Sobhraj 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.
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Mia Zapata was the singer and frontwoman of the Seattle punk band The Gits when a sex worker found her lying in the street, murdered, the night of July 7, 1993.
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Robert Hansen, an award-winning big game hunter, raped and sent women naked and blindfolded into the woods, then hunted them with his trusty Remington rifle.
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Danny 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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While death from an overdose wasn't unheard of in the hard-partying music scene of the 1970s, the aftermath of Parsons' death was certainly unconventional.
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This desire to live on Easy Street like the other fat cats, or to at least get a piece of the action, often leads the gullible right into the hands of frauds.
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Folbigg said her children died of natural causes -- by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), epilepsy, and cardiac arrest. The courts did not believe her.
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Ed Kemper's bloodlust caught up to him and he was arrested as the infamous "Co-ed Killer." How many victims did he actually have?
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Mark Hofmann was a prolific forger who used his skill at faking documents to exploit the beliefs of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. Where is he now?
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When he raped her after a particularly raucous night of drinking, Doss put rat poison in his corn whiskey jar, killing him the next time he took a drink.
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The FBI has had decades of practice perfecting the art of convincing a serial killer to work against his best interest to, in a sick way, do the right thing.
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Plenty of creepy places have vied for the title of "Most Haunted House in America," but one New Jersey house, at Sandy Hook Bay, has lots of people convinced.
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Aileen Wuornos confessed to shooting seven men to death in five Florida counties. Her reason, she said, was that her victims either raped or tried to rape her.
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Despite the fact that he claimed the lives of six young girls between April 1971 and October 1972, the Freeway Phantom's identity remains a mystery.
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On March 1, 2021, Roger Reece Kibbe, 81, the "I-5 Strangler," was found unresponsive in his prison cell. He was pronounced dead about 45 minutes later.
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He was known as "The Butcher of Rostov" and "The Rostov Ripper." That's because the police had no leads. But Andrei Chikatilo was operating in plain sight.
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The Black Dahlia murder has fascinated people for decades and remains unsolved, but one detective thinks the Zodiac Killer is involved.
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Tragedy would strike in early 2017 in Delphi, Indiana, suddenly robbing Libby German and Abby Williams of their lives and leaving behind an enduring mystery.
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In 1985, the Mormon community was rocked first by a forged letter and then by three explosions. This is the 1985 Salt Lake City bombings explained.
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Billy Bailey had been sentenced to death for killing an elderly farm couple, and he specifically chose to be executed by hanging.
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In 1984, twin brothers Carey Dean Moore and David Moore were imprisoned in the same Oklahoma state penitentiary at the same time -- Carey on death row.
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It's often said that war is hell, and it turns out that it provides the perfect cover for doing something just as awful -- committing serial murders.
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The so-called Salamander Letter had purportedly been written by a man named Martin Harris, who had financed the first printing of the Book of Mormon.
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Aileen Wuornos shattered the myth that serial killers can only be men. This is the true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
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The possibility of a child lost to an abductor is enough to stoke fear in the hearts of parents. It's a feeling Asha Degree's parents have known all too well.
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Serial killings make up a small percentage of the murders that happen in the U.S., but they happen every decade.
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Serial killers are rare, though it's hard to think of a time when they didn't exist. Just about every century has some. Here are those caught in the '00s.
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