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Crime all the Time, Baton Rouge, LA (2025)

12/15/2025

🕯️ AUDREY MABREY — SURVIVOR INSTEAD OF VICTIM 🕯️
📍 Apollo Beach / Tampa, Florida | November 17, 2009

Audrey Mabrey’s story is one of unimaginable horror — and remarkable survival.

She and her husband, Christopher Hanney, had been married for years and shared two young sons. But as their relationship deteriorated, Hanney’s jealousy and control turned dangerous.

On November 17, 2009, Audrey was returning home from a jog when she opened her front door to an unimaginable sight:
Her husband was waiting — naked and holding a butcher knife.

According to Audrey’s testimony in court, Hanney forced her into the garage, assaulted her, struck her in the head multiple times with a hammer, and then poured gasoline over her and lit a candle — sending her body into flames instantly. She was engulfed in fire and suffered burns over roughly 80% of her body.

🔥 Miraculously — she survived.
A neighbor heard her screams and helped extinguish the flames, and Audrey was airlifted to a hospital where she spent months recovering.

At trial, a jury convicted Hanney of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and first-degree arson. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Audrey endured dozens of surgeries and lifelong scars — but she refused to be defined by the attack. She later became a domestic violence awareness advocate, speaking publicly about her experience to help protect others from similar horrors.

💔 She survived one of the worst forms of domestic violence imaginable — and turned survival into purpose.

12/14/2025

🕯️ The Chilling Case of Tyler Hadley

In July 2011, the quiet town of Port St. Lucie, Florida, was rocked by a crime so disturbing it still haunts true crime discussions today.

Tyler Hadley, just 17 years old, murdered his parents, Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley, inside their home using a hammer. Investigators later learned the killings were planned. After taking their lives, Tyler hid their bodies in his bedroom, locked the door, and then did something almost unimaginable — he hosted a party in the same house while their bodies lay just feet away.

More than 60 people attended the party, unaware of what had happened upstairs.

Tyler later confessed to a friend via text messages, even sending photos of the hammer used in the murders. That friend contacted police, leading officers to the home and the horrifying discovery.

In 2014, Tyler Hadley was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder.

The case remains a chilling reminder of how violence can hide behind a normal exterior — and how warning signs, when ignored, can lead to devastating consequences.

🕯️ Two lives lost. A community forever changed.

12/10/2025

📌 The Harper Family Murder Case — A Family Silenced

In July 2003, the community of Bakersfield, California was shaken to its core when five members of the Harper family were found murdered inside their home.
The victims included Joanie Harper, her three children — Marques, Lyndsey, and Marshall — and Joanie’s mother, Ernestine Harper.
They were a well-known, well-loved family, and their violent deaths created an immediate sense of fear, confusion, and heartbreak throughout the city.

As detectives began piecing together the timeline, nothing about the scene felt random.
This wasn’t a burglary gone wrong.
It wasn’t a stranger in the night.
It had the signs of something far more personal.

Suspicion eventually circled around one man: Joanie’s husband, Vincent Brothers — a respected vice principal and community figure.
Investigators uncovered a trail of evidence that contradicted his alibi, including flight records, a rented car with thousands of unexplained miles, and insect evidence showing the vehicle had been driven through multiple states during the time he claimed to be away.

Piece by piece, the case against Brothers grew stronger.

In 2007, after one of the most highly watched trials in Kern County, Vincent Brothers was convicted of murdering his wife, children, and mother-in-law.
He was sentenced to death, where he remains today.

More than 20 years later, the Harper family is still remembered, and their story continues to stand as one of California’s most tragic and haunting family murder cases.
A reminder that sometimes the greatest danger comes from the person you trust the most.

🕊️ May their memories never be forgotten.

12/10/2025

🔥 THE MARYLAND HOSTAGE STANDOFF: THE SURVIVAL OF TRACY WHITEHEAD

In March 2000, Maryland was rocked by a terrifying crime spree triggered by one violent breakup.
When 23-year-old Tracy Whitehead left her abusive boyfriend Joseph C. Palczynski, he refused to let her go — and turned their community into a war zone.

