There was nothing that Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck wouldn’t do for each other- including killing. Between 1947-1949, they killed three people, but they were suspected of killing at least twenty. Raymond Fernandez was born in Hawaii on December 17, 1914, but was raised in Bridgeport, CT. He moved to Spain when he was a teenager to work on his uncle’s farm. While in Spain he got married and the couple had four children. During WW2 he served in Spain’s Merchant Marines. After the war, he abandoned his family and sailed to America to look for work.  During the voyage, a piece of steel f ..read more

*THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SEXUAL ACTS AND MURDERS OF LITTLE GIRLS*   Tsutomu Miyazaki was born in 1962 into a rich newspaper family. He was born prematurely with a birth defect that left him with gnarled hands. They were fused directly to his wrists, so he had to move his entire forearm to rotate his hand.  Due to his deformity, he was ostracized and had a hard time making friends. The rejection caused him to develop an obsession with manga. As a boy, he was a good student. He wanted to be a teacher, but his grades dropped in high school and that dream was over. Instead, he studied to b ..read more

“You’re pretty near dead now”… Tillie Klimeck reportedly whispered in her husband’s ear. Not exactly the words of a loving, worried wife. And if it wasn’t for the intervention of other family members, her husband Joseph would have died. And the arsenic in his stomach might never have been found.  Unfortunately, her previous husbands (and several others) were not so lucky. In the first few years of the 1920s, almost thirty women were tried and acquitted of murder in Chicago (usually of their husbands). It seemed that if you were a pretty woman – you could get away with murder. Only four w ..read more

The couple that slays together, stays together? That has to be on a bumper sticker somewhere! If not, it will be! (You’re welcome whoever runs out and does it) Suzan and James Carson did their fair share of slaying together but in the end, weren’t able to stay together. Separate prisons have a tendency to do that to a couple.   James Carson and Suzan Barnes were a match made in hell. Back in the 1970s, Suzan Barnes was a divorced mom of two boys living in California. One day she did a few hits of mescaline and had a vision that she’d meet the man of her dreams. James Carson was also divor ..read more

Andras Pandy was born in Czechoslovakia in 1927. He moved to Brussels, Belgium with his first wife Ilona Sores after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. There he worked as a pastor and religionist at a Protestant Church. Although he wasn’t actually ordained as a pastor, the church lent him money when he asked. He bought a small bus and traveled the area giving absolution to people, for a fee.    Pandy and Ilona had two sons and a daughter. He and Ilona divorced after he accused her of cheating. She took the boys from him, but left their daughter, Agnes, with him. Agnes said that he sta ..read more

Imagine being a student at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine. You’re walking past a shelf in the anatomy theater and there, in a jar on a shelf, is a head. Not an unusual sight for a medical student. Until you learn that it’s the actual head of one of Portugal’s most famous killers – Diogo Alves.   Between 1836 and 1840, about seventy people went missing in Lisbon, Portugal. Their bodies were later found in the water below the Aquedato das Aguas Livres. They had been blindfolded, dragged through the Reservato de Mae Aguas das Amoreiras (the tunnel to the aqueduct), and throw ..read more

Luisa de Jesus (a/k/a The Foundling Wheel Killer) had a terrible habit of adopting babies. A lot of them.  And she killed them all.  De Jesus was born in Portugal in 1748. Not much is known about her early life. Her parents were poor farmers and she got married young.    She made her living adopting babies from a “foundling wheel”. Back in those days, infanticide was common among poor people. The Foundling Wheel was a place where mothers who didn’t want or couldn’t care for their babies could leave them anonymously – no questions asked.  The mother would place the baby ..read more

We’ve all heard the rumor that The Exorcist movie was cursed. Did it affect Paul Bateson too? He was a successful radiologist, but could he also have been a serial killer in his spare time?  He was arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison for the murder of Addison Verrill. He also confessed to killing and dismembering six other men. (Allegedly). Bateson grew up in Philadelphia and later enlisted in the Army. During his tour, he started drinking – an addiction that would plague him off and on for many years. In 1964, he moved to New York City and began a long-term relationship with ..read more

In February 1968, Diane Cusick went to the Green Acres Mall in Long Island, NY. She needed a new pair of shoes. But instead, she ended up duct-taped, beaten, raped, and strangled in her car. She was twenty-three. Her killer may have been found fifty years later thanks to advanced DNA testing. His name is Richard Cottingham, a/k/a The Torso Killer.  Diane Cusick – credit The NY Post Richard Cottingham has been in jail since his arrest in 1980. Click here to read our original article. He proudly claims that he has killed anywhere from eighty to one hundred women, but has never offered any i ..read more

Grandmothers are the best! They knit, bake, and put weird amounts of money in birthday cards. They love to spoil their grandkids. And Nannie Doss was no exception. She was always smiling and laughing. Rumor had it that Nannie could whip up the most delicious cakes you could imagine. She was smart, sweet, funny, and caring. All of that aside, one of her most well-known skills was murder.   Nannie (her real name was Nancy Hazle) grew up poor on a farm in Alabama. When she was seven, a train she was riding on stopped short, and she smashed her head on a metal bar in front of her. She grew u ..read more