Brandon Teena, born Teena Renae Brandon, (b. December 12, 1972, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. - d. December 31, 1993, Humboldt, Nebraska), biologically female individual who lived his life as a male and was murdered by two former friends, John L. Lotter and Thomas M. Nissen, after they discovered his biological sex. Teena and his story have been at the center of academic and public debates concerning gender and sexuality rights. While it is unclear whether Teena identified as transgender, trans...

Paul Warner Powell (April 13, 1978 – March 18, 2010 | age 31) was an American man convicted and executed for the murder of his friend Stacie Reed, 16, in 1999. He also raped, strangled, and stabbed the girl's sister Kristie, 14, who survived. Following the vacature of his capital murder conviction upon appeal, he wrote letters boasting about his crimes under the mistaken belief that he was exempt from punishment by the principle of double jeopardy. His letters were used as evidence ag...

Cory Deonn Morris (born May 10, 1978), known as “The Crackhead Killer”, is an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile who killed at least five prostitutes at his trailer in Phoenix, Arizona between a period of eight months from September 2002 to April 2003. Morris was convicted of all 5 murders, resulting in a death sentence. Morris kept the bodies after they began to decompose because he enjoyed the odor of decomposition.

You have every right to hate me, every right to want me dead and every right to never forgive me. I take full responsibility for your daughter’s death. But her death was not the worst part, what I did after she was dead was unexcusable, sick, and disgusting. I hate myself for what I did. I am in terrible pain every day because your daughter is dead by my actions. She should still be with you. All I can say is I'm sorry. The words are small but they are so sincere. Sincerely, Craig G...

Twelve-year-old Teketria Buggs was killed on the night of December 3, 2005, and searchers found her body nearly two weeks later in the Brazos River not far from her Orchard home in rural Fort Bend County. Teketria's body was found floating in the Brazos a few hundred yards from the FM 1489 bridge. She had been beaten in the head and stabbed multiple times.

Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames; born May 26, 1941 | age 82, is a former CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana. Ames was known to have compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer until Robert Hanssen, who was arrested seven years later in 2001.

Melvin L. Knight (b. October 27, 1989) was one of six Greensburg (G6) roommates who were convicted in connection with the torture and murder of 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty. The Mt. Pleasant, PA woman was held captive for more than two days in their apartment, where police said she was beaten, tortured, and stabbed to death. Her body was tied with Christmas lights and garland, stuffed into a trash bin and discarded under a truck in a snow-covered parking lot.According to her relatives, Jenny ...

"No! It's not even conceivable. Not him," said Victoria Law-Thomson, Warner's mother. Matthew Warner killed his daughter in their home Jan. 23, 2015 while the child's mother was at work. Matthew Warner said the newborn had been kidnapped, and a search began for Ellorah Warner. He later led authorities to the infant's body, which he had hidden in the cab of his truck in a nearby parking lot. Authorities charged 30-year-old Matthew for a long list of disturbing acts, which includes...