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The woman in this video was 20 when a drunk teenager crashed into the car she was riding in. The car caught fire with her trapped inside. Two girls in that car died. She lost her nose, her lips, her ears, her fingers and most of her sight. The driver got 7 years. In the video below Jacqui Saburido talks about her life after the crash. Listen to what she says she misses. September 1999, Austin, Texas. Jacqui had left her engineering studies in Venezuela a month earlier to learn English. After a birthday party near Lake Travis, she and her friends got a ride home with a classmate. A GMC Yukon driven by Reggie Stephey, a heavily drunk high school senior, hit their car. The driver, Natalia, and another girl, Laura, were killed. Jacqui was stuck in the wreck. Paramedics put out the fire, but it started again before they could pull her out. She kept burning until a fire truck arrived about 45 seconds later. Burns over 60% of her body. More than 120 surgeries. When she first met Stephey after his trial, she told him he "destroyed my life completely." Then she forgave him. In 2008 he walked out of prison. She said: "I don't hate him, I don't feel bad because he's out, he can reconstruct his life again." She spent the rest of her life as the face of Texas' anti drunk driving ads. Her story reached over a billion people. In 2019 she died of cancer. She was 40. He served 7 years and went home. She lived 20 years in this face and still forgave him. Does forgiveness actually heal people, or is it just something we tell ourselves so the pain has a meaning?

This mother was convicted of killing her two kids. When a reporter called her a serial killer, she asked: "Do I?" Her 7-year-old son was found wrapped in plastic and duct tape. Her 16-year-old daughter's body was burned. Both were buried in her new husband's backyard. In the video below, Lori Vallow Daybell talks to the reporter who chased her down in Hawaii in 2020, back when nobody knew where her kids were. It was her 52nd birthday. In 2019 she married Chad Daybell, a doomsday author, weeks after his wife Tammy died. They believed people could be possessed by dark spirits and turn into "zombies," and that the only way to free them was to kill them. Friends say they decided Tylee and JJ were zombies. Tylee was last seen at Yellowstone in September 2019. JJ was last seen two weeks later. Their bodies were found in June 2020. In 2023 she got three life sentences without parole, for both children and for conspiring to kill Tammy. In 2025 Arizona convicted her again, for conspiring to kill her ex-husband Charles, who was shot dead by her brother. Chad is on death row. In the video she says it's all a "fake narrative," and that God put her in jail because he needed "the life of the party." She still says she's never hurt anyone in her whole entire life. Is she lying, or does she actually believe it?

At 20 months old Genie was locked in a dark bedroom by her own father. For the next 11 years she was strapped to a child's potty chair during the day and tied into a caged crib at night. If she made a sound, he beat her with a plank. He barked at her like a dog to keep her quiet. She was found 56 years ago today, at 13, barely able to speak. Scientists filmed her learning her first words. Some of the first things she said were about him. In the video below Genie sits with the researchers teaching her to talk. "Dead father. Father dead." Then they ask her where she used to sleep. Her mother was nearly blind, beaten by the same man and threatened with death if she ever asked for help. In November 1970 she walked into the wrong office in Los Angeles County with Genie behind her, and a social worker realized the child was 13. Her father was charged with child abuse. On the morning he was due in court, he killed himself. One of his notes said: "The world will never understand." For a few years Genie was the most studied child in America. She learned words fast but never real grammar. Then the grant ran out, her mother cut the scientists off, and Genie was passed through foster homes where she was abused again. Most of the language she had learned disappeared. She is believed to still be alive, in state care in California. The scientists got their papers. Genie went back to silence. Did they save her, or just study her?

Four people were beaten to death in Los Angeles in 1981. The palm print on the headboard above one of them belonged to the biggest porn star in America. His first wife later said he came to her house that morning with blood on his clothes. His name was John Holmes. He has at least 573 documented film credits, and Boogie Nights is loosely based on his life. In the video below he says he doesn’t take drugs and doesn’t even like aspirin. He was freebasing cocaine and selling drugs to pay for it. Then he jokes about strangers coming at him with knives and guns. Listen to his last line. In June 1981 he helped set up a robbery at the home of Eddie Nash, a nightclub owner and organized crime figure. Two days later, before 3 a.m., men walked into the robbers’ house with hammers or pipes. Susan Launius survived on the floor beside her husband’s body. Holmes was charged with all four murders and acquitted in June 1982. He spent 110 days in jail for refusing to testify. The case is still unsolved. In February 1986 he tested HIV positive. That summer he flew to Italy to shoot his last two films and hid it from his co-stars. He died in March 1988, at 43. A month after his death, his wife told the LA Times what he said that morning: he led three men to the door and watched them do it. His lawyers said the killers forced him to get them inside. His wife said he brought them there. Who do you believe?

