For years, this quiet college town was perhaps best known as home of the national Boy Scout museum. Now it is newly notorious, and its residents increasingly afraid, with the discovery that some of its teens belonged to a vampire cult. The news that four area teen-agers are suspected of beating a Florida couple to death was frightening enough. [ReadOn]

A "black widow" whose activities spanned the turn of the century, Louise Vermilyea came to grief when greed exceeded her discretion and she started reaching out to prey upon acquaintances, instead of relatives. [ReadOn]

A homosexual drifter, 26-year-old David Villarreal was arrested in March 1981, after an informant tipped police to his involvement in a seven-year series of murders around Dallas and San Antonio, Texas. [ReadOn]

Paroled from a Mississippi prison in the spring of 1985, after serving time for killing his second wife, 38 year-old Viser walked into a local police station on April 29, 1986, and confessed to fatally stabbing his third wife, Ineta. In custody, Viser claimed he had killed the 49-year-old woman in self-defense, but homicide investigators found no evidence that would corroborate his story. As one county official declared, "I guess there's a lesson to be learned. If you're a woman, don't marry Thomas Viser."