History's Biggest Villains

On November 18, 1994, Belinda Hinton was concerned about her brother Jay, as he failed to contact her on her birthday. Her fiance William went to check on him, but he had to break a back window to get in the house. Almost immediately, he was met with a foul odor, and with his room in disarray, William knew something was wrong. He then found the decomposing body of his brother-in-law. Jay’s face wa...

Wayne Henry Garrison seemed to have murderous urges at a young age, as he had already killed 2 children before he turned 18, as one was his 4 year old cousin, and the other was a random 3 year old boy that he kidnapped. For the second murder, he plead guilty to second degree manslaughter and out of jail before he graduated high school. Since he wasn’t properly punished, his pedophilic urges were a...

Shirley Landruth was working the hotline for Shasta County’s Secret Witness program when she started receiving strange calls from a man in 1985. The line allowed people to provide details on unsolved crimes, sometimes for reward money. With the system being anonymous, the calls were never recorded, however, this particular caller was strange. The man gave precise directions to the location of a bo...

On June 22,1990 in Tallahassee, Florida, Robbie Faye Vann was waiting in her car while her family shopped in the mall. Suddenly, a man armed with a knife attempted to steal her car, and Robbie fought back. She tried to honk the horn, and the man stabbed her 20 times, killing her. The car crashed and he fled on foot, but he was captured in a backyard, with the knife still in his hand. The suspect’s...

Rosemary Ndlovu was a relatively normal person growing up in South Africa. She joined the police force and worked her way up to become a sergeant. But unbeknownst to everyone, she had a gambling addiction, and she was in deep water with loan sharks. In order to clear her debts, she took out dozens of life insurance policies on her family members, hiring hitmen to kill them, although she wasn’t abo...

To say that Axel Rudakubana was a violent kid would be a massive understatement. Even as a preteen, he frequently watched graphic videos of people getting killed and was obsessed with genocide. While in high school, he called a child helpline, admitting that he wanted to kill a kid that was bullying him, as he was expelled after admitting to bringing a knife to school 10 different times. Somehow,...

Tony Amati was someone who was considered to be highly intelligent, even exhibiting symptoms of OCD. After he graduated high school with Honors in 1994,it seemed like his whole personality changed. This supposedly normal guy had turned evil, recruiting his friends to help him rob a gun store. After they made off with a massive haul, Tony and his friends would then go around Las Vegas, shooting peo...

The Briley brothers, Linwood, James and Anthony were growing up in Richmond, Virginia. Although the neighbors knew them as helpful, providing assistance with car repairs and lawn maintenance, the brothers would change once their parents separated. Their dad apparently kept his door padlocked overnight to protect himself from the three boys. In January of 1971, Linwood, only 16, aimed his rifle out...

Gwen Graham arrived at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1986. She then met Cathy Wood, her supervisor on the floor. The two developed a close relationship, as they eventually fell in love with each other. But their bond took a deadly turn, as they decided to kill the patients they looked after to strengthen their love bond. Cathy would be the lookout while Gwen smothered...

Guy Georges was rejected early on, as he was given away by his mother because of the attitude towards mixed race kids in their hometown. He was made a ward of the state, before he was adopted by a family who had 7 biological children along with 13 foster children. At 14, Guy started stealing food from stores and carrying a knife around. He then attempted to strangle his mentally disabled sister, b...

John Ewell was someone who felt like he was a victim of the justice system. He had two previous robbery convictions, which were now counted under the new “three-strikes” law in California in 1994. He was then caught trying to deposit a $28,000 check into his account, and was charged with check forgery, which would potentially count as a third strike, with a possible sentence of 25 years to life in...

Joseph Paul Franklin knew nothing but abuse from an early age, as his father was an abusive alcoholic and his mother barely fed him and rarely cared about him and his siblings. As a high schooler, he sought acceptance, so he read up on evangelical Christianity, then this soon evolved into memberships in the local Nazi and KKK chapters. The height of his value shift was when he read Mein Kampf, as...

