The 20 Worst Child Murderers Psychopaths of History

The stories of Murderous children And psychopaths have that halo of shock at how shocking it is to know that there are minors who ever dared to take the life of another person.

In the list you will find many mental disorders, but also children who were exposed to act thus due to their familiar or social environment.

Torn boys who did not have a normal childhood and who totally destroyed it when they committed the crime.

Top 20 Most Shocking Kids

1- Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

James Patrick Bulger (1990 - 1993) was a child of Kirby, England murdered at the age of two years.

He was abducted and tortured by two 10-year-old children, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. His mutilated body was found on the train lines 4 kilometers from Walton in Liverpool, two days after the death.

Each child was charged with charges on February 20, 1993, and on November 24, 1993, they were found guilty of Bulger's murder, making them the youngest convict of the twentieth century.

2- Leopold and Loeb

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (1904-1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (1905-1936) were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who in May 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Robert Frank in Chicago.

They committed the crime as a demonstration of their intellectual superiority, since they thought they were capable of committing"the perfect crime". Both men were sentenced to life imprisonment for an additional 99 years. Loeb was killed by another prisoner in 1936 and Leopold was paroled in 1958.

3- Willie James Bosket

William James Bosket Jr. (1962) is an American convict convicted of murder and whose crimes were committed while a minor. In 1978, a Bosket with then 15 years, assassinates to two men in robbery attempts by which is condemned to 5 years of prison.

Since then this man has remained all his life, with the exception of 100 days, in custody. Although he was not condemned to life imprisonment, his continuous acts in his confinement guarantee him a departure no less than 2062, when he would be 100 years old.

Mary Bell

Mary Flora Bell (1957) is an English woman who, in 1968, at the age of 10, strangled to death two smaller children in Scotswood. She was convicted in December of the same year for the murder of Martin Brown (4 years) and Brian Howe (3 years).

The latter was made in complicity with a friend named Norma Joyce Bell. Since winning his freedom in 1980, Bell has lived under a series of pseudonyms. His identity was protected by a court order, which was extended to protect his daughter's.

5- Amarjeet Sada

Armajeet Sada is an 8-year-old boy convicted of the death of three children, including his sister. All of his alleged victims were under one year old. When the authorities confront the child for the deaths, he confesses and leads them to the place where the bodies are.

Subsequently, the minor confesses to the murder of his sister of 8 months for 3 months and her 6-month cousin a year before the event. It was then learned of the family's knowledge of Sada's behavior, but this was treated as a"family affair."

6- Joshua Phillips

Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips (1984) is an American convict convicted of murder in Jacksonville, Florida. He was indicted in July 1999 for the murder of his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddie Clifton, in November 1998 when he was 14.

That day the two minors were playing and apparently Phillips accidentally hits Clifton in the head making it bleed. Fearing the reprisals that this fact could cause by its abusive father, this one proceeds to assassinate to the girl and to hide its body in the room. Philips was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole benefit.

7- Jesse Pomeroy

Jesse Harding Pomeroy (1859 - 1932) was the youngest person to be convicted of the murder crime in the history of the state of Massachusetts.

Between 1871 and 1872 several cases of attack were reported by children and drew attention to the brutality of the aggressions. In 1872 he was convicted and sentenced until he reached the age of majority.

In 1874 he is returned to his mother and shortly afterwards a girl named Katie Curran disappears in the same area. In April the body of the girl is found in the basement of the house of the family of Pomeroy. The child is sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement. His death occurs in 1932 in a psychiatric hospital at the age of 73 years.

8- Harvey Robinson

Harvey Miguel Robinson (1974) is an American murderer who is sentenced to death in the state of Pennsylvania. He is one of the youngest serial killers in US history, counting only 18 at the time of his sentence. In the year 1993, Robinson attacked 5 women, killing 3 of them.

9- Eric Smith

Eric M. Smith (January 22, 1980) is an American criminal charged with the murder of 4-year-old Derrick Robie on August 2, 1993 in Steuben County, New York.

Smith was given a 9-year sentence, which was the greatest possible punishment for juvenile murderers at the time. Smith said he was attacked by other children at school, as well as by his father and sister. This one confessed to have discharged his anger with Robie, but fearing that this one confesara decided to assassinate it.

10- Edmund Kemper

Edmund Emil Kemper III (1948) is a serial killer, necrophiliac and suspect of cannibalism who committed the abduction and murder of several women in the 70's, as well as his paternal grandparents and his mother.

