Category: Murder

1373: Edward Richmond, Jr.

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Edward Richmond, Jr.

Edward Richmond, Jr. is an insurrectionist from Louisiana. He was charged with assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon, a metal baton. He was sentenced to four years in prison but was pardoned by Trump.

Previously, he was court-martialed for killing an Iraqi civilian in handcuffs. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to three years in military prison.

In 2012, he was arrested for domestic violence, but charges were dropped as often happens with domestic violence cases. About 78% of cases that are not prosecuted are dismissed because victims refuse to cooperate.

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1288: Tifany Adams

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Tifany Adams

Tifany Adams was the Chair of the Cimarron County Republican Party in Oklahoma. She is also a member of a religious extremist group called God’s Misfits. In addition to typical anti-government, sovereign citizen rhetoric, they seem to believe their children are their property.

Perhaps that is what motivated Tifany Adams who is alleged to have conspired with four other Misfits to murder Veronica Buter, the mother of her grandchildren, and Jilian Kelley, a pastor’s wife who was unlucky enough to be appointed to supervise Butler’s visit with her kids. Adams had custody of the children as their father was in rehab. Custody had been litigated since 2019 with no final ruling. A custody hearing was scheduled for April 17th and Butler was likely to be granted unsuperivised visitation.

While Adams is not accused of sexually abusing Butler and Kelley, the same self-aggrandizing belief that they have the right to abuse or kill other people animates these sorts of crimes. Add the belief in owning children and if she is found to have committed these murder, she will be no different from sexual predators.

Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) – April 19, 2024 – page 1
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OSCN HOME COURTS DECISIONS PROGRAMS NEWS LEGAL RESEARCH COURT RECORDS QUICK LINKS The information on this page is NOT an official record. Do not rely on the correctness or completeness of this information. Verify all information with the official record keeper. The information contained in this report is provided in compliance with the Oklahoma Open Records Act, 51 O.S. 24A.1. Use of this information is governed by this act, as well as other applicable state and federal laws. IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR TEXAS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA STATE OF OKLAHOMA VS. ADAMS, TIFANY MACHEL No. CF-2024-00072 (Criminal Felony) Filed: 04/12/2024 Judge: JETT, A. CLARK PARTIES ADAMS, TIFANY MACHEL, Defendant LEACH III, GEORGE H. III, DISTRICT ATTORNEY OTT, JASON, ARRESTING OFFICER OSBI, ARRESTING AGENCY ATTORNEYS Attorney Represented Parties EVENTS Event Party Docket Reporter Friday, April 12, 2024 Restricted Monday, April 15, 2024 WARRANT ISSUED-CF/MURDER Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 09:30:00.000 CDT INITIAL APPEARANCE Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 09:00:00.000 CDT ATTORNEY STATUS HEARING COUNTS 1. MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT 2. MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT 3. KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741 4. KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741 5. CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT
OSCN HOME COURTS DECISIONS PROGRAMS NEWS LEGAL RESEARCH COURT RECORDS QUICK LINKS The information on this page is NOT an official record. Do not rely on the correctness or completeness of this information. Verify all information with the official record keeper. The information contained in this report is provided in compliance with the Oklahoma Open Records Act, 51 O.S. 24A.1. Use of this information is governed by this act, as well as other applicable state and federal laws. IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR TEXAS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA STATE OF OKLAHOMA VS. ADAMS, TIFANY MACHEL No. CF-2024-00072 (Criminal Felony) Filed: 04/12/2024 Judge: JETT, A. CLARK PARTIES ADAMS, TIFANY MACHEL, Defendant LEACH III, GEORGE H. III, DISTRICT ATTORNEY OTT, JASON, ARRESTING OFFICER OSBI, ARRESTING AGENCY ATTORNEYS Attorney Represented Parties EVENTS Event Party Docket Reporter Friday, April 12, 2024 Restricted Monday, April 15, 2024 WARRANT ISSUED-CF/MURDER Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 09:30:00.000 CDT INITIAL APPEARANCE Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 09:00:00.000 CDT ATTORNEY STATUS HEARING COUNTS 1. MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT 2. MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT 3. KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741 4. KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741 5. CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT

