Can you imagine this guy sweating profusely? I can't.

But only if you keep the space suit on.

I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was. ... I'll bet you money: if he didn't have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn't have responded in that violent and aggressive way.

Heard petition demands my apology to Trayvon's parents.

Save effort: I deeply apologize for any hurt I caused-that is not my goal or intent

I apologize to anyone offended by what one prominent black conservative called my 'very practical and potentially life-saving campaign urging black and Hispanic parents not to let their children go around wearing hoodies.'

More evidence... I think it will end the prosecution case with a bang, so to speak, to show that this was a selfish, narcissistic, self-involved slut who wanted to kill her child to have la bella vita.

We walked over what I consider hallowed ground today. ... I said the Lord's Prayer and really choked up.

Obama is dead.

When most Americans are feasting and celebrating on Thanksgiving day, some people are killing, dying, or vanishing. Creepy Thanksgiving crimes, unfortunately, are a ghastly tradition, too, one we rarely speak about. But disappearances on Thanksgiving and other unsolved Thanksgiving mysteries can make for interesting dinner conversation to distract from the usual chatter about sports, or drunken-uncle rants about politics and religion. Just don't share any of these stories with the kids. Except maybe the D.B. Cooper one, because it has all the components of a good folktale.

Karen Marie Mitchell disappeared from Eureka, CA, on Thanksgiving Day, 1997. She was off school for the holiday, and she had just left her place of employment and stopped by a shoe store owned by her aunt and legal guardian, Annie Casper. Karen visited briefly with Casper, then headed home to prepare for the holiday festivities.  But she never made it there.

A witness claims he saw Karen get into a blue sedan driven by an older white man shortly after leaving the mall where her aunt worked.  This man has never been identified, though two high-profile suspects were examined in connection with the case. The first was convicted murderer Wayne Adam Ford, who fit the witness's description of Karen's kidnapper, but though he confessed to several murders, Ford  denied any involvement in Karen's case. Police were never able to tie him to the crime.

The second suspect was Robert Durst, subject of the recent HBO documentary The Jinx. Durst appears to have visited Casper's store several times, and was in Eureka the day that Karen disappeared. But like Ford, police have been unable to definitively link Durst to the crime.

Karen's fate remains unknown.

The only unsolved case of hijacking and air piracy in US history happened the night before Thanksgiving in 1971.  A guy calling himself Dan Cooper (later called "D.B." by the media for unknown reasons, but the name stuck) boarded Northwest Airlines Flight #305 in Portland bound for Seattle. Mid-flight, he revealed to the flight attendant that he had a bomb in his carry-on bag (he showed it to her), and promptly conducted the politest hijacking ever.

He got the plane to land in Seattle and demanded $200,000 in cash and two sets of parachutes. After these demands were met by the airline and the FBI, Cooper released the passengers and instructed the flight crew to take off and head for Mexico City.  Shortly after this flight began, Cooper sent the flight attendant to the cockpit for safety, strapped on one of the parachute sets, opened the plane's rear stairs, and jumped out into legend.

No trace of Cooper was ever found. Some of the money he stole was recovered from a forest outside of Portland many years later, but the man himself, and his true identity, remain a mystery to this day. Cooper became a legend and folk hero because of his boldness and polite demeanor, and the FBI gave up looking for him altogether, closing its case on Cooper in 2009 without ever having solved it.

Many people enjoy spending time in nature on Thanksgiving Day, but for one woman in Bucks County, PA, this time of peace and serenity was interrupted by a grisly discovery.

She had spent the day at her boyfriend's home, indulging her passion for bird-watching while there.  But what she at first thought was a heron in Neshaminy Creek turned out to actually be a pair of sneakers. And those sneakers were attached to the decomposing body of a black male wedged between some of the creek's rocks.

The man appeared to be in his late teens or early 20s, and was wearing Tommy Hilfiger clothing. And that's the most anyone seems to know about him. To this day, both his identity and his cause of death remain unknown.

At first glance, the Thanksgiving death of Portland, OR, public defender Nancy Bergeson looked like natural causes. There were no signs of trauma or other marks on her body, which was discovered in her living room.  But an autopsy determined that she had been strangled to death with a soft object, possibly a scarf, on Thanksgiving Day, 2009.

The circumstances of her murder are unknown, and because police initially acted on the assumption that her death had been natural, crucial evidence was likely lost from the crime scene in the early days of the investigation.

Her case remains open, with a high probability of never being solved.

Shortly after 10 pm on Thanksgiving night, 2002, an unknown assailant fired shots through the curtained windows of Joseph and Evangeline Britt's home in Tacoma, WA. The Britts had been hosting a large Thanksgiving dinner gathering, with about 25 people attending. When the shooting stopped, two of those people - 19-year-old Kimberly Riley and 5-year-old Jermey Britt-Bayinthavong - were dead. Two other attendees were wounded but survived their injuries.

Witnesses saw a man with dark hair fleeing the scene in a pick-up truck, but he was never identified, and his motive for firing into a house full of Thanksgiving revelers remains a mystery, as well.

The Blount family of Lake Worth, TX, were returning from a Thanksgiving outing in 1985, when 15-year-old daughter Angela Blount found a briefcase on the porch of their mobile home.  When opened, the briefcase exploded, killing Angela, her father Joe, and her cousin, Michael Columbus. Ten years later, a man named Michael Toney was convicted of the crime, but his conviction was overturned because the prosecution withheld evidence that contradicted witness testimony and exonerated Toney.

Some have speculated that the Blounts weren't the intended targets of the mystery bomber, and that the device was intended for one of their neighbors instead. Nonetheless, no further evidence has been produced in the case, and the entire affair remains a total mystery.

One of the oldest unsolved Thanksgiving murders occurred almost a century ago in Schenectady County, NY.

John H. Woodruff, a game protector for the county, left his home on Thanksgiving Day, 1919, to patrol the area, and never returned. His body was found almost two years later, in April 1921, buried in a shallow grave near a creek bed.

The top half of Woodruff's skull had been detached, indicating that he had been killed by a blow from a large object, possibly an axe. Woodruff's wife claimed he had received, then destroyed, a threatening letter a few months before his disappearance, and a witness reported seeing Woodruff arguing with another man on the day in question. Woodruff and the man then walked off together into the woods. It was the last time anyone saw Woodruff alive.

No suspect or motive was ever identified in Woodruff's case. After almost 100 years, his murder has remained unsolved.

