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Joachim Georg Kroll was a German serial killer, necrophile, and cannibal who murdered a minimum of 8 women and young girls in the Ruhr metropolitan region from 1955 until his arrest on 3 July 1976. He was convicted of eight murders and one attempted murder but confessed to a total of 14. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 8 April 1982.

Troubled Atlanta lawyer stalks the patrons of gay bars, handcuffs and drugs his victims and then sets them on fire.

Charles Frederick Albright also known as the Eyeball Killer was an American murderer and suspected serial killer from Texas who was convicted of killing one woman and suspected of killing two others in 1991. He was incarcerated in the John Montford Psychiatric Unit in Lubbock, Texas.

Futoshi Matsunaga is a Japanese serial killer who both defrauded and tortured his victims in what is collectively known as the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident. Matsunaga was convicted of six counts of murder and one count of manslaughter between 1996 and 1998 and sentenced to death. He murdered his victims with an accomplice, Junko Ogata, who received a life sentence.

Carol found Doug to be suddenly quite controlling. He demanded that she do what he wanted and threatened to abandon her if she did not comply. He wanted a sex slave, someone who would see to all of his needs, mundane and bizarre. She gave in, expecting that in return he would be true to her. But he soon told her that he was tired of having sex with her and needed something new and more exciting. H...

Donald Albin Blom was an American convicted of the murder of Katie Poirier in 1999. He was also suspected of being a serial killer by case investigators. They believe that his modus operandi was to change his name and appearance after each incident. He changed his name 5 times.

Clara Schwartz's role-playing games culminated in the bloody murder of her father by a sword-wielding assailant.

The most frightening of serial killers: a handsome, educated psychopathic law student who stalked and murdered dozens of young college women who looked very much like a young woman who broke off her relationship with him. Bundy was a very adept and glib con artist who faked a broken arm in a sling to convince young women to help him carry his textbooks to his car. Once there, he battered them with...

Celebrity gangster takes the Mob to Hollywood and Vegas.

A tough guy in Hollywood befriends super-rich William Randolph Hearst when his daughter Patty is kidnapped by the African-American terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and gets involved when friend Johnny Stompanato is stabbed by movie star Lana Turner's daughter.

Lisa Steinberg was a tragic victim of child abuse whose case received significant media attention in the late 1980s. Lisa was born on June 14, 1980, and on November 1, 1987, she was found unconscious in her Manhattan apartment. It was later revealed that she had suffered severe physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents, Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum.

Christa Worthington was stabbed to death at her home in Truro, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod). Her body was found on January 6, 2002, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, clinging to it. The child was unharmed.

The Speed Freak Killers is the name given to serial killer duo Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine, together initially convicted of four murders — three jointly — and suspected in the deaths of as many as 72 people in and around San Joaquin County, California based on a letter Shermantine wrote to a reporter in 2012. They received the "speed freak" moniker due to their habitual methamphe...

John Wayne Glover was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women (aged from 60 to 93), over a period of 14 months from 1989 to 1990 including Winifreda, Lady Ashton, widow of the English-Australian impressionist painter Sir Will Ashton, in suburbs located in Sydney's North Shore. The fact that the victims were all elderly women led to Glover attaining the...

Meyer Lansky, known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.

Cleophus Prince, Jr., known as The Clairemont Killer, is an American serial killer convicted and sentenced to death in 1993 for the murder of six women in San Diego County, California from January through September 1990. Before these crimes and while serving in the United States Navy, Prince was court-martialed in 1989 due to larceny. Upon being convicted, he was recommended to be discharged after...

The Truro murders is the name given to a series of murders uncovered with the discovery in 1978 and 1979 of the remains of a young woman and teenage girl in bushland east of the town of Truro in South Australia. After police searches, the remains of seven women and girls were discovered in total: five at Truro, one at Wingfield, and one at Port Gawler. The victims had been murdered over a two-mont...

Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester, and cannibal who committed at least three murders from July 1924 to June 1928. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man.

Lifetime psychopathic misfit is permitted to rape and assault women, rewarded with short prison times, and then released to wreak havoc on the female population. Finally, after a number of murders, he is locked up for good. He should be the poster boy for much tougher sentencing laws in Australia.

The scene was that of the most brutal, seemingly random, and senseless crime in the history of Mont Vernon, N.H. The motive? Killing for the thrill, the fun, and to seal an irrevocable initiation with innocent blood.

The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act. This is contrasted with an excuse of provocation, in which the defendant is responsible, but the responsibility is lessened due to a temporary mental sta...

AMBER is a backronym standing for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. It was created in reference to Amber Rene Hagerman, a girl who was abducted and later found murdered in 1996.

Ruth Snyder, Anna Antonio, Eva Coo, Frances Creighton, Helen Fowler, Martha Beck, and Ethel Rosenberg are sure to be among the last women who will ever be executed in the State of New York, once the national showcase for capital punishment. The execution of females, no matter what the means, is truly rare in America. Women are thought of as mothers. And many females who become involved in crimes a...

A pair of elderly women seemingly pulled from the script of Arsenic and Old Lace stand accused of the insurance-motivated murder of two Los Angeles vagrants.

Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia). Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women between 1590 and 1610. Her servants were imprisoned and convicted, whereas Báthory was confined to her home. She was imprisoned in the Castle of...