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Author: Robbie Ruinsburg
In the mind of Jeremy Jones, it wasn't rape if they wanted him. And they ALL wanted him! Just ask him
It killed more people in 24 weeks than HIV/AIDS killed in 24 years! and yet, it somehow became known as the forgotten pandemic.
The Tennessee Cholera Epidemic was first recorded in December 1848 at two ports: New York City on December 2 and New Orleans on December 11.
This pandemic was considered to have the highest fatalities of the 19th-century epidemics.
The Second Cholera Pandemic reached Detroit and New York City first. It reached the Pacific Coast, courtesy of passengers of ships
Cholera was endemic to certain regions in India. But it was the British Army and Navy personnel that carried it to other countries
He just wanted his ex-wife. When they wouldn't say where she was, he murdered them execution style. Even the children.
He grabbed a hammer and beat his wife to death. When he saw what he'd done, he decided to kill the whole family.
He woke from a drug and alcohol induced sleep and decided to murder all 13 members of his family. Including the kids
He is a French serial killer who, along with his wife, confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering 9 girls over 14 years
He is suspected of seeking revenge on his mother who was an alcoholic and allegedly abused him in his childhood.
Kenneth McDuff was an American serial killer suspected of at least 14 murders and served time on death row - twice
She was dubbed the most famous bereaved mother in America. But was she truly a serial murderer of her own kids
She'd get them, strangle them then throw them away, keeping the money and pawning their clothes. She was hanged til dead
One of the most infamous serial killers of our time. He tortured, raped and murdered 33 young men and boys for seven years
He was found guilty of the Atlanta child murders. Many believe he is innocent. Many believe it was really the Klan
The Alphabet Murders are still unsolved, but never forgotten. Three little girls still need justice and Rochester NY intends to get it!
Serial Killer Jesus Aguilera was sent to the USA by Castro from Cuba when he dumped his criminals and insane on our soil....
Theresa Knorr was not a woman to mess with. When she said she'd beat you to death, she meant it and proved it twice
He shot his girlfriend in the mouth and mutilated her still breathing body. She knew too much about his satanic ritual murders.
He'd murder two little boys and bury them with their parents in the desert. Then he'd start writing a book about it to sell...
In the end, Carol told the police everything. Doug's fantasies, the eleven year old, the shootings, and the sunset strip murders
15 school mates knew what he wanted to and gave him help to ensure he could get the job done. They even brought cameras....
James Briley and his brothers went on a seven month killing spree in that terrorized Richmond, Virginia in 1979. Eleven died
He was a notorious sexual serial killer who was beheaded via the guillotine for the murder of 27 boys and young men.
He was one demented individual and his beheading was greeted with a wave of relief by the people of the city of Dusseldorf,
He ultimately confessed to the rapes and the murders. But he had no remorse or regret.
One juror said she had been coerced by the others into voting for a guilty verdict. She felt Margaret was innocent. Was she?...
And she never swayed. She said the dingo took her baby and she was sticking to her story!
Her husband pleaded guilty then screamed "Shoot him! So Jennifer Hyatte opened fire.
The ransom was paid but the boy's body had already been buried.
When he was asked why he hit her 20 times with the sledge hammer, he said he wanted to be sure she was dead!...
She said the gun went off all by itself. She shot randomly. But the murder scene revealed the precise execution of four
He was weird from the very start. But as time went on, he became downright, out of control creepy!
He said the only thing he felt bad about was that he hadn't murdered who he really set out to kill. His ex wife!
Test results proved he had a considerable amount of the anesthetic Etomidate in his system. She said he'd committed suicide. Not!
He was handsome, intelligent, and compassionate. Unless you were a little girl. Then he was a monster waiting to pounce
She said a man abducted her infant daughter. But when it happen again, with a second daughter, the sheriff became suspicious
He once told a therapist that he had raped 13 younger boys by the time he was 16. Some one just shoot him!
He said he was told by the gods that he should eat human brains because it would strengthen him...Well that didn't fly!
