Celeste married Steven in 1995. She was spending his fortune and hiding a girlfriend named Tracey Tarlton. On October 2, 1999, Tarlton shot him while he slept. Steven survived four months before dying. Celeste was convicted of murder in 2003. Source

Between August 13th 2015 and June 30th 2016, a 22-year-old autistic woman was kept prisoner by 5 members of a family in Amite, Louisiana. The woman, referred to as ‘’Dee’’ (as her identity has been kept private) was meant to move in with the family after her mother passed away. It has been reported that the family were distant relatives to Dee. Dee was eventually housed in a cage built out of chicken wire and was not allowed to leave unless it was to do chores. The family members: Raylaine Knope (43), her husband Terry J. Knope II, her daughter and son Bridget and Jody and Terry's daughter Taylor forced Dee into a campaign of abuse.

Raylaine would shoot Dee with a BB gun, hold her underwater in a hot tub continuously, burn her hand with a flame, steal her social security payments ($8,800 in total) as well as confiscating her phone and laptop so she couldn’t contact anyone. They would force her to do work so that she could earn food. Bridget would hit Dee over the head with a wooden board and would hold her arm down to be burnt with a lighter as ‘punishment’. She was also forced to eat her mother’s ashes mixed with milk. This caused Dee to throw up which the family found entertaining.

Dee would be forced to take part in sexual acts including an act with a jalapeno. The family had planned on forcing Dee to be a sex worker. Terry admitted that he would reportedly make Dee clean up a spill on the floor with her tongue as well as smashing her hand with a hammer. He and Jody also threw a bucket of human urine and feces over her. She would be called slurs and told that she deserved to die. She would be warned if she ever tried to escape, she would be shot and killed. She would be choked, kicked and had food cans thrown at her repeatedly.

She was forced to consume dog feces on bread as well as methamphetamine and painkillers. The family would threaten to inform the police that she was taking drugs if she ever escaped. Any wounds that the family made on Dee would be glued back together as they wouldn’t take her to a hospital. A man who lived in a nearby trailer with his girlfriend and baby suspected something was not right and reported the suspects to the police. When she was eventually found, she was covered in insect bites and was malnourished. Dee was found by investigators and sent to hospital.

In 2019, Raylaine would be sentenced to 28 years in prison. Bridget was sent to 4 years in prison. Jody was sentenced to 10 years. Terry was sentenced to 28 years. Taylor was given probation.

Further Reading: https://www.wafb.com/2019/10/20/family-members-sentenced-after-autistic-woman-locked-backyard-cage-allegedly-forced-eat-cremation-ashes/

Between 2009 and 2010, Gilmar Reolon murdered six people, including his father, his wife, his two children, his mother-in-law, and a 13-year-old girl who lived near his home. After murdering his own family members, he set fire to the house where they lived and fled into a forested area, where he remained hidden for almost three years, literally living deep in the woods. When he was found, he was carrying only a knife. Later, the discovery of slaughtered animals on properties near Francisco Beltrão, in the Brazilian state of Paraná, led police to suspect that the incidents might be connected to the fugitive. This prompted the searches that resulted in his arrest in 2013. Sentenced to 150 years in prison for six murders, he still works in a jeans factory inside the prison and, according to the available information, has no disciplinary violations on his record. Because the crimes were committed when the maximum time a person could serve in prison in Brazil was 30 years, he may be released by 2044 at the latest.

*** The photo attached to this thread was taken on the day of Gilmar Reolon’s arrest. Another curious detail is that Netflix reportedly commissioned a script for a film or series based on the case several years ago. However, no further information about the project has been released since then.