In 1989 Anthony Sowell hog-tied Melvette and raped her. The hospital sent her home in a gown, walking the street with her butt hanging out. He did 15 years. Nobody told her he got out. Four years later police found 11 women's bodies in his house. "If they had listened to me..."
Cleveland. She was tied up for hours, not knowing if she'd live or die.
The police took her to the hospital. Rape kit. A hospital gown. No clothes, nobody to call. So she walked down East Cleveland half naked, hours after being hog-tied.
"They knew what the man did to me. And I was left to fend for myself."
Sowell told police he was paying her for sex. He pleaded guilty and still swore he was innocent. In prison he filled out a questionnaire. One prompt read "Most women..." He wrote: "just tell lies."
He served every day of his 15 years. He came out in 2005 a model prisoner.
Melvette heard it through the grapevine. She called the police herself and asked why nobody warned her. The officer said: "He's done his time for what he did to you, so there was no reason to notify you."
She didn't leave her house for years.
He did.
In the video below she says what she's been saying for 30 years.
What happened next? In 2009 police walked into his house on Imperial Avenue. 11 women. In the house and buried in the yard. Who were they? Mostly poor women addicted to crack. Women nobody went looking for. What did he get? The death penalty. He died in prison before they could carry it out.
Some people will say the system did its job: he served his full sentence. Others will say 11 women are dead because nobody listened to one.
"If they had listened to me and took into consideration what this man was capable of, women would still be alive to this day."
Who should answer for those 11?
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A Georgia deputy pushed into Natasha Lopez's home without a warrant and arrested her while she was on the phone with 911. A year later prosecutors traced an anonymous page posting AI images of a fake OnlyFans with her face back to the same deputy.
On August 30, 2025, Cpl. Charles Mills of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office came to her house in Woodstock looking for her 21-year-old son, who didn't live there, over a motorcycle he believed had sped past him on another day. She told him to come back with a warrant and asked him to leave.
He came back about ten minutes later with an arrest warrant for the son and cuffed him in the front yard. Then he said he believed there was evidence inside, walked up the steps and pushed the front door open into her younger son, who was filming through the door. "Do you have a warrant? This is being videotaped," she kept saying.
She called 911, and when the operator picked up he grabbed her, took her phone and arrested her for obstruction. She says she had never been arrested in her life and had to strip down at the jail for booking.
The sheriff's office told local TV he was doing a protective sweep for officer safety, while his own report, as civil rights attorney John Bryan reads it, says he went in after a cell phone he thought they would destroy. He got a search warrant for that phone after she was already in the patrol car.
For the next year she fought the arrest online. Then a Facebook page called "Not So Noble" started posting her family's information, her child's unredacted juvenile records and AI-generated images of a fake OnlyFans account using her face. Every time she got it taken down, a new one showed up. On September 22, 2026, the Solicitor General's Office identified the owner as Cpl. Charles Mills.
In the video below, the bodycam from that night, from the moment he walks in to the moment she's arrested on the phone with 911.
He was fired on October 2, and in October a judge gave her a 12-month stalking protective order. No criminal charges have been filed against him. She still faces two counts of obstruction, one for not leaving her own porch and one for not leaving her own house, each carrying up to 12 months in jail.
He had a warrant for her son. Did that give him the right to walk into her house, or should her case have been thrown out a year ago?
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Roxanne’s face after Michin tried to make her feel awkward, it didn’t work…I think. 😂
March 19, 2024. Home cameras in Mississippi catch a 14-year-old girl coming home from school with her mom.
Minutes later she walks down the hallway with a .357 behind her back. 3 shots.
Then she texts her stepdad from her mom's phone: "Honey, when are you going to be home?"
An hour later he walks through the door. She's waiting behind the curtains.
In the video below, the family's home cameras show everything: the walk in from school, the gun behind her back, the shots, her stepdad coming home, and her running.
Her name is Carly Gregg. Her mother, Ashley Smylie, was 40 and taught at the same school Carly went to.
The gun was under the mattress on her mom's side of the bed. On camera, Carly peeks into the kitchen to make sure her mom isn't there, then walks to her own bedroom, where Ashley was waiting.
After the shots, prosecutors say she video-called classmates and showed them her mother's body. A friend came over. According to him, she said: "I put three in my mom. I've got three more for my stepdad."
When Heath Smylie came home, she shot him in the shoulder. He wrestled the gun out of her hands. She jumped the fence and ran. An officer found her on a nearby road. Asked if she had anything to do with the shooting, she said yes.
She turned down a plea deal for 40 years and went to trial. Her defense said she heard voices and that her new medication made her worse. The state's psychiatrist said she knew exactly what she was doing.
On the stand, her stepdad called her "just a sweet little girl." He said he still doesn't think she recognized him that day.
In August 2024, at 15, she was found guilty on every count and sentenced to life. Her lawyers are now asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn it.
Was Carly Gregg a sick child no one saw falling apart, or a 14-year-old who planned every step and knew exactly what she was doing?
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The Mississippi Supreme Court already ruled on Carly Gregg's appeal. It affirmed her convictions and life sentences, rejecting her insanity defense and finding no reversible errors in her trial.
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Yes, Hulk Hogan and Big Show randomly acted in a direct to DVD movie called Little Hercules in 3D back in 2009.
And yes, its as awful as it looks 😭
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People love to hate on the comedy in Marvel movies now, but this entire sequence from Ant Man and the Wasp is pure gold. Paul Rudd and Randall Park’s chemistry, the giant ant in the tub, and the last second save all hit perfectly. Hot take: Street level, low stakes Marvel is way more rewatchable than multiverse threats.




















