamed abortionist from San Vicente Hospital in Los Angeles, aborted a 7-month old preborn baby live. Some time later, he noticed that the baby was still moving, and drowned the little child in a vat of formaldehyde (California). WADDILL:    In March 1977, abortionist William Waddill, Jr. committed a third-trimester abortion saline abortion and delivered alive a viable baby girl, whom he then strangled to death. This was the second time he had been charged with infanticide (California).

Murder Category #2: Women Killed Because They Refused to Abort

ANDERSON:    Ceeatta Stewart-McKinnie was soon to deliver her baby girl, whom she had already named Amarea Kimae. She sang her preborn baby lullabies and had already bought little dresses, sleepers and diapers. Her married boyfriend, Willis E. Anderson, was not as pleased, especially when Ceeatta told him that she would expect child support for the baby. He was worried that his wife would find out and that his comfortable middle-class existence as a state government accountant might be disrupted. So, on April 10, 2002, Anderson met Ceeatta and she got into his car. They drove to a secluded wooded area. She realized she was in danger, and jumped out of the car and tried to run. But she stumbled and lost her shoes and glasses in the pitch black woods. Anderson caught up with her easily and beat her to death by striking her at least 25 times with a heavy hammer. Turkey hunters found her body three days later. A jury convicted Anderson of murder, and he is currently serving a fifty-year sentence (Indiana). BARBEE:    During the early hours of February 19, 2005, Stephen Barbee traveled to the Fort Worth home of his girlfriend Lisa Underwood. He believed that she was pregnant with his child and, since Barbee was married, he wanted to cover up his adultery. He smothered Lisa by pressing her face into the living room carpet. But he wasn't done with his rampage yet. He grabbed Lisa's seven-year-old son Jayden, punched him hard in the face, and then smothered him the same way. He then took their bodies and dumped them in a wooded area of rural Denton County. Prosecutor Kevin Rousseau said "Jayden couldn't run. You think of (Barbee) approaching that little boy and slapping him upside the head hard enough to leave a bruise, and then holding him down until he's dead, and I dare you to say there is a reason to save his life." On February 20, 2006, Barbee was found guilty of two counts of capital murder. On February 27, a Fort Worth jury of seven women and five men sentenced the murderer to death (Texas). BENSON:    16-year-old Vanessa Youngbear of Weatherford, Oklahoma, was 7 months pregnant by her boyfriend, Trevor Wayne Benson, who did not want the baby. So Benson and one of his friends took Vanessa for a little ride. They took her to a deserted field, shot her in the head, and pushed her body into a ditch. Police arrested Benson and his friend the next day and charged them both with first-degree murder for the 2002 killing (Oklahoma). BISHOP:    Richard Bishop's ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Watkins, was nearly seven months pregnant, and he was not happy about it at all. So, on March 30, 2004, he awakened Tiffany, saying that he wanted to talk to her about her pregnancy. Then he repeatedly stabbed her in the chest, back and arms. Tiffany was rushed to a hospital, where she lost her viable preborn baby. Bishop was charged with murder and attempted murder for his attack (Indiana). BOYD:    29-year-old Mark Boyd of St. Louis hired Malik J. Nettles to do a little job for him. His 15-year-old girlfriend, Kyunia Taylor, was pregnant with his child, and he did not want the child. So Nettles murdered Kyunia as she rode home on a school bus in February 1996. He boarded the bus and began firing, killing Kyunia and her preborn baby, named Diamond, who was delivered by Caesarean section three months premature. The baby lived for 23 days but died. Nettles also shot the bus driver, Richard Lanman, three times, but he survived. Boyd was arrested after being indicted on murder charges in both deaths (Missouri). BRYANT:    21-year-old Kyle Bryant had slept with 14-year-old Chauntae Jones, and she was eight months pregnant with his child. He knew about the Massachusetts laws regarding statutory rape, and did not want to go to prison. He did not want the baby either. So he got his friend, Lord Hampton, 24, and, sometime in September of 1999, just weeks after she had started eighth grade, they lured her to an abandoned hospital and murdered her. They blindfolded her, raped her, struck her over the head with a blunt object, then stabbed her repeatedly in the neck, abdomen, and back. To compound her horror, she was still alive when they buried her in a pre-dug shallow grave on the former Boston State Hospital property in Mattapan. There is no honor among thieves, and there is even less honor among pro-abortionists and other murderers. Both Bryant and Hampton blamed the other in Chauntae's murder. In April 2004, Kyle Bryant was acquited of all charges despite his confession, which infuriated Chauntae's family and friends. On November 18, 2004, a jury found Lord Hampton guilty of two counts of first-degree murder (Massachusetts). BULLOCK, ERIK:    Erik Bullock of Little Rock, Arkansas, wanted his girlfriend, Shawana Pace to have an abortion. She refused, so he hired three thugs to kick her repeatedly in the belly and kill her full-term preborn baby. Pace pleaded for her baby's life as she was kicked, choked and punched on August 26, 1999. One of the attackers told her "Your baby is dying tonight." Pace had to have her spleen removed, and also suffered a broken left wrist, black eye and bruised face. Bullock and the three thugs were charged with capital murder in the first test of Arkansas' new Fetal Protection Law. A jury convicted Bullock of capital murder (Arkansas). BULLOCK, MATTHEW:    Matthew Bullock strangled his girlfriend to death. She was six months pregnant and he did not want his baby. So he decided to abort both her and her preborn child. He then tied up her body and hid her in a closet (Pennsylvania). CANO:    Gilberto Cano's live-in girlfriend, Martha Isela Moreno, was nearly seven months pregnant, and was looking forward to having her little girl. But Cano was not quite so happy about it, so he decided to abort both her and her preborn child. In April 2002, he stabbed her several times in the abdomen with a long kitchen knife and then strangled her to death. Cano was arrested that night, jailed, and charged with two counts of murder (California). CARRUTH:    Carolina Panthers football player Rae Carruth's girlfriend, Cherica Adams, was eight months pregnant. He did not want to pay child support, and demanded that she have an abortion, but she refused. So he hired a hit man to shoot Adams. Carruth and three accomplices laid a trap, and Carruth helped close it by blocking Adams' car so another man could pull alongside and shoot her. In March 2001, Michael Kennedy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Adams' death. The triggerman, Van Brett Watkins, also confessed (North Carolina). CRAIG:    Walter Lee Craig was upset that his young girlfriend, Linda Hyman, was pregnant with his child, so he decided to eliminate her, her family, and all evidence of her pregnancy. In the early morning hours one day in May 1985, he set fire to the crowded boarding house where Linda and her family lived. The fire killed Linda, her sister, and four other tenants. In January 1987, a New Jersey Superior Court jury found Craig guilty of seven counts of manslaughter and one count of arson (New Jersey). CROCKETT:    In an unusual turn of events, abortion was, in this case, the cause of a woman murdering a man. Jonelle Crockett, who was pregnant, was dating businessman Paul Nardone. The baby she was carrying was not Nardone's, but she wanted him to pay to abort the child anyway. Nardone refused to pay for the abortion. So, on August 28, 2004, Crockett shot him, stuffed him into the trunk of his car with the help of her baby's real father, then set the car on fire. She then stole Nardone's credit cards and went on a shopping spree. Crockett then told witnesses that she had killed Nardone because he refused to give her money for an abortion. On September 15, 2004, a grand jury indicted Crockett on capital murder charges (New York). DAVIS, TERRANCE:    Sonya Hayes was just days away from giving birth to a full-term 7-pound boy when her boyfriend, Terrance Davis of Toledo, Ohio, gunned her down in her car as she waited to pick up her 5-year-old son. Davis was wearing a Halloween mask to impede identification, and shot Sonya six times in the belly and upper torso, emptying his revolver. Prosecutors said it was obvious that the shooter was aiming for Sonya's belly in an attempt to kill their unborn child. Davis was charged with three counts of aggravated murder for shooting and killing Hayes and her unborn child (Ohio). DAVIS, WILLIAM:    Matthew Elliott and William Davis of Magnolia, Arkansas, dug a grave for 15-year old Brittni Pater, who was 12 weeks pregnant. Then they lured her into the woods and bludgeoned her repeatedly with a long, heavy metal bar wrapped with heavy tape around one end, as though the person who wielded it wanted to make sure he was able to get a good grip. Then they ran her down with their car and dumped her battered body in an old gravel pit. Elliott immediately bragged to his friends about how he had killed Brittni. Elliott and Davis were both charged with capital murder after giving statements in which Brittni's pregnancy was cited as the reason she was killed. On November 2, 2000, a Columbia County jury found Davis guilty of capital murder for his part in the fatal beating (Arkansas). DECAROLIS:    Elizabeth Kenna was excited about the impending birth of her baby boy, but her live-in boyfriend, Anthony Thomas DeCarolis, was not quite so thrilled. So he shot her to death on May 7, 2006, stole her car and credit cards, and tried to withdraw cash from ATMs in Broward and Collier counties eighteen times over the next two days. DeCarolis was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for killing Elizabeth Kenna and her nearly full-term preborn child. But, like all "pro-choicers," he took the easy way out. He cut a seatbelt out of Elizabeth's car and hanged himself with it in a wooded area near Naples, Florida (Florida). FLORES:    This case vividly demonstrates how truly idiotic and inconsistent the abortion laws are in the United States.        A teenager helped his girlfriend abort her preborn twins — at her request — and he goes to prison for life while she is not even charged, because she has a "right" to abortion. On May 6, 2004, Erica Basoria explicitly asked her boyfriend, Gerardo "Jerry" Flores, to help her end her pregnancy because it would interfere with her plans for going to college. While she lay on the floor and punched herself hard in the abdomen, he stepped on her stomach. Her five-month preborn twins died as a result.        Basoria said that "When I was four months pregnant, I began to show, and at that time I decided that I should have gotten an abortion." She also told investigators that she had been trying for weeks to kill her babies before she and Flores finally succeeded in doing so. She said "My mom, my sister and my sister-in-law all said that I should get an abortion. They said that I was too young to have children. ... About two weeks before the miscarriage, I started hitting myself. I would do this every other day and I would use both of my fists when I did this. I would hit myself 10 or more times." The defense logically argued that it was impossible to tell which of the two caused the miscarriage, but a jury took four hours to convict Flores of two counts of capital murder. Flores received an automatic life sentence because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. So, we have arrived at a situation where the same act of murder committed against the same victims can be a heinous act that society must severely punish for one perpetrator, and a legally protected human right for the other. Flores could have been executed for his crime, while Basoria was not in the slightest danger of being charged with even a misdemeanor. Another contradiction in this case is that, if Flores had been a licensed abortionist and had ended the pregnancy another way, he would have been rewarded with a hefty fee. Flores' defense attorney, Ryan Deaton asked reporters "How can two people conspire to do something like this and only one of them be punished? How can that be fair?"        Good question (Texas). FOUNTAIN, IRVIN:    In April 2001, Shantay Latrice Wheeler, who was eight months pregnant, was on her way to a baby shower in Troy, but she never arrived. Her married boyfriend, Irvin Fountain, took her to a remote area near Boswells Tavern in Louisa County and shot her at least four times in the head and back. He left her body there to rot. A month after he had killed Shantay, Fountain choked his wife so badly that she was coughing up blood, and then kidnapped her. As he slowed at an intersection, his wife took the opportunity to escape from him, rolling out of the car. Then Fountain turned, accelerated toward her, and struck her with the car. For these offenses, Fountain served nearly three years in prison, a relatively short term since his wife was reluctant to testify against him. On September 7, 2007, a jury found Fountain guilty of first-degree murder and recommended life imprisonment. Testimony revealed that Fountain did not want the child and had wanted Shantay to get an abortion, which she refused to do (Virginia). FOUNTAIN, TONY:    Ex-convict Tony Fountain had an affair with 17-year-old Chavanna Prather, a high school junior, and she became pregnant by him. He did not want the baby, and, in April 2001, he shot Chavanna in the stomach, abdomen and hand, then strangled her and repeatedly stabbed her in a crime so vicious that it shocked even hardened investigators. Fountain was charged with first-degree murder and the intentional killing of an unborn child (Illinois). GATSON:    Dameon Gatson already had a three-year-old child with another woman, and his current girlfriend was six months pregnant with his child. He definitely did not want another child, and so he hired a hit man to use force to abort his girlfriend, since she did not want to get an abortion. So he offered his roommate, Paul Petersen, $200 to assault his girlfriend. On April 21, 2007, Peterson punched her hard several times in the stomach and fled the scene. She went into labor and delivered her baby the next day. The baby girl, who she named Destiny, only lived for nine days and died May 1, 2007 after doctors took her off life support. Gatson then paid Peterson only $40, and blamed him for the entire episode. On May 2, 2007, both Gatson and Peterson were charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault (Minnesota). GLADDEN:    Tyrone Raynard Gladden's ex-girlfriend, Tara Chambers, was pregnant with his child, and he was not happy about the situation at all. He had previously forced Tara to have three abortions, but this time she stood firm and refused to kill their preborn child. So Gladden began to look for a hit man to kill Tara and her preborn child. He said that he would pay $10,000 to someone to "get rid of" Tara, saying he couldn't afford child support. After asking twenty different people if they would kill Tara, Gladden finally hired Melvin Anthony West to kill Tara Chambers. West went to Tara's home in Concord in June 2002 and murdered her. Her preborn daughter, whom she had already named T'Kaiya, was born before Tara died, but died a month after her mother did. Gladden was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. He was also charged with three other counts of solicitation to commit murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder (North Carolina). GLASS:    Michael Antonio Glass and his girlfriend already had three children, and he did not want any more. So when she became pregnant again, he demanded that she have an abortion. She refused, so, on June 7, 2002, he beat her savagely, concentrating his assault on her abdomen. She managed to escape and fled to a battered women's shelter. As a result of his attack, her preborn twin babies were delivered stillborn. Glass was charged with aggravated assault, two counts of felony feticide, and three counts of cruelty to children in the second degree because the assault took place in front of the couple's three children (Georgia). GLINTON:    Roscoe Glinton was a very busy "pro-choicer." He was a married father of four whose wife had recently given birth. He also had five children by three other women and was sinking deeper and deeper into debt. One of his girlfriends, Lisa Eatmon, was eight months pregnant with a healthy 6½-pound baby boy she had already named Jayden. She had refused his repeated demands to have an abortion. Glinton wanted to avoid the complications and embarrassment that were sure to come if his baby were born. So he took care of the problem in the most direct way possible. At about 4 in the morning of April 3, 2005, he shot Lisa in the head and dumped her body in the Hudson River. On October 25, 2006, a Manhattan jury deliberated less than two hours before convicting Glinton of second-degree murder. This was not the first time that Glinton had come under suspicion for murder. In 1998, his first wife, Deborah, vanished, and her remains were found three years later near the New York Thruway. In her diary, Deborah had mentioned that Glinton had tried to throw a running hair dryer into the bathtub while she was bathing (New York). GOINS:    Christopher Goins was twenty years old, and Tamika Jones, who was only fourteen years old, was seven months pregnant with his child. He did not want to be a father to Tamika's baby, and he had threatened to kill the entire family because he was upset that Tamika was pregnant by him. On October 14, 1994, Goins carried out his murderous threats. He entered the home of Tamika's parents and went on one of Virginia's worst murder sprees. Using a heavy .45 caliber Glock pistol, he murdered Tamika's parents, James Nathaniel Randolph and Daphne Jones, her nine-year-old sister Nicole, her four-year-old brother David, and her three-year-old brother Robert, by shooting them all at least once in the head. He concluded his killing spree by shooting Tamika nine times, including three times in the stomach. One of these bullets pierced the head of Tamika's preborn daughter, killing her. Finally, he shot Tamika's 21-month-old sister Kenya, who also survived. A jury convicted Goins of capital murder and four counts of first degree murder, and sentenced him to death. The State of Virginia executed Christopher Cornelius Goins by lethal injection on December 6, 2000. His final words were "There's no God but Allah" (Virginia). GRAYER:    37-year-old Curtis Grayer Jr. was raping his ten-year-old stepdaughter on a regular basis. She unexpectedly became pregnant by him, which presented him with a problem. He couldn't take her to an abortion mill, because obvious questions would be raised. So he tried to abort her himself by stomping on her stomach and tying belts around her abdomen so tightly she couldn't breathe. But these attempts at abortion were unsuccessful. So, after she delivered the baby boy she named Kevin at his home in October of 2002, he performed a "fourth-trimester abortion" on the little boy, killing him. Police arrested Grayer and charged him with murder, aggravated sexual battery, rape, child molestation and cruelty to children in denying medical care to both the infant and his stepdaughter. On November 10, 2005, a jury found Grayer guilty of murder, rape, and several other charges and sentenced him to life in prison (Georgia). GREGG:    Raymond Gregg's live-in girlfriend, Angela Russell, was pregnant, and he was not happy about it. So he solved his "problem" in the most direct manner possible. He admitted to police that he killed Angela, and then buried her body in woods off Statem Gap Road in Hamblen County. In October 2003, Gregg pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was given the maximum possible sentence, 25 years in prison without parole (Tennessee). HARPER:    Casino security guard Cordell Harper told his 16-year-old girlfriend, Helen Croudy, who was a high school junior, to take a pregnancy test. He had wanted her to have an abortion if she was pregnant, but she had replied that she could never do such a thing. He boasted to a co-worker about how he murdered Helen: "I choked her. It didn't work. I beat her with a hammer but it broke. So I beat her with rocks and dragged her body to the end of a jetty and I'm going to get away with it," he boasted to a co-worker. An autopsy found that Helen's skull had been crushed by a ball-peen hammer, and that many of her teeth had been broken out. Helen was still alive when Harper left her to die in a crevice on an icy cold Atlantic City jetty New Year's Day, 2002. He was charged with one count of first-degree murder and, on May 27, 2003, Harper pled guilty to the murder and weapons charges (New Jersey). HAWKINS:    Leah Hawkins of Lamar, Kansas, testified that her husband Jason beat her with a log from a woodpile while she was pregnant and after she refused to have an abortion. Her 10-month-old daughter witnessed the beating. Her son was born three months premature as a result of the beating and died December 26, 1999, at a Kansas City hospital. Jason Hawkins was charged with second-degree murder (Missouri). HAYES:    Conroy James Hayes was a typical pro-abortion "user." He only had a relationship with a person if he could extract something out of that person, and he gave absolutely nothing back. He was a drug dealer and had a violent nature, as many people could and did testify. He had at least five children by several different women, and lived off them basically as a parasite. He beat his girlfriends, stole money from them, and abused them horribly. He was so cruel, he even poisoned the goldfish of one of his girlfriend's young children just for fun. Hayes ordered one of his many girlfriends, Rochelle Mackey, to have an abortion. She refused and kicked him out of the house. He returned on July 11, 2005, and shot Rochelle in the chest, killing her. Then he urinated on his hands to remove any gun residue left on them and claimed that Rochelle had committed suicide. A jury did not buy his story, and convicted Hayes of first-degree murder (California). HENRY:    Pro-abortionist Eric Henry had a problem on his hands. His girlfriend was pregnant and he wanted her to have an abortion, but he had no money to pay for it. So, on December 13, 2007, he asked his step-grandmother, Anne Gordon, the popular pastor of St. Anne's Cathedral Holy Church of Deliverance, for the money. She refused to give it to him. So Henry beat the elderly woman, duct-taped a plastic bag over her head so that she could not breathe, then used the tape to bind her hands and feet so she could not remove the bag. Then he piled rugs on top of her body. As he was binding her, she asked God to forgive him for what he was doing to her. Then she suffocated to death. The State of Wisconsin filed a charge of first-degree intentional homicide against Henry (Wisconsin). HERNANDEZ, JESUS:    Aletheia Kikugawa was 15 weeks pregnant and looking forward to having her first child. But her live-in boyfriend, Jesus Francisco Hernandez, was apparently not too happy with the situation. On January 9, 2007, Hernandez stabbed Aletheia to death, then went for a drive in her car still wearing the bloodstained clothes he was wearing when he murdered her. Hernandez was subsequently arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Aletheia and her preborn baby under Oklahoma's new Unborn Victims of Violence Act (Oklahoma). HERNANDEZ, RICHARD:    In 2004, Richard Daniel Hernandez murdered his girlfriend America Gonzalez because she was four months pregnant with another man's child. He used a sawed-off, 12-gauge shotgun to shoot her several times as she sat in the back seat of a friend's car in an isolated spot near the town of Del Rey, California. Then the friend, Daniel Archan Jr., and Hernandez pulled America from the back seat of the car and dumped her body in a vineyard and then burned the car. In 2006, a Fresno County jury convicted Hernandez of two counts of murder (California). HERRERA:    Carlos Herrera and Brenda Chavez were having an affair, and Chavez became pregnant. Herrera did not want the child, so he solved the problem in the most efficient way possible. In February 2001, Herrera and Chavez met for one of their late-afternoon trysts at the Southern Ute Sand and Gravel pit. Herrera beat Chavez to death and disposed of her body and vehicle by running the vehicle off a steep embankment into a grove of trees (Colorado). HILL:    Nobody fights for "abortion rights" harder than men who are having affairs with young girls (often their own daughters) and who are cheating on their wives. A great example of this principle is Ronald M. Hill, who was married and had four children at home, but was carrying on an affair with Ingrid Smith, who was only fifteen years old. On March 15, 2005, he forced Ingrid to take a home pregnancy test, and when it turned out to be positive, he ordered her to have an abortion. When she refused, he murdered her. Hill did not help his defense when he bragged to his two Tarrant County Jail cellmates that he had killed her because the pregnancy test was positive and that she refused his demand to have an abortion. On March 1, 2006, Hill pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison (Texas). HOHBERGER:    Henry C. Hohberger III of Philadelphia found out that his pregnant girlfriend, Diane Grant, was carrying a baby girl, and he was upset about this because, as he told a maternity nurse, "I already have a daughter. ... It's supposed to be a damn boy." He also did not feel like paying child support, so he repeatedly tried to get Diane to have an abortion, but she refused every time. In November 2001, when the baby girl — named Nicole — was just seven weeks old, Hohberger beat and shook his little girl so severely that she suffered skull and rib fractures, and died five days later. Among Nicole's injuries were four broken ribs that were healing. The little baby girl also had eleven newly broken ribs, two fractures to her skull, and multiple hemorrhages to her head and eyes, the coroner's report stated. In November 2001, Hohberger was charged with capital murder and criminal homicide (Pennsylvania). HOLLIMAN:    High school student Tanika Fox of Greensboro, North Carolina, was pregnant by her boyfriend Shawn Kristopher Holliman. He did not want to be a father, and demanded she get an abortion. She refused. So, on December 14, 1999, he shot her twice in the head at point-blank range. