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- The 1989 slaughter of Hollywood media mogul Jose Menendez and his wife becomes a national media event when the couple's two privileged young sons confess to the murder.
- Sex, jealously and obsession fuel a national media fixation on Jodi Arias, who in 2008 savagely murdered her ex-boyfriend, 30 year-old motivational speaker Travis Alexander.
- The 2002 disappearance of 27 year-old, pregnant Laci Peterson ignites a national media firestorm when her handsome young husband, Scott, becomes the prime suspect.
- The horrific crimes of charismatic law student Ted Bundy - who killed at least 36 young women - grip the nation in the 1970s and give birth to the term "serial killer."
- A Bolingbrook, Illinois police sergeant bathes in the media limelight after he becomes a suspect in the drowning murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio and the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Cales Peterson, in 2007.
- A look at Dutch citizen, Joran van der Sloot, the last person to see 18-year-old Natalee Holloway while she was on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005.
- The horrific murder of 24-year-old Gregg Smart becomes a national media event when details emerge about his wife's affair with the 15-year-old killer.
- In 1986, 19-year-old Robert Chambers was charged with murdering 18-year-old Jennifer Levin which led to a new light being shed on the affluent, prep school students in New York City.
- In 1969, nine people are killed by a notorious cult leader with mostly female followers living in a commune.
- The 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County is pinned on Steven Avery after serving 18 years for a rape he didn't commit.
- Con man Joe Hunt forms an investment club with wealthy young men who trust him with their families money, but the Ponzi scheme leads to murder when Hunt gets involved with Ron Levin, a notorious con man, himself.
- The 1980 murder of Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower shocks the nation when his lover, the headmistress of a prestigious girls' school, gets arrested and convicted in a sensational trial in the suburbs of New York City.
- Former high-profile real estate tycoon Robert Durst first gains media attention with the disappearance of his wife in 1982, but his wife's body is never found and he becomes charged with two other murders as well.
- Serial killer Kenneth Bianchi terrorizes Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, but the cops don't know that his own cousin serves as his accomplice.
- Philip Markoff, a 23-year-old preparing for a promising future as a doctor, hides a secret that ends up in murder.
- Betty Broderick, a former suburban housewife, skyrockets to fame when she murders her ex-husband and his new, much younger, wife in their bed in 1989.
- Known for his extreme beliefs on Christianity, socialist politics and racial equality, Jim Jones becomes infamous for leading a mass murder-suicide of over 900 of his followers in Jonestown, Guyana.
- Paul Snider, the ex-husband of Playboy model Dorothy Stratten, harbors a jealousy over Stratten and her new lover that ends in murder-suicide.
- Blinded by her obsession for a man who has no interest in women with children, Susan Smith does the unthinkable -- she pushes her car into a lake, killing her two young sons.
- In the span of only two years, Richard Ramirez became known as the Night Stalker for breaking into the homes of more than 13 people in Los Angeles and viciously raping, torturing and performing Satanic rituals on many of his victims.
- In 1995, Yolanda Saldivar, the president of Selena Quintanilla's fan club, shoots her in a Corpus Christi hotel; Saldivar receives a life sentence in prison and becomes the most hated woman in the Latin American community.
- John Gotti was the invincible crime boss that ruled the streets of New York as head of the notorious Gambino family; Gotti quickly rose to prominence by leading his crew of mafia mobsters towards violent acts.
- With estimates that run as high as 130 murders, Rodney Alcala's ruthless spree of murder, rape, and sexual assault throughout the 1970s has been widely compared to that of Ted Bundy's.
- As the head of the Branch Davidians religious cult, David Koresh became known for leading his Army of God in a 51-day standoff against the federal government that resulted in the deaths of four ATF agents and more than 80 Davidians.
- From All-American to murderer, Aaron Hernandez's early career success at tight end for the New England Patriots becomes shockingly overshadowed by his violent life as a killer; Hernandez is charged with the first-degree murder of friend Odin Lloyd;
- A former Texas music teacher and choir leader, Marshall Applewhite was the founder of Heaven's Gate, a religious group which organized the largest American mass suicide since Jonestown;
- Whitey Bulger is one of the most prominent figures in Boston's organized crime scene; from 1975 to 1990, Bulger serves as an informant to the FBI and tips off police of other crime families, while simultaneously building his own crime network.
- Jack the Ripper is the well-known name for an unidentified serial killer in London in 1888.
- Pregnant 18-year-old Melissa Drexler gives birth to her son in a bathroom stall during her prom; the miraculous moment turns into murder when the teen suffocates the child, wrapping him in a plastic bag and discarding her baby in the trash.
- Jeffrey Dahmer is responsible for killing and dismembering 17 young men between 1978 and 1991.
- With a total of 49 confirmed murders, Gary Ridgway, otherwise known as the Green River Killer, is one of the most prolific serial killers American history;
- A mathematical prodigy and former professor at Cal Berkeley, Ted Kaczynski became widely known as the Unabomber, after mailing bombs to universities and airlines, between 1978 and 1995;
- John Wayne Gacy, widely thought to be the inspiration for Stephen King's character Pennywise the Clown, murdered 33 young men and teen boys, most of whom he buried in the crawl space beneath his home.
- Seemingly average husband and father-of-two Dennis Rader lives a double life as a serial killer who terrorizes the Wichita, Kan., area from the 1970s to the '90s as the self-proclaimed BTK Killer.
- Aileen Wuornos committed and was executed for, murder of seven men in Florida to which she claimed self-defense. This presents the story from often conflicting sources, including books, TV, and movies. It details the early life, the crimes, and the death of a rarity, a female serial killer.
- Coordinated attacks occurred in October 2002, in the Washington DC area. Ten people killed and three others critically injured in a spree of shootings, which started months earlier in locations as far away as the states of Washington and Florida.
- Paul Bernardo commits a 5-year spree of highly publicized sexual assaults, tortures, and murders with his wife, Karla Homolka in the Toronto area in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- Explores the serial killer case of Danny Rolling, who murdered students at the University of Florida, Gainesville in August 1990, including the investigation by local law enforcement and the FBI.
- Documentary about the life of the drug trafficker, politician, and family man, Pablo Escobar. Chronicles criminal early life, rise to power via the cocaine trade, torture and murder, prison and escape, and international cooperation to eventual capture and death.
- Police officer Laurie Bembenek is convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife, Christine Schultz; Bembenek claims she was framed for the savage murder, but the evidence included her husband's police revolver and fibers from her wig.
- 2015– 44mTV-147.5 (7)TV EpisodeIn 1966, mass murderer Richard Speck systematically tortures, rapes and murders eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital.
- On the FBI's Most Wanted list for more than a decade, Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden orchestrates an attack against the United States, using 19 militants to hijack four airplanes with which to carry out suicide missions on Sept. 11, 2001.
- David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, goes on a yearlong murderous rampage killing six people in 1976 and bringing New York City to its knees.
- Known as the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo's murder spree claims the lives of 13 women, many of whom he strangled to death with their own nylon stockings.