Type: Multiple Homicide – Page 6 – Disability Day of Mourning

Amy Nguyen

Photo of a teenage girl in a flowered baseball cap, lavender Bratz t-shirt, and black-and-white giraffe-print skirt. Name: Amy Nguyen.
Died: August 20, 2019.
Age at death: 14.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Ontario, California, USA.
Disability: Unspecified special needs.

Details:
Amy and her 4-month-old sister Kaitlyn were found dead, with “visible injuries”, and their mother was arrested on suspicion of having killed them.

Amy loved colorful clothing. She was fond of bows, headbands, skirts, and bracelets, and often complimented others on their clothes. She doted on her baby sister. Her classmates called her “Sweet Amy”, and remember how welcoming she was to new students and anyone who felt out of place.

Case status:
Linda Nguyen (Mother), charged with murder.

Source:
Friends say goodbye to Amy and Kaitlyn Nguyen
Woman accused of killing her two children to undergo mental evaluation
California Mother Under Investigation For Murder Of Her Daughters And Attempted Suicide
Ontario mother’s suicide notes detailed plan to kill her two daughters, ages 4 months and 14 years, police say | FOX 10 Phoenix
Mom is responsible for deaths of 2 girls found in Ontario home, police say
Ontario Mother Left Suicide Notes Indicating Plan to Kill Her 2 Daughters First, Police Say
Linda Nguyen: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
LA-area mother left note detailing plan to kill her children, arrested in their death

Ari Ase, Mya Ase, and John Savage

Photos of a young boy with dark-brown skin and short hair, a young girl with brown skin and her hair in dreads, with rhinestones glued onto the photograph, and a toddler boy with tan skin, wearing a too-big Carolina Panthers baseball cap. Name: Ari Ase.
Age at death: 8.
Disability: Autism.

Name: Mya Ase.
Age at death: 7.
Disability: Autism.

Name: John Savage.
Age at death: 3.
Disability: Autism.

Died: July 7, 2019.
Cause of death: Carbon monoxide poisoning.
Location: Syracuse, New York, USA.

Details:
Ari, Mya, and John were all autistic. Ari smiled all the time; Mya sang songs. Both liked music. Mya was a talented artist whose teacher thought she would one day become famous. Ari would read the dictionary for fun. Three-year-old John, a precocious boy who could already count and spell, loved reading books.

Their mother packed the three children into a rental car and ignited a charcoal grill, filling the car with carbon monoxide and killing them all.

Case status:
Crystal Savage (Mother), deceased.

Source:
DA: Mom in murder-suicide was in “utter despair”, kids were “high maintenance” for her
Dad IDs mom, 3 children killed in Syracuse murder-suicide
Dad of boy killed by mom in Syracuse murder-suicide: ‘He was everything that I had’ (video)
Woman and 3 Children Died From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Inside Vehicle: Report
Crystal Savage’s sister: Her story is ‘bigger than’ murder-suicide
Syracuse mother’s trail of hardship ends with murder-suicide
Community Gathers to Remember Kids Lost in Murder-Suicide
Mom lights a charcoal grill in trunk of a rental car to kill herself, three children: Report
Mom’s struggles and note at center of probe into her suicide, murder of 3 kids
Autism Memorial: Ari Ase, Mya Ase, and John Savage

Jaden and Jorden Webb

Name: Jaden Webb.
Name: Jorden Webb.
Died: April 4, 2019.
Age at death: 8.
Cause of death: Gunshot.
Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Disability: Autism.

Details:
Jaden and Jorden, twin brothers, were shot dead by their grandmother.

Case status:
Dorothy Flood (Grandmother), pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter, sentenced to 21 years.

Source:
Autism Memorial: Jaden and Jordan Webb
Tucson grandma sentenced to 21 years for killing grandsons with autism
Grandmother pleads guilty to murdering autistic grandsons
Arizona Woman Indicted in Deaths of Twin Grandsons
Grandmother arrested in deaths of 8-year-old Tucson twins
Grandmother charged with murdering autistic grandsons
Tucson woman admits to shooting her twin autistic grandsons
Arizona woman shot dead her orphaned, autistic 8-year-old twin grandsons, then tried to kill herself by overdosing
Twin Boys With Autism Fatally Shot by Arizona Grandmother, Who Tried to Kill Herself: Court Docs
Court documents: Tucson woman admits to shooting, killing twin grandsons
Police: Woman admitted to killing special needs grandsons
Ariz. woman charged with killing 2 grandchildren with autism
Court documents offer background on killing of twin grandsons
Arizona woman indicted in deaths of twin grandsons

Harish and Santosh

Name: Harish.
Age at death: 28.

Name: Santosh.
Age at death: 25.

Died: March 16, 2019.
Cause of death: Poisoning.
Location: Doddathoguru, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Disability: Unspecified; bedridden.

Details:
Harish and Santosh’s mother fed them poisoned food and killed them; she also ate some herself and died.

Case status:
Radhamma (Mother), deceased.

Source:
Woman poisons disabled sons, takes her own life
Bengaluru: Woman poisons differently abled sons, ends life

Evelyn Scott

Photo: Middle-aged woman in a striped shirt, with olive-toned skin and curly, shoulder-length hair Name: Evelyn H. Scott.
Died: February 7, 2019.
Age at death: 77.
Cause of death: Sharp-force injury.
Location: Murray, Kentucky, USA.
Disability: Alzheimer’s disease.

Details:
Evelyn lived with her niece and her niece’s boyfriend. Her neighbors rarely saw her, but her niece, 37-year-old Tera Todd, was often seen walking Evelyn’s little dog.

Her caregiver’s boyfriend killed Evelyn and Tera by stabbing Tera and slashing Evelyn’s throat. He also strangled the dog.

