Charity Depina

Photo of Charity Depina, a young woman with curly black hair and tan skin, wearing a blue fairy costume with wings showing behind her back.Name: Charity Depina.
Died: November 10, 2017.
Age at death: 22.
Cause of death: Head, chest, and abdominal trauma.
Location: Fresno, California, USA.
Disability: Autism.

Details:
Charity DePina was a polite, high-spirited young woman who attended Bible study and other church services three times a week.

She loved listening to music, watching comedies and eating burgers and fries at Burger King and Mexican pizzas at Taco Bell. Her hair was a big deal. She was always getting it done in braids and she liked to change the color once a month. Her favorite colors were red and blue.
–Sacramento Bee

Charity was studying to become a teacher’s aide.

Charity’s boyfriend, who had a history of violently assaulting her, beat her to death with a curtain rod.

Case status:
Gabriel Salinas (Boyfriend), pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and torture, sentenced to 22 years to life.

Source:
Autism Memorial: Charity Depina
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Man takes blame for girlfriend’s death in Fresno
She wanted ‘love and attention.’ Her boyfriend is charged with torturing and killing her

Jimmy Anglin

Photo of young man with short hair and tan skin, wearing a yellow and red striped polo shirt.Name: Jimmy Lee Anglin.
Died: Missing November 3, 2017; body found about 2 years later.
Age at death: 27.
Cause of death: Shooting.
Location: Oglethorpe County, Georgia, USA.
Disability: Unspecified; on “disability fixed income”.

Details:
Jimmy received disability payments, and his cousin often took them from him; but when Jimmy started refusing to give him the money, he disappeared. Two years after Jimmy went missing, his bones were found. His cousin had taken him out to the woods, shot him, and dismembered the body.

Case Status:
Robert David Jordan (Cousin), convicted of malice murder, sentenced to life without parole.

Sources:
Oglethorpe County man sentenced to life without parole in shotgun slaying of his cousin
Disappearance of Oglethorpe man remains a mystery
Murder charge filed in 2-year-old missing man case
Brothers charged in death of man reported missing 2 years ago

Nicole Beilman

Gravestone reading, beilman, Daughter, Nicole, February 13, 1990 to October 4, 2017.Name: Nicole Ann Beilman.
Died: October 4, 2017.
Age at death: 27.
Cause of death: Gunshot.
Location: Fairport, New York, USA.
Disability: Rett syndrome.

Details:
Nicole was shot by her father in a murder-suicide.

She volunteered for Meals on Wheels and enjoyed watching the birds that came to a bird feeder outside her window.

Case status:
John Beilman (Father), deceased.

Source:
Autism Memorial: Nicole Beilman
Police: Fairport father killed daughter with disabilities, turned gun on himself
Police: Father killed daughter with disabilities, then himself
Police: Fairport man killed disabled daughter, self
FBI searched Fairport home before murder-suicide
UPDATE: Fairport Police say father kills daughter in wheelchair, self
When caregivers kill: Beilman murder-suicide has no easy answers

Julia Whitmore

Photo of Julia Whitmore, a woman with pale skin and messy short brown hair. There is a red mark on her right cheek. She is smiling for the camera, head leaned back.Name: Julia Whitmore.
Died: September 29, 2017.
Age at death: 27.
Cause of death: Strangled.
Location: Town of Empire, Wisconsin, USA.
Disability: Unspecified; wheelchair user requiring pervasive support.

Details:
Julia was strangled by her father in a murder-suicide.

Case status:
Mark Whitmore (Father), deceased.

Source:
Fond du Lac County father, daughter deaths ruled murder-suicide
No Motive In FDL County Murder Suicide

Marion Reynolds

Photo of Marion Reynolds, a young woman with pale skin and dark brown curly hair. She is lying on a pillow, and her mouth is slightly open, showing crooked teeth.Name: Marion Joyce Reynolds.
Died: August 27, 2017.
Age at death: 22.
Cause of death: Neglect, malnutrition.
Location: Galva, Illinois, USA.
Disability: Unspecified severe disability; mobility impaired, tube fed.

