An in-depth look at killers who gained public notoriety when their crimes received media attention.
Gary Ridgway is known as the Green River Killer; he confessed to 71 murders.
Marshall Applewhite founded Heaven's Gate; the largest American mass suicide since Jonestown.
Whitey Bulger is one of the most prominent figures in Boston's organized crime scene.
Aaron Hernandez is charged with the first-degree murder of friend Odin Lloyd.
A former professor at Cal Berkeley, Ted Kaczynski became known as the Unabomber.
Pregnant 18-year-old Melissa Drexler gives birth to her son in a bathroom stall during her prom.
Jack the Ripper is the name given to and unidentified serial killer that murdered in London in 1888.
Jeffrey Dahmer is arguably one of the most gruesome serial killers the world has ever seen.
John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 males, most of whom he buried in the crawl space beneath his home.
Dennis Rader lives as a serial killer in the Wichita, Kan., area from the 1970s to the '90s.
Aileen Wuornos gained national attention after she was charged with murdering at least six men.
For three weeks in 2002, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Muhammad hunt random D.C. residents with a rifle.
Karla Homolka and her husband, Paul Bernardo, drugged, raped and murdered three teens.
Before he goes to trial, Danny Rolling unexpectedly pleads guilty to five disturbing murders.
Ruthless drug lord Pablo Escobar turns Columbia into the murder capital of the world.
David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, kills six people in 1976 and brings New York City to its knees.
Police officer turned killer Laurie Bembenek is convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife.
Known as the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo's murder spree claims the lives of 13 women.
In 1966, mass murderer Richard Speck tortures, rapes and murders eight student nurses.
Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden orchestrates an attack against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
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