History's Biggest Villains

On 13 February 2003, business owner and married father of two Amarjit Chohan disappeared without a trace in Hounslow, West London. Two days later, on 15 February his wife 25-year-old Nancy Chohan, her mother 51-year-old Charanjit Kaur and his two young children, 18-month-old Davinder and 2-month-old Ravinder, also vanished. Rumor suggested Mr Chohan had got himself involved in some shady business...

Joseph Lyle Menéndez and Erik Galen Menéndez are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menéndez. During the trial, the brothers stated that they committed the murders out of fear that their father would kill them after they threatened to expose him for years of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, while the prosecutio...

Trevor Joseph Hardy , also known as the Beast of Manchester, was a convicted English serial killer who murdered three teenage girls in Manchester between December 1974 and March 1976. In 1977, he was found guilty on three charges of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment, remaining in prison until his death 35 years later.

PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes didn't stand a chance as they responded to what they thought was a routine report of a burglary. The pair stepped out of their police van and walked up to the front door of a three-bed maisonette, into a slaughter that was so gratuitous the shock still reverberates today. Inside was one-eyed fugitive Dale Cregan - wanted for murdering two gangland rivals. Befor...

Thierry Paulin, known as The Monster of Montmartre, was a French spree killer active in the 1980s who along with his lover Jean Thierry Mathurin, robbed and murdered 21 elderly women. He died from complications related to AIDS before his trial.

Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is an English woman who, as a juvenile, killed two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1968.[4] Bell committed her first killing when she was 10 years old. In both instances, Bell informed her victim he had a sore throat, which she would massage before proceeding to strangle him. Bell was convicted of manslaughter in relati...

Judias or "Judy" Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear and Judias Morris) was an American serial killer executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son, Michael Buenoano, and of the 1983 attempted murder of her boyfriend, John Gentry. Buenoano is also acknowledged to have been responsible for the 1978...

Carl Eric "Charlie" Brandt was an American serial killer who murdered at least four female victims; one in Indiana and three others in Florida. Growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brandt shot his parents in their family home on the night of January 3, 1971, when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother and wounding his father. He spent one year at a psychiatric hospital before being release...

Kenneth Allen McDuff was an American serial killer. He was convicted in 1966 of murdering 16-year-old Edna Sullivan, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Robert Brand, and Brand's cousin, 15-year-old Mark Dunnam, who was visiting from California. They were all strangers whom McDuff abducted after noticing Sullivan. McDuff repeatedly raped her before breaking her neck with a broomstick. McDuff was given...

Early in 1977, nurses employed at the public hospital in Wetteren, Belgium, began comparing notes on curious events in the 38-bed geriatric ward. The death rate had increased dramatically in recent months, with twenty-one patients lost in the span of a year. Other cases revealed signs of mistreatment, including catheters ripped from the bladders of elderly patients. The nurses started keeping a lo...

Stephen Griffiths was a strange kid who became obsessed with death and murder from an early age. These obsessions led him to become infatuated with serial killers, and it wasn't long before he became one himself.

Anthony Sowell was someone who on the outside looked like a model citizen, especially considering his seven year military career with multiple medals and commendations. But underneath the surface was a man with a dangerous sexual appetite. This started early in his life, as he was the perpetrator of several sexual assaults as a teenager and also served 15 years in prison and kidnapping and attempt...

Nannie Doss’s love life was something that would become her life’s identity. As an escape from her abusive childhood where her father made her quit school to work on his farm, she would always read her mother’s romance magazines and dream of finding a husband one day. Her dream would come when at 16 years old, she married Charley Braggs, her coworker, after only dating for four months. Bragg’s mot...

Nathan Dunlap had his fair share of struggles growing up. His father was absent and his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Nathan had several mental health issues as a child, with two suicide attempts before he was 14. He was also diagnosed with hypomania as a teenager. His troubles with the law started early as he was arrested several times for robbery and drug possessi...

At 1:00 a.m. on March 29, 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri, Christopher Bryson was lured into the home of 39 year old store owner Robert Berdella. He was knocked out with an iron bar and tied to Berdella’s bed, where he was subjected to extreme abuse and torture, which included sexual assault, electrocution and injection with hypodermic needles. After three days, Bryson convinced Berdella to tie his...

In October 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the landlord of an apartment complex in the Tacony neighborhood went to inspect the apartment owned by then 51-year-old Linda Ann Weston after receiving reports of suspicious activity. The landlord went into the apartment and discovered four mentally disabled adults locked in the basement in deplorable conditions as part of a Social Security benefit f...

On January 3rd, 2022 in Slaughter, Louisiana, police received a call from Sheila & Clay Fletcher regarding their disabled daughter, 36 year old Lacey Ellen Fletcher, who was unresponsive on their couch. When the police arrived, the crime scene uncovered over a decade of horrible abuse and neglect.

Brenda Spencer was a girl who suffered from alcohol and drug addiction as a teenager. After her parents separated, her and her father Wallace Spencer slept on a single mattress on the floor that was littered with empty beer bottles. In the summer of 1978, she was arrested for shooting out the windows of the elementary school across the street from her house. After this incident, it was suggested t...

Monroe Betterton by all accounts seemed to be a normal guy living a normal life with his wife Elizabeth and their several children. But it seemed that once he got angry, a switch flipped inside his head and he became an entirely different person. During one of the many arguments between him and his wife, he beat her until she was unconscious, as she later died from her injuries. Somehow, Monroe wa...

The story of David Edwin Mason’s life was the result of childhood neglect combined with an undiagnosed mental illness. Even as a young kid, he suffered from abuse in multiple ways, while also not being mentally strong enough to deal with the bullying he received. As a teenager, he experimented with multiple ways to commit suicide, like hanging, cutting, throwing himself down the stairs and even se...

Danny Figueroa was just like any other kid before the invention of cellphones, as he loved being outside and spending time in nature. But these habits still carried on into adulthood, as it seemed like Danny’s mental state remained that of an adolescent. He called himself a survivalist, infatuated with military fatigues and sleeping outdoors, as he wandered through the woods with his rifle. In his...

On Saturday, June 4, 1966 in Westminster, CA, police received a strange call. 19 year old Robert Liberty told them that his girlfriend Marcella Landis was dead in their apartment. When the cops showed up, Marcella was found just like Robert had described. But her body was sprawled on the couch with a silk stocking wrapped around her neck, candles lit around her from head to toe and a Bible on her...

Nestor Pirotte had come from humble beginnings, but since he and his brothers played with the children of the aristocrats, he started to claim that he was a part of that group. When he grew up and eventually joined the military, he still had these claims, but he admitted to stealing from his comrades and other forms of theft. At the age of 21, he believed that his aunt had sold cattle and had a la...

Leopoldine Kasparek seemed to have a good life, coming from a respectable Austrian family while also being married to a man that worked at her father’s coffeehouse. Once her husband was called to serve in World War 1, her newfound freedom led to a sinister change in her personality. She began to commit several thefts and robberies, but she received very little prison time. Leopoldine then escalate...

On May 27, 2018 in Springfield, Massachusetts,  Stewart Weldon saw that he was about to get pulled over for a busted taillight, so he floored it. The chase ended when he tried to ram a police car and his vehicle stalled. As the cops approached the car, they saw a woman tied up in the backseat. She yelled to the officer that she was being kidnapped and Stewart was arrested. The woman told the polic...