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 2000, the students at Tanika's high school dedicated their yearbook in her name (North Carolina). HUDSON:    Deondre Terrell Hudson's girlfriend, Quinnisha R. Thomas, was eight months pregnant with his daughter, and he was very unhappy about it. So, on January 13, 2003, Thomas shot her in the back of the head as she took a shortcut through a fence to a Greenhaven neighborhood supermarket to buy some chips. Hudson and his two friends removed her body and dumped her into the trunk of a car. They were very careful to wrap her head in plastic garbage bags so her blood would not stain their car. Then they drove her to a nearby park and dumped her body into some bushes. Deputy District Attorney Mark Curry said "That is pretty cold. That is as cold as it gets and that tells you what's up with this guy. He is a coldblooded killer." Testimony showed that Hudson wanted Quinnisha and her baby dead because he viewed them as an "irritant" that would "jeopardize his future" as a rap music star. Hudson confessed, and a jury found him guilty of two counts of first-degree murder (California). JOHNSON, COLEMAN:    Tammy Lynn Baker of Charlottesville, Virginia, was eight months pregnant by her boyfriend, Coleman L. "Mike" Johnson Jr. The only problem was that he did not want the baby to be born. He had demanded that Tammy Lynn have an abortion, but she had refused. So he planted a pipe bomb on the sidewalk outside Tammy Lynn's apartment. She picked it up, it exploded, and both she and her near-term preborn baby were killed instantly. In May 2001, Johnson was convicted of capital murder (Virginia). JOHNSON, RICHARD:    Deborah Denise Randall was eight months pregnant by her boyfriend Richard Johnson and was happily awaiting the birth of her child. The only problem was a major one — Johnson was 18 years older than her and did not want his baby. He beat her up repeatedly, at one point squeezing her as hard as he could to induce miscarriage. When repeated beatings did not cause her to lose her baby, he emptied his pistol into her, firing bullets into her head, neck and chest (Virginia). KUPAZA:    In 1997, Peter Kupaza raped his cousin, Mwenvano Mwambashi Kupaza, then forced her to have an abortion when she became pregnant. Peter Kupaza claimed that Mwenvano had returned to her home in Tanzania, so that's where her friends thought she was, while her family in Tanzania thought that she was still living in Madison. On July 31, 1999, a woman and her children found a female torso and several garbage bags filled with body parts. The face, head and neck had been skinned, and the feet were missing. Peter Kupaza was arrested and charged with Mwenvano's murder. Peter Kupaza's former wife testified about how people in Tanzania often butcher their own livestock, and are therefore skilled with the use of knives. Kupaza was convicted of first-degree murder (Wisconsin). LAGRONE:    Pro-abortionist Edward Lewis LaGrone had repeatedly molested ten-year-old Shakeisha Lloyd, and she learned that she was 17 weeks pregnant. He offered to pay $1,500 for her to get an abortion, because he wanted to cover up his sexual abuse. She did not get the abortion, so LaGrone decided to abort not only the preborn baby, but Shakeisha's entire family. LaGrone went to Shakeisha's home and shot her uncle. Then he opened fire on two elderly women, Zenobia Anderson, 83, and Caola Lloyd, 76, who was blind and bedridden with cancer, killing them both. Shakeisha paused to pick up her 19-month-old sister and shield her behind some boxes. She was shouting to her mother to hide when LaGrone walked up to her and shot her in the head, killing her instantly. LaGrone was convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death (Texas). MARSHALL:    Tjane Charmeise Marshall's girlfriend, Shameka Fludd, was already the mother of two children, and was four to five months pregnant with his child. Marshall did not want his baby. He said that the unborn child would "ruin his life" and that "he was going to do something about it." He certainly followed up on his threat. In May 2003, Marshall borrowed a rental car from a friend, drove to Fludd's apartment, where he shot her in the head, killing her instantly (Maryland). MCBEATH:    Roger Lee McBeath killed his former girlfriend, Ashley Lyons, who was 5½ months pregnant with a preborn baby boy she had already named Landon. He shot her in the head three times with a handgun to make absolutely sure she was dead. Ashley kept a journal for her little boy. On October 31, 2003, she wrote "Your father wanted me to have an abortion. Your father told me he was going to commit suicide, that you would ruin his life." McBeath was charged with first-degree murder (Kentucky). MESHACK:    Teshibra Bell, who was only 15 years old, met a man at a convenience store in Southern Dallas. The man, pro-abortionist Shannon Meshack, was 25 years old. She eventually began to have sex with him. In June 2003, Teshibra was five months pregnant with Meshack's baby. She was looking forward to having the child, but Meshack did not want a child. So he strangled Teshibra. He then dragged her body into his back yard, piled up some debris, and tried to burn her (Texas). MILLER:    David Lee Miller was married, but that didn't stop him from having a girlfriend on the side. Elizabeth Walters was seven months pregnant by Miller. She had already named her preborn baby girl and was looking forward to her baby shower just the next week. Miller had repeatedly tried to pressure her to have an abortion, but she had refused every time. Elizabeth was sitting in a parked car with her friend Heather Joy Lowe on June 11, 2007. Miller got into the car and shot both women, killing Elizabeth and wounding Heather. Miller became the first person charged under Maryland's new fetal homicide law, and he was arraigned on charges of two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, first-degree assault, and two counts of the use of a handgun in the commission of a felony (Maryland). MINERD:    In January 1999, Joseph P. Minerd firebombed Deana Mitts' Connellsville townhouse, which killed Mitts, her 3-year-old daughter Kayla, and her unborn child. He did this since co-workers refused to help him use a stun gun to shock Deana into a miscarriage of his child. Witnesses heard Deana screaming in agony after the explosion, and saw her engulfed in flames "like a human torch." Three-year-old Kayla was so badly burned in the fire that her bones fractured from the heat. United States District Attorney Leo Dillon said "It's hard to imagine more anguish than Deana and Kayla Mitts endured before they died." Minerd was sentenced to life in prison for the murders and was prosecuted under the same law used to convict Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (Pennsylvania). O'LEARY:    Anthony C. O'Leary's girlfriend, Treasure Genaw, was just a week away from graduating from high school. She was also twelve weeks pregnant with his child. They were parked in her car on a dirt road, where he stabbed her to death and left her body. O'Leary was arrested on June 7, 2004, after a long car chase in Massachusetts, and a grand jury subsequently indicted him for first-degree murder in the killing. He confessed to the killing. When he was arrested, O'Leary was covered in Treasure's blood. Police found blood-soaked abortion clinic advertising pamphlets in the car (New Hampshire). PANIAGUA:    In 2005, Rodrigo Ortiz Paniagua stabbed his girlfriend, Leticia Chavez, who was about five months pregnant, three times in the stomach, deliberately targeting their preborn child. Then he stabbed their little daughters, cutting the throat of six-year-old Adrina, and killing three-year-old Analisa. Then he methodically set their Palo Alto house on fire and sat down on the curb outside the home and lit up a cigarette. Paniagua confessed to his crimes and was charged with four counts of murder and one count of arson (California). PARR:    LaMarr Parr of Massillon, Ohio, was charged with the September 16, 2000 fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend, Jean K. Toles, and the killing of her 2½-month-old preborn child. She wanted the baby and he wanted her to get an abortion. After he killed her, Parr dumped her body in a ditch (Ohio). PECK:    In October 1995, Joseph Peck beat and murdered his 25-year-old wife Jennifer, who was four months pregnant, because she refused to have an abortion. He stuffed her body into the trunk of her car at the Clique Lounge on North Dale Mabry. Homicide detective Greg Stout said that "We believe that because his wife had become pregnant and would not get an abortion, that he began making threats to her." He was indicted on first-degree murder charges by a Hillsborough County grand jury (Florida). PIERRE:    Emmanuel Pierre's girlfriend, Sandra Bonaventure, was a 21-year-old sophomore at the State University of New York in New Paltz. She was also seven months pregnant. He did not want the baby, but she did. So, to resolve this disagreement in the most permanent way possible, on June 25, 2005, Pierre strangled Sandra and stuffed her body into a tightly knotted garbage bag. During Pierre's trial, Joshua Cayenne, one of his fraternity brothers, said that he wanted Sandra to get an abortion, and that the baby was "gonna ruin his life." Cayenne had helped Pierre dispose of Sandra's body, and stole her credit cards after the deed was done. In April, a jury convicted Pierre of second-degree murder and, on May 12, 2005, State Supreme Court Justice James Yates sentenced Pierre to 25 years to life in prison. Assistant District Attorney David Drucker said in his opening statement that "He wanted her to have an abortion. She thought about it and decided against it." Justice Yates said to Pierre, "One thing I'm taking as a fact is that you did intentionally kill her. ... This is one of the most unforgivable crimes that have come before me in 13 years on the bench" (New York). PLOURDE:    Roxanne Fernando, affectionately known to her friends as "Apple," was pregnant and thought that she was going to exchange gifts with her "pro-choice" boyfriend on February 15, 2007. He had demanded that she have an abortion, but she refused, and she probably thought that the whole episode had blown over. This mistake killed her. Her boyfriend and a teenager he had hired to kill Roxanne took her to a remote park, beat her with a large wrench about twenty times, bound her with tape, wrapped her in a blanket, and stuffed her in the trunk of the car. But then the killers heard movement and moaning from the trunk. The two men picked up a third man and paid him $120, stolen from Roxanne's purse, to help murder her. The three then drove to another remote area, dragged Roxanne out of the trunk and dumped her on the ground, then beat her to death with a hockey stick. On October 23, 2007, the first of the killers, a 17-year-old boy whose name was not revealed due to his age, was sentenced to six years in prison and four years on probation for the brutal murder (Manitoba). POACHES:    On July 18, 2005, after they had gone to a prenatal examination earlier in the day, Stephen Poaches demanded that his girlfriend, Latoyia Figueroa, who was five months pregnant, have an abortion. She refused, so he used his bare hands to strangle her to death. He then dumped her body beside train tracks in a wooded area in Chester, Pennsylvania. Poaches confessed to murdering Latoyia, and was charged with two counts of first-degree murder on August 15, 2005. He admitted that he had killed her because she would not abort their child. He confessed that he strangled her in a rage when she said that she was pro-life and did not believe in abortion. On October 17, 2006, in a nonjury trial, Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina found Poaches guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. He will spend the rest of his life in prison (Pennsylvania). PONDER:    Jerold L. Ponder and Zaneta Browne were carrying on an affair, and Browne was 14 to 15 weeks pregnant with boy and girl twins by Ponder. Ponder urged Browne to get an abortion, but she refused. So, on July 14, 2002, Ponder and his wife Keya shot Browne, a 29-year-old Rochester mother of three, in the face and back of the head on land owned by Jerold Ponder's family in rural Orleans County (New York). PRICE:    Kerria Anderson was eight months pregnant by her boyfriend Alfonso "Lil Al" Price, who demanded that she have an abortion. Kerria, however, refused because she was looking very much forward to having her little girl, whom she had already named "Precious." On July 12, 2007, Price and two of his friends attacked Kerria, punching her in the face, knocking her to the ground, and stomping on her stomach in an attempt to kill her preborn child. Price screamed at her "Bitch, you should have got an abortion, now your baby is going to die." Then Price and his friends dragged her behind a building and continue to beat her and stamp on her stomach. Then the cowardly attackers fled and went into hiding. Kerria recovered from her injuries but her preborn baby died from a fractured skull as a result of the attack. Precious had also suffered many other broken bones. Kerria's mother Angela said "She [Precious] was just all broken up." Price, who already had a long police record, was caught two weeks after the murder and was charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault. 17-year-old Jebrell Wright, one of the other attackers, was charged with the same felonies (Ohio). RINGER:    Tony Ringer's girlfriend, Cassandra Betts, was pregnant by him, and he did not want the baby because he wanted to marry another woman. So, in December 2000, he shot her in the head as she sat in her car, killing her and her 6-week old preborn child, with Betts' seven-year-old daughter watching from the back seat. Ringer pleaded guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter (Ohio). ROBINSON:    38-year old Kevin Robinson repeatedly stabbed and killed 15-year-old Daphne Sulk in November 1997 because he had gotten her pregnant, and she refused to get an abortion. Authorities found Sulk's frozen body at a highway rest stop. In December 1998, Robinson was convicted of murder (Wyoming). ROSS:    On June 13, 2006, Karesse Ebron met her much older boyfriend, 22-year-old Ryan Ross. Ross drove her to an isolated area near Levy Park, where she told him that she was pregnant with his child. He asked her to have an abortion, but she refused. He reacted to her refusal by beating her to death with a baseball bat. He hit her at least four times on the head and told police that he did not want her to have his baby. An autopsy showed that Karesse died from multiple fractures to her skull and face. He confessed his crime to Spring Valley and Ramapo police and directed them to Karesse's body, which was buried under leaves in the woods near Eugene Levy Memorial Park. Ross pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and, on March 1, 2007, he was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison (New York). ROWE:    We naturally expect despicable, murderous and dishonorable behavior from "pro-choicers" in general, but it doesn't get any lower than this. What kind of pro-abort scumbag would blame his own mother for the murders he committed?        Gregory Rowe, that's who.        Rowe lived with his girlfriend, Kristin Fisher, and their seven-month-old daughter Kaylee in their home in Greentown, Pennsylvania. Kristin was pregnant by him again, and he repeatedly demanded that she have an abortion because he did not want to have to pay child support, but she refused, saying that she was pro-life. So he decided to take care of things his way — the "pro-choice" way — by killing those who inconvenienced him.        First, he drew a bath. Then he took the little girl and held her under the water until she stopped struggling, drowning her. Then he knocked Kristin unconscious and hanged her. After the murders, his mother helped him set up the scene to make it look as if Kristin had drowned her little daughter and then committed suicide.        In January 2006, a jury found Rowe guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, and he was imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole.        Rowe appealed his verdict, blaming his own mother for the killings. Perhaps we shouldn't be too hard on Rowe, because he apparently absorbed his values and his techniques from his mother, who murdered her ex-boyfriend not long after Rowe had murdered Kristin and her baby girl (Pennsylvania). ROYSTER:    Roselyn Dethrow was five months pregnant with Ricky Royster's child. She was ten years older than him, he was dating other women, and he was not happy about her pregnancy. So he decided to solve the problem his way. Royster demanded that Roselyn have an abortion, but, when she refused, he tried to make her miscarry by kicking her in the stomach and poisoning her. On October 8, 2002, he suffocated Roselyn with a pillow in his apartment. Then he and one of his former girlfriends disposed of Roselyn's body. They took her to a nearby park, removed her pants and underwear to make it look as if she had been raped, and mutilated her body by slashing her throat from ear to ear and cutting her chest and right thigh, hoping to make the murder look like a random attack. During Royster's trial, Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Martin described his motivation — that he just didn't want a child to interfere with his bachelor lifestyle, so he decided to abort both mother and baby. "A baby would mean less freedom and less money for himself," she said. A jury found Royster guilty of first-degree murder (North Carolina). SANDERS:    James L. Sanders and 15-year-old Elaine Sepulveda were expecting a baby, and Sanders was not at all happy about it. On the night of November 6, 2004, he met with her "to talk about it." There was apparently a disagreement over Elaine's pregnancy, because Sanders, as he confessed to police, hit her in the head and then could not revive her. Then he buried her body in the compost pile behind his grandfather's home in Oak Harbor. Sanders had wanted Elaine to have an abortion, but she had repeatedly refused to kill her preborn child. Jacki Madison, Elain'e best friend, said that "I don't think he was ready for the child and she was, and it was a rift that happened between them" (Washington State). SCHIOVONE:    Police found 26-year-old Susan Ambrosino's body in the trunk of her car on February 22, 2005, in Queens, with a single gunshot wound to her head. Two days later, police announced a motive for the murder. Susan was Schiovone's brother's ex-wife and was four months pregnant with his child. Schiovone simply shot her one time in the side of the head to prevent her from revealing this fact. Susan's brother, Anthony Napolitano, and other relatives confirmed that Schiovone had repeatedly demanded that Susan abort their child. She had said that she was pro-life and refused, and so he murdered her. Napolitano said that "She had a love for life and even more love for children. We believe it was this love of life, of her refusal to get an abortion, that compelled her killer to shoot her" (New York). SCHLAGER:    Damien Michael Schlager was committing adultery with Christina Joyce Colon, and she was five months pregnant with his child. He was growing desperate and did not want his wife to find out about his philandering, so, on July 21, 2004, he shot Christina once in the back of the head, execution style, and dumped her near a quarry, where her severely decomposed body was found eight days later. Schlager confessed to the murder, and a jury found him guilty of two counts of first-degree murder (Pennsylvania). SELF:    47-year-old Daniel Garrison Self was a drug pusher and supplied heroin to his girlfriend Leah Kathleen Gee, who was half his age. She was also seven months pregnant with another man's child. Several times, Self had punched and kicked her in the abdomen in attempts to make her miscarry, and had threatened to kill her. On March 27, 2003, Self made good on his threats. He shot Leah in the head, and she died two days later. Doctors delivered her son Jeremiah by Caesarean section, but he died two weeks later because of oxygen deprivation caused by his mother's death. On June 11, 2004, a jury convicted Self of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to an automatic term of life in prison (Colorado). SMITH, ALFRED:    A jury found pro-abortionist Alfred E. Smith guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend Denna Moody. Smith killed Moody in April 1997 because she refused to abort their preborn child. Her charred body was found in her burned car near the Van Nuys Amtrak station (California). SMITH, NATHANIEL:    Nathaniel Dee Smith killed his 21-week pregnant girlfriend Lorena Rivera because she refused to have an abortion and he didn't want to pay child support. He beat her and shot her twice, then buried her body in a garbage bag in a shallow grave. Smith was charged with first-degree murder in Rivera's death and manslaughter in the death of their unborn child. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison (Oklahoma). STEELE:    Sean Steele had impregnated his 15-year old girlfriend, Barbara Watkins, and she was seven months pregnant. Steele pressured her to have an abortion, but she refused. So Steele told Barbara that they were going to buy baby clothes. Instead, he lured her to a wooded area, smashed her with a rock, stabbed her repeatedly with a broken beer bottle, and finally strangled her and left her body in the woods. He confessed to the killing after construction workers found Watkins' decomposed body in a wooded ravine (Ohio). STEWART:    On September 26, 2007, Andre Stewart and his pregnant girlfriend Vernell Macon were arguing about who was the father of her unborn baby girl, whom she was just four weeks away from delivering. Stewart placed a sawed-off shotgun against Vernell's abdomen and pulled the trigger, instantly killing her preborn child. Steward later confessed to shooting Vernell. Stewart was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and two counts of armed criminal action (Missouri). STUART:    Jerry Lynn Stuart and his live-in girlfriend, April Renee Greer, were expecting a baby. In fact, April was eight and a half months pregnant, and just days away from delivering her child. But Stuart did not want the child. So he solved his problem by beating April to death, chopping up her body, and stuffing the pieces of her and her near-term preborn baby into a trash can sealed with duct tape (North Carolina). TARVER:    Paul A. Tarver II's girlfriend, Keisha Lewis, was three months pregnant with his preborn child, which he did not want. So he hired a gunman to shoot Keisha dead. The gunman deliberately aimed for Keisha's abdoment, but failed to kill her, although her preborn baby died in the attack. In July 2002, Tarver was indicted by a grand jury and was charged with complicity to commit aggravated murder. The gunman was charged with aggravated murder (Ohio). TAYLOR:    Her relatives described 17-year-old Tyeshia Davis, a Las Vegas High School student, as smart and outgoing. The only trouble was that she was eight months pregnant by an older man, and he did not want the baby. Tyeshia, however, was looking forward to giving birth, and planned on becoming a nurse. In July 1995, her older boyfriend, Omar Taylor, shot her in the head, killing her instantly. The next morning, Taylor surrendered to police. He confessed to the crime and pled guilty to charges of murder and manslaughter (Ohio). VILLAGOMEZ:    In October 2002, after an argument in which he demanded that she have an abortion, Jesus Villagomez stabbed his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach. The stab wound resulted in the death of her 18-week-old unborn child (Nevada). WALRADT:    In September 1999, Brodie Edric Walradt raped, tortured and murdered Beth Kennard, who was near-term and had already named her preborn baby Alexis Ann. She had refused his demands to have an abortion. He suffocated her and bludgeoned her with a log. Wadradt received a life sentence for his crimes (Washington State). WIEDEMAN:    16-year old Stephanie Nicole Burnett of Athens, Georgia, told her boyfriend, Matthew John Wiedeman, that she was pregnant. He demanded that she have an abortion, and she refused. So, in April 2002, Wiedeman attacked her from behind with a heavy solid steel barbell, while a friend, Raymond Soto, stabbed her with a long-bladed knife. Deputy Coroner Grover Tuten said "I think it's one of the most gruesome [murders] I've ever seen." A Richmond County grand jury indicted Wiedeman and Soto on charges of malice murder (Georgia). WILCOTT:    On June 8, 2002, at a graduation party, pro-abortionist Corinne Wilcott sneaked up behind Sheena Carson, who was 15 weeks pregnant, dragged her to the ground by her hair, punched her in the face, and kicked her repeatedly in the side, shouting "I hope the bastard dies! I told you I was going to get you for sleeping with Kareem!" [Wilcott's husband]. An autopsy revealed that Sheena's unborn child died four days later from blunt-force trauma to the mother's placenta. During the trial, medical experts testified that Sheena's unborn child suffocated in her womb because a blow broke the life-giving bloodlines that connected the child to his mother. Wilcott was found guilty of third-degree murder (Pennsylvania). WILMER:    On September 1, 2005, 29-year-old Claricia Wilmer had an argument with 17-year-old April Johnson, who was six months pregnant. So Wilmer went and got reinforcements in the form of three thuggish teenaged girls. Then the four found April, and beat and tortured her severely, despite the fact that she was obviously pregnant and could not defend herself. Wilmer decided to end April's suffering by plunging a long knife into her chest, killing her and her preborn child. Wilmer went on the run and was captured four months after the murder. Police charged her with first-degree murder (Iowa). WILLIAMS, CARLOS:    On January 27, 2005, Carlos Diangilo Williams went to the home of his pregnant 17-year-old pregnant girlfriend Cheri Washington and demanded that she have an abortion because he did not want the baby. She refused. So he asked a cousin, 19-year-old Stephen James Covington Jr., to bring him a baseball bat. He then restrained Cheri, duct-taped her so she could not move, then savagely punched her, kicked her, and beat her with the bat, deliberately targeting her abdomen. He then threw her out of the house. A neighbor found her as she staggered down the street, and she was transported to Potomac Hospital. Cheri, who was five months pregnant, died the next day of her injuries. Williams had beaten her so badly that she suffered multiple contusions and lacerations, brain and chest internal hemorrhages, a ruptured liver and a split placenta. Williams was arrested shortly after the murder. Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert said that he was disappointed that he could not seek the death penalty for Williams, because there was no evidence to show that he had purposely killed Cheri — he was intending to kill their preborn baby. Ebert said "His intention was only to kill the fetus. Otherwise, it would have been capital. It is a horrendous crime ... If there was ever a capital case, I wish this was it." Prince William Police Chief Charlie T. Dean said that Williams "did not want her to have a baby, and he was going to kill the unborn child" (Virginia). WILLIAMS, SHAWN:    Shawn C. Williams began dating 17-year-old Catrise Gregory in 1994. In October 1995, Catrise told her mother that she was pregnant by Williams. Williams wanted her to have an abortion, but Catrise refused. She wanted to have her baby. On December 10, 1995, Williams picked Catrise up from work. He then raped her, beat her, strangled her to death, and left her body in her car. In 1999, Williams went on trial, and a Lucas County jury found him guilty of aggravated murder and rape. Upon hearing the results of the jury deliberation, Williams punched one of his defense attorneys in the face. At the penalty phase of the trial, the jury recommended a death sentence for Williams, and Judge Jensen sentenced him to death (Ohio). WILSON:    Pro-abortionist Garrett Wilson began to sexually molest 12-year-old Debbie Oliver, and emotionally browbeat her into having at least four abortions before she was 15 years old. He finally married her in 1980 when she could not have another abortion because she was too far along. Baby Brandi Jean was born shortly after the marriage. Wilson took out extensive life insurance policies on the baby girl and then smothered her to death when she was just two months old. He took the resulting $40,000 settlement and bought a brand-new Pontiac Trans Am. Wilson married Missy Anastasi in March 1986, and, in March 1987, they had a child, Garrett Michael. Wilson bought $150,000 of life insurance on the five-month-old baby and then smothered him to death. In July 1999, a jury took just two hours to find him guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Garrett Michael, and he received a sentence of life in prison without parole (Washington, D.C.). YELLOWBEAR:    The appropriately-named Andrew Yellowbear Jr. was a vicious thug who enjoyed beating his girlfriend Macalia Blackburn, especially when she was pregnant. He also loved to torture his little 22-month-old daughter Marcela. Finally, on July 2, 2004, he went even further and tortured the little toddler to death. When she was taken to a hospital after she died, horrified doctors found that she had many broken bones, and that most of her body was covered with bruises, lacerations and burns. She had obviously suffered the most extreme agony for several weeks before she died. During the course of their 2½-year relationship, Yellowbear beat up Macalia at least fifty times, "not counting times she was only hit." Macalia was hospitalized three times for her injuries, each time when she was pregnant. Yellowbear punched her, pulled her hair and threw her on her stomach, targeting her preborn child. Tim Gist, an assistant Fremont County attorney, described Marcela's death as "especially atrocious or cruel. ... She was made to suffer during the last weeks of her life. It is undeniable she would have been in great pain and agony." On April 1, 2006, a jury found Yellowbear guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his baby daughter, and on April 6, he was sentenced to life in prison (Wyoming).

