In what's come to be called the "Easter Day slaughter," a deranged Ohio man shot and killed an innocent passerby while streaming it live on Facebook. This horrific crime is the most recent example of people being killed during a livestream, and it has people asking whether Facebook should allow Facebook Live at all.

The gruesome crime started after Steve Stephens randomly shot 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. on April 16, 2017 in Cleveland, OH. The Facebook Live video quickly went viral, and it was up for almost four hours before Facebook took it down. And the worst part of it all? Stephens managed to elude police – and possibly killed others. 

Stephens, 37, started livestreaming shortly before shooting Godwin on April 16, 2017. The video – which was captioned Easter Day slaughter – started with Stephens in his car, saying he "snapped" over a woman. He then approached Godwin, who was randomly walking down the road, and asked him if Godwin knew the woman. Godwin said he didn't, and as Stephens pulled out his gun, Godwin pled for his life. Stephens turned a deaf ear to his pleas, however, and shot Godwin, leaving the man bleeding on the sidewalk before driving away.

A short while later, he posted a second video. In it, he said he killed at least 13 other people, and he wasn't going to stop. 

"And I'm about to keep killing until they catch me," he said. 

Stephens fled Cleveland shortly after the shooting, and, as of April 17, 2017, police are still trying to find him. To make matters worse, they don't know where exactly he fled. Law enforcement officials said their search extends to Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, and Michigan. 

Stephens's mother told CNN she last spoke to him the day of the shooting. He told her he was angry with his girlfriend, but she hasn't spoken to him since. The FBI and the US Marshals Service are helping with the search.

Godwin was walking down the Cleveland street after having Easter dinner with his children. His family said he was a kind man who loved his children deeply. He had nine children and was a retired foundry worker who liked to collect aluminum cans on his walks. His son, Robert Godwin, Jr., told Cleveland.com he was looking for cans on his way back home. He said his dad loved fishing, had lots of grandchildren and great grandchildren, and was quiet but very caring. 

In the United States, prisoners have fairly limited access to the Internet when compared to other nations. They are not even allowed to use it for educational purposes. However, some American prisoners still find a way to use social media in prison. There are a few ways in which prisoners circumnavigate the strict no-Facebook policy, and you will see men and women behind bars with their own social media accounts. While this may not be an issue for inmates at the cushiest prisons in the world, it's something the average American inmate has to contend with.

Still, there are many people crusading for prisoners’ right for Internet access. They believe an inmate having access to the Internet and social media makes them better equipped for reentering society and decreases the chances of recidivism. Should inmates have access to the Internet in prison? While that question remains officially unanswered, there are still unexpected ways prisoners access the worldwide web from behind bars.

In 2009, the Federal Bureau of Prisons introduced the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System (TRULINCS), an email server for prison inmates. It is a secure system where an inmate can only send and receive messages to people on a pre-approved contact list without actually having access to any of the other services or abilities of the Internet. TRULINCS is run by a privately-owned company, Corrlinks.

The service is not free. The Bureau of Prisons charges $.05/minute to use the email server. This may not seem like much, but when prisoners make only about $15 a month, using the email server can be a bit of a luxury.

Some prisons allow inmates to have their own personal tablets where they can access their emails. JPay is a company that provides tablets for the prison population. They are currently allowed in 11 states. Prisoners can purchase the tablet for $69.99 from the store in their institution. On top of buying the tablet, the email is not free. For example, to email a video message, the inmate or the person on their contact list must purchase a $.40 stamp. The prison facility also has leeway in filtering the messages for certain words like “escape” and slang.

Besides email, the device has games and a music library.

There are only 10 US correctional systems that allow a video call service that's similar to Skype. In Arizona, the prisons allow this for relatives who live far way and cannot make long-distance trips. Iowa allows this in women’s prisons for inmates who are restricted to no-contact visits. Kansas allows it only for prisoners who are stuck in segregation, and New Mexico allows it as a way for incarcerated parents to contact their children.

Outside of email, inmates' ability to use the Internet is almost non-existent. As of 2009, there were only four states that allow inmates to use the Internet for reasons besides checking their email. In Connecticut, inmates can only access the Internet at the Job Center, which restricts all other websites. Kansas allows Internet use in the law library, only to help a prisoner study their case. Internet use is highly supervised. In Louisiana, inmates who will be released within 45 days can access the Internet to look for jobs.

When the legal alternatives seem too expensive, stressful, and time consuming, many prisoners just smuggle in contraband smartphones to have all the social media apps at their disposal – and without any monitoring from prison staff. The phones are smuggled in through a variety of means and are readily available. In 2010, almost 9,000 phones were uncovered by officers just in California.

Prisoners using contraband smartphones to post photos to social media sites has caused outrage among the victims of their crimes. For example, in Tennessee, over 100 inmates were found operating Facebook pages, some posting videos and photos straight from their cells. Brandon White, a convicted murderer who killed a man named Ryan Wright, posted a picture of himself holding $200 in cash.

“That’s not punishment. That’s not any kind of punishment. It’s just like being on the outside. It’s still freedom for them,” said Wright’s mother. “We can never communicate again. And [Brandon White] has access to be able to communicate with the outside world.”

Most prisons in the United States use a video service for doctors and inmate patients. They employ this program, called Telemedicine, to help save money and to also keep doctors safe. Texas prison psychiatrist Pradan Nathan, sees up to 16 inmate patients a day using just his laptop.

“We’re not talking about people who are necessarily in here for years and years,” said Dr. Edward Jauch, the director of the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. “This could be any unfortunate encounter and you’re down there without your meds or somebody has a sudden emergent medical condition. Being in jail even briefly should not risk your health or even your life for what should have been a 24 hour bailout.”

Telemedicine also really cuts costs. The Texas prison system relies heavily on Telemedicine. Texas also has the nation’s largest prison population. In 2011, the state spent $3,805 per prisoner on medical care, compared to $6,047, which is the national average.

If you're lucky enough to be an inmate at a medium-security prison with other smart, hard-working inmates, then it's possible that you'll end up with computers loaded with pornography in the ceiling of your cell. At least that's what happened at the Marion Correctional Institute in Ohio in 2017. After acquiring all of the necessary materials from an onsite computer recycling program, a few industrious inmates built two functioning computers in the prison's ceiling, complete with "pornography, a Windows proxy server, VPN, VOIP and anti-virus software, the Tor browser, password hacking and e-mail spamming tools, and the open source packet analyzer Wireshark." However, the jig was up when authorities found cords leading to the contraband Internet sources.

Sometimes all it takes to maintain a strong social media presence from behind bars is a cooperative friend or family member. Through TRULINCS, prisoners can ask their family and friends to manage a social media page for them. The Facebook messages and posts are forwarded back and forth through the email server. The inmate simply tells the person managing their page what to put on the site and what to comment. Alex Cook, a 28-year-old prisoner, told Vice:

"My mom forwards my emails and I send her my artwork and she takes pictures and posts them for me. When people comment on my art or just my page, she forwards the messages for me. It helps me let my friends and family see what I am up to and know that I'm doing something productive."

If a prisoner doesn't have a friend or family member to manage a social media page for them, they can always sign up for a proxy service provider like Voice for Inmates, which pairs inmates with virtual "pen pals" – for a price, of course. However, companies like this seem to exploit an inmate’s desperation for outside contact instead of really trying to help them. Jesse Jongeward told Vice:

"You have to find a provider that is going to get you your messages and post your pictures and text accordingly. I dealt with a company called voiceforinmates.com for three years and I was rarely satisfied with their performance. I paid $100 a year to get my messages and have my photos and updates posted, but it was rarely done. The whole experience stressed me out, but in the end it was cool to access some of my old classmates, musician buddies, and friends I haven't talked to in a while. Plus it gave me a sense of still being out there in the mix of the free world."

A 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend were arrested in Georgia after they allegedly murdered the girl's grandparents. After the horrific slaying, they threw a wild house party – complete with drugs and alcohol – while the dead bodies rotted upstairs. In a story that's so horrifying it's almost hard to believe, Cassie Bjorge, 16, and her boyfriend Johnny Rider, 19, beat Bjorge's grandparents with a baseball bat before slitting their throats. 

The alleged motive for the crime? According to police, the couple had "had enough" of the grandparents being so strict and even plotted killing other members of the Bjorge family – including the 16-year-old's sister. These killer teens from Georgia tried to run away, but police arrested them a short while later. 

Family members started becoming concerned that they hadn't heard from the grandparents, both 63, and called police. Officers went to the house once, but they were unable to make contact. 

Then, on April 8, Bjorge and Rider went to Rider's home in Lawrenceville, GA. Rider allegedly attacked his sister and her boyfriend with a baseball bat, causing his mother to call the police. The mother told officers her son had a cache of weapons, including pepper spray, which he used on his sister. Police found the grandparents' SUV parked in the garage and became suspicious. Police decided to go to the Bjorge's house and check on the elderly couple again. That's when they found their dead bodies inside.

They eventually tracked Bjorge and Rider down at a friend's apartment. When they refused to come out, SWAT entered the home and took them into custody. 

According to police, Bjorge said in a taped confession that the couple planned on killing Rider's entire family – which is why they went to the house on April 8. But when they saw a car in the driveway they didn't recognize, they got freaked out. Despite this, Rider clashed with his sister and her boyfriend, inflicting injuries on both. 

They also reportedly wanted to kill other members of Bjorge's family, including her mother.

Bjorge and Rider allegedly killed Bjorge's grandparents in early April 2017. Police aren't entirely sure when the murder happened but said that, when they discovered the bodies on April 8, it appeared the aged couple had been dead for several days. According to an arrest report, Bjorge and Rider planned the murder several days before and hid outside the house waiting to ambush Bjorge's grandparents. 

Police said Rider beat the couple – Wendy and Randall Bjorge – with a tire iron and a bat, before slitting their throats. Bjorge allegedly dragged the bodies upstairs while Rider caulked the crevices of the house so the smell couldn't permeate outside. Then they invited their friends over, and the group drank and smoked marijuana for several days. The marijuana was partly to cover up the smell, authorities said.

There are more innocent people who pleaded guilty than you might think. It seems mind-boggling that anyone would confess if they haven't actually done anything wrong. So who are these innocent people who confessed to crimes, and why do people confess to crimes they didn't commit?

Arrested individuals make false confessions for a variety of reasons, though unfair circumstances and abuse figure in many cases. If you're vulnerable and being treated inhumanely while being questioned, there's a good chance you'll say anything just to have it all be over. But that's the problem - it's not over. False confessions often lead to years in prison and even the execution of guiltless parties. So why do innocent people confess to crimes? Usually because they're forced to, because they feel like they have no other choice. But once that admission of guilt is out there, it's hard to take it back.

Some cases really catch the public eye, and that makes them magnets for false confessions. Maybe people want to become famous for being associated with the crime, or perhaps they're just obsessed.

Whatever the reason, crimes like the infamous Black Dalia murder in 1947 led to multiple false confessions. One of the men who confessed, Daniel S. Voorhees, insisted he was guilty of the murder. But his story fell flat when he couldn't pick the victim, Elizabeth Short, out of a lineup of photographs.

Plea bargains can tempt false confessions. In 1990, Michael Phillips was misidentified in a photo line up for the rape of a 16-year-old girl. But because he was black and the victim was white, he worried that a jury wouldn't believe his innocence. Rather than risk a longer sentence, he plead guilty and received 12 years in prison. Phillips ended up serving 24: he was finally exonerated when another man's semen was matched to the rape kit in 2014.

In 1934, three black farmers, Arthur Ellington, Ed Brown, and Henry Shields, were accused of murdering white planter Raymond Stuart. They had confessed to police, but only after an extremely violent interrogation that included brutal whippings. They were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, but appealed.

In the resulting landmark case Brown v Mississippi, the Supreme Court ruled that confessions obtained through violence undermined the right to due process. The men's sentences were reversed, though they ended up serving time for manslaughter.

One of the biggest arguments against torture - besides the fact that it's inhumane - is that the information and confessions received during torture are often unreliable or untrue. For example, Mohamed Ramadan, a police officer at Bahrain International Airport, was arrested in 2014 under suspicion of attacking other officers. He was innocent, but was tortured until he made a false confession. The torturers even admitted that they knew he was innocent, but they were angry with him for attending pro-democracy rallies.

Ramadan was convicted, and is sentenced to be executed.

