The two girls were only 15 and 14 years old, respectively, on June 14, 1983, when the duo would come together to commit one of the most senseless crimes of all time: the murder of Anna Bracket, an 85-year-old woman. Nine others were convicted of lesser charges and three were cleared. The crime: The brothers behind the notorious Edlington attacks already had a reputation for bad behaviour, including animal cruelty, and attacking a teacher and another young boy.

"In the Bulger case, for example, Robert Thompson seems to have modified his behaviour, while Jon Venables hasn’t. Apparently, on one occasion, the two got into a massive argument, and Samuel hit him. . Who: Connor Doran, Simon Evans and Brandon Doran. Price was 13 years old when he killed for the first time, and then killed three more people before he was arrested in 1989 at the age of 15. The crime: On February 12, 1993 two-year-old James Bulger went missing from outside a butcher’s shop in the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Merseyside. Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf were an interesting duo of child murderers and were practically straight out of a horror movie. At around 3.40pm his mum Denise had turned away to pay for some meat and found James gone when she turned back. Top 10 Space Movies Judged By Actual Astronauts, Top 10 Things You Won’t Believe Are Contagious, Top 10 Successful Inventions That Just Up And Died, Top 10 Mysterious Facts About Russia’s Secret Metro-2 Railway, Top 10 Ideas That Were Far Ahead Of Their Time, Top 10 Bizarre Connections Between Famous People And Notorious Murderers, Top 10 Underwater Ruins Of Lost Civilizations, Top 10 Musicians Who Sold Their Soul To The Devil, 10 Terrifying Examples Of Children Murdering Their Parents, 10 Terrifying Legal Problems That Ensnared Unsuspecting People, 10 Strange And Unusual Deaths Connected To The Manson Family, 10 Grisly Historical Murderers Caught Thanks To Forensics. Finally, Dancey, filled with rage, drew a pistol and ran toward William Braund, pointing it at him and threatening to shoot before eventually pulling the trigger. How they were caught: The police went through hours of CCTV footage to identify the culprits and analysed communications between them on Facebook and via BlackBerry Messenger.

The younger victim was later found wandering in the street with knife wounds while the 11-year-old was discovered lying face down on a muddy river bank. On the night of August 17, 2012, the boys were running wild through the streets of the city as usual with their friend Simon. THE figures are shocking: nearly 400 children have been convicted of murder in the UK in the last two decades. HAMMER HORROR: 14-YEAR-OLD WHO COPIED CORRIE KILLER. The next day James’ distraught parents made an emotional TV appeal for the return of their son. It emerged that after being abducted James had been stripped from the waist. They were both ordered to stay in custody until they were 18 and released on a lifelong licence in 2001 with new identities. Some five weeks later, in April 1874, the body of Horace Millen was discovered by two kids walking along the beach in search of shells and other fun things. A witness saw a young boy running from the scene but couldn’t make out who it was, but this was enough for police to immediately begin to suspect Pomeroy. This seemingly spontaneous act of murder was senseless. Like Nathaniel Abraham, Mary Bell committed murder at the age of 11 years old, and like Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf, her early life was marred by sexual abuse.
They were the definition of coldhearted, personified evil. He finally exploded on December 1, 1997, the year the school shooting was seemingly born.
The arsenic ended up killing Samuel Nelme, and William would be arrested and stand trial. Daniel then covered her bloodied body with paper, doused it in petrol and set fire to it, hoping to destroy the evidence. Mary Bell became infamous for the manslaughter of Martin Brown and Brian Howe in 1968 when she was aged just 10. Lumps of a broken sink were dropped on the head of the older boy. Luke Woodham of Pearl, Mississippi, was only 16 years old on October 1, 1997, when his killing rampage began. The police initially wrote the murder off as an accidental death, but upon further investigation, they realized that the boy had been strangled.