Details:
Marion was kept in a filthy house and not given enough to eat. Her 18-year-old sister was also neglected, and was rescued when Marion was found, near death, and taken to a hospice where she died of the effects of long-term neglect and starvation.

Marion attended church and liked music.

Case status:
Dean P. Simoneaux (Grandfather), convicted of neglect of a disabled person, sentenced to 5 years.
Barbara J. Simoneaux (Grandmother), convicted of neglect of a disabled person, sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Source:
Stark County neglect case ends in probation for mother, prison for stepfather
Couple charged with criminal neglect in death of woman’s daughter
Galva couple accused of disabled woman’s malnutrition death
Couple accused of malnutrition death might not have been neglectful, relative says
Obituary for Marion Joyce Reynolds
Stark County couple in neglect case allowed to visit children

Hui Yee Tang

Photo of a young Asian woman with short black hair, wearing a yellow shirt and a lanyard around her neck.Name: Hui Yee Tang.
Died: August 20, 2017.
Age at death: 27.
Cause of death: Stab injury.
Location: Pasir Ris Street, Singapore.
Disability: Autism, intellectual disability.

Details:
Ms. Tang lived with her father, mother, and two siblings. She liked to play with water, and would stand under the shower for hours at a time. Neighbors remember her as “a pleasant, quiet girl”. She was enrolled in a program at the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS).

Ms. Tang’s father stabbed her to death before committing suicide. He was “worried about her future”.

case status:
Soh Ha Tang (Father), deceased.

Source:
Pasir Ris double deaths: ‘Depressed’ father was worried about future of autistic daughter
Father fatally stabbed intellectually disabled daughter, jumped to his death: Coroner’s inquiry
Pasir Ris double deaths: Man who killed daughter had history of mental problems
Pasir Ris deaths: In life as in death, father and daughter were inseparable
Pasir Ris double deaths: Neighbours describe father and daughter as ‘loving’

Olivia Kray

Close-up photo of Olivia Kray, a young woman with olive skin and long, dark brown hair. She is smiling.Name: Olivia Kray.
Died: July 21, 2017.
Age at death: 19.
Cause of death: Strangled.
Location: Herne Bay, England, UK.
Disability: Anxiety disorder, mental illness.

Details:
Olivia’s father strangled her to death; then he went after Olivia’s mother, who escaped and ran to a neighbor’s to call the police. The killer claimed that he was so stressed by Olivia’s mental illness that he had “snapped” and “couldn’t let her suffer any more”.

Case status:
Richard Kray (Father; employed as caregiver to autistic children in a special school), pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility and attempted murder, sentenced to 10 years, to be partially served in a psychiatric unit.

Source:
Desperate father who strangled teenage daughter sectioned
Dad who strangled daughter to death before trying to kill ex-wife is jailed
Dad gets 10 years for strangling daughter

Jonathan Crabtree

Photo of Jonathan Crabtree, a young man with light skin and brown hair, wearing a T-shirt.Name: Jonathan Crabtree.
Died: July 18, 2017.
Age at death: 26.
Cause of death: Opiate poisoning.
Location: Upper Coomera, Queensland, Australia.
Disability: Developmental disability, TBI from car accident.

Details:
Jonathan and his two disabled sisters were allegedly abused by their mother, who repeatedly sedated them with prescription drugs, likely worsening the effects of their disabilities. Jonathan’s sister Erin died in 2012, a victim of an opiate overdose; but her death had initially been ruled a suicide.

After Jonathan was hurt in a car accident, he had to take opiates and became addicted. His mother allegedly encouraged his addiction and even manipulated him into robbing a pharmacy for Tramadol. He died of an overdose of opiates, which police say his mother gave him after forging a suicide note.