Sometimes, confessing is presented by the authorities as the easy way out. Stefan Kiszko was accused of the brutal murder of a young girl, Lesley Molseed, in 1975. He was told there were two options: if he confessed, he would be eligible for parole; if he didn't, then he would spend the rest of his life behind bars. So, he confessed, knowing that his confession was false. Kiszko assumed that the police would look into his story, find out it wasn't true, and let him go.

They didn't. Despite recanting as soon as he was given a lawyer, Kiszko spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

Children are sometimes put in incredibly tense situations, and they don't always understand the consequences. When 16-year-old Felix was brought in for the 2005 shooting of Antonio Ramirez and questioned without a lawyer, he slowly went along with interrogators. He picked up pieces of what they said had happened and used them in his confession, even claiming to have left the gun at his grandfather's (though he didn't have a living grandfather).

Studies have shown that children are more likely to give false confessions than adults. They are also more likely to think that going along with the interrogators will lead to them getting released, while maintaining innocence and disagreeing will lead to them getting jailed.

Floyd Brown spent 14 years paying for a murder he didn't commit. Why? In part, because of a lengthy confession he supposedly had written, detailing how he had killed an 80-year-old woman in 1993. But his lawyers maintained that he has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old, and was only able to speak in two or three word phrases. He was put in a mental hospital to await trail, but was left in purgatory for over a decade before he was released.

The mentally handicapped have been shown to be vulnerable to producing false confessions.

Sometimes, an innocent individual can become so convinced of their own guilt that they actually believe they committed a crime.

Peter Reilly discovered this firsthand when he found his mother dead in their home in 1973. He was brought in by the police, who told him he had failed a lie detector test (he hadn't). Between that lie, and hours of questioning, investigators essentially bullied him into believing that he had killed his mother. He even wrote a confession, saying, "I remember slashing once at my mother’s throat with a straight razor I used for model airplanes."

Reilly was eventually exonerated - but only after he spent time in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

After 14 to 30 hours of interrogation, you'd probably confess, too. That's exactly what happened to the Central Park Five. Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise confessed to the rape of a female jogger in Central Park in 1989. They later recanted their stories, saying that they had only confessed because they were worn down and forced to by the police. In fact, a serial rapist was later found guilty of the crime with the help of DNA. The wrongfully imprisoned men received a $41 million settlement because of their treatment.

Some people will go much farther to protect their loved ones than they will to protect themselves. The show trials conducted in the USSR under Stalin included many false confessions. Some were obtained through violence, but others involved threats against the families of those involved. Authorities would say that they were just as guilty as the accused individuals, and could also be executed. Many people confessed to save their families from that fate.

When it comes to making movies, white collar crime serves as the inspiration behind some of the best stories to ever hit the silver screen. The top white collar crime movies feature intelligent criminals striking it rich and getting in over their heads. This is a list of the greatest movies about non-violent crime, including everything from Ocean's Eleven to All the President's Men to Catch Me If You Can.

What films will you find on this list of the best movies about non-violent crimes? Martin Scorsese directed The Wolf of Wall Street, the real-life story of a crafty stockbroker who falls into a cesspool of corruption. Snatch is another good movie about stealing, although in this case the treasure is a priceless diamond. The slyly witty American Hustle was nominated for 10 Oscars in 2013. Other good movies featured on this list include Wall Street, Blow, and The Insider.

Do you have a favorite movie about white collar crimes? Give the best films a thumbs up to move them to the top of the list, and get in on the conversation in the comments section.

The Internet can often seem harmless, with its never-ending supply of cat videos, memes, and other distractions. But there is a dark side to all this connectivity. In some cases, social media inspired online fights that resulted in offline death. Whether those killings were committed by people who couldn't bear being humiliated publicly, or they simply snapped, these murders caused by social media are chilling.

Some social media feuds that led to murder were sparked by fights about lovers, online threats, or even a simple $20 debt. Tragically, the victims in these cases were often very young; many were teenagers. The jealousy and hurt egos of the individuals engaging in online behaviors that turned murderous make these stories all the more harrowing.

In 2009, childhood friends Kwame Dancy and Jameg Blake began arguing over a girl in Harlem. They started trading insults on Twitter, and by December 1, 2010, things escalated. Their fight ended with Dancy being fatally shot in the neck by Blake.

A fight about a boy on Facebook led a 16-year-old to kill her rival in Scranton, PA, in 2016. Cathleen Boyer sparred with Kayla VanWert, the mother of her lover's son, on the social media site. The two agreed to meet, but during the fight, Boyer stabbed VanWert. She later died at a hospital.

After the fight, Boyer took to Facebook again to say that she had "no remorse" for the stabbing. She was eventually arrested and charged with homicide.

A Facebook fight between two 14-year-old Chicago girls, who were arguing over a boy, ended with one of them being killed on April 13, 2014. Endia Martin was shot and killed by the other teenager (who is unnamed due to her age) while she walked home from the school. Another girl was wounded in the arm by the shooter.

The killer didn't act alone. Donnell Flora, the uncle of the shooter, gave her the gun so that she could commit the crime. He was sentenced to 100 years in jail for his role in the killing. Another teen, Vandetta Redwood, was originally connected to the crime as well, but was ultimately acquitted.

Kayla Henriques stabbed her friend Kamisha Richards in New York City after they fought on Facebook over a $20 debt. In February of 2011, Richards gave Henriques the money to buy diapers, milk, and other essentials for her baby. When Richards asked for her money back, the two began arguing over Facebook. When the two met in person, the fight quickly escalated: Richards threatened Henriques with a pair of scissors, while Henriques armed herself with a knife. Ultimately, Henriques killed Richards with a single blow.

Henriques was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. She pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

In February 2016, Javhonn Frazier tweeted that his friend Jerrold Parker couldn't rap. Another young man, Devin Leggett, retweeted Frazier, and Parker arranged for the two to meet to end the feud with a fight.

The two teenagers began fist-fighting in the middle of an Indianapolis street, and at some point Leggett pulled out a gun and shot Parker. Frazier then put Parker in the front seat of his car and sought help. Police arrived and rushed Parker to the hospital, but he died soon after arrival. Leggett was later arrested and charged with murder and carrying a handgun without a license.

After moving to Mountain City, TN, and struggling to make friends, Jenelle Potter finally seemed to settle into a group that she fit in with. But her Facebook friend Billie Jean Hayworth was jealous that Potter had a crush on her boyfriend (and father of her child) Billy Payne. An online battle broke out, with Potter and Payne's cousin Jamie Curd - who also happened to be sleeping with Potter - pitted against his cousin and Hayworth. 

Eventually, the Facebook threats and arguments ended when Potter, Hayworth, and Payne unfriended each other. The fight was far from resolved, though. On January 31, 2012, police found Hayworth and Payne shot in the head, with Payne's throat cut. The couple's child was in Hayworth's arms, alive.

A police investigation led to the arrest of Potter's father Marvin. In an interrogation, he told police a CIA agent told him to commit the crimes. Police later discovered that the agent was really his daughter, who had used a fake online identity to provoke her father into committing the murders. The authorities arrested Potter and her mother Barbara for making Marvin murder Hayworth and Payne. Potter's lover Curd was also charged for his role in the killings, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Potter and her mother were given life in prison, and Marvin received a double life sentence.

On June 10, 2015, a Facebook fight led to a gun battle that left a man dead in Cincinnati. Police say that Nake’land Williams and Daysmen Latham traded keyboards for pistols after one of the men responded to a comment about a girl, saying, "Why don’t you come up and fight?" Latham found Williams, and opened fire on him and a group of people.

Latham was arrested in connection with the shooting.

Two Pontiac, MI women were fighting over a paramour on Facebook, but the argument became deadly. Torrie Lynn Emery was sent to prison after an 80 mph car chase left Alesha Abernathy dead. But Abernanthy wasn't the woman Emery had been arguing with.

The incident occurred on July 20, 2010, when Emery saw her romantic rival Danielle Booth riding in the passenger seat of Abernanthy's car and began pursuing them. As the chase sped up, Abernanthy ran a red light and was hit by a truck.

Booth was critically injured in the crash, and Emery was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and child abuse - her 3 year-old had been in the car.

Anthony Gelia was arrested on November 8, 2016 for murder, after his brother threatened him on Facebook. The crime occurred when Gelia got intoxicated and kicked in the door a home his tormenter was in. Unfortunately, others were home, too.

The accused murderer reportedly ran through the Jackson, MI home while firing a gun. One of the bullets hit Brittany Southwell while she was holding her infant son. Southwell, who lived in the home with her fiance Tyler McCravey along with Gelia's brother, died of her wounds.

When police arrested Gelia, he said he had taken pills and was intoxicated. He held a gun to his head, but officers convinced him to surrender. When police interviewed Gelia, he said that he had seen a mysterious man in the house and had shot at him. No such man was found.

For one teen, online fighting had deadly repercussions. Sarah Ludemann fell for a boy named Josh Camacho in her hometown of Pinellas Park, FL. While dating Ludemann, Camacho was also with a young woman named Rachel Wade, and had a son with another woman. 

Wade began taunting Ludemann on Facebook and MySpace, and even threatened her life in a voicemail. After a few weeks of this, Ludemann apparently decided that enough was enough. On April 14, 2009, she and some friends went to confront Wade, but she was lying in wait with a knife. Ultimately, Ludemann died of a stab wound to the heart. Wade was convicted for the killing, and her story came full circle when a Facebook group was formed to petition for her release.

Whenever terrible cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking come to light, people ask, why didn't they try to escape? Tragically, in many cases, hostages, kidnapping victims, or members of cults cooperated with their tormentors and even resisted the police sent to rescue them, even though they faced unimaginable horrors.

Through torture, dehumanization, and disconnection from the outside world, many of these victims have been labeled "brainwashed" by the people who turned their world upside down. Victims of Stockholm syndrome will later explain that they felt completely unable to resist the criminals who kidnapped them.

Cult leaders have also been known to exact similar brainwashing methods on their followers to gain complete control over their subjects, even to the point of inciting them to murder or mass suicide.

Read some of the most shocking stories of people being brainwashed, where the men and women who were victimized lost not only their free will, but their humanity entirely.

A man blamed with putting an end to the idealism and hope of the 1960s, Charles Manson stands out in this list because he did not kidnap people. Nor did he did brainwash his followers into killing themselves, but instead, he convinced them to murder others, in what became known as the Manson Family Killings.

Following two prison stints for lesser crimes, Manson began collecting his followers, mostly women with troubled pasts. He asked his followers to give up their ego, to demonstrate self-sacrifice, and he told them about the future of the family, living in an underground paradise and then reappearing to seize control of the nation. He sought to keep his group’s gender ratio at 5:1, so that the women could take care of the men’s every desire.

Manson would hammer his ideas into his followers' heads, then consolidate his control by dosing them with LSD and then performing sermons to his drug-addled audience, preaching his racist, misogynist, and ultimately, murderous beliefs.

In the end, Manson successfully convinced his followers that the only way to bring about “Helter Skelter,” the eventual apocalyptic race war that he believed would lead to his world takeover, was to kill innocent people. The "Family," as they were called, carried out seven murders, including the murder of up-and-coming actress Sharon Tate (who was pregnant at the time). As a result, Manson was sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment after the death penalty was abolished in California.

The tragic story of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captured the fears and sympathy of America after she was taken from her Salt Lake City home one night and wasn’t found until nine months later, as her captor, Brian Mitchell, moved her all over the country, torturing and raping her.

While Mitchell may not have purposefully taken lengths to brainwash Smart, the level of torture and neglect she faced certainly had an impact. After her rescue, and during her testimony, she stated that she had opportunities to escape while held captive, but chose not to take them.

At one point, "Smart was questioned by a police officer who had received a tip that she had been spotted, but she chose not to scream for help or try to run away." When questioned about this incident in interviews later, she said,

I was under threat of my life, I was under threat of my family's life. And those two threats right there are stronger than chains for me. It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, "Well, why didn’t you try to run? Why didn’t you scream? Why didn’t you try to do something?" That is so wrong and, frankly, offensive to even ask that question.

In perhaps the most infamous case of cult brainwashing, self-proclaimed guru Jim Jones brainwashed nearly all of his followers into committing suicide with the promise of salvation and paradise.

