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Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, killed at least 13 people in Los Angeles. He still had female fans, and one of them married him on death row
In 1984 and 1985 he broke into homes at night while families slept. The whole city was afraid to open a window
In the video below, he talks from death row.
When a reporter asked him why he killed those people, he answered with two words. “No comment.”
“A serial killer comes about by circumstances, like a recipe,” he says
A minute later he says something else. “I’m not gonna blame society or my race or anything.”
He was caught in 1985. People on a street in East LA recognized his face from the newspaper and chased him down themselves
In court he shouted “Hail Satan” and showed a pentagram drawn on his hand. He got 19 death sentences
Then the letters started. Women from all over the country wrote to him. One of them, Doreen Lioy, sent him dozens of letters. In 1996 they got married inside San Quentin prison
He was never executed. He died of cancer in 2013, still on death row
“This is a wicked, wicked world,” he says. “And in a wicked world, wicked people are born.”
Was Richard Ramirez born a killer, or did his life turn him into one?
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Daniel Graham, known as the enforcer of an Oildale trailer park, says Roxann Kelly is his sixth victim.
He is accused of killing her at a mobile home park in California. Police have not confirmed any other bodies.
In the video below he sits down with a reporter in jail and talks about it like it was a job.
He says a man named Mark in a black Prius paid him $5,000 upfront to clear people out of the trailer park. Another $45,000 was promised later.
He only got caught because he left a mask with his DNA in her car.
The reporter asks how many people he has killed. "Five," he says. Then he adds, "Roxann being the latest, sixth."
About the families who still don't know, he says, "Let them wonder."
His message to Roxann's family is "F*** them. F*** Roxann, too."
His father was the sheriff in his hometown. Two of his brothers are cops. He says he doesn't even know his nieces' names.
He also plans to write a book.
Do you think the five other bodies are real, or is he making up a story for the book?
He reminds me of Adam Sheafe. Same calm voice, zero regret. Sheafe's interview is already on my profile.
Adam Sheafe, known as the New River pastor killer, had a list of 14 pastors he planned to kill across America.
In the video below, a reporter asks if he killed the pastor, and he says yes without a pause.
He camped in a tent in the Arizona desert and followed pastors home after Sunday service. He needed one who lived alone.
He found 76-year-old Pastor Bill Schonemann. They had never met. In April 2025 Bill was found dead in his home, and the scene was staged like a crucifixion.
Two priests in Sedona were next. Sheafe got caught while looking for a car to steal so he could follow one of them home.
He told the reporter he had no remorse. He also said God would never let him spend his life in prison.
In August he got natural life with no parole, plus 102 years.
When asked if he is a monster, he says he sees himself “more like a saint.”
Is he truly delusional, or did he know exactly what he was doing?
He reminds me of Gary Ray Bowles. Both looked for men who lived alone. Bowles’s interview is already on my profile.
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Gary Ray Bowles, known as the I-95 Killer, killed six men in eight months and left something stuffed in every victim’s mouth.
In the video below, he explains how easy it was.
“It’s not hard to kill somebody. You can kill somebody pretty easy if you have the mindset for it.”
At 13 he smashed a rock into his stepfather’s head and left home. He lived on the street and met men in bars who let him stay at their place.
His second victim was a 72-year-old WWII veteran. After an illness, the man had the mind of a child. Bowles beat him to death on a golf course and filled his mouth with dirt. When asked how he felt after, he says “I guess relief.”
Police knew his name after the first murder. So he took another man’s documents, went to the DMV and became Timothy Whitfield.
When a detective caught him lying, Bowles leaned in a foot from his face. “You want the truth? I’m Gary Ray Bowles.” Then he sank into the chair and said he was glad it was over.
He was executed in 2019. His last meal was three cheeseburgers with fries and bacon.
Was it the childhood that made him, or did he just like it?
He reminds me of Thomas Gilbert Jr. Gilbert grew up rich and still shot his own father. Bowles grew up with nothing and killed six men. Gilbert’s interview is already on my profile
Thomas Gilbert Jr., known as the Golden Boy, shot his millionaire father after his allowance was cut from $500 to $300 a week.
In the video below, he gives his first interview in 10 years.
He went to Princeton and had the looks of a Ralph Lauren model. At 30 he still had no job. His father paid for his Manhattan apartment and his country club memberships.
On the day of the murder, he came to his parents’ place and asked his mom to go buy him a sandwich and a Coke. They never kept Coke at home.
