Wayne Williams, an aspiring music producer, was convicted of killing two men in Atlanta — but he's also considered the prime suspect in a string of murders of children in the late 1970s and early 1980s that terrified the community.
“At the end of the day, something happened and I don’t know what it is and I am just trying to find the answers or find her," Jessica Drietzel's mother Kristina Johnson said of the search.
Caesar Zamien Lamar Crockett Jr. was in a heated argument with his son's mother when he allegedly pulled out a gun and fatally shot three of her relatives, authorities said.
Authorities found Jeff Charles Sherwood "lethargic" in his home nearly a week after police allege he beat and strangled his wife to death during a fight.
Lonnie D. Franklin Jr. was on death row for the murders of nine women and one underage teen girl when he was found dead in his prison cell Saturday at San Quentin State Prison.
Travis Lewis killed Martha McMay's mother Sally Snowden McKay in 1996 when he was just 16 years old, authorities said. Despite that, Martha befriended him while he was in prison, though their relationship took another deadly turn.
“We are in deep grief at the horrific death of our child and the events of the last week,” the parents of Ida "Girlie" Aguchak said in a statement shortly after the arrest. “No parent should have to endure this or bury their children first.”
Lori Vallow and her husband Chad Daybell allegedly thought people could become "zombies" if their human bodies "have had their original spirits forced from them and have been possessed by either a demon ... disembodied spirit ... or a worm/slug."
