This week on Melanin Mayhem, we shine a light on two of the most audacious and overlooked women in Illinois criminal history — Geraldine Smith and Dorothy Williams. As the first and second women sentenced to death in the state, their stories are as chilling as they are complex. From ruthless motives to senseless murder, I unravel the crimes that put them on death row and in the history books.

Behind a locked door in Detroit sat a freezer filled with secrets — the bodies of two children, betrayed by the one person meant to protect them. Love Kills X Melanin Mayhem unearths the horrifying case of Mitchelle Blair, a mother whose twisted version of love turned lethal, leaving a city — and a nation — in shock.

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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