While she was gone, he shot his father in the head. His father was watching a football game. Tommy put the gun on his chest to make it look like suicide, then went home and called a lawyer.
When 911 asked who shot him, his mom said “My son.”
Now he sits in front of the camera and says the story “misses a lot of the facts” about his innocence. After 10 minutes of questions, he asked the guards to end the interview.
His lawyers argued insanity. The jury gave him 30 years to life.
His mother still visits him. She is fighting to move him from prison to a psychiatric hospital.
Is he really sick, or did he plan every step?
He reminds me of Richard Ramirez. People talked about his face as much as his crimes. Ramirez’s video is already on my profile.
Reginald McFadden, known as Pennsylvania’s Willie Horton, spent 24 years in prison for murder. The state let him out early for good behavior. He killed again in 92 days.
In the video below, he talks to a former FBI profiler.
He was 16 when he killed a 66-year-old woman in Philadelphia. In prison he asked for a lighter sentence eight times. He told the profiler he thought about escaping again and again, and the only thing that stopped him was the hope they would let him go.
In 1994 they did.
“It was a really new beginning. Though in my subconscious, there were other things,” he says.
Two months after his release he killed a man in New York. The same day he kidnapped and raped a woman, who survived and went straight to the police. Three weeks later he killed a 78-year-old woman walking home from the train.
“When you’ve been hurt, you want someone else to hurt.”
He got multiple life sentences. After his case, Pennsylvania changed the rules, and now a lifer can only be released if the whole board votes yes.
He never said sorry. “I’m not responsible, I’m not sorry, because I’m not guilty. Give me a thousand years.”
Did the system fail, or did McFadden just play the role they wanted to see?
He reminds me of Gary Hilton. Hilton waited 17 years to confess on camera. McFadden waited 24 years for a second chance and used it in 92 days.
Hilton’s interview is already on my profile.
Gary Hilton, known as the National Forest Serial Killer, started killing at 61. He used his golden retriever to get close to hikers on the trail.
In the video below, he talks for the first time in 17 years.
In 2007 and 2008 he killed four people in national forests across three states. An elderly couple in their 80s. A woman from a church community. A 24-year-old hiker named Meredith Emerson.
“So he’s got this laughing, lovable golden retriever. He must be okay, right?” he says about his dog.
Meredith fought back hard. She kept giving him the wrong PIN codes for her bank cards to buy time for the search teams.
He was caught at a gas station after a man saw him throwing things into a dumpster and called 911.
He got life in Georgia and a death sentence in Florida.
“Do you enjoy having that kind of power over us?”
“You know, in a perverse kind of way, I do.”
In the same interview he admitted to a murder he had never confessed to before. “I’m going to give you a news scoop. I did it.”
Did Gary Hilton finally tell the truth, or did he just want to feel famous one more time?
He reminds me of Charles Cullen, the nurse who killed up to 40 patients. People trusted Cullen because of his uniform. They trusted Hilton because of his dog. Both stayed quiet for years and then confessed on camera.
Cullen’s interview is already on my profile.
Charles Cullen, known as the Angel of Death, killed up to 40 patients while working as a nurse. Hospitals suspected him again and again, and still let him leave with clean references.
In the video below, he talks from prison.
For 16 years he worked in hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He injected patients with drugs that stopped their hearts. His victims were from 21 to 91 years old. Some were ready to go home.
“Do you consider yourself a serial killer?”
“If it’s more than one and it’s a pattern, I guess then, yeah.”
When one hospital caught him, it didn’t call the police. It asked him to resign and promised neutral references. He took the deal and got a job at the next hospital.
“There’s no reason I should have been a practicing nurse after that,” he says.
He was finally caught in 2003. A nurse he worked with helped the police collect evidence against him.
He pleaded guilty to 29 murders and got 18 life sentences in a row.
In court, the families begged him to look at them. He kept his head down and said nothing.
“I thought I was helping,” he says in the interview.
Did Charles Cullen really think he was helping, or did he just enjoy deciding who lives and who dies?
Richard Kuklinski, known as the Iceman, says he killed more than 100 people for the mafia. His wife and three kids thought he was a businessman.
In the video below, he talks from prison.
A reporter asks how many people he has killed. He goes quiet for a long time. Then he answers. “More than 100.”
“How do you feel about killing?”
“It doesn’t bother me. Doesn’t bother me at all.”
He got the name Iceman because he froze one victim’s body to hide the time of death.
