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Noted town wallflower Vickie Jackson may have killed as many as 20 people between December 2000 and February 2001 – and attempted five more – but her name never earned the household recognition outside her small town. The North Texas hospital where Jackson worked as a nurse was plagued by a rash of respiratory deaths, […]

The small town of Chillicothe, Ohio has been haunted by the disappearance of six women, many of whom were mothers of small children. Charlotte Trego, a young mother of two, was the first to disappear. She has not been seen since her mother dropped her off at her apartment in early May 2014. A year later, […]

Between 1985 and 2007, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. may have killed 25 women and possibly dozens, even hundreds, more. He's known as "The Grim Sleeper" for taking a 14-year break from his murder spree, from 1988 to 2002 – though it looks like he might not have "slept" at all. Either way, unlike his more […]

Police in Phoenix, Arizona are on the hunt for a serial killer who has slain seven people and injured two, blasting his victims with a semi-automatic shotgun. He apparently picks his victims at random – victims have been male and female, young and old – but he seems to have targeted the predominately Latino Maryvale […]

The bodies of Shirellda Terry, Angela Deskins, and Shetisha Sheeley were found wrapped in garbage bags in the East Cleveland neighborhood of Glenville in July 2013. All three had been tortured, mutilated and strangled, and at least one was raped, authorities determined. The bodies were found in close proximity to the home of registered sex […]

In 2011, Israel Keyes, a former soldier who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, turned off his cell phone, boarded a plane to Chicago, and then drove a rental car all the way to Vermont, paying cash for all his expenses to avoid leaving a trail. There, he dug up a "murder kit" that he […]

A murderer was on the loose in Brooklyn, killing shopkeepers of Middle-Eastern descent while they worked. Police eventually found their man – Salvatore Perrone, a failing business owner whose wife and children had left him. Police say Perrone stalked the streets of Brooklyn with a "kill kit" he carried around in a black duffle bag […]

In 2015, the remains of four people were found behind a Connecticut strip mall. It was the same desolate stretch of land where investigators had discovered three other bodies back in 2007. Investigators believe that the deaths were the work of one individual – William Devin Howell, a drifter already in jail for the death […]

Since Darren Deon Vann was arrested in 2014 for the murder of a 19-year-old prostitute, he has confessed to killing at least six more women. But it wasn't the first time he'd been in trouble with the cops. Vann had been convicted of aggravated rape in 2009 in Texas, and after serving a total of […]

In 2011, police in New York state were investigating the death of Shannan Gilbert, who's body was discovered near Gilgo Beach on Long Island. But while searching the area, they found a grave filled with the bodies of four women. A further search unearthed six more bodies, including a child and a man dressed in […]