From WWE Hall of Famer Sunny, sentenced to 17 years for a fatal drunk driving crash, to Mexican wrestler Huana Barza, sentenced to 759 years for murdering 16 women. These are the wrestling legends you might have forgotten are still in jail. Tammy Sunonny Sitch.
Tammy Lynn Sitch walked into a Florida courtroom in an orange jumpsuit as one of the most famous women wrestling ever produced. She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011. And back in the 1990s, she was Sunny, the blonde valet and manager who helped carry the company through the new generation era and into the attitude era.
For a while, she was one of the most downloaded women on the early internet. Millions of fans knew her face. Then came the night of March 25th, 2022.
Sitch was driving a Mercedes without a valid license through Orman Beach, and she slammed into the back of a stopped Kia that was waiting at a red light. The car she hit belonged to 75-year-old Julian Lacier, a Daytona Beach man who ran recovery houses and helped people fight addiction. He died from his injuries.
When police tested her blood about an hour later, her alcohol level came back at roughly four times the legal limit, and there was an open bottle of vodka inside her car. She told officers she remembered drinking and making leftover burritos, but claimed she had no memory of the crash itself. Her record before that night was already ugly.
Back in 2015, she was arrested for driving under the influence three times in roughly one month in Pennsylvania with blood alcohol readings that ran far past the legal limit. And her history stacked up license suspensions and probation problems across two states. State Attorney R.
J. Louisa pointed to that pattern, called her a danger to society, and labeled her death on wheels. At her sentencing, she stood at the podium and tried to speak for herself.
I have done something horrible, but I am so much more than the worst that I have done. Those words did not change the outcome. On November 27th, 2023, Circuit Judge Karen Foxman sentenced her to 17 and a half years in [music] state prison, followed by 8 years of probation.
In her own statement, she traced the start of her long slide to the death of her fianceé, fellow wrestler Chris Candido back in 2005, and she noted that her mother had passed away while she sat behind bars. In February of 2024, she was moved to Lowel Correctional Institution, [music] a women's prison near Ocala that has faced years of scrutiny over its conditions, where she later reported serious health issues, including a severe blood [music] clot in her leg. She filed a request to have her sentences run together and shortened.
And in January of 2025, the judge turned [music] her down. That April, a civil consent judgment ordered her to pay $5 million to Lacader's estate. Public records list her tenative release date as December of 2039.
Sunny is the most famous name on this list. She is not the darkest. Billy Jack Haynes.
Billy Jack Haynes was a genuine star of 1980s wrestling before all of this. He was a Portland wrestling hero and a WWF midcarter who feuded with names like Hercules and Randy Savage and made it to Wrestlemania 3. Fans from that era instantly recognized the mustache and the big frame, which is exactly why the news out of Southeast Portland landed so hard.
On the morning of February 8th, 2024, police responded to a shooting inside a home in the Lent neighborhood. Officers learned the suspect was still inside, brought in SWAT and crisis negotiators, and waited through a standoff that lasted around 2 hours. When Hannes finally came out and was taken into custody, officers found his 85-year-old wife, Janette Becraft, dead from a gunshot wound.
Bcraft suffered from dementia. Hannes was charged with seconddegree murder and unlawful use of a weapon, and he pleaded not guilty. More than a year later, he sat down for a jail house interview for the Dark Side of the Ring episode about his life.
Speaking from inside the Multma County Justice Center after about 6 months behind bars, he wanted the world to know how he saw the charge. I'm glad that he's here today. Uh it's a seconddegree murder and it's just [music] way overcharged.
He kept circling back to who he loved and what he insisted did not happen. That same episode dug into the wreckage of his career from the painkiller addiction that helped end his WWF run to an on-flight overdose and a class action brain injury lawsuit against WWE. That was later thrown out.
Through all of it, he pointed to the two people he said mattered most to him. [music] That's didn't happen. Uh there's only really two human beings I really love.
That was my father who was blind and and in a wheelchair. The case has been anything but simple. In May of 2025, a judge ruled Haynes mentally unfit to stand trial and ordered him to the Oregon State Hospital for treatment.
