Ross Ulbricht, founder of The Silk Road (darknet market), in prison with fellow inmates. Ross is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Here’s is the letter he wrote to the judge asking for leniency:
Crime
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The first images emerged showing armed police with rifles and ballistic shields waiting in a school corridor inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde at 12:04 p.m. May 24. Authorities stormed the classroom at 12:50 p.m.
By noon, officers had rifles, a Halligan and at least one ballistic shield — yet made no attempt to enter the classrooms for 50 minutes.
Police waited for a master key to arrive so that the classroom doors could be opened, even though it had not been established that the doors were locked, while tools were also available that could have been used to break them down, the Texas Tribune reported.
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In 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon hired a hitman to kill his 51-year-old wife, Susan Kuhnhausen. She ended up killing the hitman with her bare hands. When she had her hands on his neck she asked him, “TELL ME WHO SENT YOU HERE AND I WILL CALL YOU A FUCKING AMBULANCE!”
For many people, the presence of an intruder brandishing a hammer in a darkened bedroom would prompt an entirely understandable response. They’d run.
But Susan wasn’t most people. An emergency room nurse for nearly 30 years, she had disarmed injured men, helped crack open people’s chests to perform heart massages, and administered IVs in patients thrashing from drug withdrawal. She and all the other nurses at Providence trained regularly in self defense, learning how to slip out of headlocks and clutches.
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Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, the real life inspiration for Mickey and Mallory from ‘Natural Born Killers’
For two months in 1958, Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, left a trail of 11 dead bodies across Nebraska and Wyoming. Their victims were anyone unfortunate enough to get in their way, including Fugate’s parents and a wealthy Nebraska couple they had robbed.
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16 victims of the Robb Elementary School schooting in Uvalde, Texas
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After multiple disputes with his town Marvin Heemeyer constructed a concrete/steel armor-plated bulldozer “Killdozer” to destroy those who had sided against him. His rampage destroyed 13 buildings & was unstoppable by Police/SWAT until the dozer stalled. He killed himself & was the only casualty
Heemeyer’s bulldozer was a modified Komatsu D355A, which he referred to as the "MK Tank" in audio recordings, fitted with makeshift armor plating covering the cabin, engine, and parts of the tracks.
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10 people killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, police say. The 18-year-old suspect, Payton Gendron is in custody
The suspect drove to Buffalo to the Tops market heavily armed, wearing tactical gear, and had a camera where he was livestreaming what he was doing, said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia.
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This 14-Year-Old TikTok Star Became An Overnight Sensation After She Stabbed Her Disabled Sister To Death
Claire Miller was a seemingly average 14-year-old in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who lived a second life online posting lip-synching videos on TikTok. She soon found success there, gaining some 22,000 followers with her lighthearted posts.
But in February 2021, she suddenly gained more than 10,000 additional followers almost overnight — just after news broke that she had gruesomely murdered her disabled sister. On February 22, Miller repeatedly stabbed her wheelchair-bound sister in the neck while their parents slept just down the hall. Click the link in our profile to go inside this disturbing murder — and the disturbing TikToks Miller is believed to have posted just before the crime.
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Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed
Noela Rukundo is a Burundian-Australian woman who became notable for crashing her own funeral. In January 2015, she was presumed dead after her husband, Balenga Kalala, secretly paid several gunmen to kill her while she was in Burundi for her stepmother’s funeral.
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