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Good fences may make good neighbors, but these people took disputes to unthinkable extremes. Join us as we count down some of the most shocking crimes ever committed by horrible neighbors! From petty conflicts that turned deadly to elaborate murder plots, these cases prove that living next door to the wrong person can have truly terrifying consequences.
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00:00It was around 9.30 and I heard people yelling and then I heard gunshots and I looked out my
00:04window and I saw a gunman and I called 911.
00:08Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're exploring the infamous cases throughout history of terrible people who, for one reason
00:14or another, sought revenge against their nearby neighbors by committing crimes against them.
00:19Police arrested Bobby Durst and charged him with murder. They set a high bail at $300,000. He instantly posted
00:26it.
00:27Noise revenge.
00:28Was it their apartment? Was it the water? Well, when they saw this, a man injecting some sort of chemical
00:35through the bottom of their door into their home, they knew their lives could be in jeopardy.
00:41In 2022, Umar Abdullah and his wife welcomed their new baby into their Tampa, Florida condo, which they'd recently moved
00:47into.
00:47Yet, instead of focusing on their new addition, Umar began receiving messages from his downstairs neighbor, Xu Ming Lee.
00:53The PhD student was furious at the noise the Abdullas were apparently making.
00:58Well, after my daughter was born in August last year, um, he's complained, like, footstep complaint, drawer closing.
01:07But escalated to this.
01:09I installed a hidden camera outside.
01:11Months later, the Abdullas began to feel unwell and could smell an unknown chemical.
01:16Then, Umar spotted that the front door had been tampered with, so he placed a hidden camera.
01:20Shockingly, it showed Lee with a syringe suspected to be filled with controlled substances, as he discharged the concoction under
01:28the door.
01:28Initial toxicology reports from police say the substance being pumped into their apartment consists of two strong opioids, methadone and
01:38hydrocodone.
01:39When Lee was arrested, he was deported to China before he could face the charges.
01:43Trash can attack.
01:44Having a famous parent can't protect you completely when you go nuclear against a neighbor.
01:49Adam, the son of the legendary NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was facing a common conflict with his San Clemente,
01:56California neighbor, trash cans.
01:5860-year-old Ray Windsor says he's known Adam Abdul-Jabbar since he was a child.
02:03They live next to each other in San Clemente.
02:06He says they've had arguments in the past, the last one back in December, but nothing like what happened Tuesday
02:12night.
02:12As the residences shared a driveway, the neighbor was reportedly annoyed that Adam hadn't taken his bins in.
02:18In 2020, following a confrontation, Adam attacked the man with a knife.
02:22The injuries sustained by the neighbor were so severe that he nearly lost his life in the hospital.
02:26He was on me.
02:28I thought he was punching me, but he actually had a knife.
02:30After about the, after the fourth punch, I felt a very sharp pain and noticed blood coming out of me.
02:37In 2021, after taking a plea deal, Adam was sentenced to six months in jail with the option to apply
02:42for home confinement.
02:43District Attorney Todd Spitzer stated afterwards that the lenient sentence was an absolute miscarriage of justice.
02:50The Killing of Adjika Owens
02:51Since 2021 in Ocala, Florida, Owens and her neighbor Susan Lawrence had clashed several times, resulting in the police being
02:59called six times.
03:00And as the body camera video shows us, Lawrence was no stranger to calling 911.
03:06And what about her threat that she's going to come and drag my ass and beat me?
03:09When I started calling you because she didn't get out of my case, she just kept standing in front of
03:13me.
03:13Yet in 2023, the conflict sadly became fatal.
03:17Reportedly, while Owens' children played in an outdoor space, Lawrence became furious, seeing the area as her own.
03:23So, she yelled racial slurs at the kids and struck one with roller skates.
03:28Later, Owens knocked on her door to confront her about what had happened.
03:31While on the inside, Lawrence fired into the door, taking Owens' life.
03:35Lawrence admitted, even though she could see Owens did not have a weapon, Lawrence got out her Remington 380 and
03:43from her kitchen fired one shot through the door.
03:46Following her arrest, Lawrence claimed she did it in self-defense.
03:50Immediately, this case spawned debates about race and the state's stand-your-ground law.
03:54In 2024, Lawrence was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years.
03:59Ms. Lawrence, the jury has found you guilty of manslaughter with a firearm.
04:04You're going to be held in custody of the Marion County jail without bond.
04:07Okay?
04:09Thank you and good luck to you.
04:10The murder of James and Lisa Goy.
04:12The morning started as any other morning.
04:15They were out shoveling their driveways, clearing their cars from this snow.
04:20And then they heard arguing in the middle of the street here.