Entire families lived in Jonestown, the cult's complex, and the adult members not only willingly took their own lives, but killed their children as well - 300 of the 909 people who died were children. Children who didn’t voluntarily commit suicide were injected with cyanide.

In the haunting Jonestown death tapes, leader Jim Jones can be heard telling his congregation, “This is a revolutionary suicide. This is not a self-destructive suicide.”

The fact that they believed him enough to take their own lives (and those of their children) is a sign of how much power Jones had over his entire congregation.

Cult brainwashing has also lead to horrifying ends. Heaven’s Gate was an American religious millenarian group that believed that Earth was about to be “recycled” by an alien race that was traveling in a spaceship behind the Hale-Bop comet, and the only chance to survive was to leave the planet immediately.

The group’s leader, Marshall Applewhite, convinced the group that suicide was not death, but a way “to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered.” The group believed that in order to reach the Next Level, “humans would have to shed every attachment to the planet.” These attachments included family, friends, money, and eventually, their own bodies.

Separation from their family and friends, and the constant brainwashing (or “thought reform”) of repeated lectures and drills about the “next level” desensitized the Heaven’s Gate members to the idea of death and suicide. Stanton Peele, a clinical psychologist specializing in addiction treatment and theory, compared the cult and its form of brainwashing to drug addiction, saying that while the group was ultimately destructive, it must have also been gratifying and their beliefs may have even had a narcosis-like effect similar to drugs or alcohol.

In the end, 39 members of the cult killed themselves in 1997, believing that it was the only way to survive the impending apocalypse they were anticipating.

10-year-old Natascha was kidnapped as she walked to school alone for the very first time in Vienna, Austria. A man named Wolfgana Priklopil captured her and took her to a secret cellar where she stayed for more than eight years. During her time in captivity, she was beaten, mentally abused, and even starved - so that she would be too weak to escape.

Priklopil played intense mind games with Kampush. She recalled in an interview, "One of the worst scenes during my captivity was when he shoved me, wearing only a pair of panties, half-starved, covered in bruises and with my head completely shorn, in front of the front door and said, ‘Come on now, run. Let’s see how far you get.'"

She continued, "I was so humiliated and filled with shame that I couldn’t take a single step. He tore me away from the door, saying, ‘So you see. The world out there doesn’t want you anyway. Your place is here and only here.'"

Priklopil also convinced Kampusch that the windows and doors of his home were booby-trapped with high explosives. Eventually, when Kampusch was 18 years old, she seized an opportunity to escape. Her escape lead to Priklopil’s death, as he laid down on a railroad track and killed himself only hours later. A true sign of how he much he had warped Kampusch’s mind, when she heard of Priklopil’s death, she mourned for him.

Perhaps the most famous case of Stockholm syndrome – in which individuals who are kidnapped or taken hostage form feelings of trust and affection for their captors – is certainly the case of Patty Hearst. The granddaughter of former newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, Patty was kidnapped in 1974 by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hearst stayed with the SLA for over a year, and after being put into isolation and tortured by the group, she shockingly grew sympathetic to their cause. Nineteen months after her capture, she was found to have joined the left-wing terrorist group, participating in robberies, propaganda announcements, and other illegal activities.

Eventually, she was captured by the FBI and charged just like her captors. At the time of her arrest, Hearst weighed only 87 pounds and was described by Dr. Margaret Singer as a “low IQ, low affect zombie.” She was given an IQ test, and it revealed that her IQ had dropped a massive 18 points within the 19 months of her captivity, and Dr. Louis Jolyon West, a brainwashing theorist, stated after a 15-hour interview with Hearst, that she was a “classic case” of brainwashing. Nonetheless, she was found guilty of her crimes sentenced to 35 years in prison in 1975, only to be pardoned by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991, when she was 11 years old, and wasn't released until 2009. Dugard’s captor, Phillip Greg Garrido, filled Dugard’s head with his own insanity, telling her of the “demon angels” who let him take Dugard so that she could help him with his sexual problems that society condemned - those being child molestation and rape. He would also make Dugard listen for the voices that he himself heard speaking to him from within his house’s walls. While Garrido was already married, many psychiatrists believe that in Jaycee’s mind, her relationship with her twisted captor was similar to marriage, in part because the pair had two children together.

Dugard was so controlled by Garrido that when police arrived to investigate and arrest Garrido, they were met by Jaycee, who introduced herself with her false identity, “Alissa.” Police noted that while Dugard was aware that Garrido was a sex offender she said that he was a “changed man,” and was “a great person and good with her kids.”

When pressed for details, Dugard became "extremely defensive" and "agitated," demanding to know why she was being "interrogated," even lying to protect Garrido. She claimed to be a formerly abused wife who was in hiding from her violent husband at Garrido's house. Police officer Ally Jacobs noted that Dugard’s two children, aged 11 and 15, appeared to be brainwashed by Garrido as well, as they stared at their father “like God,” adding, “They had this weird look in their eyes, like brainwashed zombies.”

It was only after Garrido’s arrest that Jaycee admitted, “I adapted to survive my circumstance."

11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck went out for a bike ride back in 2002 and wasn’t seen until four years later, when he was finally discovered by police inside the home of his captor, Michael J. Devlin. For four years, Hornbeck was subjected to abuse and molestation, despite the fact that he could have easily escaped if not for the brainwashing he was subjected to. During his imprisonment, Hornbeck even had access to the Internet, which he could have used to contact authorities.

In an interview with People Magazine, Hornbeck explained why he didn’t take his opportunities to escape. “You’re brainwashed. It’s as simple as that,” he said. ”I know people use that term a lot, but that’s what happens to you. It’s like you are on autopilot, only someone else is controlling all the switches. They control every little, minute detail in your life. Everything”

In a case that the FBI described as unparalleled in its brutality, Colleen Stan was subjected to such an unfathomable level of physical and mental torture that a mental break was likely the only thing her body and mind could do to protect itself.

After Cameron Hooker kidnapped Stan in 1977, he kept her in a coffin-sized box beneath his bed for seven years.  Hooker kept Stan inside that box for 23 hours a day during the majority of her captivity, forcing her into sex slavery.  Hooker had such control over Stan that she “signed” herself into sex slavery voluntarily in 1978.  She was referred to as “K,” which served as her slave name, and was only allowed to call Hooker “Master.”

The root of Hooker’s control over Stan was his invention of “The Company,” which he convinced Stan was an evil organization that was watching her and would torture and kill her family if she should go against Hooker’s wishes or try to escape.

Stan was so afraid to go against Hooker that even when he brought her back to visit her family, she didn't tell them the truth;

He left her alone with her family, but she never said a word about her ordeal. She claimed Cameron was her boyfriend and that she was happy. She spent the night, and the next morning posed for a picture with her abuser before leaving with him again.

Finally, Hooker's wife (who had been a willing accomplice in Stan's kidnapping) grew guilty and helped Stan escape.

In 2014, 148 Kurdish boys were held hostage by the terrorist group knows as ISIS for five months in Syria. While Kurds and the Sunni ISIS are sworn enemies, the boys were subjected to such extreme brainwashing that even after their release, they still believe many of the teachings they received from their captors.  Following his return, one boy (who gave himself the pseudonym Jan) said, "I must speak the truth. The Islamic State are right, and all the things they taught me are true.” He then added, "I am convinced they are right."

The boys were brainwashed with constant forced education about the ISIS belief system paired with brutal torture, including being tied up and having members of ISIS “practice karate and kick-boxing” on the children. They were also forced to watch videos of the infamous ISIS massacre videos.

Jan explains that his liberal upbringing has kept him from joining ISIS now voluntarily, but admits that he still holds the beliefs he was taught to be true. "Sometimes I am confused in my mind," he said. "But everything they said they proved using passages from the Koran."

There's nothing like a good con game story. Anyone who has moved to the big city can tell you how they were swindled out of a dollar on the subway, or how someone came knocking at their door with a suspicious-sounding sob story. And then there are the long cons, the con games that last for months - or even years. The amount of planning and risk involved in those types of schemes are extraordinary, and you have to be pretty charming and extremely smart to pull them off.

The people behind the biggest swindles are larger-than-life characters. Take the case of a man known as "The Great Imposter," who was able to perform surgery on people after just glancing at a textbook, or the con artist who was able to sell the Eiffel Tower as scrap metal - twice.

These are the stories of some of the greatest con men and women in history. By the time you're done reading, you'll never trust anyone again.

Lou Pearlman gained success after creating the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, but he also spent 20 years getting his friends and family to invest in fake businesses like Trans Continental Airline Travel Services, Inc. Many of the people he scammed were elderly and lost their life savings because of him. He was arrested in 2007, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Pearlman claimed he was planning to pay the money back. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter from behind bars in 2014, he said, "He [Bernie Madoff] was just a scamster. I don't think it was right, what he did. But I had my way to make it all right. I just didn't have my chance to do it... If I was given a chance to put another band together, that would have paid everybody back. But I never had that opportunity, and that's what was very upsetting."

Frank Abagnale, Jr. was so good at conning people that he made a career out of it. Before getting caught in 1969, Abagnale successfully posed as a doctor, an airline pilot, a college professor, and a lawyer, despite having no training in any of those fields. During the 1960s, he passed about $2.5 million in fake checks all over the world. After spending some time in jail for his crimes, he opened Abagnale & Associates to help companies detect fraud.

His exploits inspired the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

In July 1918, Russian revolutionaries executed Czar Nicholas II and his family in a basement. Two years later, Anna Anderson emerged, claiming to be the czar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, the heir to the Romanov line. She said that two brothers had carried her out of the basement on the night of the shooting and took her to safety in Romania. Romanov relatives didn't believe her story, but Anderson did gain the support of several prominent people. Her tale served as the inspiration for the 1956 movie Anastasia, starring Ingrid Bergman.

DNA testing performed after Anderson's death in 1984 finally confirmed that her story was false.

In the 1980s, David Hampton figured out a way to con wealthy New Yorkers out of thousands of dollars. He gained their trust and appealed to their desire to be around famous people by claiming that he was the son of actor and director Sidney Poitier. He was eventually arrested, and served 21 months in prison for theft.

His hoax inspired the play Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, which used many details from his crimes. A film version was made in 1993 starring Will Smith. Hampton tried to sue Guare for $100 million; he lost.

Bernard Madoff is responsible for orchestrating the biggest fraud in U.S. history. He conned more than 1,300 investors out of $65 billion over the course of several years, causing many of his victims to be destroyed financially. He even managed to con some celebrities, including Kevin Bacon and Stephen Spielberg.

Madoff used the tried-and-true Ponzi scheme. He promised investors unusually high returns on their money, and as he gained new investors, he used their money to pay off the old ones so as to seem legitimate. However, Madoff pocketed the extra money himself. He was arrested in 2008, convicted, and sentenced to 150 years in prison.

Christophe Rocancourt started pulling scams in France, posing as a nobleman named Prince de Galitzine. By faking the deeds to a property he didn't own, he was able to sell it for $1.4 million. He then came to the U.S. in 1991, and posed as a movie producer and ex-boxing champion. Rocancourt also claimed to be related to the Rockefeller family and Sophia Loren.

In 2002, Rocancourt was fined $9 million for his crimes, and was ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution to his victims. After getting released from prison, he used his infamy to keep hanging out with celebrities in France. He was arrested in 2014 for trying to obtain fake visas and passports to sell to people.

Ferdinand Demara was born in 1921, but every story about his life after that might be made up. Armed with a high I.Q., a photographic memory, and plenty of nerve, he used a series of stolen identities to impersonate a number of individuals. Over the years, "The Great Imposter" worked as a zoologist, a civil engineer, a Trappist and a Benedictine monk, and a prison warden, among many other positions.

Demara's fall came during the Korean War. He was posing as a doctor on a Royal Canadian Navy Destroyer, and several wounded men were brought onboard. Called upon to tend their injuries, Demara briefly glanced at a textbook and started performing life-saving surgeries. News of his heroism spread - and people began realizing he was a fraud. Demara was too famous to continue his activities after that.

Victor Lustig managed to pull several cons in his life, but he's best known for selling the Eiffel Tower as scrap metal to unsuspecting dealers. In 1925, he noticed an article debating whether the Eiffel Tower should be repaired or sold, and decided to sell it to metal dealers himself. Using a fake government title, he met with several dealers and told them the tower had become too expensive to repair. One dealer, Andre Poisson, fell for the scheme and handed over a check. Lustig cashed it and disappeared, but Poisson was too embarrassed to report the incident to the police.