Jonathan’s other sister survived their ordeal and was rescued when the murders were discovered.

Case status:
Maree Crabtree (Mother), charged with two counts of murder, grievous bodily harm, torture, fraud, and armed robbery.

Source:
Dramatic turn in court for mum accused of murdering kids, torturing woman
Mum’s strange decision before deaths
Witness claims mum accused of murdering children wished son was dead: court
Gold Coast mum Maree Mavis Crabtree accused of murdering her two disabled children
‘Very controlling’: Chilling allegations against Qld mum accused of killing her disabled kids
Mum’s strict rules before alleged murder
Mom murdered her two adult children for insurance payouts, police say
Australian mother arrested after she allegedly poisoned her disabled kids
Gold Coast mother killed two adult children for financial gain, police allege
Maree Crabtree ‘told disabled son to hold up a chemist’ | Daily Mail Online
Mum, 51, charged with murdering her kids told one to rob a chemist
Mother accused of poisoning her disabled adult children to death bagged $500k in insurance
‘Killer mum’ claimed $500k in insurance for disabled kids
Mum allegedly poisoned two children, prepared suicide note
Queensland mother allegedly murdered her two children with disabilities for money
Mother charged over children’s murders
QLD mother charged with murder, torture after allegedly poisoning two children to death
Friend says murdered Jonathon Crabtree was ‘full of life’
Jonathan Crabtree tried to call best mate an hour before his death
Australian mother arrested for the alleged murder of her two disabled children
Gold Coast mother killed two adult children for financial gain, police allege
Son of murder-accused had been ‘trying to pick up his life’ before he was found dead
Pictured: Disabled siblings ‘poisoned to death by rat-loving mother’
Australian mum ‘poisoned, killed disabled children for financial gain’, police claim
Murder-accused mother used prescription drugs to control children: police
Police say murder-accused mum helped son secure $200,000 disability benefits, then staged his suicide
Mum accused of disabled kids’ murder said one got Autism from a needle
Australian woman kills two ‘disabled’ adult children for financial gains
Mum partied as Erin died alone
Father of murdered siblings tried to have his son put in care
The missing Sprite cup in the police case against an accused double murderer

Mahalakshmi

ID photo of an Indian woman with brown eyes, brown hair, and olive-toned skin, her hair pulled back; she is wearing a red shirt and her expression is neutral.Name: Mahalakshmi.
Died: June 28, 2017.
Age at death: 28.
Cause of death: Asphyxia.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Disability: Depression.

Details:
When Mahalakshmi’s mother died, she became depressed, and her younger brother took care of her. But he became convinced that because of his sister, he would never be able to get married; so he allegedly strangled her when she lay down to take her afternoon nap.

Case status:
Shiv Kumar (Brother), charged with murder.

Source:
Bengaluru: Man kills unwed, ‘troubled’ sister
Bengaluru man murders ‘fat’, ‘depressed’ sister for standing in the way of his marriage
Police book man for murder of his elder sister

Edgar Carbajal

No PhotoName: Edgar Carbajal.
Died: June 20, 2017.
Age at death: 26.
Cause of death: Pneumonia, sepsis due to untended pressure sores.
Location: Austin, Texas, USA.
Disability: Cerebral palsy.

Details:
Edgar’s mother neglected him. He died of infected bedsores, sepsis, and pneumonia, weighing 50 pounds.

A visitor to his online obituary left the note, “You[r] laughter created the rainbow in our classroom.”

Case status:
Erica Yanet Flores (Mother), charged with charged with injury to a disabled individual by omission.

Source:
Austin mother charged in death of son with cerebral palsy due to ‘severe neglect’
Austin mom charged with neglect causing disabled son’s death
Mother charged in death of son with cerebral palsy due to ‘severe neglect’
Mother charged with neglect after disabled son dies from pneumonia at home
North Austin Woman Charged After Son With Cerebral Palsy Dies Of Apparent Neglect
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