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Jeffrey Hazelwood Murders 2 In Georgia

Jeffrey Hazelwood was a twenty year old from Roswell Georgia who would murder two seventeen year olds behind a Publix.

According to court documents Jeffrey Hazelwood would follow Natalie Henderson and Carter Davis behind a Publix supermarket in Roswell. Jeffrey Hazelwood would execute the two seventeen years old by shooting each of them in the head.

Police using surveillance cameras were able to tie Jeffrey Hazelwood to the double murder and would charge him with the crime

Jeffrey Hazelwood competence level was at issue as he suffers from an assortment of mental illnesses that cause hallucinations, suicidal tendencies and anxiety. However Hazelwood would be ruled competent to stand trial

Jeffrey Hazelwood would plead guilty but mentally ill to the two murders and an assortment of other charges. Hazelwood would be sentenced to life in prison without parole

Jeffrey Hazelwood 2023

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: VALDOSTA STATE PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: LIFE, W/O PAROLE

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A man accused of killing two 17-year-olds behind a supermarket in an Atlanta suburb has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Jeffrey Hazelwood was sentenced Wednesday after he pleaded guilty, but mentally ill, to murder charges.

Carter Davis and Natalie Henderson were shot to death behind a Publix grocery store in Roswell on Aug. 1, 2016. The Fulton County Medical Examiner said the two teenagers each died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shawn Ellen LaGrua had earlier ruled that Hazelwood was competent to stand trial based on reports from a clinical psychologist.

Henderson was preparing for her senior year at Roswell High School when she was killed. Davis had lived in Rapid City, South Dakota, during part of his high school years before moving to Georgia. He was about to start his senior year at River Ridge High School.

Hazelwood said very few words in court. He responded “yes mam,” several times when asked various questions by the prosecutor including if he understood all of the charges, the years in prison tied to each crime, and if he had taken his medication last night and this morning.

He pleaded guilty to the following charges:

-2 counts of malice murder

-3 counts of felony murder

-2 counts of aggravated assault

-1 count of kidnapping

-1 count of aggravated sexual battery

-1 county of Finance credit card theft

-1 count of identity fraud

-2 counts of possession of a firearm during a felony

-1 count theft by taking

A delivery driver discovered the bodies behind the Publix on Woodstock Road. Police said their bodies were on the ground by two vehicles. Police said Hazelwood used Henderson’s debit card at an area gas station after the alleged killings.

During a preliminary hearing last summer, Detective Jennifer Bennett of the Roswell Police Department revealed some bizarre details in the case. For one thing, Bennett said the suspect was captured on video wearing a mask similar to the one from the movie “V for Vendetta.” He was seen wearing that in surveillance video at the gas station after the shootings and when he returned to the scene, she said.

Hazelwood, she said, eventually admitted to detectives after his arrest that he watched the victims as they were together in the back seat of Henderson’s car at about 3 a.m. on Aug. 1.

“He admitted when he originally saw the vehicle, he became curious as to why they were going behind the Publix so he followed them back there,” said Bennett in August of 2016. “He admitted to watching them from behind an electrical box for some time. He then told me he climbed to the top of the store and watched them from the top of the store.”

Hazelwood said he approached the car and pointed a gun at the victims, forcing them out of the car, Bennett said. Hazelwood said he became scared of Davis, so he shot him in the head, Bennett testified.

The detective said Hazelwood then said he forced Henderson, who was partially clothed, to remove the rest of her clothing. He claimed he then sexually assaulted her. The autopsy report, however, said there was no sign of sexual trauma.

Hazelwood appeared in court on May 3 and child psychologist Christian Hildreth testified that he was competent to stand trial if he remains on medication for mental illness.

Jeffrey Hazelwood’s long hair had been cut short and he was in a gray suit as he sat in the courtroom for his status hearing. Both prosecution and defense attorneys questioned his current psychologist and his previous psychiatrist. He has been receiving treatment at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville since February when he was moved from the Fulton County Jail.

Hildreth has been treating Hazelwood since he arrived. He said with new medications, Hazelwood has been able to have conversations and appears to understand how the court proceedings in his case would work.

Hildreth question Hazelwood to see if he was competent for trial “the first thing I asked do you know what your charged with Mr. Hazelwood indicated he did know what he was charged with, he initially said serious felonies lets leave it at that however he was able to discuss the seriousness of his charges.”