Murder Category #3: Murders of Pregnant Women for Other Reasons

AGUBA:    Daniel Pagsisihan Aguba had lived with Fatima Bumatay in Santa Ana for several years and had two young sons by her. But their relationship had apparently ended during the Summer of 2004. On June 23, 2005, Fatima told Aguba that she was pregnant by another man, and he stabbed her thirteen times in the abdomen with a ten-inch carving knife, killing her in front of her one-year-old son. On August 17, 2007, Superior Court Judge Carla Singer sentenced Aguba to 25 years to life in prison for murder (California). ALLEN:    Lee Arthur Allen's ex-girlfriend, Kawanna Thomas, was eight months pregnant with a baby girl, and the two had been arguing over several issues, including Allen's new girlfriend. So Allen arranged to meet Kawanna in an isolated spot in South DeSoto Parish on November 12, 2007, and brought along his current girlfriend, Willa Kelly. Allen shot Kawanna seven times with a handgun, but she survived. Two of the shots were aimed directly at her belly, killing the unborn daughter she had already named Lanesha, who was due to be born on Christmas day. Then Allen and Kelly dragged Kawanna to the side of the road and drove away, leaving her to die. Allen and Kelly admitted that they murdered Kawanna, and a DeSoto Parish grand jury indicted both of them on two charges of first-degree murder, one charge each for Kawanna and her preborn child (Louisiana). AMAYA-RUIZ:    Mark and Kimberly Lopez had been married for only about a week, and Kimberly was 4 months pregnant. They gave a citizen of El Salvador, Jose Amaya-Ruiz, a job at their ranch near Tucson. On March 28, 1985, Amaya-Ruiz entered the house and stabbed Kimberly a total of 23 times. Then he shot her in the ear with a handgun to make absolutely certain that she was dead. However, she lived for about fifteen minutes before bleeding to death. In 1985, a jury found Amaya-Ruiz guilty of first-degree murder, manslaughter, first-degree burglary and theft, and sentenced him to die (Arizona). ANDERSON:    In November 1999, Pasadena pediatrician Kevin Paul Anderson strangled his business partner, neonatologist Dr. Deepti Gupta, a mother of two young children who was expecting her third. They were involved in an extramarital affair, and she was carrying his baby. Anderson was arrested by the police when a passerby noticed him pushing Gupta's Mercedes off a 450-foot cliff in the San Gabriel Mountains, after dousing her with gasoline, to make it appear that she had been killed in an accident. He confessed to Gupta's murder. In December 2000, Anderson was convicted of second-degree murder by a Pasadena jury (California). ARD:    Joseph "Jody" Ard's 17-year-old girlfriend Madeline Coffee was 8½ months pregnant with his child. In 1995, he shot her in the head, and then alleged that he was trying to wrestle the gun away from her to prevent her from committing suicide. In 1996, a Lexington County jury found Ard guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, and he was sentenced to death (South Carolina). BAIRD:    On September 6, 1985, Arthur P. Baird strangled to death his pregnant wife Nadine in their mobile home near Darlington, Indiana. He then held her body and watched television for several hours. The next day, he traveled to the home of his parents, Arthur and Kathryn Baird, where he fed the chickens and received a haircut from his mother. Then he stabbed both his parents to death in their home, loaded up his belongings, and left the premises. On March 13, 1987, a jury found Baird guilty of three counts of murder and one count of feticide. He received a 60-year sentence for killing his wife and eight years for killing the preborn child his wife was carrying. Baird confessed to the killings (Indiana). BAKER:    In November 2005, Jared Eugene Baker shot 19-year-old Olivia Marie Talbot to death in her home. Olivia was six and a half months pregnant, and her baby — already named Lane Junior — was due on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2006. Baker was charged with first-degree murder (Alberta). BALDWIN:    Michael Paul Baldwin, 21, had a 15-year-old girlfriend, Amanda Lynn Hanson, who was four months pregnant, and he was not happy about it at all. So he lured Amanda Lynn into a secluded area, and killed her by jamming a branch an inch in diameter down her throat with such force that her tongue was nearly torn loose. Several of her teeth were also broken out. Baldwin then jammed sticks into her other body orifices, one 10 inches inside her body. After he strangled her, Baldwin beat her and crushed her skull with a 30-pound rock. Baldwin was charged with first-degree murder, rape, and several other felonies. He confessed and, in November 2002, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Sheriff John Anderson called the killing "the most vicious I've seen in my 30 years in law enforcement" (Colorado). BALLING:    On August 5, 2006, Joshua Balling got drunk. He dragged his pregnant girlfriend Amber Justus around the house, punched her several times in her belly, and threw her over a bed. Amber was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital, but she miscarried. Police charged Balling with involuntary manslaughter (Ohio). BARNES:    When he was finally arrested for the last time, Odell Barnes was only 21 years old. But by that time, he had piled up a huge record of rapes, armed robberies, burglaries and other felonies, including trying to rape and murder a woman who was nine months pregnant. On November 29, 1989, Bass went to the home of 44-year-old Helen Bass. He kicked the back door of her house in, then raped her. Then he murdered her by hitting her over the head with a heavy lamp, striking her with a rifle so hard it broke in half, stabbing her twice in the neck, and finally finishing her off by shooting her in the head with a .32-caliber pistol. On May 6, 1991, a Lubbock County jury found him guilty of capital murder and sentenced him to death. Odell Barnes, Jr. was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on March 1, 2000 (Texas). BASS:    On January 31, 2008, Tyree Bass shot and killed Emine Hajredinaj, who was seven months pregnant, in the back with a shotgun, and also shot her boyfriend, Kevin Cook, who survived serious injuries to his chest and arms. When searching the murder scene, police found several Molotov cocktails. Fortunately, doctors at Temple University Hospital managed to perform an emergency Caesarean section and delivered Emine's baby girl, whom she had already named Atianna Emine (Pennsylvania). BATEMAN:    Dennis Bateman needed money, so he decided to target the most helpless person he could find — 21-year-old Brandy Waryasz, a gas station attendant who was seven months pregnant. On April 16, 2005, he stole a pint of brandy from the gas station, and was caught doing so on a videotape. Three hours later, he assaulted and strangled Brandy, and then stole the gas station's cash register with about $350 in it, as well as some liquor. Brandy had already named her viable unborn son Dane Anthony Hall, but he died on the floor of the gas station that day as well. Unfortunately for him, Bateman left the black nylon strap that he had used to strangle Brandy around her neck, and prosecutors matched his DNA to the DNA on the strap (Massachusetts). BEAMON:    Donte Griffin had affairs going on with at least two women. He had fathered a child with Tamikia L. Beamon, and Antoinette Vanlandingham was six months pregnant with his child. Beamon went Antoinette's home and shot her. Beamon fled the scene, and Griffin returned about an hour later. He immediately called police. Beamon was scheduled to go to trial on June 20, 2005, but, on May 27, she pled guilty to two counts of first-degree reckless homicide. On July 15, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Hansher sentenced her to fifty years in prison (Wisconsin). BEARD:    Michael J. Beard was living with his girlfriend, Donna L. Wojahn, who was five months pregnant with his child, and Wojahn's four-year-old son. Early in the morning of August 25, 2003, Beard and Wojahn began to argue. A neighbor heard gunshots and called police, who arrived and found both Beard and Wojahn dead. An autopsy performed the next day confirmed that Beard had shot and killed Wojahn, and had then committed suicide with the same gun. Beard had shot his pregnant girlfriend in the chest and head and had shot himself in the head (Washington State). BELL:    20-year-old Faye Bennett was six months pregnant with a son and was looking forward very much to having her baby. But, in September 2004, David Bell, assisted by his girlfriend Jennifer Helmedach, strangled and stabbed her to death and then stuffed her body into a garbage bag. Juries convicted both Bell and Helmedach of felony murder and sentenced them to long prison terms (Connecticut). BELLAMY:    On December 13, 2005, Cassie Cook Full, five months pregnant, had the misfortune of being caught in a crossfire between her boyfriend, Philip Macaluso, and drug dealer Walter Bellamy, Jr, who fired several shots at a car Cassie was riding in, one of which hit her in the back and severed her aortic artery. She quickly bled to death. Macaluso did not bother to drive her to a hospital, but just abandoned her in the car. Both Bellamy and Macaluso were charged with murder in the case. On September 2, 2006, police finally caught up with Bellamy after a hunt lasting nearly a year. Two police officers recognized him and stopped his car, but he drove off, dragging one of the officers behind his car. The police then shot him dead (Florida). BIEGHLER:    Marvin Bieghler, a major illegal drug dealer in Kokomo, was enraged that somebody had "blown the whistle" on his drug operation. He repeatedly vowed to "blow away" whoever it was who had informed on him, and then he made good on his threat. On December 11, 1981, Bieghler murdered 21-year-old Tommy Miller and his pregnant wife, 19-year-old Kimberly. A jury convicted Bieghler of two counts of first-degree murder in 1983, and the State of Indiana executed him by lethal injection on January 27, 2006 (Indiana). BISSELL:    Hayward Bissell was a "pro-choicer" whose exploits are so gruesome and spectacular that someone wrote a book about them. On January 23, 2000, Bissell fatally stabbed his pregnant girlfriend, Patricia Ann Booher. He then amputated one of her hands and one of her legs, gouged out her eyes, and carved her heart out of her chest. Then he removed her esophagus and put it in his shirt pocket. He put what was left of Patricia Ann into his car and started driving. Shortly after he murdered Patricia Ann, he walked up to James Pumphrey and, without a word, began repeatedly stabbing him. Pumphrey's two Labrador retrievers immediately attacked Bissell, but he killed them both by cutting their throats. James Pumphrey barely survived the attack, and could not work for months. Bissell was arrested and incarcerated for life in an institution for the criminally insane (Alabama). BOLER:    DeShone Boler was married, but was committing adultery with Emily Garrison, who was pregnant with his child. His wife, Crystal Michele, was understandably unhappy with this cheating, so she decided to take action. She went to Garrison's home, beat her up with a gun, bit her severely on the shoulder, stabbed her in the neck with a knife, and finally shot her five times (Texas). BRADY:    Una Brady was just days from delivering a healthy baby. She had been married to Shane Brady for two years. On March 4, 2005, the couple began to argue. Then, in front of Una's two teenaged daughters from a previous marriage, Shane Brady shot his wife in the face and chest, then turned the gun on himself. Fairfield police Sergeant John, a 22-year veteran of the force, said "It's one of the worst [murders] I ever heard of. It doesn't get much worse than shooting a pregnant woman" (California). BRANCH:    On April 27, 2007, Christopher Branch beat his pregnant girlfriend, Contessa Salazar, in his home. Later, as he saw her walking alongside the road, he grabbed her by the hair, trying to pull her into his pickup truck while it was moving. He hit her with the door of the pickup, knocking her down, and then ran over her legs and pelvis. Others witnessed this brutal assault and stopped to help. As they were trying to help, Branch tried to run them down. He finally hit one of the men, Michael Rutkowski, at a high rate of speed, throwing him 50 feet and killing him instantly. Branch was finally arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and eluding police. To show how completely out-of-touch some people can be, Branch and Salazar submitted a request to get married just two weeks after he tried his very best to murder her. One blogger commented "How about they both get put to death. Him for murder and her for being a dumbass. Then they can get hitched by the devil" (New Mexico). BRANDT:    In 1971, when Carl "Charlie" Brandt was only thirteen years old, he murdered his own mother, who was eight months pregnant, and shot his father several times. In July 1989, he murdered Sherry Perisho and cut her heart out of her chest. In November 1995, he murdered Darlene Toler, cut off her head and cut her heart out, and stuffed her body in a plastic bag. Finally, on September 11, 2004, he murdered his wife and Michelle Jones, Teri's niece. He cut off Michelle's head, left leg, heart and breasts, and left her body parts neatly arranged on the bed, along with the two kitchen knives he had used to perform his grisly surgery. After murdering Teri and Michelle, Charlie went to the garage and hung himself with a bed sheet. As the FBI continued its investigation, it found that there were 26 other killings with similar characteristics within the range of Brandt's travel patterns (Indiana). BREWER:    John George Brewer and Rita Kathleen Brier had been living together for some time, but Rita, who was pregnant, wanted to end the relationship because Brewer was too dependent upon her. Brewer describes what happened on November 11, 1987: "I started screaming and yelling, you know, "Why think about if you were dead? I'll kill you." I proceeded to beat her, strangle her, pound her, throw her, bash her head against the wall, tried to break her arm so she couldn't claw my eyes out." Brewer bludgeoned Rita with his fists, bit her, slammed her arms against the sharp corners of furniture, and tried to gouge her eyes out with his thumbs. Finally, he strangled her with a gray necktie. She was 22 weeks pregnant at the time. Then he had sexual intercourse with her dead body, got dressed, walked to a nearby bowling alley, and called police. Brewer asked for the death sentence because he said he deserved to die. His wish was granted. Brewer pled guilty to first-degree murder, and a jury sentenced him to death in August 1988. On March 3, 1993, he was executed (Arizona). BROWN, ERIC:    On January 22, 1999, the 26th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, pro-abortionist Eric Laquinne Brown of Pontotoc, Mississippi strangled to death his pregnant ex-girlfriend Shorlonda Moore and left the bodies of Moore and her preborn child in a burned-out car in Memphis, Tennessee. In November 1999, Brown received a life sentence for the murder of Moore and a concurrent 20-year manslaughter sentence for the killing of her preborn child after pleading guilty to the charges (Tennessee). BROWN, KASHARD:    Kashard Omar Brown had a long history of abusing his pregnant girlfriend, Rebekah Hanson. He repeatedly held a shotgun to her head, beat her, and even beat Rebekah's mother, Ann Mayne. Rebekah had been to emergency rooms many times after Brown beat her. Rebekah was about to leave Brown because of his continued violence, but he would not allow this to happen. In September 2001, he threatened Rebekah with the shotgun held against her head again, only this time he pulled the trigger. On September 13, 2002, a jury convicted Brown of first-degree murder. Rebekah's mother said that "My daughter can hold up her head now and she can be proud. She had dreams until this cockroach came along" (Nevada). BRYAN:    In August 2007, Alan Bryan attacked his pregnant girlfriend Charlene Knapp with a sword. She was found with multiple stab wounds and her three-month preborn baby died as a result of the attack. She suffered through four operations in a Halifax hospital after the assault. Police arrested Bryan and charged him with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a sword. Because of Canada's total lack of abortion law, police could not charge him with any crime associated with the death of Charlene's wanted preborn baby. In fact, repeated attempts by pro-life Members of Parliament that would recognize both victims have failed after Canadian pro-abortion groups complained (Nova Scotia). BULL:    John Bull married his wife Sandra at Niagara Falls on February 17, 1998. On March 2, they argued, and Bull strangled Sandra to death in their Amherst home. Then, he returned to the American side of Niagara Falls on March 10, 1998. In full view of horrified tourists, he put on swim goggles, climbed over a guard rail, and was swept over the Falls. His body was never found (New York). BUNYARD:    Jerry and Elaine Bunyard had been married for three years, and Elaine was ecstatic that she was about a week away from delivering their first child, a little girl, in 1979. But Jerry Bunyard wasn't as excited. He was carrying on an adulterous affair with a Tracy woman and thought his wife would "take him for everything he had" if he divorced her, a witness said. So Bunyard approached a biker-type boyhood friend, Earlin Popham, and offered him $1,000 to kill his wife. When Elaine Bunyard was alone in the kitchen, Popham broke an iron skillet on her skull. He then shot her in the head with a shotgun and tried to make the crime look like both a robbery and a suicide (California). BURNETT:    20-year-old elementary school basketball coach, Elgin "Ray-Ray" Robinson Jr., had impregnated one of his students, 14-year-old Chelsea Brooks. Chelsea was nine months pregnant and had already named her preborn baby "Alexa Lynn." Robinson knew that, once his child was born, DNA testing would show that he was the father, and that he would probably be charged with rape. So he paid 17-year-old Everett Gentry $500 to murder Chelsea. On June 9, 2006, Gentry put shovels in the back seat of his car, then picked up Burnett and Chelsea. They drove to an unpopulated area, and Burnett reached from the back seat and strangled her to death with a garrott. Then they dumped her in a shallow grave in a secluded wheat field. Gentry pleaded guilty to a charge of capital murder, and was sentenced to life in prison. (Kansas). BUTLER:    On March 22, 2006, James D. Butler Jr. shot his pregnant girlfriend Trisha L. Bergemann in the head, and then fled with the help of another of his girlfriends, who had also supplied him with the gun he had used to murder Trisha. About one hour later, Butler shot and killed himself as police officers closed in on him. The next day, Trisha and her preborn child both died (Wisconson). BUTTRAM:    Michael Willard Buttram met "exotic dancer" Tara Cantrell at a bachelor party and began dating her. They had been going out for about a year when she started seeing her former boyfriend, Jason Talley, and became pregnant by him. A jealous Buttram began to follow Tara and Talley, and eventually went to Tara's home and shot her and her mother Mildred multiple times. In 2003, a jury found Buttram guilty of two counts of murder and sentenced him to life in prison (Georgia). CALAC:    On February 15, 2004, Andre F. Calac shot his pregnant girlfriend, Marlene J. Magee, in the head. He was charged with murder (California). CAMPBELL:    On October 19, 2007, Winford Campbell went to the home of his estranged wife Sondra, and shot her several times, killing her. He then went inside the house and shot Sondra's 21-year-old daughter, Jamia Van Zant, who was seven months pregnant. Jamia and her preborn child survived the attack. Campbell then drove to the sheriff's office and turned himself in. A DeSoto Parish grand jury indicted him on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder (Louisiana). CHASE:    Richard Trenton Chase was an unusual child, to say the very least. He enjoyed capturing, torturing and killing animals, particularly cats. He could have grown up and made a lot of money doing exactly the same thing to preborn children as an abortionist, but he decided to take a different career path. In 1977, he shot and killed 51-year-old Ambrose Griffin "just to see what it was like." The following year, he killed Teresa Wallin, who was three months pregnant. Then he dragged her body into a bedroom and carved off her left nipple, stabbed her repeatedly, cut out both of her kidneys and sliced her pancreas in two. Then he retrieved a yogurt container from the trash and used it to drink her blood. The same day, he stole a four-month-old puppy, shot it in the head, and drank its blood. Two days after this, he raped and sodomized Evelyon Miroth, then shot and killed her. Then he murdered Daniel Meredith and Evelyon's six-year-old son Jason. Finally, he went to the crib of little 22-month-old David Ferreira and crushed his head. Chase took the body of baby David with him, cut off the little boy's head, and ate some of his organs. Two psychiatrists examined Chase, and he confessed to all of his crimes. The psychiatrists both declared him sane and fit to stand trial. He became known as the "Vampire Killer of Sacramento," and a jury found him guilty of six counts of first-degree murder. Chase was sentenced to death for his crimes, but he ended his violent life by committing suicide on Death Row. In 1992, a movie on his life was released. It was appropriately entitled Unspeakable (California). CHEA AND OTHERS:    On January 16, 2006, 20-year-old Nath Ouch, who was eight months pregnant, walked out of the door of her South Fresno apartment with a pot of soup in her hands. She saw several members of the Asian Boyz street gang standing before her with guns. She turned, and they opened fire on her with AK-47 assault rifles and .45 caliber pistols. Dozens of shots hit buildings and nearby vehicles, but only one hit Ouch in the back. It was enough to instantly kill her and her near-term preborn daughter. Ten gang members and associates were convicted of first-degree murder in this case and received prison sentences ranging from fifteen years to life without parole (California). CICCONE:    On October 23, 2003, Albert A. Ciccone and his pregnant wife Kathleen began to argue on the way back from a marriage counseling session. They both got out of the car and scuffled near the road. Kathleen then walked away, headed toward a friend's home in the sparsely-populated area. When she had walked about 200 yards, Ciccone gunned his turbocharged car and accelerated to a speed of about 40 to 50 miles an hour, then ran down his pregnant wife on the rural road Northeast of Tipanuk. The impact, witnessed by a teenager, threw Kathleen's body an estimated 50 feet through the air. She died instantly. Ciccone was arrested and soon confessed to the murder. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder (Idaho). CLARK:    In March 2006, Vellar Clark, III, shot his pregnant girlfriend Gwen Sneed to death and left her body lying in the street next to her motorcycle in a business district in North Houston. Gwen's family said that she had planned to end her relationship with Clark. On November 7, 2006, Clark was arrested and jailed without bond on a charge of capital murder (Texas). CLINARD:    Christopher Clinard's girlfriend, Tia Vinson, was just two weeks away from delivering a healthy baby, but she wanted to end their relationship. According to Lieutenant Williams Watkins of the Springfield Police Department, "He became angry and upset because he told her that if he couldn't have her, no one else could, that he wasn't going to see another man raise his child." So, on February 20, 2005, Clinard repeatedly stabbed Tia until she and her preborn baby died. Clinard was charged with criminal homicide the next day. In May 2005, a Robertson County grand jury indicted him on two counts of first-degree murder (Tennessee). COAKLEY:    Robert Coakley had a real problem on his hands. He was married but had a girlfriend on the side who was nine months pregnant with his child. So he enlisted his wife Maria in his plot to murder Marilyn Ginel. On March 31, 2006, they attacked Marilyn and murdered her without mercy. They herded Marilyn's three small children into a bedroom. Robert Coakley threatened the children's lives, saying "If you tell anybody I killed your mother, I'll kill you." He then emphasized the point by slashing at the little boy with the same knife he used to murder his mother. Then the children began to hear their mother screaming. While Maria held Marilyn down, Robert Coakley slashed her throat open with a butcher knife. Then, to make absolutely certain she was dead, he crushed her skull with a heavy object. The murderers then fled the scene to leave Marilyn's three children to discover their mother's mutilated body (New York). COCELLI:    On October 2, 2004, Turan Cocelli stabbed his seven months pregnant common-law wife, Aysun Sesen, to death and also stabbed his own mother, seriously wounding her. Doctors performed an emergency caesarean section, but Aysun's preborn baby was stillborn. Cocelli was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault, but police did not charge him with any crime for the murder of his own viable preborn child, because Canadian law sees even a nine-month preborn child as nothing more than a warm piece of meat (Ontario). COLEMAN:    According to relatives, 23-year-old Lillian Louis, who was four months pregnant and who had two small children, often fought with her boyfriend, 21-year-old Joey Coleman. On September 9, 2005, Coleman decided to end the fights once and for all. He broke into Lillian's home and ordered everyone but her to leave the house. Then he shot her to death and killed himself (Texas). COLLIER:    On March 14, 2005, James Collier strangled his pregnant 18-year-old wife Lennie Hing and then cut off her head and cut out some of her internal organs near Shell Point, Florida. On March 30, sheriffs found her headless, decaying corpse, and on June 20, they found her head. On May 31, Collier confessed to murdering his wife. On May 2, 2007, Judge Michael Overstreet found him guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life in prison (Florida). COLLINS:    James Ray Collins' 18-year-old girlfriend, Valerie Marie Bennett, was 6½ months pregnant with his child. On October 6, 1995, Collins and Valerie began to argue about her pregnancy. The argument escalated, and Collins shot Valerie to death. Collins was charged with two counts of first-degree murder under a 1994 ruling by the Court of Criminal Appeals in an Oklahoma County case, allowing criminal prosecution for killing an unborn child. On November 6, 1995, Collins pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to two life sentences in prison (Oklahoma). COPPERSMITH:    Ryan Coppersmith had had enough of his domestic troubles, so he decided to kill his entire family, including his pregnant wife Angela Marie and their two children, a ten-year-old son and a five-year old daughter. On January 25, 2004, he began by cutting the