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These cases left the world in shock... Join us as we examine the most disturbing true crime stories that shook 2025! Our countdown includes The Louvre Heist, The Morgue Horror in Houston, Iran's Black Widow, and more sinister cases that dominated headlines. Which case do you think was the most shocking? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00The burglary exposed security lapses at the world's most visited museum.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're exploring the most shocking,
00:09disturbing, and infamous true crime cases across the world that took place in 2025.
00:14Federal prosecutors say 21-year-old Gavin Weisenberg and 20-year-old Tanner Thomas of Texas
00:20plotted to invade a Haitian island.
00:24Texas terror teachers.
00:26When parents drop off their children at school,
00:28it's expected that they'll be well looked after.
00:30Documents reveal three former Tyler ISD employees allegedly taped together
00:35the hands of a student with disabilities and forced the student to walk for hours.
00:41However, for one child at Tyler High School in Texas in March 2025,
00:46that really wasn't the case when their grandmother picked them up after school
00:49and saw their distress and injuries.
00:51The unnamed student, who has Down syndrome,
00:53was allegedly punished by a teacher in the Disability Support Services Department,
00:57Christina Haas, and her two aides, Priscilla Gutierrez and June Tryon,
01:01after apparently making a rude gesture.
01:04A spokesperson for Tyler ISD says an investigation was launched into the matter
01:08as soon as it was made known to staff.
01:11So, they reportedly forced the student to walk in circles for over four hours,
01:16tied their hands with tape, and shouted at them,
01:18which was captured on the school's CCTV.
01:21The terrible trio was fired and criminally charged.
01:24But the district has confirmed they are no longer employees of Tyler ISD.
01:30The Hamburg train station attack.
01:32On a Friday evening in May 2025,
01:34the Hamburg Central Railway Station in Germany was packed with people.
01:38This attack took place, as you've said, at Hamburg's main rail station.
01:43That's right in the center of the city,
01:46and it's a key transport hub where, incidentally,
01:51the carrying of weapons, including knives.
01:53However, rather than a typical train journey,
01:56passengers were soon thrown into chaos.
01:58Identified as Lydia S. in reports,
02:00a woman reportedly began attacking people at random with a knife.
02:04It appears to have been an indiscriminate attack that took place on a platform.
02:10After 18 individuals sustained injuries,
02:12two people, teenage Syrian refugee Mohammed al-Mohammed
02:16and Abu Bakr Sadiq Agaya from Chechnya,
02:18managed to disarm and subdue Lydia until the police arrived shortly after.
02:22Thankfully, no one was killed in the attack.
02:25Lydia was charged with multiple attempted manslaughter offenses as details emerged about
02:30her history of mental health issues and that she had been released from a psychiatric hospital
02:34the day before the attack.
02:36They say that it appears that the suspect acted alone.
02:41An intense investigation, of course, is now underway to discover any motive.
02:46The murder of Sanaa Youssef.
02:48Teenager Youssef was a big social media star in Pakistan
02:51as she promoted education for girls and the Chitrali culture,
02:55earning her over half a million followers on Instagram.
02:58Sanaa had more than a million followers across TikTok and Instagram,
03:02posting music clips, fashion, and brand promotion.
03:05According to her family,
03:06the bright star would use the cash from her work to help others.
03:09This popularity, unfortunately, drew Umar Hayat's attention.
03:13He contacted her to offer to meet up, which Youssef rejected.
03:17Police have said, as they believe,
03:18that Umar Hayat had repeatedly tried to meet her
03:22and had those attempts rejected by Sanaa.
03:26In June 2025, Hayat broke into Youssef's home in Islamabad.
03:30After fleeing the scene, Hayat was arrested and confessed to his crime,
03:34leading to a murder charge.
03:35This incident sparked fear among Pakistani women
03:38that there are no safe spaces for them,
03:40either online or in public.
03:42Wherever they feel,
03:43if the woman is doing, making her own choices
03:46or trying to get out of their control,
03:49they will just use violence.
03:52The Karen Reed case.
03:53In 2022, John O'Keefe,
03:56a police officer in Boston, Massachusetts,
03:58was found severely injured outside another cop's home.
04:01When O'Keefe didn't return home,
04:03Reed repeatedly texted him
04:05and asked two friends to return to the house in Canton.
04:08They discovered his body
04:09at the height of the blizzard near a fire hydrant.
04:11The night before,
04:12he and his partner Reed had been at a party there
04:15until O'Keefe vanished.
04:17Sadly, he didn't survive.
04:19Reed was arrested and charged
04:20with fatally running over O'Keefe with her vehicle.