At home in New Jersey he was a family man. He told everyone he was a businessman, and nobody asked questions.
“We were perfect. We were the All-American family,” his family says in the video.
Police caught him in 1986 with an undercover agent who pretended to be a hitman. Kuklinski talked to him about killing with cyanide, and every word was recorded.
He was convicted of five murders. Investigators never believed many of his other stories.
He died in prison in 2006.
“I’ve never felt sorry for anything I’ve done, other than hurting my family,” he says. “I do want my family to forget me.”
Was Richard Kuklinski the deadliest hitman in America, or did he make up most of his story?
Her first husband died on the only day his two life insurance policies overlapped
July 30, 1900. Belle Gunness collected $8,500 and bought a farm in La Porte, Indiana
Her second husband died two years later. Another $3,000
Then she started placing personal ads in Midwest newspapers. Lonely men with savings wrote back
One of them, Andrew Helgelien, arrived with a check for $2,900. All his savings
A few days later he and Belle walked into the La Porte Savings Bank and deposited it
He was never seen again
His brother kept writing to her. In 1908 the farm burned down, and investigators started digging. They found the men who answered her ads
She made her money on two things banks record every day: insurance payouts and large deposits from strangers
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MMM started selling shares on February 1, 1994 at 1,000 rubles each. The company set the price itself and raised it every week, so by July a share was worth 127 times more. There was no business behind that growth. New cash came in at the bottom and paid everyone above. When MMM hit the legal limit on shares, it started printing tickets with Mavrodi’s face on them. On July 29 the price was cut 100 times. On August 4 Mavrodi was arrested live on TV, and by his own account 17 KamAZ trucks of cash were hauled out of his office. In 2011 he launched it again online, and by the end of 2016 about 2.4 million people had signed up in Nigeria alone.
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The CIA opened a secret file on Catwoman and called her a “sadistic nymphomaniac.” All because she spoke out against the Vietnam War in front of the President’s wife.
Eartha Kitt was the voice of “Santa Baby” and Catwoman in the 1960s Batman show.
In the video below, she tells it herself.
In 1968 the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, invited 50 women to the White House to talk about problems with young people. Eartha was asked what she thought.
“You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed,” she told her.
After that, her work in America almost stopped. Clubs that always booked her again never called back.
“I was thrown out of work in the United States,” she says.
Years later a journalist showed her the CIA file. At the bottom, she says, it read “specifically requested by Lady Bird and President Johnson.”
She spent almost 10 years working in Europe.
Some newspapers said she was rude to the First Lady at her own table. Eartha always said she only answered the question they asked her.
In 1978 she came back to Broadway and got a Tony nomination. The same year, President Carter invited her back to the White House.
Did Eartha Kitt say what needed to be said, or did she go too far at the First Lady’s table?
Patty Duke won an Oscar at 16 and made a fortune as a child. By 18, the money was gone, and so was her real name. Her own mother had handed her to the people who took both
In the video below, she tells how it happened
The strangers were talent managers John and Ethel Ross. They told her mother, “If you really love her, you’ll let us give her what you cannot.”
Her mother was poor and raising the kids alone. She said yes.
Patty moved in with the Rosses. They even changed her name to Patty. Her real family slowly disappeared from her life
Patty says her mom kept coming to wash their clothes anyway, because it was the only way she could see her daughter.
At 16, Patty won the Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. At the time, she was the youngest winner ever
At 18, she left the Rosses. Then she found out they had spent most of the money she earned as a child
Years later, she said she forgave her mother
Was her mother a victim who wanted a better life for her child, or did she give her daughter away for a chance at fame?
Anna Nicole Smith was a Playboy and Guess model. At 26 she married an 89-year-old oil billionaire. 13 months later he died. His fortune of about $1.6 billion went to his son. She got nothing.
In the video below, she is in court trying to prove he promised her half.
His name was J. Howard Marshall. They married in 1994. She said he told her many times that half of everything would be hers. But his will gave it all to his son, Pierce.
In court, the son’s lawyer asks her for one witness or one paper that proves the promise. She says they talked about it in restaurants and people could have heard. She says Pierce destroyed the papers.
The lawyer tells her it all comes down to whether she is telling the truth. She answers, “No sir.”
When he asks again, she says, “I would have to get back to you on that one, Rusty.”
One judge gave her $474 million. Another court cut it to $88 million. She took the case all the way to the US Supreme Court and won in 2006.
She died a year later. In 2010 a final ruling said her family gets nothing.