Around the same time, the victim's daughter filed a civil lawsuit alleging years of elder abuse, claiming he isolated Becraft, introduced her to drugs, drained more than $750,000 from her accounts, forced her into marriage, and even had her buy the gun because his own record blocked him from getting one. The suit seeks $750,000 in damages. Secondary reporting has also noted his claim [music] that BCraft, who had dementia, asked him to end her life.
By early 2026, the court found he had regained fitness, and a judge said his trial window for April into May of 2027. He turned 73 in July of 2026, still in custody, still waiting for a jury. He has never been convicted.
The next man was Buck Zumhoff. Buck Zumhoff carried a boom box to the ring. That was the gimmick.
Rock and roll. Buck Zumhoff was a light heavyweight who held the Awa World light heavyweight championship three times and teamed with Iceman King Parsons in world class. He also picked up work as an enhancement talent for the WWF where his place in trivia history is strange and real.
He was the first man ever stuffed into the Undertaker's body bag [music] and he wrestled Triple H in Triple H's WWF debut in 1995. Behind the music and the losses was a long dark criminal record. Zumhoff had convictions for sexual offenses reaching back to the 1980s.
In 1986, he was jailed for misconduct involving a minor, which forced him to vacate the AWA World Light heavyweight title he held at the time. And around 1989, he was convicted again and served 36 months before returning to the ring. The case that finally buried him began in 2013 when he was arrested and charged with 12 felony counts of criminal conduct.
The victim was his own biological daughter, and the abuse began when she was a minor and stretched on for years. She reported it in 2012 after seeking therapy, describing a staggering number of incidents. Longtime [ __ ] figure Greg Gier later recalled a road trip decades earlier where a warning sign flickered.
Jim [music] said to me, "Geez, I hope she was like 15 or 16. I hope Buck isn't doing something with his daughter. " For years, it stayed hearsay, the kind of thing whispered in a car and never proven.
Gany told her to get away from him and left it there. When the full story finally reached a courtroom, his verdict on the man was blunt. If what came out really happened, he deserves to be there.
In March of 2014, a jury convicted Zumhoff on all 12 counts after about 4 hours of deliberation. The moment was almost unbelievable. As the verdicts were read, the 62-year-old tried to run out of the Candyoi County courthouse and was tackled by deputies, which earned him another felony charge for escape.
In May, Judge David Menace handed down a top of the guidelines sentence of 310 months, which works out to just over 25 years with the counts ordered to run one after another. The judge cited the sheer volume of offenses and his history as a repeat offender, and he also drew 10 years of conditional release and a spot on the predatory offender registry. As of the most recent reporting, he remains locked up at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Moose Lake.
Born in 1951, he will be an old man before any release. The next case ended not in a courtroom scuffle, but in a parking lot with a knife. Brian McGee, the future.
Brian McGee was supposed to be a WWE success story. A Navy veteran from the St. Louis area.
He stood somewhere around 6'7 with a bodybuilder's frame and WWE signed him to a developmental deal in 2010. He was sent to Florida Championship Wrestling, the training ground that came right before NXT. And he performed there under names like DT Porter and Donovan Rudd.
His nickname said it all. He was the future. WWE released him in 2012, and the future he ended up with was horrifying.
On the evening of July 24th, 2013, his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend, Bianca Mcgaui, was walking her dog outside her Tampa apartment complex. [music] She was on the phone with McGee's wife at the time. McGee was parked nearby.
He got out of his car, walked up to her, and began stabbing her in the neck, chest, and torso without saying a word. When his first knife broke during the attack, he went back to his car, grabbed a second knife, and kept going. A witness saw her fall screaming and found her on the sidewalk with a knife still in her.
She died at the scene. What he did next made the case even uglier. Around an hour after the killing, a photo of a bloody body part appeared on his Facebook page, which prosecutors described as him bragging with gruesome images.
He fled the area, called his sister and mother, and confessed to killing her. During one of those calls, a police officer took the phone, and he confessed a third time. Deputies chased his car north on Interstate 75.