The popular Smiley Face Killer theory claims that a cabal of serial murderers is operating across the United States, targeting white male college students, dumping their bodies in rivers, lakes, or ponds to erase physical evidence, and drawing smiley faces at the dump sites in order to taunt police. These deaths are normally written off as drunken drownings, but proponents of the theory maintain that there are remarkable similarities among the victims that can't be accounted for by mere chance.

One of the Smiley Face cabal's possible victims was Shane Montgomery, a West Chester University student who disappeared from the streets of Philadelphia during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2014. Shane's body was discovered several days later in the Schuylkill River, and his death was ruled an accidental drowning by the medical examiner. But the circumstances of his death --who (if anyone) he met with after leaving a bar after 2 a.m., how he wound up in the river to begin with - remain shrouded in mystery, lending credence to the proponents of the Smiley Face killer theory.

On Thanksgiving Day, 1977, six-year-old Beth Lynn Barr was walking home from school in Wilkinsberg, PA, to spend the holiday with her family - but she never arrived. Because Beth's father was a local cop, the police leapt immediately into action when Beth didn't come home. But it was all to no avail. Beth was never found.

A witness later reported seeing Beth being carried to a blue sedan driven by an older white man, and the car was traced to a local rental agency. But the agency's records showed that the car had not been loaned out that day; it was possible that the perpetrator had stolen the car for use in his crime, and returned it to the agency before anyone noticed it was gone.

Sadly, Beth's skeletal remains were discovered in a shallow, unmarked grave near Monroeville, PA, two years later.  She had been stabbed several times in the chest.

Her killer remains at large, identity unknown.

New Orleans-based rapper Soulja Slim (whose real name was James Tapp) was on the verge of mega-fame when his life was cut short by a gunman on Thanksgiving Eve, 2003. Though a suspect was arrested - who claimed he'd been hired to kill Tapp for $10,000 - the case was dropped due to a lack of witnesses.  Tapp's murder remains officially unsolved, including the identity of the person who hired the alleged hitman.

Soulja Slim's song "Slow Motion," a collaboration with Juvenile, became a Billboard number 1 hit six months later.

Who was the Zodiac Killer? In case you've been living off the grid in a literal man-cave in the Ozarks for the last sixty years or so, here's some quick background on the killer who kept Northern California in the grip of fear from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s:

The mystery of the Zodiac began on August 1, 1969, when three separate California newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and Vallejo Times Herald) received nearly identical letters by someone claiming responsibility for two recent attacks on couples parked in their cars, attacks that left three dead and one survivor with gunshot wounds to the face, neck, and chest. Along with the letters, each paper received a third of a cryptogram, which, once solved, explained that killing was better than sex and that the victims would be Zodiac's slaves in the afterlife.

Many killings, letters, and cryptograms followed until the mid-Seventies, when the pattern ceased. But the Zodiac Killer was never discovered or arrested. He (or she) remains one of the most infamous uncaught serial killers in history. But myriad theories abound as to his identity. Let's explore the most intriguing of those, shall we?

It's very uncommon for a serial killer to just stop killing, but this seems to have been the case with the Zodiac - unless he was imprisoned, died, or moved out of the country, that is. Some have suggested the Zodiac was deployed to Vietnam and killed there, ending his crime spree. This would also explain why the killer wore military-issue boots of a type mostly worn by the Navy - and why witnesses at one scene described his as having a crew-cut. 

Retired highway patrolman Lyndon Lafferty claimed in his book The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up that he and a handful of other retired law enforcement officers known as the "Mandamus Seven" discovered the identity of the Zodiac way back in '71. However, the killer was protected by powerful political intervention. Lafferty died on March 5, 2016, never having revealed the identity of his suspect.

A man named Randy Kenney claims his friend Louis Myers admitted to being the Zodiac before he died in May 2002 of cirrhosis of the liver. Myers claimed he was motivated to kill couples because he had suffered romantic rejection.

Myers went to high school with two of the victims and worked at the same restaurant with a third. He was also in the military, giving him access to the type of boots the Zodiac wore. In fact, he had been deployed to Germany for two years, during which time there was a lapse in all communications from the Zodiac.

If you've seen the film The Town That Dreaded Sundown, then you're more or less familiar with the Texarkana Moonlight Murderer, also known as the Phantom Killer. Some have theorized this killer may have become the Zodiac later in life.

The similarities between the two are fairly striking: both wore hoods as masks, both targeted young couples and lover's lanes, both primarily used handguns, both used flashlights to blind their victims, and both abruptly ceased their activity. The theory is that the reason the TMM stopped his killing is that he fled to California, only to resume his activities as the Zodiac.

The biggest problem with this theory is the time discrepancy. TMM was active in the mid-'40s, whereas the Zodiac committed his crimes in the late '60s and early '70s, which would mean that TMM would had to have been in his early twenties at the oldest during the period he was active, in order to be the appropriate age of the Zodiac, based on witness descriptions—but this is not at all implausible.

Arthur Leigh Allen was a convicted child molester who allegedly told friends that he was the Zodiac. He wore a Zodiac wristwatch, which is where some theorize the Zodiac got his name, as the brand uses the same crosshairs symbol as the logo that the killer used when signing letters. Police found a typewriter in Allen's trailer matching the brand and typeface used to produce one of the Zodiac letters. But no hard evidence ever surfaced linking him to Zodiac, and he died in 1992.

Because so much circumstantial evidence linked Allen to the killings, but his DNA and handwriting did not match any found on the Zodiac's letters, some have theorized Allen had an accomplice: he would carried out the murders, but a different man wrote the letters.

In 2014, Gary Stewart published the book The Most Dangerous Animal of All, in which he claimed that his father, Earl Van Best, Jr., was the Zodiac Killer. Evidence included the similarity between Best's visage and the police sketches of the Zodiac, claims that Best's name appears in the Zodiac's cryptograms, and a scar on Best's right index finger that matches that in a fingerprint left at a Zodiac crime scene.

Furthermore, publicist Chris Harris claims that he saw Best at a diner in 1969, near the site of one of the killings. Harris was in the area at the time making a documentary about the Zodiac when he sat beside a man who resembled Best. According to Harris, Best turned to him and said, "You have no idea what it's like to have to kill."

An increasing number of people (mainly Floridians and Internet trolls) believe that Texas Senator Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer. What evidence is there? Well, he sorta kinda looks like the Zodiac police sketch, he's creepy and widely disliked, and he's never said he wasn't the Zodiac Killer. Sounds suspicious as hell so far. The only problem? Cruz was born after the killings had started and was a baby for most of the rest. Hey, no theory is without counter-arguments...

