One of Michael and Shirley Gray's adopted children, an 11-year-old girl, allegedly starved to death after being locked in the basement for stealing food.
On one occasion, a witness watched Gretta Feil force her granddaughter's face under the shower spray. Every time the girl looked away to breathe, Feil beat her with her backscratcher.
Police in Middleton, Ohio discovered a bowl containing human fingers and patches of tattooed skin while searching the home of William Slaton, who's been formally charged in the death of Cecily Cornett.
"Only monsters and godless creatures could pull the trigger on a 6-year-old," Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said after the murder of Tai'raz Moore, who was killed along with his father and father's girlfriend.