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A 7-year-old girl was allegedly tortured for nearly a year inside a Long Island home before dying from what prosecutors described as a massive untreated infection.

On December 29, 2025, 50-year-old Emily Kelly called 911 claiming Jor’Dynn Duncan was in cardiac arrest. The little girl was rushed to the hospital but later died.

According to prosecutors, the autopsy revealed around 90 injuries on Jor’Dynn’s body, including “sharp force injuries” dating back to January 2025. Authorities say she was left without medical care as her condition visibly deteriorated.

Investigators also allege they found extensive photos and videos on Emily’s phone and cloud accounts documenting prolonged restraint, abuse, and injuries.

Jor’Dynn had been placed in Emily’s care by Child Protective Services in December 2024 after her biological mother lost custody and her father became incarcerated. By April 2025, Emily had full legal guardianship of the child.

Prosecutors say Jor’Dynn missed around 40 days of school between January and June 2025, with excuses allegedly ranging from illnesses and deaths in the family to a fake trip to Disney World.

In May 2026, Emily Kelly, her mother Barbara Renner, and her daughter Elyssa Seymore were all arrested and indicted. Prosecutors called the case “months of systematic cruelty and sadistic abuse.”

All three women pleaded not guilty.

What do you think should happen when a child repeatedly misses school and caregivers keep giving different excuses? Should there be stricter welfare checks?

A double murder in Andhra's Madanapalle in Chittoor district raised grave concerns in 2021. Alekhya V (25) and Sai Divya (22) were found battered to death at their home in Madanapalli on Sunday Jan 24th 2021, with their parents V Purushotham Naidu and V Padmaja — a college professor and the principal of a school, respectively — in a trance-like state, claiming that their daughters would “return”.

Andhra is located in Southern India, a Telugu-speaking state of ~50 million with a distinct culture, cuisine and a film industry that routinely rivals Bollywood within the country. So when the murder of two women broke news in Telugu media, it broke linguistic barriers to become a national controversy.

Alekhya (27) had completed a diploma in forest studies from Bhopal. Like many others her age, she was a regular user of social media websites like Instagram, where she shared pictures of herself, her friends and family. However, there was a shift in her posts. "Shiva is coming," a post on January 21 said. This was followed by another post, "Work is done," and another one, which said, "Islam is dead. Muslims are gone. Mohammed in Halahal #Shivaspeaks (sic)."

On Sunday, Alekhya and her younger sister were found dead at their home.

Both parents were arrested by the local police under charges of murder, over superstitious beliefs that they would be resurrected. After the parents were detained, they were found to be behaving erratically. Padmaja did not co-operate with the authorities and claimed she was a god. Her husband too was behaving in a delusional manner.

A special police party posted at the house since Sunday night had to control the mob frenzy and resistance of the couple during the arrest.

Amidst tense moments, the police assisted the relatives of the deceased to perform the funeral rites on Monday evening, after conducting a post-mortem.

Police authorities who were investigating the case and psychiatric experts who tried to evaluate the mental condition of the accused said that the duo were not cooperating with the questioning process. They said that both of them believed that their dead daughters would come alive.

Jail authorities too, claimed that the duo were chanting the name of Lord Shiva in jail. At one point, when the accused Padmaja was taken for a medical test as per COVID-19 protocol, she refused to undergo the test claiming that she herself is an incarnation of Lord Shiva and it is with her body that she created the coronavirus.

In the Telugu states, crimes committed in the name of superstitious delusion are not uncommon.

In November 2020, a Hyderabad-based software engineer was burnt alive by his close relatives at Mallial of Telangana’s Jagtial district on the suspicion of doing black magic against his wife's brother. The murder took place at a 'spiritual ashram' in the outskirts of Balvanthpur village, minutes away from the Kondagattu Hanuman Temple. The ashram used to be run by the brothers of the victim's wife. One of the accused in the case was Vijay alias Vijay Swamy who called himself ‘Raja Yoga’.

In September 2019, a 24-year-old man was reportedly lynched and burnt alive by a mob in Adrasapalle at Shamirpet, in the outskirts of Hyderabad, on the suspicion of performing black magic on a woman who died due to ill health.

In February 2018, a cab driver in Hyderabad killed an infant in an alleged human sacrifice over superstitious beliefs on the day of lunar eclipse, believing that it would cure his wife’s ill health. Following an investigation, the police said that the couple had killed the infant as part of a black magic ritual.

