Top 10 Gruesome Facts About John Wayne Gacy Are you scared of clowns? Stephen King’s IT may have played to a popular fear of the scary killer clown but if you thought that they were a figment of popular imagination, think again. Truth is always stranger than fiction and America was, for a time, home… Continue reading Top 10 Gruesome Facts About John Wayne Gacy
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Top 10 Facts About Richard Ramirez the Night Stalker
Top 10 Facts About Richard Ramirez the Night Stalker Born Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez in 1960, Richard Ramirez was one of the world’s most sensational serial killers. After an upbringing in poverty in El Paso, Texas, he would eventually move to the West Coast and terrorize Los Angeles and San Francisco in a series of… Continue reading Top 10 Facts About Richard Ramirez the Night Stalker
Top 10 Facts About Bernie Madoff’s Historic Ponzi Scheme
Top 10 Facts About Bernie Madoff’s Historic Ponzi Scheme: A $65 Million Scam! Described as toxic by his family members, Bernie Madoff made off with billions of dollars from the victims of his vast, decades-long Ponzi scheme. With his arrest in December of 2008, Madoff would destroy the fortunes of thousands of investors, as well… Continue reading Top 10 Facts About Bernie Madoff’s Historic Ponzi Scheme
Top 10 Disturbing Facts About Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer
10 Disturbing Facts About Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer Few serial killers have shocked the nation—even the world—like Jeffrey Dahmer. His numerous crimes were almost unbelievably grotesque and extreme, yet they occurred in an ordinary apartment building, right under the noses of his neighbors. After Dahmer, it became a little bit harder to trust the apparently… Continue reading Top 10 Disturbing Facts About Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer
Top 10 Wrongful Convictions Overturned by DNA Evidence
Top 10 Stories of Wrongful Conviction Overturned by DNA Evidence Ever since the first use in the US, in 1989 of DNA to exonerate a person wrongfully convicted of a crime, the Innocence project has worked to ensure that justice is served. It is quite frightening to think that without this DNA evidence over 325… Continue reading Top 10 Wrongful Convictions Overturned by DNA Evidence
Top 10 Most Dangerous Motorcycle Gangs
Top 10 Most Dangerous Motorcycle Gangs What differentiates a motorcycle club or organization from a group of deadly outlaws? According to the United States Department of Justice, Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (or OMGs) “…are organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprises. OMGs are highly structured criminal organizations whose members engage… Continue reading Top 10 Most Dangerous Motorcycle Gangs
Top 10 Most Famous Not Guilty Verdicts
Top 10 Most Famous Not Guilty Verdicts With the invention of cable television and around-the-clock media, legal cases that would have once remained relatively obscure, if not out of the public’s eye altogether, now are brought into people’s living rooms and the so-called court of public opinion. Network and cable outlets devote massive amounts of time… Continue reading Top 10 Most Famous Not Guilty Verdicts
Top 10 Facts About Son of Sam Serial Killer David Berkowitz
10 Strange Facts about Son of Sam Serial Killer David Berkowitz Ask anyone to name the worst serial killers of all time, and the odds are good that David Berkowitz will make the list. Better known by the nickname given to him by the media, Son of Sam, he killed six people and wounded seven… Continue reading Top 10 Facts About Son of Sam Serial Killer David Berkowitz
Top 10 Things We Know About Jack The Ripper
Top 10 Things We Know About Jack The Ripper Who is Jack the Ripper? And how much do we really know about him? Thanks to Ripperologists, quite a lot is known or presumed to be known, though his true identity has not been discovered for sure. Jack the Ripper refers to a still-unknown serial killer… Continue reading Top 10 Things We Know About Jack The Ripper