telephone line to the house so nobody could call for help, and opened the natural gas line, filling the house with gas. Finally, he strangled his pregnant wife Angela Marie to death, then killed himself (Georgia). COULSON:    Robert Otis Coulson was bitter that his adopted father had refused to finance his windshield repair business. He joked about how he would gain his $600,000 inheritance if his entire family died prematurely. So, on November 13, 1992, Coulson decided to go for the money. He disabled the members of his family one by one as they arrived at the house, tied plastic bags over their heads to suffocate them, and then soaked their bodies in gasoline and burned the Northwest Houston house down. In succession, Coulson murdered his parents, Otis and Mary Coulson; his sister Sarah; a pregnant Robin Wentworth, who was his own birth sister, and her husband Richard. He beat Robin and Richard severely on the head with a crowbar, and Robin had been six months pregnant. In June 1994, a jury found Coulson guilty of five counts of first-degree murder and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his sentence in 1996. The State of Texas executed Robert Coulson on June 25, 2002 (Texas). COURCHESNE:    On September 15, 1998, Robert Courchesne took Demetris Rodgers, who was eight months pregnant, to a Waterbury bank under the pretense of paying her the $410 for crack cocaine that he owed her. Instead, he stabbed her repeatedly and left her bloody body in the middle of the street. Demetris had already named her baby girl Antonia. She was delivered by Cesarian section but died six weeks later. A jury found Courchesne guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, and Superior Court Judge Frank M. D'Addabbo sentenced him to die by lethal injection (Connecticut). CRUZ:    On November 18, 2005, Quinn Cruz shot Tanya West, who was pregnant, to death in a parking lot as she was putting her toddler girl into a car seat. He did not just shoot her on the spur of the moment or in a fit of anger; he calmly took careful aim and fired several times. He then fled the scene and led police on a 14-hour manhunt. On September 27, 2007, a jury took less than two hours to find Cruz guilty of capital murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. During the conviction and sentencing phases of his trial, Cruz was smiling (Texas). CUTTS:    Jessie Davis was just days away from delivering a healthy baby girl she had already named "Chloe." Her police officer boyfriend, Bobby Cutts Jr., was not so happy with the baby, and so he murdered Jessie at her home on June 14, 2007, then dumped her body in a remote area of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. On August 23, 2007, Cutts was indicted on three counts of aggravated murder and other charges. Cutts is married but has children by at least two women other than Jessie. Jessie's mother told little Blake, Jessie's two-year-old son, that his mommy was in Heaven now. She gave him an old cell phone and said that "he calls her and talks to her" (Ohio). DAVIS:    Nancy Weiler was three months pregnant and had two young daughters, 9-year-old Kristina, and 5-year-old Katherine. On May 11, 1982, Allen Lee Davis broke into the Weiler house and savagely attacked Nancy. First he pulverized her face and skull by beating her more than 25 times with a heavy .357 revolver. He beat her so severely that the trigger guard and the grip of the revolver broke. Then Davis tied up Kristina and shot her twice in the face. She would have had her tenth birthday party the next day. Finally, Davis caught Katherine, who was trying to run away, shot her in the back, and crushed her skull by beating her with the revolver. Then Davis walked around the house and stole camera and jewelry. On February 4, 1983, a jury found Davis guilty of three counts of capital murder and, on February 9, 1983, recommended the death penalty. On March 2, 1983, Circuit Judge Major B. Harding imposed three death sentences on Davis. The State of Florida electrocuted Davis on July 8, 1999 (Florida). DEGASPERIN:    James Louis DeGasperin lived with his girlfriend Lori Casteel, who was six months pregnant, and their little son, four-year-old Collin. Lori had already named her little preborn girl Angelina, and Collin told everyone how excited he was to be a big brother. But Collin would never get the chance to play with his little sister or help care for her — or to do anything else, for that matter. On April 14, 2007, DeGasperin repeatedly hit Lori over the head with a baseball bat, killing her. Then he shot little Collin in the chest with a shotgun and, to make absolutely certain he was dead, crushed his skull with the baseball bat. In August 2007, DeGasperin was indicted on three charges of first-degree murder (West Virginia). DEHOYOS:    On August 13, 2001, Danny Dehoyos followed through with his threats to kill his pregnant 18-year-old wife Hortencia Rodriguez. He shot Hortencia, and then heartlessly murdered their two young daughters, Celeste, who was not even two years old yet, and Valerie, who was just seven months old. Then Dehoyos took the easy way out. He put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger (Texas). DUDLEY:    Marion Butler Dudley ran a large drug ring, and would travel to Houston to buy large quantities of drugs from Jose and Rachel Tovar. On June 20, 1992, Dudley, Arthur "Squirt" Brown and Tony Dunson went to the Tovar drug house. At the house were the Tovars, 17-year-old Frank Farias, who was Rachel's son, Frank's 19-year-old girlfriend, Jessica Quinones, who was seven months pregnant, Nicholas Cortez, and a neighbor, 21-year-old Audrey Brown, who had just stopped by to visit. Dudley and his companions bound all six of the people in the house, put nooses around their necks, and then shot them all in the head. Jose Tovar, Frank Farias, Jessica Quinones and Audrey Brown all died, and Rachel Tovar and Nicholas Cortez survived. Before he shot Jessica, Dudley said to her "You stupid bitch, don't you go into labor on me." A jury convicted Dudley of four counts of capital murder. The State of Texas executed him on January 25, 2006. Brown was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Dunson received a life sentence for capital murder (Texas). DUROUSSEAU:    In late 2002, Paul Durousseau raped and strangled eighteen-year-old Nicole L. Williams and nineteen-year-old Nikia Shanell Kilpatrick. In early 2003, he raped and strangled a pregnant woman, twenty-year-old Shawanda Denise McCalister. He had also raped and murdered at least four other women. Durousseau was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder (Florida). EDWARDS:    In April 2002, Mark Edwards stole some illegal drugs from the Bobish family, which then demanded payment. In order to avoid payment, Edwards went to the Bobish house and shot and killed 50-year-old Larry A. Bobish, Sr., 42-year-old Joanna M. Bobish, and 17-year-old Krystal Bobish, who was 28 weeks pregnant at the time. He also attempted to murder fourteen-year-old Bobish, Jr., who suffered a bullet lodged in his skull. Edwards was sentenced to death for the murders. In May 2004, Edwards was also found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Krystal's preborn child, who was 28 weeks old and was sentenced to life in prison on top of the death sentence he had already received (Pennsylvania). ERAZO:    On October 23, 2000, Alex Erazo shot his girlfriend Kendy Palma to death in the apartment they shared. Kendy was about six months pregnant at the time. Erazo was tried and found guilty of murder by a Houston jury. He was sentenced to life in prison and fined $10,000 for Kendy's murder. (Texas). ESSA:    Doctor Yazeed "Yaz" Essa was a philanderer. His latest affair was with one of his nurses, and he wanted to get out of his five-year marriage with as little damage to his extensive financial interests as possible. So, on February 24, 2005, he gave his pregnant wife Rosie a cyanide tablet, telling her it was calcium. She swallowed it while driving to a movie and shortly after, began to feel very ill. Soon she lost consciousness, and her Volvo hit another car head-on. Essa fled the country, moving from Syria to Greece to Lebanon. On February 7, 2006, the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court indicted Essa on a charge of aggravated murder. On October 7, 2006, Essa flew from Beirut to Cyprus and was arrested at Larnaca Airport for using a forged Lebanese Passport. Cyprus agreed to extradite Essa to the United States on the condition that he not be sentenced to death for the murder (Ohio). ESTRADA:    On December 12, 2005, Adrian Estrada argued with his three-months-pregnant girlfriend Stephanie Sanchez, and then stabbed her multiple times, killing her. She suffered severe stab wounds to her neck, back and head, and was pronounced dead at the scene. Estrada was arrested and charged with capital murder after going to the town's police headquarters and confessing to the crime (Texas). FARIAS:    Ilaria Solarzano was eight months pregnant. On December 15, 2002, her boyfriend Francisco Farias used his AK-47 assault rifle to murder Iliara, and then shot himself in the head, gravely wounding himself. He continued to breathe after being removed from life support, and a jury found him mentally incompetent and unfit to stand trial, and he will remain in a state hospital for the rest of his life (Texas). FAULKNER:    On June 9, 2007, Jason Lamond Faulkner and his pregnant girlfriend, Tasha Lashay Nowlin, argued in the street, and Faulkner concluded the disagreement by shooting Tasha in the neck and leaving her for dead in the street, and she died a short time thereafter. Later the same day, police issued felony warrants for Faulkner for capital murder and several other felonies. Faulkner was also wanted on felony charges in Henry County, Virginia. Faulkner was finally captured on August 5, 2007 (Virginia). FLETCHER:    Lawyer Michael Fletcher was having an affair with Warren District Judge Susan Chrzanowski. Fletcher's wife Leann was pregnant, and he saw her pregnancy as a threat to his adultery. So, on August 16, 1999, he shot his pregnant wife to death and tried to make it look like a suicide. Fletcher was charged with first-degree murder. After a trial that was broadcast nationwide by Court TV, a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of his wife (Michigan). FLIPPEN:    On December 18, 2004, Earl L. Flippen, a member of the violent Aryan Brotherhood White supremacist group, had an argument with his pregnant former girlfriend, Deborah Rhoudes, then shot her to death. When Otero County sheriff's deputies arrived at the house, Flippen shot and killed Deputy Robert W. Hedman, Jr., who was standing at the back door of the house. He was then arrested by Deputy Hedman's partner, Deputy Billy Anders, who handcuffed him, placed him on the ground, and then shot him execution-style (New Mexico). FLORES:    On January 26, 2003, Daniel Lee Flores shot his pregnant girlfriend, Erica Muro, twice in the head, killing her. Police Lieutenant Darrell Hobbs went to the scene, and Flores shot him with a shotgun. Police charged Flores with murder and attempted capital murder. On July 16, 2003, Flores was convicted of attempted capital murder and sentenced to life for shooting Lieutenant Hobbs. On March 3, 2006, a jury found him guilty in the murder of Erica Muro (Texas). FLOYD:    On October 7, 2004, William Floyd Jr. threatened his pregnant sister, Destiny Davis. Destiny went to the home of Shantelle Vickers, Floyd's ex-girlfriend. Floyd arrived at Vickers' home and began firing a handgun into the house, hitting Destiny and two others inside. Destiny died soon afterwards (Nebraska). FOX:    "Pro-choicer" Sedale Lee Fox was certainly persistent. His girlfriend Olivia Jackson was just five weeks away from giving birth, and he absolutely did not want either her or her baby. During the early morning hours of January 11, 2008, Fox and his friend Jared A. Reed tried to murder Olivia by placing a pipe bomb under her small home. The bomb exploded and started a fire, but Olivia and her sister managed to escape death. Eleven days later, Fox succeeded in murdering Olivia by shooting her to death. He was charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder (Kansas). FREY:    Drifter Marshall Wayne Frey was dating Adrienne Anne Smiddy, who was near-term pregnant. One day in June 2005, she decided to break off their relationship. In response, Frey took her to a secluded area in South Nashville and beat her to death with a large rock, then left her body in a shallow grave. He later confessed to murdering her and led detectives to her body. A medical examiner determined that she had been about eight months pregnant. On September 28, 2005, Frey was charged with criminal homicide in Adrienne's death (Tennessee). GAITAN:    Stella Pricilla Perez's son was celebrating his eighth birthday on October 5, 2004. She had told her boyfriend, Steven Ray Gaitan, that she was pregnant by him earlier in the day. Her son, accompanied by his little dog Coco, testified in court that he saw Gaitan holding a gun. He then heard a loud noise and saw his mother slump into Gaitan's arms as he tried to put her body into his car. Gaitan was charged with two counts of murder (Texas). GALLEJO:    Gerald Armond Gallego was one of many pro-abortionists who became serial killers. By the time he was 31 years old, he had been arrested 23 times and had been married five times. He beat up all five of his wives, and had already been convicted of armed robbery, burglary, and lewd and lascivious acts with a six-year-old girl. He also raped his own daughter repeatedly since she was six years old. Then he decided to take his sexual fantasies even further. With the willing assistance of his sixth wife Charlene, he kidnapped, raped and murdered Rhonda Scheffler, Kippi Vaught, Brenda Lynne Judd, Sandra Kay Colley, Karen Chipman Twiggs, Stacy Ann Redican, Linda Aguilar (who was pregnant), Virginia Mochel and Mary Elizabeth Sowers, as well as murdering Craig Miller. He was sentenced to death in both California and Nevada for his many crimes (California). GARZA:    16-year-old Brenda Lee Monjares had just finished her freshman year of high school and was pregnant by her boyfriend Jairo Garza, who was just thirteen years old. Garza's parents let them live in their home in Alto Bonito, about forty miles West of McAllen on the Mexican border, after they learned that Brenda was pregnant. On December 7, 2003, Garza shot Brenda and killed her (Texas). GLASS:    In March 2005, Nathaniel C. Glass murdered Memory Pachowicz by literally pulverizing her head, striking her hard in the head more than thirty times with a claw hammer. The 33-year-old mother of two was six months pregnant. Two weeks earlier, he had raped another woman at knifepoint in the same apartment. On October 10, 2005, Glass pled guilty to intentional second-degree murder and rape (Minnesota). GOINS:    Even by pro-abortion standards, this case is grisly in the extreme, and perfectly illustrates the vile and murderous nature of anti-life thinking. 22-year-old Glenn Isaac Goins confessed to murdering 24-year-old Amanda Wood of Johnson City, who was at least four months pregnant, in January 2004, after police told him they had found her body in the basement of his mother's house. An investigator testified that Goins said "I did it. I killed her." Goins said he had seen Amanda, watched her a couple of times, and wondered what it would be like to kill her. Goins testified that he said "And I said "I'm going to kill you." She said "Please don't" or something like that, and I smacked her in the face and told her to shut up. She was sitting on the bed, and I took a towel and started choking her with the towel. I kept on choking her until she died." Goins then told how he stuffed Amanda's body in a sleeping bag and moved her to the basement, and then tried to clean up the scene. Goins then wrapped her body in plastic and duct tape. He said "I never felt bad about what I have done. Whenever I let her in my car, I knew I was going to kill her and nothing would stop me." Goins was charged with first-degree murder in Amanda's death. But hers was not the only murder he confessed to. On January 12, 2004, Goins was indicted in Louisville, Kentucky, on charges of murder, first-degree rape and first-degree robbery in the 1999 slaying of country singer Melissa Januskevicius, 20, of Stevens Point. He was also charged in two other cases of the murder of women. When questioned about one of his murders, Goins admitted that he "liked killing people." According to police investigators, at no time did Goins show a scrap of remorse for any of his murders (Tennessee). GOMEZ:    On December 28, 2006, Fabian Gomez and his girlfriend, Jennifer Montejano, who was eight months pregnant, had an argument at their home. He got his .38-caliber pistol and shot her in the face next to her nose. Jennifer was taken to a hospital in a coma and her 5 pound, 9 ounce baby girl was safely delivered by emergency Caesarean section, but she died a week later of her wound. On September 28, 2007, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter announced that Gomez was formally charged with murder, aggravated battery, battery and criminal recklessness (Indiana). GOODSON:    Carolyn Denise Simpson was 21 years old and six months pregnant with a son she had already named Justin. On December 22, 2003, Effie Goodson, who had befriended Carolyn, drove her to a wooded area, shot her in the head with a handgun, then performed a crude cesarian section on her, removing her preborn child. The next day, Goodson took the dead child to a hospital in Holdenville and claimed to be the mother, but test results showed that she could not have been the mother. Several days later, a hunter discovered Carolyn's body in a Hughes County field where Goodson had dumped her. Goodson pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and kidnapping, and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole (Oklahoma). GORDON:    Paul Allen Gordon lived with his pregnant girlfriend, Stacy Lee Ziegler Smith, and her ten-year-old daughter, Taylor Nicole Swanson. Two other of his girlfriends were also pregnant by him. In 2004, Gordon strangled Stacy Lee with his bare hands. Then he woke up the little girl, raped her, and then strangled her as well. In order to cover up these hideous crimes, Gordon then set multiple fires in the apartment, not caring at all whether or not he killed everyone in the apartment complex. Gordon was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, rape and first-degree arson (Michigan). GRANADOS:    On September 13, 1998, Carlos Granados stabbed his pregnant live-in girlfriend Katherine Jiminez 27 times with a long kitchen knife, including slashing her throat. Then he went after her little three-year-old son Anthony and stabbed him to death. As she lay on the floor, Katherine heard Anthony scream "I don't want to die! Don't kill me! I don't want to die!" Katherine survived her wounds and testified against Granados. One of his fellow inmates also testified that he calmly admitted that he had stabbed Katherine and killed her baby. In Texas, killing a child under the age of six is a capital offense. On April 25, 1999, a Williamson County jury sentenced Granados to death for capital murder. On January 10, 2007, the State of Texas executed Carlos Granados by lethal injection (Texas). GRANDE:    16-year-old Brenda Paz was four months pregnant and was being sheltered by the Federal Witness Protection Program for her cooperation in investigating members of the notorious Salva Maratrucha (MS-13) street gang. She decided to leave the Program, believing she was safe. But, in July 2003, two MS-13 gang members, Oscar Grande and Ismael Cisneros, who both knew Brenda was pregnant, stabbed her 13 times, slit her throat, and dumped her body along the shores of the Shenandoah River in Virginia. In May 2005, a jury found Grande and Cisneros each guilty of capital murder. On September 9, 2003, U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee sentenced them to life in prison (Virginia). GREEN, DAVID:    Stacy Green was just days away from delivering a healthy baby boy she had already named Nathaniel. On November 2, 2004, Stacy and her estranged husband David got into an argument. Green strangled, beat and stabbed Stacy until he was absolutely certain that she was dead, and then left the house and drove to his girlfriend's house to watch the election returns on television. Their two little children, aged only four and five, were left in the house with their dead mother. After spending the night with his mistress, he called Stacy's home the next morning and the five-year-old answered, telling him that his mommy was lying in "cherry juice next to a broom." On August 18, 2006, a jury found David Green guilty of two counts of murder. On September 22, 2006, a judge sentenced him to two consecutive 45-year prison terms (Indiana). GREEN, LAWRENCE:    On January 3, 2004, Lawrence Green savagely beat his pregnant girlfriend, 21-year-old Rashawn Peterson. He kicked her twice in the abdomen and then beat her with a broomstick and his fists at their home, causing her to go into premature labor at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Medical examiner Dr. Michael Graham said that the beating resulted in bleeding behind the placenta, resulting in the baby's premature birth. He ruled the death a homicide. Rashawn named her dead baby "Rosie" (Missouri). GREIST:    On May 10, 1978, Richard L. Greist, Jr. went berserk and fatally stabbed and strangled his pregnant wife Janice. Then he attacked his six-year-old daughter, Beth Ann, who lost an eye during the savage attack, and beat his 71-year-old grandmother, Anna Gresko. Then he took the time to cut an 8-month-old male preborn child from Janice's body. After being institutionalized for 12 years, Greist married Patricia Louise Griffin in May 1990. She said that she was not bothered by her husband's past and that she was looking forward to a good marriage. She committed suicide a year later (Pennsylvania). GRUNAS:    Police officer Laura Grunas became pregnant by her boyfriend Robert Peat and had an abortion, and soon began suffering because of it. On August 4, 2006, Grunas and Peat argued, and Grunas used her Smith & Wesson police-issue service revolver to murder Peat and then committed suicide with the same revolver. Witness Michael Roth observed Grunas asking Peat "Did he [Peat] tell you about killing my baby?" (Florida). GUERRO AND DUKE:    18-year-old Shaina Mersman was eight months pregnant with a baby girl. On February 22, 2007, Romualdo Guerro and Jarvis Duke approached her and her fiance Tony Magbanua on the street and started to try to argue with them. Then Guerro and Duke walked away. Suddenly, they returned and hit Magbanua over the head with a pistol and then opened fire on him and Shaina. Magbanua was hit in the shoulder and the forearm, and then could only watch as Shaina tried to stop the shooters. He said that "She jumped in front of me. I wish she wouldn't have. It would've hurt a lot less." All Magbanua could do is hold Shaina in his arms and watch her die as her murderers walked away. Police charged Romualdo Guerro with felony murder and Jarvis Duke with first-degree intentional homicide and attempted homicide (Milwaukee). GURROLA:    Monica Sanchez of Mesa, Arizona, was seven weeks pregnant by her boyfriend, Jorge Gurrola. Although Monica seemed happy with her pregnancy, Gurrola was a jealous man and found photos of another man in her purse. In September 2005, Gurrola battered Monica to death with his fists. On February 2, 2007, Gurrola was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder for the killing of Monica and her preborn child. He was the first Arizonan to be convicted under a 2005 state law that protects pregnant women and their babies from violence. On June 8, 2007, he was sentenced to 36 years in prison (Arizona). GUTIERREZ:    In December 2004, a fight broke out at a Tucson party, and Daniel Oquita Gutierrez shot both Tracy Ramirez and Henry Chamberlain Jr. in the back, paralyzing them for life. Tracy was three months pregnant and lost her preborn child, as well as her spleen and a kidney. She had to be kept on life support for several weeks and had to endure nine surgeries during her lengthy recovery. Gutierrez also shot Michael Lopez during the fight, then he dropped the handgun and ran. On August 24, 2006, a jury convicted Gutierrez of manslaughter and six counts of aggravated assault (Arizona). HACKING:    On July 19, 2004, Mark Hacking reported to authorities that his wife Lori was missing after failing to return from a morning jog. She was five weeks pregnant. Nearly three months later, Lori's badly decomposed body was found in a local landfill. She had been shot in the head. Mark Hacking confessed to his brothers that he had shot her and dumped her body into a trash container. On August 2, 2004, Mark Hacking was arrested and charged with aggravated murder. On April 15, 2005, Hacking admitted to Third District Judge Denise Lindberg that he had murdered his wife (Utah). HALL:    This is a case that illustrates perfectly one of the ghastly permutations of the pro-abortion propensity to see a child as a thing, an object to be possessed, an outgrowth of the hideous "Every Child a Wanted Child" slogan. 