Young, Dumb & Deadly

This week on Melanin Mayhem, we’re diving headfirst into the dark, twisted chaos of two very different cases bound by one dangerous theme: youth doesn’t mean harmless.

First, we head to St. Louis, where two friends took a dumb decision to a deadly level. What started as a robbery, turned into a mass shooting that left five innocent people dead. These two weren’t criminal masterminds — just reckless, messy, and trigger-happy. But it’s what happened after the murders that really shows how sloppy and unapologetic things got.

Then, we jump across the pond to the UK, where we have a female mayhem maker that made headlines as the youngest person ever convicted of murder in the UK at just 12 years old! She committed a killing so brutal, the police just knew it was a man that had did the crime. But it’s her behavior after the fact — that truly cements her place in the archives of mayhem.

Two terrifying stories. One truth: A killer can be any age.

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