3 stabbed at New Year’s Eve celebration in Daytona Beach

Orlando Sentinel

Known as the "Vampire" killer. In 1998, Ferrell pleaded guilty to the double slaying of a couple from Eustis, becoming the youngest person in the United States on death row. Originally sentenced to death, Ferrell's penalty has since been reduced to life without parole. Ferrell told people that he was a 500-year-old vampire named Vesago.

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Lionel Tate was a 12-year-old boy accused of killing his 6-year-old playmate, Tiffany Eunick. At age 14, Tate became the youngest person in modern times sentenced to life without parole in the United States. His conviction was later overturned on appeal.

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Deerfield Beach Middle School student Josie Lou Ratley was nearly stomped to death at her school bus stop. Wayne Treacy, 15, was jailed and charged with attempted first-degree murder in the attack.

Mike Stocker, Sun-Sentinel

Frame grab of surveillance video shows an attack on a homeless man at the FAU building on Las Olas Blvd. Two young men armed with baseball bats or sticks attacked three homeless men, killing one and hospitalizing the others.

Orlando Sentinel

Tommy Zeigler, the Winter Garden furniture-store owner convicted in the bloody Christmas Eve 1975 slayings of four people, claims he is innocent of the slayings, and was instead wounded fighting his family's attackers.

Orlando Sentinel

The Central Florida businessman was arrested for shooting his wife in their Isleworth mansion in 2009. He was convicted in September 2011 of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

ALICIA J. WAGNER, ORLANDO SENTINEL

Brothers Jeffrey and Anthony Farina were both convicted for killing a 17-year-old Taco Bell worker in Daytona Beach. Police say the two men walked into the restaurant, forced four employees into a freezer and stabbed or shot each one, resulting in one death. Anthony was 20 at the time of the crime and Jeffrey was 16. Story

Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel

A Winter Park High school student, right, makes the sign of a cross Wednesday, April 18, 2012 as roses lay where two students were found dead and burned off Cady Way Trail , a well traveled bike and walking trail in Winter Park.

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One of the most heinous crimes in South Florida's recent history took place on the night of June 18, 2007, at the Dunbar Village housing project. Three men appeared at the door of the victim's apartment with guns and forced themselves inside. According to testimony, the crowd of attackers grew up to 10. The woman was brutally gang raped and her son was forced to have sex with her.

Orlando Sentinel

Troy Victorino was the ringleader in the brutal Aug. 6, 2004 "Xbox" murders of six people and a dachshund in Deltona was upset because he thought one of the victims had taken his video-game system, clothes and papers. The victims were beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed. Victorino, 36, and accomplice Jerone Hunter, 26, are on death row. Two other men are serving life in prison.

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Gianni Versace was shot dead on July 15, 1997 on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion, on Ocean Drive. His killer, Andrew Cunanan, used the same gun to commit suicide days later. Versace's murder shocked the fashion world, our community and the nation.

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Adam Walshwas abducted from the toys department at a Sears store in Hollywood. Two weeks after his disappearance, his severed head was discovered in a canal near Vero Beach; his body never was found. His dad, John Walsh, later became an advocate for victims of violent crimes and the host of the TV's America's Most Wanted.

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Teens doused Deerfield Beach teen Michael Brewer, 15, with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire, leaving him to die. Brewer suffered burns over two-thirds of his body. Matthew Bent, Denver Jarvis and Jesus Mendez were convicted for their involvement in the 2009 attack.

Sun Sentinel

Lionel Tate was a 12-year-old boy accused of killing his 6-year-old playmate, Tiffany Eunick. At age 14, Tate became the youngest person in modern times sentenced to life without parole in the United States. His conviction was later overturned on appeal.

STEPHEN M. DOWELL, ORLANDO SENTINEL

Melinda Duckett, the mother of missing 2-year-old Trenton Duckett, holds a picture of her and her son following a news conference at the Leesburg Police Department, Aug. 29, 2006, in Leesburg, Fla. Melinda Duckett, 21, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday, Sept. 8, at her grandparent's central Florida home, police said. Trenton still has not been found.

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A nude man, later identified as Rudy Eugene, 31, attacked a homeless man on the MacArthur Causeway, chewing off most of his face. Eugene was shot dead by Miami police.Click here to see the graphic images of what he did to his victim.

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A husband, son and boyfriend of the "The Black Widow" were are found dead with lethal levels of arsenic in their systems. She was convicted for the murder of her son and the attempted murder of another fiance. She was executed by electric chair in 1988.

DENNIS WALL, ORLANDO SENTINEL

A rescue worker walks by the scene of a collision between a vehicle and a tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 4 in Lake Mary, Monday, Sept. 15, 2003. The vehicle was driven by Bryan Christopher Randall who died Monday at Florida Hospital Orlando. Randall who had picked up his four children on Friday from their mother is suspected of drowning his toddler daughter and attempting to drown his 4-year-old son. Randall's two other sons were injured Monday in the traffic accident.

Palm Beach Post

Paul Merhige was charged with killing four family members and wounding two others during a Thanksgiving Day meal at his cousin's Jupiter home. Merhige was described by investigators and family members as having a history of mental problems and a strained relationship with his family.

Orlando Sentinel

The former NASA astronaut was accused of attacking a romantic rival in a parking lot at Orlando International Airport. Nowak flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in a July 2006 mission. Nowak was arrested in February 2007 and subsequently charged with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, who was romantically involved with astronaut William Ofelein. Nowak pleaded guilty in 2009 to car burglary and misdemeanor battery, and was sentenced to one year probation.

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FBI agents from the 'Evidence Response Team' investigate an anthrax attack in Boca Raton. Bob Stevens, an AMI photo editor, died Oct. 5, 2001, after being exposed to an anthrax-filled letter. He worked at the former AMI building.