At the time Morris was murdering women on one end of the city, another serial killer was working the other.
Seven bodies were found buried in her yard. She got life without parole. So...she wrote a cook book.
She was a perverted Pied Piper who lured her loved ones to their doom
She plead guilty to her crimes to forego a trial. She was sentenced to 90 years
She murdered 17 old women to gain their money so she could buy the vodka her husband denied her
He was found guilty and hung! Before his death he begged for prayers
Five guards at all times and completely isolated from human beings Was he bad. Or just plain mad.
Sometimes a well laid plan is not the brightest idea.
The court system allowed this monster to waltz from crime to crime with little more than a slap when he should have been caged
After he shot his girlfriends kid....things went straight to hell
When the law searched his place they found photographs of sixty missing women. Were they all his victims?
After his death, a copy of 'The Collector' was found among his murder kit.
His first jail term was at age 16 for sexual assault. The beast had just began to grow. It would be a downhill spiral.
He told the authorities he'd give them the dead bodies they were looking for. And in return, they would pay cash to his wife....
No remorse. No regrets. He described himself as "the most sick and twisted person you'll ever meet."
He wanted his horrific, murderous acts to be seen as what he believed they really were: an illness that he could not control.
She swore she tried to stop the shootings but the parents were dead. The little girl was dead and the baby boy lay dying
She decided a pretty young woman wanted her man. She decided as well that she would never get him! Dead would stop her!
He walked directly to the stage and opened fired into the crowd of students with a Remington 870 shotgun and handguns
First he threatened to kill them. But they didn't back down. So he learned them a lesson by murdering them all
He stole Danial away and then crushed his little throat until the air left him. And that was the least of the deviancy
He wanted a big family and figured, since the first four women ran away with the kids, he'd put the rest in chains.
One by one she picked them off yet swore each died of natural causes. And doctors couldn't agree on any of the deaths
"I didn't want them to die," she told police. "I just wanted them to quiet down." Well that sure shut them up!...
Long before there was Match Dot-Com dating, there was "lonely hearts clubs." And serial killers who knew the game!
He could face decapitating a live human as he screamed out in agony. But jail? ugh! "Shoot me now!" he ordered.
He went on spring break. He never came home. Instead he became the human sacrifice of a mad man!
He could have risen to fame with the Green Bay Packers. But rape and murder was the only game he wanted to play! ...
Had he been given life without parole, for the first rape and murder, others would have been spared. But that was not the case...
She beat him with a pick ax until he was dead. Then she turned the weapon on another, burying the ax in her chest!
He was called the Mutilator because he would batter the corpse of his victim before making souvenirs of their genitals.
He asked for help but was failed by psychoanalysts of half a dozen states. They said he was a harmless fake....Wrong!
This lunatic spent so much time in and out of prison one would have thought he had a revolving door with his name on...
Weird Wayne left the husband for dead and set to rape the wife. But hubby wasn't dead. Meaning Weird Wayne was about to be....
He never shopped for his victims in his own back yard. But one night he got lazy and that got him caught
America gave him life without parole? Wonder what Israel would have done to this freakin loser....
He would meet his "prospects" in gay bars, offer sex in exchange for a place to stay, then murder them!
Her husband threw a knife at her with intent to kill. She fired five times. She got death but was she guilty of murder?...
Over a three day period, the pro wrestler murdered his wife and seven year old son. Then he offed himself. Why?
From the beginning, she used her position to gain her lovers attention. Too bad so many died in that pursuit of happiness.
The guillotine blade dropped at 5:05 a.m. Dr. Marcel Petiot was smiling as his head tumbled into the basket.
It was all a sex game with Herb. Or was it? Asphyxiation was just part of the thrill. The second part was the kill....
He'd received every kind of abuse possible before the age of twelve. Now there was no taming the monster within
He would be murdered himself in the exact fashion he killed each of the little children. No appeals. No mercy for this child killer
Whether the two adults buried the kids, or maybe the rats did, has yet to be discovered. But then so do their little bodies....
