Serial Killers

The computer engineer became a case study in vampiristic behavior after he tortured a surviving 19-year-old hitchhiker and drained nearly half her blood.

Richard Chase believed killing six people and consuming their blood would cure him of his perceived physical conditions. Despite multiple diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia, psychiatrists deemed him fit to stand trial. 

The N.Y.C. architect and father of two is charged with killing New Jersey mother Valerie Mack, a woman who spent years known only as Jane Doe No. 6.

A nearby sausage business was wrongly blamed for a stench that actually came from Sowell's three-story house of horrors. 

California grandmother Joyce Nelson told her son she "wouldn’t want to be a prisoner in her own home” when he asked her to lock her doors with the "Night Stalker" on the loose.

After he was arrested for murdering more than a dozen people, Richard Ramirez drew a horde of female fans vying for the killer's attention. One even married him. 

Richard Ramirez, who brutally murdered more than a dozen people, grew up in an abusive household and witnessed his cousin kill his wife as a teen.

Rosie Juarez, the eldest niece of serial killer Richard Ramirez, says her uncle started abusing her when she was just 6. It continued for years, she said. 

Doreen Lioy, who later married serial killer Richard Ramirez, said she was "captivated" by his mug shot when police broke in to interrupt the TV show she was watching.

Before police captured serial killer Richard Ramirez, Los Angeles residents brutally beat him with a gate post and barbecue utensils.