Category: Age: Adult

Age 30-59

Jenny Baxter

Photo of a woman with fair skin and shoulder-length strawberry-blond hair, smiling. She is wearing a blue T-shirt and jeans, and sitting in a black wheelchair.Name: Jenny Baxter.
Died: March 14, 2023.
Age at death: 45.
Cause of death: Unspecified homicide.
Location: Vidor, Texas, USA.
Disability: Wheelchair user due to aneurysm.

Details:
Jenny’s body was found wrapped in plastic in her home. Her boyfriend, who had allegedly been sending texts from her phone to convince her family she was still alive, was arrested on suspicion of having killed her.

Jenny was an animal lover who, according to friends, “always gave giant hugs, squeezing every bit of love she could into each one.”

Case Status:
Russell Kinney (Boyfriend), pleaded guilty to murder, sentenced to 20-40 years in prison.

Read more at: https://www.orangeleader.com/2024/08/19/live-in-boyfriend-pleads-guilty-to-killing-jenny-baxter-gets-40-years-sentence/.

Sources:
‘It’s just extremely sad’: Family friend remembers woman found murdered, wrapped in plastic in mobile home near Vidor
UPDATE – Man arrested for murder of Jenny Baxter, daughter of Gordon Baxter

Rashta

No PhotoName: Rashta (Also spelled Riasat).
Died: March 13, 2023.
Age at death: 35.
Cause of death: Injury from edged weapon.
Location: Baldia Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Disability: Polio survivor.

Details:
Rashta’s father and brother tried to pressure him into selling his home; when he refused, they allegedly killed him. Rashta was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

Rashta worked as a laborer.

Case Status:
Zardar (Father), arrested.
Asim (Brother), wanted for murder; at large.

Sources:
Property dispute father kills disabled elder son along with younger son Pipa News
Polio-disabled man stabbed to death by father, brother over land dispute

Sarah Albone

Photo of a middle-aged woman with light skin and straight brown hair, wearing a white tank top.Name: Sarah Albone.
Died: February 25, 2023.
Age at death: 38.
Cause of death: Head injury, airway obstruction.
Location: Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, UK.
Disability: Multiple sclerosis.

Details:
Sarah’s partner violently killed her and dumped her body in a trash bin; then he convinced her family she was still alive by claiming she was in a hospital for treatment and faking text messages. Even before the murder, he was known to be an abusive and controlling partner.

Case Status:
Matthew Waddell (Partner), convicted of murder, sentenced to a minimum of 32 years.

Sources:
Biggleswade murder trial hears man hid partner’s body in suitcase
Biggleswade: Matthew Waddell guilty of body-in-suitcase murder
Judge calls for Bedfordshire Police to review handling of domestic homicide case

Bijay Pradhan

A seated man with brown skin, black hair, and a mustache; he is wearing a collared shirt with blue, red, and white stripes. His expression is neutral.Name: Bijay Pradhan.
Died: February 18, 2023.
Age at death: 35.
Cause of death: Beaten.
Location: Patharapunja Village, Odisha, India.
Disability: Physical disability.

Details:
Bijay wanted to be married; so his uncle arranged a marriage for him. But his stepmother did not want him married because she thought he would inherit all the family’s property, and she did not want a “divyang” (Hindu: a disabled person, lit., “one with a divine body part”) to inherit. She recruited his father and stepbrothers, and together they allegedly beat him and starved him for months. Neighbors found Bijay, rescued him, and rushed him to the hospital; but even after he was transferred for advanced treatment, his injuries proved fatal, and he died.

Bijay was an autorickshaw driver.

Case Status:
Bijay’s stepmother, father, and stepbrothers are under investigation by police, suspected of murder.

Sources:
Stepmother, father allegedly murder physically-challenged son in Nayagarh district
Stepmother, Father Beat Divyang Youth To Death For Expressing Desire To Marry | Odisha
Divyang man beaten to death by stepmother, father for ‘wanting’ to marry
Odisha woman kills stepson for property

George Singleton

Photo of an African American man sitting in a chair, his head down, looking at his hands, which are folded in his lap. His skin is medium-brown and he has short, very curly dark hair. His lower lip is stuck out, and his forehead is wrinkled.Name: George Singleton.
Died: February 18, 2023.
Age at death: 32.
Cause of death: Blood loss.
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Disability: Autism, physical and mental disability, seizure disorder.

Details:
George had been living with his brother’s girlfriend for four months when someone called emergency services to report his death. Responders found George curled up on the floor dead from blood loss through a stab wound that had reached his femoral artery. His caregivers reported that he had accidentally stabbed himself trying to open a can of food.