After the arrest of Charles Manson, and during the Zodiac slayings, police looked into any connections between the two. The most plausible connection was Bruce Davis, a man who lived in northern California at the time of the murders and dropped off the grid, supposedly working in construction at Riverside Community College, where an alleged Zodiac murder took place. He was in Berkeley during another Zodiac attack in the region, and then joined the Manson Family, engaging in two murders with the cult.

Some of the Zodiac's actions indicated possible knowledge of police procedure. For instance, he often attacked in very public places, almost as if he knew when cops wouldn't be there. His attacks also occurred in many different jurisdictions, causing confusion and evidence spreading amongst all the police precincts. Also, a Zodiac fingerprint is theorized to have been a fake - something that would require forensic know-how.

History is full of horrible crimes, though they might not be quite what you think. Several notorious murders have been misconstrued by the public, either to sensationalize the story or because the details of the events are murky. Even if you're a true crime buff who can rattle off obscure facts about prolific serial killers and terrifying murderers, you probably got these cases wrong.

This list focuses on the serial killers whose stories aren't what you've been told. For instance, Lizzie Borden might not have been all bad - she likely had a sensitive side at odds with her supposed axing of her family. As for Charles Manson, some people believe he never told his followers to commit murder at all.

You might think that you know the details of these notorious murders, but emerging details and misconceptions mean there's still more to learn about these famous crimes. Read on for more information on the killers you got all wrong.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are two of the most notorious criminals in American history. The pair met in Texas in 1930 and began a romantic relationship/crime spree that ended only four years later when they were killed in a police ambush. They mostly stole cars and robbed stores and a few banks, but they killed at least thirteen people, according to the FBI.

Bonnie and Clyde went down in history as cold-blooded outlaws, but in reality, they were much softer than that. Bonnie never actually killed anyone - she just loaded the bullets into the guns that Clyde would use later. When Clyde did kill people, it was only because he and the Barrow gang were cornered and he didn't want to go back to prison. Whenever it was possible, Clyde would take a hostage, make a getaway, and then release the person once they were safely away from the police. Sometimes he would even give the hostage money to get back home.

The most famous photos of Bonnie and Clyde, smoking cigars and posing with guns, were taken by the couple as jokes. Newspapers reprinted the photos, which contributed to their images as dangerous killers.

You know the story: Charles Manson convinced his followers, known as The Family, to go on a two-day killing spree from August 9-10, 1969. He told them it was their duty to start a race war that he called "Helter Skelter," and that when it was over, he and his Family would emerge to take over the world. The Family murdered seven people over the course of those two days, which the police dubbed the Tate-LaBianca murders.

Manson collected followers by targeting troubled young women and "feeding them a cocktail of LSD, alcohol, and spiritual aphorisms." When it came time to begin Helter Skelter, the girls were ready to do anything Charlie said. Even though Manson was convicted of first-degree murder along with Family members Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Tex Watson, he was never present during the actual murders. Charlie didn't need to get his hands dirty because he had devoted followers who would do anything for him.

It's pretty likely, though, that Charlie never even told his Family to kill anyone. Taking cues from Dale Carnegie's book How To Win Friends And Influence People, which he picked up during a prison stint in 1957, Charlie became an expert in manipulation. He could talk about ideas in such a way that the other person would think they had thought of it first. According to the podcast You Must Remember This, Charlie would "say just enough to get people to solve problems for him, without actually telling them to do anything." Manson became one of the most notorious murderers in history, all through the power of mind control.

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death by Winston Moseley outside of her apartment in Queens. The crime was horrific, but it became notorious because of the headline in The New York Times on March 27: "37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call The Police." This led psychologists to popularize the concept of "The Bystander Effect."

The newspaper reported that Kitty's neighbors, not wanting to get involved, did nothing to help her while she was being attacked. Kitty's family believed that she died alone, but her brother Bill decided to investigate further.

He released a documentary in 2016 about Kitty's murder called The Witness. In it, he learns new information that completely changes the circumstances of that night. After being stabbed, Kitty retreated to the back of her apartment building and out of sight, leading many neighbors to think she had just been having a quarrel with her boyfriend. Several neighbors actually did call the police and were told that the crime had already been reported. The most striking difference is that one of Kitty's female friends who lived in the building went downstairs to hold her while they waited for police to arrive, even though the killer may have still been lurking.

Lizzie Borden was acquitted for the murder of her father and stepmother, but it's widely believed that she was 100% guilty. On August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were brutally murdered with a hatchet. Lizzie discovered her father's body and woke the maid, Bridget Sullivan, who had been sleeping upstairs. The body of Abby Borden was found in an upstairs bedroom.

Lizzie immediately became the only suspect. During her trial, Lizzie was portrayed as an emotionless monster who had a terrible relationship with her parents. Andrew Borden supposedly favored his wife over his daughters and refused to let them spend money on anything. He even refused to install indoor plumbing in his home. Investigators believed that Lizzie murdered them so that she and her sister Emma could inherit their father's money and finally have independence.

The jury didn't think there was enough evidence to convict, but Lizzie lived out the rest of her life in notoriety anyway. She never left Fall River and died there in 1927. In 2012, the notes collected by the Borden family lawyer, Andrew Jackson Jennings, were donated to the Fall River Historical Society. The notes contradicted the theory that Andrew Borden was uncaring and cold. Jennings wrote that during conversations with Andrew, he talked about how much he loved receiving letters from his daughters. Lizzie herself also wrote letters while she was imprisoned during the trial that show "a sensitive, grieving side of her."

If Lizzie had such a loving relationship with her father, it's hard to imagine her killing him in one of the most gruesome murders in history.

Natalie Wood, best known for her roles in West Side Story and Rebel Without A Cause, drowned off the coast of Catalina Island in 1981. She was spending the weekend on a yacht with her husband, Robert Wagner, and her co-star Christopher Walken. At 1:30 A.M. on November 29, the captain sent out a distress call. It seemed that Natalie had left the yacht in a small dinghy and was now missing. Her body was found in the water six hours later.

Natalie had a life-long fear of drowning. Because of this, her friends and family insisted that she would not have left on her own in the middle of the night, but foul play could never be proven. The public suspected Robert Wagner, but he was never charged with anything.