Case status:
Todd Scott (Niece’s boyfriend), pleaded guilty to 2 counts of murder, sentenced to 40 years.

Source:
Scott enters guilty plea in double-murder case
Court documents paint gruesome picture of Murray double murder
2 women found dead in Murray, KY, suspect facing murder charges
Police investigating double murder in Murray, KY
Evelyn Scott
Family releases names of women in Murray double murder

Keith Theriot

Photo of a middle-aged man with a gray beard and light-brown skin, wearing a camo baseball cap. Name: Keith Theriot.
Died: January 26, 2019.
Age at death: 50.
Cause of death: Gunshot.
Location: Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA.
Disability: Unspecified; disabled veteran.

Details:
Keith had kicked his son out of his trailer, so the son went to live with his girlfriend. Two weeks later, he allegedly killed his girlfriend, her father, and her younger brother before driving to his parents’ house and shooting Keith and his wife Elizabeth. Keith survived long enough to tell police that it was his son who had shot him.

Keith played the guitar.

Case status:
Dakota Theriot (Son), pleaded guilty to five counts of murder, sentenced to life without parole.

Source:
Dakota Theriot pleads guilty in deadly shooting spree; receives life sentence
Dakota Theriot, accused of killing five, faces the death penalty. Coronavirus may delay his trial
Louisiana murder suspect caught at grandma’s Virginia home
‘My babies died for nothing’: Louisiana shooting that killed 5 leaves family broken

Kyoko and Hiroki Naito

No Photo Name: Kyoko Naito.
Age at death: 69.
Disability: Diabetes, mobility impaired.

Name: Hiroki Naito.
Age at death: 36.
Disability: Mental illness/hikikomori.

Cause of death: Asphyxia.
Location: Ono, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Died: November 26, 2018.

Details:
Kyoko’s husband allegedly killed her and her son Hiroki by strangling them with a necktie.

Case status:
Hisaki Naito (Husband/Father), arrested.

Source:
Man arrested for killing bedridden wife, ‘hikikomori’ son
Gifu: Man strangles bedridden wife and shut-in son
Autism Memorial: Hiroki Naito

“Miss He”

Photo of two Chinese toddlers, a boy in a black and red coat, and a girl in a purple coat. The boy has his arms around the girl. Their eyes are pixelated to keep them anonymous. Name: “Miss He” (Pseudonym).
Died: October 11, 2018.
Age at death: 3.
Cause of death: Drowning.
Location: Evening Village, Hunan Province, China.
Disability: Epilepsy.

Details:
Miss He’s father was worried about having taken out loans to pay for her medical care, so he decided to buy life insurance and fake his own death. Not telling his wife what he was doing, he drove his car into a river. Three weeks later, thinking him dead, Miss He’s mother took her and her four-year-old brother to the river and drowned herself and both children.

Case status:
“Dai Guihua” (Mother–pseudonym), deceased.

Source:
A Murder-Suicide by His Wife Foiled a Man’s Fake Death
Woman kills herself after husband’s ‘death’
Devastated wife kills herself and her two kids after husband FAKES his own death for insurance payout without revealing his plan
A Chinese woman kills herself and her children after her husband faked his own death
Woman kills herself after husband’s ‘death’
湖南一男子假死骗保反致妻子带着一双儿女自杀_

Jonathan Schmoyer

Photo of a toddler boy with very fair hair and pale skin. He is looking at the camera with a slightly puzzled expression. He is wearing a yellow SpongeBob T-shirt. Name: Jonathan “JJ” Schmoyer.
Died: September 29, 2018.
Age at death: 2.
Cause of death: Explosion.
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Disability: Suspected autism.

Details:
JJ’s father rigged his car to explode. He put JJ in the car seat, lured 66-year-old family friend David Hallman into the car, and set off the explosives. All three were killed.

In suicide letters left behind, the killer mentioned that he “had something against autism, which he suspected JJ had.”

From JJ’s obituary:
“JJ was a loving, intelligent and inquisitive child who loved to explore, laugh, take walks, roller skate and play patty-cake. JJ also loved to eat Subway meatball sandwiches and he adored Thomas the Tank [Engine] and his Spider-Man and SpongeBob t-shirts.”

Case status:
Jacob Schmoyer (Father), deceased.

Source:
Autism Memorial: Jonathan Schmoyer
View Jonathan Schmoyer’s Obituary on mcall.com and share memories
Cops: ‘Miserable’ dad rigged car to explode, killing 2-year-old son, friend and himself
Allentown car explosion: Jacob Schmoyer committed murder-suicide using homemade explosives, ATF says
Allentown Car Bomb: Mystery Surrounds Grisly Deaths of 2 Men and Child in Explosion
Allentown car explosion: Toddler’s mom searching for answers, too

Warren Raymond Jr.

Name: Warren Lee Raymond Jr.
Died: September 13, 2018.
Age at death: 30.
Cause of death: Head trauma.
Location: Catawba County, North Carolina, USA.
Disability: Autism.

Details:
Warren’s father bludgeoned him to death with a sledgehammer and beat and stabbed Warren’s mother to death.

Case Status:
Warren Lee Raymond Sr. (Father), pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, sentenced to 40-50 years.

Source:
Dad Pummels Autistic Son With Sledgehammer, Stabs Wife To Death
Warren Lee Raymond, JR. Obituary – Visitation & Funeral Information
Autism Memorial: Warren Raymond Jr.
With a sledgehammer, the father pummels his autistic son, stabbing his wife to death.
Catawba man likely to die in prison after convicted of killing wife, son
Catawba County Man Pleads Guilty To Murdering Wife, Son, Receives Lengthy Prison Term
Catawba County man who killed wife and son sentenced
64-year-old man sentenced to 40-50 years in prison for killing wife, son with autism in Catawba Co.