He crashed into a guardrail and a K-9 unit helped bring him in. McGee sat in the Hillsboro County Jail for about 3 years. In July of 2016, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, a deal that let him avoid the death penalty at a moment when Florida's capital punishment system was tangled up in legal uncertainty.
The prosecutor laid out the whole thing in court, from the broken knife to the social media posts. The judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole and made the point that in Florida, life means life. Reports place him at Appalachi Correctional Institution.
To this day, there is no realistic path out. The next name almost got away with taking the law into his own hands. Kane Velasquez.
Kane Velasquez is the biggest fighting name on this list, and his story [music] comes with a twist. He is a two-time UFC heavyweight champion who crossed over into pro wrestling with brief runs in WWE and in Mexico's Triple A. He was a legitimate combat sports superstar.
In 2022, his life detonated over the worst kind of family nightmare. In late February of that year, a man named Harry Gularte was arrested on suspicion of molesting Velasquez's 4-year-old son at a home daycare. 2 days later, Guillarde was released on supervised release over the objections of prosecutors.
On February 28th, 2022, [music] Velasquez went after a truck carrying Gillarde and family members in an 11mi high-speed chase that ran from Morgan Hill into San Jose. He rammed the truck and fired multiple rounds from a handgun. The bullets missed his intended target and instead [music] struck Guarte's stepfather in the arm and the shooting happened near a school that was letting out.
Velisquez was charged with attempted murder and a stack of firearms counts and investigators later said his phone searches included questions about cases where victims families fight back. He was held without bail for about 8 months, then released on a million-doll bond and placed on house arrest with an ankle monitor. In August of 2024, he pleaded no contest.
And in March of 2025, Judge Arthur Boenegra sentenced him to 5 years in prison, plus supervised probation with credit for the 1,283 days he had already spent [music] in county jail and on house arrest. The district attorney, Jeff Rosen, described it as a vigilante shooting that wounded an man and endangered the public. Here is where his story splits from the others.
Because Velasquez had already spent well over a thousand days in county jail and on house arrest. His actual time in state prison was short. He entered custody in the spring of 2025, moved through Wasco and then the facility in Solidad.
And on February 15th, 2026, he was released on parole after roughly 11 months inside. In a statement that [music] March, he said he felt blessed to be out and talked about easing back into daily life at his own pace. As of mid 2026, he is out on parole rather than sitting in a cell.
The next man had no chase, no headlines fighting for his side, and no way out. Evan Cloyd, Jerick 120. Evan Cloyd built a following two different ways.
In the ring, he was Jerick 120, an independent wrestler trained by the Brian Kendrick who worked promotions like CZW, Evolve, and Beyond Wrestling from around 2007 onward. He was a contestant on WWE'se's Tough Enough. And in 2016, he appeared on WWE television under the name Chase Silver, losing quickly to Braun Strowman on an October episode of Raw with a dark match against Kurt Hawkins around the same tapings and a WWE try out that followed.
Outside the ring, he reinvented himself as a street magician and content creator under a brand he called Disturb Reality. And in 2023, he launched a recovery journal series that documented his effort to quit drugs, filming himself day after day talking about turning his life around. That public image collapsed in 2024.
Cloyd was arrested in March of that year in the Houston area and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14. The case moved through the Harris County court system for roughly 22 months while the wrestling world mostly went quiet about him. The resolution came at the very start of 2026.
On or about January 8th, Cloyd pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The report was first confirmed by veteran wrestling journalist Mike Johnson and picked up across the industry. His mugsh shot and booking details from Harris County circulated shortly after, and the social accounts tied to him were quickly locked down or made private.
Wrestling promotions and WWE said nothing notable in the immediate coverage, and the handful of former acquaintances who spoke up mostly expressed shock. Public information beyond the charge, the timeline, and the sentence stays thin, which is common in cases involving crimes against minors. Court records in Texas restrict much of the detail.
What is documented is clear enough. A man who spent years filming himself talking about recovery and inspiration, began serving a 15-year term in the Texas prison system at around 34 years old. His match record still sits online.
