Despite all of the ghosts and ghouls, murderers and lunatics, and vengeful spirits in horror films, time and time again, the most horrifying things in these movies are little kids. From The Exorcist, to The Shining, to newer movies like Orphan, sometimes the most horrifying things come in the smallest packages. But even some of these onscreen terrors pale in comparison to the horrific crimes committed by the following real-life children.
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Jasmine Richardson
Quote: “Never has a person affected me so much. Always will there be something missing without you with me. My lawyer tells me we're legends, ha, closer to immortality it would seem.”
Jasmine Richardson at age twelve was tried and convicted of murdering her mother, father, and eight year old brother. The motive was her twenty-three year old boyfriend who her parents had recently forbidden her from seeing. So the two hatched a plan. He came over to her house, and the two of them murdered her family together. The parents were downstairs, and the boyfriend killed them, then he called Jasmine up to her brother’s room and made her stab him in the chest.
They fled to a town 100 miles away, but were quickly caught and put on trial. They sent letters back and forth while incarcerated that only focused on their own relationship and showed no remorse for their actions.
The boyfriend is now serving three concurrent life sentences while Jasmine is finishing up her sentence in a mental institution and is reportedly sorry for her crimes.
Graham Young
Quote: “What I feel is the emptiness of my soul.”Graham Young, otherwise known as the “teacup poisoner,” was convicted of murdering his mother and poisoning several other members of his family at the age of fourteen, and he was sentenced to a mental hospital for a minimum of fourteen years. There were instances of inmates being poisoned during his stay, but strangely, they were never connected to him.
He convinced his supervisors that he was “cured,” and they released him at the age of twenty-three, and he proceeded to go on a poisoning rampage. Deaths were attributed to pneumonia, suicide, and many other causes, but never linked back to him until the lack of appreciation for his handiwork grew too much for him to bear and he asked why thallium poisoning had not been looked into (since many people at his work were becoming sick, and there was a great deal of thallium around).
It was then that his prior crimes came out and he was convicted of two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and two counts of administering poison, though many more people had displayed symptoms. He received four life sentences and died in prison at age 42, and it is rumored that he grew tired of prison life and poisoned himself.
Alyssa Bustamonte
Quote: “I wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.”Fifteen year old Alyssa Bustamonte used her little sister as bait to lure a nine year old girl away from her home and into a secluded, wooded area. The girl had come over to play with her sister and Bustamonte “ran into her” while she was walking home.
She lured her into the woods and proceeded to brutally stab the girl to death for no reason other than wanting to know what killing someone felt like, which seems like the motivation of roughly half of the killers in movies.Police only found the grave after Bustamonte’s teacher led them to it.
Bustamonte later confessed to having dug two graves, which suggested that her twin brothers may have been the initial target.She is currently serving a life sentence.
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
These two ten year old boys did the unthinkable. When they saw three year old James Bulger walking with his mother in the mall, they grabbed him and led him away. They did all sorts of terrifying things to him: beat him, threw bricks at him, piled stones on his head, sexually violated him with batteries, and when they finally killed him, they left his body on a set of train tracks to be cut in half. The poor boy had so many injuries that it could not be determined which was the cause of his death.
It’’s hard to imagine adults committing such a terrible crime, and yet these boys were only ten. They each, of course, blamed one another for the crimes and were eventually convicted. The were held for eight years until their trial was deemed unfair and they were freed and granted lifetime anonymity so that they could not be tracked down for revenge purposes.
William York
Quote: “All he alleged was that the child fouled the bed in which they lay together, that she was sulky, and that he did not like her.”
In 1748, at ten years old, William York was imprisoned for the murder of five year old Susan Mayhew. A newspaper at the time actually published the grisly details, along with an illustration of the murder.
He was convicted under a code of law that required the death penalty and it was warned that a failing to convict him could make other ten year old boys think that they could murder girls that they “did not like” and found “sulky".