He lived in Montana together with his mother, who abused him, before moving to California where he murdered his grandparents at the age of 15.

He was diagnosed with schizophrenia before being sentenced to death. At the age of 21 he was released by psychiatrists. He later murdered several women and his mother before surrendering to the authorities. He was sentenced to 8 consecutive life sentences.

11- Graham Young

Graham Frederick Young (1947 - 1990) was a British serial killer who used poison to kill his victims. From an early age he showed an interest in toxics and their effects.

In 1962, at the age of 15, he tried to poison several members of his family, causing the death of his stepmother. After regaining his freedom in 1971, he tried to perform the same act with 70 other people, two of whom died.

12- David Brom

David Brom (1971) is an American mass murderer. He was convicted of the murder of his parents and brothers with an ax in February 1988 near Rochester, Minnesota. He was sentenced to 3 consecutive life sentences and is currently eligible to be released in 2041.

13- Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf

On June 14, 1983, 15-year-old Cindy Collier and 14-year-old Shirley Wolf met in the pool at the Auburn Green Condominium. Both had in common that they had fled their homes and began the search for a vehicle to steal to continue their flight.

Anna Brackett, 85, invites the women to her home for a glass of water and that's where Collier and Wolf stab her to death. Both were sentenced to the maximum possible juvenile penalty in California at the time, who was detained until the age of 27 for both.

14- Jordan Brown

Jordan Brown (1997) was found guilty at the age of 11 for the murder of his father's fiancee, 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk, and the unborn child he was expecting.

Under the laws of the state of Pennsylvania, the juvenile was initially charged as an adult, but due to some lawsuits, the latter was finally treated by juvenile law.

Brown is currently being held in a youth center until he reaches the age of 21.

15- George Stinney

George Junius Stinney Jr. (1929-1944) was a 14-year-old African-American convicted of murder following a racist and discriminatory trial in the town of Alcolu, South Carolina.

According to the investigation, Stinney confessed to the murder of two white girls (10-year-old Katherine and 7-year-old Aime), but there was never an official written document recording this fact.

Stinney was indicted in less than 10 minutes after a one-day trial by a white jury in full. She was the youngest person in the United States to be sentenced to death and executed in the twentieth century.

16- Lionel Tate

Lionel Alexander Tate (1987) is considered the youngest American citizen to have been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

In 2001, at the age of 13, Tate was convicted of the first-degree murder of Tiffany Eunick, 6, of Broward County, Florida.

Nevertheless, the sentence was annulled in 2004 and he was granted parole. The following year, Tate violated the conditions granted when attempting an assault on a pizzeria and is currently paying 40 years in prison.

17- Barry Dale Loukaitis

The Frontier Middle school shooting was an event on February 2, 1996 in Moses Lake, Washington. The assailant was 14-year-old Barry Dale Loukaitis (1981), who managed to assassinate his algebra teacher and two students.

On the day of the shooting, Loukaitis dressed like a cowboy and carried two weapons owned by his father. The minor was sentenced to two life terms plus 205 years without the possibility of parole. However, this decision could be overturned with early release in 2021.

18- Craig Price

Craig Chandler Price (1973) is an American serial killer who committed his crimes in Warwick, Rhode Island. In 1989 he was arrested for the murder of a woman and her two daughters in the same year and the murder of two others the previous year.

The child was tried at the age of 15, which means that he could have been released at the age of 21. He was sentenced to an additional 10 to 25 years depending on the cooperation he has with his treatment.

19- Cayetano Santos Godino

Cayetano Santos Godino (1896 - 1944), also known as"Petiso Orejudo", was an Argentine serial killer who committed his crimes in the city of Buenos Aires at the age of 16.

He was responsible for the murder of 4 children, the attempted murder of 7 others and 7 attempts to start fires. He was declared mentally ill and was interned in a hospital until his death in strange circumstances.

20- Alyssa Bustamante

Alyssa Dailene Bustamante (1994) was convicted when she was 15 years old for the murder of her neighbor, Elizabeth Olsen, 9. The young woman previously presented signs of mental instability, which included an attempted suicide and self-inflicted cuts on her skin.

In subsequent statements, it was established that Bustamante performed the act with the sole motivation to know what it felt like doing it. In 2009, she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. This possibility was later granted, but Bustamante will have to pay a sentence of at least 35 years in prison.

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