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[@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime)
"In 2021 55-year-old Alpo Martinez a notorious New York City drug lord and serial killer was fatally shot five times in Harlem while seated in his 2017 Dodge Ram. The incident occurred on October XX 2021 around 3:30 a.m. According to reports Martinez's killing was linked to a road rage incident with some speculating it stemmed from a grudge held by Shakeem Parker who Martinez had allegedly struck with his motorcycle months prior. Parker was later charged with Martinez's murder but was acquitted on July XX 2024. Martinez had a complex past having been a major player in the 1980s crack epidemic"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7560823467411590431) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-13T21:36Z 4834 followers, 429.6K engagements


"In 1998 49-year-old James Byrd Jr. a Black man from Jasper Texas was the victim of one of the most brutal hate crimes in modern American history. On the night of June X Byrd had spent the day visiting with friends and family before beginning the walk home. Along the way he accepted a ride from three white men-Shawn Berry XX Lawrence Brewer XX and John King XX. Berry who knew Byrd casually from around town was driving the pickup truck. Instead of taking Byrd home the men drove him to a remote clearing in the woods outside Jasper. There they beat him savagely and Brewer sprayed black paint in"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562700472520330527) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-18T23:00Z 4834 followers, 200.5K engagements


"In 2007 24-year-old Rayquon Elliott-known to fans as Stack Bundles- was a rising star in New York's hip-hop scene when his life was cut short in a brutal act of violence. In the early morning hours of June XX Bundles was returning home from a performance at Club Stereo in Manhattan. As he entered the lobby of his building in the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway Queens he was ambushed and shof three times by an unidentified assailant. He died on the scene just steps from his apartment. Bundles had not yet released a full album but his lyrical talent and collaborations with Dipset and ByrdGang"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562702365657271583) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-18T23:07Z 4834 followers, 120.9K engagements


"In 2003 18-year-old Brandie Coleman I biological woman and 17-year-old Nireah Johnson a transgender teenager spent time with Paul Moore and Curtis Ward after meeting them at a gas station parking lot. The encounter initially seemed friendly with Moore and Johnson exchanging phone numbers and a cheek kiss. However things took a deadly turn when Moore discovered Johnson's trans identity. On July XX 2003 Coleman and Johnson visited Moore's home where Moore's anger and disgust boiled over after discovering Johnson was transgender. Moore's reaction was violent and he bound Coleman and Johnson's"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563096159493967134) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-20T00:36Z 4834 followers, 13K engagements


"In 1998 18-year-old Rebecca Gonzales and 22-year-old Sophia Abril were found dead in their apartment at the Casa Verde Apartments located at 5454 West Indian School Road. The incident occurred on November XX 1998 at approximately 4:30 a.m. after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots. When police arrived they found the apartment door open and the two women had been shot. According to eyewitness accounts two Hispanic men were seen leaving the area after the shots were fired but their identities and whereabouts remain unknown. The victims were celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with friends"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563851334370200862) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-22T01:26Z 4834 followers, 53.2K engagements


"In 1992 19-year-old Shelton "Shorty Pop" Watkins also known as Shalon Mahammad was a notable figure in Washington D.C's street scene. He was known for his involvement in the crack era and had connections with prominent figures such as Alpo Martinez and Rayful Edmonds. According to reports Shorty Pop was the leader and singer of the gogo group "Junkyard Band" which had signed a deal with Def Jam Records in the late 1980s when he was just XX years old. Shorty Pop was also known to have introduced Alpo Martinez to Wayne Perry. He was reportedly good friends with notorious D.C. street figures"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7560887067161496863) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-14T01:43Z 4834 followers, 6156 engagements


"In 1992 22-year-old Allen R. Schindler Jr. a U.S. Navy radioman was brutally murdered in a public restroom in Sasebo Park Japan. Schindler's attackers fellow sailors Terry M. Helvey and Charles E. Vins subjected him to a vicious assault punching choking and kicking him to the floor before stomping him to death. Witness Jonathan Witte described seeing Helvey repeatedly stomp on Schindler's body while singing before running to retrieve Shore Patrolmen. When Witte returned with help Schindler was lying on the floor struggling to breathe through a mouthful of blood. Despite attempts to save him"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7561214821782310174) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-14T22:55Z 4834 followers, 824.5K engagements