1277: Dan Rodimer

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Dan Rodimer

Dan Rodimer was a Trump-endorsed Congressional candidate in 2020. In 2021, he ran in a special election Republican primary in Texas and got 3% of the vote. He also lost his 2018 race for the Nevada State Senate. He is a former professional wrestler with a history of at least three violent incidents, all at restaurants or clubs. He pled guilty to a misdemeanour on one of those cases and took anger management classes. They seem not to have worked as he got into another altercation on Oct 29, 2023. This time the person he is alleged to have attacked died from blunt force trauma.

The fight occurred at a Halloween party. People did not immediately call 911, when asked, they said he slipped and fell, but subsequent investigation interviewed people reported seing Rodimier beat the man and threaten him. Rodimer’s wife texted him saying, “Nobody should have to watch their husband murder somebody.”

The man he is charged with murdering served more than twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was cleared by the Innocence Project and the real murderer confessed. He had only been out of prison three years.

March 7, 2024 
 Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV) 
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1271: Kyle Lewter

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Kyle Hayden Lewter

Kyle Hayden Lewter was chair of the Madison County Young Republicans and had worked for Rep. Mo Brooks and Sen. Jeff Sessions. He was working for Alabama State Senator Tom Butler. He has been indicted for the sexual torture and murder of a fifty-four year old man.

His defense lawyer suggests that they will present a mental illness defense and are presenting stories in the media to support that idea.

Former Alabama GOP operative accused of murder - al.com (AL) - April 11, 2024 - page 1 April 11, 2024 | al.com (AL) | William Thornton; wthornton@al.com Lawyers for a man with a background in state politics accused of murder have filed a motion to transfer him to a mental facility. Attorneys representing Kyle Hayden Lewter, 36, have also filed a motion to have him evaluated by a psychologist. His preliminary hearing has been waived, according to court records. Lewter is currently being held in Madison County Jail without bond. According to WAFF, Lewter's lawyers argue in documents that he has severe mental health issues. He reportedly "went berzerk" while in jail and hallucinated seeing his parents and a state senator he worked for as a campaign manager. Lewter displayed manic behavior and had to be restrained by jail officials, according to the motion. Lewter, who had several connections to Republican politics in north Alabama, allegedly sodomized his victim with a plunger on March 6 before killing him, according to court doucments. He is charged with murder and sexual torture in the March 6 death of 54-year-old Harvest resident Derek Franklin Walls. The suspect and victim knew each other, according to authorities. He is accused of killing Walls with a hammer. Lewter was identified in a 2022 social media post as the chairman of Madison County Young Republicans. He also reportedly had a paid position with state Sen. Tom Butler and said in a 2017 interview that he worked on campaigns for ex-U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions. © 2024 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved.
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1171: Joseph Roberts

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Joseph Carl Roberts

Joseph C. Roberts known as “MAGA Joe,” he was a member of the San Francisco Republican Central Committee, a member of The Federalist Society, a board member of Families Advocating for Campus Equality, and a police advocate for Stop Abusive and Violent Environments. Both FACE and SAVE advocate for weakening protections of assault victims. As a Men’s Rights Activist, he was the Republican poster child for anti-Title IX college protections when he was suspended after three women made sexual harassment accusations against him. One woman claimed she feared for her life. Betsy DeVos named him as an example when she rolled back Title IX protections.

He has been arrested for allegedly murdering and dismembering Rachel Buckner, his former fiancée. Buckner’s body was found in a garbage bag with her head, hands, and feet removed. DNA from the duct tape was identified as coming from Buckner and Roberts. Her friends report that she was afraid for her life, that he was abusive, and would not leave her alone.