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall was seven months pregnant. One of her best friends, Tiffany Hall, wanted her baby, and so, in 2006, Hall beat Jimella over the head with a table leg, dumped her body in the bathtub, and carved the preborn baby out of her abdomen. Then Hall murdered Jimella's other three children, 7-year-old DeMond, 2-year-old Ivan and 1-year-old Jinela, and stuffed their bodies into the apartment's washer and dryer. Hall confessed to the killings (Missouri). HAMILTON:    In November 1981, 27-year-old Michael Hamilton gunned down his pregnant wife Gwendolyn with a shotgun on a rural road near Fresno. Her preborn child was killed in the assault as well. Then he tried to collect on her $100,000 life insurance policy. In 1982, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death (California). HAMPTON:    Tracy Allen Hampton, a member of the racist Aryan Brotherhood, set out to take vengeance against a man who had identified him to Phoenix police officers who were attempting to serve him with a traffic ticket. On May 17, 2001, Hampton went to Charles Findley's home. Findley was kneeling on the floor, and Hampton shot him in the forehead with a handgun. Then he want to the bedroom where Findley's pregnant girlfriend, Tanya Ramsdell, was sleeping, and shot her in the head as well, killing both her and her preborn child. On the way out of the house, Hampton knelt next to Findley's dead body and said "I want you to know I took care of your nigger-loving old lady and her little coon baby, too. Don't worry, they didn't feel a thing." Hampton then strolled out to Geeslin's truck, asked if he had any blood on his face, then said he was hungry and asked to get some food. Hampton was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of manslaughter, and, on May 2, 2002, a jury found him guilty on all three counts. On August 15, 2006, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld Hampton's death sentences (Arizona). HARBIN:    Frank Harbin Jr. and Kimberly J. Krebs were expecting a baby, and she was four months along. On November 11, 1999, Harbin went to Kimberly's Shepherdsville trailer home and stabbed her with a large butcher knife more than twenty times. She bled to death on the floor. Harbin was arrested the next day after a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed his car into a police cruiser (Kentucky). HARGROVE:    On February 9, 2008, sex offender Adrian Hargrove went on a deadly rampage. He murdered 45-year-old Andrew Hartley and his 46-year-old wife Sharon by stabbing them multiple times, then murdered their 18-year-old daughter Allyson Pederson, who was five months pregnant with a preborn girl. Hargrove then burned Allyson's body beyond recognition. He was arrested later the same day and was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of feticide (Georgia). HASSAN:    Alim Hassan was originally from Guyana, but had moved to Jersey City, New Jersey. He was a devout Muslim, but the rest of his family was Hindu. Hassan and his wife Marlyn argued frequently about religion, and Hassan demanded that the rest of his family embrace Islam. Early in the morning of July 30, 2002, he went berserk with a knife. His wife Marlyn was pregnant with twins. Hassan stabbed her 23 times. Then he went after his mother-in-law, Bernadette Seajatan, and stabbed her 27 times. Finally, he finished off his sister-in-law, Sharon Yassim, stabbing her 19 times. On December 1, 2003, Hassan pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter (New Jersey). HELSEL:    In 2006, 20-year-old Jaclyn Nicole Helsel of Titusville was six months pregnant and wanted to abort her preborn child, but did not ever get around to having an abortion. So she waited until he was born, watched him struggle and die, and then wrapped his sad little body in a towel and put him under the bathroom sink. She was charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of her little newborn boy. The State of Florida had passed a Safe Haven Law in 2000, which allows parents to leave unwanted newborn babies at hospitals or fire stations anonymously. There was a fire station less than two miles away from Helsel's apartment, but apparently it was just too much trouble for her or her boyfriend to drive that short distance so that their little son could live. Police official Warren Van Vuren said "She also could have dialed 911. There were about three dozen other options than the one she chose. She just didn't want the child" (Florida). HENRIQUEZ:    Christopher Henriquez held up a bank, and was afraid that his wife Carmen would inform on him. So he decided to eliminate her as a witness permanently. On August 12, 1996, Henriquez strangled Carmen to death, and then bludgeoned his three-year-old daughter Zuri to death with a claw hammer. Carmen was just four weeks away from delivering a healthy baby. In 2000, Henriquez was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to death. He now resides at San Quentin Prison (California). HICKS:    In November 2004, Daruis T. Hicks and his girlfriend, Shawndre Fulton, visited a park in Northern Virginia. Shawndre was eight months pregnant with Hick's child. Hicks shot her in the back seven or eight times. In December 2005, a jury found Hicks guilty of first-degree murder. During his trial, Hicks came up with perhaps the lamest excuse ever heard by a Virginia jury. He said that he "... was teasing Shawndre with the gun, it went off accidentally and continued to fire. [Shawndre] somehow stayed in front of where the gun was." Ray Morrough, the Fairfax County deputy commonwealth's attorney, said that "I told the jury I've been doing this a while and I've never seen a good murder, but this is worse than most, and I meant that from the bottom of my heart, that it is worse than most" (Virginia). HITTLE:    Even by "pro-choice" standards, Daniel Joe Hittle was a maniac. He loved to torture and torment women, small children and animals. In 1972, he murdered his parents because their dog scratched his pickup truck. After serving eleven years in prison, he beat and abused his two wives and their little daughters, and kicked his second wife hard in the stomach when she was a week past due giving birth. On November 15, 1989, Hittle shot Garland police officer Gerald Walker in the chest with a shotgun at point-blank range. He then drove to the home of Mary Goss, his drug dealer. With nothing to lose now, Hittle kicked in the door and murdered everyone in the house, beginning with Goss, Richard Cook Jr., and Raymond Gregg. he ran out of ammo, and so reloaded — and then murdered a terrified little girl, Goss's 4-year-old daughter Christy Condon. A jury convicted Hittle of capital murder in the killing of Officer Walker, and the State of Texas executed him by lethal injection on December 6, 2000 (Texas). HOKE AND CASTILLO:    On June 22, 2007, Todd Hoke and Nicolas Castillo took pregnant 17-year-old Amber LeAnn Hess to see a movie, then took her back to her vacant home and teamed up to beat and stab Amber to death. They stabbed her at least seven times, one time fatally in her heart, as she fought for her life. They had been carefully planning the murder for at least two weeks. Then they dumped her body in the desert near Florence and burned it. Amber's parents arrived home to find a kitchen splattered with blood. Hoke and Castillo were each charged with first-degree murder, among other charges (Arizona). HOLMES:    Sherry Arnold and Howard Holmes had been married for only two months, but were not happy at all. Sherry was three months pregnant and her husband would often go on drinking binges. On December 28, 2005, Sherry called 9-1-1 but never completed the call. The dispatcher heard a gunshot and sent deputies to the house. When officers reached the scene, they found Sherry shot in the head, and she died a short time later. Police arrested Holmes and charged him with one count of murder (Texas). HOPKINS:    Bobby Ray Hopkins abused his wife Kari frequently, but especially when he found out that she was pregnant. On July 30, 1993, Hopkins entered the home of 18-year-old Sandi Marbut and her 19-year-old cousin Jennifer Weston. He went into a savage rage, stabbing Sandi over forty times as she struggled to survive. He then stabbed Jennifer 66 times. Then he prowled around the house looking for money to steal. On October 1, 1993, Hopkins was indicted for two counts of capital murder. He pleaded not guilty, but a jury found him guilty on May 24, 1994. The next day, the court sentenced him to death. The State of Texas executed Bobby Ray Hopkins by lethal injection on February 12, 2004 (Texas). HORNE:    Deborah Horne was awaiting the birth of her preborn child, whom she knew to be a baby girl. Deborah was, in fact, already overdue to give birth. In August 1982, her estranged husband Terrance savagely attacked Deborah, stabbing her in the neck, arms and abdomen. She lost so much blood that doctors could not save the life of her child, which suffocated before doctors could save her through an emergency Caesarian section. Deborah survived, and Terrance was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill and manslaughter (South Carolina). HUBBARD:    On July 13, 1999, Ernest Hubbard got into an argument with his pregnant wife Trijuana over an affair she was having. He took their three young children out to the family car, then returned to their home in Glendale Heights and doused himself and Trijuana with gasoline and ignited it. Both husband and wife were severely burned in the resulting fire. However, Trijuana and her preborn child died after lingering in the hospital for eleven days, but Ernest Hubbard recovered. On November 15, 2002, a jury convicted Hubbard of first-degree murder. Hubbard was sentenced to life in prison because the state proved that he acted in an "exceptionally heinous or brutal" manner. Laura Pollastrini of the Illinois State District Attorney's office said that "I think you can call setting someone on fire pretty heinous" (Illinois). HUBERT:    On May 14, 2007, Nathan Dale Hubert was charged with two counts of second-degree murder for murdering his pregnant girlfriend, Sheila Chrast. He beat her to death with a claw hammer, rupturing her spleen, destroying her liver, and breaking many of her ribs. Sheila's son found her dead in her Foley, Minnesota apartment on Mother's Day. Hubert claimed that he was on meth at the time and didn't remember what had happened (Minnesota). HUGHES:    Avis Banks was five months pregnant. A romantic rival, Carla Hughes, borrowed a knife and a gun from her cousin, and, on November 29, 2006, she kicked open a door in the home, shot Avis in the leg, chest and head and, then to make absolutely certain that she was dead, cut her throat. Then she returned the gun to her cousin after wiping it clean of fingerprints and disposed of the knife. On December 6, 2007, Ridgeland Police arrested Carla Hughes and she was later charged with two counts of capital murder (Mississippi). HURD:    Lorie Renee Hurd gave birth to full-term twin baby girls in the bathroom of her home. Then she stuffed them into a plastic bag, cinched it closed, and abandoned her dying babies. Hurd had had several previous abortions, and just did not want to be a mother this time either, so she performed a "fourth trimester abortion" on her babies (California). HURST:    On March 2, 2007, Taylor Hurst strangled his pregnant fiancee, Katie MacDougall. For two days, Hurst spent most of his time in the apartment with Katie's body. Police entered the apartment and found Katie dead in the bathtub, partially clothed, with "blunt trauma" to her upper body. They also found a handwritten note by Hurst, and stated that it was a kind of "apology." Local police arrested Hurst within a matter of hours. He was sitting in Katie's parked Pontiac Grand Prix, sipping a Budweiser, and confessed to strangling Katie with his bare hands (Massachusetts). HUSKEY:    Thomas "Zoo Man" Huskey attacked and raped four prostitutes in 1991 and 1992. Also in 1992, he kidnapped, bound, tortured, murdered and buried four women — Susan Stone, Darlene Smith, Patricia Rose Anderson and Patricia Johnson, three of whom were also prostitutes. Anderson was pregnant, and Huskey said that she begged him to let her go, but he strangled her instead. A jury found Huskey guilty of three counts of rape in his earlier attacks and sentenced him to 66 years in prison. Then, on February 13, 1999, a jury deadlocked in Huskey's quadruple murder trial because its members said that they could not determine if he was insane (Tennessee). IDELFONSO:    On January 5, 2004, Antonio Dejesus Idelfonso and Eliseo Marcelino-Quintero were driving their pickup truck past a woman walking on the road when she fell down next to them. They stopped to see if they had hit her. 32-year-old Tracy Owen, who was so heavily pregnant she might have even been in labor at the time, was lying on the road, crying for help. Idelfonso told police that he responded, "Here's your help," and shot her five times in the upper body. One of the bullets struck her preborn child. Metro police detective Robert Swisher said "In my 22 years on the job, I have never seen anyone executed, and I mean executed, because someone thought they had hit the person with a vehicle. It sickens me." Both men were charged with murder (Tennessee). JACKSON:    On November 26, 2005, Sarah Marie Fay was found unconscious on the floor of a Fern Acres subdivision house, with severe head and bodily injuries. On December 1, 2005, Marwann Timothy Saad Jackson, also known as Judah Jackson, was arraigned in Hilo District Court and was charged with second-degree murder, second-degree murder by omission, kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault, second-degree robbery murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery (for stealing Sarah Marie's car), and violation of a long-term protective order. Police declared Sarah Marie legally dead, but she was kept alive at the Queen's Medical Center in order to preserve the life of her preborn child. The little boy, Josiah Darcy Fay, was born healthy on December 11, 2005, and Sarah Marie was taken off life support and died (Hawaii). JAMES:    On July 20, 2004, Cody James was riding in a pickup truck with his girlfriend, 16-year-Rebecca Lynn Johnson, and three other people. James and Rebecca started to argue, then James shot her once in the chest and killed her. Rebecca was five to ten weeks pregnant. On April 1, 2005, James was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in the death of an unborn quick child. James pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and three counts of assault with intent to kill. On January 17, 2006, James was sentenced to life in prison (Oklahoma). JOHNSON, GERALD:    On January 26, 2006, one of 28-year-old Demetria's Johnson's six children called police because they had found her unconscious. Paramedics rushed her to Charlton Methodist Hospital, but she died along the way. She was five months pregnant. In November 2005, police had been called to the home when Gerald had threatened to kill his wife and burn down the home. Later that day, police arrested Gerald Johnson and charged him with capital murder (Texas). JOHNSON, ROBERT:    In May 2003, Robert Johnson used two guns to kill his pregnant girlfriend, 22-year-old Tamnika Powell. He told investigators that he fired the guns because he thought there was an intruder in their home. Their full-term baby boy was delivered by Cesarian section, but died a day later. On September 24, 2003, a Marion County jury convicted Johnson on two counts of first-degree murder (Indiana). JONES, ALFRED:    During the early morning hours of June 11, 2005, Alfred "Dusty" Jones and Marcus Lee Samuel broke into the home of an 18-year-old woman in her second trimester of pregnancy, shot her in the abdomen and leg with a rifle, and stole jewelry and $2,800 in cash from the home. The bullet that struck her in the abdomen killed her preborn child. Jones pled guilty to feticide, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated battery, burglary, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Samuel pled guilty to two counts of kidnapping, two counts of armed robbery, burglary, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Thomas County Superior Court Judge Harry Jay Altman sentenced Jones to forty years in prison and sentenced Samuel to thirty years in prison (Georgia). JONES, MAURICE:    Shawne Mims and Jennifer Penning decided to steal some drugs from Maurice D. "Riz" Jones, Harold "Mikey" Murray IV, and Ernest Reginald "Dinero" Morris at gunpoint. It was the last mistake they would ever make. Jones, Murray and Morris took their revenge in the most extreme way by murdering Mims and Penning, who was six months pregnant. They shot Penning two times in the face, and shot Mims twice in the chest with two guns, including an AK-47-style assault rifle (Pennsylvania). JURADO:    Teresa Holloway was six months pregnant and happily awaiting the birth of her baby. Teresa learned of a plot by Robert Jurado, Jr., his girlfriend Anna Humiston and Denise Shigemura to murder a drug dealer. She made the fatal error of confronting Humiston about the plot. In order to silence Teresa, on May 15, 1991, Jurado strangled her and beat her to death while Humiston held her down. Then they dumped her body in a culvert, where it was found two days later. Jurado was convicted of first-degree murder, and a jury sentenced him to death. Humiston and Shigemura were both sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for first-degree murder and for conspiracy to commit murder (California). JUSTUS:    On July 2, 2005, Sharon Jeanne Acosta, who was almost seven months pregnant, did not show up at her job as a hair stylist. She also failed to pick up her seven-year-old son from her ex-husband. Five days later, searchers found Sharon's body, which had been buried at a Sevier County construction site. Sherry's boyfriend Terry Justus was charged with first-degree murder, and, on March 28, 2006, he pleaded guilty to the charge. He will spend at least the next thirty years in prison for the murders as part of a plea bargain (Tennessee). KEEBLE:    Sundance Medicinehorn Keeble was living with his 20-year-old sister and his 21-year-old girlfriend, who was four to five months pregnant. On November 21, 2003, Keeble deliberately stabbed his girlfriend in the stomach and savagely beat his own sister. He punched her in the mouth so hard she lost several teeth, and his girlfriend's preborn baby died as a result of his attack, although the girlfriend survived. Keeble was charged with fetal homicide, three counts of aggravated assault and simple assault. Brown County prosecutor Mark McNeary said "This was a heinous act. The defendant intentionally stabbed the woman in the stomach, causing the death of the unborn child" (South Dakota). KING:    On September 29, 2005, Levi King murdered 70-year-old Orlie McCool and his 47-year-old daughter-in-law, Dawn McCool, using guns he had stolen from his father. The next day, he murdered Brian Conrad, his wife, Michell, and her 14-year-old son, Zach Doan, in their home. Michell was six months pregnant with Brian's first child. King also shot Michell's ten-year-old daughter, who survived and called police. King had stolen Orlie McCool's 2005 pickup truck and used it to drive to the Texas Panhandle. King then tried to escape to Mexico, but was arrested by Border Patrol agents the same day he had killed most of the members of the Conrad family. On March 23, 2006, a Gray County, Texas grand jury indicted King on three counts of capital murder. This was shortly after he pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Orlie McCool and Dawn McCool (Texas). KNIGHT:    Richard Andrew Knight was a freeloader who was sponging off Hans Mullings and his pregnant girlfriend, 24-year-old Odessia Stephens. Finally, Hans and Odessia had had enough of Knight, and asked him to move out. Knight got furiously angry, and waited until Hans had left the house. Then, on June 28, 2000, he stabbed Odessia and Hanessia to death. He assaulted them with such force that he broke the handles on two knives (Florida). LAKE and NG:    Leonard Lake and Charles Chitat Ng were two "pro-choicers" who really knew what they wanted as they transformed their lurid sexual fantasies into hard reality. They were survivalists who constructed a torture chamber at a remote California ranch for the purpose of murdering women, some of them pregnant. In April 1985, Lake and Ng kidnapped Kathy Allen, a San Francisco supermarket clerk, and Brenda O'Connor, Lake's neighbor, who was pregnant. They took them to their "dungeon" and tortured and murdered them while videotaping everything. On the tape, Lake threatened Kathy and Brenda with rape and death if they did not cooperate as sex slaves. One of the tapes shows Brenda pleading for the lives of her husband and baby, who they also murdered. Lake and Ng also murdered Michael Carroll, Brenda's husband Lonnie and their baby, Harvey and Deborah Dubs and their baby, Robin Scott Stapley, Randy Johnson, Charles Gunnar, Donald Lake (Leonard Lake's own brother), and Paul Cosner, in addition to an estimated 25 other people who could not be identified. Lake committed suicide with a cyanide pill when captured by police, and a jury found Ng guilty of twelve murders and sentenced him to death (California). LANE:    On March 24, 2007, Jwonda Thurston and her boyfriend Reginald Lane began to argue at her sister's apartment in the Chicago suburb of Riverdale. Lane was jealous that Jwonda wanted to go out with one of her girlfriends. Jwonda's sister became frightened and called the police and, as the police arrived, Lane shot Jwonda in the back of the head once, instantly killing her. Then he barricaded himself in the bathroom and surrendered two hours later. Lane was charged with first-degree murder, and since Jwonda was three months pregnant with his child, intentional homicide of an unborn child. He was also charged with three counts of aggravated kidnapping and home invasion. Lane later confessed to the killings in a videotaped statement (Illinois). LARIO-MUNOZ:    When Leoncio Garcia-Lopez arrived home at his Grand Rapids home on October 14, 2005, he found his pregnant wife Sylvia Sanchez dead on the floor and Edwin Lario-Munoz in the house. The two men battled with knives, and both were wounded and transported to a nearby hospital. Sylvia had been stabbed twice and strangled. Lario-Munoz changed his stories to police several times, and finally said to a detective that "When I saw her die, I was the only one there and I didn't want them to pin that [expletive] on me." He was charged with murder, intentional death of a fetus, and assault with intent to murder (Michigan). LEACH:    On January 18, 2004, Dan Leach murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend, Ashley Nicole Wilson, who was pregnant with his child. He strangled her and hung her body in her apartment. Her mother discovered her body, and the medical examiner ruled her death a suicide. Leach left a letter written by Ashley near her body, which said that she was despondent because she was pregnant and the father did not want to help raise the child. This was intended to make people think she had killed herself. After seeing Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" on March 7, 2004, Leach felt severe remorse for his murder, and confessed to it. He said that he killed Ashley because she was pregnant with his child and he did not want to be involved with her anymore or care for their child. Leach said "And so, after watching that movie, I was very emotional, and so I thought about the things I had done." Leach was charged with murder after his confession (Texas). LESLEY:    On November 15, 1999, James Patrick Lesley Jr. and Ricardo Blonner broke into an apartment looking for drugs and money, and murdered nineteen-year-old Danielle Nicole Scott, who was just two weeks away from delivering a healthy baby. After Blonner cut her throat, doctors managed to deliver her baby, Kasiah Scott, who is comatose and lives on life support. On November 13, 2002, a jury convicted Lesley of first-degree murder in the slaying, and, two days later, recommended a sentence of life in prison for him. Lesley and Blonner both admitted that they were drug dealers. Blonner was also charged with first-degree murder in the case (Oklahoma). LETOUR:    Michael Letour's live-in girlfriend, Jenny McMechan, was 36 weeks pregnant with his preborn child. She was just two weeks away from delivering a healthy baby boy. On New Year's Eve of 2001, Latour brutally shot her in the head and neck as she stood outside a friend's home in Plainfield (Connecticut). LINGLE:    On January 19, 1999, Harold R. Lingle and two of his friends drove to the home of 36-year-old Erin Vanderhoef, who was just days away from giving birth. Lingle drove Erin to a nearby grocery store to buy donuts with food stamps. While they were gone, Lingle's friends strangled Erin's children, eight-year old Darlene, ten-year old Chris, and eleven-year-old Jimmy. When Lingle brought Erin back to her home, the three strangled her with an electrical cord as well, and her full-term preborn baby died as a result. One of Lingle's friends kicked Erin in the head so hard that he had a limp for several days. This was the worst mass murder in the history of Springfield, Missouri. Lingle was convicted on five counts of first-degree murder (Missouri). LIPINSKI:    On August 10, 2004, John E. Lipinski pushed his pregnant girlfriend, Melissa Salvidar, out of a moving car. Her head was crushed under the wheels of the car. Lipinski picked her up and drove her to Sacred Heart Medical Center, where he gave three different versions of what had happened. Doctors restarted her heart in order to save her baby, but she died the next day. Since she was seven months pregnant, doctors attempted to save her baby. They succeeded, but the baby, who was brain dead, died 52 days later after being removed from life support equipment. On June 24, 2005, Lipinski was charged with two counts of second-degree murder (Washington State). LITTLE:    Carol Stokes, the pregnant mother of four small children, lived at the Madison Cove Apartments in Gainesville, Florida. On August 1, 2006, her former boyfriend, Anthony Artell Little, went to her apartment and found her there with another man, David Reaves. Stokes stabbed Reaves in the lower back and chased Carol out of the house. He vandalized Carol's car, then got into his own car and ran Carol down, killing her and dragging her body across three lanes of traffic under the car. Then he got out of the car, stood over Carol's body, and began to swear. Little turned himself in to police later in the day after a search by deputies and was charged with first-degree murder (Florida). LOSINGER:    In 2001, Daniel Losinger murdered Vicki Soto, who was 8½ months pregnant. He slashed her throat and then, in an act of unbelievable savagery, cut off both of her legs. Her husband found her mangled body in their North Platte basement apartment. He was sentenced to seventy years to life in prison for second-degree murder. In October 2004, the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected Losinger's plea for a lesser sentence, ruling that the vicious nature of his crime justified the long sentence. The passage of Nebraska's unborn victims law was passed a year after Soto's death (Nebraska). LOZA:    On January 16, 1991, gang member Jose Loza used a .25 caliber pistol to murder his pregnant girlfriend's mother, 46-year-old Georgia Davis, his girlfriend's brother, 25-year-old Gary Mullins, and his girlfriend's sister, 20-year-old Cheryl Senteno, before finally killing 17-year-old Jerri Jackson, who was 6 months pregnant at the time. He silence his pistol with one of the young girls' fuzzy slippers and shot each of the victims in the head at close range. Roger Knabel, the lead detective in the case, said "The worst part was the young lady who was pregnant. When we were checking the body everybody assumed she was dead. I shined my light in her eyes and she screamed right in my face. ... She lived 15 days, just long enough to deliver her baby." Loza confessed to police and told them the order in which he shot the victims. He said "I done it, and I'm taking the whole responsibility for it." On March 3, 1991, Loza was indicted on four counts of aggravated murder and was sentenced to death on November 12, 1991 (Ohio). LUNA:    Leo Angel Luna had been systematically harassing his estranged common-law wife, Diana Ponce, who was seven months pregnant with his child. He assaulted her and threatened her life several times. On December 28, 2005, he went to her house and murdered Diana and her mother, Blance Ponce. Then he shot Blanca's son William in the face, but he survived his wounds. Luna pleaded guilty to three counts of capital murder in order to escape the death penalty and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole (Texas). LUSTER:    On January 28, 2003, Aaron Luster and his girlfriend, Christine Karcher, who was seven months pregnant, began arguing in his car as they drove down a road near the Pittsburgh International Airport. Luster attempted to strangle Christine, then pushed her out of the moving vehicle. She fell to the pavement, and was immediately struck by a following car. When police officers