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Edward Pehowic is a New Hampshire murderer convicted in the 1996 killing of Carol Caswell, who was drowned and beaten at Willand Pond in Somersworth. Pehowic also confessed to the 1990 murder of Sheila Holmes, whose body was found beaten and strangled on railroad tracks in Dover, though at times he wavered on his involvement and was not officially charged in that case. His own statements and confe...

Pee Wee Gaskins, born Donald Henry Gaskins Jr., was one of South Carolina’s most notorious and sadistic serial killers, responsible for at least 13 confirmed murders between 1969 and 1975—but he claimed the real toll was over 100. Gaskins targeted hitchhikers, local teens, acquaintances, and even his own niece; his methods were brutal, involving torture, rape, and even cannibalism in some cases....

Nevaeh Buchanan was a 5-year-old girl abducted while playing outside her Monroe, Michigan apartment complex on May 24, 2009. After a massive search lasting nearly two weeks, her body was found encased in cement along the River Raisin, and autopsy results confirmed she suffocated after inhaling dirt—meaning she was buried alive. 👉 Go Ad-Free, Join Our Next Livestream, & Support Us @  http...

The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer who terrorized San Francisco’s gay community in the mid-1970s, believed to have murdered at least six (possibly up to sixteen) men between January 1974 and September 1975. The killer’s nickname comes from his habit of sketching or doodling his intended victims at bars or late-night diners before luring them away and stabbing them to death, often leaving...

Kylr Yust was convicted of killing two young Missouri women—his ex-girlfriend Kara Kopetsky (17), who vanished in 2007, and Jessica Runions (21), who disappeared in 2016 after leaving a party with him. Both victims’ remains were found together in Cass County in 2017, and witnesses testified that Yust admitted multiple times, including to a former cellmate and ex-girlfriends, that he strangled them...

Dylann Roof is a white supremacist who carried out the Charleston church shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina on June 17, 2015. He attended a Bible study at the historically Black church and, after 45 minutes, opened fire with a handgun, killing nine parishioners—including the senior pastor, Clementa Pinckney—and injuring another. 👉 Go Ad-Free, Join Our Next Li...

Rodney Alcala, dubbed “The Dating Game Killer,” was a sexually sadistic serial killer and rapist who murdered at least eight people (mostly young women and girls) between 1971 and 1979, though investigators believe he may be responsible for over 100 victims. Alcala posed as a photographer to lure his victims, often torturing and strangling them repeatedly before finally killing them. 👉 Go Ad-Free...

Missy Bevers, a 45-year-old fitness instructor and mom, was murdered before dawn on April 18, 2016, inside Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas, as she prepared to lead a boot camp class. The killer—captured on church surveillance footage—was dressed in police-style tactical gear and carried a hammer, prowling the hallways and smashing windows and doors but stealing nothing. 👉 Go Ad-Fr...

Deborah Ann Danhaus was an 18-year-old from Amboy, Illinois, whose partially unclothed body was found on August 7, 1971 at the edge of a field. She had been murdered earlier that month, but the exact date of death remains unknown. Deborah’s case is considered unsolved; news reports from the time describe a “standstill” in the investigation, and no perpetrator has ever been identified or convicted....

The Las Vegas country concert shooting—known as the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre—occurred on October 1, 2017, when Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,000 rounds from a 32nd-floor room at Mandalay Bay into a crowd of 22,000 attending the outdoor music event on the Las Vegas Strip. Country star Jason Aldean was performing as the shooting began, and concertgoers initially mistook the gunfire for...

Cosmo DiNardo lured four young men—Jimi Patrick, Dean Finocchiaro, Thomas Meo, and Mark Sturgis—to his family’s rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania farm in July 2017 under the guise of selling them marijuana. DiNardo shot all four men, burned three bodies in a pig roaster with help from his cousin Sean Kratz, and buried the remains in deep pits using heavy equipment. 👉 Go Ad-Free, Join Our Next Live...

Kali Ann Poulton was a 4-year-old girl who disappeared while riding her Big Wheel outside her Pittsford, NY townhouse in May 1994, sparking a massive search and national headlines. Her neighbor, Mark Christie—a security guard—lured her into his apartment, strangled her, and then hid her body for two years before dumping it in a water tank at his workplace. Police only uncovered the truth when Chri...

