Infamous Murders

A suicide note accompanies the death of a movie producer; in 1935 a screen idol becomes an apparent suicide; in 1958 a teenage daughter is charged with the murder of an actress's boyfriend.

Cult leaders exert huge power over members, sometimes causing them to kill or to commit suicide.

The heir to a railway fortune shoots his wife's lover; Sharon Tate; Gianni Versace; playwright murder.

The Lindbergh baby's kidnapping and murder; confused kidnappers take the wrong person; a murderer abducts a young heiress.

Young Ronald DeFeo shoots his family; mountain-gorilla researcher Dian Fossey is hacked to death; Italian banker is found hanging from a bridge.

Several serial killers evade punishment.

Prohibition-era gangsters fight for supremacy; bank robber John Dillinger becomes public enemy number one.

Women sometimes kill.

Nurses sometimes kill.

Even America's heartland is not immune to violent crime.

Crucial evidence sometimes brings killers to justice years later.

Traveling murderers roam the country or the world in search of victims.

The anonymity of the highway and the speed of its traffic make it an ideal dumping ground for murderers.

Deaths of civil-rights workers; political and ethnic killings; murders of gay men.

Capital punishment.

The disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa; a man accused of the 1919 murder of a young Englishwoman is acquitted; a doctor stands trial for the 1954 murder of his wife.