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Killer Maids: The Brutal & Tragic Case of Christine & Léa Papin

Killer Maids: The Brutal & Tragic Case of Christine & Léa Papin

The case of the Papin Sisters is one that is still infamous in France to this day. The treatment they received from their employers, coupled with mental illnesses, had the community sympathize with the duo.

Richard Chase; A Serial Killer Dubbed "The Vampire of Sacramento".

Richard Chase; A Serial Killer Dubbed "The Vampire of Sacramento".

Richard Chase was a man who had an unusual fascination with blood, and after a string of violent murders in the late 1970s, he was nicknamed "The Vampire of Sacramento".

Omaima Nelson, An Egyptian Bride Turned Cannibal.

Omaima Nelson, An Egyptian Bride Turned Cannibal.

Omaima Nelson was a young, Egyptian woman who survived by robbing her many boyfriends. Her greatest crime was the murder and possible cannibalism of her husband, Bill Nelson, in 1991.

Leonarda Cianciulli; Prolific Italian Serial Killer.

Leonarda Cianciulli; Prolific Italian Serial Killer.

Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian woman who committed a series of murders in 1940, and used parts of her victims to make soaps and tea cakes.

Ed Gein; The Killer Who's Gruesome Crimes Are Still Shocking Today.

Ed Gein; The Killer Who's Gruesome Crimes Are Still Shocking Today.

Meet the man who was the inspiration for numerous horror novels and movies, most notably, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.

Robert Rhoades

Robert Rhoades, also known as the Truck Stop Killer, was a man who used his job as a truck driver to commit a series of rapes and murders between the 1970’s and 1990’s.

Mary Bell

Murderers always make headlines in the media, but child murderers? They are almost always unheard of. Meet Mary Bell, a child who became known internationally after murdering two young children.

Francine Hughes

Francine Hughes

Meet Francine Hughes, a woman who became the face of battered and abused women in the United States. She fought her way out of her abusive relationship, and did so with murder.

Olga Hepnarova

Meet Olga Hepnarova, a serial killer who was also the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia.

Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Rais was a knight, a leader in the French Army in the 1400's and fought beside Joan of Arc. But he most remembered in history for being a serial killer of children.

Aaron Burr

We've all heard about the financial genius Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States who is featured on the US $10 bill. But what do we know about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Hamilton?

Nannie Doss, the Grandmother who had a taste for killing her own Family Members.

Nannie Doss, the Grandmother who had a taste for killing her own Family Members.

Early Life Nannie Doss was born as Nancy Hazel on November 4th, 1905, in Blue Mountain, Alabama to Louisa and James Hazel. She had one brother and three sisters. Doss’s father would force her and her siblings to work on the family farm instead of sending them to school,

Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka

Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka became known as the Ken and Barbie Killers after they committed three heinous murders in the 1990’s. But their crimes didn’t begin there.

Carroll Cole

Carroll Cole was a man who could never seem to stay out of trouble, and somehow developed a thirst for murder at an early age.

Dorothea Puente

Female Serial Killers

Dorothea Puente

Dorothea Puente, also called the Landlady from Hell, was an American Serial Killer who murdered her elderly boarders for their Social Security checks.

Jane Toppan

Meet Jane Toppan, also known as Jolly Jane, who was said to have committed 31 murders using her profession as a nurse.

Bahamian Serial Killer

Rueben Rolle

Rueben Rolle is remembered in Bahamian History as their first spree killer; who rampaged through the streets of New Providence with a vengeance.

Eugene Falleni

Eugene Falleni was a transgender man of Italian-Australian descent who was convicted of murdering his wife in 1917.

Cordell Farrington

Caribbean Killers

Cordell Farrington

Cordell Farrington is a Bahamian serial killer who kidnapped and killed four teenage boys and his male lover in the early 2000’s.

Cayetano Santos Godino

Cayetano Santos Godino

Cayetano Santos Godino was an Argentinian who became a serial killer at just the age of 16.

Female Serial Killers

Sophie Ursinus

Sophie Ursinus was a German serial killer who killed using poison. Her trial was significant because it resulted in creating a method of identifying arsenic poisoning.

Marcel Petiot

Marcel Petiot was a French doctor who suffered from mental illness, but he was still sound enough to conduct a cunning fraud that eventually led to theft and murder.

Eva Dugan

Eva Dugan's name is etched in history as the last woman to be hanged in Arizona, due to the accidental decapitation that took place during her execution.

Madame Delphine LaLaurie, A 19th Century Socialite with a taste for Torture and Murder.

Madame Delphine LaLaurie, A 19th Century Socialite with a taste for Torture and Murder.

LaLaurie's story is etched in Louisiana's history as a gruesome and tragic one. She was a socialite remembered for torturing and murdering her own slaves in the early 1800's.

The Bloody Benders, A Family Of Killers Who's Fate Is Still Unknown.

Killer Families

The Bloody Benders, A Family Of Killers Who's Fate Is Still Unknown.

The Bloody Benders were a family who committed a series of murders in the 1870's, but they fled before they could be punished.