04:25That was followed by nearly a dozen gunshots.
04:28In 2021, a massive snowstorm descended upon Plains Township, Pennsylvania.
04:33Like many in the area, James and Lisa Goy were shoveling snow from their driveway.
04:37However, the excess snow was being thrown onto the property belonging to their neighbor, Jeffrey Spade.
04:42When he confronted the married couple about it, an argument erupted, soon escalating to threats.
04:47It was a dispute among neighbors.
04:49Police believe the argument began over shoveling snow.
04:52A neighbor just a few doors down tells Eyewitness News she watched it all unfold.
04:57Captured on surveillance footage, Spade went into his house before emerging with a firearm, which he proceeded to use on
05:03the Goy's.
05:03He then went back inside to retrieve another weapon to continue his fatal attack.
05:08After taking the Goy's lives, Spade entered his home again and took his own life,
05:11devastating the entire community with the senseless violence.
05:14We never really had any problems here.
05:17Complete and utter shock because this doesn't happen in Plains.
05:20Never did.
05:21So, it's a different story, I guess, anymore.
05:24The Hatfield-McCoy feud.
05:26Each clan had a patriarch, Devil Ants Hatfield and Randall McCoy.
05:31It's still not exactly clear what started the feud, but many believe it was Randall McCoy's
05:36brother's allegation in 1878 that a Hatfield stole one of his pigs.
05:41A ferocious family feud, so infamous that it inspired books, films, TV shows, video games,
05:47songs, and stage plays.
05:49With most of the McCoys living on the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River and the Hatfields
05:53in the West Virginia area, their decades-long conflict is said to have had its first major
05:58incident in 1865.
06:00Randall McCoy's brother was a Northern soldier.
06:03He comes back from the war, Devil Ants Hatfield and his family who had fought for the South
06:08let the word get out that they were out to get him, and they eventually ambushed him and
06:12killed him.
06:12It's believed that Asa Harmon McCoy was killed seemingly by a Hatfield.
06:16This sparked years of the two families trading crimes against each other.
06:20Over a dozen people in both families were killed during this vendetta.
06:24Following the 1888 Battle of the Grapevine Creek between them, several members of the Hatfields
06:29were sentenced to life in prison, one being executed, resulting in the end of the feud.
06:33Over time, the two families reconciled.
06:36Hatfield McCoy Family Feud Special.
06:39In 1979, in fact, they went on the game show Family Feud with a live pig on the stage,
06:44a nod to the hog who started it all.
06:47The murder of Aaron Howard.
06:48Police in Abilene, Texas say 67-year-old John Miller and his 31-year-old son, Michael,
06:55were arrested in connection with the death of 37-year-old Aaron Howard.
07:00Living in Abilene, Texas, Howard was known to the authorities and his neighbors for his
07:04mental health and anger issues due to receiving treatment for intermittent explosive disorder.
07:09In 2018, Howard noticed that a mattress he'd thrown into a dumpster he shared with his
07:13neighbors, the Millers, had been removed and placed against his fence.
07:17So, an argument erupted between the families.
07:21Investigators say a dispute arose between him and Howard, at which point Michael Miller
07:26allegedly went inside his home to retrieve a shotgun.
07:30As Howard's partner recorded the interaction, Johnny Miller and his son Michael, armed with
07:34firearms, approached Howard, who had a baseball bat.
07:37The verbal confrontation escalated further into violence, resulting in the Millers taking Howard's
07:42life.
07:42It was a confrontation that should never have happened, and it certainly should never have
07:46ended up with gunfire and murder.
07:49In 2023, while Michael was acquitted of murder, Johnny was found guilty, earning him a 14-year
07:54sentence.
07:55Daniel Wozniak's spree.
07:57Dan was always a very gregarious and outgoing.
08:00He was just such a fun guy.
08:02Very likable, had that twinkle in his eye.
08:05He was the type of person that, you know, you saw them and they were such a life of the
08:09party.
08:10With ambitions of an expensive wedding and honeymoon with his partner, there was one major problem
08:15for local actor Wozniak.
08:16He had a massive debt.
08:18However, upon discovering that war veteran Samuel Herr, who lived in the same apartment
08:23complex in Costa Mesa, California, had a lot of savings, Wozniak formulated a horrific plan.
08:29Investigators saying Wozniak lured 26-year-old Samuel Herr, a military vet, returning from Afghanistan
08:35with over $60,000 socked away in a savings account into a theater attic and shot him.
08:42After taking Herr's life, he then lured his friend, Julie Kibuishi, to the veteran's apartment.
08:46After murdering her too, Wozniak set it up to look like Herr had committed the dreadful
08:51deed and gone on the run.
