On April 1, 1997, police responded to a noise complaint at a hotel room where serial killer Andrew Urdiales was with a prostitute. When the prostitute told the officer that Urdiales was “kind of kinky” and wanted to take her to Chicago’s Wolf Lake, handcuff her and have sex with her, the officer said, “Geez…don’t do that. We’re finding girls up there dead.”

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On March 19, 2000, 9-year-old Krystal Steadman never came home from school. To the horror of her community, she had been murdered, brutally and cruelly, all for the sexual satisfaction of one disturbed man. Ten days later, on the 29th, that man, Thomas Soria Sr., was charged with her sexual assault and murder.

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On October 26, 1965, Indianapolis police answered a call saying that a girl had died. The call came from a pay telephone in front of a Shell station in a poor section of the city. When the cops got to the dingy clapboard home, they found the emaciated dead body of 16-year-old Sylvia Marie Likens, who had suffered a degree of abuse so tremendous, a prosecutor later called her killing “the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana.”

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On March, 2006, Mary Winkler, a demure Tennessee minister’s wife unloaded 77 pellets of birdshot into her husband Matthew. As he lay bleeding and groaning on their bedroom floor, Matthew asked his wife of ten years, “Why?” To answer that question would require uncovering the Winkler family’s secrets.

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On March 20, 1958, the dilapidated farmhouse in which Gein had slaughtered his victims and adorned himself with their body parts, burned to the ground destroying most of his belongings. The inspiration for Hollywood’s greatest serial killers, Gein and his crimes are truly the stuff of nightmares.

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On March 18, 1974, three weeks after being let out on parole, 14-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was opening his mother’s store when little Katie Curran walked in looking for a notebook to buy. With the promise of more notebooks downstairs, Jesse took her to a cellar where he brutalized and killed her.

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On March 12, 2004, after years of abuse, incest and brainwashing, the grotesque family empire of Marcus Wesson came to a tragic end. As police surrounded the house where the Wesson family lived, shots rang out. In the end, the bodies of nine Wesson children–each shot through the eye–were found in a room furnished with antique coffins.

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Two brothers–Artie and Jim Mitchell–had created a booming porn business in 1970s LA. But success came with problems, and on February 27, 1991, Jim shot Artie after an argument. A computer simulation video, breakthrough technology at the time, helped sway the jury to convict Jim.

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Marie Hilley, who killed her husband with poison and attempted to do away with her daughter in the same way, was so well-behaved in prison that officials gave her a three-day furlough. After walking out of prison, she spent four days crawling around in cold, muddy woods until she was found on February 26, 1987, and brought to a hospital where she died.

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Jacqueline McDonnell, 23, disappeared in mid-January 1998, officially reported missing on February 22, 1999. She was one of dozens of Vancouver-area women killed by Robert Pickton, a pig farm owner.

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