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This is Jon Meis, the 22-year-old student building monitor who ended a campus sh**ting with a can of pepper spray.On Jun...
06/08/2026

This is Jon Meis, the 22-year-old student building monitor who ended a campus sh**ting with a can of pepper spray.

On June 5, 2014, Aaron Ybarra walked onto the Seattle Pacific University campus with a shotg*n and f*tally sh*t 19-year-old Paul Lee outside Otto Miller Hall, then entered the lobby and ordered everyone inside not to move.

He sh*t 22-year-old Sarah Williams as she came down a staircase, critically w*unding her.

Meis was working at the security desk about 15 feet away, and when he saw Ybarra fumbling to reload, he pulled pepper spray from his backpack and sprayed him twice in the face.

He wrestled the shotg*n away and carried it into the security office, then returned and took Ybarra to the floor, kicking a hunting k*ife out of reach until another student helped hold him down for police.

Police said Ybarra was carrying roughly 50 more shotg*n shells and had told them he wanted to k*ll as many people as possible.

Meis later wrote that he found the word hero hard to accept, saying the attention could not change the fact that a life had been taken.

In March 2015 he was honored at Arlington National Cemetery with the Citizen Service Before Self Honors, and that December he received the Carnegie Medal.

He testified at the trial in 2016, where Ybarra was convicted of first-degree m*rder and three counts of attempted m*rder, and sentenced the following February to 112 years in prison.

In April 2010, a Texas man dis*ppeared hours after police say he used two chainsaws on his wife, and the last photos eve...
05/08/2026

In April 2010, a Texas man dis*ppeared hours after police say he used two chainsaws on his wife, and the last photos ever taken of him were captured that same day.

One shows Jose Fernando Corona, 49, walking out of a Walmart. The other shows him at a tollbooth near the Laredo border.

Earlier that morning in Lewisville, a postal worker found Maria Corona, a 44-year-old mother of six, lying in the street outside her own home and called 911.

Officers arrived to a trail of bl**d leading back to the house and two chainsaws sitting on the tailgate of a pickup in the driveway, one of them still running.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner later determined Maria was still alive when she was dec*pitated, with the cause of d*ath listed as multiple chainsaw i*juries.

Minutes after the att*ck, Corona reportedly called his son-in-law, Freddie Arellano, and admitted what he had done.

Investigators say he then abandoned his SUV in Bedford, bought clothes and withdrew cash at the Walmart, was picked up by another truck, and took a gold 1991 Ford Ranger from a used car lot on a test drive, leaving his driver's license behind as collateral.

He never returned it, and because the Ranger never passed through the checkpoint, police believe he crossed into Mexico on foot on April 27, 2010.

Corona had no prior criminal history, and more than 16 years later he has never been found and remains wanted for m*rder.

Peyton Saintignan walked out of her house in her sleep.The 10-year-old was last seen at bedtime on September 14, 2024, a...
05/08/2026

Peyton Saintignan walked out of her house in her sleep.

The 10-year-old was last seen at bedtime on September 14, 2024, at her home in Dubberly, Louisiana, a village about 40 miles east of Shreveport.

She was wearing blue Frozen pajamas and no shoes. Her family told deputies she had sleepwalked before, but had never left the house.

By the time the Webster Parish Sheriff's Office was called, her parents and neighbors had already been searching for an hour. The next morning, a hunter's trail camera deep in the woods captured a single image of a small girl walking through the trees.

Hundreds of volunteers turned out. Two parishes' sheriff's offices, the Minden police and fire departments, state police, Wildlife and Fisheries and a correctional chase team all joined in. A helicopter searched from above, which meant drones had to stay grounded.

Josh Klober, who runs a drone company in Magnolia, Arkansas, heard about it from a relative and drove 40 miles to help. When the helicopter cleared the airspace, he set up a generator and a flat-screen television at the edge of the woods and put a thermal camera in the air.

Around 11 p.m. on September 15, the screen showed a small shape curled on the forest floor, one shoe missing. Nobody moved for a moment. Then her best friend's father reached her and woke her up.

She was 1.5 miles from home and about 300 yards from where the trail camera had photographed her. Apart from mosquito bites, she was unhurt.

The sheriff said she went home safe and hungry.

Victoria Soto had wanted to be a teacher since she was 3 years old.She was 27, in her fifth year at Sandy Hook Elementar...
05/08/2026

Victoria Soto had wanted to be a teacher since she was 3 years old.

