This Is How Ed Gein Was Really Captured
The wild nature of Ed Gein's crimes inspired a wave of horror movies that are cemented in pop culture today, such as The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho.
Read MoreThe wild nature of Ed Gein's crimes inspired a wave of horror movies that are cemented in pop culture today, such as The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho.
Read MoreFor a span of four years in the early 1990s, serial killer Joel Rifkin left a string of terror across New York City.
Read MoreOn March 18, 1990, an art heist took place at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and only one living person may know who did it.
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Read MoreThe San Francisco Witch Killers murdered at least three people in the early 1980s, all while fueled by psychedelics and paranoid delusions.
Read MoreOn March 18, 1990, "the single largest property theft in the world," an art heist, took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
Read MoreBetween 1999-2006, a Russian outcast named Alexander Pichushkin tied chess and homicide together, earning the nickname "the Chessboard Killer" in the process.
Read MoreThe creation of street gangs in the 1960s was for young Black men to protect their communities. The notorious Crips and Bloods were born out of this upheaval.
Read MoreAileen Wuornos will forever live in infamy for robbing several men of their lives along Florida back roads and highways. How many victims did she have?
Read MoreAfter the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, alleged mobster Robert 'Bobby the Cook' Gentile became a person of interest.
Read MoreThe guards had just let two thieves into the building. The thieves promptly tied up the guards and looted the art collection over the next hour.
Read MoreFortunately for the morbidly curious, Ed Gein's grave can easily be found in a publicly-accessible cemetery near the old family property in Wisconsin.
Read MoreWhile the 1987 murders committed by Daniel LaPlante were undeniably shocking, his earlier activities were, in many ways, strange on their own.
Read MoreClementine Barnabet's family was said to be part of The Church of Sacrifice, whose core belief was that it was possible to obtain riches via human sacrifice.
Read MoreWe hope doctors always do everything possible for the good of the patients. This is why the story of Dr. Harold Shipman shocked the world in the late 1990s.
Read MoreCharles Sobhraj, the French thief, scam artist, and serial killer, who spent much of the 1970s committing increasingly heinous crimes, earned several nicknames.
Read MoreThe conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj eluded authorities for years as his wave of crime and murder swept across Southeast Asia's infamous Hippie Trail.
Read MoreSince the arrest of French serial killer and conman Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend and accomplice Marie-Andrée Leclerc, it's unclear how much she knew.
Read MoreIn a mass grave at the bottom of a 43-foot shaft in Spain, scientists found evidence of the first murder victim in history.
Read MoreA serial killer who killed gay men in 1970s San Francisco has never been caught. Here's the truth about unidentified serial killer "The Doodler" explained.
Read MoreWhile his slew of murders defined his life before he was executed in 1989, a lesser known fact is that Ted Bundy first practiced his sick craft on pet mice.
Read MoreOne of Sobhraj's most trusted associates was Ajay Chowdhury, who helped the Frenchman commit a series of passport thefts, robberies, and murders in the 1970s.
Read MorePeter Kurten, the Düsseldorf Vampire, became the prime example of the sexual-sadist-type murderer. He's believed to have murdered at least 11 people.
Read MoreShipman was allegedly his mother's favorite child. Due to her domineering nature, he is believed to have developed a sense of superiority over others.
Read MoreCharles Manson attracted a group of disaffected young people looking for a way of life different from their parents, with most of them being young women.
Read MoreGeorge Jung started selling marijuana in college in the 1960s. This escalated to smuggling large quantities of weed across the country, and later, cocaine.
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