"In 1997 40-year-old Raymond Myles was on the cusp of stardom his powerful voice and charismatic stage presence captivating audiences across New Orleans. As a gospel music icon he had performed at prestigious events like the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Newport Folk Festival. Myles' journey from the impoverished St. Bernard housing projects to public school music teacher and eventually gospel sensation was nothing short of remarkable. However his success was not without its challenges. As a gay man in the gospel community Myles faced intense"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7561636548236627231) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-16T02:11Z 4834 followers, 8895 engagements


"In 2015 21-year-old Rachel Aboytes widely known by her nickname "La Baby Smiley" was gunned down in a drive-by shooting that shocked the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver and left her family and friends devastated. On the night of March XX Rachel was sitting in a parked car near the intersection of East 48th Avenue and Clayton Street-an area long plagued by gang-related violence-when multiple shots rang out. She was struck several times and died at the scene before emergency responders could save her. A mother a daughter and a beloved figure in her community Rachel's life was cut short in"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7561911690158247199) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-16T19:59Z 4834 followers, 286.6K engagements


"In 1999 26-year-old Army Private First Class Barry Winchell was brutally murdered by his fellow soldier Calvin Neal Glover with a baseball bat while Winchell slept outside their shared barracks room at Fort Campbell. The incident occurred on July X 1999 after a prolonged period of harassment and altercations between Winchell and another soldier Justin Fisher with whom he had a history of physical disputes. On the Fourth of July weekend Winchell and Glover got into a fight after Winchell accused Glover of boasting. Fisher subsequently goaded Glover referring to Winchell as a derogatory term"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7561996909955648799) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-17T01:30Z 4834 followers, 1.1M engagements


"In 2004 33-year-old Diane Whipple's tragic death remained at the center of one of California's most controversial and emotionally charged criminal cases. Whipple a promising lacrosse coach at St. Mary's College had been mauled to death three years earlier on January XX 2001 in the hallway of her San Francisco apartment building. As she returned home carrying groceries she encountered two massive Presa Canario dogs-Bane and Hera-being walked by her neighbor attorney Marjorie Knoller. The dogs owned by prison gang member Paul Schneider and his cellmate Dale Bretches had been placed in Knoller"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562000777829420319) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-17T01:45Z 4834 followers, 56.6K engagements


"In 2006 21-year-old Ashley Baskerville's life took a deadly turn when she became embroiled in a violent crime spree with her boyfriend Ray Joseph Dandridge and his uncle Ricky Javon Gray. The trio's crimes began on New Year's Day 2006 with the brutal murder of the Harvey family - Bryan Kathryn and their daughters Stella and Ruby - in their Richmond home. Ashley allegedly acted as a lookout while Gray and Dandridge bound beat and killed the family. Five days later police received a tip about Ashley's suspicious behavior and followed up on a concern call from a friend worried about her safety."  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562223048179469598) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-17T16:07Z 4834 followers, 891.5K engagements


"In 1996 26-year-old Andre "Angel" Melendez vanished from the vibrant but volatile world of New York City's club scene only to be found weeks later-dismembered decomposing and discarded in a cardboard box that washed ashore on Staten Island's Oakwood Beach. Melendez a flamboyant figure known for his angel wings and ties to the underground party circuit had confronted fellow club kids Michael Alig and Robert "Freeze" Riggs on March XX over money he was allegedly owed. The confrontation turned violent. According to Riggs' later confession Melendez overpowered Alig who cried out for help. Riggs"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562223317529234718) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-17T16:08Z 4834 followers, 128.4K engagements


