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Gu Kailai

Chinese lawyer

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Anthony Casso

American organized-crime figure

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Lyle Menendez

American convicted killer

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Erik Menendez

American convicted killer

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Bernardo Provenzano

Italian mob boss

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Aristogeiton

Greek tyrannicide

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Richard A. Loeb

American murderer

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William Burke

Irish criminal

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Nathan F. Leopold, Jr.

American murderer

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William Hare

Irish criminal

Jeffrey Epstein, 2004

Jeffrey Epstein

American financier and convicted sex offender

Richard III

Richard III

king of England

Charles Manson

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader

Portrait of Lizzie Andrew Borden wearing a high-collared, dark lace dress with a flower at her neck, facing slightly to the side with a neutral expression.

Lizzie Borden

American murder suspect

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

American boxer

Guilty

Alex Murdaugh

American lawyer

Aaron Hernandez

Aaron Hernandez

American football player and convicted murderer

Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy

American serial killer

Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell

British-American convicted sex offender

“The Damsel of Death”

Aileen Wuornos

American serial killer

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Famous Serial Killers

Frank Costello testifying before the U.S. Senate investigating committee headed by Estes Kefauver, 1951.

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