On November 17, 2011, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced that they were reopening the case after getting new information. Marilyn Wayne had been on a boat less than 50 yards away from Wagner's yacht on the night of Natalie's death. She reported hearing a woman calling out for help. She said she called the harbor patrol and got no answer, so she called the sheriff's office and was told a helicopter was on its way. Help never arrived.

The yacht's captain, Dennis Davern, also reported that Wood and Wagner had gotten into a drunken argument about her friendship with Walken in the hours leading up to her death, but still, no charges have been brought against Robert Wagner.

Thelma Todd's death may only be familiar to the die-hard true crime fans. Her death was ruled "accidental with possible suicidal tendencies," but it's possible that authorities got it all wrong.

Thelma was an actress known for Marx brothers comedies and Laurel and Hardy films. By 1934, she had become a business owner with her boyfriend Roland West and his wife, Jewel Carmen. The trio opened a restaurant called Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe, and to make things even more awkward, all three lived above it.

On the morning of December 16, 1935, Thelma's maid discovered her body in the garage, slumped over the wheel of her running car. It appeared that she had been locked out of her apartment the night before, and after starting her car to warm up, she fell asleep and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

But the facts didn't add up. Thelma was dressed in a party outfit that she had worn to the Trocadero on Saturday night, but multiple people claimed they saw her on Sunday. Why was she found in the same outfit from Saturday night if she had survived through the day on Sunday? Other witnesses at the crime scene reported that she seemed to have a broken nose, bruises, a chipped tooth, and broken ribs, but surviving crime scene photos just show her slumped over with no visible signs of injury.

There was no shortage of people who may have wanted to harm Thelma: her love triangle/business partners Roland West and Jewel Carmen; Todd's own ex-husband, Pat DiCicco, whom she fought with on Saturday night; or her other rumored boyfriend, the mobster Lucky Luciano. Still, there wasn't enough evidence to bring murder charges against anyone.

From June 1962 through January 1964, the Boston area was terrorized by a killer known as the Boston Strangler. At least thirteen women were strangled in their homes during that time. The victims varied in age and race with no apparent connection between them. It seemed as though police were dealing with multiple copycat killers rather than one man working alone.

Everything changed when Albert DeSalvo was arrested for breaking into a woman's home and sexually assaulting her. He began confessing to numerous crimes; first, to various robberies, then to a series of rapes, and finally to being the Boston Strangler. He seemed to know a striking amount of detail about the crime scenes, but there was a chance he'd merely gotten the details from the real killer.

Due to flawed interrogation tactics, it was impossible to know if DeSalvo was telling the truth. He may have confessed to crimes he didn't commit in order to get a book deal, hoping that the proceeds would take care of his wife and children. There was no evidence linking him to the Boston Strangler murders, but he was eventually convicted for earlier crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

In 2013, DNA evidence finally linked Albert DeSalvo to the Boston Strangler's last victim, Mary Sullivan. It's still unclear if he murdered all thirteen women or if he was only after the fame and fortune that would come from being the notorious Boston Strangler.

It can be argued that every theory about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey is totally wrong. Her body was found in the basement of her home on Christmas Day 1996 after an apparent botched kidnapping attempt. Investigators uncovered many flaws in this intruder theory but have never been able to figure out what really happened to JonBenét.

DNA evidence cleared the Ramsey family in 2008, though suspicions still linger about their connection to the murder. The ransom note found at the crime scene was later found to have been written on a notepad from their own home. The kidnappers demanded $118,000 in exchange for JonBenét's return, which was exactly the amount that her father received as a bonus that year.

The recent series The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey investigated the theory that JonBenét's older brother, Burke, was involved in her death as well, or at least knew more that he was telling police. Her parents had said they'd put their daughter to bed immediately after returning from a Christmas party, but autopsy results showed that she'd eaten pineapple shortly before her death. Crime scene photos showed a bowl of pineapple at the kitchen table. In footage recorded during police questioning, Burke was asked to identify the contents of the bowl and he paused before saying, "Oh." Did he give something away in that moment or is this just another theory that can never be proven?

The murder of Elizabeth Short, known as The Black Dahlia, is one of the most gruesome unsolved murders in history. Shocking crime scene photos show her dismembered body as it was discovered in Leimert Park in the early hours of January 15, 1947. Her murder became part of pop culture because it seemed uniquely horrific, but according to the Hollywood & Crime podcast, more than a dozen other women died in similar ways in the Los Angeles area during the 1940s.

Ora Murray was found strangled and mutilated in 1943; her case was known as The White Gardenia murder because a gardenia wrapped in tinsel was found crushed beneath her body. Virgie Lee Griffin and Lillian Johnson were murdered and mutilated by Otto Stephen Wilson at two different hotels on November 15, 1944. Wilson was caught that afternoon and suspected of killing other women in the area, but he was executed in 1946 and could not have committed the Black Dahlia murder. Perhaps whoever did kill Elizabeth Short is connected to one of these other forgotten women.

Marilyn Sheppard was brutally murdered on July 4, 1954, in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, had fallen asleep downstairs and woke to the sound of his wife's screams from their bedroom. Sheppard claimed that he ran into the room and was knocked unconscious by a "bushy-haired man." When he woke up and discovered that his wife was dead, he chased after the intruder, only to be knocked out a second time.

Police were suspicious. The family's young son, Chip, had slept through his mother's attack down the hall. The family dog, who usually barked at intruders, was not heard by the neighbors. Marilyn was pregnant at the time of her death, and investigators soon discovered that Sam Sheppard had been having affairs for years, giving him a possible motive for getting rid of his wife. He was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison.

But the story doesn't end there. In 1959, another suspect emerged: Richard Eberling. He was a window washer who worked for the Sheppard family and apparently had a thing for Marilyn Sheppard. Eberling was arrested after one of his clients suspected him of robbery, and one of Marilyn's rings was found in his possession. Sheppard got a re-trial in 1966, but his lawyer, F. Lee Bailey (who also represented the Boston Strangler and O.J. Simpson), chose not to pursue Eberling as a suspect.

In 1998, DNA evidence exonerated Sam Sheppard, suggesting that police may have been wrong about the mysterious bushy-haired man and it could have been Richard Eberling all along.

Mardi Gras is an international celebration that marks the beginning of the penitential season of Lent. Often called Fat Tuesday or Carnival, Mardi Gras a time to party, celebrate, and indulge before the Lenten season.  

Despite the traditional parades, costumes, and outlandish revelry, there have been plenty of horrible things that happened on Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday crimes and Mardi Gras tragedies have become more prevalent as crowds have grown and celebrations have become wilder and wilder each year. Because of the holiday's emphasis on consumption of alcohol and deliberate debauchery, it is inevitable that some participants get caught up in unpleasant incidents and even grave misfortune. 