She told authorities that she "had contemplated taking Jimella's unborn child for quite some time. Finally, she did!
He decided that he got more of a high out of killing than molesting. But he loved both. So both it would be.
Many saw Joe feed helpless kittys to his pet gators. But what about the ladies in his life that suddenly vanished. Gator food too?...
There were voices in his head and six dead bodies in their beds. He called it self defense. The Jury said...not!
He said he could not let things go that night because Debra "kept pushing his buttons." So he slit her throat.
She didn't get caught when she shot her first husband. So she gave it another try with her second. Well, that didn't work!
She plotted to kill her husband for two years. Then, fearing the killer would talk, she had him murdered too. Dumb move!
He was "spoon fed" the intimate details of unsolved homicides. He claimed them all. Was he a killer or a coerced parrot?
Within minutes of his arrest, he began singing like a canary. A jury caged that bird...permanently
Columbine had nothing on this guy. Death was everywhere
He put a bomb in his own mothers suitcase. He wanted revenge for the way she had always treated him. Mission accomplished
He often studied his Bible, using it to keep his victim at ease. But once he gained their trust, it was game over
He was a successful hit man for several Italian-American crime families for better than 30 years.
His pregnant wife and two little daughters were over killed. He, on the other hand, was only wounded slightly. Why?
He was struggling with homosexual desires that both thrilled and chilled him. But, like John Wayne Gacy, he learned to deal with it.
This woman set a goal and went after it with a vengeance! I guess wicked goes way back to when!
He would schmooze his way into the beds of blond or redheaded bar flies. Those who fell for his charm landed in the morgue.
He may not have been the Zodiac but he was working hard to earn himself a name.....And the gas chamber !
The little town of Santa Clause had never seen any crime so horrific. But there it was. 4 dead bodies and the blood
The doctor ran from state to state, then country to country, murdering all along the way.
Detectives were shocked at the savagery of the murders. It was hard to believe the perp was only 15 years old
He possessed the "earmarks of a psychopath in his makeup." But they set him free on society anyway. Not a good move!
In his confession, concerning the rape and murder of Aree Hunt, he told police he wanted 'to hear the sound of a neck breaking.'
When he was finally caught, he jumped off the bridge and plunged to his death into the Hudson River 60 feet below.
He was a torture murderer with a few strange fetishes. And sex with a dead woman was right up there with them.
He told his shrink about feeling the urge to "start shooting people with a deer rifle." He was given a drug. That didn't work!...
He murdered his wife on Tuesday, his two young children on Wednesday and on Thursday things went straight to hell
She tried to hang herself. When that didn't work, she murdered all six of her children.
He stared with his wife and made his way through the whole Fam Damily! And he didn't stop there!
His drug of choice was Paraquat. An herbicide so lethal that its use was banned in the United States.
As she turned 40, Brenda was having a mid-life crisis. So she got a new lover and conspired to murder her husband for money....
He tossed two chemical canisters into the theater and opened fire without discrimination as he moved up and down the corridor.
Rumor had it that the good doctor murdered his cheating wife because she had syphilis. And he had a lover.
He said that on the morning of the shooting, he had argued with his ex-wife. He ended that argument - permanently!
She pleaded domestic violence and self defense. The horrifying pictures told a whole different story
She carved up their bodies, stored their parts in a freezer and buried their remains under the concrete floor of her shop.
The authorities knew he was a serial killer. Problem was proving it. But they did. And they did it without a body
Her twelve year old daughter, the third to be murdered, wrote the suicide letters to her father and her friends
He determined that after killing, undetected and unsuspected, 15 times, it was his right to kill. And so he did!
He saw himself as ridding society of vermin and for this he craved recognition as a superior person.
In 1976, cousins David and Fred put their heads together and decided to combine their favorite 'sports' by hunting women.
