The Truth About John Wayne Gacy's Ex-Wives
John Wayne Gacy married twice and had two children, his periods of typical family life strikingly at odds with his brutal crimes that shocked the world.
Read MoreJohn Wayne Gacy married twice and had two children, his periods of typical family life strikingly at odds with his brutal crimes that shocked the world.
Read MoreLike many serial killers who came before and after him, Gacy had a rough childhood. He grew up with an alcoholic father who physically and verbally abused him.
Read MoreSister Catherine Cesnik was a teacher in Baltimore, attempting to help students who were allegedly being abused. Her murder remains unsolved.
Read MoreSaid Ley: "I am perfectly innocent. I said it from the beginning, and I say it now. ... that at my time of life I have suffered an injustice of this kind."
Read MoreSecret Service agents always seem to be fidgeting with their earpieces, with those curly wires that are reminiscent of an old telephone cord.
Read MoreIn the span of less than 20 minutes, a bright and talented young nursing student named Maura Murray somehow disappeared without a trace into the winter night.
Read MoreToole and Lucas came from similar backgrounds. Both reportedly had terrible childhoods that meet the usual "here's how you grow a serial killer" tropes.
Read MoreThe murder of Big Paul Castellano in 1985 shocked New York City, which had been caught in the cold grip of organized crime for decades.
Read MoreAlong with Al Capone, John Dillinger has achieved a place in popular culture that at once demands he should be forgotten forever and ensures that he won't be.
Read MoreEventually, the stream of corporate chaos ended in tragedy when Maurizio Gucci was shot dead in the foyer of his office in 20 Via Palestro, Milan, in 1995.
Read MoreThere were a number of reasons the killing of Elizabeth Short made headlines across the nation. First among these was the name "The Black Dahlia murder."
Read MoreAlmost 100 years after her death, Lizzie Borden remains an object of fascination -- not for what she did, but for what a jury said she didn't do in 1892.
Read MoreSouza was in headlines around the world. Police accused him of drug trafficking and of ordering murders -- all of it was orchestrated to boost his TV ratings.
Read MoreFor over a decade, the elusive conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj left a trail of dead along Southeast Asia's Hippie Trail before he was caught and imprisoned.
Read MoreThe tale appears to be one of a cold-blooded killer and a helpless victim, but the real story of Bernie and Marjorie (Marge) Nugent is much more complicated.
Read MoreThose only familiar with the Gucci brand in recent decades might be surprised to hear that there's a more unsettling word it is inextricably linked to: murder.
Read MoreAlthough she continues to deny her crime, Reggiani was imprisoned for organizing the murder of her ex-husband after the evidence pointed to her as the culprit.
Read MoreIn the 1960s, members of the Québécois separatist movement began a bombing campaign. Kidnapping, murder, unrest: this is Quebec's 1970 October Crisis explained.
Read MoreWhen DNA evidence cleared the Beatrice Six in 2008, it rocked the small Nebraska region of Gage County, and now they are owed millions.
Read MoreIn 2009, the Beatrice Six were released after DNA evidence cleared them, following the years-long efforts of Joseph White, who maintained his innocence.
Read MoreRecent years have shown us that being incarcerated may in fact lead to the creation of criminal power, as evidenced by the story of the Tavon "Bulldog" White.
Read MoreBernie Tiede murdered 81-year-old Marjorie Nugent, a rich widow he had befriended after overseeing her husband's funeral. People didn't hold it against him.
Read MoreThe kidnappings committed by Ariel Castro were part of a uniquely unsettling crime. The school bus driver used his home as a prison for his three abductees.
Read More911 operators in Cleveland answered a shocking phone call. The young woman on the line told the dispatcher, "I've been kidnapped and been missing for 10 years."
Read MoreFred and Rosemary West liked young women. They liked to entertain them, and they liked to rape, torture, and murder them for perverse sexual gratification.
Read MoreSobhraj drugged and murdered his unlucky victims until he was finally captured in 1976, thanks in no small part to Herman Knippenberg, a Dutch junior diplomat.
Read MoreDanny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, was put to death in 2006 for the murders of five college students over the course of four gruesome nights.
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