Jenna Pellegrini, 32, and Christine Sullivan, 48, were brutally murdered in Farmington, New Hampshire, in January 2017. Both women were staying at a home owned by Christine’s boyfriend, Dean Smoronk; their bodies were found wrapped in tarps and trash bags under the porch, having suffered multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma. 👉 Go Ad-Free, Join Our Next Livestream, & Support Us @ ...

The Boys on the Tracks case involves the mysterious deaths of Kevin Ives (17) and Don Henry (16), whose bodies were found lying side-by-side on the railroad tracks near Alexander, Arkansas, on August 23, 1987. A passing freight train struck the boys, and local officials controversially ruled their deaths an accident—claiming the teens smoked so much marijuana that they fell asleep on the tracks....

The Boys on the Tracks case involves the mysterious deaths of Kevin Ives (17) and Don Henry (16), whose bodies were found lying side-by-side on the railroad tracks near Alexander, Arkansas, on August 23, 1987. A passing freight train struck the boys, and local officials controversially ruled their deaths an accident—claiming the teens smoked so much marijuana that they fell asleep on the tracks....

Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old University of South Carolina student, was murdered in March 2019 after mistakenly getting into a car she believed was her Uber outside a Columbia bar. Nathaniel Rowland, the driver, activated childproof locks to trap her, then kidnapped and stabbed her more than 100 times, later dumping her body 65 miles away in rural South Carolina. Rowland was swiftly arrested a...

The Cheshire Murders refer to a brutal 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut, where Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters Hayley (17) and Michaela (11) were raped and murdered by Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, who beat and restrained Dr. William Petit before killing his family and setting the home on fire. Hayes strangled Jennifer and Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted Michaela; both...

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were infamous lovers and criminals whose 21-month crime spree from 1932 to 1934 involved robbing banks, gas stations, restaurants, and killing at least nine police officers and several civilians across Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and neighboring states. They often worked alongside other members of the “Barrow Gang,” including Clyde’s brother Buck, Buck’s wife Blanche,...

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were infamous lovers and criminals whose 21-month crime spree from 1932 to 1934 involved robbing banks, gas stations, restaurants, and killing at least nine police officers and several civilians across Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and neighboring states. They often worked alongside other members of the “Barrow Gang,” including Clyde’s brother Buck, Buck’s wife Blanche,...

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Edmund Kemper, known as the “Co-Ed Killer,” murdered ten people—including his grandparents, mother, and six young women—in California between 1964 and 1973. Standing 6’9” and with a reported IQ of 145, Kemper committed his first murders at age 15 by killing his grandparents, then went on to target female hitchhikers, whom he strangled, stabbed, decapitated, and sometimes engaged in necrophilia or...

Benjamin Eastman III was a 16-year-old from Randle, Washington, who was brutally murdered in June 2018 by his longtime friend Benito Marquez and Marquez’s older brother, Jonathan Adamson. The brothers lured Benjamin into the woods, where they sexually assaulted and beat him for nearly 45 minutes, kicking him more than 100 times before smashing his head with a rock to ensure he was dead. They then...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard helped orchestrate the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, after years of medical abuse linked to Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Dee Dee forced Gypsy to undergo countless needless treatments, claiming serious illnesses and disabilities to gain sympathy and financial support, while actually keeping her perfectly healthy daughter imprisoned and dependent. 👉 Go Ad-Free,...

The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified serial killer who terrorized the city between May 1918 and October 1919, breaking into homes and brutally attacking mainly Italian grocers and their families with an axe found on the premises. His crimes left at least six dead and many wounded, but he was never caught or identified. The killer famously sent a taunting letter to the local newspaper, cla...

Tara Grinstead, a 30-year-old high school teacher and former beauty queen from Ocilla, Georgia, vanished from her home in October 2005 and wasn’t found, sparking one of the biggest missing-person searches in the South. In 2017, Ryan Duke was arrested and confessed to breaking in to steal money for drugs, strangling her when caught, and—along with former classmate Bo Dukes—burning her body in a pec...