When Lustig realized he wasn't being pursued, he went back to Paris and pulled the same con a second time. This would-be investor reported Lustig, and he fled to America. He was later arrested on different charges.

In a truly disturbing case of deception, Frédéric Bourdin persuaded police in 1997 that he was Nicholas Barclay, a 16-year-old boy from Texas who had been missing for three years. Nicholas's family took Bourdin into their home, believing that he was their lost child - even though his eyes were the wrong color, he was 23 years old, and he spoke with a French accent. Was he able to charm them, or did they just accept him because they knew Nicholas was never coming home?

After three months, a private investigator confirmed that Bourdin was not Nicholas after all. Instead, he was a con man known in France as "The Chameleon," who specialized in assuming the identities of missing individuals. This chilling case was explored in the 2012 documentary The Imposter.

You've probably heard of a Ponzi Scheme before, but you may not know that it was invented by Italian immigrant Charles Ponzi in the early 1900s. He arrived in America without much money, but that all changed when he set up a business called the "Securities Exchange Company." Ponzi offered investments that would pay back 100% interest on the original investment after 90 days. However, he never actually invested money for anyone - he was using one investor's cash to pay off another investor, and so on.

Ponzi was able to keep up the illusion for about two years before being caught. At one point, he was reportedly raking in $250,000 a day.

In less than a year, Javed Iqbal, a middle-aged Pakistani man, allegedly raped and killed 100 young boys and teenagers, taking advantage of apathetic attitudes towards poor children to commit his disturbing crimes. Many of Iqbal's victims weren't reported missing to police until months after they had disappeared, making it possible for him to take 100 lives before law enforcement even learned the young boys had vanished. 

When this Pakistani serial killer's crimes came to light, parents of missing children desperately tried to learn if their sons had died at the hands of Iqbal, forcing mothers and fathers to sort through evidence taken from the murderer's home.

After he turned himself in and was convicted of the killings, Iqbal was given a severe sentence designed to subject him to the same merciless acts he'd visited on 100 children. Even after he died in prison, Iqbal is remembered as one of the worst serial killers who murdered boys, making him a dark figure in Pakistan's history.

After officials found photographs of his victims and barrels containing the bodies three young boys in his home, Pakistani police launched a massive manhunt that lasted for one month until Iqbal turned himself in on December 30, 1999. However, instead of going to a local police station, Iqbal went to the Daily Jang, an Urdu newspaper, to surrender. According to the staff at the newspaper, Iqbal didn’t express any remorse for his crimes, instead stating, “I hate this world, I am not ashamed of my action and I am ready to die. I have no regrets. I killed 100 children."

He also gave Daily Jang staff a 32-page journal that contained details about the sexual assaults and murders, as well as pictures he had taken of the boys he’d sodomized and killed. The staff at the newspaper contacted the police, and Iqbal was promptly arrested.

When police searched Iqbal’s home, they discovered two large drums containing acid and the dissolving remains of three children. They also found note cards that provided information about his victims, including their names, ages, physical descriptions, and the dates they were killed, covering the walls of his home.

The authorities also recovered photographs Iqbal had taken of his victims and bags of children’s clothing and shoes, which provided proof that Iqbal had been telling the truth when he claimed responsibility for the murders of 100 boys. Armed with evidence to support his confession, the police launched a manhunt to track down the admitted serial killer before he could viciously kill another child.

In November 1999, Javed Iqbal decided to confess to the murders by sending a letter to the police. In the letter, which was received by law enforcement in early December 1999, Iqbal admitted to killing 100 “beggar children” by strangling them to death; he also included details about dismembering his victims and dissolving their remains in barrels of acid.

Iqbal sent a similar letter to the Daily Jang, his local newspaper, and although the correspondence was unsigned, it included directions to his home. Consequently, reporters arrived at Iqbal’s home before the police, although newspaper staff contacted law enforcement after they made a number of shocking discoveries in the confessed killer’s rented house.

In September 1998, Iqbal was hospitalized for 22 days after he and one of his employees, Arbab, were beaten and robbed by another man who worked for him. However, after Iqbal was released from the hospital, he was immediately arrested and charged with sodomy: while he had been lying in the hospital unconscious, the result of a severe head injury suffered during the attack, Arbab’s family had filed a complaint with the police, alleging Iqbal had sodomized Arbab.

Iqbal was granted bail, but when he tried to return to his lavish home, he discovered his house, as well as his business and vehicles, had been sold to pay for his medical care. Consequently, Iqbal was broke and homeless, so he rented a house in a Lahore slum, the place where he would eventually take the lives of 100 children.

In addition to finding victims through the various businesses he created, Javed Iqbal also met boys through pen pal programs. Reportedly, Iqbal would find pen pals through magazines for children and begin correspondences with young boys.

Eventually, he would convince his pen pals to send him pictures of themselves, and he would focus his attention on the children he found most attractive. Iqbal groomed these chosen boys by sending them gifts, until he was able to arrange in-person meetings where he sexually assaulted and sodomized his pen pals.

Using the considerable inheritance he received after his father’s death, Iqbal opened a number of different businesses designed to help him meet and sexually assault young boys and teenagers. One of these businesses was a video store, where Iqbal reportedly left money on the floor of the shop, waiting to see which of his young customers would pick up the cash. Then, Iqbal would accuse the boy of trying to steal from him, and he would take the "thief" into another room, presumably for some sort of punishment, and sodomize the child.

After the video game shop closed, Iqbal opened more businesses, including an aquarium, a gym, a general store, and even a school, but none of these entrepreneurial endeavors lasted for very long because parents were afraid to let their children go to places run by Iqbal.

One of the main reasons Javed Iqbal was able to get away with raping and sexually assaulting children over the course of several years was because his father was an incredibly wealthy stock market trader who had amassed a large fortune. Iqbal’s father Mohammed bought his son a villa to live in, and he also helped his son start a steel recasting business in 1978 that allowed Iqbal to enjoy a lavish lifestyle.

After Mohammed passed away in 1993, Iqbal, who was in his late 30s at the time, inherited more than 3 million rupees from his father’s estate, making him even richer. Iqbal used this windfall to build a massive home, complete with a swimming pool, as well as to purchase four different vehicles.

Prior to the start of his killing spree, multiple criminal complaints were filed against Iqbal, accusing him of sexually assaulting and sodomizing children. However, Iqbal’s father was a respected and powerful businessman in Lahore, and he used his influence to keep his son out of jail.

Consequently, prior to his murder spree in 1999, Iqbal was never convicted of sodomy, leaving him free to eventually take the lives of 100 children. However, Iqbal later said that when he was arrested and questioned by police, he was beaten and brutalized, and he claimed the abuse he suffered at the hands of law enforcement motivated him to kill young boys and teenagers.

Over the course of just eight months, businessman Javed Iqbal reportedly murdered 100 boys, ranging in age from 6 to 16, while he was living in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. From May to December 1999, Iqbal (who was 43 years old at the time) drugged, sodomized, and sexually assaulted the boys, many of whom were poor children who lived on the streets of Pakistan, before strangling them to death with a chain.

After killing the boys, Iqbal disremembered their bodies and placed their remains in large vats of hydrochloric acid to dissolved his victims' flesh and bones. Then, once the boys' bodies were reduced to little more than liquid, Iqbal poured the contents of the barrels into the sewer or a river near his home.

In order to find out if their missing sons had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death by Javed Iqbal, a number of parents whose children had disappeared sorted through items taken from the confessed killer’s home. Officials found five bags of children’s clothing in Iqbal’s house, as well as three bags containing a total of 85 pairs of shoes, and distraught parents sifted through these piles of clothes and footwear to see their children’s belongings were among them.

Parents of missing children also looked through the photographs Iqbal had taken of his victims to see if the confessed murdered had snapped their son’s picture prior to killing them.

There have been some incredibly sloppy serial killers over the years, murderers that hacked people up in the streets, then left the scene of the crime soaked from head to toe in viscera - but not the guys on this list. These serial killers who were extremely thorough either made sure to dispose of their victims' bodies in a way that made it seem like they had simply disappeared, or they killed so many potential witnesses that there wasn’t anyone left around to ID them.

You’ve definitely heard of a few of these serial killers who were the hardest to catch, but others were so detail-oriented with their crimes that they were either never caught, or they evaded arrest for so long that it was embarrassing to the police for their stories to get out.

The most common mental picture of serial killers who were meticulous is probably someone in a hazmat suit dissolving bodies in lye, but as you’ll come to discover, these serial killers who were careful weren’t necessarily master criminals, they just knew how to keep from drawing attention to themselves. Although in a few cases, some of these detail-oriented killers did the exact opposite and specifically contacted the police with piles of information for investigators to sift through. And if they weren’t devising plans for the perfect way to dispose a body, they were simply eviscerating everyone in a 50-foot radius. Keep reading and don’t get any big ideas.

This little-known serial killer happens to be one of the most oddly detailed people on this list. With a kill count of 42 women and girls, he proves that he was dedicated to his insanity in the worst way. Known as the "Black Magic Killer," Suradiji began his wave of terror in 1986, after his father allegedly appeared to him in a dream and told him to kill 70 women. Being a total daddy's boy, Suradji set out to make this figment of his imagination proud. Suradji was able to kill so many victims because he was known locally as a witch who regularly helped people solve their problems.

When women came to Suradiji, he would take them to a field, convince them to let him bury them up to their wastes, and then strangle them to death. Then he would drink their saliva in order to increase his strength, then bury them fully with their heads facing towards his home. Keep in mind that he did this 42 times, with designs on killing at least 28 more women and children. Unfortunately for Suradji, police discovered some of the bodies in 1998 and promptly arrested him. He was executed by firing squad a decade later.

Dean Corll, otherwise known as "The Candyman," is one of America's least-known serial killers, but not for lack of trying. From 1970 to 1973 (and possibly earlier), Corll raped and murdered over 27 teenage boys across the Houston area before carefully disposing of their bodies in his personal storage unit and, once that filled up, at Lake Sam Rayburn.

Corll was meticulous in choosing the boys whom he would murder; he preyed on runaways and children from low-income homes in order to keep from raising suspicion. And just to make sure no one came looking for the boys, he would often have them write letters to their family saying that they had left town seeking employment before he strangled them to death. Corll likely would have continued his low-key rampage if it weren't for one of his accomplices shooting and killing him in the middle of his final act. 

In the early '70s, law enforcement was still largely unfamiliar with the idea of a serial killer (the phrase "serial killer" hadn't even been coined yet), and the Houston Sheriff's Department hardly investigated the disappearance of more than two dozen boys. Once Corll's body count had officially surpassed that of California's Juan Corona, the police didn't even continue searching for bodies, making it likely the Candyman's real death toll was considerably higher.

The murders that Ed Kemper committed may have been messy, but you can't say that he didn't go all the way with his batsh*t-crazy plans. At the age of 15, he killed his grandmother, and followed that by killing his grandfather because he didn't want his pop-pop to be sad. That's follow-through.

About half a decade after he got out of a teenage mental institution, he got back into his murder hobby when he started murdering co-eds at their various Berkley-area universities before having sex with their corpses. But he didn't just murder and desecrate their bodies, Kemper would take things to another level by burying one of the girl's heads in his mother's backyard.

Kemper was caught in 1973 when he just kind of gave up on killing women and turned himself over to the police after leaving the state for a little while. At his trial Kemper was found guilty and requested that he be given "death by torture," but was interred for life at the California Medical Facility 

Pack it up, all you wannabe serial killers, John Edward Robinson did it all. He embezzeled thousands of dollars, committed forgery and mail fraud. He even gave himself a Man of the Year award at a banquet that he hosted. This guys loves crime.

After all of that white-collar crime, Robinson began to get into the heavy stuff. In 1984, Robinson started to take in young, usually homeless, women and promise them jobs before quickly killing them and in some cases, selling their babies along with falsified adoption letters. After going to prison for a spell between 1987 and 1993, Robinson discovered the Internet, and that's when his murderous tendencies sunk to even more sadistic depths.

In 1993, Robinson began posting on BDSM chat rooms under the name "Slavemaster," where he lured multiple women to his home under the guise of wanting to start a relationship before killing them and disposing of their bodies in 85-gallon chemical drums that he kept on his property. In 1999, Robinson was already on police radar when he was arrested for allegedly stealing a woman's sex toys, and after an investigation of his property, authorities found the decomposing bodies of two of his victims. 

