Mass Murderer

Adam Matos murdered his former girlfriend Megan Brown, her parents, and her new boyfriend in a brutal quadruple homicide in Hudson, Florida, in 2014. Matos killed Megan, 27, her parents Gregory and Margaret Brown, both 52, and Megan's new boyfriend, Nicholas Leonard, 37, at the waterfront home where Matos had been living with members of the Brown family. Megan and Gregory were shot, while Margaret and Leonard were killed by blunt-force trauma. Matos subsequently moved the bodies from the property and left them stacked in a nearby field, where they were discovered during the investigation.

Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis was convicted of murdering Nancy Weiler and her two young daughters, Kristina and Katherine, during a violent attack at their Jacksonville, Florida, home on May 11, 1982. Davis entered the house armed with a handgun and a length of rope, brutally beat Nancy and shot both children before fleeing with property taken from the home. He was already on parole for previous robbery convictions when the murders occurred. Convicted of three counts of first-degree murder in 1983 and sentenced to death, Davis exhausted numerous appeals before being executed by electrocution at Florida State Prison on July 8, 1999.

Angela Wagner was a central participant in the Wagner family conspiracy that resulted in the Pike County massacre, one of the deadliest family murder cases in Ohio history. Along with her husband George "Billy" Wagner III and sons George Wagner IV and Edward "Jake" Wagner, she helped plan the murders of eight members of the Rhoden family during a custody dispute involving Jake Wagner's daughter. Angela pleaded guilty in 2021 to multiple charges, including conspiracy and aggravated burglary, and agreed to testify against her family members in exchange for the dismissal of the aggravated murder charges. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison and will not be eligible for release until the early 2050s.

Austin Drummond became the focus of a massive manhunt after being accused of murdering four members of a Tennessee family in a brutal quadruple homicide case. Authorities alleged Drummond carried out the killings before abandoning a surviving infant connected to the victims, a detail that intensified national outrage and media attention surrounding the investigation. The horrifying nature of the crimes shocked communities across Tennessee as law enforcement agencies launched a widespread search operation to locate Drummond. Investigators described the suspect as armed and dangerous while prosecutors later outlined allegations involving execution-style killings, family targeting and efforts to evade capture following the murders.

Bryan Kohberger is an American man charged in connection with the 2022 murders of four university students in Moscow, Idaho. At the time of the incident, he was a criminology PhD student at Washington State University, located a short distance from the crime scene. The case gained widespread national and international attention due to the number of victims, the nature of the attack, and Kohberger’s academic focus on criminal behaviour. He was arrested in December 2022, and legal proceedings are ongoing.

Charles "Tex" Watson was one of Charles Manson's most prominent followers and the principal attacker during the Tate-LaBianca murders that left seven people dead over two nights in August 1969. Acting under Manson's direction, Watson led Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian to the Tate residence, where five people were murdered, before participating with Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten in the killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the following night. Watson fled to Texas but was extradited to California and tried separately from Manson and the other defendants. He was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in 1971 and sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment after California invalidated its death penalty. He has repeatedly been denied parole and remains incarcerated.

Charles Boney became infamous for his role in the murders of Kimberly "Kim" Camm and her two children, Brad and Jill Camm, in Georgetown, Indiana, on September 28, 2000. A convicted violent offender with a history of crimes against women, Boney was eventually identified as being connected to the crime scene through forensic evidence, including a sweatshirt recovered near the victims' bodies. The case gained national attention because David Camm, Kim's husband and a former Indiana State Trooper, was initially blamed for the murders and spent years in prison before being acquitted. Prosecutors ultimately argued that Boney participated in the killings, while Boney attempted to shift responsibility onto Camm. The case became one of the most notorious murder investigations in Indiana history and remains closely associated with wrongful conviction debates and forensic controversy.

Charles "Chase" Merritt murdered his business associate Joseph McStay, Joseph's wife Summer, and their young sons Gianni and Joseph Jr. after financial problems developed around the water-feature business Merritt worked on with Joseph. The McStay family disappeared from their Fallbrook, California, home in February 2010, beginning a mystery that lasted more than three years until their remains were discovered in shallow graves in the Mojave Desert near Victorville. Financial records, cellphone evidence and other circumstantial evidence eventually focused the investigation on Merritt, who was arrested in 2014. A jury convicted him of four counts of first-degree murder in June 2019, and he was formally sentenced to death in January 2020.