arrived at the scene, they found Christine's mangled body. During Luster's trial, jurors heard Christine's frantic cell phone call for help just nine minutes before she died. Luster's voice, encouraging her to jump from the moving car, was clearly audible. On March 26, 2004, a jury found Luster guilty of two counts of murder, one for Christine and one for her viable preborn baby (Pennsylvania). MABRY:    Terrence Mabry and his pregnant girlfriend Faye Spencer lived in an apartment with her three small children. On April 15, 2001, Mabry's 15-year-old brother Tristan was visiting them. Mabry used a handgun to shoot Tristan in the back and then shot Faye. She managed to call police and identify her killer, and the police could hear shots being fired in the background. When police arrived at the scene, Mabry shot at them, and finally killed himself. Faye and Mabry died on the scene. Tristan managed to get out of the apartment, but he died on the way to the hospital (Texas). MACDONALD:    In 1970, Special Forces officer Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald called the Fayetteville, North Carolina police department to report that his pregnant wife, Colette, and two young daughters, five-year-old Kimberly and two-year-old Kristen, had been murdered by a marauding gang of hippies shouting "Kill the pigs, acid is groovy." Kimberly's head had been smashed in and she had numerous stab wounds in her neck. Kristen had been stabbed numerous times in the chest and back. Colette's face and head had been cruelly battered. In 1979, a jury found MacDonald guilty of three counts of first-degree murder (North Carolina). MACGUIRE:    Roger MacGuire shot his ex-wife, Susan MacGuire, to death in January 2001. He was angry about her pregnancy by her fiance and deliberately aimed at her unborn child. He was tried and convicted of two counts of murder (Utah). MALICOAT:    This pitiful case is a testimony to how the "pro-choice" mentality coarsens people's outlook towards children. After all, if they can be legally and profitably put to death a few days before birth, why not a few days — or months — after birth? James Malicoat was a typical male "pro-choice" male, absolutely ruthless and domineering. His own brother testified in court that he was cruel and that he liked to beat women. On February 2, 1997, Malicoat's new girlfriend, Mary Ann Leadford, and her thirteen-month-old daughter, Tessa, moved in with him. Malicoat immediately began to severely abuse the little girl. He confessed that he frequently punched and poked her hard in the chest, and bit her as "discipline." He also admitted that, on February 19, he slammed her head on a bed frame. Finally, her little body gave out under the terrible abuse, and she died. On February 21, 1997, Malicoat punched her twice hard in the chest early in the afternoon. Then he went to sleep, and when he woke up, she was dead. Malicoat and Leadford took her to an emergency room. The little girl's face and body were covered in severe bruises, there was a large mushy closed wound on her forehead, and she had several human bite marks on her body. Tessa also had severe internal injuries, including broken ribs, internal bruising and bleeding, and a torn mesentery. Malicoat had literally beaten her to death [Perhaps this is what "pro-choicers" sometimes refer to as "post-natal" or "fourth-trimester" abortion]. Both Malicoat and Mary Ann Leadford were convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of little Tessa. Leadford received a sentence of life in prison for not protecting the child that she was keenly aware was being brutalized, and Malicoat was sentenced to death. On August 31, 2006, the State of Oklahoma executed James Patrick Malicoat by lethal injection (Oklahoma). MANSON:    Nobody more perfectly typifies the narcissistic, selfish, "anything goes" anti-life mentality better than homosexual Charles Manson of "Helter Skelter" fame. To people like this, people are mere commodities, to be used and discarded as they see fit. In 1969, the racist Manson plotted to start a race war by carrying out a spectacular series of murders against famous people. First, he ordered members of his "family" to kill music teacher Gary Hinman. They imprisoned him in his house, then stabbed him to death and used his own blood to write "POLITICAL PIGGY" on his living room walls. Voytek Frykowski was the next to die. They crushed his skull with 13 heavy blows, and savagely puncturing the rest of his body with 51 stab wounds, in addition to shooting him twice. Next, Susan Atkins approached Sharon Tate, who was heavily pregnant. Atkins said "Sharon was the last to die. [She said] "Please don't kill me. Please don't kill me. I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to have my baby. I want to have my baby." [I said] "Look, bitch, I don't care about you. I don't care if you're going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You're going to die and I don't feel anything about it." ... In a few minutes I killed her." Sharon was found with 16 stab wounds all over her body. Atkins had wanted to cut ther near-term preborn child from Sharon's body, but she said that "there wasn't time." The gang also murdered Abigail Folger by stabbing her many times and dumping her body on the front lawn. They also shot and stabbed Jay Sebring seven times. The Manson "family" concluded their night's deadly activities by scrawling the word "PIG" on the front door of the Polanski-Tate home in the blood of the victims. Last to die were Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. One of the Manson gang tied Leno's hands tightly behind his back with a leather thong, and stuck a carving fork in his stomach. They stabbed him at least 26 times. One of the gang carved the word "WAR" on his abdomen. They also strangled and stabbed Rosemary at least 41 times. Finally, the Manson gang wrote various slogans on the walls of the house in the victim's blood (California). MARTIN:    Jerae James was a Waynesville High School student, seventeen years old and pregnant. 25-year-old Luther Martin murdered her in an especially gruesome manner. On October 7, 2001, he locked her in the trunk of her car and then set the car on fire, killing her. On September 19, 2006, a Pulaski County jury found Martin guilty of two counts of first-degree murder after deliberating for about three hours. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on both counts (Missouri). MASON, MAURICE:    Maurice Mason had been convicted of felony drug dealing, illegal possession of a firearm, threatening an ex-girlfriend with a gun, and the rape of Danielle Miller on October 7, 1992. He also had at least four parole violations. On February 8, 1993, Mason and Robin Dennis, who was pregnant, left a party and went to an abandoned building. Mason then raped Robin and beat her to death with a board that had nails protruding from it. Mason abandoned Robin's body there and walked away, also leaving the murder weapon nearby. On June 29, 1994, a jury found Mason guilty of aggravated felony murder, rape, and having a weapon while under disability, and subsequently sentenced him to death (Ohio). MASON, THOMAS:    Thomas Mason had been married to Billie Jones and Melinda Mason. He beat them both and threatened their lives repeatedly. He also beat up Billie several times throughout her pregnancy. Mason threatened to burn down a house where 55-year-old Marsha Yvonne Brock and 80-year-old Sybil Mares Dennis lived. Marsha and Sybil were the mother and grandmother of Mason's estranged second wife Melinda Mason. On October 2, 1991, Mason went to their home and shot Marsha in the head at close range with the shotgun, blowing her skull apart and literally spraying her brains on the walls of the room. Then he shot Sybil several times as she screamed for help on the 911 emergency line, nearly severing her right arm and killing her. On June 26, 1992, a jury convicted Mason of two counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death. Thomas Wayne Mason was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on June 12, 2000 (Texas). MCDUFF:    "Pro-choicer" Kenneth Allen McDuff is often called "The Poster Boy for Capital Punishment." He is the only person in U.S. history to be sentenced to death, released, and then sentenced to death a second time for different crimes. In 1966, McDuff and an accomplice kidnapped three teenagers. They shot the two boys execution-style as they begged for their lives, then raped and slowly strangled the girl to death. Duff was sentenced to death for these crimes, but, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling against the death penalty, was set free. On December 29, 1991, he kidnapped, raped and murdered 28-year-old accountant Colleen Reed, and, on March 1, 1992, he kidnapped and murdered Melissa Northrup, who was pregnant and the mother of two. He also raped and murdered Regenia Moore, Brenda Thompson, Colleen Reed and Valencia Ray Joshua. McDuff was finally arrested in Kansas after being profiled on "America's Most Wanted" on May 1, 1992, and was sentenced to death — again. On November 17, 1998, the State of Texas executed McDuff by lethal injection (Texas). MCGHEE:    Timothy Joseph McGhee, the "Monster of Atwater," is one of the most dangerous serial killers in American history. He was the leader of the 200-strong Toonerville Gang, and killed anyone who displeased him, whether it was men, women, or pregnant mothers. He liked to "go hunting" for human beings, and his victims included Ronnie Martin, who he shot 27 times, a rap singer's bodyguard, two police officers, 16-year-old Ryan Gonzales (because the boy had the same nickname as McGhee), 17-year-old Marty Gregory Roybal, David Lamont Martin, 21-year-old Manuel Apodaca and his pregnant girlfriend Nina Guerrero, Carlos Velasco, Bryham Robinson, Cheri Wisotsky and her 64-year-old mother Mary Ann Wisotsky, and mother of two Margie Mendoza and her husband. McGhee went on the run, and made it onto the list of the United States Marshals Service's 15 most wanted fugitives. He was finally captured and put on trial and, on October 25, 2007, a Los Angeles jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder (California). MCGUIRE:    On February 11, 1989, Dennis McGuire kidnapped, raped, sodomized and murdered pregnant 22-year-old Joy Stewart in a wooded area. McGuire was cleaning gutters on her house and she had just met him that day. The next day, hikers found Joy's blood-saturated body near a creek. While in jail for an unrelated kidnapping charge, McGuire tried to blame his own brother-in-law, Jerry Richardson, for the crime, but McGuire knew significant facts that were not disclosed to the public. McGuire was sentenced to death for the murder. In December 1997, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld his sentence (Ohio). MCGRORY:    Michael G. McGrory and Matthew Eshbach had committed many acts of armed robbery, and operated an armed robbery "ring." In November 2002, McGrory and Eshbach went to the home of Kerry Schadler, 21, and his 20-year-old wife, Katherine, who was 20 weeks pregnant, in order to threaten them, because they knew about the robbery gang. McGrory and Eshbach tied up the Schadlers and forced them at knifepoint into McGrory's vehicle. After driving some distance, McGrory pulled Kerry Schadler out of the car and squeezed his neck until "his body went limp," Carroll said. Returning to the car, McGrory began to look for a place to unload the body. He stopped the car, put his arm around Katherine Schadler and started to strangle her; Eshbach finished murdering her. Then they dumped the bodies in Tow Path Park in East Coventry Township (Pennsylvania). MCKENZIE:    On January 30, 2005, Lonnie McKenzie, Jr., attacked his pregnant wife in a fit of jealousy. He stabbed her in the back and the chest with an eight-inch steak knife, nearly killing her. She lost a large amount of blood and a kidney and suffered a collapsed lung. She also lost her 14-week-old preborn child. In November 2005, Lonnie McKenzie pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and attempted murder. On December 15, 2005, Summit County Common Pleas Judge Brenda Burnham Unruh sentenced him to eight years in prison (Ohio). MEGARGEE:    On January 4, 2008, Samuel Morgan Megargee and his five months pregnant fiancee, Olivia Chavez-Cruz, were arguing noisily when a security guard tried to intervene because he thought that the violence might escalate. Before he could do so, Megargee pulled out a handgun and shot Olivia several times, then killed himself. Both died at the scene (Arizona). MELCHER:    Zachariah Melcher's wife Christian was eight months pregnant with their second child. Their little son Zach Jaiden was eleven months old. On April 16, 2005, Melcher strangled his heavily pregnant wife and then suffocated his little boy. He then stuffed their bodies into a plastic container in their apartment's laundry room. He told police that he sprayed the bodies with deodorizers to "buy himself time." Then he drained Christian's bank account and went to spend it all in a Louisville crack house. A week later, police arrested Melcher, who boasted that he murdered his pregnant wife and 11-month old son "faster than you can open a can of Coke" (Kentucky). MENDES:    On July 29, 1986, John Gomes Mendes strangled his pregnant 18-year-old wife Susan while their 10-month-old son was in the apartment. He convincingly staged a scene making it look as if someone else had killed Susan. He then spent all of her $150,000 inheritance money on his cocaine habit. Shortly before he murdered her, Susan told Mendes "My father worked too long and too hard for you to be doing all his hard-earned money up your nose." He was not arrested until 1999, after the Plymouth County district attorney's office began to review dozens of unsolved murder cases. Mendes was apparently relaxing more than a decade after his wife's murder. He had remarried and had told at least two people that he had killed Susan. In January 2005, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld Mendes' first-degree murder conviction (Massachusetts). MENDEZ-DELEON:    Gregorio Mendez-Deleon and his pregnant girlfriend, Ana Valiente-Guardado, seemed to be getting along well — but then things went wrong. On December 5, 2006, Mendez-Deleon stabbed Ana four times in the neck and dismembered her body, then buried her remains. He confessed to the murder, and, on November 30, 2007, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to sixteen years to life in prison (California). MILLER:    Joseph Daniel Miller didn't like women — especially minority women. He abducted, raped and murdered only minority women because if he targeted "white debutantes," police would have put much more effort into catching him. From 1987 to 1990, he kidnapped, raped and murdered high school student Selina Franklin, Stephanie McDuffey, who was eight months pregnant, Jeanette Thomas and Kathi Novena Shenck. He also tried to rape two other women, one of whom he stabbed in the head 25 times with a screwdriver. He was finally caught, convicted of four counts of first-degree murder, and sentenced to death (Pennsylvania). MONTGOMERY:    This strange, sad and murderous tale shows yet another repulsive quality of the "pro-choice" mentality — that a baby is just a commodity that can be disposed of, kept — or, in this case, stolen. Lisa Montgomery had befriended 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant with her first child. On December 16, 2004, Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo with a rope, and then cut the baby from her womb with a kitchen knife in a crude cesarian section. Horribly, Bobbie Jo was still alive as she was being butchered. Montgomery was showing off the baby as her own the next day in her Melvern, Kansas home when police arrested her and charged her with kidnapping and murder. Montgomery actually tried to use the abortion decision Roe v. Wade in her defense during her trial, but it didn't do her much good. On October 22, 2007, a jury deliberated four hours before finding her guilty of kidnapping resulting in death (Missouri). MOODY:    On December 20, 2005, Don Wayne Moody strangled his pregnant girlfriend Zana Danielle Leblanc and left her in her bedroom. He then fled the scene and, like so many other pro-abortionists who murder their pregnant wives and girlfriends, took the easy way out. Three days after he murdered Zana, he committed suicide (Texas). MORENO:    Early on the morning of September 24, 2003, Roland Ramirez Moreno shot his pregnant wife, 31-year-old Maria D. Moreno, in the head and shot his five-year-old son Louis "Franky" Moreno in the back. Then he took a break and dialed his pastor, asking for a prayer "to save his heart." The pastor called 9-1-1 and, when police arrived at Moreno's home, he put his Glock under his chin and pulled the trigger, killing himself (Texas). MORRIS:    On December 21, 2002, Edward Morris surprised his family with a trip to the Tillamook State Forest near the Oregon coast. He was with his seven months pregnant wife, Renee, and their three young children, ten-year-old Bryant, eight-year-old Alexis, and four-year-old Jonathan. At a pullout on Route 6, he shot his wife and two sons, then drove to a deserted wooded area and stabbed his daughter more than a dozen times. He then fled in the family minivan. Hunters found the bodies of the slaughtered family in the snow. Morris left the area and attempted to change his appearance by shaving his head and growing a mustache, but was identified and arrested on January 4, 2003. Morris was charged with seven counts of aggravated murder, because, in Oregon, the murder of a child under fourteen years of age counts twice. On September 20, 2004, Morris pled guilty to seven counts of aggravated murder and was subsequently sentenced to serve four consecutive life terms in prison (Oregon). MOSELEY:    18-year-old Shaniqua Renea Perry was five months pregnant. On the evening of October 19, 2006, she and her boyfriend Marcus Moseley got into an argument over whether her preborn child was his. Then Moseley shot Shaniqua in the face and just walked away. Shaniqua and her preborn child died at the scene. Police charged Moseley with capital murder (Texas). MOSS:    In December 2004, Bobby Joe Moss shot 17-year-old Michelle Harlan, who was eight months pregnant, in the back three times with a handgun. She was still alive even after this murderous assault, so Moss threw her into the trunk of his car and drove her to Carter Lake, where he dumped her into the water. Moss was sentenced to 65 to 100 years in prison. Judge J. Patrick Mullen said to Moss, "Shooting Michelle Harlan three times in the back is cold enough. To throw her in the back of the car while she's asking for help shows you were only thinking of yourself" (Nebraska). MOUKALLED:    Jihad Hassan Moukalled wrote a suicide note expressing remorse over his gambling debts, then killed his pregnant wife and three young children, and wound up the bloody night by committing suicide. For two years, Moukalled had made weekly trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, gambling and losing large amounts of money. He had amassed over half a million dollars in debt (Pennsylvania). MYERS, CALVIN:    On December 3, 1994, Calvin Shane Myers, his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Irene Christensen, and another man, Steven Paul Howard, were driving toward Park City shortly after midnight in heavy snow. They came upon an unplowed road, and the three got out and walked toward Rockport Reservoir State Park. Myers and Christensen embraced, and then Myers stabbed her at least 12 times with a rusty 4½-inch hunting blade. The two men then left the area, leaving Christensen in a snowbank. Her frozen body was found by a snowmobiler two weeks later. Myers confessed to the crime and was charged with two counts of murder. In February 1996, pled guilty to one count of capital murder (Utah). MYERS, TIFANY:    On January 20, 2000, Tifany Ann Myers, who was baby-sitting for 21-month-old Joel Vasquez, shook him and slammed him to the floor, causing his death, when he would not stop crying. Myers was charged with first-degree murder. She filed a notice of diminished responsibility, alleging that an abortion she had had just two days before the incident exacerbated her preexisting depression. As a result, her mental state was "greatly compromised" (Iowa). NARANJO:    On March 25, 2007, Israel Naranjo stabbed his pregnant girlfriend, Delia Rivera, to death in her home in front of her three children. She was five months pregnant with his child. He was captured shortly thereafter when the car he was driving crashed and was charged with first-degree murder (Arizona). NEILL:    Jay Wesley Neill and Grady Johnson were homosexuals who were experiencing financial difficulties. So they robbed a bank and fled to the "gay mecca," San Francisco. On December 14, 1984, they entered the First Bank of Chattanooga in Geronimo, Oklahoma. Neill forced the three bank employees into the back room and stabbed them to death, slashing their throats. The victims were 42-year-old Kay Bruno, 19-year-old Jeri Bowles and 25-year-old Joyce Mullienix, who was seven months pregnant. Neill stabbed the three women a total of at least 75 times in the necks, chests, heads and abdomens. He stabbed them so viciously that he even severed some of their ribs. Then Neill tried to decapitate all three of the tellers. While he was at this grisly task, three more customers entered the bank. Neill took 33-year-old Ralph Zeller into the back room and shot him in the head, killing him. Then he shot 24-year-old Marilyn Roach, who survived. Then a young couple, Reuben and Bellen Robles, who were only 20 and 15 years old, entered the bank with their 14-month-old daughter Marie. Neill shot both Reuben and Bellen in their heads, and then the heartless monster tried to shoot the little baby in the head too, but discovered that he had run out of bullets. Then the "gay" couple fled to San Francisco and began enjoying themselves, going on shopping sprees for jewelry, cocaine and clothing, and paying for limousine rides with the $17,000 they stole from the bank. In keeping with their nihilistic worldview, they planned to commit suicide after spending all the stolen money. A jury found Johnson guilty of four counts of first-degree felony murder and four counts of attempted murder, and sentenced him to four life sentences without the possibility of parole for his part in the murders. A jury convicted Neill of four counts of first-degree malice murder, three counts of shooting with intent to kill and one count of attempted shooting with intent to kill. He received four death sentences plus twenty years in prison. On December 12, 2001, the State of Oklahoma executed Jay Wesley Neill (Oklahoma). NIELSON:    Tabitha Bonaparte was ten weeks pregnant, but that certainly didn't stop her twin brother, Larry Ray Nielson, from stabbing her repeatedly in the chest and murdering her inside her Oaktree Mobile Home Park home. Marlene Starkey, Tabitha's mother, said "He tore her to pieces. He just kept stabbing her. She didn't have a chance." Starkey also said that, each time Nielson plunged the 18-inch long carving knife into his twin sister's chest, he cursed her. Police charged Nielson with first-degree murder in the brutal slaying. On July 7, 2005, a judge found him guilty of first-degree murder (Virginia). NIEVES:    After mailing suicide notes to both of her ex-husbands, Sandi Dawn Nieves told her four young daughters that they were going to sleep in the kitchen in a kind of "slumber party." She bedded the girls down comfortably. Then Nieves, who had just had an abortion, set fires at several points throughout the house to make sure that her little daughters could not escape. All of them burned to death in the fire (California). NOAH:    On December 9, 2005, John David Noah and his pregnant girlfriend, Shalonda Bendler, were in what appeared to be a fatal traffic accident. The Oklahoma State Highway Patrol initially believed that Shalonda died in the crash, but a medical examiner found that she had instead died of several stab wounds in the neck before the accident. Noah himself put on a convincing act, having suffered several broken bones himself in the wreck. On December 12, 2005, the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office filed first-degree murder and manslaughter charges against Noah (Oklahoma). NORIEGA:    James Manuel Noriega's girlfriend, Kathleen Martinez, was just four weeks away from giving birth. In 2001, Noriega strangled Kathleen with a pair of black stretch pants, then smothered his two-year-old daughter, Savanna Zamora. He dumped their bodies in the tub of the motel room and then scrubbed the entire room with bleach to remove fingerprints. In 2005, a jury found Noriega guilty of two counts of first-degree murder (California). NOWELL:    In June 2002, Willie Nowell and Jermaine Bellamy locked 475-pound aspiring rapper Kelvis Smith and his pregnant girlfriend, Michelle Gill, in a closet in Smith's home. Then Nowell and Bellamy shot Michelle six times, execution-style, and then shot Smith twice in the head — once under each eye. Miraculously, Smith survived, but was rendered unable to speak because of the severity of his injuries, but he identified his assailants in court using sign language. A jury convicted Nowell of all counts, and he was sentenced to death (Florida). OBREMSKI:    On February 3, 1969, Russell Obremski shot LaVerna Mae Lowe four times and left her partially clad body to be discovered by her eight-year-old daughter Becky. LaVerna was eight months pregnant. Then he kidnapped and killed Betty Ann Ritchie by holding a gun against her temple and shooting her. Then he threw her body down an embankment and went to buy some beer. Her nude body was found the next day, 34 miles Southwest of Medford. Obremski had been sentenced to prison for twenty years for various previous offenses, including statutory rape, larceny, vagrancy, and escape. He served only 14 months, and was released just five months before he murdered LaVerna Mae and Betty Ann. During his trial, he attempted to escape from his cell, destroyed the furniture in his cell, threatened to stick a pencil in the eye of one of his defense lawyers, and tried to hit the other with a chair. In June 1969, a jury found Obremski guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison (Oregon). O'BRIEN:    On January 15, 1993, Terrance O'Brien and his pregnant sister Noreen O'Brien were at the West End Post Office on Brighton Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey. Noreen was about three months pregnant. Terrance went to a pharmacy across the street, bought two serrated steak knives, and then, using both knives, stabbed his pregnant sister 33 times in front of horrified witnesses at the post office. He was intent on ending his sister's relationship with an illegal immigrant from Mexico. She lingered for a short time, and then died. When police later informed O'Brien that his sister had died, he said "I'm happy. I'm in a good mood because that's what I wanted. I wanted to kill her." In 1996 and 2000, O'Brien was convicted of murder and received a life sentence in prison (New Jersey). O'CONNELL:    On July 5, 2000, Martin O'Connell murdered his wife Melissa, who was only two weeks away from giving birth. Homicide Detective Tom