38 bouts cataloged against names like Darby Allen and Drw Gulak, a reminder of a career that once had real promise on the independent scene. That promise now runs on a 15-year clock inside a cell. The next man ran an operation so dark that even hardened wrestlers struggled to describe it.
Hardbody Harrison. Harrison Norris trained at the WCW Power Plant and debuted in 1995 as Hardbody Harrison, a preliminary wrestler who appeared on WCW Monday Nitro and other shows without ever climbing above enhancement talent. He was a Gulf War veteran, an amateur boxer, and a Toughman Contest Heavyweight Champion in the year 2000.
A man with big ideas about his own career who was even part of a settled racial discrimination lawsuit against WCW's parent company. Chris Jericho once described the kind of wild pitches he made backstage. From wanting to be a black sting to storylines involving diamonds hidden in a tank of piranhas.
Behind that hotad reputation was something far worse than ego. On August 18th, 2005, hardbody Harrison was arrested for keeping eight women locked [music] up as slaves. From at least 2001, Norris ran a trafficking and forced labor operation out of two homes in Barto County, Georgia.
He recruited vulnerable women, many of them poor, homeless, or struggling with addiction by promising them legitimate female wrestling training and a career. Once they were under his control, he took their IDs and phones, isolated them, and ran them under a rigid military-style hierarchy of squads and team leaders. He forced them into commercial and unpaid manual labor like hauling trees and laying sod, find them for tiny rule violations and kept them buried in debt bondage that he made sure they could never pay off.
He had help. A team leader named Amy Allen pleaded guilty and cooperated for about 34 months and a man known as Detroit drew five years. Fellow wrestler Disco Inferno has publicly recalled seeing Norris around groups of quiet, fearful women.
Investigators eventually raided his homes after one of the victims managed to reach a police officer on the street. His trial produced one of the most self-destructive decisions in true crime. He's facing life in prison [music] and the dude actually decided to represent himself on the stand.
In November of 2007, a federal jury in Atlanta convicted Norris on 24 counts involving eight women, including conspiracy ponage, forced labor, trafficking, and witness tampering. [music] In April of 2008, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. That life sentence was later vacated on a technicality, and in December of 2010, he was resentenced to 35 years.
He has filed appeal after appeal without success. Federal records still list him in custody with a projected release date around October of 2035. The next man served his prison time and walked out.
But his story does not end there. Nightmare Ken Wayne. Ken Wayne was a respected name in southern wrestling long before the internet made him infamous.
Real name Kenneth Peele. He broke in back in 1976 and made his mark in Memphis as one half of the Nightmares tag team alongside Danny Davis who later became a WWE referee and helped found Ohio Valley Wrestling. Ken Wayne held regional titles across the territories, picked up enhancement work in the WWF and WCW, and after he retired around 2005, he ran his own wrestling school, often described as operating out of a metal shed, plus a promotion called New Experience Wrestling.
He even sat on the board of Ohio Valley Wrestling. His father was Memphis wrestler and promoter Buddy Wayne, and his son Eric Wayne wrestles, too. Wrestling was the family business.
Then came September 9th, 2014. Investigators from Mississippi's Attorney General's Cyber Crime Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force working with the Dotto County Sheriff's Department arrested Peele at his home in Horn Lake on a charge of child exploitation after finding [music] numerous images and videos of child be in his possession. He faced up to 40 years in February of 2016.
He pleaded guilty. Judge Robert Chamberlain sentenced him to 20 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections structured as 5 years to serve in prison and 15 years of post-release supervision. He was ordered to pay $1,000 each to the state's children's trust fund and its crime victim's compensation fund and to register as a offender.
Attorney General Jim Hood announced the outcome and thanked the task force that hunts online predators and contemporaneous reporting from outlets like the Clarion Ledger described the seized material simply as numerous images and videos of child. This is the second twist on the list and it matters for accuracy. Peele served the prison portion of that sentence, roughly 2016 into around 2021.
