On the tragic evening of November 13, 1974, a young man shoots and kills his entire family with a 35-caliber Marlin rifle as his parents, two brothers and two sisters apparently sleep. The gruesome murder of the DeFeo family shakes up the sleepy Long Island town of Amityville—and leads to decades of horror storytelling.
Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. told people that...
GLENN HELZER AND THE CHILDREN OF THUNDER MURDERS
Glenn Taylor Helzer
Glenn Helzer
Born: 07-26-1970
American Spree Killer
Crime Spree : July 30 – August 4, 2000
Incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison, California
Glenn Helzer was an American Spree Killer. Together, with his younger brother Justin and his girlfriend Dawn Godman, he murdered...
November 28,
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, serving 15 consecutive life sentences for the brutal murders of 15 men, is beaten to death by a fellow inmate while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin.
During a 13-year period, Dahmer, who lived primarily in the Midwest, murdered at least 17 men. Most of these men...
The Clutter Family Murders (1959): Made famous by Truman Capote's book "In Cold Blood," this case involved the murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. The senseless killings led to widespread fear in the community and renewed debates about the death penalty.
The Clutter Family Murders of 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas, is a tragic and chilling true crime case that shook the nation. The...