Hunting Grounds - Workplaces

Shawn “Mickey” Stines is a former Letcher County, Kentucky, sheriff charged with the murder of District Judge Kevin Mullins, his former boss and friend. On September 19, 2024, Stines entered Mullins’ chambers at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg and shot him multiple times. Surveillance footage captured the shooting, and Stines surrendered to police immediately afterward. He has pleaded not guilty and is pursuing a mental-health defence, with his attorneys arguing that he lacked the capacity to intend to kill Mullins. As of August 2026, Stines remains in custody without bail awaiting trial.

Lynlee Renick was convicted of second-degree murder and armed criminal action for the June 2017 shooting death of her husband, Benjamin “Ben” Renick, a prominent exotic snake breeder in New Florence, Missouri. Ben was found dead inside his reptile facility after being shot eight times. Prosecutors argued that Lynlee had attempted to poison him before arranging for her former boyfriend, Michael Humphrey, to help kill him. The prosecution ultimately argued that Lynlee was the person who pulled the trigger. She was sentenced to 16 years in prison in January 2022.

Yaseen Naz was convicted of murder after shooting Marquis Demps outside a Shell gas station in Texas following a confrontation inside the store. Naz, a gas station employee, claimed he acted in self-defense after Demps became involved in a fight. Prosecutors argued that surveillance footage showed Demps attempting to leave in his vehicle when Naz fired multiple rounds into it, killing him. Naz was convicted of murder and sentenced to five years in prison.

Dale Bradley Jr. was convicted of killing 22-year-old Kennecott security guard Bryan Ruff in Utah in December 1991. Ruff, who was having an affair with Bradley's first wife, Kristi, disappeared from his guard post during a night shift and was found nearly 19 months later in a shallow grave near Five Mile Pass. Investigators eventually linked Bradley to the killing through physical evidence and witness testimony. Bradley originally faced a first-degree murder charge but entered an Alford plea to manslaughter and kidnapping in 2007 and received two consecutive prison terms of two to 20 years. In 2025, while seeking parole, Bradley finally admitted that he shot Ruff, saying anger and jealousy had overtaken him.

Ryan Gene Erickson was a Catholic priest in Wisconsin who was identified after his death as the likely perpetrator of the 2002 double murder of funeral director Daniel O'Connell and mortuary science intern James Ellison. The two men were shot inside O'Connell's funeral home in Hudson, Wisconsin, on February 5, 2002. Investigators eventually developed evidence linking Erickson to the killings, including his knowledge of previously unreleased crime-scene details and an alleged admission to a church deacon. Police questioned him in late 2004 and searched his rectory, but Erickson died by suicide on December 19, 2004, before he could be arrested. In October 2005, a judge ruled there was probable cause to conclude that Erickson had committed the murders.

Robert Austin Sullivan was convicted of murdering Donald Schmidt, the manager of a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Homestead, Florida, during a robbery in April 1973. Sullivan and accomplice Reid McLaughlin abducted Schmidt, bound him and drove him to a remote area, where he was shot twice in the head with a shotgun. Sullivan initially confessed to the murder before later recanting and maintaining his innocence. Convicted of first-degree murder and robbery, he was sentenced to death and spent ten years on Florida's death row. Despite numerous appeals and pleas for clemency, including an intervention by Pope John Paul II, Sullivan was executed by electrocution at Florida State Prison on November 30, 1983.

Shane Devon Tamura became the perpetrator of one of New York City's deadliest shootings in decades after opening fire inside a Midtown Manhattan office tower on July 28, 2025. The attack killed four people and injured several others before Tamura died by suicide. Investigators concluded that he had intended to target the National Football League (NFL) headquarters housed within the building and found writings indicating grievances related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), although the full motive remains under investigation.

John Reginald Halliday Christie became one of the United Kingdom's most infamous serial killers after murdering multiple women, including his wife, at his home in Notting Hill, London, during the 1940s and early 1950s. His crimes, committed at 10 Rillington Place, led to one of Britain's greatest miscarriages of justice when Timothy Evans was wrongly convicted and executed before Christie's guilt was uncovered. The case remains one of the most significant in British criminal history.