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Pookie rapes nurse inside elevator and strangles her

Candy Laird raped & strangled/Viral Crimes

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DETROIT — The adventures of Pookie & Ray Ray continue. Viral Crimes released the murder documentary of aspiring nurse Elizabeth “Candy” Laird who was asphyxiated by registered sex offender James Quill Cockerham on an elevator. The femicide transpired on May 15, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. According to police reports, Candy was visiting her boyfriend at his apartment. When the 27-year-old beauty got on the elevator, James jumped in and joined her. When the door closed, the 50-year-old thug raped Candy before strangling her death. Then he tossed her corpse into a garbage chute. One of the residents reported blood inside the elevator — sparking a police investigation. Candy’s cadaver was found in a dumpster. After observing surveillance footage, police arrested James a few days later and charged him with murder. “That violent, predatory, cowardly suspect is now in custody,” Police Chief James Craig told reporters.

Chief Craig also called James a “career criminal.” That’s because his rap sheet includes charges for illegal firearm possession, criminal sexual conduct, armed robbery, car theft and, as previously mentioned, he’s a registered sex offender. What’s sad is Candy was just weeks away from completing her degree as a surgical technician. “She didn’t deserve this,” said her mother, Diana Cann.

“My daughter was bright. She was intelligent. She always wanted to be someone special in life.”

Candy’s big brother, Curtis, echoed a homogeneous sentiment.

“It’s the worst feeling I’ve ever felt in my life. I’m broken up in a million pieces,” he bemoaned.

“He should have never been let out.” 

Candy’s boyfriend lives in a gated community.

So how did James get in?

Should the boyfriend be investigated?

Watch the documentary.

Share your thoughts.

This Post Has 57 Comments

  1. His no good ass was looking for anyone in that building. He is sick…. jail would be too good for him. Hope he gets the chair !🤬

  2. My black women PLEASE DON’T WALK OUT OF ANYWHERE WITHOUT A WEAPON even if it is a blade please homemade peppermint spray something anything even a fork, bite someone if you have to, we can only save ourselves please. I’m sorry this is happening to us it’s so sad PLEASE PROTECT YOURSELF

  3. She needed a gun, and her man should have been visiting her instead of the other way around.

  4. It’s time for women to get strapped up. We can’t play out here with these weirdos

  5. I wonder why the boyfriend didn’t walk her out to her car🤔🤔and they just keep letting these criminals back on the street. They sitting in jail but no rehabilitation is happening. It’s sad

  6. What’s even worst, if that building didn’t have cameras, the boyfriend would have been blamed for it and in jail.

  7. Wow that’s crazy. In the building where her damn boyfriend lives. The mother fucker did that so quickly. He’s a damn animal.

  8. I HATE how they let rapists and sexual predators go when they get locked up the first time! That alone should’ve been a life sentence. Such a beautiful woman who got murdered for no reason!

  9. Stop killing Brown women we deserve to live. We’re not trash we are Queens 👑.

  10. Career criminal. why are these people on the street and pot smokers are locked up??????? the law doesn’t care about us.

  11. The throw away the key on drug dealers, who sell drugs to people that want it. But they let these pervs go free after forcing themselves on people. What a unholy justice system we have.

  12. Wow she was soo beautiful. So tragic she had her whole life ahead of her. A bright future

  13. Dont be surprised if these men are programed while in jail to kill when they get out.

  14. I want to know what was his business in that building ? Did he know someone in the building ? Wtf was his purpose? N just got out of prison who the hell let him go he’s a criminal wtffff 😡😡😡😡 ughhh may she rest in peace 😢 so Tragic n senseless 💔💔

  15. Niggas be so lame. I feel like once you are found as a sex offender you deserve life in prison. They send them for prison for a couple years then release them like they never did anything smh

  16. I mean you can get sex free from anyone why take it 🤬😡 my condolences to her family 🙏

  17. I don’t like getting into elevators. PERIOD
    That is frightening.
    RIP beautiful lady

  18. They purposely let out the worst ones…

    Its another way to help kill black people.

    Now if every time they let these evil demons out, they killed a White woman or child…
    Of course they would make sure all these evil men got the death penalty.

  19. R*pists Should Never Been Let Out…Period! I Don’t Understand How Criminal System Don’t Get It. I Can Guarantee You This Waste Has No Regret. Probably Already Decided He Was Going Back To Jail.

  20. Black men are dangerous. Black women, watch your back and don’t get in confined spaces with them!!!!

  21. If he could easily kill a beautiful innocent woman like that I’m pretty sure he has kilt someone else before

  22. Honestly black women in particular are taught they don’t need men. And the average black woman is taught they are better than the black man… … so with that said even if I saw it happening with my own eyes I would walk past like I ain’t see shit and would never come forward… what they say? When older men try to talk to them he’s a creep? Well imma keep my creepy ass on somewhere when you need my help lol

  23. To do shit like that throw somebody in the dumpster shows you don’t have a bit of a conscience smh

  24. I feel like any violent sexual assault should require the predator be automatically castrated, and serve life. If they do get out, they should be strictly monitored. I don’t get how this people get out after assaulting multiple women. It should not take for them to finally murder someone for them to be caught up. This young lady was so beautiful, and it’s a shame that her life was senselessly taken from a monster that never should’ve been released from prison. Smdh

  25. What a piece of shit, why waste taxpayers money,,just drop this degenerate from a twelfth storey building with concrete at the bottom,,,

  26. Garbage like this piece of vile piece of shit is a menace to society. He needs to be put to death for murdering this beautiful valuable young lady from the world. She was destined to do great things for her community. My heartfelt condolences goes out to the Laird family on such a tremendous loss.

  27. Dudes that hurt women are cowards he definitely gonna get fucked up in jail by other inmates they gonna stomp the shit out of him after they find out what he in for fuck him 🖕🏽

  28. OMG this is so terrible 😢 Rest with The Most High Beautiful

  29. As a woman I see the devil in this man eyes 👀 so I can only imagine what she saw and went through. What an angel 😇

  30. Sooooo nobody heard the attack I’m sure she was screaming and fighting

  31. This story breaks my heart. Seem like more Black men hate us Along with everybody else. Instead of protecting us, they’re killing us. Lord, have mercy on our souls. Time is winding down.

  32. Why Was He Even Back On The Streets After Raping Someone?..Sorry Azz Justice System😒😒😒

  33. Rapists need to do life!!!!!!!!!!! and why her boyfriend didn’t walk her to the car! His ass better had been fucking upstairs sick or something!

  34. AS BLACK MEN! WE ARE NOT NEARLY PROTECTING OUR WOMEN & GIRLS ENOUGH…. SHAMEFUL__😔

  35. So he beat, raped and killed her in an elevator and carried her body to a dumpster and NO ONE saw anything????
    Thank God for cameras.
    He was so bold and cold hearted!!! Damn, this sucks to the core….

  36. As a black woman, I know for a FACT that nothing can protect us better than our Lord Jesus Christ! We have to learn how to live in accordance to how our Lord God wants us to live, our Lord Jesus is true, loving and merciful. We can learn alot from just simply reading the bible. Keeping my sisters in prayer, God bless.

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