Out of all the terrible murderers and creeps on this list, Moses Sithole may be the worst of the group - if such a thing is possible. Sithole committed at least 38 rapes and murders (he claimed to have committed more than 75) between 1994 and 1995 in Atteridgeville, Boksburg, and Cleveland, South Africa, before he identified himself as the ABC Killer to a reporter and led the police on a chase through the streets of Johannesburg.

Prior to his murder spree, Sithole had been imprisoned for the rape of a young woman, whom he later said falsified her claims against him, inspiring him to commit his gruesome crimes. In order to kill so many women, Sithole set up a shell charity organization called Youth Against Human Abuse that he claimed was meant to wipe out child abuse. But instead of dedicating himself to that noble cause, he would take every female interviewee that he met into a remote field before beating and raping them, and then strangling them with their underwear before writing "bitch" on their dead bodies. 

Richard Chase, the literally blood-thirsty serial killer from Sacramento, was thorough in his murders in the way that a wood chipper is thorough in pulping a tree. During his murder spree, he shot, bludgeoned, stabbed, and ripped his victims to shreds. His victim whose body was most desecrated was Teresa Wallin, who was not only raped post mortem, but was stabbed multiple times with a butcher knife before having her organs removed (except for her kidneys), her blood drained, and her nipple removed. After everything, Chase shoved dog feces in Teresa's mouth. 

Cottingham's name may not be memorable, but his crimes will sit with you for the rest of your life. Beginning in 1969, this New Jersey computer operator for Blue Shield began strangling women, usually prostitutes but sometimes just ladies around the community, and carving away their limbs in order to simply leave their torsos at the scene of the crime. Sometimes he would light the torsos on fire, and other times he would leave the arms connected to the body and handcuff them behind their backs. The Torso Killer was nothing if not a work in progress.

Cottingham was arrested in the middle of attempting to rape and murder his final victim, a prostitute named Leslie Ann O’Dell, at the same motel where he committed his two previous murders. 

Yang Xinhai didn't have the most prolonged period of terror, but he did commit 67 murders and 23 rapes in a three-year spree that took place between 1999 and 2003. During those years, he moved around the provinces of Henan, Anhui, Shandong, and Hebei while using a hammer to kill his victims. Often he would murder entire families after entering their homes in the middle of the night.

After Xinhai was caught in a nightclub bust, he told state officials that he didn't have a motive, and that he just liked to kill people. "When I killed people I had a desire (to kill more). This inspired me to kill more. I don't care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern," Yang continued, "I have no desire to be part of society. Society is not my concern."

While Xinhai may have not been as interested in covering up his crimes as some of the other killers on this list (he actually seemed proud about the fact that he didn't hide his crimes), he was definitely driven to act on his nightmarish impulses more than some killers, who take years to build up to their over-the-top spree-killing phase. And his murdering of entire families proves that he's a guy that likes to get the job done. 

Randy Kraft, better known as the "Scorecard Killer" or the "Freeway Killer," is a very 70s serial killer who fell by the wayside when guys like John Wayne Gacy and Richard Ramirez took center stage as America's bogeymen. Throughout the '70s and early '80s, Kraft picked up male hitchhikers, roofied them, and proceeded to torture, sexually abuse, and kill them before ditching their bodies on freeway ramps. He definitely killed 16 victims, but is believed to have murdered up to 65 men throughout his time spent driving up and down the west coast.

Kraft's meticulous attention to detail came in the form of a scorecard that was discovered in his truck after he was apprehended in 1983. The card contained a coded list of victims made up of innocuous words and phrases like "EDM" and "Golden Sails," that refer to either the victims themselves, or where their bodies were unceremoniously dumped. Despite being sentenced to death in 1989, Kraft still sits on death row to this day.

Is there anything more detail-oriented than building an entire sex/torture chamber adjacent to your home, and then recording an audio welcome for each woman whom you drug and kidnap from the same New Mexico drifter bar? David Parker Ray, better known as the "Toy Box Killer," was a true monster who not only planned out his kidnappings to a T, but was obsessed with wiping the memories of the victims that he kept alive, experimented on the women that he raped and tortured until he actually had some success. Even though it's obvious that Parker had been raping, torturing, and killing women for years, he was so meticulous with his crimes that investigators were still searching for the remains of his victims 16 years after he was arrested. 

Social media over-sharers are a common complaint. Facebook is a medium where people spill their guts, sometimes without enough discretion. While detailed status updates about breakups can be annoying, killers who confessed on social media give new meaning to the term "TMI." It's hard to believe, but some people use Facebook as a platform to announce heinous crimes.

These stories are all incredibly unsettling. There are the killers who bragged on Facebook, taking pride in their act. Then there are the killers who confessed on Facebook with a tone of deep remorse. Regardless of the motivations behind their status updates, there is something undeniably chilling about taking a life and proceeding to use your Facebook page to announce this to the world. 

When Rosemarie Farid's roommate got too noisy for her liking, she began posting violent status updates about her desire to harm him. Later that same day, Farid (who describes herself as mentally disturbed) uploaded a bizarre video to Facebook in which she confessed to having brutally beaten her roommate to death by repeatedly bashing his head onto the bathroom floor. The 2014 video was taken while she was walking outdoors, and at one point she paused to greet a passerby with the words, "How ya doing, man? God bless your family." 

Police officers found Farid's roommate in a pool of blood in the bathtub. There were bloody washcloths in the kitchen sink and a trail of blood led to the bathroom. Farid confessed she took her roommate's phone before killing him so he could not contact authorities. She was arrested the next day and charged with murder. 

In September of 2016, Earl Valentine posted an unsettling video on Facebook Live. In the video, Valentine said, "Hello, everyone. I just killed my f****** wife." Unbeknownst to Valentine, his wife had survived her gunshot wound, but his 15-year-old son was not so lucky. Valentine's son had been shot in the crossfire, and used his dying words to phone the police for help. 

There would end up being no trial for Valentine. After the shooting, he fled the scene and phoned police to say he was going to Virginia to kill more relatives. However, after visiting his father's grave, Valentine checked into a hotel room in Columbia, South Carolina. Less than 48 hours after the shooting, Valentine died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 

When his estranged wife cut off Facebook contact with him, Mark Alvin Manliclic was desperate to get her attention. His wife had left the Philippines for Canada for a job, an action she allegedly took out of fear of her own life. As revenge, Manliclic brutally stabbed their daughter to death and posted the images of her body online. Some witnesses claim he also posted a video of the murder, which was later taken down. 

Manliclic's aunt found the seven-year-old girl's body and police found stab wounds in her neck, abdomen, and back. While the murder is an unbelievable tragedy, at least justice was served. Manliclic was swiftly taken into custody. 

When Samantha Stansifer broke up with her boyfriend Anthony Hall, he let her stay with him for two weeks while she worked out her living situation. This turned out to be a deadly mistake. When Stansifer was going through Hall's phone, she found he had been texting another girl. Her reaction was to brutally stab him to death in his sleep and then post on Facebook, "I did it. He deserved it." 

Stansifer, who was covered in Hall's blood when she was arrested, apparently showed no remorse and was unfazed as she recounted her story. The only solace is that a judge and jury showed Stansifer little empathy in return. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole in June of 2015.

After killing his child's grandfather, Anthony Curtis Macneill posted on his Facebook page that he had a killed a man. In a series of status updates, he claimed he was going to take his own life. The last status read, "Goodbye to my friends and people who gave a damn."

Police later found Macneill's decomposing body less than half a mile from the murder scene. He had apparently shot himself in the head. 

After fatally shooting his wife several times, Florida man Derek Medina uploaded images of her corpse to Facebook. He claimed the murder was in self-defense, but he still expected to go to prison. The jury did not buy his self-defense claim, however, and the judge overseeing the case was quick to point out Medina foretold his own fate in the post. 

While Medina claimed his wife was abusive, the prosecution countered this with testimony from his wife's friends. Medina also gave conflicting reports on what occurred and his wife's wounds did not match his story. When he was sentenced to life in prison, he gave a rambling statement to the court claiming he did not get a fair trial. 

In a bizarre tragedy, Randy Janzen took to social media in May of 2015 to post an unnerving status update about his actions ten days prior. He claimed his daughter suffered debilitating migraines. As a result, he felt he had no choice but to murder his daughter as well as his wife and sister (to spare them pain and shame over his actions).

In a lengthy post, he described the psychological suffering his daughter's migraines caused. Janzen seemed almost relieved at his actions. "I took a gun and shot her in the head and now she is migraine free and floating in the clouds on a sunny afternoon," he wrote, "her long beautiful brown hair flowing in the breeze, a true angel."

When police arrived on scene, a four-hour standoff ensued. They saw a man matching Janzen's description in the window and shortly thereafter the house was engulfed in flames. The inferno was so intense, it took three days before for it to be safe to reenter the home. Upon searching the ruins, Janzen's charred body was found. Forensic reports indicated he had shot himself after starting the fire. 

When Gypsy Blanchard posted a bizarre Facebook message reading, "That b**** is dead," police decided to search her home. They were shocked to discover the body of Gypsy's mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who had been stabbed to death in her bed. Neighbors did not believe Gypsy had committed the crime, as Gypsy was allegedly wheelchair bound. However, police soon found Gypsy and her mother had been faking her disability to gain financial assistance from the government. 

The story gets stranger from there. It soon came out that Gypsy did not act alone. She conspired with boyfriend Nicholas Paul Godejohn, whom she met on a Christian dating site. Godejohn confessed to having stabbed Dee Dee to death on orders from Gypsy and the pair were promptly charged with first degree murder. 

When Nancy Lopez logged onto Facebook in December of 2011, she saw a disturbing status from her Facebook friend Bart Heller. In the status, Heller claimed he had killed his ex-girlfriend and a friend of his, and would soon take his own life. Lopez phoned the police in Fort Lauderdale, Indiana, nearly 1,000 miles away from her home, to report the crime. 

Police arrived at the scene to find the bodies of Heller, Erin Jehl, and Ryann Tipton. Allegedly, some kind of love triangle spurred Heller's actions. Jehl had recently begun a relationship with a police officer and Heller was also suspicious of her friendship with Tipton. His jealousy led him to commit this unspeakable act. 

Despite her online confession, 18-year-old Nakasia James pled not guilty to the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Dorian Powell. After a heated argument, James claimed to have killed Powell in self defense, according to a distraught Facebook status update.

In the post, James seems genuinely remorseful. She wrote, "I gt the knife and stabbed him ddnt I would hurt him BT I did he died." She then wrote she was going on the run, hoping the lord would forgive her. She ended the status with the chilling message, "And sorry Dorian Powell rip." 

Something about being behind the wheel sparks extreme emotions in drivers. Maybe it's the concept of "right of way" that makes them positive they're driving perfectly, or maybe it's the sheer power offered by cars that causes road rage. Whatever inspires the worst road rage, dashcams have caught plenty of examples of real-life meltdowns on the pavement.

Incidents of road rage caught on camera aren't limited to just cars. Dashcam videos of road rage show cyclists, motorcycle riders, and even motorized scooter drivers throwing fits on the streets. These incidents of road rage on film almost all end poorly, proving that a little patience can go a long way during transit - even if the results aren't quite as entertaining.

An alleged New Jersey mobster was arrested after an incident in upstate New York on March 14, 2017 was caught on film. Jerry Balzano, a presumed member of the DeCavalcante crime family, forced another driver to stop on a busy highway. He then got out of the car and threatened the other driver.

Warning: this video contains strong language.

Alexei Volkov, a Moscow bus driver, is known as "The Punisher" for his unusual take on vigilante justice. He intentionally runs into motorists who cut him off, presumably to teach them a lesson about safe driving. Volkov has reportedly caused more than 100 accidents, many of which are capture on video thanks to a dashcam.

It isn't clear what triggered this on-film fight, which occurred on June 27, 2016 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Whatever started this conflict, a passenger got out of a car waiting at a red light and approached the driver of the car behind him - and threw a punch. The driver of the first car also left the vehicle and joined the fray. After the light changed, another driver tried to pin both cars in, but appeared to be unsuccessful.

