There is some justice is the word after all. Just when I get to the point that I think that everything I’m doing here might be a waste of time, and the fools who comment on this website and tell me that I’m just fooling myself, that no one really cares about right and wrong and honesty and truth, something like this happens.

On Saturday, December 15th, 2007, four bystanders rescued Michelle Lynn Kehoe, 33, of Coralville, Iowa and her two young sons after she drove her minivan into the icy Iowa River. Kehoe said she lost control of the car when she was distracted by her kids and drifted off the driving surface of the road onto the dirt shoulder.  Read more... (2160 words, 3 images, estimated 8:38 minutes reading time)

History can be fun. Years after deaths and triumphs, the challenges that were endured to get from way back then to now can provide hours of entertainment to readers and even viewers of historical events translation to film, music or art. History can also dredge up horrible memories of horrible, torturous events when many of us felt that the very streets we lived and worked on had become a battle ground in a struggle between religious and philosophical beliefs.

It’s been just over 7 years since Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad were arrested, sleeping in their 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Sedan. The murder weapon the two had used to kill ten people, a Bushmaster .223 rifle was found inside the car, and was later conclusively linked through ballistics to 8 of the 10 shootings, though the eventual conviction that led to Muhammad’s death sentence relates to only a single shooting, that of Dean Harold Meyers, a 53 year-old man who was just pumping his gas.  Read more... (627 words, 2 images, estimated 2:30 minutes reading time)

All couples fight at some point in their relationships. Some talk rationally, some yell, and some even get physical. Jessica Arrowood (Her MySpace – thanks motherof3) and her boyfriend Jesse Pacheco were a couple that fought with their fists. But, being the upstanding people that they are, they didn’t want to hit each other, I mean they’re in love. Instead when things got a little heated, they decided to beat Jessica’s children.

Pacheco would beat Jessica’s “favorite son”, 4-year-old Raymond, to get back at Jessica, and Jessica would in turn beat his favorite child, her 5-year-old daughter Alea. The probable cause affidavit said Arrowood had:

“snatched Alea up by her hair, picked her up by her throat one-handed, threw her like a rag doll and wrapped her arms around Alea’s throat.”  Read more... (612 words, 2 images, estimated 2:27 minutes reading time)

Some people are just plain evil. They’re mothers, fathers, wives and husbands just like the rest of us. They live among us, and hide their evil well, so well you’d never know the blackness that dwells inside their hearts. That is, until they find themselves in a financial crisis, or overwhelmed by their personal lives. They are some of the people we write about on PYSIH, the ones who commit those unspeakable acts that most of us would never even consider.

Christie Scott, 30, is one of those people. Back on July 8th of this year, she was convicted of setting fire to the bedroom where her six-year-old autistic son, Mason Scott, was sleeping. She and her younger son, Noah, now 5, were outside when first responders arrived at their home in Franklin County, Alabama, but little Mason didn’t survive the blaze. The fire occurred on August 17th, 2007.  Read more... (1354 words, 4 images, estimated 5:25 minutes reading time)

Who hasn’t heard of Dallas, Texas? It’s a major southern metropolis, there is an iconic 80’s television show named after it, it is the home of the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Dallas Stars. Historically, it was the center of the oil and cotton industry in America. Sounds like a nice place, huh? Abneris Santiago and Alfred Santiago (no relation) thought the same thing.

Abneris, 30, and her live-in boyfriend, Alfred, 37, moved to Dallas from Florida, in search of the American Dream; tagging along for the ride were Abneris’ daughter, her two sons, and a daughter the couple made together. Forgive me for saying, but I think their sights were set a little lower than the typical “American Dream as they took up residence at a Budget Suites of America extended stay hotel, directly off a major freeway in Dallas. The family stayed in the confined quarters for just about a year, until the beginning of July, when their journey together came to an abrupt end.  Read more... (1606 words, 3 images, estimated 6:25 minutes reading time)

Meet Jacob Levi Shaffer, the latest in a long line of so-called angry men who are mad because their wife/significant other has decided that, for what ever reason, she wants to end the relationship with that man.

Mad enough to kill.

On Saturday morning, July 18th, 2009, at around 10 minutes to ten, the Lincoln County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from Jacob Shaffer, 30, requesting that a deputy be sent to the home of his estranged wife, Traci Shaffer. When the deputy arrived, he found Shaffer sitting on the porch of the house holding his four-year-old daughter. Shaffer made some comments about something having happened in the house, so the officer went inside to check. What he found would remind him of a slaughter house.  Read more... (1511 words, 6 images, estimated 6:03 minutes reading time)

David P. Santuomo, 43, was very excited on December 3rd, 2008. No, it wasn’t because Santa Claus would be coming soon. He and his girlfriend were about to take the vacation of their dreams, a week-long cruise complete with all the amenities you’d expect from what amounts too a floating five star luxury hotel. He worked hard and deserved this break from his stressful job as a firefighter for the city of Columbus, Ohio.

But what to do about Sloopy and Skeeter, the two mutts he had adopted for the Humane Society in 2007. Money was tight, so he couldn’t afford to pay to board them, and for some reason, he chose not to let a neighbor watch the dogs while he was away, despite the fact that the neighbor twice offered to do it for free.  Read more... (790 words, 2 images, estimated 3:10 minutes reading time)

Münchhausen Syndrome By Proxy is considered to be an insidious disorder in which a person, usually a female care provider (the mother in most circumstances) deliberately inflicts illness or injury against another person (usually their child) for the benefit of gaining attention to ones self, sympathy, or other personal benefit. Although Münchhausen Syndrome By Proxy is not formally listed as a mental health diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV-TR), it is a recognized form of maltreatment.

Many professionals consider Münchhausen Syndrome By Proxy to be a lethal form of child abuse (as most victims are minor children). There are also documented cases of Münchhausen Syndrome By Proxy where a medical care provider inflicts injury upon a patient only to be the one to diagnosis and perform emergency medical procedures to save the patient and gain accolades for their actions.  Read more... (1340 words, 3 images, estimated 5:22 minutes reading time)