She was 27, in her fifth year at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, and she had 16 first graders in Room 10. Her students called her Miss Soto. Her family called her Vicki. She loved flamingos and the New York Yankees.

On the morning of December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old man sh*t his way through the front entrance of the school. Soto heard the noise and moved her children into a closet and a bathroom, out of sight of the door.

When he entered her classroom, she told him her class was in the gym on the other side of the building. Several children broke from their hiding places and ran, and he opened fire. Soto was sh*t while trying to shield them.

Eleven of her students survived. Six children from Room 10 did not, and neither did 14 other children and five other educators.

An Associated Press photograph taken outside the school that morning showed her sister Carlee with a phone pressed to her ear and her hand over her heart, waiting for news. It became one of the defining images of the day.

President Obama awarded Soto the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2013. Her hometown of Stratford named an elementary school after her, with a mural of flamingos designed by her family on the wall outside.

Jeanne Clery left her dorm room door unlocked on the night of April 5, 1986, because her roommate had misplaced a key an...
05/08/2026

Jeanne Clery left her dorm room door unlocked on the night of April 5, 1986, because her roommate had misplaced a key and was expected back.

She was 19, a freshman at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the youngest of Howard and Connie Clery's three children. She had been born the day before Thanksgiving in 1966 and the family called her the turkey baby.

Josoph Henry, a sophomore she did not know, got into Stoughton Hall through a series of automatic locking doors that students routinely propped open with pizza boxes.

He worked his way along the third floor trying handles until one opened. Jeanne woke to find him burglarizing her room, and he beat, cut, r*ped and str*ngled her.

He confessed to friends, who went to police. He was convicted on eight counts in 1987 and sentenced to d*ath. In 2002 he agreed to drop all appeals in exchange for life without parole, and he remains in a Pennsylvania prison.

The Clerys sued the university, and what came out in discovery changed everything. In the three years before their daughter d*ed, 38 violent cr*mes had occurred on the Lehigh campus.

None of it had been made public. Records also showed 181 unresolved reports of security doors being propped open.

Howard and Connie spent the next four years lobbying Congress. The Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act was signed into law in 1990, later renamed the Jeanne Clery Act.

Every college in the United States that accepts federal student aid now has to publish its cr*me statistics, keep a daily log, and warn students of ongoing threats.

Carol DaRonch was 18 and window-shopping outside a bookstore at Fashion Place Mall in Murray, Utah, when a polite, well-...
05/08/2026

Carol DaRonch was 18 and window-shopping outside a bookstore at Fashion Place Mall in Murray, Utah, when a polite, well-spoken man introduced himself as Officer Roseland.

It was around 7 p.m. on November 8, 1974. He told her someone had tried to break into her Camaro and asked her to come and check.

Nothing looked damaged, so he said she would need to come to the substation to file a report. She later said she went because he was an authority figure and she was trying to do the right thing.

He drove her past the police station and pulled over on a dark road beside an elementary school. When he reached for handcuffs, she fought him, and in the struggle he locked both cuffs onto the same wrist.

He raised a crowbar. She got the door open, fell into the road, and flagged down a passing couple who drove her to the real police station.

That same night, 17-year-old Debra Kent disappeared from a school parking lot in Bountiful, about 20 miles north.

Ted Bundy was pulled over in Salt Lake City the following August for driving without headlights. Officers found handcuffs, a crowbar, a ski mask and rope in his Volkswagen. DaRonch picked him out of a lineup that October.

Her testimony convicted him of aggravated kidn*pping in March 1976, the first time he was ever found guilty of anything. It was the sentence that put him in custody in the first place, before he escaped twice in Colorado and went on to Florida.

DaRonch testified against him again in 1979. She stayed in Utah, raised a family, and largely avoided publicity for decades.

Riley Howell was sitting through final class presentations on the last day of the spring semester when a former student ...
01/08/2026

Riley Howell was sitting through final class presentations on the last day of the spring semester when a former student walked into the room with a pistol.

It was April 30, 2019, in the Kennedy Building at UNC Charlotte. Around 30 students were in the room. There was nowhere to run.

Howell, a 21-year-old Army ROTC cadet from Waynesville, North Carolina, charged straight at the sh**ter and knocked him off his feet. He was sh*t at close range and d*ed there.

The city's police chief later said the tackle bought enough time for the first officer to reach the classroom and make the arrest, and that Howell had done exactly what people are trained to do when running and hiding are not options.

Nineteen-year-old Ellis Reed Parlier was also k*lled. Four other students were wounded.