Road rage is even more alarming when children are involved. This video from Salt Lake City from October 13, 2016 shows an impatient driver who tried to overtake a car and a school bus on a narrow lane after making a left turn. The driver of the black BMW yelled and blew his horn at the car before taking drastic action to get to his destination ahead of both vehicles. While attempting to pass the bus, the BMW hit a barrel, collided with the bus, and ended up stuck on a concrete barrier. No one was seriously injured.

A video uploaded on April 4, 2016 showed two guys in Florida locked in a vicious argument on the road. The full video showed the motorcyclist sitting between two cars at a stop light, and then taking off after swerving towards the red car. The driver of the red Ford Fusion followed him to continue to berate him about his driving skills. The motorcyclist ended up swerving into oncoming traffic to get out of the car's way.

Both men were arrested and charged with reckless driving.

Apparently road rage can happen on scooters, too. A man in Southport, England was driving on April 18, 2017, when he tried to pass a scooter in the middle of the road. The driver rolled down his window to ask the scooter rider to move aside. In response, the elderly man on the scooter reportedly swore at him and began waving his middle finger.  

What started out as an evening drive ended with a fight and a trip to the hospital. A motorcyclist pulled up alongside a Mustang, and the drivers apparently exchanged words. The car bumped into the motorcyclist before speeding off.

The incident was caught on camera in Colorado Springs on July 7, 2016, and eventually resulted in both men getting arrested. The Mustang driver was picked up for second degree assault, and the motorcyclist was charged with harassment. Apparently, the motorcyclist began following the Mustang after the driver tried to run his girlfriend's car off the street.

Everyone has probably been irritated by a slow driver at some point. But for one St. Louis driver, that irritation went too far. On March 15, 2017, the driver of a silver sedan was stuck behind a slower yellow coupe on the freeway. After passing the slower car on the right, the silver car cut back in front of it and hit the brakes. The yellow car swerved to avoid an accident - and flipped over multiple times. Fortunately, the driver wasn't seriously injured.

The 2016 Olympic Games showcased the beauty and splendor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But the games also apparently caused some residents stress - like this bus driver. A video from August 10, 2016 shows a bus in the South American city pushing a car through the streets like it weighs nothing.

Cyclists and drivers don't always share the road. Unfortunately for Tracey Leng, a cyclist got so upset with her that he decided to smash her windshield with his bicycle. A video from Manchester, England shows the incident, which took place on March 26, 2017. The cyclist thought that Leng had swerved into the bike lane. It looked like he was just going to ride off after exchanging words with the driver, but he decided to hit her car with his bike first.

Over the course of more than 20 years, Joachim Kroll murdered 14 people, including very young girls, making him one of the most disturbing German serial killers in the country's history. Not content just to end the lives of his victims, Kroll repeatedly ate the flesh of the people he killed, leading him to be called the Duisburg Man-Eater and the Ruhr Cannibal.

After getting away with murder for more than two decades, Kroll's revolting crimes were finally discovered when law enforcement found him cooking the remains of a young girl in his apartment. Kroll, who was called "Uncle Joachim" by the neighborhood children who adored him, is one of the first known German cannibals and serial killers, eventually joined by infamous German murderers Armin Miewes and Volker Eckert.

After killing his victims, Joachim Kroll often mutilated their corpses, leaving behind particularly bloody and gruesome crime scenes. In the case of his first victim, Irmgard Strehl, after strangling the 19-year-old to death, he used a long-bladed knife to disembowel the teenager, while after he murdered and raped 16-year-old Manuela Knodt in July 1956, he cut pieces of flesh from the teenager’s body.

After mutilating Knodt’s corpse, Kroll masturbated over the 16-year-old’s lifeless and blood-soaked body, leaving large quantities of semen on the girl’s genitals and face. Consequently, officers first assumed Knodt had been killed by several different men, not a single serial killer like Kroll. However, the reason he cut the flesh from the teenager’s body was even more disturbing than the grisly mutilation he perpetrated.

In the case of five-year-old Ilona Harke, as well as the majority of Joachim Kroll’s victims, raped the child’s lifeless body after killing her. In fact, most of the women and girls he attacked were either dead or unconscious when he raped them, indicating Kroll was a necrophile who enjoyed having sex with people who could not resist or reject him.

However, while he raped the corpses of his victims, some of whom were very young children, necrophilia wasn’t even the most disturbing act he subjected the girls and women to after their deaths.

With the murder of Irmgard Strehl, Joachim Kroll began a killing spree that lasted more than 20 years and resulted in the untimely deaths of 13 women and girls. His victims ranged in age from four to 61, although the majority of the people Kroll murdered were young girls who were around 12 years old. As with Strehl, Kroll attacked most of his victims when they were traveling to school or home or walking through parks, wooded areas, and fields.

He killed the majority of the young women and girls by strangling them to death his hands. However, in the case of Petra Giese, he used the 13-year-old’s own scarf to strangle her to death on Easter Sunday in 1962. More than four years later, in December 1966, he killed five-year-old Ilona Harke by holding her head underwater in a stream simply because he wanted to know what it felt like to drown someone. Initially, people thought the child had accidentally fallen into the water and drowned, but an autopsy revealed evidence to indicate five-year-old Harke had been murdered.

Born on April 17, 1933, in Nazi Germany, Joachim Kroll was the youngest of eight children, and his father was a miner who was held as a prisoner of war during World War II. As a child, Kroll was smaller than his peers and frequently wet the bed.

Shortly after his mother passed away in 1955, Kroll, who was 22 at the time, committed his first known murder when he attacked Irmgard Strehl, 19, while the young woman was walking on a street in the village of Walstedde. After strangling the teenager to death with his hands, Kroll subjected her corpse to horrifying acts that became signature aspects of his future killings.

Joachim Kroll’s 21-year-reign of murder, necrophilia, mutilation, and cannibalism finally came to an end after a plumbing problem brought his gruesome deeds to light. In July 1993, the toilet in the bathroom Kroll shared with one of his neighbors wouldn’t flush, so the man asked Kroll if he knew what was wrong. Incredibly, Kroll told his neighbor the toilet was “clogged with guts.” Initially, the man didn’t make much of Kroll’s strange comment until police officers visited his home to find out if he knew anything about the recent disappearance of a local girl, four-year-old Monika Kettner.

When the neighbor told investigators about Kroll’s odd remark, the officers called a plumber to take apart the toilet in bathroom. To the shock and horror of everyone at the scene, the plumber discovered the toilet had been clogged with multiple internal organs, including a heart, a pair of lungs, a liver, and two kidneys.

One of the reasons Joachim Kroll was able to kill 14 victims over the course of more than 20 years was because a number of other men were arrested and convicted of murders he’d actually committed. Six months after Kroll murdered, raped, mutilated, and cannibalized 15-year-old Manuel Knodt in July 1959, another man went to the police and confessed to killing the teenager. Even though he later told officers he hadn’t actually killed Knodt, the man was convicted of the 16-year-old's murder and sentenced to eight years in prison.

After Kroll killed Petra Giese on Easter in 1962, another man, Vinzenz Kuenh, was arrested and sent to jail for murdering the 13-year-old. Another man, Walter Quicker, was accused of murdering one of Kroll’s victims, 13-year-old Monika Tafel, but the authorities weren’t able to convict Quicker of the teenager’s murder. However, Quicker’s neighbors were certain he was responsible for killing the girl, and the falsely accused man committed suicide after he was ostracized by his community.

Yet another local man, Adolf Schickel, killed himself after he was blamed for a murder perpetrated by Kroll. In September 1966, Kroll killed Schickel’s 20-year-old girlfriend Ursula Rohling. Despite Schickel having absolutely no involvement in the young woman’s murder, people were convinced he’d killed Rohling, so his grief and the accusations caused him to jump off of a bridge to his death.

In addition to his expansive collection of children’s dolls, Joachim Kroll had a life-sized rubber figure that he regularly used for his sexual satisfaction. According to Kroll, after he murdered a victim and raped her dead body, he would return to his apartment and have sex with the rubber doll while he relived the violent acts he’d just committed.

The German serial killer also confessed that he would often choke the doll with his hands while he had sex with it. However, the life-sized rubber sex doll was far from the most disturbing item investigators found when they visited Kroll’s home.

Joachim Kroll was well-known by the children is his neighborhood, and he often went for walks with little girls. Incredibly, while he murdered several children, including girls as young as four and five, many of these neighborhood children returned from their jaunts with Kroll completely unharmed.

In addition to giving candy to the kids in the neighborhood to win their affections, Kroll also collected dolls which he would use to help him become acquainted with young girls. He also used these dolls, which were the size of small children, to fulfill his violent fantasies and practice murdering his victims: Kroll choked the figures while he masturbated, providing himself with a perverse and frightening thrill.

While most of the people Joachim Kroll murdered were women and young girls, he did kill one male victim, 25-year-old Hermann Schmitz, on August 22, 1965. Schmittz had parked by a lake close to the city of Duisburg, and he was sitting in his car with his girlfriend, Marion Veen. Kroll approached the vehicle and used his knife to deflate one of the tires; then he stabbed Schmittz multiple times in the heart when the 25-year-old exited his car to investigate the damage.

Miraculously, Veen was able to flee the scene in the her boyfriend’s vehicle before Kroll attacked her, but Schmittz died from his injuries, making the young man the only known male victim of the Duisburg Man-Eater.

After cutting flesh from Manual Knodt’s dead body, Joachim Kroll took the pieces of the 16-year-old’s buttocks back to his home, cooked the cuts of meat, and ate them. After experimenting with cannibalism for the first time, Kroll must have developed a taste for human flesh, because he went on to eat more pieces of meat he’d taken from his victims’ bodies.

After killing 13-year-old Petra Giese in April 1962 by strangling her to death with her own scarf, he used his knife to cut off sections of the girl’s hand, forearm, and buttocks. Just months after murdering Giese, he strangled 12-year-old Monika Tafel in June 1962. After killing the child, he raped her body and cut pieces of flesh from her thighs and buttocks, and some experts concluded he may have even eaten consumed some of Tafel’s raw tissue at the murder scene.

When Sheila Davalloo met Nelson Sessler while working for a pharmaceutical company in Stamford, CT, it was the beginning of a dangerous obsession that left one woman dead and another person clinging to life. Not content to surrender Sessler to another lover, Davalloo committed one of the most brutal and disturbing love triangle murders in Connecticut history, driven by jealousy to bludgeon and stab her romantic rival to death.

After killing Anna Lisa Raymundo - Sessler's new girlfriend - Davalloo had him all to herself. But she decided to commit murder for a second time to guarantee nothing stood in the way of their romance. After stabbing a man multiple times, nearly ending his life, Davalloo's many lies were discovered, and her deadly deeds were brought to light for the entire world to see.

On November 8, 2002, 33-year-old Sheila Davalloo, visited the Stamford, CT, condo of her former co-worker Anna Lisa Raymundo and stabbed the 32-year-old to death. Davalloo and Raymundo had worked together at Purdue Pharma alongside Nelson Sessler, a 33-year-old research scientist who had been romantically involved with both women.

However, Sessler had ended his relationship with Davalloo in order to pursue a more serious relationship Raymundo. Davalloo, who was obsessed with Sessler, couldn’t bear being rejected by the object of her affections in favor of another woman, so she murdered Raymundo in hopes of rekindling her romance with him.

After stabbing her husband, Davalloo was arrested and charged with attempted murder. Investigators questioned Sessler to find out why he’d spoken to Davalloo on the day she tried to kill her husband. When Sessler was questioned, he was shocked to learn the woman he had an on-and-off relationship with for years was actually married.

According to Sessler, despite regularly visiting her home, he had no idea Davalloo was married, mainly because she went to extraordinary lengths to hide Christos’s existence from him.

While Davalloo stabbed her husband a third time in the hospital parking lot, a passerby witnessed the attack, and Christos was rushed inside the medical center where he underwent emergency surgery. Incredibly, Christo survived the vicious attack perpetrated by his wife, and while Davalloo tried to flee the scene, she was apprehended by police. At the police station, Davalloo was questioned about the stabbing and officers checked her cell phone logs to find evidence to support or dispute her version of events. They quickly learned that when Davalloo told her husband she'd tried to call 911, she'd actually spoken to Sessler.

According to Sessler, Davalloo asked him if he wanted to come over to her home that evening for dinner. However, Davalloo said she had called her lover not to invite him over that evening for a date, but to cancel plans because Christos had been injured.