But still, judges were not prepared to kill a small child, so they delayed the execution time after time until 1757, when he was pardoned and admitted into the Royal Navy. Which beats Great Britain’s old method of criminal disposal: dumping them in Australia.
Eric Smith
Quote (when asked why he did it): "Because instead of me being hurt, I was hurting someone else." At thirteen years old, Eric Smith brutally murdered four year old Derrick Robie. The boy was walking from his house to a recreation program a block away when Smith grabbed and drug him to a nearby wooded area. He beat him with rocks, poured Kool-Aid from his lunch box all over him, sodomized him with a stick, and kept mutilating and abusing his body once he was dead. It was one of the most heinous acts committed, let alone by a child, that the United States had ever seen.
He is currently serving a sentence of nine to life in prison, but comes up for parole from time to time. The scariest part is that everyone who has talked to him can’t believe that they’re speaking with a murderer. He just seems so normal and sincere.
Lionel Tate
Lionel Tate, at twelve years old, is the youngest person to ever be sentenced to life without parole for the murder of a six year old girl. It is unknown what exactly happened, but his mother was babysitting the girl and was upstairs. Lionel was downstairs with her and ran upstairs to tell his mother that the girl was not breathing.He claimed that he had just been trying wrestling moves he’d seen on TV and that her death was an accident, but details of his story directly contradicted physical evidence, and he was convicted of first degree murder.
In 2004, the conviction was overturned on the grounds that he did not receive a fair trial due to not really understanding his charges, and he was released with 10 years of probation and a guilty plea to second degree murder, rather than first.
Unfortunately, he was sent back to prison with a 30 year sentence for an armed robbery against a pizza delivery man, begging the question of why he was released in the first place.
Mary Bell
Quote: “I murder so that I may come back.”
In May of 1968, the day before Mary Bell turned 11, she strangled a 4 year old boy named Martin Brown in an abandoned house. A short time later, she and a 13 year old friend broke into an orphanage, smashed the place up, and left notes that claimed responsibility for Brown’s murder, but the police just assumed that it was a prank.
The chilling message that Mary left on the orphanage walls.
That July, the pair kidnapped and murdered 3 year old Brian Howe and left his body on a nearby wasteland, but not before Mary mutilated him and carved an “M” into his stomach.
She was only convicted with two counts of manslaughter, both because of her young age and her psychiatric evaluation, in which she showed all the common signs of psychopathy. She was held until the age of 23 and then set free, which she remains to this day.
Barry Dale Loukaitis
Quote: “This sure beats the hell out of algebra, doesn’t it?”
One cold February afternoon, fifteen year old Barry Dale Loukaitis walked into his algebra classroom dressed like a Wild West gunslinger. He was armed to the teeth and opened fire on his classmates. He killed two students and his algebra teacher, saying in the panic “This sure beats the hell out of algebra, doesn’t it?”
He had planned to take one of the students hostage and to use them to get out of the school, but a gym teacher heard the gunshots and offered to be the hostage when he stumbled upon the scene. He then wrestled the gun from Loukaitis’s hands and subdued him until police arrived.
Loukaitis is currently serving two life sentences with an additional 205 years on top of that.
Jesse Pomeroy
Quote: “I suppose I did.”Pomeroy was born in 1860, and between the winter and fall of 1871 (when he was eleven) he had captured and tortured 4 younger boys. When he was caught, they sent him to a reform school, where he was supposed to stay until he was 21. He was let out early on good behavior after a year and a half.
Unfortunately, that was when he began to kill. When he was 14, he kidnapped and killed a little girl, and shortly thereafter murdered a four year old boy in such a gruesome way that he almost decapitated him.
When police found the boy and came to think of him as a suspect, they asked him if he killed the boy. His response was a cold, unfeeling “I suppose I did.”
Most people that heard about the case wanted the death penalty, and he was actually sentenced to hang, but the governor refused to sign the death warrant, and his sentence was altered to life in prison and solitary confinement.