On the morning of June 23, 1990 in Bellevue, Washington, a McDonald’s employee was taking out the trash when he found something horrifying, so he ran inside and called 911. Police came to the scene and discovered the nude body of a young woman, but she had no visible gunshot or stab wounds. She had been posed in a strange way, as there was a large coffee cup lid covering her right eye. One foot wa...

Stephen Akinmurele was a young man with severe mental issues. After his parents split up he lived with his mother, who often had his grandmother over. Stephen’s grandmother was a strict disciplinarian and he grew to resent her. This seething hatred would stretch to encompass all elderly people in general. His hatred would develop into murderous intentions and it all came to a head on October 30, 1...

On September 19, 1970, Areti and Dimitros Koularmanis and their three children traveled from Toronto to New York City for a family reunion. They were staying with his parents in their ground-floor apartment in Jamaica, Queens. At 4:30 the next morning, an intruder broke into the apartment and grabbed Areti, plunging his knife into her throat. She staggered out of the room, waking her husband befor...

Joshua Anderson was a kid with an erratic personality, so he had no issues with using violence to get even. It all started early as at 16, he was accused of shooting someone. But somehow the warrant was recalled after a month. A year later, Josh was arrested on kidnapping and battery charges. He agreed to a plea bargain so he was released after three months. A month after that, he was charged with...

Frank Matthews was destined for a life of crime at an early age. By the time he was 14, he had dropped out of school and was leading a gang of teenagers that stole chickens from local farms. He then moved to Philadelphia where he was involved in the illegal gambling rackets, making important connections that would serve him later in life. By 1965, Frank was in Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, working as a ba...

Stephen Morin was a man who was adept at flying under the radar. His drug addiction took over his life and he soon became a man outside the law. He had a few arrests for theft and drug possession. But he upped the ante by kidnapping a 14 year old girl, raping and torturing her before releasing her. For this crime, he was put on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. But Stephen was one step ahead of the auth...

Buck Ruxton was a successful Indian-born doctor who had a medical practice in Lancashire at 2 Dalton Square. He was known to provide his services for free on several occasions when patients couldn’t afford them. By 1933, he had a wife, Isabella, three children and a housekeeper, Mary Jane Rogerson. But by the next year, cracks in their marriage started to show, as Buck frequently accused Isabella...

From May to September 2003, four young boys went missing in the Bahamas. These crimes, especially in a relatively safe nation like the Bahamas, sent shockwaves around the globe. Amidst all the chaos, the Bahamian government tried to assure tourists that the Bahamas was still a safe country to visit. However for five months, the police did dead end after dead end with the investigation. That all ch...

Sharon Causse was a widow who was extremely lonely, so she went on a dating website. She matched with a man named Thomas Randolph, a widower who had already been married five times before. The two hit it off quickly, probably faster than Sharon’s friends might’ve liked. Within a short time, the two got married while on a cruise. But on May 8, 2008, everything changed. When they arrived at their La...

On January 20, 1983, someone called the police, telling them about a Cadillac Coupe Deville that was abandoned. It had been sitting in front of the Varuna Boat Club in Brooklyn for ten days. The police shook the car and initially determined that the truck was empty so they had it towed to the police department. When it got to the station, the trunk was opened and a man was found partially frozen b...

On March 19, 1960 in Kansas City, Missouri, Sharon Kinne heard a gunshot in her house and ran to the bedroom, only to find her husband James dead. Sharon told police that their two year old daughter, who had been allowed to play with James’s guns, had accidentally shot him. Police were unable to dispute this theory, so no charges were pressed. A month later, she got involved with Walter Jones, a c...

Jorge Negromonte was a man who already had a violent temper. He killed a girl as a teenager and almost killed his own mother, using the money he stole from her to buy himself a house. He even threatened to kill all the guests at his wedding, forcing him and his wife Isabel to go into isolation. In 2002, the 40 year old Jorge met 16 year old Bruna at the gym. They would fall in love as Isabel accep...

Lucha libre was and still is a popular form of entertainment in Mexico. Juana Barraza dreamed of being a luchadore and started wrestling in the indie circuit, calling herself the “Lady Of Silence”. But her fake persona in the ring gave way to another side of her that was way more dangerous. As dozens of elderly women were found strangled to death in their homes over the years in Mexico City, the p...