Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on February 26, 1960, O'Neall grew up a drifter and pathological liar with a taste for violent sex. He traveled widely, favoring the West and avidly devouring the novels of best-selling Western writer Louis L'Amour. [ReadOn]

A German railway worker and loyal Nazi party member, Ogorzow earned local notoriety as the "S Bahn murderer" in World War II. Stalking female victims around Rummelsburg, on the Berlin line, he was a sadist who killed for sexual satisfaction, relishing the evident fear of his chosen prey. [ReadOn]

In three years' time, between August 1979 and October 1982, eight victims were dispatched in grisly style by a killer (or killers) who preyed on young Ohio couples, randomly selecting victims in a triangle of death that stretched from Akron and Toledo in the north to Logan, in the south. [ReadOn]

At least four women have been found dismembered in the Stiles Circle-Lincoln Terrace-Medical Center Area of Oklahoma City.. The first body was found in pieces through several blocks near the Capitol in 1976. The last body was found in 1985 during a demolition excavation for the construction of the Centennial Expressway. [ReadOn]

On September 26, 1981, Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett, both 13, phoned home to tell their parents that they had been offered work, unloading stuffed animals for a midway arcade at the Oklahoma City fairgrounds. [ReadOn]

A Vancouver, British Columbia, native, this police informer spent most of his life in trouble with the law. Between 1957 and 1981 he logged ninety-four arrests. His murderous reign of terror around Vancouver started in November of 1980 with the abduction and slaughter of a twelve-year-old girl. [ReadOn]

On January 2001 Texas authorities arrested California parolee arrested Devon Stuart Olson who subsequently confessed to crimes in Texas, California and Arkansas, including the 1986 murders of a couple near Sacramento. [ReadOn]

In Yemen, a Sudanese morgue worker at Sanaa University used his position at the university at least 16 women. Mohammad Adam Omar, 48, was arrested May 17, 2000, following the persistent complaining by the mother of an Iraqi student who mysteriously disappeared December 1999. [ReadOn]

When police arrested 37-year-old former forrestry student, Anatoly Onoprienko on April 16, 1996, they finally ended the Ukraine's worst killing spree. Anatoly, a native of Zhitomir, was carrying a hunting rifle that matched the murder weapon in several of the killings and had jewelry and video equipment, which may belong to some of his victims. [ReadOn]

The latter 1970s were witness to a sudden rash of random, homicidal violence in America, alerting criminologists to a disturbing increase in the incidence of serial murders. Some regions of the country - Texas, Florida, New York - seemed bent on hogging headlines for their local maniacs, but none could hold a candle to the battlefield of Southern California, where the "Hillside Strangler," "Freeway Killer," "Sunset Slayer," "Skid Row Slasher," and a host of others plied their trade. [ReadOn]

Als die Polizei am 13. Juni 1995 zu einem Haus in Wien-Liesing gerufen wird, ahnt noch niemand, daß dieser Notruf zu einem der spektakulärsten Mordfälle Österreichs führen wird. [ReadOn]