Leonarda Cianciulli was a fiercely protective and superstitious mother who would stop at nothing to keep her children safe....including human sacrifice.
Elfriede Blauensteiner was a middle aged woman in Austria who took deadly care of her elderly gentlemen companions, then forged their wills for inheritance money.
The Bender family ran an inn along the Great Osage Trail from 1870 to 1873. They were a spiritualist family of German immigrants, well known in the area. Little did their neighbors know that many of their lodgers would never leave the inn alive
Hinterkaifeck was a small farming community with no official name. It was here, on a small family farm, that a gruesome crime scene was discovered. The entire Gruber family was slain after being lured, one by one, to their deaths.
After fatally poisoning his young son’s Halloween candy, Ronald Clark O’Bryan was responsible not only for the death of his 8-year old son, but for also ruining Halloween for children for years, as parents cautiously inspected each morsel after
Albert Fish was a pedophile, sado-masochist, cannibalistic serial killer who preyed on children. When he was arrested, even his own family wasn't surprised.
William Palmer was executed in front of 30,000 spectators for the poisoning death of his friend. He was known to have killed ten people, including five of his own children, for financial gain.
Richard Chase was a gruesome and delusional serial killer and cannibal. He mutilated his victims, drank their blood, and made smoothies out of their organs.
Christopher Wilder was named the Beauty Queen Killer due to the victims he targeted. He lured beautiful young women in with the promise of modeling contracts before he tortured, raped and murdered them.
Aileen Wournos was described by tabloids as America's first female serial killer. She killed her seven victims with a .22 pistol, pawned what she stole from them, and then dumped their bodies around Florida. She was the inspiration of the Movi
Herman Drenth, The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell and Lonely Hearts Killer, was a grocer and carpet salesman. He was also a murderer who seduced his victims after finding them through The Lonely Hearts Magazine.
Charles Whitman was a devoted husband and son, a marine and an engineering student. He was also a mass murderer who later came to be known as the Texas Tower Sniper.
Thomas Neill Cream, a contemporary of Jack the Ripper, was the very image of the mad Victorian doctor. He poisoned his patients, prostitutes, and even his own wife. This is his story.