On March 7, 2000, Palczynski kidnapped Tracy and murdered three people who tried to protect her: Gloria and George Shenk, and neighbor David Meyers.
He then led police on a days-long rampage, shooting at strangers and attempting carjackings, sparking one of the biggest manhunts in Maryland history.

The nightmare reached its peak when Palczynski broke into Tracy’s mother’s home, holding three people hostage for nearly 100 hours.
The captives survived constant threats, violence, and fear while dozens of officers surrounded the house.

Their escape came when the adults secretly put Xanax in his drink.
When Palczynski passed out, they fled through a window.
Police stormed the home, rescued the 12-year-old boy, and fatally shot the gunman.

Despite the trauma, Tracy Whitehead survived — a young woman who lived through one of the most harrowing domestic-violence standoffs in state history.

🕯️ Remembering the victims:
Gloria Shenk
George Shenk
David Meyers

12/06/2025

🕯️ THE STOLEN GENERATION — A HIDDEN TRAGEDY THAT LASTED DECADES 🕯️
📍 Australia · 1910–1970s

For more than 60 years, Indigenous Australian children were taken from their families by government agencies, police, and church missions. Many were infants. Many were never returned.
This era is known as The Stolen Generation — one of the most devastating human rights violations in Australia’s history.

💔 What Happened

Officials claimed the children were being “protected.”
In reality, they were being forcibly removed to erase their culture.

Children were:
• Taken from their parents with no warning
• Split from siblings
• Placed into institutions or adopted by white families
• Forbidden to speak their language
• Taught to reject their identity
• Often abused, overworked, and mistreated

Generations grew up not knowing where they came from — or who they belonged to.

💔 The Lasting Damage

Entire communities were shattered.
Parents lived with loss.
Children grew into adults with no connection to their roots, feeling like strangers to the world.

The trauma didn’t end with the children taken — it passed down to their children, and their children’s children.

✊🏾 Acknowledgement & Apology

In 2008, Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a national apology to the Stolen Generations — a moment many families had waited a lifetime for.

But for thousands, no apology will ever fill the hole left by a child who didn’t come home.

🕯️ Why We Must Remember

Because what happened wasn’t “in the past” — survivors are alive today.
Because cultures were damaged, identities stolen, and families torn apart.
Because silence allows history to repeat itself.

🕯️ Honor the survivors.
🕯️ Remember the children who never returned.
🕯️ Never forget The Stolen Generation.

11/29/2025

🕯️ AMBUSH IN ANDREWS — THE MURDER OF A BELOVED POSTAL WORKER 🕯️
📍 Andrews, South Carolina | September 23, 2019

Irene Pressley — known by everyone in her small town as “Miss Irene” — was a dedicated rural mail carrier who loved her job and her community. On that quiet fall day in 2019, she set out in her Jeep to deliver mail… but never made it back.

Postal inspectors and law enforcement later revealed what happened: Miss Irene was shot and killed by a drug dealer. The gunman had come for a package marked “undeliverable” — inside was 2 pounds of ma*****na.

Her murder sent shockwaves through the postal community. In a 2025 documentary, Ambush in Andrews, inspectors detail how they pieced together the case — how they tracked the killer, and how justice finally caught up.

“An assault on a postal employee brings the whole postal family together,” said Dan Mihalko, a retired postal inspector and the film’s director.

💔 Miss Irene wasn’t just a worker — she was a friend, a staple of her rural town, and someone whose life mattered deeply. Her death reminds us that no job is too small for evil to show up — and no victim is too “ordinary” to deserve justice.

11/29/2025

🕯️ THE TRAGIC CASE OF 9-YEAR-OLD ELIZABETH OLTEN 🕯️
📍 St. Martins, Missouri · October 2009

On a quiet evening in St. Martins, Missouri, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten walked a few houses down to play with a friend. She never made it home.

When Elizabeth didn’t return, her family knew something was horribly wrong. A massive search began — neighbors, officers, dogs, helicopters — the entire community looking for a little girl in a pink “Hannah Montana” shirt.

What they didn’t know was that the danger had come from someone even younger.

💔 The Shocking Truth

Elizabeth had been killed by Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old neighbor who admitted she had been thinking about killing “someone” just to know what it felt like.
She lured Elizabeth into the woods behind their homes, attacked her, and buried her in a shallow grave that she had dug days earlier.