Hildreth testified with medication Hazelwood was competent for trial.

https://abc7chicago.com/2-teens-killed-shot-in-the-head-fatally-to-death/2004204/

Megan Staude Murders Newborn

Megan Staude is a woman from Iowa who has been charged with the murder of her newborn and her father helped her. According to police reports Megan Staude would give birth at home and would immediately put the newborn in a box and ignore the child for two days. Megan Staude father Rodney Staude would put the box into a trash bag, the newborn was still alive at this point, and would dispose of it in a ditch.

When Megan Staude went back to work and her coworkers noticed that she was no longer pregnant and her story was all over the place they would contact police. After speaking with Megan Stuade she would initially say the baby died on the way to the hospital and then later told police the actual story. Police would recover the body of the newborn using cadaver dogs.

Megan Staude would be arrested and has been charged with first degree murder and her father Rodney Staude would be arrested and charged with first degree murder

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A Norwalk woman and her father have been charged with first degree murder in the death of a newborn baby.

According to court documents, Megan Staude, 25, gave birth to the baby boy in late February. But officials say she put the baby in a box and didn’t care for him for two days.

Staude’s father, 64-year-old Rodney Staude, allegedly helped her place the baby in a trash bag. He was still alive at the time, according to court documents. The baby stayed alive for several minutes before he stopped moving.

The bag with the baby’s dead body was then placed in a ditch outside Norwalk. Police later used cadaver dogs to help find the body.

Authorities said Megan Staude gave them conflicting information about the death of the baby. She initially told authorities the baby had died on the way to the hospital, and she was told to go bury him. She later admitted to the circumstances of the baby’s death, according to court documents.

Police told KCCI that Megan Staude’s coworkers grew suspicious and contacted police after noticing she was no longer pregnant, and her story didn’t add up.

An autopsy has been conducted, and results are pending. The investigation remains ongoing.

Officials from Iowa Health and Human Services said cases like this highlight the importance of Safe Haven Laws.

Any child up to 90 days old can be left at any hospital or health care facility, and parents will not face any prosecution.

People can also surrender babies by calling 911.

https://www.kcrg.com/2023/03/15/two-norwalk-charged-with-murder-babys-death/

Monica Figueroa Murders 4 Yr Old Son

Monica Figueroa is a woman from Texas who has admitted to killing her four year old son as her mother watched. According to police reports Monica Figueroa would roll up her four year old son Greyson Hurt in a blanket and proceeded to stab it multiple times with a knife. The child’s grandmother Mary Johnson would phone 911 and tell police she was worried about her daughter hurting her grandson but did not attempt to stop her. When police showed up at the Texas residence they would find Greyson Hurt deceased.

Police in Henderson County would report that Monica Figueroa told her mother to leave the residence and when Mary Johnson returned she would find her Grandson deceased and called police. When confronted by police Monica Figueroa would make a full confession and would be arrested and charged with capital murder. Mary Johnson would be arrested and charged with endangering a child

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The mother of an East Texas woman who officials say confessed to murdering her 4-year-old son has been arrested.

According to the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office, on Monday, officials arrested Monica Figueroa, of Athens, in connection with the death of her 4-year-old son, Grayson Hurt.

Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse says Figueroa confessed to killing her son when she was being questioned and is currently awaiting arraignment at the Henderson County Jail

Sheriff Hillhouse also says Figueroa only had one child in her home as she doesn’t have custody of her other children.

Around 6:40 a.m., Athens police were called to the 300 block of Mitchell Street in Athens by from Mary Johnson, Figueroa’s mother.

The HCSO says Johnson told police she was afraid Figueroa had hurt her son. When officers arrived on scene, they located Figueroa then found Hurt dead inside the home, partially covered with a blanket.

“Athens police officers then obtained a search warrant signed by 392nd District Judge Scott McKee to search the residence,” the HCSO said. “The Athens Police Department also contacted the Henderson County Crimes Against Children Task Force to assist in the investigation.”

The HCSO says the initial investigation indicates the child was killed with an “edged weapon.”

The child’s body was sent to Dallas for autopsy.

The HCSO reports, on Monday while investigating the crime scene at a home, authorities learned the child was killed on Sunday afternoon.

Sheriff Hillhouse says Johnson saw Figueroa on top of a rolled up blanket cutting it with a wooden handled knife.

