Little monsters: four of the most violent child killers in history

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

When it comes to children, the imagination immediately draws pink-cheeked toddlers that cause affection among others. Unfortunately, not all girls and boys are so harmless. History knows a lot of facts when a child became a murderer who knows no pity. This review presents some of the most egregious cases of cold-blooded murders committed by child maniacs.

In the mid-19th century, the most famous child murderer was American Jesse Pomeroy (Jesse pomeroy) nicknamed "Marble Eye" (because of the specific appearance). Ruthless rigidity developed in the boy because of his father's similar attitude towards him. Pomeroy Sr. beat Jesse while stripping him naked. It was because of this that the boy directed all his hatred at the younger children. It is known that the victim of this 12-year-old maniac was a child, whom he beat until he lost consciousness, having previously tied him to a pipe. Several similar episodes followed before Jesse was sent to reform school. After her release, a young maniac brutally disfigured and killed a girl in a suburb of Boston. If not for his young age, Pomeroy would face the death penalty. And so she was changed to life imprisonment.

In 1957, another monster child, Mary Bell (Mary bell). The unhealthy family environment was also a trigger for the terrible violence. According to some reports, Mary's mother had mental disorders and tried to poison her daughter with pills at an early age, according to others, she put the girl on men at the age of 4.

She committed a gruesome murder at the age of 11. Together with her friend, the killer girl strangled two little boys and carved her initials on one of them. The court found her guilty, but when sentencing, took into account a mitigating circumstance - a mental disorder. In 1980, after her release from prison, Mary Bell changed her name and surname and now lives somewhere in the UK.

In the Soviet Union, in the early 1960s, the blatant fact of the murder of a woman by a teenager became known to the public. Arkady Neiland has a standard biography of a dysfunctional child: frequent escapes from home, registration in the children's room of the police, boarding school, street. After a series of thefts, Arkady decided on a larger "case".

Disguised as a postman, he entered the house of housewife Larisa Kupreeva and hacked to death the woman and her son with an ax. After the robbery, Arkady took a few more pictures of the woman who was killed by her own camera and set the house on fire. The arriving firefighters quickly extinguished the fire and, in hot pursuit, found the criminal. At the trial, Arkady Neiland did not deny and even cooperated with the investigation in the hope that he, as a youngster, would not be sentenced to capital punishment (execution was imposed only from the age of 18). However, the court was adamant and in 1964 a 15-year-old teenage murderer was shot. This fact was vigorously discussed then not only in the USSR, but also abroad. Western media wrote about the violation of personal freedom and the lawlessness of power.

Graham Young (Graham young) unlike the previous characters, he grew up in a prosperous family, studied well. For one of his birthdays, the boy received a set of chemicals as a gift from his father. This is what determined the fate of the future poisoner. Graham Young began to prepare poisons. At first, he set up experiments on frogs, mice, then on his classmate. After her stepmother demanded that her stepson stop dangerous experiments, Graham began to pour antimony into her food.

After her death, the teenager was detained on suspicion of murder, but to no avail. The evil genius continued to experiment on his father and classmates. At the trial, Graham confessed everything and even boasted of his knowledge and talent. Young was sent to a mental hospital, where he secretly made poisons and tested their effects on mentally ill patients. After his release, Graham several times got a job and hounded some of the staff there. The poisoner was sentenced to life in prison.