04:22However, she alleged that she was being set up by the police.
04:26Karen Reed was framed for a murder she did not commit.
04:31In April 2025, after the first trial ended in a hung jury,
04:36Reed was acquitted of murdering O'Keefe.
04:38In November, Reed issued a lawsuit
04:40against the Massachusetts State Police
04:42and others for allegedly setting her up for O'Keefe's murder
04:45and protecting the real killers.
04:47Shortly after, the case was moved to the federal court.
04:50Karen Reed filed a lawsuit last week against eight people,
04:53five witnesses who were in the house
04:54the night John O'Keefe died,
04:55and three police investigators she says tried to frame her
04:58and in doing so, violated her civil rights.
05:01That is, of course, a federal issue.
05:04And because of that,
05:04the defendants in Reed's lawsuit have now moved it
05:07from the state court in Bristol County
05:08to the federal court in Boston.
05:10The Amsterdam attack.
05:12It was a typical afternoon
05:13in the St. Nikolausstraat area
05:15near Dam Square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
05:17as tourists and locals
05:18wandered the streets in March 2025.
05:20However, screams echoed around
05:23as a person reported as Roman D began his attacks.
05:26Armed with multiple knives,
05:28the man from Donetsk, Ukraine,
05:30allegedly indiscriminately attacked people.
05:32After five people were injured by him,
05:34Roman attempted to flee.
05:36However, an unnamed British tourist tackled Roman,
05:39injuring the attacker's leg,
05:41and held him until the police arrived
05:42to arrest the Ukrainian.
05:44Thankfully, no one was killed.
05:46In the aftermath, reports emerged
05:48that Roman was a soldier
05:49who deserted the Ukrainian army
05:51after a brain injury,
05:52which, according to his former colleagues,
05:54led to him demonstrating concerning behavior.
05:57The morgue horror in Houston.
05:59In February, 2025,
06:01shortly after passing away the month before,
06:03Charles Roy Rodriguez's body arrived
06:05at the Memorial Mortuary and Crematory
06:07in Houston, Texas.
06:08Investigated.
06:09Investigators say Laudermil is accused
06:11of mutilating a man's body
06:13inside this Bel Air mortuary about a month ago.
06:16Working as the embalmer was Amber Page Laudermilk,
06:19who was meant to prepare Rodriguez for cremation.
06:22However, when she discovered
06:23that he had been charged with assault in 2001
06:25and was on the register,
06:27Laudermilk snapped.
06:28This defendant was an instructor on embalming
06:32and was teaching a class
06:34and did this in front of the class.
06:36She attacked the body,
06:37focusing on the lower half in particular.
06:40When an embalming trainee saw what was happening,
06:42Laudermilk allegedly threatened them
06:44by stating they didn't see anything.
06:45However, after the funeral director
06:48also examined the damage to the body,
06:50the police were called.
06:51Laudermilk was charged with abuse of a corpse
06:53and fired by her workplace.
06:55The Texas Funeral Service Commission
06:57suspended Laudermilk's license Tuesday
06:59after determining an imminent threat
07:01to public health, safety, or welfare.
07:03The Filach attack.
07:04In February, 2025,
07:06Al-Addin al-Halabi,
07:08a food delivery worker from Syria,
07:10was driving down the street in Filach, Austria,
07:12when he spotted injured people
07:13and the alleged perpetrator,
07:15identified as Ahmed G.,
07:17also from Syria.
07:18When a man randomly began
07:20attacking passers-by with a knife,
07:23several others were injured
07:24and taken to hospital.
07:25Al-Halabi reportedly rammed his vehicle
07:27into Ahmed to stop the violence.
07:29However, before he could get out
07:31to make sure Ahmed stayed subdued,
07:33people swarmed the car,
07:35believing Al-Halabi was involved as well.
07:37Instead, after driving away,
07:39he called the police,
07:40who arrested Ahmed.
07:41A 42-year-old delivery man
07:43did the right thing.
07:44He drove towards the suspect
07:45and thus prevented any further victims.
07:48He confessed to having attacked
07:49five people with a knife,
07:50taking one life.
07:52The investigation found
07:53that Ahmed had extremist views
07:54and sought to take
07:55as many lives as possible.
07:57Al-Halabi, for his heroics,
07:58received death threats from extremists,
08:01but received awards for his bravery.
08:03The Corinthia governor
08:04called for the harshest consequences
08:06for this unbelievable atrocity.
08:08Iran's black widow.
08:09Throughout her life in Iran,
08:11Kultum Akhbari seemed to be
08:13one of the world's unluckiest people.
