Ottis Toole was long linked to the 1981 killing of Adam Walsh, which he confessed to only to later recant. He reportedly admitted to it one final time on his deathbed.
Henry Lee Lucas claimed he killed over 600 people — but Vic Feazell was instrumental in disproving that, as shown in Netflix's docu-series "The Confession Killer."
Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio is depicted as mobster Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano's strong arm man in Martin Scorsese's newest mafia movie, "The Irishman."
There are two men named "Whispers" referenced in Martin Scorsese's newest mob film "The Irishman," and both of them went out with a bang, not a whisper.
Minakshi "Micki" Jafa-Bodden was the only person to win a case against the Bikram yoga founder, but he has yet to pay his former employee what she is owed.