The g*nman, Trystan Terrell, was 22. He told detectives he had planned the attack, and later told prosecutors he had done it partly to end up in prison and escape mounting student debt.

He pleaded guilty in September 2019 and received two consecutive life sentences without parole.

Howell was posthumously given the Army ROTC Medal of Heroism, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star donated by the Purple Heart Society, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Citizen Medal of Valor. He was buried with military honors.

He was also a lifelong Star Wars fan. Lucasfilm wrote to his family to say his name had been entered into the canon as a Jedi.

Terri Jentz woke up with a pickup truck parked on her chest.She was 20, seven days into a 4,200-mile ride along the Tran...
01/08/2026

Terri Jentz woke up with a pickup truck parked on her chest.

She was 20, seven days into a 4,200-mile ride along the TransAmerica Trail with her Yale roommate Avra Goldman. They had pitched a tent at Cline Falls State Park in central Oregon on the night of June 22, 1977, after climbing McKenzie Pass.

A man drove over the tent, then got out with an axe. Terri's arm was nearly severed, her shoulder and ribs crushed, her head split open.

Avra was struck across the face and blinded in one eye. Two teenagers found them and got them to a hospital in Redmond, and both women lived.

No one was arrested. The trail went cold within weeks.

15 years later, Terri went back. What she found was that half the town seemed to have a name for the man, and that he had been living among them the whole time.

She spent years knocking on doors, tracking former girlfriends, and pulling case files that had holes in them where the 1977 polygraph tapes should have been.

By the time she was certain, Oregon's three-year statute of limitations on attempted m*rder had long expired. He could not be charged.

She wrote it all down in "Strange Piece of Paradise," published in 2006. Avra, who lost her memory of the attack, never wanted any part of the search.

The case remains open and unsolved.

Caitlin Jensen had graduated from Georgia Southern University a month earlier with a master's in chemistry and biology w...
01/08/2026

Caitlin Jensen had graduated from Georgia Southern University a month earlier with a master's in chemistry and biology when she went in for a neck adjustment in Savannah on June 16, 2022.

She was 28, and had gone to the chiropractor because months of studying for finals had left her with back and neck pain. It was her fourth visit and meant to be her last.

Within about 20 minutes she was violently ill. Her mother, Darlene, was at work when her phone rang with Caitlin's name on it. The chiropractor was on the line, saying her daughter was having a reaction to the treatment.

At the hospital, scans showed four dissected arteries in her neck. The tears cut off blood to her brain, and she went into cardiac arrest.

Her heart stopped for more than ten minutes before doctors revived her. Surgeons repaired some of the tears and placed a stent in one artery.

She woke up unable to speak or move most of her body. Her family said every doctor who examined her agreed the injury was caused by the neck manipulation, though the chiropractor never publicly commented, citing patient privacy.

Vertebral artery dissection from spinal manipulation is rare, estimated at roughly one in 20,000 adjustments, though the true rate is difficult to measure.

Caitlin regained her voice about nine months later and has slowly recovered movement in her arms, legs and head. She uses a letter board to spell out what she wants to say. One of the first messages her mother photographed read: it's okay that I fell.

Clara Gantt was 94 when she pushed herself up out of her wheelchair on a dark tarmac at Los Angeles International Airpor...
01/08/2026

Clara Gantt was 94 when she pushed herself up out of her wheelchair on a dark tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport to meet her husband's casket. She had been waiting 63 years for it.

She met Joseph Gantt on a train from Texas to Los Angeles in 1946 and married him in June 1948. He had already served in the South Pacific during World War II. Two years after the wedding he was sent to Korea as a field medic with the 503rd Field Artillery.

He was reported missing on November 30, 1950, after Chinese forces overran his division near Kunu-ri. When prisoners were exchanged in 1953, returning American soldiers told the Army that Gantt had been wounded, taken captive, and had d*ed in a camp in early 1951 from malnutrition and lack of medical care. No remains came back with them.

Clara never remarried. She bought a house in Inglewood and hired a gardener because she knew Joseph disliked yard work. She kept his photograph in her bedroom for the rest of her life.

His remains were identified at the military's forensic laboratory in Hawaii and flown to Los Angeles in December 2013. Clara told reporters that he had asked her to remarry if anything happened to him, and that she had refused, and that she was still his wife.

She buried him with full military honors at Inglewood Park Cemetery that same month. She d*ed in 2015 and was laid to rest at the same cemetery.

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