In 2016 Albert Ian Ohab brutally dismembers a fellow drug addict inside his Toronto apartment. He claims that social system failures caused the tragedy and therefore takes no responsibility for his actions, maintaining that h...
Issei Sagawa is one of the biggest dirtbags known to man! He is a murderer, cannibal, and necrophile made famous by killing a beautiful young woman in Paris in 1981. Due to legal technicalities, Issei is able to walk the stre...
In a VA hospital in West Virginia, Reta Mays became known as the 'Angel of Death', taking out her self-declared judgement on seven brave men that valiantly represented their country in the US military, sending them to their d...
Katherine Knight's dominating relationship style and award winning butchering skills lead to a new whole new menu. She rightfully became Australia's first female prisoner to receive a sentence of life imprisonment without the...
In 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan would commit a crime that would alter Halloween for the state of Texas for a whole generation of children and still has rippling effects today. We always warn our children about the importance of...
Driven by perceived injustice and personal trauma, William Michael Dennis commits the ultimate form of revenge. He blames his unspeakable behavior on the actions of his ex-wife and the jury that supports her. Can extreme dist...
How easily can you be influenced? In the 1980's, on the border of the United States and Mexico, a drug cartel and a satanist cult are combined. A cunning and manipulative cult leader, Adolfo Constanzo, convinces his many foll...
How easily can you be influenced? In the 1980's, on the border of the United States and Mexico, a drug cartel and a satanist cult are combined. A cunning and manipulative cult leader, Adolfo Constanzo, convinces his many foll...
Join us as we dissect the jaw-dropping events that took place on Thanksgiving day 2009 in Jupiter, Florida. Paul Merhige uses a family feast as his opportunity to mercilessly annihilate members of his own family. This case ha...
What makes a murder case newsworthy? John Martin Crawford was one of Canada's worst serial killers but very few know his name or have heard about the horrific rapes and murders he committed. In drug-induced stupors, he preyed...
Alaska's motto is "North to the Future", representing Alaska as a land of promise. For dozens of women, a land of promise it was not. Robert Hansen turns the beautiful oasis around him into a terrifying hunting ground for the...
Belle Gunness was a notorious Black Widow who lured her victims using newspaper personal adds. In the early 1900's she left a slew of broken hearts and butchered body parts in her wake. Some believed she met a fiery death but...
How much does media inspire our actions and when does it go too far? Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik, two teens obsessed with horror films, decide to take inspiration from their favorite slasher movie to a whole new level when...
In 2012 Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire, killing twenty grade one students and six adults. The brutal massacre took less than ten minutes and left a nation in mourning. Could it have been preve...
In 2012 Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire, killing twenty grade one students and six adults. The brutal massacre took less than ten minutes and left a nation in mourning. Could it have been preve...
Mary Bell is the tragic case of a child who becomes a killer. When a ten-year-old little girl murders other children is it because there was something evil lurking inside all along, or was she molded into a monster? Follow us...
In a largely circumstantial case, Patricia Rorrer is convicted of murdering the wife and baby of her ex-lover. Spurred on by a jealous rage, Patricia Rorrer decides to take away from Joann Katrinak everything that she wanted ...
It's hard enough to understand what turns a person into a cold-hearted killer, let alone two people killing together. Teenage star-crossed lovers, Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, go on a grisly eight day killing sp...
Three family members murdered in the same house on three separate occasions. Melissa Merritt and her partner, Chris Fattore, do the unimaginable to gain custody of Melissa's two children. Their crimes go unnoticed, allowing t...
Bruce McArthur is one of Canada's most notorious serial killers. Many factors play into why he was left undetected for so long. Bruce brutally murders men from the gay village in Toronto, Canada, and disposes of their bodies ...
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