Carnival is the weeklong celebration before Ash Wednesday - the day after Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is considered to be the American version of Carnival - though Carnival itself is celebrated in many parts of the US. Long before Mardi Gras became popular, Carnival celebrations were held worldwide, and often included parties and excessive eating and drinking.

In 1823, young boys living in Malta came together to celebrate Carnival by receiving food at a local convent, aimed as a way to keep the boys from partying in the streets with the adults. But as the ceremony began, a scramble for the bread began and resulted in a stampede. Some boys - mostly ages eight to 15 - were caught in the corridors and tight staircases of the convent. Adults came to get their share of free bread and a melee broke out, leaving 110 boys trampled to death. 

At the 2009 Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, seven people were shot - including a toddler - after a two shooters unleashed on a public crowd. 

The two assailants began firing randomly in the prosperous Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. The victims included a 20 month old infant grazed by a bullet. Although two of the adult victims were seriously injured and required surgery, nobody was killed during the attack. A doctor at the scene commented after helping one of the victims:

"I'm off to Afghanistan this summer. Damn, this is more dangerous than Afghanistan."

Three men were arrested in connection to the shootings, though one was later acquitted.

The Mardi Gras season features nightly parades culminating to one grand celebration on Mardi Gras itself. On February 12, 2015, during the annual Krewe of Muses parade in New Orleands, an altercation broke out along the parade route, and two men were shot to death amidst thousands of spectators. This incident occurred at an intersection along St. Charles Avenue - one of the most prominent and historic thoroughfares in the city. On September 12, 2016, John Hicks plead guilty to manslaughter in the deaths of the two men. At the time of the shooting, he was 19. He received a 45-year jail sentence.

Tragedy struck a Haitian Carnival parade after a float ran into a power line and 20 people died from a resulting stampede. The incident occurred in 2015, and put a stop to all following Carnival celebrations in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. 

According to news reports, the float ran into power lines which caused a massive spark. Atop the float was singer Fantom, who literally ran into the power line with his body. The parade route was packed with spectators who immediately started to panic. In the chaos, 20 people were trampled to death and 47 were severely injured. Fantom miraculously made a full recovery.

In 2001, Philadelphia's Mardi Gras celebrations started off fun but ended in chaos. Despite major precautions at the city's Mardi Gras parade, unrest broke out. Crowds tore down road blocks, rioters broke into a liquor store and looted it as well as nearby businesses, threw bottles at police, and forced businesses to shut down early. Two-hundred people were arrested as a result. 

A truck carrying a float in Rio de Janeiro's 2017 Carnival parade went out of control and veered off its parade path, ultimately killing six and injuring at least 20 others. 

The accident occurred during Rio's traditional samba parade which leads up to an all-night samba dance-off at Sambodromo stadium. The truck pulling the float sped out of control, drove to close to a fence, and trapped many injured people for an extended period of time. Despite the injuries, the dance-off still took place. 

During the 2011 Carnival celebrations in Brazil, 16 people were killed in a power line accident. While the parade was making its way down the streets of Minas Gerais, traditional fireworks were going off. One hit a power line, causing it to spark and break. The line touched multiple people, 16 of whom died. At least 54 others were injured in the chaos.

What started out as a fun night of Mardi Gras revelry turned to tragedy in 2001, when 5,000 people spilled into Pioneer Square and brawls began. A full scale riot broke out where  groups of people targeted innocent bystanders while the police were severely outnumbered. One man, Kris Kime, attempted to help a woman knocked to the ground and was himself assaulted and stomped repeatedly. Kime bled internally, the result of a fractured skull, and died in hospital. His family sued the city of Seattle and received a multi-million dollar settlement. His assailant, 17-year-old Jerell Thomas, received a 10-year jail sentence and was released in 2010. The city of Seattle subsequently placed a moratorium on any future Mardi Gras celebrations.  

On February 22, 2017, 25-year-old Neilson Rizzuto drunkenly drove his car in New Orleans. He then took a turn downtown directly through a blocked off parade route, causing mass chaos as he tore through the crowd. In the end, 28 people were hurt - include children - some with serious injuries. Rizzuto is charged with first-degree negligent vehicular injuring along with reckless operation of a vehicle. According to police, he had a blood alcohol level of .232. The legal limit in Louisiana is .08. 

New Orleans police described the 2014 Mardi Gras as a comparatively calm affair, compared to other recent celebrations. Bad weather caused low turnout, which meant less crime at the parades and parties. 

Despite that, two people were shot dead in a parking lot of Mardi Gras World - an exhibition space dedicated to the Mardi Gras experience in New Orleans. The assailants attended a concert at the space before the shooting occurred. A third man was injured but survived. 

You've likely seen plenty of tattoos that indicate a person's allegiance to a group or gang. But what do gang tattoos mean? Whether they're full of color or rendered in stark black ink, those pictures hide symbolism in their lines. If you're curious about their secret meanings, this list is for you.

As gang membership grew in America in the 1920s, tattoos became more popular among members. Similar to prison tattoos, gang tattoo designs became a way for members to show allegiance to particular groups. Almost every gang that exists has some specific tattoos associated with them. From Hell's Angels to the Latin Kings, their notable tats are included here.

Scroll through this list to see some specific gang tattoos and their meanings. The stories these designs tell are fascinating.

Hunter S. Thompson succinctly described the way of life in the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club: "They inhabit a world in which violence is as common as spilled beer."

The infamous group has a few tattoos and symbols associated with them. The "death's head" represents the gang, while the rhombus-shaped “1%” tattoo signifies that the Hell’s Angel is a rebel. It's a direct reference to the American Motorcyclist Association, which claims that while most motorcyclists are decent people, one percent of them are outlaws.

The letters “AFFA” may also be seen tattooed on the body of a Hell’s Angel. The letters stand for “Angel Forever, Forever Angel.”

The Gangster Disciples are a south-side Chicago gang made up of African Americans. Their most common tattoo includes the six-pointed Star of David, to represent their semi-religious tenets: life, loyalty, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and love. The pitchfork means rising up against oppression.

The Crips have a lot of tattoos associated with them, with a portion of them having to do with disrespecting their rival gang, the Bloods. For example, the numbers 211 on a Crip stand for “Blood Killer.” The two represents the “B” in the alphabet, and the 11 represents “K.” Similarly, the numbers “3 18 9 16” spell out "CRIP."

