Curtis and Catherine Jones
This case made it to my list after I had seen a few article titles in 2015 stating how the youngest person ever to be charged with murder was being released from prison. As I do with many cases that I find like that I do not search them to get specifics until I am ready to sit down and do some research. When I did do that I was left frustrated and disturbed. On January 6, 1999 thirteen year old Catherine Jones and her twelve year old brother shot their father's girlfriend, Sonya Speights in their Melbourne Florida home. They apparently attempted to move the body and clean up the area but realizing what they had done they then decided to run to a friends home and stated they had shot her accidentally. When the friends parents stated they were calling the police the two children ran and hid in the woods. They would be found the following morning. Despite efforts from their public defenders the state decided, and a judge agreed, that the two would be charged as ...