Since we apparently still can’t get past shitting on women because of Lindsey Clancy, I thought I’d take a few moments to discuss some of the cases from the last twelve months that didn’t get massive media coverage. In September of last year, 44 year old Jeffrey Smerer shot three of his children at his Port Huron apartment. His oldest son, 17 year old Kayleb, died from his wounds, but the other two children, a 13 year old boy and a 12 year old girl, managed to survive in spite of being critically injured. In October of 2025, 38 year old Wellingon Delano Dickins III called 911 and confessed to having murdered four of his children. Responding officers discovered four dead children — aged 18, 10, 9, and 6 — in the trunk of Dickins’ car. Also that same month, 38 year old Antonio Pearce was charged with murder after he called 911 to report that two armed men had kidnapped his 6 month old son, Nnakai Pratt. A police search uncovered Nnakai’s body hidden in a neighbor’s yard, and cell phone data showed that Pearce had paused at that exact location. The infant died from blunt force trauma to the head. In November of 2025, 42 year old Ryan Eagon ambushed his family as his wife tried to remove some of her belongings from their home. Eagon, who had a history of domestic violence, shot and killed 29 year Dustin Wiley, his wife’s ex-partner and the father of her oldest child, before turning the gun on her two children. One child was Wiley’s seven year old, the other Eagon’s own seven month old. Both were killed before Eagon turned the gun on himself. His wife was left physically unharmed. In December of 2025, 30 year old Marcellaus Malone murdered his infant daughter after four months of abuse. He once punched the baby in the face for crying, and would wrap her up so tightly that she would pass out from lack of air — a form of abuse that contributed to her death. In January of 2026, 42 year old Michael Haight shot and killed his wife Tausha, his mother in law Gail Earl, and his five children: Macie, 17, Brilee, 12, twins Ammon and Sienna, 7, and Gavin, 4. He then took his own life. Two weeks before the shooting, Tausha Haight had filed for divorce. Michael Haight had been investigated for physically abusing his daughter Macie in 2020. In February, David Rojas shot and killed his three daughters, Samia, 13, Samantha, 10, and Samarah, 9, during a supervised visit at a church in Sacramento before taking his own life. The social worker supervising the visitation was also shot and killed. In March, 45 year old Gene Bartnes shot and killed his three year old son Koltyn before shooting himself. He left notes indicating that he had been struggling with mental health issues. That same month, 42 year old Henrik Asselin intentionally drove his family minivan into an oncoming tractor trailer after accelerating to 84 mph. There was no attempt to brake, and video shows Asselin deliberately swerving in front of the truck. He and two of his children - a 4 year old girl and a 12 year old boy — were pronounced dead at the scene; his wife, who had been asleep in the passenger seat, and their other two children were seriously injured, but managed to survive. In April, 31 year old Shamar Elkins shot and killed his seven children and one of their cousins. The eight victims were between the ages of three and eleven. Elkins’ wife and ex-wife were also shot, but managed to survive. In May, John Wheeler was arrested in Franklinton, NC for the murder of his five month old daughter Kylie. The medical examiner found injuries consistent with severe physical abuse. In June, Ryan McFarland shot his wife, two male relatives, his 20 year old daughter and two of his teenage sons to death, stalking his family members across multiple locations before taking his own life as police tried to make contact. (1/2)