Eric Mercado

Djerf was put to death in October 2025 for the 1993 murders of a co-worker's family. Getty Images/Connect Images Published: May 15, 2026Last Updated: May 15, 2026 When Richard Djerf suspected his work buddy of stealing from him, he murdered his friend’s entire family as revenge. When Djerf felt his defense lawyers weren’t communicating enough about progress in his case, he fired them and chose to represent himself. He lost and got the death penalty.

Harrel Braddy’s Resentencing In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court found Florida’s death penalty sentencing system unconstitutional as it violated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial. The same year, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that verdicts should be unanimous. It heard Braddy’s appeal and decided to grant him a new penalty phase. The resentencing trial lasted nearly a month. After more than three hours of deliberation, the jury decided on January 30, 2026, to sentence Braddy to life in prison.

Forming a New Family On January 10, 1985, the same day Lisa and Tiffany disappeared, John Edward Robinson told his brother, Don, and Don’s wife, Helen, who had been looking to adopt a child, to come pick up their baby girl, Tiffany. Don had enlisted his brother’s help in doing a private adoption without knowing about John’s history of stealing and forgery. John’s first conviction was in 1969 for embezzling $33,000 from his employer, Dr. Wallace Graham.