08:15From the looks of it,
08:16Kultum looks like an ordinary
08:17middle-aged lady.
08:19But behind this mask
08:21is the face of a true sinister killer.
08:24After all,
08:25despite having many husbands,
08:2711 of them died of natural causes.
08:29However, it wasn't all natural.
08:31Akhbari had been poisoning her husbands
08:33with medications,
08:34leading to them receiving medical care
08:36and recovering,
08:37adding to the deception.
08:38Akhbari is believed
08:39to have slow poisoned
08:4111 of her husbands
08:43over 22 years.
08:45Upon returning home,
08:46she'd purposely increased the dose
08:48until they perished.
08:49However,
08:49when the son of a surviving victim
08:51spoke to the son
08:52of her last murder victim
08:53about the poisoning,
08:54the police were informed
08:55and arrested her.
08:56Akhbari confessed to taking
08:58the 11 lives,
08:59but there's speculation
09:00she may have taken more.
09:01In September 2025,
09:03Akhbari received
09:0410 death sentences
09:05and had to pay
09:06one victim's family
09:07quote,
09:08blood money.
09:08As Iran reels
09:10from the shockwaves
09:11of the serial murder saga
09:12of the Black Widow,
09:14there are reports
09:15which say that
09:16the victim count
09:17could in fact
09:18be higher.
09:19The Haitian Island Invasion
09:20In November 2025,
09:23news broke about
09:24the disturbing charges
09:25against Texas duo
09:26Gavin Weisenberg
09:27and Tanner Thomas.
09:28Federal officials
09:29announced the indictments
09:30for Gavin Weisenberg
09:31and Tanner Thomas.
09:32For a year,
09:34they had planned
09:34to recruit people
09:35in D.C.'s unhoused community
09:37to aid them
09:37in invading
09:38Haiti's Gonov Island.
09:40The duo wanted
09:41to take over the land,
09:42leading to them
09:43killing the men
09:43and enslaving
09:44the women and children.
09:45They'd signed up
09:46for classes
09:46to develop skills
09:47to achieve
09:48their alleged twisted plan,
09:49such as Thomas
09:50joining the Air Force
09:51and Weisenberg
09:52getting firefighting training.
09:54Prosecutors say
09:55Thomas prepared
09:56for the attack
09:56by enlisting
09:57in the Air Force
09:58for military training
09:59and Weisenberg
10:00enrolled in a
10:01fire training academy
10:02but later flunked out.
10:04On top of all this,
10:05Weisenberg and Thomas
10:06were also charged
10:07with developing
10:08indecent material.
10:10While both
10:10have denied the charges
10:11and have stated
10:12their intentions
10:12to plead not guilty,
10:14they could face
10:15up to 30 years in jail.
10:17They face 15
10:18to 30 years in prison
10:19if convicted
10:20of that offense.
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10:36The Louvre heist.
10:38Filled with valuable artifacts,
10:40you'd expect
10:40the Louvre Museum
10:41in Paris, France
10:42to have the highest
10:43security features.
10:44So that's what we know.
10:45It is, of course,
10:46an enormously bad bit
10:50of news for the Louvre gallery
10:52and a very dramatic event.
10:56Yet with cameras
10:57that didn't survey
10:58the area properly
10:58and the password
11:00to the security system
11:01being Louvre,
11:02it wasn't.
11:03In October 2025,
11:05a group of thieves
11:06took advantage of this.
11:07Dressed as construction workers
11:08and using a moving lift,
11:10they broke inside.
11:11The robbery lasted
11:12less than five minutes.
11:14At 9.34 a.m.,
11:16two men climbed
11:16to the first floor.
11:18At 9.35 a.m.,
11:20they broke the glass,
11:21entered the gallery
11:22and attacked the display cases
11:24protecting the jewelry.
11:25The group stole
11:26several historical pieces
11:27valued at around
11:28$102 million,
11:30all within four minutes
11:31inside the building.
11:33However,
11:33they dropped and damaged
11:35the crown of Empress Eugénie,
11:37which is the only
11:38recovered item so far.
11:39In November,
11:40after four people
11:41had been charged
11:42with the heist
11:42the month before,
11:43another four suspects
11:44were detained
11:45for their possible involvement.
11:47But we don't know
11:47and what the prosecutor
11:48did say yesterday
11:49was that though
11:50they didn't have
11:50the jewels in their possession,
11:52she was still hopeful
11:53that they would be retrieved.
11:54What was the most shocking
11:55news story of 2025
11:57that happened locally
11:58to where you live?
11:59Let us know in the comments.
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