Crips tattoos may also include six-pointed or three-pointed crowns, or letters - "IGC" stands for “Insane Gangster Crip,” while “BNC” stands for “Bad News Crip." Tattoos of hands forming coded symbols are also common.

Bloods will often have the letters MOB - standing for "Member of Blood" - tattooed somewhere on their body. A dog paw is also a common tattoo among these gang members, potentially accompanied by the word “Dawg.” The word "Piru" comes from the original Blood gang, called the "Compton Pirus." They were named after West Piru street in Los Angeles.

Tattoos on Bloods members might also use the 13/13 cipher, which splits the alphabet in half and replaces the letters from the first half of the alphabet with the second. So the tattoo “OYBBQ” spells out the word “Blood.”

This tattoo from the Klu Klux Klan goes back to the '20s. The noose is meant to represent all the lynching that took place during that time. The Ku Klux Klan isn’t necessarily a gang, but this tattoo is gaining popularity among the KKK and other white supremacist gangs.

Some call the Mara Salvatrucha the most notorious gang in the world. They are extremely violent, own their own prison, and have a number of tattoos.

The most obvious tattoos are a combination of MS and the number 13. “Everything has to add up to 13. If you ask them about their tattoos, they’ll show you how 13 matches up on everything, which is really the magic number for them,” said criminal activity expert Douglas Farrah.

The BGF, or Black Guerilla Family, is a politically minded African American prison gang. One of their most common symbols is a dragon attacking a prison tower. They also use the numbers 276, which numerically represent "BGF."

The Mexican Mafia has a few tattoos that solely belong to its direct members. In Spanish, the gang is referred to as “La Eme,” so a gang member is likely to have those three letters somewhere on his or her body. This gang also uses the number 13, standing for “M,” the 13th letter in the alphabet. A 713 on gang member's body will mean that he or she is from the Houston branch (713 is the area code for Houston).

Another common symbol for the Mexican Mafia is three dots circling the number 13. Three dots on the hand is a common general gang tattoo which represents “mi vida loca” or “my crazy life." But if those dots surrounds a 13, the symbol is most likely associated with La Eme. In this case, the dots could mean "prison, hospital, and cemetery."

Many Mexican Mafia gang members will have the national symbol of Mexico tattooed on their body - a snake eating an eagle. But perhaps the biggest giveaway of affiliation with this gang is the “Black Hand of Death."

The Sur 13, or Sureños, represent a large coalition of affiliated gangs from Southern California (the Spanish "sur" means "south"). The Sur 13 may be its own entity, but they pledge allegiance to La Eme, or the Mexican Mafia.

While Sureños may have dozens of tattoos that are used under the umbrella of various Californian Hispanic gangs, only a true Sureño will have the word “Sur” or “Sureño” accompanied by the number 13. The 13 stands for the 13th letter in the alphabet, M, which to the Sureños stands for “Mexican.”

The Latin Kings are a Hispanic gang based out of Chicago. Their full title is Almighty Latin Kings Nation, so it is very common to see the letters “ALKN” tattooed somewhere on a gang member’s body.

Their most famous symbol is likely the five-point crown, which often appears as a tattoo. The number five is significant to the group, as it represents their five tenets: obedience, sacrifice, honor, love, and righteousness.

On February 28, 1997, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu walked into a bank in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles and started the clock on 44 of the most violent minutes to ever occur in Southern California. What was meant to be a simple North Hollywood bank robbery became the catalyst for the militarization of American police forces and forever changed the face of daytime television. The facts about the 1997 North Hollywood shootout are all nearly unbelievable, from the number of rounds fired during the siege to the kind of weapons the assailants used. Phillips and Mătăsăreanu didn’t know it, but they would change the face of America forever with the final 44 minutes of their lives.

You may have read about bank robberies in the past, but few crimes compare to this one. Rather than asking a bank teller to put the money in a bag, the two men who destroyed a quiet town went on an all-out assault of the LAPD and did an untold amount of property damage before ending their lives in one of the most violent police altercations to ever occur on US soil. If you’ve heard about this insane moment in crime history but don’t know all the information, keep reading to get all of the armored North Hollywood shootout facts. 

It's already staggering that nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition were fired in just 44 minutes, but what takes this over the top is that 1,100 of those rounds were fired by just two people: the perpetrators, Larry Phillips, Jr., and Emil Mătăsăreanu. That means, from the beginning of the siege, no one stopped firing their weapons until Phillips and Mătăsăreanu were dead. With such an overwhelming number of shots fired, it's amazing to think that there were only two fatalities. 

If you're wondering why the LAPD seemed so woefully unprepared for this kind of assault, it's important to remember that, at the time of the North Hollywood shootout, Los Angeles was only five years out from the LA riots spurred by the Rodney King verdict. The police were dealing with the fallout of a major PR headache, and the last thing they needed was cops walking around with semi-automatic weapons. That all changed after the North Hollywood shootout. Seven months after the siege, the US Army gave the LAPD 600 surplus M-16s, beginning the militarization of police forces across the country that's still happening today. At the time, LAPD Commander Rick Dinse told CNN: "This was a clear indication that we needed that kind of firepower and we need it early on." 

This is just insane, but according to National Geographic's Situation Critical docuseries, at the beginning of the robbery, there were still a few people who were trying to get into the bank. Remember, Larry Phillips, Jr., and Emil Mătăsăreanu didn't walk into a bank and ask for money, they immediately fired into the ceiling, shot up a door, and destroyed a bunch of money by shooting into the vault; this wasn't a quiet crime scene. But Tracy Fisher didn't think anything of it when she was walking up to the bank and had to be grabbed by an officer who hid her behind a patrol car. She later told the documentary series: "My first instinct was, oh my God we are not in a very good place."

The two robbers, Larry Phillips, Jr., and Emil Mătăsăreanu, went into each of their robberies with a ridiculous amount of firepower, but for the North Hollywood shootout, they armed themselves to the teeth. It's obvious that they were heavily armed to intimidate whatever security they encountered, but if intimidation was all they had planned, then their arsenal feels superfluous. It's more likely that by strapping themselves with a semi-automatic HK-91 and several illegally converted weapons: two Norinco Type 56 S rifles, a fully automatic Norinco Type 56 S-1, a fully automatic Bushmaster (M16) XM15 Dissipator, and an additional 3,300 rounds of ammunition, they were hoping for the shootout in which they eventually perished.

