Rasputin, a self-proclaimed magician and cult leader, wormed his way into the palace of the Romanovs, Russia’s ruling family, around the turn of the last
Category: True Crime
This twentieth-century urban legend haunted residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The legend had it that a figure with a severely burned face lurked around an abandoned
According to this creepy tale, “Cropsey” lurked beneath the abandoned Willowbrook State School for children. In some versions of the tale, Cropsey was an ax
Name: Robert Jeffrey (“Jeff”) Pelley Date of Birth: December 10, 1971 Claim to Infamy: On Sunday morning, April 30, 1989, four members of his family
Name: Michael Dean Overstreet Known Aliases: (none) Date of Birth: November 18, 1966 Claim to Infamy: On September 7, 1997, Overstreet abducted, raped, and murdered
Name: Herbert Richard “Herb” Baumeister Known Aliases: Brian Smart, Brian Stats Date of Birth: April 7, 1947 Claim to Infamy: Eleven bodies were found on
April 28, 1978 – Divorced mother Terry Lee Chasteen was taking her three small children – Misty (5), Stephen (4), and Mark (2) – to
Jim Sullivan was a cult folk-rocker in the ’60s and ’70s who was just days away from his big break when he disappeared. This was
The Zodiac Killer is one of America’s most infamous serial killers. During the 1960s and 1970s, Zodiac murdered at least five people, often couples in secluded
Charles Raymond Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate were a pair of teenaged spree killers. In 1958 they killed at least 15 people. Starkweather was executed