08:52However, when a boy attempted to withdraw Herr's money for Wozniak, the killer was caught
08:57by the police.
08:57Police nabbed Wozniak at his bachelor party when cash missing from Herr's account was
09:02traced back to him.
09:04Wozniak allegedly confessing to the killing.
09:06I killed Julie.
09:07I killed Sam.
09:08Sam came first.
09:09It was all about the money.
09:11In 2016, Wozniak was found guilty and sentenced to death.
09:15The Wanda Holloway cheerleader case.
09:17Most parents don't like to see their children lose out on a dream.
09:20Yet, Wanda Holloway's reaction was incredibly over the top.
09:24Shanna's mother, Wanda Holloway, dubbed the pom-pom mom, accused of attempting to hire
09:29a hitman to take out the mother of Shanna's cheerleading rival.
09:32In 1991, her daughter Shanna was overlooked for her junior high school cheerleading team
09:36for two consecutive years.
09:38So, Wanda came up with a dark plan by contacting her ex-brother-in-law, Terry Harper.
09:43Mom was allegedly convinced if cheerleading girl's mom gets killed, cheerleader will be so
09:50devastated that she won't be able to continue, and her daughter will make the team.
09:55She asked him to find an assassin to take the life of Verna Heath, whose daughter had
09:59gotten into the squad ahead of Shanna, and lived in the same Channel View, Texas neighborhood
10:02as Wanda.
10:03Instead of doing that, Harper went to the cops, resulting in Wanda's arrest.
10:08Wanda was accused of solicitation to commit capital murder.
10:11The most serious kind of murder one can commit.
10:14After the first trial sentence was overturned, Wanda was retired in 1996, earning her 10 years
10:19in jail after entering a no-contest plea.
10:21You were a kid, and yet you blamed the whole thing on yourself.
10:25Well, I figure if I hadn't existed, or if I had done better, and actually made the team
10:32at some point, then none of this would have happened.
10:35That's how I viewed it as a child.
10:36The Robert Durst case.
10:38The black sheep of the real estate family behind the Durst organization, tragedy seemed
10:42to follow Robert.
10:44Robert Durst first made headlines after he reported his wife missing in 1982, and to
10:49this day, the case remains unsolved.
10:53The family of Kathleen Durst, from the beginning, had said they believed Robert Durst was responsible.
10:59After all, his wife, Kathleen McCormick, vanished in 1982, and his friend, Susan Berman, was
11:04murdered in 2000.
11:06However, in 2001, the remains of Morris Black were found.
11:09The investigation led back to Robert, his neighbor in Galveston, Texas.
11:13Cops found blood on the floor in Black's apartment, and the trail led across the hall
11:18to the kitchen rented by a woman.
11:20That woman was actually Robert Durst, dressed in drag.
11:24After jumping bail, he was eventually tracked down in Pennsylvania.
11:27During the trial, while Robert admitted to disposing of Black's remains, he claimed his
11:31neighbor was killed in self-defense when he fought with Black for his firearm.
11:47The jury found Robert not guilty of murder.
11:50However, he was sentenced to five years for tampering with evidence and jumping bail.
11:54In 2021, Robert was sentenced to life for Berman's murder.
11:57Mr. Durst's statement that only the killer could have written the cadaver note, which
12:02obviously is true, and then his admission that he wrote that note proves his guilt, beyond
12:08a reasonable doubt, a second way.
12:11The Crimes of John Christie
12:13John Christie is one of the most notorious serial killers in history, and one of the most despicable
12:20characters ever to have lived in London.
12:22In 1953, after Christie moved out of 10-Rillington Place in London, England, his 10-year killing
12:28spree came to an end when bodies were found behind wallpaper.
12:31The investigation soon found more remains under the floorboards and in the garden.
12:35It's believed Christie had killed at least eight people during that time, including his wife,
12:40Ethel.
12:40He covered it up by writing to her relatives and saying that she had terrible rheumatism.
12:47She can't visit you, and she can't write to you, and that worked for a while.
12:52Due to his arrest, it also called into question the sentence received by Christie's neighbor,
12:57Timothy Evans, who was executed in 1950.
13:00Evans was accused of killing his wife, Beryl, and their child.
13:03Christie even testified against him during the trial.
13:06The war veteran soon admitted to killing Beryl, and the authorities admitted years later that
13:11Christie was responsible for both Evans' murders.
13:14Christie was found guilty and executed.
13:16I think the fact that Timothy Evans had been executed, and it might well have been a miscarriage
13:23of justice which could not be corrected, did have an effect on the debate about capital
13:30punishment in this country.
13:33Have you ever dealt with a horrible neighbor?
13:35Share your tales below.
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