Robert Ben Rhoades was born in 1945 in rural Iowa. After high school, he joined the military following his father's suicide while awaiting trial for the sexual assault of a 12 year old girl. In 1964, Rhoades found himself in similar trouble and was dishonorably discharged from the Marines. After being rejected from a position in law enforcement, he went on to long distance trucking across the US and seemingly lived a mundane life for the next 20 years.

Tony Costa was born in 1944 in a small town in Massachusetts. He married right out of high school and had three children before his drug use and violent behavior led to a divorce. By 1963, he had abandoned his wife and children to live a transient lifestyle in California. In the few years he lived on the west coast, multiple women were reported missing after last being seen with him - two young women who were hitchhiking and a third was his former girlfriend. He skipped town again and spent the latter half of the 1960s backpacking across the country before heading back to Massachusetts to start a marijuana farm.

In 1969, police unearthed the bodies of Susan Perry, Sydney Monzon, Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki on Costa's farm in a case that shocked the world. Perry and Monzon had gone missing while backpacking and Walsh and Wysocki went missing while vacationing together in Cape Codd. The salacious headlines of violence and rumors of cannibalism created a media frenzy. The young women had all been hitchhiking or traveling at the time of their disappearances, and all had experienced extreme torture over the course of days before being killed.

While serving a life sentence for the crimes, Tony wrote a biography explaining the murders before committing suicide. In his book, he referred to his friend, under the pseudonym Carl, who participated in the crimes and carried out the bulk of the violence. Due to the violent nature of his crimes and the time period, his book and accusations were largely ignored and the case drifted into history.

Two decades later in 1989, a different Patricia Walsh and her husband, Douglas Zyskowski, went missing while hitchhiking in Utah. According to later accounts, the husband was quickly killed and his body discarded, while Patricia was kept alive for up to a week being tortured before she was ultimately killed. Their murders had initially gone unsolved and due to the violent nature of the deaths, had become highly publicized.

A year later, Regina Kay Walters and Ricky Lee Jones, who were 14 at the time, ran away from home and began hitchhiking to Mexico. They were picked up and Ricky was killed immediately, while Regina was kept and tortured for up to a month in a dilapidated barn at a rural farm.

These deaths were later linked to Robert Ben Rhoades when another victim was found chained up in his truck. During the investigation, they found what would go on to become a famous photograph of Regina Walters.

There were other strange aspects of the photograph itself, aside from it being moments before her death, that contributed to its infamy. She was in a rigid, unnatural stance that seemed posed, in a dated dress and heels, and her long hair had been shored off into a pixie cut. He never explained these decisions, but it seemed clear that the photo was replicating something.

It seems we will never truly know who Carl was or if he even exists. We will also never know how many more women were killed by Rhoades, why he dressed Regina the way he did or cut her hair for the photograph. All we know, is both men were highly transient in the late 1960s, both found guilty of abducting and murderding pairs of travelers, both killed a woman named Patricia Walsh, exactly 20 years apart, and both killed women in black dresses with brunette pixie cuts.

So, who is Carl?

BERMUDA DUNES, Calif. -- Riverside County authorities are investigating a double homicide involving a wife and husband who were found dead in their Coachella Valley home, and a friend believes the couple was murdered after being scammed by a man claiming to be actor Tom Selleck.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department said 79-year-old Karen Whitaker and her husband, 80-year-old Donald Whitaker, were found dead last Friday in their home in Bermuda Dunes.
The friend believes Karen Whitaker may have been communicating with someone online who was pretending to be the actor. According to the friend, the interaction began with text messages and evolved into what appeared to be a close relationship.
"They text messaged her, and they said they were Tom Selleck - and that they knew this girl and had dated her and now we have something in common and that started the whole thing," said Joy Miedecke. "She was living and breathing this part of her life, and they were constantly texting her every single day, text after text, and people around her started noticing."
The friend said Karen Whitaker initially sent small amounts of money that escalated into thousands of dollars over time. Concerned about the situation, friends contacted law enforcement in the days leading up to the couple's deaths.
"Realizing that this is happening to a friend of theirs or a neighbor or a relative .. and they've got to stop this," said Miedecke.
Investigators have not publicly identified any suspects and are continuing efforts to determine who may have been involved and whether the deaths are directly tied to the suspected scam.
ABC affiliate KABC reached out to Selleck's publicist. There is no evidence that Selleck had any knowledge of the incident.

