Gary Heidnik spent time in prison for a crime similar to the one that made him infamous and helped inspire The Silence Of The Lambs. So how did he end up a free man?
Bruce McArthur was a genial landscaper who occasionally worked as a mall Santa. He was also convicted of murdering eight men and hiding several of their bodies in planters.
In the fictional read "The Bandit Queens," an Indian woman doesn't mind local gossip says she killed her husband — until she gets pulled into helping other women dispose of their bad husbands.
Homicide is the third-leading cause of death among indigenous women — they are murdered at rates more than 10 times the national average, according to federal data.
"Eight-four percent of Native American women will experience violence in their lifetime," Loni Coombs, an investigative journalist and former criminal prosecutor featured in the new Oxygen special "Murdered And Missing In Montana," said.