Christine Falling was born at Perry, Florida, on March 12, 1963, the second child of a 65-year-old father and his 16-year-old wife. Reared in poverty, obese and dull-witted, she required regular doses of medication to control her epileptic seizures. [ReadOn]

Confessed Illinois serial killer Lorenzo Fayne will be investigated for possible links to unsolved local homicides committed when he lived in Milwaukee. Lorenzo Fayne, 30, who is already serving a life sentence for the beating death of a 6-year-old boy in East St. Louis, Illinois, last week pleaded guilty to killing four girls in the East St. Louis area between 1992 and 1994. [ReadOn]

On April 5, 1936, 48-year-old Beatrice Sutton was found dead in her London apartment, Iying across the bed with several pillows stacked over her face. Despite the body's odd posture, there were no immediate signs of a struggle, and her death was first attributed to "natural causes," later shifted to homicide after further investigation proved she had been strangled. [ReadOn]

Mentally, young Danny Figueroa never came of age. At 26, he liked to hang around with adolescent boys, but there was nothing sexual about his interest in the youths. Instead, he seemed to be in search of playmates, youngsters who would share his fantasies of high adventure and the paramilitary games he liked to play around his home in Perris, California, south of Riverside. [ReadOn]

Born in 1930, Joseph Fischer was a rootless transient who left a string of murdered women behind him as he wandered across America. Jailed in Dutchess County, New York, during 1979, Fischer was charged with murdering his wife -- 28 years his senior -- when he simply tired of having her around. [ReadOn]

Born Hamilton Fish, in 1870, America's most notorious 20th-century cannibal was the product of a respected family living in Washington, D.C. A closer examination, however, reveals at least seven relatives with severe mental disorders in the two generations preceding Fish's birth, including two members of the family who died in institutions. [ReadOn]

55 year old hanged at Kirkdale prison, Liverpool by Bartholomew Binns, side by side with her sister, Margaret Higgins. Flanagan and Higgins were both convicted of the poisoning of 44 year old Higgin's husband, Thomas, for his life insurance. [ReadOn]

Convicted in 2001 of two stabbing murders of Yakima-area women in 1987. He was a convicted rapist already serving more than 46 years for a similar 1987 sex attack when he confessed to the slayings. Status: In prison in Washington.

While L.A.'s "Southside Slayer" was engaged in hunting down black prostitutes and strangling or stabbing them to death, a similar phenomenon was noted in Miami and Dade County, Florida. From early 1983 through August 1986, an estimated fifteen women - young and black, including mostly prostitutes and addicts - were dispatched in an area between Miami's Northwest 103rd Street and Northwest 29th, bounded on the west by Northwest 7th Avenue, and on the east by 37th Avenue. [ReadOn]

On August 29, 1975, Dade County's assistant medical examiner announced his belief that one man was responsible for five recent murders of South Florida women. Homicide detectives were convinced of a connection in the July slayings of Ronnie Gorlin, 27, and Elyse Napp, 21, while the medical examiner's report named three other victims . [ReadOn]

On July 10, 1942, the 20-year-old wife of William Brown, a Tulsa trucker, was strangled and raped in her Main Street apartment, on Tulsa's north side. Pregnant at the time of the attack, the victim had been six days from delivery of her child, who also died in what authorities would call a double homicide. Six months went by before the next attack. [ReadOn]

On November 4, 1998, Wayne Adam Ford made headlines when he walked into the Sheriff's station in Northern California, pulled from his pocket a Ziploc bag with a severed breast inside it and admitted to killing four women. [ReadOn]

Clark County parks employee, Vancouver Suspected of kidnapping, raping and strangling six women near Vancouver. Convicted of killing one and abducting, raping and attempting to kill two others, after serving seven years in a state mental hospital. Status: In prison in Washington.

On February 17, 1981, the body of a young, unidentified black woman was found on the outskirts of Fort Lauderdale's ghetto. The medical examiner's report described her death as a homicide committed by "unspecified means." [ReadOn]

Between September 1984 and January 1985, a string of brutal homicides and disappearances spread fear among the female residents of Tarrant County, Texas. Four young women and a teenage girl would lose their lives before the crime spree ended, as mysteriously as it had begun. Police have yet to name a suspect in the case, which still remains unsolved. [ReadOn]

The operation, dubbed "Foxglove," began in 1994 when police began investigating suspicious deaths of five elderly men found with the heart drug digitalis -- a natural poison derived from the foxglove plant -- in their bodies. All deaths were linked to a ring of young gypsie women who seduced and married the older men shortly before their deaths. [ReadOn]

Morris FRAMPTON, a sprinkler system installer from Seattle, beat to death a Seattle prostitute, then dumped her body near the South Park marina. Also convicted of assaulting two other Seattle prostitutes and acquitted of killing another. Status: In prison in Washington.

On September 3, 1998, authorities in white jumpsuits and surgical-style face masks started pulling bodies from the Poughkeepsie, New York, family home of 27-year-old Kendall Francois. By the time they were done investigators found the bodies of eight women in various states of decay tucked away in the attic, basement and crawl spaces of the home the bulging serial killer shared with his mother, father and younger sister. [ReadOn]

A former Klansman and neo-Nazi, Franklin is the embodiment of absolute bigotry. He believed that interracial marriages where a sin against God and took it upon himself to punish the guilty. He enjoyed sniper attacks on interracial couples and killed for sport. Once, he killed two black men and a white woman who were jogging together. [ReadOn]

A suspected serial killer in the Oklahoma County Jail, Earl won an appeal from death row at McAlester, Oklahoma. A former policeman, Earl is suspected of at least 16 murders.

A puzzling case recorded from the nation's capital, this murder series stands officially unsolved despite conviction of two defendants in one of seven similar homicides. Authorities have speculated on solutions in the case, asserting that "justice was served" by the round-up of suspects on unrelated charges, but their faith was shaken by an outbreak of look-alike murders in Maryland, during 1987. [ReadOn]

Known as the Austrian Unabomber, Franz Fuchs, an unemployed engineer, was convicted on four counts of murder on March 10, 1999, for a series of letter and pipe bomb attacks that left four people dead. He was also found guilty of more than a dozen cases of causing grievous bodily harm with bombs. [ReadOn]