Local to me. Christmas day 2017, Andrew Berry had his 2 daughters, Chloe (6) & Aubrey (4) at his apartment in Oak Bay BC for a scheduled visit. When the girls were not returned, a wellness check was issued and a police officer knocked on Andrew's apartment door. When he didnt answer, the police entered and saw the bodies of the girls. It was such a sight that the officer actually turned and left the apartment before calling for backup, which later was heavily scrutinized. Andrew was found in the bathtub with a self inflicted knife wound to the neck. He survived and later blamed the ordeal on a mob/gang member.

Both girls were stabbed and at least one of them was beaten with a baseball bat.

Pasted from local news source:

A B.C. jury has found Andrew Berry guilty in the deaths of his daughters — four-year-old Aubrey Berry and six-year-old Chloe Berry — who were found stabbed to death in an Oak Bay apartment on Christmas Day 2017.

The jury found him guilty on both counts of second-degree murder on Thursday, after three days of deliberation.

A small gasp of relief was heard from an observer in the gallery of the B.C. Supreme Court after the first verdict was read. Berry showed no sign of emotion.

Berry had pleaded not guilty to both counts, leading to a five-month trial in Vancouver that was live-streamed to a public gallery in a Victoria courtroom.

The Crown alleged that Berry used a baseball bat and a knife to kill Chloe, then stabbed Aubrey to death before trying to kill himself. He was found lying in the bathtub, naked, suffering from stab wounds.

During his testimony, Berry told the court that he and the girls were attacked in his apartment by someone with dark skin and dark hair

This podcast is a great example of how sometimes filing an FOIA on the police leads to police retaliation https://open.spotify.com/show/7wF5NYBYEMmoqPp4eSHtfb?si=P9smKGCtRLy8x4H5YF3U9Q

[TW! Grooming, Pedophilia, Sexual abuse, and Rape]

In the early hours of Saturday, August 28, 2010, in Dublin, Ireland, 12-year-old Michaela Davis’ partially-clothed and severely beaten body was found in some undergrowth on a steep bank 500 yards from her home by an elderly man walking his dog. 

Michaela Davis was a 12-year-old girl living in Porterstown, West Dublin, Ireland. She lived with her mother, father, and older brother. She loved fashion, boys, her family and friends, and was a huge fan of the British boyband JLS. Michaela had just finished her first day of secondary school on the 27th. Michaela was still wearing her new school uniform when she left home at 9.30pm to meet friends. She was home by 11pm as agreed and was allowed out for another half hour when she asked. She returned home at 11.30pm and begged to be allowed out for another 15 minutes. Her mother reluctantly allowed her. Michaela never returned and was reported missing at about 2am. Her parents told the gardaí that she had been in a relationship with a boy named Jonathan Byrne, who was aged 18 at the time. 

Jonathan Byrne was an 18-year-old shop worker living in Lohunda Downs, Clonsilla, West Dublin, with his mother, father, and older brother. He was described as being a really nice guy who was extremely tall, slightly chubby, and came from a pretty decent family. According The Sunday World, Byrne had preyed on Michaela in the summer, giving her alcohol and forcing her to have sex with him even though she was only 12. Since then, they continued to see each other for the next two months until her murder.

Her parents were under the impression that he was 14-years-old but upon learning his actual age and finding out he was giving their daughter alcohol, they told Michaela to break it off with him. When she did, she told her parents he was reluctant and had begun hanging around her house until her father told him to go home. 

Byrne was awoken and questioned by gardaí at 3:40am at his home. At first, Jonathan felt uncomfortable speaking to police with his parents present and invited the police in his bedroom. They immediately noticed scratch marks on his arm and wet clothes hidden at the base of his bed. Jonathan claimed he was an alcoholic who regularly self-harmed, but he also confirmed to have seen Michaela the day she was murdered and had officially broken things off with her upon finding out she was only 12-years-old. He also suggested that police speak with a boy Michaela dated before him. Gardaí followed up on the lead, but discovered Michaela’s ex boyfriend had a strong alibi.