He was jailed for life for killing five members of his family. To this day he professes his innocence and blames his sister
He shot his wife in the head and slit his children's throats. He set the house on fire and disappeared. Where did he go?...
How ironic that an all-female jury convicted him and decided his fate. Steve the Gambler gets death. And justifiably so.
He was a diagnosed psychopath, who molested dozens of children and managed to murder three, before he got caught.
He took her body to a family owned tool and die shop where he dismembered it. Then he buried her in a park
Some neighbors said he was a nice guy. Some filed restraining orders and moved away. What was the garbage man doing?
The only lead as to the motive was a note that said he was sick of being poor and watching his family live in...
He went on a wild killing spree in 2006, killing seven people including two little girls ages nine and four.
After raping them, he threw mother and her two daughters, naked and bound with weight into the sea. All very much alive!
They screamed as he raped and strangled their mother in front of them. Then he threw them in the pond to drown.
So he accidentally murdered them then burnt the bodies to remove the evidence. All because he was bisexual. Idiot. No one cares
Her disappearance caused a media sensation and the case remains unsolved to this day. The rest of the story is a mystery
No arrests have ever been made and the strange caller that haunted her parents for years has never been identified.
An 11-minute video titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick. He stabbed him to death, dismembered him then committed acts of necrophilia.
He was found guilty after a trial lasting less than an hour. His execution took less time than that!
Helle wanted a divorce. Richard feared financial disaster. So he rented a wood-chipper and solved both problems. Sorta.
Richard Crafts was a serial philanderer but he didn't want a divorce. So he rented a wood chipper instead. Problem solved
He was the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history, murdering 45 patients during the 16 years he worked as a nurse
His was nearly in tears. "I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That's the biggest joke."
For some unexplained reason, Eugene wrestled Poppo to the ground, stripped him of his pants and began biting violently at his face.
Darlie Routier testified that an intruder killed her children but police didn't buy her story. Neither did a jury.
He admitted to all of the burglaries and the murders. He also swore he only raped them after they were dead.
He would hang them in the tree and butcher them. Until two got away and blew the whistle. How many hadn't been that lucky?
But when Parnell kidnapped the NEXT little boy, Steven did a little kidnapping of his own and headed straight to the law
He was also a narcissist and a pathological liar who planned the parricide for months and he did it all to gain a fortune...
Some couldn't even believe Cary had committed these horrific acts. Others didn't believe he had done them alone
He has been convicted of killing three young Florida women and sentenced to death — twice. Appeal again...Win again
Something about him set him apart that made him natural prey to all manner of cruelties. So he turned the tables
He was responsible for at least 18 murders and five nonfatal shootings in 11 states. And there was so much more
She shot her three children in order to make herself available for the man she obsessively loved. Too bad he felt differently
He'd beat one kid half to death. The next one, he murdered and ate his heart and brains
He finally gave into the voices in his head. They would tell him when to kill. He could chose the who
He returned to the grave several days later, dug up the body, ripped out her heart and ate it. It tasted like chicken.
“The single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana’s history.” The story of Sylvia Likens' torture and death
She orchestrated "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history." The murder of Sylvia Likens
He disappeared for ten years. When he returned however, bums, drunks and derelicts started dropping like flies
With at least three guys, who would share in his killing adventures, William Bonin was constantly on the prowl to murder boys
So he murdered the entire family on Christmas Day in 1929. All to keep the secret safe. Too bad so many already knew
His victims were practically an invisible class. Derelics right there in his own back yard. Easy prey for a serial killer
He was the father of four daughters and a son. He was also a man who spent his secret hours murdering prostitutes in Spokane...
She says she's been horribly punished for having an affair. The sentence means death, as she will never be eligible for parole.
His daughters were about to expose him for the sexual abuse he put on them. He fixed that little problem. Permanently!
Ayla Reynolds was a 20-month-old toddler from Waterville, Maine, who disappeared on December 16, 2011. But to where?
She didn't want to go to bed. So he punched her three times and put her little dead body in the frig.