According to the National Geographic documentary series Situation Critical: Hollywood Shootout, outside of their "standard" weapons, the bandits were also carrying a jam jar with gasoline meant to be used to destroy their weapons and car after the robbery. On top of all that, Phillips was wearing around 40 pounds of body armor that included a groin guard, military canteen pouches, and several pieces of homemade body armor that covered his shins, thighs, and forearms. While Mătăsăreanu forewent the heavy body armor, he did indulge himself in a metal trauma plate that protected his vital organs throughout the firefight. 

Remember, both of the robbers were wearing an extensive amount of body armor, so these ten body shots that actually penetrated the men is on top of the shots that were absorbed by their homemade vests and trauma plates. According to Situation Critical, Mătăsăreanu, who was wearing the trauma plate, successfully survived a double-tap from a SWAT officer's AR-15. The blow that made Phillips turn his weapon on himself was when he was struck in the hand, rendering him unable to continue firing with any of his automatic weapons. 

The first officers who arrived on the scene to face Phillips and Mătăsăreanu were only carrying their service weapons, which, at the time, were Berettas that weren't meant to penetrate body armor, and definitely weren't made for shooting long-distance. In order to go toe-to-toe with the bandits, they had to commandeer semi-automatic rifles from a local gun shop. Even though the borrowed weapons allowed the officers to fire across long distances, they still weren't able to match the firepower of the two robbers and had to wait for further reinforcements. 

In 1997, the American public hadn't yet been introduced to the concept of the 24-hour news cycle, but the media (and advertisers) knew that any kind of breaking news, especially if it was bad news, would draw ratings. This train of thought began with the Menendez brothers trial, was underscored by O.J.'s Bronco chase and subsequent trial, and was hammered home with the North Hollywood shootout. Most recordings of the shootout begin just after the robbery occurs, but before the actual firefight begins, meaning that home viewers were treated to some of the most brutal carnage that they would ever see. 

When you think of armed assaults that last for more than a few minutes, you likely think of disasters like the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, TX, or a military firefight that occurred overseas. The North Hollywood shootout lasted for forty-four terror-filled minutes on a regular morning in 1997, and there were only two guys behind the entire thing. In that time, the two men managed to destroy a bank, injure police and civilians, commit property damage to businesses they weren't even near, and hold off a hefty portion of the Los Angeles police force.  

There's really no other way that the North Hollywood shootout could have ended. If Emil Mătăsăreanu or Larry Phillips, Jr., actually believed that they were going to make it out of a shootout with the LAPD alive, or at the very least not mortally injured, then they were fooling themselves. By the end of the 44-minute siege, Phillips had turned a handgun on himself after sustaining multiple injuries but was shot in the spine moments before he could kill himself. Mătăsăreanu bled to death near a car he was using for cover while shouting at the police to shoot him in the head. 

The High Incident Bandits' plan went belly-up the moment it began, thanks to the fact that they were spotted by two officers who were on a morning patrol and thought there was something fishy about two grown men wearing body armor, ski masks, and the arsenal of a small army while entering a bank.

To make matters worse, there had been a change in the bank's delivery system and the vault contained significantly less money than two believed there would be. Instead of the $750,000 Larry Phillips, Jr., and Emil Mătăsăreanu had expected, the men were only able to make off with $303,305 and three dye packs which later went off, ruining the money they stole. According to a National Geographic docuseries, Critical Situation, Mătăsăreanu was so upset about this development that he fired nearly 100 rounds into the vault, destroying whatever money remained. 

Beginning in June of 1962, one of the most mysterious serial killers in US history surfaced in the city of Boston. This killer was dubbed by the press as "The Boston Strangler" and in less than 18 months was connected to 13 rape-murder cases in the Boston area. Eventually, a sexual predator and petty criminal by the name of Albert DeSalvo would confess to being the Boston Strangler. Sentenced to life in prison, he was eventually murdered by another inmate in 1973.

But is that how it really happened? Some say no. There are many facts that just don't add up about the Boston Strangler case. Numerous attorneys, forensic psychologists, and journalists question whether law enforcement officials were right. Did they really catch the Boston Strangler? After you read on, you'll find some facts that just don't add up about the Boston Strangler. 

Obviously, the DeSalvo family was not happy with their association with the Boston Strangler. They began to have doubts about the culpability of Albert DeSalvo. By the late '90s, the DeSalvo's and the family of one victim, 19-year-old Mary Sullivan, began to publicly demand a reinvestigation of the case. The Boston PD initially agreed to have their cold case unit take a look at the evidence and determine whether any DNA analysis was possible. Ultimately, they refused to reopen the case even after an exhumation of Mary Sullivan disclosed DNA on her underwear and groin was a close enough match DeSalvo.

That was enough for the police department to peg all of the murders on DeSalvo, despite DNA evidence for the other 12.

From June 1962 until January 1964, 13 women were sexually assaulted and murdered with items of their own clothing in the Boston area. A few months later, a 20-year-old woman awoke in her bedroom to see a man standing at the end of her bed. This man, clad in green work pants and shirt, proceeded to bind and sexually assault her, but he did not kill her. Ultimately, police would suspect a burglar and sex offender named Albert DeSalvo, and the victim identified DeSalvo as her attacker.

When DeSalvo's arrest and photo were made public, numerous other women came forward saying he attacked them in the same manner. It was during his incarceration for the "Green Man" assaults that DeSalvo told another inmate, George Nassar, that he was responsible for the Strangler crimes. Nassar then told his attorney F. Lee Bailey that DeSalvo was the Strangler. He confessed on tape to Bailey, who began representing him. Bailey revealed at DeSalvo's trial for the unrelated rapes DeSalvo admitted to being the Boston Strangler but he was never charged or tried for the crimes.

He was given a life sentence for crimes committed as the Green Man. At that time, police had no eyewitnesses and no physical evidence to tie DeSalvo to the Strangler crimes. His only connection to the Strangler killings was the result of his own confession that would eventually invite skepticism.

Edward Brooke was the Massachusetts State Attorney General during the Strangler investigation. An ambitious politician, Brooke had national aspirations. Initially, police investigators felt that more than one person was responsible for the wave of murders in the Boston area, possibly even multiple copy cat killers. Because there was no physical evidence or consistent pattern tying the crime to one person this seemed logical.

