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Joseph Paul Franklin (April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer. He was convicted of several murders, and given six life sentences, as well as the death sentence. He confessed to the attempted murders of two prominent men: t
Elena Ceaușescu (née Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January 1916 – 25 December 1989) was the wife of Romania’s Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania.
The Phantom Killer is an unidentified serial killer thought to be responsible for a series of slayings between February 22 and May 3, 1946. which became known as the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, which inspired the 1976 movie The Town That Dreaded Sun
Robert Emmet Chambers, Jr. (born September 25, 1966), nicknamed the “Preppie Killer” by the media, is an American criminal. He pled guilty to manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin, whom he killed in New York City’s Central Park duri
Friedrich Heinz Leibacher (July 21, 1944 – September 27, 2001) was a Swiss mass murderer who killed 14 members of the Zug canton Parliament, injuring 18 others, before committing suicide in the Zug massacre.
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило, Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, th
Mary Pearcey (1866 – 23 December 1890) was an English woman who was convicted of murdering her lover’s wife, Mrs. Phoebe Hogg, and child, Phoebe, on 24 October 1890 and executed for the crime on 23 December of the same year. The crime is sometimes
Steven Kunes (born 1956) is an American screenwriter, author, playwright, con man, forger and plagiarist. Kunes is a convicted felon.
David Michael Krueger (March 5, 1939 – March 5, 2010), best known by his birth name, Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer and child rapist who gained notoriety for the brutal murders of three young children in Toronto, Canada, in 1956 and 1
Marie-Fortunée Lafarge (née Capelle; 15 January 1816 – 7 November 1852) was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable, because it was one of the first trials to be followed by t