"In 2006 29-year-old Michael Sandy a gay Black man from Brooklyn was lured to his death in a hate-fueled attack that exposed the dangers of online predation and homophobic violence. On the night of October X Sandy met 20-year-old Anthony Fortunato and 19-year-old John Fox in an online chatroom. After exchanging messages about a sexual encounter Fortunato arranged to meet Sandy at Plumb Beach a known cruising spot off the Belt Parkway. Unbeknownst to Sandy Fortunato and Fox had recruited two other friends-llya Shurov XX and Gary Timmons 17-to ambush and rob him. Sandy drove his Mazda to the"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562226718354705695) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-17T16:22Z 4834 followers, 9627 engagements


"In 2008 42-year-old Sonya Mullins a dedicated corrections officer and mother of three was brutally murdered in her Deerfield Township home in a crime that shocked her community and devastated her family. On January XX Mullins was beaten on the head and torso by her ex-boyfriend Donnell Logan a fellow corrections officer at South Woods State Prison. After the assault Logan poured gasoline on her body and set the house ablaze. Firefighters from four surrounding communities responded to the inferno on Morgan Avenue but by the time they. arrived flames were already ripping through the roof."  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562265961349319967) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-17T18:54Z 4834 followers, 15.7K engagements


"In 2013 21-year-old Islan Nettles a vibrant African American transgender woman and aspiring fashion designer was walking home with a friend through Harlem when her life was brutally cut short. Just after midnight on August XX she crossed paths with James Dixon and a group of six young men heading south on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Dixon XX and intoxicated began flirting with Nettles believing she was cisgender. But when one of his friends shouted "That's a guy" the mood turned violent. Dixon shoved Nettles and when she pushed back he claimed he tripped and flew into a rage. He punched her"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562346388080643359) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-18T00:06Z 4834 followers, 1M engagements


"In 2010 28-year-old Victoria Carmen White a proud African American transgender woman from Newark New Jersey was living her truth with grace and confidence. On the night of September XX she met Alrashim Chambers at a bar and by early morning the two had returned to her cousin's apartment in Maplewood. Also present were Marquise Foster and two women including Victoria's cousin. What began as a casual gathering quickly spiraled into tragedy. Around X a.m. the women in the adjacent room heard a chilling question-"You a dude" - delivered with a tone that one described as "a question with anger.""  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562347287431646494) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-18T00:10Z 4834 followers, 54.7K engagements


"In 2010 30-year-old Rosalind Ross a former basketball standout and rising recruiter was tragically shot and killed in a fast-food drive-thru on Milwaukee's North Side. On September XX Ross was waiting in her car outside a Popeyes restaurant near N. 62nd Street and W. Silver Spring Drive * when her longtime partner Malika Willoughby approached and opened fire. The two women had been inseparable since their teenage years both athletes who had played high school and college basketball. Ross had starred at Milwaukee Tech High School and later at the University of Oklahoma where she helped lead"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562349004017732894) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-18T00:16Z 4834 followers, 533.6K engagements


"In 1995 23-year-old Chanelle Pickett a Black transgender woman was murdered in Watertown Massachusetts in a case that exposed the deep prejudice embedded in both the legal system and public perception. On November XX Chanelle and her twin sister Gabrielle met William C. Palmer at the Playland Caf a known gathering spot for trans women in Boston's red-light district. Palmer a frequent patron of such establishments invited the sisters to his apartment hoping for a sexual encounter. Gabrielle declined but Chanelle went with him. In the early hours of November XX Palmer's roommates reported"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7562700131724692766) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-18T22:59Z 4834 followers, 77.7K engagements


"1997 28-year-old Darnell McGee was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood while driving with a young woman ending the life of a man at the center of one of the most disturbing public health and criminal investigations in Missouri and Illinois history. A few months earlier McGee had survived a shooting near East St. Louis. Authorities believed both attacks were fueled by revenge - not over drugs or gang ties but something far more personal. McGee had been knowingly spreading the AIDS virus. Diagnosed with HIV in 1992 he continued to engage in unprotected sex with dozens of women and"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563092795074858270) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-20T00:23Z 4834 followers, 7606 engagements