San Francisco Chronicle (CA) October 8, 2023
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
October 8, 2023
Dismemberment suspect spotted with bags October 8, 2023 | San Francisco Chronicle (CA) Author/Byline: Annie Vainshtein | Page: A017 | Section: A 721 Words Read News Document A neighbor of a Pleasanton man accused of dismembering his girlfriend told police she saw him carrying two large trash bags out of his apartment and then shortly after smelled the powerful odor of a cleaning solution permeating from the home, police testified Friday in a preliminary hearing. Testimony on the first day of a preliminary hearing for Joseph Carl Roberts, who faces murder charges in the killing of his live-in girlfriend, Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner, also included accounts of explosive arguments between the couple and of pleas from a woman begging her abuser to stop hitting her. Buckner's dismembered body -- missing the head, hands and feet -- was found in a trash bag on a waterfront trail in Alameda in July. Prosecutors have accused Roberts of using an electric saw to conceal the 27-year-old woman's identity. Roberts was once touted by the Trump administration as a victim of the #MeToo movement, publicly rising to prominence in support of men seen as falsely accused of sexual harassment. Kicked off the campus of Savannah State University in Georgia, Roberts met Buckner, an honors student pursuing her law degree, at San Francisco's Golden Gate University School of Law. On Friday, Roberts appeared in court at Dublin's East County Hall of Justice, seated alongside his court-appointed attorney, Anne Beles, as the prosecution unfolded the evidence against him that will help a judge determine whether the case should proceed to trial. Pleasanton Police Department detective Nickolas Skaggs testified Friday that a neighbor who lived next door to the couple said she saw Roberts carrying two large trash bags out of the apartment after a period of time in which she had not seen Buckner. Shortly thereafter, she relayed to Skaggs, the floor of the couple's apartment smelled of Fabuloso, an all-purpose cleaner. Neighbors said they frequently heard the couple having explosive arguments, with Roberts sometimes telling a female voice to "shut the f-- up" after which they would hear a thud and, often, the female's pleas for him to stop hitting her, according to testimonies from Skaggs and Qais Habib, another Pleasanton police officer. On one harrowing occasion, two neighbors told police, they they saw Buckner running outside the apartment, completely nude, in the middle of the day. She was crying hysterically, screaming for help, and had scratches on her arms and legs, one of the neighbors, who ran down to console Buckner and brought her a blanket and clothing, told Habib. Testimony Friday also included an exhaustive look into the process of DNA collection that led to the identification of the victim and her suspected killer. Crime lab employees at the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office testified about how they were able to identify the two distinct DNA profiles from pieces of evidence that have become integral to the case: wrappings of duct tape on the large garbage bag that contained parts of the victim's body. In the first portion of the preliminary hearing, Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Colleen Clark, who is prosecuting the case, questioned Roya Khouie-Vargas and Jennifer Mertz, both of whom work for the crime lab of the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office, about their procedures in generating a DNA profile. Another witness who testified was Dawn Romano, a technical leader who supervises the DNA unit at the Contra Costa County crime lab and reviewed the DNA reports that positively identified Roberts and Buckner through their DNA. In a more than hour-long cross-examination of Romano by Beles, the court-appointed attorney eventually raised the question of whether Roberts' DNA could have appeared on the items in question not because it was directly deposited -- that is, handled -- by the defendant, but because it was transferred onto the items through indirect contact. Further elaboration was not given as to that possibility. The case is expected to continue at 9 a.m. Monday. Reach Annie Vainshtein: avainshtein@sfchronicle.com Caption: A neighbor of a Pleasanton man accused of dismembering his girlfriend told police she saw him carrying two large trash bags out of his apartment and then shortly after smelled the powerful odor of a cleaning solution permeating from the home, police testified Friday in a preliminary hearing. Testimony on the first day of a preliminary hearing for Joseph Carl Roberts, who faces murder charges in the killing of his live-in girlfriend, Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner, also included accounts of explosive arguments between the couple and of pleas from a woman begging her abuser to stop hitting her.