This nurse killed five of her dialysis patients by injecting bleach into their lines. Then Piers Morgan asked what she'd call a nurse who did that. She said: "A monster." Then she cried about how much she wanted to help people. Two patients watched her fill the syringes. In the video below, Kimberly Saenz gives her first interview from a Texas prison. The last voice you'll hear is Thelma Metcalf's daughter. She bent down to kiss her dead mother's forehead and smelled bleach. In April 2008, patients at the DaVita clinic in Lufkin, Texas, started going into cardiac arrest in their chairs. A CDC investigator found one nurse was present at every death. Two patients testified they saw her draw bleach into syringes and inject it into other patients' lines. When her supervisor confronted her, she said she was cleaning a machine. Police found searches on her computer about whether bleach can kill. In 2012 she got life without parole. At sentencing, Thelma Metcalf's daughter told her: "You are nothing more than a psychopathic serial killer. I hope you burn in hell." She says she became a nurse to give people what the nurses once gave her. She gave them bleach. Prosecutors wanted the death penalty. The jury gave her life. Did they get it right?

This girl had her mom and two little brothers killed because her parents made her dump her boyfriend. Now listen to her sing Amazing Grace. Her mother was nearly beheaded with a samurai sword. Her 8-year-old brother was stabbed to death with the same sword. She was waiting in the car outside. In the video below, Erin Caffey sits across from Piers Morgan in a Texas prison. She was 16 and sang in her church choir. The investigator on her case says he has never met anyone as dangerous. On March 1, 2008, her boyfriend Charlie Wilkinson, 18, and his friend Charles Waid, 20, walked into the family home in Alba, Texas. Her mother Penny was shot, then cut with the sword. Matthew, 13, was shot in the head. Tyler, 8, was stabbed. Then they set the house on fire. Her father Terry took five bullets. He crawled out of the burning house to a neighbor's, trying to stay alive long enough to tell police who did it. When Charlie suggested they just run away together, she said no. According to him, she said: "I want my mom and dad killed." When he told her the boys would have to die too, so there'd be no witnesses: "I don't care. Just do what you gotta do." In the video she says he called the plan "Fubar," like a game, and that she used to laugh and joke about it. She got two life sentences. She can apply for parole at 59. Her father still says she wasn't the driving force. Watch her sing again. Do you believe him?

An FBI agent knocked on this woman's door and asked if she knew who BTK was. She said the serial killer from Kansas. He told her it was her dad. He killed 10 people, including a whole family of four. He hanged their 11-year-old daughter from a pipe in the basement. Her whole life he was a Cub Scout leader and president of the church council. One of the women he strangled lived a few houses down from them. In the video below, Kerri Rawson tells 20/20 about February 25, 2005, the day Dennis Rader was arrested. Watch what she does first. She tries to give him an alibi: "He's a Boy Scout leader, president of the church. You've got the wrong man." At that moment he was already confessing. BTK stood for bind, torture, kill. He signed his letters to police and the press with it while he murdered 10 people around Wichita between 1974 and 1991. In 1985 he left a Cub Scout outing, hid in the closet of his neighbor Marine Hedge and strangled her when she went to bed. Then he drove her body to his own church, where he had the keys, and photographed her there. He got caught because he mailed a floppy disk to a TV station. The file on it was last edited by "Dennis" at "Christ Lutheran Church." To confirm it, police tested a pap smear Kerri had done at a university clinic. Her DNA was a family match. His own daughter helped put him away without knowing it. He got 10 consecutive life sentences. Kerri has forgiven him. She still writes to him and visited him in prison in 2023. Could you forgive your father for this?

The man crying in this video had just pleaded guilty to strangling young women. Three minutes after he walked out of the courtroom, a detective found him with his feet up on a table, smoking a cigarette and laughing. He and his cousin found their victims by pretending to be cops. They flashed a fake badge, handcuffed women and girls and put them in the car. Then they raped, tortured and strangled them and dumped the bodies on hillsides around Los Angeles. The youngest was 12. His name was Kenneth Bianchi. His cousin was Angelo Buono. Bianchi later moved to Washington, killed two more young women there and was arrested in January 1979. Facing the death penalty, he tried to prove he was insane. Under hypnosis a second personality came out of him. It called itself Steve, said it hated Ken and confessed to the murders. Some of the experts believed it. Then psychiatrist Martin Orne casually mentioned to him that real cases usually have more than two personalities. Later that day, under hypnosis, a third one showed up. His name was Billy. Orne said he was faking. Bianchi dropped the act, pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty and agreed to testify against his own cousin. In the video below he takes responsibility in court with tears in his eyes. Then the original hypnosis tapes, Steve confessing and Billy appearing right on cue. It ends with the detective who walked in on him three minutes after the tears. He is still in prison in Washington and was denied parole again in 2025. He gave up his own cousin to save his life, and it worked. Should a killer ever be allowed to trade his way out of the death penalty?