"In 2022 31-year-old Kayla Hammonds was brutally stabbed to death outside a Food Lion grocery store on Elizabethtown Road in Lumberton North Carolina-a killing that shocked the community and exposed the devastating failures of the justice system meant to protect her. Kayla had spent the previous two years pleading for help filing multiple protection orders against her ex-boyfriend; 38-year-old Desmond Lee Sampson. In July 2021 she accused him of assault theft and repeated threats to kill her. While she was inside the courthouse seeking a domestic violence order Sampson was outside flattening"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563396636878064926) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-20T20:02Z 4834 followers, 24.3K engagements


"In 2020 20-year-old Vanessa Guilln's legacy continued to reverberate across the nation as the full scope of her 2020 murder at Fort Hood came into sharper focus. Guilln a U.S. Army specialist * stationed at the massive Texas base disappeared on April XX 2020 after being last seen near her unit's armory. Her car keys ID and bank card were found inside raising immediate suspicion. Guilln had confided in her family about being sexually harassed by a superior and feared retaliation if she reported it. Her mother an undocumented migrant urged her to speak up but Vanessa believed she could handle"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563401220107406622) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-20T20:19Z 4834 followers, 418K engagements


"In 1988 23-year-old Venus Xtravaganza was found murdered in a grim scene that still haunts New York City's LGBTQ+ ballroam community. On December XX her body was discovered under a mattress in a room at the Fulton Hotel on West 46th Street. She had been bound and strangled with ligature marks around her wrists and a plaid scarf tightly wrapped around her neck. Investigators believed she had been dead for three to four days before a housekeeper made the tragic discovery. At the time filming for the landmark documentary Paris Is Burning was still underway and Venus's death cast a shadow over"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563787262488628510) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-21T21:17Z 4834 followers, 80.2K engagements


"In 1997 22-year-old Ali Forney was found shot to death on the sidewalk in front of a housing project on East 131st Street in Harlem. Scant information on this case remains publicly available and I couldn't find any prison sentences-because the murder was never solved. At X a.m. on December X police discovered Forney's body marking the third killing of a young transgender sex worker in Harlem within a span of fourteen months. The NYPD launched an investigation but despite community outcry and media attention no arrests were made and the case eventually went cold. Forney had been living on the"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563852010483666206) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-22T01:29Z 4834 followers, 4592 engagements


"In 2012 45-year-old Yolanda Holmes a beloved Chicago salon owner and devoted mother was brutally murdered in her sleep-an act orchestrated by the very person she had spent her life protecting and providing for: her only son Qaw'mane Wilson. Known in the local rap scene as "Young QC" Wilson had grown accustomed to a life of luxury funded by his mother's generosity. She had bought him cars jewelry and even helped him secure employment all while running her successful business Knappy Headz beauty salon. But Wilson wanted more. On Labor Day weekend he hired Eugene Spencer a friend to carry out a"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563858992548564254) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-22T01:56Z 4834 followers, 60.4K engagements


"In 2024 37-year-old Kesaria Abramidze a prominent Georgian transgender model actress and activist was found brutally stabbed to death in her Tbilisi apartment. The murder occurred just one day after the Georgian parliament passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ law restricting LGBTQ+ rights. Abramidze's boyfriend Beka Jaiani a 26-year-old man was quickly detained by police and later convicted of her murder. Surveillance footage showed Jaiani entering and leaving the building within XX minutes allegedly the same period in which Abramidze was killed. The investigation revealed a history of abuse in"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563861926132878622) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-22T02:07Z 4834 followers, 11.4K engagements


"In 2018 36-year-old Kelly Stough a beloved Atrican American transgender woman and vocal advocate for trans rights was murdered in Detroit in a crime that shook her community and exposed the dangers faced by transgender sex workers. On the morning of December X Kelly was found fatally shot on East McNichols Street near Brush Street-an area known for sex work. Surveillance footage and witness accounts would later reveal that she had picked up a client in the Palmer Park neighborhood the same place where another trans woman had been murdered three years earlier a case Kelly had spoken about"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@idktruecrime/video/7563948510815603999) [@idktruecrime](/creator/tiktok/idktruecrime) 2025-10-22T07:43Z 4834 followers, 17.1K engagements