After the discovery of Michaela’s body, Jonathan’s father brought him to the police station. That day, Jonathan had been bombarding Michaela with text messages telling her to meet him at an abandoned schoolhouse called ’The Haunto’, a place where local kids often hung out. He originally claimed he met with Michaela to officially break things off with her as she did him, but she became upset and they fought, but he claimed to have walked away leaving her alive. But when Byrne’s father left the interview room, Byrne broke down and confessed he had beaten and manually strangled Michaela to death. He said “I was pissed. There was a row. I can’t remember much.” He confirmed to raping her twice before beating and murdering her. Jonathan also admitted dropping her body a few times when carrying it, which explained the head injuries she had. He also admitted to drinking whisky and cutting his arm with a razor in an attempt to disguise his cuts from the altercation he had with Michaela.

Jonathan was formally arrested and charged with the murder, rape, and child sexual abuse of Michaela Davis. Michaela’s funeral was held on September 1, 2010, at St. Mochta’s Church in Clonsilla. Hundreds of people including friends, family, neighbors, and mourners gathered to pay respects to the young girl and her family.

In December 2011, Jonathan Byrne pleaded guilty to the charges and received a mandatory life sentence for the murder, along with two concurrent 15-year sentences for the rape charges. Byrne’s defense lawyer explained that Byrne’s guilty plea was motivated by a desire to spare the Davis family and himself from a trial, emphasizing, "He has a profound sense of guilt."

Justice Paul Carney ordered Byrne to be registered as a sex offender for life. Byrne showed no emotion as he was sentenced for the heinous crime. During the court proceedings, one of Michaela’s uncles was removed from the court after shouting “You are a bastard! You are a bastard!”

In a written statement read aloud outside court, Michaela’s family expressed their ongoing grief and hope for justice, stating, "Michaela, as of today, will receive the justice she so deserves for the pain and suffering that she endured during the last few moments of her young life. The pain of losing our Michaela will never go away, nor will the love that she left behind. Justice will be done, and lives will have to be rebuilt, including the Byrne family.”

Sources:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/teenager-gets-life-for-murder-of-schoolgirl-1.10698

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/schoolgirl-s-killer-jailed-for-life-1.888611

https://www.madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/jonathan-byrne

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/killer-of-dublin-schoolgirl-raped-and-strangled-281402

https://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0830/134969-davism/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--mX_o9eW6E&t=1123s

It was Tuesday Dec 14 2010. A man was walking his dog in Pima County Arizona near East Camino Aurelia and South Houghton Road where he found a young woman's charred remains and called the sheriffs office.

The victim was identified as Amber Christine Padilla who lived in Marina, AZ, some 50 miles away. The next day would have been her 21st birthday.

The case quickly went cold due to the lack of witnesses coming forward and the cause of death being undetermined.

Amber was born on December 15 1989 and she was a graduate of Sabino High School. She lived with her parents and her 2 year old daughter. Her daughter was placed in her parents custody following her murder.

Very little information was released to the public. The case does not seem to be profiled on Pima County's 88Crime program.

Sources

https://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/opinion/columnists/lionel_waxman/the-house-where-amber-padilla-lived-stands-empty-now/article_c447e3a6-92b8-11e0-971e-001cc4c03286.html

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/body-found-burned-is-idd-as-21-year-old-woman/article_fc6fe4b0-0a3a-11e0-98a5-001cc4c03286.html

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/article_d5d3ca3f-4869-5a6a-821e-2118c09af100.html

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/tucson-az/amber-padilla-4491759

In 1988 Ronald Kitchen was 22 years old and walking to buy cookies for his son when Chicago Police detectives picked him up for questioning. Hours later he had signed a confession to five murders. He had not committed any of them.

He spent 21 years in prison. Thirteen of those years were on death row.

He was not alone.

Between 1972 and 1991 Jon Burge, a commander in the Chicago Police Department assigned to Area 2 on the South Side, and the detectives under his command tortured at least 118 people in custody into signing false confessions. The victims were almost entirely Black men from the surrounding community.

The methods are not disputed. They are preserved in court records, sworn depositions, and the city's own investigative files. Electric shock applied to ears and genitals using a hand cranked generator. Plastic bags pulled over heads until men lost consciousness. Mock executions with loaded guns. Suspects handcuffed to hot radiators for hours.

In February 1982 Andrew Wilson was brought into Area 2 after two police officers were killed. He was tortured by Burge and detectives under his supervision. Days later the Medical Director at Cook County Jail examined Wilson and sent a formal written letter to Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Breczek detailing his injuries and requesting an investigation. Superintendent Breczek forwarded that letter to the Cook County State's Attorney.