Was she a wife who was promised half and pushed out by his son, or a 26-year-old who married an 89-year-old for his money?
Ronnie Spector sang “Be My Baby”, one of the biggest songs of the 1960s. Her husband kept her in his mansion behind barbed wire with guard dogs
"He told her that if she left, he would kill her and put her body in a glass coffin in the basement"
In the video below, she tells how she got out
Her husband was Phil Spector, the most famous music producer of that time. He produced “Be My Baby”. They married in 1968
If Ronnie wanted to go outside, she had to ask Phil. Then she had to ask a guard, and the guard asked Phil. She made up reasons like ice cream or bananas. He just had them brought into the house
Phil hid her shoes so she couldn’t run
In 1972 her mother came to visit and asked if the girl could get some sun. Phil looked down, saw she had no shoes on and said fine. She never came back
In 2003 a woman was shot dead at Phil’s home. In 2009 he was found guilty of her murder. He died in prison
Phil Spector made some of the greatest records ever. Should his music still be celebrated, or should what he did to Ronnie come first?
Drew Barrymore was the little girl in the movie E.T. and later one of the biggest stars of the 1990s. At 13, her own mother sent her to a mental hospital
"If she behaved badly there, they locked her in a padded room or tied her down with straps"
In the video below, Oprah asks that mother where she was when her 9-year-old was drinking in bars
Her mother, Jaid, was also her manager. By age 9, Drew was drinking at parties and in bars. People at the door would say, “Oh, it’s little Drew Barrymore, come right in. Good publicity”
Jaid’s answer: “She would go her way and I would go my way”
Oprah doesn’t let it go. “You don’t need a parent to back off and give you space at nine or ten”
When the drinking got worse, her mother found a solution. Drew spent a year and a half in a place called Van Nuys Psychiatric. At 15, she went to court so her parents would no longer control her life
Years later, she said about her mom: “I think she created a monster and she didn’t know what to do with the monster”
Did Jaid save her daughter, or did she punish a 13-year-old for the life she let her live since age 9?
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Jimmy Pattison borrowed $40,000 in May 1961 to buy a gas station with three pumps. He paid the loan back in 1 month. In his first year the business did $2 million in sales.
"When I was on the edge of not making it... the banks called my loan."
In 1961 he managed someone else's car dealership and sold his own house to buy one.
Today he is the richest man in British Columbia, worth $11.8 billion.
He grew up in a furnished house his family rented for $25 a month. He found out he could sell while washing cars at a dealership.
In 1965 he bought his first radio station.
In a hotel bar he overheard that you can control a public company with less than 2% of the stock. He used that to take over Neon Products, the company that made the sign on his dealership.
In 1969 a failed takeover almost bankrupted him. A year later his companies were making over $100 million a year.
He bought Ripley's Believe It or Not in 1985 and Guinness World Records in 2008.
The only business he built from scratch is a leasing company that started with one car. It now has over 30,000.
The Jim Pattison Group does $20 billion in sales and employs 57,000 people.
He is in his 90s and still goes to work. "I'm not done paying it off yet. I got lots of loans."
Royal Bank lent him his first $40,000. In the video he explains how a Royal Bank director almost took it all away.
You get $40,000 today and one shot. What business do you buy?
Jimmy Pattison borrowed $40,000 in May 1961 to buy a gas station with three pumps. He paid the loan back in 1 month. In his first year the business did $2 million in sales.
"When I was on the edge of not making it... the banks called my loan."
In 1961 he managed someone else's car dealership and sold his own house to buy one.
Today he is the richest man in British Columbia, worth $11.8 billion.
He grew up in a furnished house his family rented for $25 a month. He found out he could sell while washing cars at a dealership.
In 1965 he bought his first radio station.
In a hotel bar he overheard that you can control a public company with less than 2% of the stock. He used that to take over Neon Products, the company that made the sign on his dealership.
In 1969 a failed takeover almost bankrupted him. A year later his companies were making over $100 million a year.
He bought Ripley's Believe It or Not in 1985 and Guinness World Records in 2008.
The only business he built from scratch is a leasing company that started with one car. It now has over 30,000.
The Jim Pattison Group does $20 billion in sales and employs 57,000 people.
He is in his 90s and still goes to work. "I'm not done paying it off yet. I got lots of loans."
Royal Bank lent him his first $40,000. In the video he explains how a Royal Bank director almost took it all away.
You get $40,000 today and one shot. What business do you buy?