Downing of the Chesapeake Police Department said "It was a baby girl." O'Connell later told investigators that he fought the previous day with Melissa. He told them that "things got physical" during a "violent domestic" incident and that he spent the night at a hotel. O'Connell was arrested in Clearwater, Florida, on September 28, 2001 and was charged with first-degree murder (Virginia). PANGHALI:    On October 18, 2006, Manjit Panghali, four months pregnant and the mother of a little girl, set out to go to a prenatal yoga class but never arrived there. She simply vanished. After a week-long manhunt, her badly charred body was found in a field. Manjit's husband Mukhtiar was charged with second-degree murder on March 10, 2007, Manjit's due date. On March 10, 2007, Mukhtiar Panghali tried to escape from custody and assaulted a police officer, injuring him. For this incident, he faces further charges of assault causing bodily harm, attempting to escape, assaulting a police officer and obstruction of justice (British Columbia). PARKER:    On September 30, 2005, John B. Parker and Michael Smith invaded the home of Jerald Blake. The gunmen ordered the three occupants of the house to lie on the floor and demanded money. After the victims gave up what they had, Smith yelled, "I didn't come here for nothing." Parker shot the second man in the stomach. Smith then fired six or seven shots from the shotgun at Blake and a pregnant woman, striking her in the leg, arm and back. Blake died, and the pregnant woman had to endure several surgeries, including the amputation of one of her legs, and her preborn baby died as a result. Police charged Parker with first-degree murder and other counts (Missouri). PATTISON:    In February 2001, Hanalei Dante Pattison got hold of an assault rifle and shot his pregnant sister, 32-year-old Carrie Pattison-Adrick, in her grandparents' home. Then, as his sister, Sally Kato, attempted to call police, he murdered his grandmother, 75-year-old Sally Kato, and his grandfather, 82-year old Yoshio Kato. In March 2005, a Clark County District Court jury found Pattison guilty of three counts of first-degree murder (Nevada). PAULEY:    Overton Wayne Pauley was a member of a drug-dealing gang known as the "Garrison Street Crew," operating in Kanawha County, West Virginia. He had participated in the armed robbery of other drug dealers several times, but, on December 10, 1998, decided to take his criminal activity to an entirely different level. With three friends, he went to the home of drug dealer Leonard Watts and his girlfriend Christy Alberts, who was nine months pregnant and who had already named her preborn baby girl Ashley Nicole Alberts. After they put on masks, Pauley and one of his accomplices ordered Watts and Christy to go into the living room and lie face down on the floor, then Pauley murdered them execution-style, shooting them each in the back of the head. He had practiced killing a dog before murdering Watts and Christy. In May 2000, Pauley was found guilty of two counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole (West Virginia). PERRY:    Jake Perry and his girlfriend, Patricia Smith, were expecting a child. In November 2002, Perry grabbed Patricia by her hair, slapped her, punched her and jabbed her in the stomach, head, arms and legs. He threw her into a box of plates, and both her legs began to bleed from cuts she received. Perry finally agreed to take her to the hospital to treat her injuries, but first he demonstrated his touching concern for her safety by forcing her to drive him to his mother's house, where he stole an amplifier. Then he had her drive him across town so he could sell it and buy crack cocaine. Smith miscarried, and the next day Perry was charged with the reckless homicide of an unborn child, among many other charges (Wisconsin). PICART:    On September 23, 2007, Stephen Mark Picart, his pregnant girlfriend Sharon Carter, and her two sons, ages 14 and 4, were traveling in Watts in a sport utility vehicle and got into an argument. He pulled out a gun and shot her in the head right in front of her two sons, then exited the vehicle and ran. Sharon died at the scene. Picart was captured the next day and was subsequently charged with two counts of murder for killing Sharon and her preborn child (California). PIERCE:    In 1987, Darci Pierce kidnapped Cindy Ray, who was eight months pregnant, from outside an Albuquerque clinic, took her to a remote area in the mountains, strangled her, and messily cut the near-term baby out of her with a car key. Pierce then tried to pass the newborn off as her own but came under suspicion when she would not allow medical personnel to examine her when she went to a local hospital to get a birth certificate for the baby. A jury found her guilty of murder but mentally ill, and sentenced her to not less than thirty years in prison. Pierce's case was the first of a growing number of what experts call "Cesarian kidnappings" (New Mexico). PINKSTON:    On December 18, 2003, James "Herc" Pinkston beat up his pregnant girlfriend Toni Koonce at his apartment. Five days after the beating, doctors at Magee Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed emergency surgery on Toni, because the embryonic membranes had ruptured and the leaking fluid could have resulted in a fatal infection which might have killed her. Her preborn baby died during the surgery. Pinkston was charged with criminal homicide for the attack (Pennsyvania). RAMIREZ:    Luis Ramirez didn't like women, and he certainly didn't like children. When his second wife Dawn became pregnant, he beat her up and raped her. Firefighter Nemecio Nandin began to date Dawn after her divorce from Ramirez. On April 8, 1998, Ramirez and Edward Bell lured Nandin to a house near Tennyson, handcuffed him, shot him twice in the head with a shotgun, then buried his body in a shallow grave on the rural country. A jury convicted Ramirez of capital murder and sentenced him to death. The state of Texas executed Luis Ramirez by lethal injection on October 20, 2005 (Texas). RAPOZA:    In 2002, Eddie Rapoza, his eight-months pregnant wife, Raye, and their four-year old daughter Tehani were driving near Moss Beach. Rapoza drove the family Dodge Caravan off a 150-foot cliff in a triple-murder/suicide attempt. Raye and her preborn child were killed in the plunge, and the little girl was disconnected from life support a few days later. Rapoza confessed to deliberately driving the minivan off the cliff and was charged with three counts of first-degree murder (California). REEVES:    On March 29, 1980, Randolph K. Reeves got drunk and ate some peyote buttons. Early the next morning, he broke into the home of Janet Mesner, who was hosting her friend Victoria Lamm, who was fifteen weeks pregnant. Reeves raped Janet and stabbed both women to death. Janet lived just long enough to telephone police and identify her attacker. Reeves was convicted of two counts of felony murder, and a three-judge panel sentenced him to death (Nebraska). REYNOLDS:    On March 12, 2005, Tony Lee Reynolds was released from prison for a 2003 burglary. He didn't waste any time going back to his old ways. He broke into a woman's house later in the day and raped her. Then he went on a burglary spree, breaking into at least two other homes. Just three weeks later, on March 31, he broke into the Fairmount Boulevard home of Estela Perez, who was the mother of two small children, and who was five months pregnant with a baby girl she had already named Michelle. Nobody was home at the time, but she returned to her home and surprised him. Reynolds stabbed her repeatedly in the chest, stomach and legs, and finally slashed her throat, killing her (California). RIDDLE:    23-year-old Rachel Hickman was pregnant. On April 5, 2006, she was sitting in a pickup truck by the side of a road in Palestine, Texas, with her 19-year-old "on-again, off-again" boyfriend, Justin Riddle. Riddle shot her in the head and then turned the gun on himself, committing suicide. Because both were killed, authorities could only speculate as to the events that occurred before the murder-suicide, and whether or not Rachel's pregnancy had anything to do with it (Texas). RILEY AND OTHERS:    29-year-old Dorothy Dixon was both mentally disabled and six months pregnant. She lived in a three-bedroom house with several other people. For two months these people tortured Dorothy. They repeatedly beat her, scalded her with boiling water, and shot her with BB guns. They forced her to defecate in a bucket in her basement room. They made her run naked and used a hot glue gun to torture her. Finally, on January 31, 2007, the endless torture ended. Dorothy's body was so broken that she and her preborn child died. Dorothy's six murderers were charged with first-degree murder, intentional homicide of her unborn child, heinous battery, aggravated battery and unlawful restraint (Missouri). RINICK:    Billy Rinick of South Philadelphia was an aspiring mobster. He wanted to sell Adam Finelli an $85,000 row house. But he decided to keep both the row house and the money, so he shot Finelli five times in the back of the head on October 31, 2001. He had taken Deborah Merlino, the wife of jailed local mobster Joey "Skinny Joey" Merlino to Maryland for an abortion. She was pregnant by a New York football player. Rinick said that "She was cheating on her husband with a guy from New York, a football player. She had gotten pregnant. ... She didn't want South Philadelphia to know." Deborah Merlino agreed to be a prosecution witness in Rinick's trial. On October 29, 2003, a jury took three hours to find Rinick guilty of first-degree murder, reckless endangerment and theft by deception. Rinick had previously in 2003 been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking (Pennsylvania). RIVERA:    Lawrence Rivera of Barstow, California, killed his pregnant girlfriend, Kristina Garcia, in May 2002. Rivera had a previous manslaughter conviction on his record, and was also implicated but never charged in the manslaughter death of his live-in girlfriend's daughter in Germany in 1998. His former wife testified that "if I didn't get an abortion that he would pull it out of my stomach." Rivera is still at large (California). RODRIGUEZ:    On September 10, 2006, Rosendo Rodriguez III beat Summer Baldwin, a pregnant mother of four children, to death. Then he bought a roll-away suitcase at a local Wal-Mart and stuffed Summer's body into it. He then abandoned her at a landfill near Lubbock. On May 4, 2004, 16-year-old Joanna Rogers disappeared, and her mummified remains were discovered in the same landfill in 2006, two years after she was murdered. Rodriguez admitted to police that he had also murdered Joanna. On September 16, 2006, Rodriguez was arrested and, in October 2005, a grand jury indicted him on charges of capital murder and aggravated sexual assault (Texas). ROGERS:    On December 19, 2003, Emmanual Rogers, Sheldon Roberts and Brandon Shaw, members of a Dallas street gang, decided to retaliate for a shooting that had taken place during a robbery the previous day. So they traveled to an apartment where Virginia Ramirez, who was nine weeks pregnant, was living. She had two visitors at the time, Heath Laury and Jessica Thompson. The three gang members then shot all three people in the apartment, and, of course, Virginia's preborn baby was killed as well. A jury convicted Rogers of two counts of capital murder. A medical examiner said that Virginia's preborn child had been alive when she was murdered. Rogers was sentenced to two life terms in prison. On May 19, 2005, a jury convicted Roberts and Shaw of two counts of capital murder, and they also were sentenced to two life terms in prison (Texas). ROSAS:    Cassandra Oliphant was pregnant and the single mother of four young daughters, ages four to twelve. On May 23, 2005, Ignacio Aguilar Rosas raped her and strangled her to death in bushes near Bellevue Community College. Police discovered him lying nude on top of Cassandra's partially clothed body. He claimed that two men had beaten her with sticks and then ordered him to strip and lie on top of her. On May 26, 2005, King County prosecutors charged Rosas with first-degree murder (Washington State). RUDY:    In November 2005, Shaun Rudy murdered his wife Christine, who was six months pregnant. Then he chopped up her body, tried to burn some of it, and dumped the pieces in the Chippewa River near Jim Falls. Soon after, some of Christine's remains were found in a wooded area of Clark County near where her husband last reported seeing her. On March 28, 2006, Chippewa County Sheriff's deputies found most Christine's decomposed body near the Chippewa River. In April 2006, Shaun Rudy was charged with murder, first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child and mutilation of a corpse in the deaths of Christine and her preborn child (Wisconsin). SALCEDO:    Hector Salcedo shot his girlfriend, Maria Reyes, who was six months pregnant, in the chest. He then drove her from their home to Central Carolina Hospital, where doctors performed an emergency Caesarian section and delivered their baby. But the baby was too premature and died a few days later. Salcedo told police that he had found Maria shot in their driveway, but that he was just a neighbor and an acquaintance. But the police soon determined that she had been shot inside the house and began looking for Salcedo, who had disappeared. Salcedo was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his baby, and with attempted first-degree murder for his assault on Maria (North Carolina). SANDERS:    Joe Nathan Sanders had an adulterous affair with his wife's sister, Angela Alex, who became pregnant with Sanders' child and informed him of the pregnancy in an attempt to break off her relationship with him. On November 1, 2005, Sanders decided to solve his problem by shooting Angela four times and leaving her dead in the street next to her SUV. Sanders was convicted of capital murder and received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole (Texas). SAN MIGUEL:    On January 26, 1991, Jessy Carlos San Miguel and Jerome Green robbed a Taco Bell restaurant in Irving, Texas. San Miguel and Green forced three people into the walk-in freezer — Michael John Phelan; Theresa Fraga, who was only sixteen years old and five months pregnant; and her cousin Frank Fraga. San Miguel and Green noticed a friend of the Fragas, Son Trang Nyugen, sitting in a car outside the restaurant, so they pushed him into the freezer as well. San Miguel and Green left the scene, but San Miguel decided to return. He shot Theresa, Michael, Frank and Nyugen in their heads with his nine-millimeter pistol, murdering them all. He told police that "The only reason why I killed those people is they couldn't make good Mexican food." A jury found San Miguel guilty of four counts of murder and sentenced him to death. On June 29, 2000, the State of Texas executed Jessy Carlos San Miguel by lethal injection (Texas). SARGENT:    On January 4, 2003, Roscoe Sargent murdered his wife Heather, who was eight months pregnant, in their trailer at the Rainbow Trailer Park in Bangor, Maine. He stabbed her 47 times to make absolutely certain that she was dead, then tied a plastic bag over her head. Apparently, his bloodlust was not yet satisfied, because he then killed their four cats. After he was finally finished, he went out for Chinese food and a night of drinking. Sargent was found guilty of murder, and was sentenced to fifty years in prison (Maine). SAULTER:    Justine Maxwell was pregnant. She had broken up with her old boyfriend, Robert Saulter, and now had a new boyfriend, Daniel Armantrout. In 2003, Saulter kidnapped Justine and held her hostage at gunpoint for a week. Eventually he released her, but, on June 10, 2003, Saulter confronted Justine and Robert, shooting them both to death. Saulter was arrested and charged with the two murders, but eventually committed suicide in Brazoria County (Texas). SCHAEFER:    Gerard John Schaefer was a troubled child, to say the very least. He was a peeping Tom and a transvestite, and enjoyed killing and torturing animals. His behavior quickly became more and more bizarre. From killing small animals, he graduated to shooting and beheading cattle and having sex with their carcasses. In 1970, Schaefer raped, tortured, murdered and cannibalized two little girls, nine-year-old Peggy Rahn and eight-year-old Wendy Stevenson. In 1972, he abducted, raped, tortured, skinned alive and murdered 17-year-old Susan Place and 16-year-old Georgia, then buried their bodies. He also raped and murdered 14-year-olds Mary Alice Briscolina and Elsie Lina Farmer. At some point, the thrill of killing only one young girl at a time wore off. He said "Doing doubles is far more difficult than doing singles, but on the other hand it also puts one in a position to have twice as much fun. There can be some lively discussions about which of the victims will get to be killed first. When you have a pair of teenaged bimbolinas bound hand and foot and ready for a session with the skinning knife, neither one of the little devils wants to be the one to go first. And they don't mind telling you quickly why their best friend should be the one to die." Schaefer told others about how he was admired by fellow inmate Ted Bundy. Schaefer said that "Bundy was always 100% respectful of me. I treated him as a supplicant, while others were hanging on his every word." Bundy said that he had been influenced by Schaefer to murder two girls on a single day in 1974. Bundy and Schaefer discussed at length the more delicate elements of planning a murder, such as "the maggot problem" and how to effectively clean upholstery after their dying victims involuntarily urinated in their cars. Schaefer also wrote lurid short stories about his murders, with names like "Murder Demon," "Blonde on a Stick" and "Flies in Her Eyes." In 1991, Schaefer wrote that "I am the top serial killer and I can prove it. I am such an expert hangman that I can hang them so quickly that they wouldn't even pee on the rope. ... I never at any time required more than two strokes to behead a woman. Never. I was absolutely skilled at it. ... One whore drowned in her own vomit while watching me disembowel her girlfriend. I'm not sure that counts as a valid kill. Did the pregnant ones count as two kills? It can get confusing." On December 3, 1995, the murderous saga of Gerard John Schaefer finally came to an end when fellow inmate Vincent Rivera slashed him to death in his cell. Rivera cut his throat and stabbed him 41 more times in the head and neck (Florida). SCOTT:    This case perfectly illustrates the vicious, brutal and stupid nature of the "pro-choice" mentality. 20-year-old Dino Scott's girlfriend Namrata Ceisel was three months pregnant by him and he was apparently not happy with the situation. So, on January 28, 2007, he got on board an apartment complex elevator with her and noticed a security camera pointing at them. He made some funny faces at the camera, smirked at it, and made an obscene gesture at it. Then he proceeded to punch and kick Namrata until she was knocked unconscious and slumped to the floor. He had battered her so hard that her blood was spattered on the elevator walls. The security camera then recorded him dragging her out of the elevator and trying to clean the blood off the elevator walls. He had hit Namrata so hard that his right hand was bloodied and bruised. Namrata was taken to St. John's Hospital, where she miscarried her preborn child. St. Paul police charged Scott with second-degree murder and third-degree assault in the death of his preborn child, noting that, when he was arrested, he had blood all over his clothing (Minnesota). SCRIBNER:    23-year-old Robert Oliver Scribner's girlfriend, 17-year-old Cari Lynn Gaulton, was pregnant. In February 2005, they began to argue, and Scribner stabbed her to death with a hunting knife. On March 20, 2007, Scribner received the minimum sentence for his crime, and he will be released in ten years if he behaves himself (Alberta). SCRUGGS:    Two pregnant women, Shantelle Scruggs and Barbara Santos, were living at a North Bay Shore homeless shelter. Santos was nine months pregnant and just two days away from having a scheduled caesarean delivery, and Scruggs was eight months pregnant. On September 7, 2007, the two women got into an argument. Scruggs pinned Santos down on a bed by shoving her knee against Santos' swollen belly, and stabbed her twice in the chest, killing her. Medical workers tried to save Santos' child, but he was stillborn. Suffolk County Court Judge Ralph Gazzillo ordered Scruggs held without bail. She faces a maximum of 25 years to life if convicted of murder (New York). SEGREST:    Geremy Segrest got drunk one night in January 2005, and decided to take out his simmering frustrations on his wife Ashley Renee Korhoren, who was six months pregnant. First he punched her in the face and struck her with a lamp. She fled into a bathroom, and he kicked down the door and stabbed her in the stomach and chest. She delivered a baby in emergency surgery, but the baby, who she named Graham, died just three hours later. A medical examiner found that the baby had died from a stab wound in the back and premature delivery. In April 2005, a Wharton County grand jury indicted Segrest for capital murder, felony murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (Texas). SELEPAK:    Patrick Alan Selepak and Samantha Jean Bachynski befriended Scott Berels and his pregnant wife Melissa. On February 16, 2006, Bachynski and Selepak went to the Berels' home and got down to their deadly business. They tortured Scott for a while, beating him with a rifle butt and injecting him with bleach, before finally strangling him. Then they turned their attention to Melissa. She begged for her life and that of her 10-week-old unborn baby. "I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant," she shouted, but the murderers took no mercy on her, and strangled her as well. After they murdered the Berels, Selepak and Bachynski went to a bar and befriended 53-year-old Winfield Frederick Johnson, who invited them to stay in his home. When Johnson finally realized he was unintentionally harboring two fugitive murderers, he tried to leave, but Selepak and Bachynski shot him twice in the back, strangled him and covered his body in duct tape and plastic, as they had done to the Berelses. Finally, police arrested Selepak and Bachynski in a motel parking lot in the pickup truck they had stolen from Johnson, whose body was in the back of the truck. Selepak and Bachynski were arraigned in district court in Mount Clemens on February 24, 2006, and both were charged with three counts of first-degree murder (Michigan). SELLS:    On November 18, 1987, Tommy Lynn Sells slaughtered an entire family. He invaded their home, shot Keith Darden to death, then raped his seven months pregnant wife, Ruby Elaine. During the horrible ordeal, Ruby Elaine screamed for her life and went into labor, delivering a healthy premature girl. Sells then beat the little newborn to death, murdered Ruby Elaine, and went searching for the Darden's three-year-old son, murdering him in the same way.        These were certainly not Sells' only murders. He bludgeoning Ena Cordt and her four-year-old son to death with a baseball bat; murdered Suzanne Korcz near Niagara Falls; raped and strangled Stephanie Stroh, then dumped her body down a hot spring; murdered Margaret McClain and her daughter; raped and attempted to murder Fabienne Witherspoon, even though she was pregnant; murdered 13-year-old Stephanie Mahaney and dumped her body in a pond; kidnapped, raped and murdered nine-year-old Mary Bea Perez, 13-year-old Haley McHone and 13-year-old Kaylene Harris; murdered a mother and daughter in Missouri, a teenaged girl in Lexington, Kentucky, a fellow drifter named Kent Lauten in Arizona, a prostitute in Truckee, California, a young girl in New Hampshire, a woman and her three-year old son in Twin Falls, Idaho, and a child in San Antonio, Texas.        