Investigators later found Bustamante’s diary, where she described the murder in chilling detail.

⚖️ Justice for Elizabeth

Bustamante was charged as an adult.
In 2012, she pled guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, plus 30 years.

Elizabeth’s family described her as sweet, shy, and full of light — a child who loved her family, her pets, and drawing pictures for her mom.

This case remains one of the most heartbreaking child murders in Missouri history.

🕯️ Rest in peace, Elizabeth.
🕯️ Your story will never be forgotten.

11/29/2025

🕯️ HE TARGETED WOMEN WHO DESERVED TO BE SEEN: THE CASE OF KHALIL WHEELER-WEAVER 🕯️
📍 New Jersey

In 2016, a young man named Khalil Wheeler-Weaver moved quietly through Essex County, using dating apps to connect with women who were simply trying to survive their circumstances. Instead of helping them, he hunted them.

The lives stolen were:
✨ Robin West, 19 — vibrant, hopeful, full of energy
✨ Joanne Brown, 33 — loved and missed deeply
✨ Sarah Butler, 20 — a college student who trusted the wrong profile

Another woman, Tiffany Taylor, endured a brutal attack but fought back, lived, and later confronted him in court.

What stopped him wasn’t chance — it was community.
Sarah Butler’s friends and family refused to wait. They created an online profile, matched with Wheeler-Weaver, and helped detectives uncover the truth. Investigators later found chilling internet searches on his phone that revealed planning, intent, and a pattern.

In 2021, a judge handed down a 160-year sentence, ensuring he would never prey on anyone again.

This case is a reminder:
When women go missing, they deserve urgency.
When victims are ignored, predators thrive.
And when families fight back, justice has a chance.

11/26/2025

🤯 Highrise Apartment up in flames in Hong Kong’s Tai Po District!!! 😢

11/26/2025

🕯️ THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MARGARET R. DASH
📍 Clearwater, Florida | June 14, 1974

On a quiet morning in Clearwater, 38-year-old Margaret R. Dash left her home to buy medicine for a sick relative. She borrowed her teenage daughter’s car and never came back.
Her husband filed the missing-person report the next day. Her white 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass was found a month later in St. Petersburg, abandoned.

🔍 Margaret’s case is especially chilling:
• She left behind $8,000 in her bank account — she didn’t walk away voluntarily.
• Investigators believe the disappearance may be linked to Cleveland Hill Jr., a man she was romantically involved with — who allegedly threatened her life when she tried to end the relationship.
• Two other women who had relationships with Hill also vanished under mysterious circumstances.

Decades later — no body, no charges, no closure. Margaret’s disappearance remains open, unsolved, and unbearably silent.

🕊️ She deserves to be found. Her family deserves answers.
If you have any information about her whereabouts, contact the Clearwater Police Department.

11/22/2025

🕯️ THE TORTURED LIFE & COURAGE OF ROBBIE MIDDLETON 🕯️
📍 Splendora, Texas | June 1998 – April 2011

On June 28, 1998, the day after his 8th birthday, Robbie Middleton set out for a short walk in his neighborhood.
He never made it home the same.

A man dragged Robbie into the woods, tied him to a tree, poured gasoline over his small body, and set him on fire.
Robbie burned for nearly a minute before he was able to break free and run for help.

🔥 He suffered 99% third-degree burns, lost his eyelids, most of his ears, and underwent over 150 surgeries.
🔥 Doctors said he shouldn’t have survived — but he did.
🔥 Even in pain, Robbie stayed brave, sweet, and determined.

For years, Robbie said he couldn’t remember who hurt him.
But just before he died in April 2011 at age 20, he gave a sworn video deposition naming his attacker:

👉 Don Collins, a man who had assaulted Robbie two weeks earlier.
Robbie said Collins had threatened him to stay quiet — then made good on the threat.

⚖️ In 2015, Collins was convicted of murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison after prosecutors proved Robbie’s death was a direct result of the burns he suffered as a child.

Robbie endured 13 years of unimaginable pain, but he never stopped fighting.
He became a symbol of strength — a child who refused to let evil break him.

💔 His mother said:
“He wasn’t just my son. He was a hero.”

🕊️ Rest in peace, Robbie. Your courage will never be forgotten.

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