At the start of the day on a Saturday morning, Demetrius shot his boss, Nora Johnson, in the face while he was robbing the convenience store he worked at.

Two witnesses called 911.

When police arrived, they saw Nora Johnson bleeding on the floor from a shot to the cheek. There was money scattered all over the floor.

Demetrius Pepper had taken about a thousand dollars from the cash register, along with some cigarettes.

Pepper escaped in his car, a beat-up old junker of a Ford Taurus that broke down on the way to the Williams-Brice Stadium, where his younger brother Nathan Pepper, a University of South Carolina defensive tackle, was playing in a scrimmage.

Someone’s a snitch.

On the 10th of April, 2007, an anonymous caller notified the St. Paul police that a woman had thrown a stillborn baby into a garbage can.

As you can imagine, there were some questions that the police had for the caller, who readily supplied the woman’s name (Nicole Marie Beecroft), how old she was (17) and where she worked (Cub Foods).

The police, following this interesting tip, contacted the manager of the Cub Foods, who related that Nicole Beecroft did, in fact work there and that she had called in sick for the last two days.

Authorities went the next step, and at 8 in the evening, showed up at Nicole Beecroft’s home, where her mother, Kari Beecroft, answered the door.

Joshua Mauldin is the perfect example of religion gone bad.

Joshua Mauldin brought his wife Eva, his mother, and two-month-old daughter Ana to Galveston, Texas. Joshua claimed to investigators that God told him to come to Texas from his home in Arkansas.

While his wife and mother were out of the hotel picking up dinner, Joshua Mauldin started to show his daughter, Ana, what Hell was.

First, Joshua Mauldin threw his baby onto one of the hotel beds. Then, he hit her in the crotch, picked her up and put her in the hotel room safe.

After pulling her out of the safe, Joshua Mauldin put her in the refrigerator.

27-year-old Jade Sanders and 31-year-old Lamont Thomas were found guilty on the 2nd of May, 2007 of the murder of their infant son.

Their 6-week-old baby, named “Crown Shakur,” died after being fed a vegan diet consisting mostly of apple juice and soy milk. Jade Sanders gave birth to Crown at home, using a water-filled bathtub. Jade Sanders and Lamont Thomas claim that the baby was not taken to the hospital because they believed hospitals were full of germs. During their child’s short life, he didn’t see a doctor until he was dead.

Their claims of feeding the baby an alternative diet might have been slightly more believable had there been more than one bottle in the house.

After Brown, a relative and paid caregiver, severely burned Mr. Lockett’s 10-year-old daughter in a hot bath, the girl wasn’t given medical treatment for over a week.

The victim, Quiniece Lockett, was blind, partially paralyzed and suffered from cerebral palsy.

Burned by the water on the 21st of April, 2007, she lay in her bed for nine days, without medical care.

The girl lay there, in agony, with burns on almost half of her body.

Police Chief Charles Kellar told the press:

If you’d see the photos and the condition that she was left in – just to lay in that bed with all those burns. I mean, it was horrible. Apparently the water had to be extremely, extremely hot. We’re looking into, right now, whether the water heater could have heated the water that hot or whether there was hot water added.

This 19-year-old delivered her baby at home.

She beat on the infant.

She strangled the infant.

After the child died, Ms. Leon placed the body in a plastic tupperware-style container.

This container and its contents were found by police during a house-wide search was conducted.

Ms. Leon’s visit to a local hospital apparently alerted the staff, who immediately recognized her recent childbirth and that the possibility existed that not all was as it should be.