After she stabbed her husband twice in the chest, Davalloo tried to convince him she had injured him by accident. While Christos wasn’t sure exactly what had occurred, he knew he needed medical attention, so he asked his wife to call 911. Initially, Davalloo refused to get him help. Then, she pretended to call 911 but told Christos the line was busy, and said she was unable to get through to anyone.

Christos, who knew he desperately needed medical help, was finally able to convince her to drive him to a nearby hospital. However, when they arrived at the Westchester County Hospital, instead of taking Christos straight to the emergency room for treatment, Davalloo stopped her car in an isolated part of the parking lot and stabbed her husband once more in the chest.

Sessler wasn't the only man in Davalloo's life. In fact, she was married to a man named Paul Christos for two years before the killing. Davalloo wasn’t immediately a suspect in Raymundo's killing, allowing her to remain free. After Raymundo's death, Sessler and Davalloo began their secret affair. But Davalloo decided one more obstacle stood in the way of their happiness: Christos. She decided she had to kill Christo in order to be with Sessler.

On March 23, 2003, Raymundo convinced her husband to play a game with her that required him to be both blindfolded and handcuffed. According to Christos, the game was supposed to be an innocent exercise Davalloo had learned at work, not something sexual in nature. However, shortly after Christos was restrained and unable to see, his wife stabbed him twice in the chest, leaving him confused and in agonizing pain.

In 2004, Davalloo was convicted of the attempted murder of Christos, and she was sentenced to 25 years in a New York prison for the crime. Eight years later in 2012, she stood trial for the 2002 murder of Anna Lisa Raymundo, waiving her right to an attorney and instead choosing to represent herself.

At one point during the two-and-half-week trial in Stamford, CT, Davalloo questioned her now-ex husband, who divorced her after her arrest. She became emotional and near tears when she asked him about the time he visited her in prison after she was given 25 years for his attempted murder.

After entering Raymundo’s apartment, Davalloo repeatedly hit the woman in the before stabbing her nine times in her chest, neck, and face. After killing her, Davalloo cleaned herself up, washing the blood from her hands in Raymundo’s bathroom sink, and fled the scene of the brutal murder. Then, the she went to a nearby restaurant and used a payphone to call 911.

Instead of confessing to the murder, however, Davalloo told the operator Raymundo - who she claimed was her neighbor - was being assaulted by a man. Davalloo refused to provide the 911 operator with her name, although she did provide Raymundo’s address. When officers went to Raymundo’s condo, they discovered the 32-year-old’s brutally beaten and stabbed body.

When police questioned Sessler about his relationship with Davalloo, Sessler started to wonder if she had been involved in the killing of Raymundo. Sessler told the authorities about the love triangle and Raymundo’s murder, and Davalloo quickly became a suspect in the 32-year-old woman’s unsolved killing.

While they found a lot of circumstantial evidence to connect Davalloo with the brutal crime, law enforcement officials were convinced she was Raymundo’s killer they found her DNA at the crime scene. After Raymundo was killed, crime scene investigators found blood on the bathroom sink - presumably left by the murderer when they washed their hands after beating and stabbing the young woman to death - but they were unable to link the sample to anyone until Davalloo became a suspect in the killing. Her DNA matched with the blood and she was arrested for Raymundo's murder.

Davalloo could have just left Christos in order to pursue a relationship with Sessler, but prosecutors argued she didn’t want to get divorced for a second time. When Davalloo met Christos while attending New York Medical College, she was actually already married to another man. Consequently, she had an extramarital affair with Christos until her first husband learned she was being unfaithful and filed for divorce.

According to Davalloo, her family was extremely opposed to divorce, and she knew they would be upset with her if she had yet another failed marriage. Therefore, Davalloo concluded the only way she could end her relationship with Christos without displeasing her parents was by murdering her husband.

One of the reasons Sessler didn't know Davalloo was married was because she regularly convinced her husband to move out of the house for entire weekends so Sessler could visit and stay the night in their home. Amazingly, Davalloo made Christos believe she had a brother with mental health issues who would have been upset to learn his sister was married, so Davalloo had to keep Christos a secret when her brother spent the weekend at their house.

Davalloo not only persuaded Christos to stay at hotel for a couple days on a regular basis, she also convinced him to take all of his personal effects with him when he left, making the apartment free from any trace of her husband. By going to such extraordinary lengths to erase any sign of Christos, Davalloo was able to successfully convince him she was a single woman who lived in the apartment by herself.

Know what most men in their 60s and 70s don't do? Decide to rob a bank. And yet, in 2015, eight elderly men almost pulled off the biggest jewelry heist in British history, known as The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Box Robbery. This was no small job, and required both heavy lifting and extreme cleverness, yet these old men very nearly got away with it. Some of the facts about the great Hatton Garden Heist are enough to leave you speechless.

Not only is this one of the few elderly British jewel heist examples in history, it's also the one with the biggest score. The deposit they were breaking into was heavily guarded for a reason, and these men managed to smuggle out millions and millions of dollars in jewels and cash. You might think of old men robbing jewels as just plain silly, but they cleaned out 73 boxes before escaping.

Whether you see these old men as the protagonists in the story, or as the antagonists, it's hard to deny the whole thing seems like something from fiction.  But that just makes the Hatton Garden jewelry robbery all the more intriguing.

If you've seen the original Oceans 11, you might recall the would-be thieves used garbage bins to try to transport their loot. It didn't work out so well for them, but it worked out splendidly for the Grandpa Gang.

When the Grandpa Gang first arrived on scene, they got out of a white rented van, unloaded bags, tools, and of course, garbage bins. They brought them to the fire escape and left them there. Surveillance footage then showed them eventually coming back out, and loading tools and equipment into the van. They wheeled the garbage bins to the van, and it was obvious they were much heavier. No one batted an eye as they loaded up, because they were dressed as maintenance men, so it was easy for them to work without attracting too much attention. From there, they sped away into the night with their loot.

While the Grandpa Gang finally was eventually caught, they got to savor sweet, wealthy freedom for more than a month. The Hatton Garden investigative teams began looking into the crimes right away, and it didn't take them long to get leads, but because the gang had done such an in-depth planning job, it took quite a while to put all the pieces together. They had to trace the car, examine all the surveillance photos, set up cameras and microphones to record conversations, then wait for the men to talk about the crime so they'd have evidence for an arrest. 

One of the things that makes this heist so unusual and infamous is the ages of the people who carried it out. Of the eight men involved, all but one of the men were over the age of 50, and the majority were over 60. Terry Perkins was 67, John "Kenny" Collins was 75, Daniel Jones was 61, William "Billy the Fish" Lincoln was 60, Carl Wood was 59, and Hugh Doyle was 49, and 'Guvnor' Brian Reader was 76. The other thief, only known as Basil, does not have a known age.

Reader - the oldest and the original mastermind behind the scheme - was enjoying his retirement at the time of the heist. Although most of the men had a rather shady past, people who knew them described them as harmless, friendly, and kind; not at all the sort of people you'd expect to rob a jewelry deposit. This facade of mild old age actually played a major part in how they were able to manage the job.

This robbery was not a simple smash and grab, and the kind of physical activity needed to pull it off was hardly easy for men of their age. When they first got into the building, they called the elevator, and then disabled it on the second floor. They then pried open the elevator doors and repelled down the elevator shaft about 14 feet to the basement. From there, they opened the steel shutter covering the door leading to the vault and disable the alarm by cutting the telephone wires. The alarm did sent an alert to the monitoring company, but not in time to stop them from getting away with the jewels.

After they drilled holes in the back of the safe, three circular holes overlapping side by side, they had to crawl through the tight opening, of only 10 by 18 inches. Then, the man inside had to smash open the deposit boxes and pass all the jewels through to their partners. 

When planning a major heist, it stands to reason you would take time to prepare. The "Grandpa Gang," as they're sometimes known, were extremely patient. They waited and planned for three years until they were sure everything was perfect.

In 2012, Daniel Jones - one of the ringleaders - first brought up the idea to a few others. It began as a simple musing by a retired man, but he couldn't get the thought out of his head. When he found that others had interest in the plan as well, he started the initial reconnaissance. And it took a whole lot of reconnaissance. The men would go in to observe the Hatton Garden hours, how workers moved, and began to do research on the vault itself. Before long, Jones was beginning to research and buy equipment online, and they had a plan to complete the plan a few years down the line. 

There were no signs of breaking and entering at the bank, and the front door had not been breached by force. So, how did they manage to get inside? The police said it did not look like an inside job, so they had to have tricked their way into the building. And that is precisely what happened.

No one ever looks twice at an aging maintenance man or janitor. They seem harmless, and given the age of these men, they probably didn't seem capable of doing something so criminal. It was because of this, as well as clever planning, the men were able to just walk into the building disguised as municipal workers. They wore reflective yellow vests that said "gas" on the back, hard hats, and white surgical masks to keep their identities hidden. Basil simply stayed in the building after people had gone home, and then let the rest of the men in through the fire escape.

So how many valuables were in the score? Well, it was the biggest jewel heist in England's history. Some reports estimate about £40 million in jewels was lifted, others say about £7 million in valuables was taken. Plus there was a whole mess of cash that was taken as well. In the end, the crew cracked open all the safety deposit boxes they could out of the roughly thousand inside the vault. It came to 73 boxes before they had to run, and this was enough to total £200 million worth of valuables, gems, and cash, according to some sources.

As Reader saw it, if you wanted to steal diamonds, you wanted the diamond of drills to do it. He'd had experience with robbery before in his younger years, though nothing of this magnitude, and he decided to research what sorts of drills he could buy online. He finally settled on the Hilti DD350 diamond coring drill to go through the back of the vault to get at the jewels inside. 

Unfortunately, the eventual attempt was fraught with issues, and one of them turned out to be the drill. When they initially tried to drill through on April 4, 2015, their placement was a bit off, and they instead drilled into the rear of the cabinet made of steel they couldn't get through. They prepared to use the drill again, but the pump jammed, rendering the drill completely useless. Eventually, they decided they had to give up and try again the next day with a better functioning drill.

While the whole event sounds pretty "cool," the fact is it had real, lasting damage on the bank, as well as the people who had things stored there. This wasn't just cash they were stealing, but actual, real valuables, including a few objects that are utterly irreplaceable and historically relevant.

Many of the deposit boxes contained diamonds and gems from jewel traders in the area, all of whom took major losses to their businesses. One man was an an Orthodox Jewish diamond dealer, whose family had escaped Nazi Germany. They'd sewn diamonds into their clothing in order to preserve some of their family's valuables, and the diamonds were then stored in Hatton Garden. Those same diamonds were stolen and never recovered. Another box belonged to an Indian family who was saving gold jewelry for a dowry for their daughter. Without the jewelry, they feared for their child's future. In other words, this heist hurt a lot of people, not just the bank.

There are some advantages to being a senior citizen, and one of them is transportation options. As the oldest member of the group, Reader easily old enough to have a senior citizen bus pass, which he used regularly. While others in the group were discussing rental cars to get to and from the scene, Reader was busy checking bus routes, trying to take full advantage of that senior discount.

On the night of the first robbery attempt on April 2, 2015, everyone else transported themselves in groups, but not Reader. Instead, he waited at the No. 96 bus stop near his home in Kent. He then swiped his senior pass, boarded the bus, and took it all the way to Hatton Garden, an 80-minute journey. Lucky for him the bus ride was free because of his age. Forget all those youngsters renting cars for a jewel heist, public transportation is the way to go!

Every year, police stations in every trashy travel destination buckle down like moms on Black Friday for the vast multitude of inevitable spring break arrests. Though the thrill of underage drinking and drug possession sounds enticing, this collection of spring break mugshots will convince you to spend next spring break playing Catchphrase in the safety of your dorm's common rooms. Given most of these perps are underage, it's safe to assume this is the only spring break they'll experience for a while. Unless they watch Spring Breakers, the type of content that probably got them into this mess in the first place.

Below, you'll find a series of unfortunate spring break mugshots that arose from vacations gone terribly wrong. Some can even be added to the glorious collection of Florida mugshots. Though a few appear not so bothered by being busted for their spring break crimes, the vast majority would definitely rather be chilling poolside instead of in a prison cell. The next time you feel like getting a little wild and crazy in Myrtle Beach, check out these spring break mugshots as a gentle reminder to sip responsibly.  