“Johnson heard the child screaming before she observed Figueroa cutting at the blanket and then the screaming stopped,” Sheriff Hillhouse said. “Figueroa threatened Johnson and instructed her to leave which she did.”

According to Sheriff Hillhouse, Johnson returned to the home the next morning and found the child dead. Johnson then called law enforcement.

Judge Scott McKee issued an arrest warrant Johnson who was arrested and booked into the Henderson County Hail on $250,000 bond. She was charged with endangering a child.

https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/mother-of-east-texas-woman-who-confessed-to-murdering-4-year-old-son-arrested/501-b4df1f77-187d-4ab5-acb0-e8b2c20f755e

Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho Kidnaps 13 Yr Old Girl

Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho is a man from Lexington North Carolina who is facing a host of charges after a missing thirteen year old girl from Texas was found locked in a storage shed. According to police reports Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho allegedly kidnapped the thirteen year old girl from Dallas Texas and brought her back to Lexington North Carolina where she would be sexually assaulted and locked in a storage shed.

Police in Dallas Texas would see Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho vehicle on video driving in the area where the thirteen year old girl was kidnapped. The Dallas police would contact their counterparts in Lexington North Carolina and would watch the home. Soon Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho would be pulled over by officers and soon after they would realize the 13 year old girl was being kept in a storage shed on his property.

Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho has been charged with abduction, felonious restraint, human trafficking, statutory rape, statutory sex offense and indecent liberties

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A missing 13-year-old Texas girl was found locked in an outbuilding near a North Carolina home, authorities said Monday.

Investigators with the Dallas police and the FBI say a 34-year-old man enticed the girl to leave her home while communicating with her on social media, then picked her up in his vehicle, Sheriff Richie Simmons said at a news conference in Davidson County, North Carolina.

Video cameras near the girl’s house filmed a vehicle registered to an address in Davidson County, and a special agent with the Texas FBI Violent Crimes Task Force contacted the sheriff’s office there on Friday, officials said in a news release.

“Within 10 minutes our guys had eyes on that residence,” Capt. Stephanie Murphy said. “Everything moved fairly quickly after that.”

Investigators found the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop on the owner as he left the home, officials said. During the stop, they figured out that the girl was locked in an outbuilding on the property in Lexington, where she was found. She was taken for medical evaluation and eventually returned to Texas, officials said.

The man, identified as Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho, was taken into custody and charged with abduction, felonious restraint, human trafficking, statutory rape, statutory sex offense and indecent liberties. He was being held on $1.25 million secure bond. Attorney Corey Buggs was appointed to represent Camacho at a hearing Monday, according to court records. Buggs did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/sheriff-missing-texas-girl-found-locked-in-nc-17837380.php

Stalker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei Murders 2 In Washington

Ramin Khodakaramrezaei was a man from Texas who would stalk a podcast host in Washington State that would end in a double murder. According to police reports Ramin Khodakaramrezaei would break into a home in Redmond Washington where he would murder a couple before taking his own life.

According to police reports Ramin Khodakaramrezaei would initially become friends with the podcast host, Zohreh Sadeghi, initially however Ramin quickly became obsessive which would eventually lead to a restraining order against him. Ramin Khodakaramrezaei would call Zohreh Sadeghi up to twenty times a day harassing her and her husband Mohammed Naseri.

Unfortunately police were unable to stop Ramin Khodakaramrezaei and it ended with the double murder suicide

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A 38-year-old man from Texas broke into a Redmond home early Friday morning and killed the husband and wife living inside. The man, identified as Ramin Khodakaramrezaei by Redmond police, was found dead inside the home with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound when officers arrived at the scene around 1:45 a.m. Friday.

According to the Redmond Police Department (RPD), officers responded to the 16700 block of Northeast 89th Street for a report of shots fired inside a home. Police said the woman’s mom was staying at the home with the couple and was able to escape and call 911 after Khodakaramrezaei broke into the home through a window.

Officers found the 35-year-old husband lying on the floor when they arrived. The 33-year-old wife and Khodakaramrezaei were both found dead inside the home. Redmond police later confirmed the husband was identified as Mohammad Milad Naseri and his wife as Zohreh Sadeghi.

Scott Hale, who lives behind the couple’s home, said it was “blood curdling to hear” referencing the attack.