No criminal investigation was opened.

The State's Attorney who received that letter was Richard M. Daley. He served as Mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011.

In 1989 Aaron Patterson, 25, was tortured over 25 hours at Area 2 before signing a false confession. While it was happening he scratched a message into the underside of a metal table with a paperclip. It read: I lie about murders. Police threaten me with violence. Slapped and suffocated me with plastic. No lawyer or dad. No phone. Signed false statement to murders.

Photographs of those etchings are preserved in the Chicago Police Torture Archive and were later entered as evidence.

In 1994 the Chicago Police Department's own Office of Professional Standards completed an investigation and concluded that the torture at Area 2 was systematic and methodical and extended well beyond ordinary physical force into planned psychological techniques.

Burge was fired in 1993 following a Police Board hearing. No criminal charges were filed against him for the torture. Federal prosecutors who later examined the case determined the statute of limitations had expired on the underlying crimes.

In January 2003 Governor George Ryan pardoned four men on Illinois death row whose convictions rested on confessions extracted under torture and commuted the sentences of every remaining death row inmate in the state. Illinois abolished the death penalty entirely in 2011. The Burge torture cases were central to both decisions according to court records and public statements from the Governor's office at the time.

In 2008 federal prosecutors charged Burge with perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about the torture under oath during a 2003 civil lawsuit. He was convicted in June 2010. On January 21 2011 U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow sentenced him to four and a half years in federal prison. At sentencing she said according to the Chicago Tribune that if others such as the United States attorney and the Cook County state's attorney had given heed long ago so much pain could have been avoided.

Burge was released in 2014. He continued collecting his Chicago Police pension.

He died in Port Richey, Florida on September 19 2018 at age 70.

Ronald Kitchen was exonerated on July 7 2009. He was 43 years old. He told his family the night they took him that he would be back in 45 minutes.

It took 21 years.

The city of Chicago has paid over 120 million dollars in settlements connected to Burge and the detectives under his command. In 2015 the Chicago City Council passed a reparations ordinance specifically for torture survivors. Fifty seven victims received a share of 5.5 million dollars.

Sources:

Chicago Police Torture Archive timeline: https://chicagopolicetorturearchive.com/timeline

Chicago Torture Justice Memorials case history: https://chicagotorture.org/reparations/history

Ronald Kitchen exoneration record, Northwestern University Bluhm Legal Clinic:

https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/il/ronald-kitchen.html

The Marshall Project reparations overview:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/10/30/payback

The Appeal case explainer:

https://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/chicago-police-torture-explained

NPR obituary September 19 2018:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649725071/former-chicago-police-commander-accused-of-torture-dies-at-70

Authorities in São Roque, Brazil say that the young woman suffocated the child, before mutilating his corpse. The 5-year-old’s remains were discovered surrounded by candles, with knife wounds to the wrists, burnt feet, partial decapitation, ocular punctures, and severed genitalia. Karina also made claims during investigation that she consumed the child’s genitalia.

Karina had been left in charge of her brother while her mother went out grocery shopping. Before the grisly attack, Karina had lured Maycon into her bedroom and told him that they were going to “play a game.” It is reported that when the mother returned home and discovered the scene, she passed out from shock.

While attempting to flee, Karina used a rock as a weapon against her uncle as he and other family members subdued her. During the chaos, the family dog would also attack Karina, and it is reported that in response, she bit the animal back.

There is not much publicly available about her sentencing, but it has been confirmed that she was charged with murder and placed in solitary confinement in the Votorantim Women’s Prison.

Sources:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/08/cannibal-teen-tortured-brother-to-death-in-possible-ritual-cops/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8816381/cannibal-girl-eats-brothers-penis-black-magic/

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-6898125/amp/Girl-18-killed-brother-cut-penis-ate-magic-ritual-Brazil.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/257350362/maycon-roque

For nearly 25 years, she was known only as “The Girl in the River Main.”

Nobody knew her name. Nobody knew where she came from. And for decades, nobody knew who had done this to her.

On July 31, 2001, passersby in Frankfurt, Germany spotted what looked like a bundle floating in the River Main. When authorities recovered it, they found the body of a teenage girl wrapped in bedding and weighed down with a parasol stand. She had been hidden so carefully that investigators immediately believed whoever disposed of her body knew exactly what they were doing.

