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A thrill killing is a term used to describe a
premeditatedmurder committed by a person who is not
necessarily suffering from mental instability, but is instead motivated by the
sheer excitement of the act.
May 21, 1924: University students Nathan Leopold and
Richard Loeb murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks.
Leopold, age 19 at the time of the murder, and Loeb, 18, believed
themselves to be Nietzschean übermenschen who could commit a
"perfect crime" (in this case a kidnapping and murder). Both were
sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years; Loeb died in prison
at the age of 30, while Leopold was paroled in 1958 after serving
33 years in prison.[1]
September 15, 1990: Debra Holt, the mother of future world
champion boxer Kendall
Holt, and also known as Debra Holts and "Cocoa Tan", and three
men she had met while staying at the Alexander Hamilton Hotel, were
convicted of killing a homeless man during an evening of senseless
violence and crime in Paterson, NJ. [2].
February 12, 1993: Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, two
10-year old boys, abducted and murdered toddler James
Bulger. Thompson and Venables did not know the child but wished
to kill someone. They were imprisoned for eight years.[3]
April 19, 1997: New Jersey teens Thomas Koskovich and Jayson
Vreeland ordered a pizza and ambushed the two men who delivered it,
Georgio Gallara and Jeremy Giordano, before going bowling.
Koskovich and Vreeland later admitted to police that they wanted to
experience what it was like to commit murder.[4]
July 17, 1997: Jesse McAllister and Bradley Price killed a man
and a woman on a Seaside, Oregon beach for no other
reason than "to experience it [murder]."[5][6][7]
September 30, 1997: 18 year old Todd Rizzo of Waterbury, Connecticut bashed 13
year old Stanley Edwards to death with a 3-lb sledgehammer after he lured the teenager by
telling him that they would hunt snakes in his backyard. Rizzo was
convicted of the murder in 1999
and is currently on Connecticut's death
row.[8][9]
October 6, 1997: Bega schoolgirl murders: Career
criminal Lindsay Hoani Beckett and prison escapee Leslie Alfred
Camilleri murdered 14-year-old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nichole
Collins at Fiddler's Green Creek, Victoria, Australia. After
accepting an offer of a lift to a party, the girls were abducted,
raped and tortured over the next 10½ hours before being stabbed by
Beckett on the orders of Camilleri. Beckett pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to two consecutive life sentences with a non-parole
period of 35 years in exchange for testifying against Camilleri,
who was found guilty and sentenced to two consecutive life
sentences plus 155 years without the possibility of parole.
March 29, 2005: James Patrick Roughan, nephew of convicted
killer Katherine Knight, and his friend,
Christopher Clark Jones, murdered Morgan Jay Shepherd, 17, in
Dayboro, Queensland, Australia after a lengthy drinking session.
The pair stabbed and bashed the teenager more than 133 times before
removing his head with an axe; the head was used as a puppet and
bowling ball, according to witnesses.[10] Both
men were sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of
27 years.
June 18, 2006: Two 16-year-old girls, who cannot be named
because of their age, strangled Eliza Jane Davis with electrical
cable and buried her body under a vacant house in Collie, Western
Australia, Australia, after the three had attended a party. The
girls told police they knew it was wrong to kill but it "felt
right", and they did not regret Davis's death.[11][12] Both
girls were sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period
of 15 years.
December 17, 2006: Couple[13]
Jessica Ellen Stasinowsky, 20, and Valerie Paige Parashumti, 19,
drugged, bashed and strangled their 16-year-old flatmate, Stacey Mitchell,
before disposing of her body in a wheelie bin. Parashumti and Stasinowsky
originally claimed to police that Mitchell had moved to Queensland
after an argument, but later confessed to the crime after police
revisited the flat; they had discussed killing people on several
occasions. Both women pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life
imprisonment with a non-parole period of 24 years, which was
increased to 31 years on appeal under new legislation, the longest
non-parole period handed down to a woman in Australia.[14]
Justice Peter Blaxell said that had the women been convicted by a
jury, he would have sentenced them to life imprisonment without the
possibility of release on parole.
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