No, Pete Townshend, The Kids Aren't Alright 4: Killing Mom

Book Synopsis: No, Pete Townshend: The Kids Aren't Alright 4 adds 18 new true crime stories of kids who kill.

1. Rachael Mullenix: September 15, 2008, was a typically beautiful day in Newport Beach, California. Sun with some scattered clouds and a high in the 80’s. A perfect day for a boat ride. So it was for a member of the Newport Beach Yacht Club until he noticed something in the water that shouldn’t be there.
2. Kit Darrant: Teenagers arguing with parents about staying out late on a school night is nothing new and isn’t usually newsworthy. It becomes newsworthy when the argument leads to a vicious attack that ends in murder which it did in Miami, Florida in March 2012.
3. Chris Dankovich: Chris was a 15 year old whose interests included porn and searching the internet for guns and other weapons-related websites. His Mom found out. This was not going to end well.
4. Zachary Davis: Zachary was also 15 years old when he ended the life of his mother in 2012 in the family home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. His attorney was eloquent in his defence but would it be enough to save the teenager from a long prison sentence?
5. Carl “Charlie” Brandt: It was a month before Charlie’s 14th birthday in 1971. He shot his mother to death and wounded his father. Charlie Brandt wasn’t finished there…not even close.
6. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme: The country of New Zealand was rocked when the two friends, ages 16 and 15, murdered Pauline’s mother in Christchurch in 1954.
7. Kieren Smith: Kieren was 16 years old when he stabbed his mother to death in their home in Weymouth, Dorset in England in 2012. After all, was said and done, many still question the motive.
8. Yukio Yamaji: Yukio was 16 when he killed his mom in their home in the Yamaguchi Prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshu. Yukio was on his way to becoming one of the youngest serial killers in Japan.
9. Andrew Zaragoza: Andrew was also 16 when he beat his mother to death with a hammer and used a knife to make sure she was dead in their Bel Air, Maryland home in 2017.
10. Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whitehead: The identical twins were 16 when they became fed up with their mother and her rules. The twins had a solution. Cold-blooded murder!
11. Alexander Bedford: Alexander was 14 years old when he was about to be disciplined by his mother for bad grades. It had happened many times before. This time was going to be different.
12. Nathan Ybanez and Erik Jensen: A history of abuse sends a 14 year old boy spiraling down a path that leads to murder.
13. Linda Pedroza: Linda was 17 when she, with a little help from her boyfriend, murdered her mother in their Palm Beach Gardens, Florida home in 2000.
14. Timur Kimaletdinov: Timur was 16 years old and the pride of the tiny village in western Russia where the family lived. So, what made him pick up an axe and do the unthinkable?
15. Jake Evans: If you were found guilty of capital murder in Texas, the odds were that you would either get the death penalty or life inside with no parole. With the life without parole option for juveniles gone, what would Texas do with Jake Evans, 17.
16. Tylar Witt: Tylar Witt changed her wardrobe, her style, and her personality. She also changed her residence. She now lives in the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California.
17. Still Before The Courts
18. Amariyona Hall: Two sisters, one 14 and the other 12 years old, stabbed their mother to death during the early morning hours of January 5, 2019.
19. Unnamed nine year old boy: Pauline Randol had been trying to get mental health help for her nine year old son. Then, one day it was too late.