She collected nearly $200 thousand in death benefits. Just about the cost of a life sentence in prison. Which she got!
But he was tied to a bed and she used two different knives. How much self defence is too much self defence
Belle began posting notices in lovelorn columns to entice wealthy men to her farm, after which they were never seen again.
Tillie Klimek claimed she dreamed about the demise of those around her. In reality, she was simply scheduling their deaths.
He walked out of the hotel room, his lover in tow. From there, things got really ugly, really fast
When the law got too close for comfort she devised a plan to frame her own daughter for the murders. She failed
She was at the center of "The Murder Mystery Weekend Killing." But had she really paralyzed her husband then set him on fire.
David was a weak man who readily bought into Cindy’s stories of incestuous abuse. And he was willing to kill for her
Both husbands became targets of her greed and died by her hand. But then so did 46 more of her clients.
He was a 14 years old and he'd taken all he could from his sadistic, abusive and perverted father. So he killed them all.
Through tears of fear, she pleaded. " I don't want to die." The Judge was not moved and upheld the sentence of death
He said he sliced portions of flesh from his victims to eat them because it helped him save on his grocery bills.
Nicknamed "the Serpent" and "the Bikini killer" for his skill at deception and evasion. He allegedly committed at least 12 murders.
Sentenced to death for the disembowelment of one of his wives. Not to mention all of the other crimes he commited
Peter Tobin was driven by the menstrual cycle. Something long suspected as the motive behind the Bible John murders.
He walked out to confront the teenagers who were vandalizing his wife's car. They beat him to death.
Because his attorney's wasted time challenging evidence against him when they should have focused on sparing him death.
They are both Tennessee residents and could possibly be charged as adults. As it should be.
Her chosen method of murder was with the use of cyanide poison, a chemical that she kept in a pot planter.
Evelyn Dick murdered her husband and a baby boy. And it made her a star.
And she aimed often. Then, with the help of her son, she hide the evidence and buried the bodies
The Acid King and Dracula were two thugs you just didn't steal drugs from. The results could be more than fatal
The District Attorney contended that Nanette was the "femme fatale" at the center of a love triangle. What she really was, was a murderer.
Robin Gecht was the ring leader of a small band of misfits that followed his satanic lead. Even into Cannibalism
He thought if he drank the blood of dead women, it would transform him into one.
He left the the scene when the disposal unit he was using became clogged with cartilage and bone from her dismembered leg.
Charlie met Leonard Lake in 1983 and the two went on a murder spree for the next two years killing between 11 and 25...
The Skelton boys just vanished. Or did they? What exactly is their father not telling?
He told a friend he'd received a page and had to return the call at once. No one ever saw him again.
She worked to lose the 140 pounds she wanted to be free of. But her husband wasn't thrilled with her happy new self.
Sheriff Casteel said that Brandy Worley did not seem to show any remorse during her confession and she seemed 'matter of fact'.
They found plenty to do in their old age. Like write bad checks, resell sold cattle and bury the body of their latest victim....
He changed the way we protect our young and the way we pursue the villain forever.
He believed a locked door meant he was not welcome. By the same token, an unlocked door meant come on in. And he did!
In those days,being in the wrong place at the wrong time, could have deadly consequences.
Once the law started following his articles on the murders, they knew they had their man
In a hand-written note, the writer declared that three campers would be murdered. The note was dismissed. Three died
He wanted to live out a long time fantasy. He wanted to have sex with a dead woman. So he killed him one!
Life started out rough but Richard turned to the thrill kill. Then his best friend started to talk.
From October 1989 to April 1991, Schmidt murdered five women and an infant. Schmidt is a transsexual.
He walked into the sheriff's station, pulled a severed breast from his pocket and admitted to killing four women.
He dug the graves in advance. That way he could move the corpse quickly into hiding.
He is suspected of murdering a teenage woman, who was eight months pregnant, and decapitating her boyfriend.
He told his followers to dig a pit that would hold a family of five. Then he lured the Avery's to the barn.
