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Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States prior to the September 11 attacks. It remains one of the deadliest acts of domesti...

David Joseph Carpenter, a.k.a. The Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer known for stalking and murdering a variety of individuals on hiking trails in state parks near San Francisco, California. Carpenter killed at least ten individuals, with two attempted victims, Steven Haertle and Lois Rinna (mother of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna) surviving. He used a .38 calib...

Prior to his murder charges, Lee had been arrested for stalking women and watching them in their homes. Despite this, he was initially overlooked by police, because they incorrectly believed the killer was white. Lee was linked by DNA tests to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana, and in 2004 was convicted, in separate trials, of the murders of Geralyn DeSo...

Arthur John Shawcross, also known as the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York. His first known murders were in 1972 when he killed a young boy and a girl in his hometown of Watertown, New York. Under the terms of a plea bargain, Shawcross was allowed to plead guilty to one charge of manslaughter, for which he served 14 years of a 25-year sentence. He ki...

Gheorghe Dincă is a Romanian serial killer, also known as The Monster of Caracal. In 2019, he kidnapped and killed two teenage girls and burned their bodies to get rid of any evidence. Thank you, Dining with Death for narrating this episode. If you enjoyed this story, please consider subscribing to our friend, Stacy Lee: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiningWithDeath

Carlton Michael Gary was an American serial killer convicted of the murders of three elderly women in Columbus, Georgia, between 1977 and 1978, though he is suspected of at least four more. Gary was arrested in December 1978 for an armed robbery and sentenced to 21 years in prison. He escaped from custody in 1983 and was caught a year later. Evidence was found linking him to the earlier murders an...

Andrew Urdiales was an American serial killer who was convicted in Illinois in 2002 of killing three women and convicted in California in 2018 of killing five women. He was sentenced to death in California and committed suicide a few months later in California's San Quentin Prison.

Arohn Kee a.k.a. the "East-Harlem Murderer” is an American serial killer who is responsible for four non-consensual sex cases and at least three murders of teenage girls in different street blocks of East Harlem, located in Manhattan, New York City from 1991 to 1998.

Robert Andrew Berdella Jr. was an American serial killer who kidnapped and murdered at least six young men between 1984 and 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri after having forced his victims to endure periods of up to six weeks of captivity.

Paul Durousseau is an American serial killer who murdered seven young women (including two who were pregnant) in the southeastern United States between 1997 and 2003. German authorities suspect he may have killed several local women when he was stationed there with the U.S. Army during the early 1990s.

Robert Spangler was a serial killer who murdered his first wife, son, daughter, and his third wife. Then murdered his second wife after they got back together. On the morning of December 30, 1978, in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Robert Spangler lured his wife, Nancy, into the basement with the promise of a "surprise" and shot her in the head with a revolver. Going upstairs, he shot his tee...

Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris, also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American serial killers who committed the kidnapping, torture, and murder of five teenage girls in southern California over a five-month period in 1979. Described by FBI Special Agent John E. Douglas as the most disturbing individual for whom he has ever created a criminal profile, Bittaker was sentenced t...

Christopher Bernard Wilder, also known as the Beauty Queen Killer, was an Australian serial killer who abducted at least twelve young women and girls, torturing some, and killing at least eight of them, during a six-week, cross-country crime spree in the United States in early 1984. Wilder's series of murders began in Florida on February 26, 1984, and continued across the country through Texas...

David Parker Ray, also known as the Toy-Box Killer, was an American kidnapper, and suspected serial killer. Though no bodies were found, Ray was accused by his accomplices of killing several women and was suspected by the police to have murdered as many as sixty women from Arizona and New Mexico while living in Elephant Butte, approximately seven miles north of Truth or Consequences.

Glen Edward Rogers, also known as "The Cross Country Killer" or "The Casanova Killer", is an American serial killer. He was convicted of two murders and is a suspect in numerous others throughout the United States. He is considered a possible alternative suspect to O.J. Simpson in the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, although as of 2022 none of these other...

Charles Edmund Cullen is an American serial killer who confessed to murdering up to 40 patients during the course of his 16-year career as a nurse in New Jersey. However, in subsequent interviews with police, psychiatrists, and journalists, it became apparent that he had killed many more, whom he could not specifically remember by name, though he could often remember details of their murders. Expe...

Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), 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. Despite his confession of 27 murders (including some people who were verifiably still alive) while awaiting execution, Holmes was convicted and sentenced to death for only one murder, that...

The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was an act of mass murder that occurred at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, fatally shot 21 people and wounded 19 others before being killed by a police sniper approximately 77 minutes after he had first opened fire. At the time, the massacre was...

Danilo Restivo is an Italian serial killer. Restivo is serving a life sentence with a 40-year tariff for murdering his neighbor, Heather Barnett in 2002. Investigators' suspicions that Restivo had murdered Barnett were raised because of his alleged involvement in the 1993 disappearance of Elisa Claps in Potenza, but he was not charged due to insufficient evidence. Subsequent to the 2010 discov...

Bombingham is a nickname for Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement due to the 50 dynamite explosions that occurred in the city between 1947 and 1965. The bombings were initially used against African Americans attempting to move into neighborhoods with entirely white residents. Later, the bombings were used against anyone working towards racial desegregation in the city. One neighbor...

In May 2009, a photo from video provided by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office shows Thomas Parkin, 49, at left, on a Department of Motor Vehicles security camera, dressed up as his mother, who died in 2003, as part of a scam to collect her government benefits.

Robert Zarinsky was a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer from Linden, New Jersey.

José Dorángel Vargas Gómez known as "El comegente" ( people eater) and the "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes," is a serial killer and cannibal in Venezuela. He was a homeless man who used to hunt passersby at a park in the city of San Cristobal, Táchira. Once he was caught, he confessed to killing and eating at least eleven men over a period of two years preceding his arrest in 199...

A decade before the Claremont serial killings, a series of murders by the Birnies were among the most macabre and sadistic crimes in history.

Jake Bird was an American serial killer who was tried and executed for the ax murders of Bertha Kludt and her daughter Beverly June Kludt in Tacoma, Washington, in 1947 and has since been linked to 11 other homicides across several states. It is also suspected that Bird may have killed as many as 46 people.