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Ashanti Allen in Houston, Texas
Frezja Baker in Charlotte, North Carolina
Alesa Leach in Jacksonville, Florida
Mariah Rosanna Samuels in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Richard Cote in Waterbury, Vermont
Michelle Long in Lisbon, Ohio

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Houston, Texas • 2026-04-16

Ashanti Allen

Charges Filed girlfriend

Ashanti Allen, a 23-year-old Houston woman who was eight months pregnant with her first child, disappeared on April 10, 2026, and was found dead six days later near Chimney Rock Park. Court documents say she was strangled with a cord. Investigators used apartment surveillance, license plate reader data, cell phone records, and text and FaceTime evidence to link her boyfriend, Kevin Faux, 24, to the killing. Faux was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, on April 20, 2026, after authorities said he fled the state using Allen's debit card. He faces charges including capital murder and the murder of an unborn child. The case drew intense public attention because Faux had been released from jail less than two months earlier after pleading guilty to assaulting Allen in late 2025.

Warning signs: Separation, Prior threats, Escalating violence...

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Charlotte, North Carolina • 2025-12-12

Frezja Baker

Arrest Made girlfriend

Frezja Matisse Baker, a 31-year-old mother, went missing on December 4, 2025, after dropping her 2-year-old son off with family in Charlotte, North Carolina. That night, surveillance footage from a gas station on LaSalle Street captured 38-year-old Lorenza Thomas Inman Jr. physically assaulting her before the two left together in her 2004 Honda Accord. Following a week-long community and police search, Frezja's body was discovered on December 11, 2025, inside her car, which had been left behind an abandoned church on Sanders Avenue. She had suffered fatal head trauma. Following tips from witnesses who stated Inman admitted to the shooting, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department obtained warrants for his arrest. Inman was apprehended on December 12, 2025, in Maxton, North Carolina. He has been charged with murder, assault on a female, and a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Due to his extensive history of violent offenses, overturned prior convictions, and probation violations, a judge ordered him held without bond.

Warning signs: Prior threats, Escalating violence

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Jacksonville, Florida • 2025-11-17

Alesa Leach

Charges Filed ex-girlfriend

Alesa Leach, a 58-year-old Jacksonville resident, ordained minister, and city bus operator, was found deceased in her West 14th Street home on November 17, 2025. Investigators determined she died of violent trauma before their arrival, discovering her body after she missed a scheduled court appearance. Leach had an active domestic violence protection injunction against her 49-year-old ex-boyfriend, Joseph Anderson. Law enforcement had escorted Anderson away from her residence approximately one week prior for violating the injunction. Following the homicide, Anderson fled to Connecticut, where he was apprehended on December 5, 2025, on an injunction violation warrant and extradited back to Florida. On March 20, 2026, while already in custody at the Duval County Jail, Anderson was formally served an arrest warrant charging him with second-degree murder with a weapon, burglary, aggravated stalking, tampering with evidence, and violating a domestic violence protective injunction. He has entered a plea of not guilty.

Warning signs: Stalking, Separation, Protection order...

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Convicted

Minneapolis, Minnesota • 2025-09-14

Mariah Rosanna Samuels

Sentenced ex-girlfriend

Mariah Rosanna Samuels, a 34-year-old mother of two and small business owner, was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend, David Eugene Wright, 51, outside her family home in North Minneapolis on September 14, 2025. Following the termination of their relationship in August 2025, Wright severely assaulted Samuels, prompting her to secure an Order for Protection (OFP). On the morning of September 14, Wright violated the order by contacting her. Samuels requested police assistance, but the responding officer left after four minutes and filed a inaccurate report claiming she felt safe. Approximately two hours later, Wright ambushed Samuels in her parked vehicle, firing 12 shots through the window. Wright fled to Anoka, Minnesota, where he was apprehended. After a grand jury upgraded his charges to first-degree premeditated murder, Wright confessed to the killing on the witness stand during his trial. In April 2026, he was convicted on all counts and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Warning signs: Stalking, Separation, Protection order...

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Resolved case

Waterbury, Vermont • 2024-06-24

Richard Cote

Sentenced Intimate partner

Richard Eugene Cote, 76, a prominent business owner in Morristown, Vermont, was killed in his upstairs residence on the night of July 23–24, 2024. Investigative records indicate that Theodore "Teddy" Farnham, 54, who had an intermittent, complex, and occasionally intimate relationship with Cote spanning roughly 30 years, went to Cote's residence to ask for money. Digital, financial, and video surveillance evidence placed Farnham at the residence between 9:45 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. Following a violent assault resulting in Cote's death by strangulation and blunt force trauma, Farnham fled the scene in Cote's vehicle, discarded Cote's cell phone, and used Cote's stolen credit cards to execute over $1,200 in fraudulent transactions. Cote's body was discovered during a welfare check on the morning of July 24. Farnham was arrested on August 1, 2024, on an unrelated warrant and subsequently charged with second-degree murder. Despite initially pleading not guilty, Farnham accepted a plea agreement in January 2026, pleading guilty to second-degree murder, and was sentenced to 25 years to life with all but 16 years suspended.

Warning signs: Prior threats, Strangulation

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Resolved case

Convicted

Lisbon, Ohio • 2023-11-29

Michelle Long

Convicted ex-wife

Michelle Ann Long, 50, was shot and killed on November 29, 2023, while sitting in her pickup truck in the driveway of her residence on Carey Road in Butler Township/Salem, Ohio. Her body was located hours later by family members after she failed to pick up her son. The homicide occurred approximately seven months after the finalization of a highly contentious divorce from her husband of 25 years, William P. Long Jr.. The marriage was legally dissolved on the grounds of incompatibility following a bitter litigation process in the Columbiana County Court of Common Pleas. Civil court records detail a volatile separation period characterized by multiple counts of legal contempt, asset depletion, and property hoarding by the suspect.

Warning signs: Stalking, Separation, Protection order...

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Resolved case

Rock Hill, South Carolina • 2020-06-09

Nichole Zahnd Florentine

Appeal Pending wife

Nicole Rene Florentine (Zahnd) was murdered by her husband, Lawrence Joseph Florentine, during a road trip between June 3 and June 11, 2020. The couple had a documented history of severe domestic violence at their home in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Nicole had called 911 multiple times reporting physical abuse and explicit threats by Lawrence to kill, burn, and bury her. Following a house fire on May 23, 2020, which destroyed their home, the couple traveled through North and South Carolina. Nicole was shot in the head on or about June 9, 2020. Lawrence then drove her body to Hill Cemetery in Fredonia, Kentucky, bought a shovel and gas can, doused her remains in gasoline, set them on fire, and buried her in a shallow grave. After her grandmother filed a missing person report, a groundskeeper discovered the makeshift grave on June 13, 2020. Lawrence fled to Denver, Colorado, where he surrendered to police on June 23, 2020. Because the murder took place across state lines, local prosecutors requested federal intervention. Lawrence pleaded guilty to multiple federal counts in October 2023 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison in April 2024. In August 2025, an appellate ruling overturned his conviction for utilizing fire to commit a felony on the basis that VAWA protections legally cease upon death, though his 30-year sentence remained unchanged.

Warning signs: Separation, Prior threats, Escalating violence...

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