The victim appeared to be around 15 or 16 years old, although reports say she looked younger due to her small size. She had suffered extensive injuries. According to INTERPOL and later reporting on the case, investigators found signs of prolonged abuse and neglect. Some of her injuries had healed incorrectly, suggesting she had lived with violence for a long time before her death. She also reportedly had burn marks believed to be consistent with cigarette burns. Authorities suspected years of mistreatment long before she ever ended up in the river.

Despite forensic work and public appeals inside Germany, nobody could identify her.

No missing person report matched her.

No family came forward.

No one even seemed to know she was gone.

The case slowly became one of Germany’s most haunting unidentified victim investigations. Investigators gave her the name “The Girl in the River Main,” referencing the river where she was discovered. Years passed with almost no movement.

Then, in 2024, the case was reopened as part of INTERPOL’s “Identify Me” campaign, an international effort focused on identifying women and girls found murdered or abandoned across Europe. The campaign publicly released forensic reconstructions, details about clothing and evidence, and summaries of long forgotten cold cases in hopes that someone somewhere would recognize them.

And somehow, after decades of silence, someone did.

The renewed attention generated several tips that led investigators toward the victim’s identity. In May 2026, authorities finally announced that “The Girl in the River Main” was actually a 16 year old girl named Diana S.

What happened next made the case even darker.

German authorities arrested Diana’s father, a 67 year old man, on suspicion of murder. According to investigators, Diana is believed to have been killed between July 28 and July 31, 2001 inside the family home in Offenbach. Her body was allegedly wrapped in bed linen before being dumped in the River Main.

Police have not publicly released many details yet because the investigation is ongoing, but what is already known paints a horrifying picture. One of the most disturbing aspects of the case is that Diana appears to have lived for years under severe abuse without ever being seen by the outside world in a way that protected her. For nearly a quarter century, she remained unidentified while the person now accused of killing her continued living freely.

The case also raises uncomfortable questions about how someone so young could seemingly disappear without widespread attention. Some reports suggest investigators believe she may have lived in extremely isolated conditions prior to her death, though many details remain sealed. Authorities have also not publicly explained why she was never formally identified during the original investigation in 2001.

What finally broke the case was not a confession or a hidden piece of forensic evidence. It was public exposure.

After decades of being anonymous, Diana finally got her name back because someone recognized something.

That is probably the most haunting part of this entire story. For 25 years, she was effectively erased. Then one international cold case campaign reopened the file, and suddenly the silence around her life collapsed almost immediately.

The investigation is still active and German authorities have stated that more details cannot yet be released publicly.

Small Overview of Case: Jamie Campbell was a 3-year-old boy from Glasgow, Scotland. In Jamie’s short life, he had experienced tragedy. Jamie and his three sisters were left in the care of his Aunt and Uncle after his mother had sadly died in a fire.
On August 24th 1990, Jamie had been playing near his Grandmother’s garden when he was lured away by 11-year-old Richard Keith. Richard then led the child to nearby Bluebell Woods where he violently beat the 3-year-old boy with sticks and stones before taking him to a stream and drowning him.

Witnesses later came forward saying that they had seen Jamie with Richard in the woods but at the time, thought nothing was amiss.
Two women later came across the horrific sight of Jamie’s dead body perched over a rock.

It was revealed at trial that Richard had a dark history of this type of behaviour. He had previously attacked another 3-year-old with a penknife and beat him.
Jamie was reported to have had 14 injuries in total from Richard’s attack.

Richard was detained at Kerelaw Secure Unit for 8 years for Jamie’s murder.
He was released in January 1999 as he was deemed ‘no longer a danger’, which caused heartbreak for Jamie’s family.

Jamie’s cousin Kimberly has expressed her shock and upset at the fact that Richard is living his life with his girlfriend and freely posting on social media.
Kimberly states that she feels that Jamie has been forgotten in comparison to the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger that took place three years after Jamie’s murder.

“I just wanted to share it because Jamie’s story is important and it needs to be known. It’s nothing about seeking justice or revenge – it’s just about keeping Jamie’s memory alive.’’ Kimberly said.

Further Reading: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jan/14/gerardseenan?CMP=gu_com

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/16964030.jamie-campbell-drumchapel-tots-family-murdered-scotlands-youngest-killer-speak/

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