History's Biggest Villains

On March 2, 1989, Ramon Laso’s car fell off a 60 foot cliff while he was driving with his 6 year old son. The car burst into flames and the boy didn’t make it, but Ramon was unharmed, despite claims that he was passed out for 15 minutes. He received a large insurance settlement, which he used to open a video rental store. His wife was mysteriously found decapitated by a train 9 months earlier, but...

Earl Bradley was a pediatrician that worked in Northeast Philadelphia in the 80’s, as he was successful enough to open his own practice. But his career choice wasn’t because of a genuine desire to help, it was to gain access to victims for his pedophilic urges. In the mid 90s, he was accused twice of sexual misconduct towards his young patients, so he abruptly closed his practice and moved to Lewe...

Africa is a continent rich with wildlife, culture and a history of perseverance. But unfortunately, their abundance of natural resources made them a target for European colonists looking to claim this land, but there were no arranged sales, the land was just taken simply because they felt they were entitled to it. Since many of these African countries were already under European control, these ins...

As you probably know, child protective service agencies always do a great job of making sure that children are safe. That’s why when LaShawn Ragland reported that his friend Banita Jacks was starving her children, along with another report from a social worker that she was holding them hostage, CPS did absolutely nothing about it. After the death of her boyfriend in 2007, Banita went completely of...

Gary Evans grew up in a horrible situation, as his father frequently abused him and his siblings. At the age of eight, he became interested in expensive things. So in turn, he started stealing things and pawning them off.. This habit continued all through his early 20s, as a combination of the deaths of both of his parents and his mental health issues, he went on a spree of robbery and murder, as...

Joseph Taborsky seemed to be on a path of negativity from the beginning, as at only 5 years old, he was stealing jewelry from a neighbor’s house to give to his mother. At 7 years old, he was stealing bikes and committing several burglaries. By the time he was an adult, he met Arthur Culombe, a mentally challenged man who collected guns, and Joseph saw an opportunity and a gullible accomplice. But...

Lam Kor-Wan was someone who always struggled socially. He didn’t have a great relationship with his father, plus he could barely make friends at school, let alone talk to women. So when his dad kicked him out after an argument, he had nothing but time to himself, so his perverted sexual urges only increased. It started with him hoarding porn magazines, then it progressed to peeping at his younger...

Alexander Pearce was a petty thief from Ireland that had used all of his chances with the legal system. For his continued crimes, he was sent thousands of miles away to work at a penal colony in what is now Tasmania. In 1822, he and 7 other inmates escaped and set off for the wilderness, but the land was extremely treacherous, barren of anything but vegetation for hundreds of miles. This getaway w...

Bruce Lindahl was a sexual predator who seemed to have friends in law enforcement, so he seemed to avoid any serious jail time despite his increasingly questionable behavior. On the most egregious occasion, he was stopped by police with an unconscious woman in the passenger, bleeding from a knife wound to her head. He told them he was taking her to the hospital, even though he was going in the wro...

John Martin Scripps got his love of traveling from his father, as the pair went everywhere together. But after his father committed suicide when he was 9, John never really got over it, with his grades slipping to the point where he dropped out of school at just 15 years old. He then resorted to a life of crime, resorting to theft and drug possession to earn money. When he was caught, he would go...

Jaime Osuna came from an extremely abusive household, as his stepfather frequently beat him, even pushing him out of a moving car while he was strapped to his car seat. This constant state of torment caused him to lash out as by 15, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for stabbing someone at school. When he was released, he covered his face in numerous tattoos, also getting involved with gangs,...

Linda Hazzard believed that fasting was the way to cure all illnesses. Despite not having a medical degree, she was licensed to practice medicine in the state of Washington through a legal loophole. She had an outgoing personality, leading to her practice becoming incredibly successful. Her hold was so strong that one of her patients ignored orders from a physician to stop fasting, but she died ni...

On December 15, 2016, Theodore Johnson invited his ex-girlfriend Angela Best over to help with an appointment with the Jamaican Embassy. As soon as she entered the house, he struck her in the head with a claw hammer 6 times, then he strangled her with a gown. A few hours later, he threw himself in front of a moving train, losing his right arm and left hand. While the medics tended to his injuries,...

On May 29, 1896, workers at a waste incineration facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina were met with a gruesome discovery. They opened a burlap sack and found the severed arm of a newborn baby. Further searches found the rest of the body, including a fractured skull. The investigation into this heinous crime stalled for a couple years, but in 1898, it picked right back up with the discovery of anoth...

Dallen Bounds was by all accounts a friendly kid who got along with people pretty well. But this calm demeanor hid a more devious side, as Dallen had sticky fingers, getting busted multiple times for theft and robbery, with his worst offense being a thievery of four pistols, a rifle and a shotgun, a crime in which he got off light with a 9 month sentence. He always held a job but he continued to l...

Alexsandr Rubel was a disturbed kid from an early age, as by 14 years old, his addiction to sniffing gasoline vapors caused him to develop homicidal urges. He was huffing up to 5 liters a day by the time he was 16, as his desire to kill grew stronger and stronger. In September 1997, Alexsandr couldn’t contain his compulsions anymore, as the teenager hacked his disabled neighbor to death with an ax...

Werner Pinzner seemed to be down on his luck from the beginning, as after he dropped out of school, he floated from job to job, ultimately being sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in an armed robbery that resulted in the death of the store manager. While behind bars, he was able to establish connections with multiple members of Germany’s seedy red-light district, as he desired to live th...

On February 20, 2005, Andrea Arrigoni, a private investigator, had traveled to Verona, Italy after a dinner with his parents. He called and told them he was going to his office, but he took a detour, heading to a well-known red light district in search of a prostitute. He picked up 30 year old Galina Shafranek, but they got into a violent altercation that witnesses reported to the police. By the t...

Olga Hepnarova was an average child growing up in Czechoslovakia, but out of nowhere, she developed psychiatric problems that plagued her for the rest of her life. She had attempted suicide by age 13, and had survived frequent beatings and other abuse at the mental hospital she was staying at. As she grew up, her life didn’t improve much, as she bounced from job to job. Once she found work as a tr...

If you looked up the word strange in the dictionary, you would probably see a picture of Wolfgang Schmidt. Out of retaliation for a strained relationship with his mother, a 7 year old Wolfgang went into her dresser and put on her bra and panties, then he would urinate and defecate in the underwear on purpose, as this apparently gave him sexual pleasure. He routinely did this until his mom noticed...

William Adrogo had a history of mental illness that caused delusions that made him snap into violent episodes. In February 1954, he invited his family to a banquet at his house, celebrating a indigenous festival for the Alur tribe. In his twisted mind, he believed that they had put witchcraft on his marriage, so after the celebration was over, he silently killed all 22 of his guests with a machete...

The Murdaugh family is a prominent American legal family in the Low Country region of South Carolina. From 1920 to 2006, three members of the family consecutively served as solicitors in charge of prosecuting all criminal cases in the state's 14th circuit district, leading locals to call the five-county district, "Murdaugh Country." The family also founded a nationally recognized civ...

Gary Glitter was one of the biggest rock stars of his era, with hits "Rock and Roll (Parts 1 & 2)" and "Rock and Roll Christmas". But despite all of this success, he was convicted in 1999 for child pornography and his career derailed from that point forward.

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein also con...

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Until his execution in 1896, he chose a career of crime including insurance fraud, swindling, check forging, three to four bigamous illegal marriages, horse theft and murder. Despite his confession of 27 murders (inclu...