In September 2000, Sells finally went on trial for murder. After a three-day trial, a jury found him guilty of capital murder for the killing of Kaylene Harris, and sentenced him to death (Texas). SERRATO:    On October 21, 2006, Victor Serrato beat and strangled Miriam "Mimi" Salazar Carmona. Miriam was five months pregnant with Serrato's preborn boy, whom she had already named Samuel. Serrato and his brother Edgardo abandoned her body near the Mississippi River. On March 19, 2008, a Muscatine County jury found Serrato guilty of first-degree murder and non consensual termination of a pregnancy. Miriam and her baby Samuel were buried together (Iowa). SINGLETON:    Boyce Singleton and his pregnant girlfriend, Michelle Cazan, shared a townhouse in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. On September 14, 2005, Singleton shot Michelle four times and stabbed her twice to make absolutely certain that she was dead. On January 19, 2006, a Burlington County grand jury indicted Singleton on charges of first-degree murder and several other felony crimes (Pennsyvlania). SKIPPER:    On August 25, 1990, Sherman Elwood Skipper murdered his girlfriend Aileane Pittman and her grandson Nelson Fipps Jr. in Bladenboro, North Carolina. He was sitting in his truck and shot Aileane first with a rifle equipped with fragmentation bullets, then yelled "You, too!" and shot Nelson. A jury found Skipper guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced him to death. Harriet Gainey, Skipper's ex-wife, testified that he loved to beat her with a hammer and with his fists, especially when she was pregnant. She finally left him when he tried to kill her, and she was hospitalized for six months (North Carolina). SLAUGHTER:    Jimmie Ray Slaughter cheated incessantly on his three wives, and often used abortion as a coverup. In fact, he carried on a ten-year affair with a woman doctor who had seven abortions after becoming pregnant by him. Finally, he met Melody Wuertz and had a child by her who they named Jessica. Slaughter had demanded that she have an abortion, but she was pro-life and refused. On July 2, 1991, Slaughter deliberately shot Melody in the spine, and she watched, fully conscious, as he shot her little baby twice in the head. Then he returned to Melody, shot her in the head, and then stabbed her in the chest and genitalia and carved symbols into her abdomen and breasts with a knife. A jury convicted Slaughter of two counts of first-degree murder, and the State of Oklahoma executed him by lethal injection on March 15, 2005 (Oklahoma). SLAWSON:    Peggy Wood was two weeks away from delivering her third child. She and her husband Gerald had two children, four-year-old Jennifer and three-year-old Glendon. On April 11, 1989, Newton Carlton Slawson slaughtered the entire family. He shot and stabbed Gerald, killing him, then shot Peggy. Then he murdered both of the little children. Then he returned to the bedroom and shot Peggy a second time, and cut the near-term baby out of Peggy's abdomen. Incredibly, after Slawson left, Peggy managed to crawl next door and identify her killer to her mother. In 1990, a jury found Slawson guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of manslaughter. He received death sentences for each of the first-degree murders, along with a thirty-year sentence for manslaughter of the unborn child. The State of Florida executed Newton Carlton Slawson by lethal injection on May 15, 2003 (Florida). SMITH, GERALD:    On April 22, 2006, Gerald Smith shot his girlfriend, Lynette Logan, who was six months pregnant, in the head. Her baby was successfully delivered by emergency cesarian section, but Lynette died a few hours later. Police charged Smith with murder (Pennsylvania). SMITH, JULIE:    Julie Smith was a nurse whose 13-year-old daughter was pregnant, and she did not like the situation one bit. So she used her nursing skills to induce premature labor in the little girl, and, when her infant grandchild was born, she refused to use those same nursing skills, and just watched her struggle to live for half an hour. Then the baby died, and Smith buried the baby in a shallow grave. She was charged with murder (Arkansas). SMITH, LARRY:    In June 2002, Larry Smith tried to strangle his girlfriend, Melesha Francis, who was eight months pregnant, with his bare hands, then decided a belt would do much better. He cinched it hard around her neck until she stopped breathing. Then he told her son, six-year-old Michael, that he was going to give him a swimming lesson. Smith filled the bathtub. When Michael turned on his stomach to practice, Smith pushed his head under the water and held him there until he died. On May 27, 2005, a jury convicted Smith of two counts of first-degree murder (New York). SOLTYS:    Nikolay Soltys murdered his pregnant wife Lyubov by stabbing her repeatedly and slashing her throat, then slaughtered his elderly aunt and uncle Galina Kukharskaya and Petr Kukharskiy. He then killed their grandchildren, ten-year-old Dimitriy Kukharskiy and nine-year-old Tatiana Kukharskaya. Finally, he returned home and sexually assaulted and murdered his three-year-old son Sergey. He battered the little boy to death and stuffed his body into a box. Soltys confessed to the crimes and was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder (California). SPIGHT:    Crystal Michael was seven months pregnant with her third child and had told all of her friends that she was very much looking forward to seeing her new baby. But it was not to be. On May 7, 2007, Crystal's boyfriend, Laron Spight, the father of her preborn child, stabbed her repeatedly. He then fled to his mother's home in Wyoming, where he confessed to her that he had murdered Crystal. Police charged Spight with murder (Michigan). STANO:    In the early 1970s, Gerald Eugene Stano, who had a very troubled childhood, moved to New Jersey and began to date a mentally handicapped girl, whom he impregnated. He had no trouble paying for an abortion for her. He soon became addicted to drugs and alcohol and was fired from several more jobs for theft. He was married in 1975, but the marriage only lasted six months because he beat his wife frequently. In December 1973, Stano picked up 17-year-old hitchhiker Cathy Lee Scharf of Port Orange, Florida. He stabbed her to death and dumped her body in a remote area of Broward County. In July 1975, he murdered 16-year-old Linda Hamilton, and in January 1976, he killed 24-year-old Nancy Heard. Later in 1976, he murdered Ramona Ecker and Ramona Neal. In February 1980, Stano stabbed 20-year-old Mary Carol Maher to death and dumped her body in an abandoned area near the Daytona Beach Airport. On February 25, he hired a prostitute, Toni Van Haddocks, and murdered her by stabbing her repeatedly in the head. He also confessed to the murders of 24-year-old Susan Bickrest, 23-year-old Mary Muldoon, 19-year-old Janine Ligotino, 17-year-old Ann Arceneaux, 17-year-old Barbara Ann Baur, 34-year-old Bonnie Hughes, 18-year-old Diana Valleck, 21-year-old Emily Branch, 17-year-old Christina Goodson, 23-year-old Phoebe Winston, 18-year-old Joan Foster, 12-year-old Susan Basile, 35-year-old Sandra DuBose, 17-year-old Dorothy Williams, and an unidentified woman whose body was found in Altamonte Springs, Florida in 1974. In all, he confessed to 41 murders of women, some of them pregnant, but was tied with certainty to eighteen of the murders. He was sentenced to death and died in the electric chair at Florida State Prison on March 23, 1998 (Florida). STECKEL:    Brian D. "Red" Steckel saw pregnant Sandra Lee Long having an argument with the wife of one of his friends. He commented "I should rape the bitch." On September 2, 1994, Steckel went to Sandra's apartment and demanded that she have sex with him. She refused, and he beat her. Then he strangled her until she lost consciousness. He raped and sodomized her, then dragged her into the bedroom and set the room on fire. Then he left the scene to have a few beers with a friend. Sandra died in the flames, sceaaming for help. Later the same day, Steckel called The News Journal and identified himself as "Driftwood Killer." When Steckel woke up from being drunk the morning after being arrested, he asked police "So I killed her?" During the subsequent police interview, Steckel confessed his crimes. Steckel displayed extreme cruelty during his trial. He sent a copy of Sandra's autopsy to her grieving mother, writing "Read it and weep. She's gone forever. Don't cry over burnt flesh." Steckel also confessed that he had abducted and murdered 44-year-old Frances Kiefer. A jury convicted Steckel of three counts of first-degree murder and many other crimes. He was executed by the State of Delaware on November 4, 2005 by lethal injection (Delaware). STUART:    On October 23, 1989, Boston furrier Charles Stuart made a panic call to police, saying that a Black man had attacked himself and his wife Carol as they left a hospital birthing class at a inner-city hospital, carjacked them, drove them to Mission Hill and robbed them. Then the assailant shot Carol in the head and Charles in the stomach and escaped. Two months later, Charles' brother Matthew identified Charles as the real killer and testified that he had helped hide a gun Charles had used to murder his wife. Soon after this revelation, Charles Stuart killed himself by jumping off a bridge into Boston Harbor (Massachusetts). SUMMERS:    Gregory Lynn Summers enjoyed kicking his first wife in the stomach when she was pregnant because he didn't want a child. He also routinely terrorized his other relatives as well. He wanted to collect insurance money on his adoptive parents, who cared for his mentally handicapped uncle, so he hired Andrew Cantu to murder all of them and burn their house down. On June 11, 1990, Cantu visited the home and stabbed all three of the occupants a total of 24 times before burning the house down. Naturally, Summers never paid him for the murders. In August 1991, a jury convicted Summers of capital murder and sentenced him to death and, on October 25, 2006, the State of Texas executed him by lethal injection (Texas). SWIFT:    27-year-old Amy Amel Sabeh-Swift was eight months pregnant and looking forward very much to having her baby. But it was not to be. On April 30, 2003, her husband, Christopher Jay Swift, stabbed and strangled Amy to death in front of her five-year-old son. He then took the boy with him to the home of 61-year-old Sandra Stevens Sabeh, Amy's mother, and strangled her as well, also in front of the little boy. He then abandoned the boy and fled. Swift was arrested on May 2, and made a full confession. On January 30, 2007, the State of Texas executed him (Texas). TAYLOR:    Milton Taylor had a problem. His current girlfriend had told him to end all contact with his previous girlfriend or lose her. So, on March 23, 2000, Taylor strangled his pregnant ex-girlfriend Theresa "Treety" Williams with a thin cord. She was four months pregnant when Taylor murdered her, and was already the mother of four children. He beat her badly, strangled her, stabbed her in the mouth with a 13-inch-long kitchen knife, and then hid her body under a blanket with a bicycle on top of it. On March 31, 2001, a Superior Court jury found Taylor guilty of first-degree murder and subsequently recommended executing him. Judge Fred S. Silverman followed the jury's recommendation, and sentenced Taylor to death (Delaware). TEMPLE:    According to police evidence, on January 11, 1999, David Mark Temple shot his pregnant wife, Belinda Tracie Temple, in the back of her head at close range with a shotgun. Then he hid her body in a bedroom closet and telephoned police to tell him that their home had been burglarized. Belinda was eight months pregnant with their second child. Temple was arrested and charged with murder. His trial is set to begin in November 2007 (Texas). THOMAS:    Ronnie Thomas beat his pregnant girlfriend with a steering wheel security locking device and then threw the screaming woman from an overpass onto an expressway. She was immediately killed, either by the impact of dropping onto the pavement, or by one of several vehicles that struck her — including a semi truck (Indiana). THOMPSON:    Twenty-year-old Nicole Blake was eight months pregnant and was joyfully expecting to give birth in just a few weeks. But Quenton Quortez Thompson had other ideas. He was upset that Nicole was "wasting money," so on February 24, 2004, he went with two other people to her apartment and told them to wait in the car while he went into the building to "pop" her. During his trial, Nicole's four-year-old son testified by videotape that Thompson, or "Cueball," had killed his mother. District Attorney Mark S. Williams said "I've done a lot of homicide trials, and [the son's] voice rings out a lot of times in my thoughts, that 'Cueball killed my mommy.'" On May 10, 2004, a jury found Thompson guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child. Thompson, still trying his best to be "cool," smiled and chuckled after the jury read its verdict. On June 9, 2004, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jean DiMotto sentenced Thompson to life in prison. She told him that "There is ice flowing in your veins, not blood. The two crimes that you committed are not only the worst that I have seen in my career, but they're the worst that I can imagine." Then Thompson laughed at her (Wisconsin). TROUTMAN:    In February 1986, Gary Troutman raped and murdered 17-year-old Cassandra Scott, who was pregnant. He said that he and his wife had lured him to their home with the promise of giving her baby clothes, and had then killed her. Then they dumped her body behind an auto parts store owned by his uncle Luscious. Six weeks later, he raped and murdered Angela Savage, one of his high school classmates, who was also pregnant. He was convicted of second-degree murder for the first incident and is awaiting trial on the second murder (Florida). TURNER:    Convicted rapist Chester D. Turner appears to be one of the deadliest serial killers in Los Angeles history. On November 1, 2005, Superior Court Judge William R. Pounders ruled that there was sufficient evidence to put Turner on trial for the murders of ten women between 1987 and 1998. Two of the women were pregnant — one was 6½ months pregnant and one was between four and five months pregnant. Prosecutors charged Turner with eleven counts of murder and added the possibility of enhanced penalties for multiple murder and murder committed during rape. The district attorney's office charged Turner with murdering Annette Ernest, 26; Anita Fishman, 31; Regina Washington, 27; Paula Vance, 31; Mildred Beasley, 45; Andrea Tripplett, 29; Desarae Jones, 29; Natalie Price, 31; Brenda Bries, 31; and one unidentified woman who appeared to be in her 20s. They also said that Turner may have been involved in as many as twenty murders (California). VALDEZ:    Early on the morning of July 13, 1998, Elisio Valdez and Johnny Ray Peraza went to the home of Andrea Mestas, who was 17 weeks pregnant. When Andrea answered the door, Valdez shot her twice at close range, killing her. In 2000, juries convicted Valdez and Peraza of two counts of murder, premeditated attempted murder, false imprisonment and aggravated assault. Valdez and Peraza were sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison (California). VAUGHAN:    On April 22, 1980, James Howard Vaughan shot his pregnant girlfriend to death in Orange, New Jersey after an argument. He was convicted of murder and, on September 8, 1980, a judge sentenced him to serve 30 years in prison. He only served twelve years, and walked free on May 12, 1992. As of 2003, Vaughan was trying to entice a married woman, Ruth Bernadette "Bunny" Kennedy, to have an affair with him. On July 19, 2003, he shot Ruth several times, finishing by shooting her in the head. Incredibly, she survived. Vaughan murdered 72-year-old Maxine McCaden, Ruth's mother, by shooting her once in the head (New York). VESPERAS:    Tyrone Vesperas, a staff sergeant in the Hawaii Army National Guard, owned a military-issued combat knife and, on June 11, 2007, decided to put it to use. Vesperas, deliberately aiming at her abdomen, stabbed his estranged wife, Cheryl-Lyn Saniatan, who was just days away from giving birth, several times. Their 14-year-old son, Tyran Vesperas-Saniatan, 14, stepped in to try to help his mother, but Vesperas stabbed him in the neck and he died. Cheryl-Lyn's full-term preborn baby also died. Vesperas was arrested and charged with the second-degree murder of his son, the attempted second-degree murder of his wife, attempted first-degree murder and possession of a deadly weapon (Hawaii). VIRDIN:    On September 19, 1998, Stefanie Nicole Kucek Virdin was due to have her baby, but her husband, James W. Virdin, was a severe drug addict. On her due date, James Virdin strangled his wife to death. After killing his wife, he said, he was "just riding around snorting [cocaine]." Virdin confessed that he had strangled Stefanie. A seven-woman, five-man jury in Kent County Superior Court found Virdin guilty of first-degree murder, and Judge Henry duPont Ridgely sentenced him to spend rest of his life in prison for the murder. Judge Ridgely also sentenced Virdin to spend three days a year in solitary confinement on the anniversary of his wife's birthday and the projected birthday of his preborn child for the next thirty years (Delaware). VILLA-CORONEL:    On June 22, 2006 Jesus Villa-Coronel ("Compadre Chuey") shot Martha Elizondo, seven months pregnant, in the neck and then shot Martha's cousin, Jose Pillado, repeatedly. Pillado died of his wounds and Martha lost her preborn baby. San Diego police charged Villa-Coronel with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. They immediately began a widespread search for Villa-Coronel, but as of September 2007, he has not been found and has probably fled back to Mexico (California). WARD, LAVERNE:    28-year-old Deborah Evans had three children and was full-term pregnant with a boy she had already named Elijah. On November 16, 1995, her old boyfriend Laverne Ward appeared at her apartment with his cousin Jacqueline Annette Williams and her boyfriend Fedell Caffey. Caffey shot Deborah in the head with a handgun and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife. Then Ward and Caffey stabbed Deborah's ten-year-old daughter Samantha to death. Samantha died trying to defend herself, because her forearms were covered in knife wounds. Then Ward, Caffey and Williams got down to the reason they had come to Deborah's apartment in the first place — to take her preborn child. They used a knife and scissors to perform a crude Cesarian section on Deborah, and delivered her 6½-pound baby. Ward, Caffey and Williams then fled the bloody scene with Elijah's eight-year-old brother Joshua. They poisoned, strangled and stabbed little Joshua to death and dumped his body in a Maywood alley because he was a witness to the murders. Ward was convicted of three counts of murder, two counts of kidnaping and one of armed robbery for looting the home (Illinois). WARD, TIMOTHY:    On August 26, 1999, Timothy Ward stabbed his seven months pregnant wife Bianca fifteen times and crushed her skull after an argument in their home. Ward had frequently intimidated, harassed and threatened Bianca, and they were going through a divorce to end their marriage. He confessed to the murder. On January 27, 2000, after hearing four days of testimony, a jury found Ward guilty of murdering Bianca and he was sentenced to life in prison (Hawaii). WEDDING:    On June 27, 1999, Terry Todd Wedding shot his mother Beverly to death, then murdered his first cousin and next-door neighbor Joey Vincent and Joey's pregnant wife, then retrieved a baseball bat and bludgeoned his father Manville Todd to death. Wedding pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole (Kentucky). WELCH:    On February 25, 1987, Frank Duane Welch secured entry into the home of Tracy and Jo Talley Cooper. He then trussed up Jo, who was three months pregnant, with leather straps and strangled her to death. Then he raped and sodomized her, and when he was finished with her, jammed one of her seven-month-old child's toy pylons in her vagina. Her husband Frank discovered her in this condition. He also murdered Debra Stevens in a similar manner on May 6, 1987. A jury found Welch guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Jo Talley Cooper and sentenced him to death. On April 3, 1998, the trial court sentenced him to death. On August 21, 2007, the State of Oklahoma executed Frank Duane Welch by lethal injection (Oklahoma). WHITE:    Liana White was four months pregnant with her second child, and was eagerly looking forward to giving birth. On July 11, 2005, her husband Michael stabbed her repeatedly, dumped her body in a ditch, and then reported her missing. The picture of a concerned husband, he organized a massive search effort that found Liana's partially decomposed body six days after he murdered her. After an intensive investigation, Michael White was charged with second-degree murder in his wife's death and was convicted (Alberta). WIEDERHOLD:    Denise Ann Johnson was five months pregnant by her boyfriend, Steven Russell Wiederhold. He decided one day that he would get rid of her and their preborn child permanently, so that nobody would ever find them. So he stabbed and suffocated Denise, mixed up a batch of cement, stuffed her body into a 55-gallon steel barrel, and filled the barrel with the cement. After the cement had hardened, he dumped the barrel on a rural road. Investigators, acting on a tip, found the barrel. Police arrested Wiederhold near Wichita, Kansas. He had bragged to two acquaintances that he had murdered Denise. They then discovered that Samantha McCoin, Wiederhold's former common-law wife, was also missing. In July 2004, a jury found Wiederhold guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison (Texas). WILKENS:    On December 27, 1986, James Joseph Wilkens, waiting in ambush, shot Richard Wood to death. Then he walked up to his former girlfriend's four-year-old son Larry, who was sitting on a couch with a toothbrush in his hand, and shot him thirteen times at point-blank range as he cried in terror and anguish. Sandra Williams, who was pregnant, ran from the house, and Wilkens shot her in the hip, but she survived and identified him as the murderer. In 1988, a Smith County jury convicted Wilkens of two counts of capital murder and decided he that should be put to death. On July 11, 2001, the State of Texas executed James Joseph Wilkens (Texas). WILLIAMS, ANTONIO:    19-year-old Antonio Williams' girlfriend Shearell Kenyata Dillon was four months pregnant with his child. On February 20, 2008, Williams shot Shearell once in the chest with a handgun, killing her. The next day, his mother brought him to a police station. He was charged with first-degree murder (California). WILLIAMS, KRYSTLE:    On December 8, 2003, Krystle Williams shot her pregnant roommate, Shane'e Lanise Howard, to death and claimed self-defense. On August 11, 2006, Hinds County Circuit Judge W. Swan Yerger declared a mistrial in Williams' trial, but just a few minutes later, she pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter. Judge Yerger sentenced her to thirty years in prison, twenty for killing Shane'e and ten for her preborn child (Mississippi). WILLIAMS, MICHAEL:    20-year-old Bianca Tarran was looking forward to the birth of her first child, a son, but she had fought frequently with her boyfriend Michael Jermaine Williams. On January 27, 2005, the violence escalated to a fatal level, and Williams shot Bianca several times, killing her. When inconsistences in his stories to the police became obvious, they arrested him and charged him with murder (Texas). WILLIAMS, RONNIE:    In 1982, Ronnie Keith Williams raped a little 9-year-old girl. His girlfriend, Robin Jeffrey, broke up with him after learning about the charge. Bent on vengeance, he went to her home, but she was not there. So he vented his rage on her sister Gaynel. He raped her, stabbed her in back and chest, killing her, then dragged her body all over the house, leaving blood everywhere. Finally, he stuffed her body in the trunk of her mother's car and dumped her at a construction site. Williams was sentenced to 17 years for murder and rape of the child, but served only seven because of prison overcrowding. After he was released, he began a relationship with Stefanie Lawrence. Once again, his girlfriend broke up with him, and, on January 26, 1993, Williams repeated his deadly 1982 scenario almost exactly. He arrived at Stefanie's house in a drunken rage, but she was not there. He was determined that someone would suffer, so he took his frustrations out on her eight months pregnant friend, 18-year-old Lisashantill "Lisa" Dyke, raping her, biting her hard all over her body, and then stabbing her repeatedly with a 15-inch long carving knife so hard he penetrated her sternum and her lungs. He fled the scene, but Lisa identified him to a 911 operator and again on her hospital deathbed, pointing him out in a photo lineup. Lisa died 19 days later, and her son was delivered with severe brain damage just before she died, Once again, Williams was convicted for murder and rape, but this time the jury and the judge sentenced him to death. On June 21, 2007, the Florida Supreme Court upheld Williams' death sentence (Florida). WILLINGHAM:    Cameron Willingham and his wife had three beautiful young daughters — two-year-old Amber Louise Kuykendall and 1-year-old twins Karmon Diane Willingham and Kameron Marie Willingham. On December 23, 1991, Willingham distributed an accelerant around various parts of his home and set it on fire — with his three little girls sleeping inside. Willingham admitted to a fellow inmate that he had burned the house with the girls inside to conceal evidence that he had physically abused them. A jury found Willingham guilty of three counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death. The State of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham by lethal injection on February 17, 2004. As he lay on the gurney, minutes from eternity, his last act on earth was saying to his former wife Stacy Kuykendall "I hope you rot in hell, bitch" (Texas). WILSON:    28-year-old Trishawn Fifer was a deaf stay-at-home mother of two small daughters, aged two and four. She was also six months pregnant. On December 26, 2002, Duane Cortez Wilson, her stepfather, decided to carry out revenge against his estranged wife Marilyn for filing for divorce. So he strangled Trishawn to death right in front of her two small daughters. On June 30, 2004, a San Antonio jury found Wilson guilty of murder, and the next day, it sentenced him to 30 years in prison for murdering Trishawn (Texas). WINSTON:    On April 19, 2002, Leon Jermain Winston shot and killed Rhonda and Anthony Robinson in their home in Lynchburg, Virginia. First, he shot Anthony eight times. Then he shot Rhonda, who was six months pregnant, eight times in the head and neck right in front of her two little girls, who were only four and eight years old. After murdering the Robinsons, Winston stole some cocaine and about $2,000 from their home. Nathan Rorls, a longtime friend of Winston's, testified that "So Winston said he shot him like up in the face or somewhere in the upper body coming up the stairs. And he told me, he said, he don't want to leave no witnesses, so he turned around and he shot that bitch." A jury sentenced Winston to death in January 2004 for the killings of the Robinsons (Virginia). WONGGOUN:    Saner Wonggoun murdered his wife Sopha, who was eight months pregnant, on January 7, 1994. He stuffed her battered body into a sleeping bag and dumped it in Marin County near U.S. Highway 1, then abandoned his two small children and ran back to Thailand, where he was born, before he could be questioned on the murder. Wonggoun hid away in Thailand until 2006, when he was arrested as he was working as a charcoal seller. He confessed that he had murdered Sopha, and prosecutors charged him with premeditated murder (California). ZIMMERMAN:    Kevin Lee Zimmerman was a real sweetheart, just your typical "pro-choice" male. He had a very long criminal record, and liked to get drunk. He was the meanest drunk imaginable, and had a long history of starting fights with his loved ones and even with perfect strangers, and beat and kicked his pregnant wife so badly that she miscarried. On October 23, 1987, Zimmerman and George Weber stabbed Leslie Hooks, Jr. 31 times, murdering him. Zimmerman was jailed and wrote to his trial judge and graphically described how he was going to kill him. In June 1990, a Jefferson County jury convicted Zimmerman of capital murder and sentenced him to death. Kevin Lee Zimmerman was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on January 21, 2004 (Texas). UNKNOWN:    On the night of November 3, 2006, Michelle Young, who was five months pregnant, was brutally murdered in her home. After she was killed, her two-year-old daughter Cassidy, not understanding what was happening, stepped in her mother's blood and tracked it all over the house. Michelle was involved in a savage struggle for her life and the life of her preborn boy, and, during this struggle, she suffered terribly. Her killer attempted to strangle her, but did not succeed. So he picked up a heavy blunt object and simply battered her to death with it, striking her heavily at least thirty times, twenty times in the head. She finally died from a blow to the head. Her skull was fractured, her jaw was broken, most her teeth were knocked out, and she suffered severe lacerations all over her body. As of October 2007, police have not found her killer (North Carolina). UNKNOWN:    Brandy Burkett was nine months pregnant and lived in Mart, a small town about twenty miles East of Waco, Texas. In December 2002, someone broke into Brandy's home and shot her in the head, killing her while she was holding her one-year-old nephew. Brandy's mother found her dead, lying on top of the little boy. Police charged her boyfriend with her murder and he went on trial, but, on October 9, 2005, a jury found him not guilty of the charges (Texas). UNKNOWN:    Elizabeth Trejo was four months pregnant and the mother of four other small children. On December 3, 2005, she and her boyfriend got into an argument. He shot Elizabeth to death and then killed himself. Police found her holding one of her smallest children, and found the boyfriend holding the gun he used to kill them both (Texas).

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