Arrested for: Possession of a controlled substance 

Arrested for: Evading arrest, resisting arrest 

Arrested for: Minor consuming an alcoholic beverage, no seat belt 

Arrested for: Failure to ID, minor consuming an alcoholic beverage, public intoxication, disorderly conduct - indecent exposure, resisting arrest, possession of marijuana

Arrested for: Public intoxication

Arrested for: Being a minor in possession

Arrested For: Making Alcohol Available To Minors

Arrested for: Being a minor in possession 

Arrested for: Minor in possession of an alcoholic beverage  

Arrested for: Minor in possession of alcoholic beverage

When he was just a teenager, Edmund Kemper committed a double homicide that shocked both his family and police, leading medical professionals to diagnose the 15-year-old with a serious mental illness. After spending several years in a psychiatric hospital, however, Ed Kemper was released at the age of 21, only to commit the series of killings that earned him the nicknames the "Co-ed Killer" and the "Co-ed Butcher" within months of leaving the secure facility.

However, his penultimate killing, in which Kemper murdered the woman he blamed for many of his problems, was truly shocking, not only because of his relationship to the victim, but also because of the depraved acts he subjected her body to after beating her to death with a hammer. Now in prison for his crimes, the necrophiliac serial killer, one of the most intelligent serial killers the FBI has ever interviewed, appears to have no interest in returning to the outside world, and he has repeatedly taken steps to guarantee he will the spend the rest of his life behind bars.

After killing both of his grandparents with a rifle, the authorities determined 15-year-old Edmund Kemper was criminally insane, so he was committed to California's Atascadero State Hospital for evaluation and treatment. While at Atascadero, Kemper helped out in the hospital's psychology lab and even gave psychological exams to other patients, furnishing him with a unique insight into the instruments used to determine sanity.

As a result, Kemper was able to convince hospital officials he was no longer criminally insane, nor was he threat to others. Consequently, Kemper was released when he turned 21, just six years after he murdered his grandmother and grandfather, and he moved into his mother's apartment near Santa Cruz and got a job with the California Highway Department.

From the time he was a boy, Edmund Kemper was fascinated by death to a disturbing degree, and he routinely played a macabre game with his sister he called "gas chamber." In the game, Kemper played the role of the condemned criminal and his sister pretended to be the executioner, culminating in Kemper miming painful death throes.

In addition to this bizarre form of recreation, Kemper tortured and killed animals, including the family cat. In an act of dismemberment that seemed to foretell his future crimes, after burying the poor animal alive, he disinterred his family pet, decapitated it, and placed its severed head on the end of a stick.

From the time he was a child, Edmund Kemper was considerably larger than his peers, and even his own mother was fearful of the harm a boy his size could cause. By the time he was fully grown, Kemper was 6'9", making him a head taller than the average man, and he weighed approximately 250 pounds when he was arrested in the early 1970s.

Given his remarkable height and weight, Kemper should have had difficulty convincing women to accept rides from him, but he used a number of psychological tactics to make the hitchhikers think he was safe, even after they had learned that a serial killer was operating in the area.

Plus, Kemper's mother worked at the University of California, Santa Cruz, so he had a sticker on his vehicle that not only gave him access to the college campus, it also made young coeds view him as a fellow student or school employee they could trust.

During his time at the Atascadero State Hospital, doctors administered a number of psychological tests to Kemper, including an exam to determine his IQ. At age 15, hospital staff found he had an IQ of 136, which is considered to be well above average.

After he was apprehended for the crimes he committed as an adult in the early 1970s, Kemper was given yet another IQ test, and the doctors found he had an IQ of 145, making him near genius. While his intelligence undoubtedly helped him commit murders and avoid detection, it also gave Kemper insight into his crimes, which he shared with FBI profilers who were eager to learn more about the minds of serial killers like the Co-ed Killer.

After killing his victims, Edmund Kemper brought their dead bodies back to his home to dismember their corpses, sometimes performing this grisly task in his bathtub. In the case of 15-year-old Aiko Koo, he decapitated the teenager and put her head in the trunk of his car, intending to dispose of it in the mountains. On his way to discard Koo's remains, Kemper kept a scheduled appointment with a psychiatrist: the doctor deemed the serial killer no longer a threat to others, recommending his juvenile record should be sealed, all while Kemper had a severed head in the trunk of his vehicle.

In an interview with the authorities after he was apprehended, Kemper admitted that when he saw an attractive woman, part of him thought about what it what it would be like to take her on a date, while another part of him wondered "how her head would look on a stick."

When he was a child, Kemper's sister teases him about having a crush on one of his teachers, to which he reportedly replied, "If I kissed her, I'd have to kill her first." This disturbing statement proved prescient, as Kemper later demonstrated a bizarre desire to mix death with sexuality.

After killing his victims, Edmund Kemper dismembered their bodies and then engaged in necrophilia with their corpses. In the cases of Anita Luchessa, Mary Ann Pesce, and Cindy Schall, he decapitated the young women and used their severed heads to perform oral sex on himself. He also vaginally raped the corpses of some of his victims after killing them, and he took nude photographs of many of their lifeless bodies.

At the same time Edmund Kemper was murdering young female hitchhikers in Santa Cruz, California, two other serial killers, Herbert Mullin and John Linley Frazier, were also operating in the area. Because so many people were being abducted and murdered in the early 1970s in Santa Cruz, the city had the unfortunate honor of being dubbed the "Murder Capital of the World" by the press.

On October 19, 1970, Frazier killed a family of four and the patriarch's secretary, and he was convicted of the murders and sentenced to life in prison. From October 1972 to February 1973, Mullin killed 13 people, many of them hitchhikers, because he was convinced he needed to commit murders to prevent earthquakes from happening in California. Mullin was arrested and convicted of the killings, and he received a life sentence for his crimes.

Having murdered his grandparents and six young women, Edmund Kemper killed his final two victims on April 30, 1973. While visiting his mother at her home, Kemper said 52-year-old Clarnell became angry with him when he interrupted her while she was reading a book. Frustrated by a lifetime of verbal abuse and a childhood of physical assaults, Kemper responded by bludgeoning his mother to death with a hammer and cutting off her head. As with his other victims, Kemper had sex with Clarnell's severed head, and he also cut out his mother's vocal cords and destroyed them by forcing them down the garbage disposal.

After killing his mother, Kemper invited Clarnell's closest friend, 59-year-old Sally Hallett, over for dinner, only to strangle her to death shortly after she entered the home. After murdering both women, Kemper fled his mother's house and drove until he hit Colorado.

On May 7, 1972, less than six months after he was released from Atascadero State Hospital for killing his grandparents, Kemper murdered Anita Mary Luchessa and Mary Ann Pesce, two 18-year-old college students he picked up as hitchhikers. He drove the teenagers to an isolated area, stabbed and strangled the girls to death, and took their corpses back to his home, where he engaged in a disturbing post-mortem ritual.

Months later, on September 14, 1972, Kemper offered to drive 15-year-old Aiko Koo to a dance class. However, instead of taking the teenager to her destination, he threatened Koo with a gun and drove her to a remote location. Incredibly, he accidentally locked himself out of the car, leaving the 15-year-old inside the vehicle with his keys, but Kemper was somehow able to convince the girl to open the door for him. Sadly, he choked Koo to death and took her lifeless body back to his house.

On January 7, 1973, Kemper killed a fourth female hitchhiker, 18-year-old Cynthia Ann Schall, after driving the college student to a secluded spot and shooting her to death. The following month, Kemper murdered Rosalind Heather Thorpe, 23, and Alice Helen Lie, 20, by shooting both of them with a .22 caliber pistol. After killing the young women, Kemper wrapped their dead bodies in blankets and drove through a security gate, telling the guard his passengers had passed out from drinking too much.

On August 27, 1964, 15-year-old Edmund Emil Kemper III killed his first victims when he murdered both of his paternal grandparents while staying with them at the elderly couple's ranch in North Fork, California. Kemper killed his grandmother Maude by shooting her in her back and head with a rifle and stabbing her repeatedly, and then he murdered his grandfather by shooting his namesake when he arrived home.

After ending the lives of both of his grandparents, Kemper phoned his mother to tell her what he'd done. When police arrived at the remote California farm, Kemper explained the murders by telling officers, "I just wondered how it would feel to shoot grandma."

How are dead bodies identified? Usually, authorities rely on a combination of official documents and confirmation from next of kin. But sadly, in some cases of death - whether by accident, murder, or otherwise - a victim’s body is so damaged that identifying them by facial recognition is impossible. When this is the case, investigators and forensic scientists rely on a combination of old-fashioned techniques, modern technology, and professional intuition to name the deceased.

Authorities employ anything at their disposal to solve the case and identify the victim, so their family can get closure and properly grieve their loved one. In the case of crimes, identifying dead bodies and performing autopsies are also key parts of an investigation, and can help point to a perpetrator.

From birthmarks and tattoos to surgical implants and bones, experts use them all to determine the identities of the mysterious dead.

Tattoos only last as long as the skin they are inked on, but if a body is well preserved, those patterns can help officials positively I.D. a person.

In 2016, a body was discovered in the Kankakee River in Illinois. Decomposition made identification by fingerprints impossible, but coroner Robert Gessner discovered a rose tattoo on the victim’s neck during his examination. He contacted the local sherriff’s office and asked him to search through the public safety database to see if any records matched the description of the tattoo. They had a match, and a positive identification, within minutes.

As DNA testing advances, it has become more valuable to forensic scientists. It can even help close cold cases; in 2011, DNA testing revealed the identity of a victim from a 1985 murder.

DNA can also point to the perpetrator of a violent crime. Forensic officials often compare the foreign DNA found on a victim to that of a potential suspect.

If a skull is discovered, it can lead to the positive identification of a victim - even if the rest of the body can't be found. The sagittal suture, the line that runs along the length of the skull, can be used to determine if the victim is over 35. The coronal suture, a second line at the front of the skull, can be used to determine if someone is over 40.

Thanks to computer graphics, the skull has become even more helpful. CG can be used to perform a facial reconstruction to guess what the victim looked like.

Perhaps the easiest way to positively identify a body is to use the personal belongings on an unidentified individual. Documents like a driver’s license or passport can quickly give investigators a name, which they can then verify with next of kin. If those documents aren't available, personal belongings, such as a phone or jewelry, can also prove helpful.

Scars often result from injuries that required hospital care, and because hospitals keep detailed records, they can point to a possible identification for a mysterious body.

While this is a more work-intensive form of identification, it's been known to get results. It was used during the war in Iraq, when U.S.-led forces used both scars and fingerprints to identify the body of former terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

If x-rays are available, a skeleton can show the history of a person’s injuries or illnesses. While a run-of-the-mill bone break may not help with identification, an extensive or rare injury can. Similarly, some diseases that affect bone health, like syphilis, psoriasis, or tuberculosis, can sometimes lead to lasting skeletal damage that can be viewed via x-ray.

Fingerprints continue to be the most universally used forensic tool. Due to the presence of massive, constantly updating databases of fingerprints all over the world, identifying a body by its fingertips keeps getting easier.

Beyond the pattern of fingertips' skin, the bacteria that lives there may also help identify people, since communities of bacteria are specific to an individual. As Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado explained, "We leave this trail of bacteria everywhere we go, and the idea was could we use this trail to identify who had touched a given object or surface."

Dental x-rays and records are widely considered to be one of the best ways to identify an unknown body. That's because dental features are unique to each person, with characteristics like tooth root curvature, crowns, and impacted teeth varying from mouth to mouth. Teeth also often remain intact when other parts of the body do not. Records from when a person was alive can be compared to post-mortem x-rays to reach a positive identity.

Dentures can prove useful to investigators as well, since they often survive even longer than bone. Newer dentures are frequently imprinted with the name or initials of the wearer, making it even easier to discover a victim’s identity.

Much like fingerprints and DNA, birthmarks are unique characteristics. In coordination with medical or police records, or identification given by a family member, a birthmark can be used to help officials reach a positive identification.

Surgical implants can provide valuable clues for identifying unknown bodies. Materials like titanium - which can survive fire and chemical damage - or medical devices with serial numbers can point towards a successful I.D.

In 2009, surgical implants served as the key to identifying several bodies after Australian bush fires claimed numerous lives. Human remains were given CT scans, and several of the bodies scanned revealed identifiable medical devices, including hip and knee prosthetics, pacemakers, and a coronary artery stent.