Redmond police said the 33-year-old woman was a stalking victim and had filed a no-contact order against Khodakaramrezaei. Police said the woman had a podcast and had developed a friendship with Khodakaramrezaei after he had listened to her podcast, which was devoted to helping Farsi-speaking people find jobs in the tech industry. However, police said she filed a no-contact order against Khodakaramrezaei after things escalated and he started sending her more messages and wouldn’t stop.

Redmond police said officers and detectives “were familiar with the victim and residence because of the ongoing stalking investigation.”

The restraining order was a misdemeanor, according to police. Redmond police said Khodakaramrezaei was a “trucker” and had not yet been served with the restraining order because his location was difficult to pin down since he wasn’t local.

Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe spoke to media at the crime scene Friday afternoon. He said this stalking case was so severe, he was told about it by an investigator several days prior to the killings.

“This is the worst case scenario. This is every victim, every investigator, every police chief’s worst nightmare,” said Lowe. He also said this is the first homicide to happen in Redmond since at least 2021.

According to the protection order obtained by KOMO News, Khodakaramrezaei had called Sadeghi and left voicemails more than 10 times a week and had messaged her husband upwards of 20 times a day.

Sadeghi first told Ramin Khodakaramrezaei to leave her alone on Nov. 6, 2022, according to the protection order. Throughout November and December, the protection order states Khodakaramrezaei continued to call the woman from various numbers, including from the nearby inns he was staying at. It led Sadeghi to block all private numbers in an attempt to get him to stop contacting her, but to no avail.

On Dec. 20, 2022, documents show Ramin Khodakaramrezaei came to the woman’s house to personally deliver flowers shortly after seeing her husband leave the house. That’s when the woman called police.

Sadeghi also wrote in the protection order that Ramin Khodakaramrezaei threatened he “would show up to my door and burn himself and set fire on my house by burning the tree that I love.”

According to the no-contact order, Ramin Khodakaramrezaei called Sadeghi more than 50 times in December alone, even though the woman said she never shared her or her husband’s contact information with Khodakaramrezaei.

Sadeghi stated that Ramin Khodakaramrezaei left her voicemails saying he won’t let her go and the “only thing that will make all this stop is if he killed himself or died,” the protection order states.

Documents show Khodakaramrezaei had sent Sadeghi gifts on two other occasions, even going as far as to hire a jazz band to play outside the woman’s house for two hours – but he later canceled it, according to the court documents.

Khodakaramrezaei also contacted the woman’s husband, sending him more than 20 messages every day, court documents state. In one of the messages sent to the husband, Khodakaramrezaei “stated he would kill himself if he mustered up the courage,” according to the order.

Khodakaramrezaei also acquired the numbers and addresses of the woman’s friends without their knowledge and started contacting them.

The protection order states Khodakaramrezaei came to the couple’s neighborhood several times and would stay at inns nearby. He even parked down the street from the couple’s home, according to court documents.

In the petition for the protection order, Sadeghi wrote, “Khodakaramrezaei has bursts of anger and is completely delusional. These delusions make me fear for my life and the lives of my loved ones.”

According to the protection order, Sadeghi recently had major back surgery and her mobility was affected, which made her fear for her ability to “respond to a crisis.” She described increasing fear following several attempts to get Khodakaramrezaei to stop contacting her and her loved ones.

“All of this has caused me great distress and pain, and now I am suffering from a deep-seated fear for my safety. It has taken a toll on my recovery,” Sadeghi wrote, adding, “I haven’t been able to open the curtains in my bedroom out of fear of him being outside watching me.”

Sadeghi stated she received two voicemails from Khodakaramrezaei as recently as Feb. 28, which she described as “vulgar, angry, and threatening.” Khodakaramrezaei also allegedly installed an app on his phone and was recording Sadeghi without her consent, according to the protection order.

Khodakaramrezaei continued to send gifts in early January, such as jewelry. Documents show he was given a warning on Jan. 16, 2023, but Khodakaramrezaei continued to send gifts as recently as Feb. 20. Documents show Sadeghi received a neck scarf, which police took as evidence the following day.

“Our hearts go out to the victim’s family and the Redmond community following this horrific tragedy,” said Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe. “This is an incredibly sad situation and the worst possible outcome of a stalking case. We will continue investigating what led to this tragic loss.”

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