Name: Mark Anthony Green. Died: March 19, 2015. Age at death: 56. Cause of death: Gunshot. Location: Knoxville, Maryland, USA. Disability: Intellectual disability.
Details:
Mark was shot by his father in a double homicide-suicide. Mark’s mother, 86-year-old Mary Green, was the other victim.
Mark was an avid cyclist who could usually be found riding his bicycle around the neighborhood.
Name: Rachele Tyburski. Died: March 15, 2015. Age at death: 26. Cause of death: Suffocation. Location: Lakewood, Ohio, USA. Disability: Bipolar disorder.
Details:
Rachele was suffocated to death by her mother; then her sister took her body and dumped it in a field.
She had a four-year-old son.
Case status:
Janet Tyburski (Mother), convicted of murder, sentenced to 19 years to life.
Hannah Tyburski (Sister), pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse, $750 fine and suspended 90-day jail sentence.
Name: Julieanne Cieslikowski. Died: February 27, 2015. Age at death: 16. Cause of death: Gunshot. Location: Bonney Lake, Washington, USA. Disability: Autism spectrum.
Details:
Julieanne was shot by her mother in a murder-suicide.
Case status:
Sarahlynne Ciesilowski (Mother), deceased.
Name: Kylee Forrest. Died: February 1, 2015. Age at death: 4. Cause of death: Traumatic injury. Location: Lubbock, Texas, USA. Disability: Cerebral palsy.
Details:
Kylee was viciously beaten to death by her father.
Her family called her “Kylie Bug”.
Case status:
Justin Chisum (Father), pleaded guilty to murder, sentenced to life without parole.
Name: Liam Milne. Age at death: 11. Disability: Fragile X. Died: February 1, 2015. Cause of death: Car crash. Location: Sydney, Australia.
Details:
Liam and his brother Ben both had Fragile X, and their mother Susana was six months pregnant with another boy. Their father, who feared that the boys would not be able to cope with their disabilities, bundled his whole family into the car and crashed it into a tree at 90 miles an hour.
Only seven-year-old Ben survived the crash, though he was severely injured. Ben is now living with his aunt, who says he is doing well.
Case status:
Darren John Milne (Father), deceased.
Name: Owen Collins. Died: January 17, 2015. Age at death: 3. Cause of death: Head injury. Location: Bluffton, Indiana, USA. Disability: Autism.
Details:
When Owen died, his parents put him in a box, burned his body, and reported him missing. Initial reports implied Owen had been poisoned with meth, but autopsy results showed Owen had died from a blow to the head with no meth in his system.
Case status:
Zachary S. Barnes (Stepfather), pleaded guilty to murder, sentenced to 50 years.
Breanna J. Arnold (Mother), pleaded guilty to dealing methamphetamine, sentenced to 20 years in prison and two and a half years of probation.
Zachary Barker, pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse and dealing methamphetamine, sentenced to 12 years.
Name: Iblah (Ibrahim) Pilo. Died: January 16, 2015. Age at death: 2. Cause of death: Missing, presumed dead. Location: Chimtanda village, Malawi. Disability: Albinism.
Details:
Iblah’s mother was worried that he would be kidnapped and sold for his body parts, but her husband told her to stay with him, saying that he would protect the little boy.
Days later, Iblah’s mother woke in the night to hear him screaming; he was being kidnapped. She was unable to save him.
Iblah’s body was never found, but it is likely that he was indeed sold for his body parts, which are used in ritual magic. Police arrested his father and two other men.
Case status:
Iblah’s father and two others were charged with kidnapping and burglary, but released due to insufficient evidence.
Name: Cyrus Buskirk. Died: January 12, 2015. Age at death: 8. Cause of death: Untreated diabetes. Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. Disability: Juvenile diabetes.
Details:
When Cyrus’s diabetes made him sick, his mother didn’t get him medical help. She called the doctor, but didn’t follow any of the doctor’s instructions. By the time she called 911, it was too late; Cyrus died of complications of juvenile diabetes.
Cyrus’s obituary says that he “loved school, baseball, the Iron Pigs, karate and being a ninja”.
Case status:
Ashleigh Buskirk (Mother), pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment, sentenced to 16 months to 10 years.
Name: Hayden Dukes. Died: January 8, 2015. Age at death: 4. Cause of death: Head injury. Location: Underwood, Indiana, USA. Disability: Autism, DiGeorge syndrome.
Details:
Hayden’s father was watching TV, and Hayden was getting in the way. Instead of paying attention to his son, Hayden’s father beat him to death.
Case status:
Christopher Bruck (Father); charged with aggravated battery and neglect of a dependent, sentenced to 40 years in prison and 2.5 years parole.
Died: Unknown; mother arrested in 2015. Age at death: All were under 3. Cause of death: Warfarin poisoning. Location: Ekaterinburg, Russia. Disability: Atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
Details:
Sasha, Maxim, and Misha died before their brother Ilya was taken to the hospital, gravely sick from warfarin poisoning. Ilya survived, but the attempted murder tipped off police that his siblings’ deaths might not have been accidental. After exhumation and autopsy, it was determined that Maxim and Misha had both died from warfarin poisoning. Their sister Sasha’s autopsy was inconclusive, but like them, she died young and suddenly.
Their mother, when arrested, claimed she had tried to cure her children, but that it was too difficult; so she wanted to kill them and start a new family with healthy children.
Ilya, who recovered from the poisoning, is now living with his father.
Case status:
Elena Kordyukova (Mother), convicted, sentenced to 18 years.