On further investigation, police say, they realized that George’s caregivers had been starving him–his body showed signs of malnutrition and abuse. They also say that George’s caregivers waited more than six hours to call for help after he was injured, and that, if they had called sooner, George would have survived.

Case Status:
Kyana Traylor (Brother’s girlfriend), charged with manslaughter.

Sources:
New Orleans woman charged with manslaughter in disabled man’s death
New Orleans woman accused of starving, beating disabled man before he died of blood loss
New Orleans Woman Arrested, Accused of Abuse of Disabled Man
Autism Memorial: George Singleton

James Parham

Photo of a man sitting in a wheelchair. He is wearing a white T-shirt printed with a logao and a worn beige baseball cap. He has light skin, fuzzy gray hair, and a sparse mustache and beard. One of his eyes is pointed off to the side, and his hands are thin and bent with contractures.Name: James “Little Jimmie” Parham.
Died: February 13, 2023.
Age at death: 40.
Cause of death: Unspecified neglect.
Location: Clarksville, Tennessee, USA.
Disability: Unspecified.

Details:
James, called Little Jimmie, died from alleged neglect while in the care of his father and nephew.

Jimmie was a car enthusiast who enjoyed going to car shows.

Case Status:
James Parham Sr. (Father), charged with first-degree murder and aggravated neglect of a vulnerable adult resulting in serious physical harm.
Austin Parham (Nephew), charged with first-degree murder and aggravated neglect of a vulnerable adult resulting in serious physical harm.

Sources:
Father, nephew charged with killing disabled man last February in Montgomery County – ClarksvilleNow.com
James Parham – ClarksvilleNow.com

Rajender Kumar

No PhotoName: Rajender Kumar.
Died: February 3, 2023.
Age at death: 45.
Cause of death: Strangled.
Location: Anand Parbat, New Delhi, Delhi, India.
Disability: Paraplegic.

Details:
Rajender’s son allegedly strangled him because he wet the bed. Police say that Rajender’s son had grown tired of caring for him.

Case Status:
Sumit Kumar (Son), charged with murder.

Sources:
20-year-old kills ailing father for wetting bed

Walid

No PhotoName: Walid (Surname unknown).
Died: Unspecified; announcement made January 10, 2023.
Age at death: Adult.
Cause of death: Bludgeoned.
Location: Gargarish, Tripoli, Libya.
Disability: Developmental disability

Details:
Walid was living in an institution for people with disabilities two months before he was married to his wife. Some time after that, he was dead. Police released a video in which they interviewed his wife, who first blamed Walid’s death on a home invasion, but then admitted that he collapsed and died after she beat him with a metal broom handle for breaking some coffee cups.

Case Status:
His wife (Arrested).

Sources:
Libya: Woman beats her husband to death for breaking coffee cups
سيدة تقتل زوجها من ذوى الإعاقة لكسره فنجانين قهوة | موقع نساعد
جريمة تروع ليبيا.. سيدة تقتل زوجها لسبب غير متوقع
بسبب تكسيره فنجانين للقهوة.. سيدة ليبية تتخلص من زوجها | المصري اليوم
وزارة الداخلية – ليبيا
جبروت امرأة ضربت زوجها حتى الموت: مبيسمعش الكلام – المصريون

Yu Hau-ching

No PhotoName: Yu Hau-ching.
Died: December 11, 2022.
Age at death: 47.
Cause of death: Bludgeoning; head injury.
Location: Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong, China.
Disability: Chronic illness, bedridden.

Details:
Yu’s parents allegedly bludgeoned her to death with a hammer. Police say that the motive for the killing was the “unbearable pressure” of taking care of her.

Case Status:
Leung Yuet-mei (Mother), charged with murder.
Yu Ping (Father), charged with murder.

Sources:
Hong Kong elderly couple arrested over suspected murder of ill daughter, 47
Elderly couple charged with killing ill daughter with hammer
Hong Kong elderly couple charged with murdering chronically ill daughter

Shivamma

No PhotoName: Shivamma.
Died: December 4, 2022.
Age at death: 50.
Cause of death: Drowning.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Disability: Stroke; paralysis.

Details:
Shivamma was drowned in the flooded basement of the under construction apartment building she lived in with her husband and two children. Police arrested her husband on suspicion of killing her because he had been caring for her since her stroke and had grown tired of it.

Case Status:
Shankarappa (Husband), charged with murder.

Sources:
Security guard arrested for killing bedridden wife in Bengaluru
80-yr-old woman’s body found stuffed inside cupboard in K’taka: Cops