In September 2012, Tina Lasonya Brown was sentenced to death in Florida for the murder of Audreanna Zimmerman. Brown with the help from her daughter and a neighbor, attacked Zimmerman with a stun gun, beat her with a crow bar, drove her to a wooded area, doused her with gasoline and set her on fire.
Dr. Shirley Turner clutched her 13 month old son Zachary Turner to her body and jumped into Conception Bay, several kilometres outside of St. John’s, Newfoundland.At the time, Turner was facing extradition to the United States to stand trial for the 2001 murder of Dr. Andrew Bagby, Zachary’s father.