Panagiotis Karamanlis was allegedly throttling his sister with punches to the face when his 11-year-old niece picked up a pair of scissors and used them as a makeshift shank.
There was an audible gasp in the courtroom when prosecutors described how Zaria Burgess was strangled and then had her throat slit, allegedly by her father Joshua Lee Burgess.
In a case with eerie parallels to the Gypsy Rose Blanchard story, Kaylene Bowen-Wright made her son use a wheelchair and undergo a rash of unneeded treatments.
Brooke Skylar Richardson's defense team has argued there are "defects" in the case after a witness who testified before the grand jury changed her opinion about whether the newborn's bones had been burned.
“This little girl was incredibly brave during the horrific attack on her mother,” Assistant District Attorney Rachel Ashe said of Ariana Mills' heroic actions.
Eddie Alvirez allegedly fatally shot his sister in the bedroom that they both shared, but it's not clear if the shooting was intentional or accidental.