And by late 2024, reporting he had moved onto the 15-year supervision phase described as house arrest style post-release conditions while remaining a registered offender. So, while some older compilation videos still list him as sitting in a cell in 2026, the honest record is that he completed the prison term and is under long-term supervision that runs into the early 2030s. His conviction is real.
His time inside is done. The next name is not even from the pro wrestling world, but his case is very much active. Isaiah Perez.
Isaiah Perez belongs on this list with an asterisk, and it is only fair to say so upfront. He is a wrestler, but he came up through amateur and college wrestling rather than the pro ranks. So, there is no WWE or WCW tie here.
He was a standout at Pitman High School in Turlock, California, a state championship runnerup at 220 lbs in 2018. and he went on to wrestle for Fresno State for about three years while majoring in criminology. His case is the freshest conviction on this list.
The events go back to November of 2020 at an off-campus gathering near Fresno State involving alcohol and marijuana. The victim was 15 years old. According to the appeals court opinion and earlier reporting, she drank heavily and became so intoxicated she could not stand or walk on her own and drifted in and out of consciousness.
Perez was described as aggressive in his advances despite friends warning him she was too drunk. After friends briefly left, he took the girl with him and they were later found at his place where witnesses described a disturbing scene in a shower. Fresno State dismissed him from the team and called the incident disturbing.
He was arrested in January of 2021 and originally faced serious felony counts, including rape of an intoxicated victim in kidnapping to commit rape charges that carried the possibility of life. He remained free on bond for years while the case ground forward. In the end, he pleaded no contest to battery on an unlawfully restrained person and to unlawful inter with a minor and the more serious counts were dismissed.
At his sentencing in late July of 2025, Perez addressed the court and described his younger self as young, reckless, [music] and tremendously just dumb. His defense asked for probation, noting he had no prior record and was a father. Fresno County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Negan denied probation, said he had taken advantage of a person who could not care for herself, and imposed the middle term of three years in state prison.
[music] He was taken into custody immediately to the visible shock of family in the room, and he must register as a offender. His appeal was rejected. As of mid 2026, he is still serving that term.
The last name on this list carries a number so large it barely feels real. Huana Barza, Ladama del Sencio. Huana Barza is the reason this list ends.
the way it does. She wrestled on Mexico's small lucha libre circuit as Laama del Sencio, the lady of silence, a masked heel who kept to herself. Barza is one of the most notorious serial killers in Mexican history.
Her nickname on the streets of Mexico City was Lamata Vagas, the little old lady killer. Between the late 1990s and early 2006, she prayed on elderly women who lived alone. She would knock on their doors, posing as a nurse or a government social worker, offering help with pensions or medical checks, carrying official looking forms to talk her way inside.
Once she was in, she strangled them, often with a stethoscope she carried, and robbed the homes. For years, the investigation was a disaster. Police insisted the killer had to be a man, even chased a theory that the culprit was in disguise, and rounded up the wrong people while the real killer kept working.
The end came on January 25th, 2006 when Barza strangled 82-year-old Anna Maria de los Reyes Alfaro and was spotted fleeing by a lodger. Police caught her almost immediately still carrying a stethoscope pension forms and a social worker ID. A search of her home turned up newspaper clippings of the murders and small trophies taken from her victims.
She traced her rage to a brutal childhood, telling investigators she hated elderly women because of the abuse she suffered from her own mother, who she said sold her to a man as a child. On March 31st, 2008, Barazza was convicted of 16 murders and 12 aggravated robberies and sentenced to 759 years in prison, the longest murder sentence handed down in Mexico City at the time. Authorities long suspected her true body count ran far higher into the 40s.
Under Mexican law, the practical maximum she can serve is much lower than 759 years, but she is expected to die behind bars. She remains held at the Santa Martha Ecatla Women's Prison, where she has worked as a gym instructor and sold food to other inmates. In May of 2026, she was briefly hospitalized for kidney trouble before being returned to her cell.
The Lady of Silence went quiet in the ring. She will spend the rest of her life quiet in a cage. That brings us to the end of this video.