Once the Boston tabloid press began whipping up a media frenzy, Brooke emerged to coordinate a systematic investigation. He even famously involved a "psychic" by the name of Peter Hurkos to assist in the manhunt, a process that led nowhere. Suddenly, it was one person who was responsible for all of these crimes. Despite the many problems with Albert DeSalvo and his confession, he provided a perfect solution to a situation involving the public's demand for a resolution and arrest. That a dangerous criminal would be taken off the street's would be a very public feather in Brooke's cap. He was eventually elected to the US Senate in 1966.

Dr. Ames Robey was the director of the Bridgewater State Mental Hospital during Albert DeSalvo's stay there. He publicly testified he felt DeSalvo was lying for both egotistical and financial reasons. At a sanity hearing for DeSalvo in 1967, Robey stated he believed DeSalvo to be perfectly sane. He corroborated the testimony of another inmate who testified DeSalvo told him he would make a fortune from his confession, hire an excellent attorney who would get him mental health treatment instead of incarceration, and he would eventually be freed after being declared legally sane. Robey described DeSalvo as a "manipulative attention grabber" with "an extensive need to prove what a big man he was." 

In the early '60s, the phenomenon of serial murder was unusual and not well understood. After decades of study, certain aspects of serial murderers and their victims are extremely consistent. Typically, their crimes follow a pattern of physical, sexual, racial, or geographic similarities. The profile of the 13 Boston Strangler victims varied drastically, with some as old as 85 and others in their late teens and early twenties.

Some were strangled - either with stockings or by hand - and some were stabbed. Some were raped brutally and even posthumously assaulted while others showed no signs of sexual assault. One victim was an African-American, all of the others were Caucasian. Some were murdered in metropolitan Boston while others were killed in suburban locations as far as 40 minutes away. Today, based on these aspects alone, most criminal investigators would reject the idea that the same individual was responsible for all of these crimes. 

In 1965, while confined at the Bridgewater State Hospital, Albert DeSalvo crossed paths with George Nassar. Unlike DeSalvo, Nassar was already a convicted murderer who brutally shot a gas station attendant execution-style during a robbery. This was Nassar's second murder. His first he committed as a teenager, earning him a lengthy jail sentence and parole by the age of 29. Nassar had a genius IQ and was a charismatic, manipulative, hardened con.

He quickly became DeSalvo's confidant and both were overheard discussing the $10,000 reward money offered for the Strangler's arrest. Suddenly, DeSalvo was claiming to be the Boston Strangler. Initially, he was able to give some basic details about the Strangler's crimes to investigators, enough to bring in two eyewitnesses who had observed a stranger near one of the victim's apartments. Both said DeSalvo was not the person they saw, but when they coincidentally observed Nassar during their visit, they both immediately recognized him as the man that they encountered. This information was never acted upon.  

Robert Ressler was a former FBI agent and criminal profiler who coined the term "serial killer" during the course of his illustrious career. Based on the various differences in the backgrounds of the victims connected to the Boston Strangler, Ressler does not believe this could be the handiwork of a single perpetrator and might even involve multiple killers. In 2001, he commented, "you're putting together so many different patterns here that its inconceivable behaviorally that all these could fit one individual."

Albert DeSalvo had several reasons - some rational and one irrational - to confess to being the Boston Strangler, even if it wasn't true. DeSalvo was married to a German woman he met while in the military. They had two young children, one disabled. DeSalvo believed, correctly that the notorious Boston Strangler's story was quite valuable and would generate income for his family.

He also knew he was going to prison for a life anyway, so 13 more murders weren't going to make a difference - especially if he could use those murders to plea bargain. Bailey at one point tried to submit DeSalvo's Boston Strangler confession as evidence he was a crazy man and should be not guilty by reason of insanity. But the confession was left out of his trial.

Lastly, and most importantly, by all accounts Albert DeSalvo was a notorious braggart who desperately wished to receive fame and attention. His identity as the Boston Strangler would be proclaimed on the front page of every newspaper in the world. 

In the early sixties, attorney F. Lee Bailey was already gaining a reputation as a successful criminal defense lawyer. He also actively sought cases that were sensational and apt to generate widespread publicity so he could make a dime by selling the story. In 1965, one of his clients was George Nassar. The convict began asking him about the possibility of making some money publishing information about the Boston Strangler. Bailey quickly determined Nassar had allegedly gotten information from fellow inmate Albert DeSalvo about the murders. Bailey supposedly went to the police and got them to supply five questions that only the Strangler would be able to answer. Bailey then got DeSalvo to confess on tape and began to attempt a plea bargain on DeSalvo's behalf.

Over his career, F. Lee Bailey has been involved in grossly unethical behavior and was eventually disbarred. Considering he had both a professional and economic interest in snaring a client as notorious as the Boston Strangler and DeSalvo was going to get a life sentence over the Green Man crimes regardless, Bailey would also greatly benefit from proclaiming DeSalvo as the Strangler, regardless of the truth. Because of his exposure on the Boston Strangler case, he became a wealthy and famous lawyer who represented clients like OJ Simpson and Dr. Sam Sheppard. 

In November 1973, Ames Robey received a telephone call from Albert DeSalvo. DeSalvo was then incarcerated in protective custody in the infirmary of the maximum security state prison at Walpole, now known as MCI-Cedar Junction. DeSalvo pleaded with him to come to the prison to meet with him the next day as he had something urgent he needed to tell him. DeSalvo had always been irritated by Robey's refusal to accept his confession and identity as the Boston Strangler.

Robey theorized that Albert was frustrated the payday he thought he had coming never materialized, and he was ready to come clean. Early the next morning Robey was eagerly preparing to meet with DeSalvo when he heard a news report that DeSalvo had been stabbed to death overnight. Although three different individuals were prosecuted for DeSalvo's murder, including a notorious Boston gang member, no one was ever convicted. The murderer would have had to access DeSalvo through six separate normally locked doors and would have had to pass by several guards.

Somehow, DeSalvo was stabbed 15 times in the heart and bled to death. Prison officials claimed the murder had something to do with drug sales that upset the inmate hierarchy but they never explained or seem to care about how such a murder could occur. Albert DeSalvo's lips were now permanently sealed.  

Imagine you've committed a horrific crime - so horrific you're sitting on death row. Before your impending death, the prison offers you one last meal. What would you choose?

It's captivating to see what real death row inmates picked as their final meal. From four-course meals to a simple cup of coffee, final meals on death row allow criminals to enjoy one last indulgence of the world they're leaving behind. Some states put caps on how much an inmate's gourmet prison food will cost, but such wasn't always the case. Luckily for you, there is no cap on this list and the sky is the limit. What would your final meal on death row be?