6) Mary Bell, 11 Years Old
Mary Bell was one day away from turning eleven years old, when she and her friend decided to take the life of a young child. On May 25, 1968, Mary strangled a four year-old boy because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone. She was also convicted of strangling a three year-old within a few weeks after the first murder. At eleven years old, the young girl was sentenced to a life in a detention center in the United Kingdom.
Mary didn’t know any other life, and at 21 she was released from prison into an unknown world. At one point, she had escaped from jail, but decided that she did not know how to function in the “real world,” and started pilfering so she could get back to a life she knew. She is now a free woman, but has since gotten a new name and identity. At around 58 years old, Mary is a grandmother, but her whereabouts are unknown.
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