892: Michael Scott Geiger

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Michael Scott Geiger is a white nationalist, a member of Aryan Brotherhood and a child predator who kidnapped, raped, and murdered a two-year-old child in Enid, Oklahoma.

Man arrested in fatal attack on 2-year-old Tulsa World Tulsa, Oklahoma · Friday, April 29, 2022
Tulsa World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · Friday, April 29, 2022

877: Leticia McCormack

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Leticia McCormack was an elder and, soon-to-be-ordained at The Rock Church, an anti-gay archconservative FourSquare Evangelical church in San Diego. She and her parents were charged with child abuse and the murder of her adopted daughter. McCormack’s husband killed himself when sheriff deputies’ contacted him.

The child had two siblings who are in foster care. They were also abused. She was 11 and weighed 48 pounds. The details are in the article but they are upsetting to read, let alone write here.

Megachurch leader charged with murder and torture in 11-year-old daughter's death The Californian Salinas, California · Friday, November 11, 2022
The Californian
Salinas, California · Friday, November 11, 2022

816: Edgar Smith

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Edgar Smith was a conservative cause célèbre back in the Sixties. He murdered fifteen-year-old Victoria Ann Zielinski. Her death was brutal and vicious. Smith happened to have borrowed a car when he murdered her. The car’s owner noticed the blood and called police who questioned him and he confessed to what happened before and after it without the actual murder, but concluded “I must have been the one who really did it.” He was convicted and sentenced to death.

Smith wrote to Wm. F. Buckley, founder of National Review, befriended him, writing letters back and forth, sharing his views on Chappaquiddick, for example. Smith was a fan of Buckley’s magazine and described himself as a Barry Goldwater supporter which made him appealing to Buckley who began advocating for him. The advocacy led to a successful appeal that moved the government to offer Smith time served. Everyone was certain this charming man would not kill again.

Except he did. Or he tried to. He kidnapped a woman, she fought, he stabbed her in the chest and she got out of his car, running away with his knife in her chest. A witness got Smith’s license plate number and a hunt began. He actually ended up calling Buckley for help, though now Buckley knew he had been conned and gave him up. The woman survived and testified against Smith. He remained in prison until his death in 2017.

Firing Line: The Edgar Smith Story, Part I
Firing Line: The Edgar Smith Story, Part II
Eight Years in Death Row The World-News Roanoke, Virginia · Friday, November 12, 1965
The World-News
Roanoke, Virginia · Friday, November 12, 1965
His Trial's Over But Ours Isn't The Miami Herald Miami, Florida · Saturday, May 22, 1971
The Miami Herald
Miami, Florida · Saturday, May 22, 1971

771: Andrew Wilhoite

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Andrew Wilhoite won the Republican primary for the Clinton Township Board in Indiana even though he had been charged with his wife’s murder. She had cancer and had recently finished chemotherapy. She found out he had an affair and filed for divorce. He struck her in the head with a flowerpot and threw her body in a nearby creek.

He initially claimed she had walked out after a fight and would soon return, but police found her purse and realized that didn’t happen. He was arrested and soon agreed to show them where he body was.

He was in jail when the primary was held. He was one of three candidates for three open positions so he could not lose unless no one voted for him. People didn’t have to vote for him, but they did. He got 60 out of 276 votes cast.

UPDATE: He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on April 18th. His sentencing is June 4th. He faces from 10 to 30 years.

Court documents reveal affair, cover-up before Wilhoite arrest × The Indianapolis Star Indianapolis, Indiana · Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, Indiana · Wednesday, March 30, 2022

755: Lyndon J. McLeod 

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Lyndon J. McLeod was a misogynist who ranted in the manosphere about women and how the strong need to control or kill the weak. He wrote three books under the name Roman McClay that named the people he set out to kill, though when people reported to the Denver Police Department that he really intended to kill the people named in his novel, they did not take the warning seriously.

In 2021

Denver shooter foreshadowed their rampage Fort Collins Coloradoan Fort Collins, Colorado · Thursday, December 30, 2021