Jim Goad
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Stone Mountain, GA, United States
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The Extremely Online Killer: Luka Magnotta’s Psychotic Narcissism
Imagine being so empty inside that you would do anything—ANYTHING—for attention. Luka Magnotta was determined to get attention if he had to kill for it. → Read More
Human Guinea Pigs: The Horrors Of Unit 731
Estimates of the death toll from experiments performed on prisoners at Unit 731 range from 3,000 to 12,000. One thing is for certain—no prisoner, whether man, woman, or child, got out alive. → Read More
Long Island Serial Killer: Still A Mystery
Nearly ten years ago, ten corpses were found buried in marshlands along Long Island’s South Shore. Nearly all of the victims were female escorts who’d advertised their services through … → Read More
The Man Whose Dreams Were Much More Boring Than His Real Life
Belden K. Bok sat at his kitchen table, eating a sandwich and reading a newspaper. Then he woke up. → Read More
KILLER NURSES: 20 Caregivers Who Murdered Their Patients
“I didn’t kill the babies; the voices in my head did.” → Read More
KILLER DOCTORS: 8 Physicians Who Murdered Their Patients
He told victims he was helping them flee the Nazis but that they needed an immunization shot first; instead, he murdered them and stole their belongings. → Read More
The Legend Of The Unloved Monster
Peering out his apartment window at the happy young couples walking hand-in-hand on the cobblestone streets below, Hansel Sumter had never felt so alone in his life. → Read More
‘The Doodler’: Slayer Of At Least Five Gay Men In The 1970s Has Never Been Caught
The three survivors who were able to positively identify him—among them a foreign diplomat and a famous entertainer—refused to do so for fear of being outed as gay. → Read More
Witch’s Brew: How The ‘Philadelphia Poison Ring’ Exploited Unhappy Wives And Killed 100+ People
For a few years in the midst of the Great Depression, a criminal syndicate operated out of Philadelphia that combined a toxic mix of black magic, fatal arsenic poisonings, insurance scams, and unha… → Read More
Joker: 10 Things You Should Know About The Year’s Most Controversial Film
Stripped to its core, the film is the familiar story of a bullying victim who reaches his limit and becomes violent. → Read More
Gerard John Schaefer: A Serial Killer Who Wrote ‘Killer Fiction’
Gerard John “GJ” Schaefer’s wrote horrifying true-crime fiction—and his “fictional” writing helped convict him of murder. He was convicted of two murders, suspected by… → Read More
13 EXTREMELY Odd Suicides
From jumping into a live volcano…to walking into a vat of molten iron…to plunging a power drill into your skull…to calmly lying in the path of an oncoming steamroller…here a… → Read More
The Man Who Kept Seeing Rainbows
You can see too many rainbows just like you can see too much sunshine. Too much of a good thing can be poison. → Read More
Genene Jones: The Nurse With A Savior Complex Who May Have Killed Up To 60 Infants
“I didn’t kill the babies; the voices in my head did.” → Read More
Richard Kuklinski: The Mafia “Iceman” And His Stone-Cold Heart
Richard Kuklinski, AKA the “Iceman,” was a Mafia hit man who may have killed hundreds of people without blinking or breaking a sweat. No one is born a serial klller, so what made him th… → Read More
Jarrod Ramos: Accused Newsroom Gunman Couldn’t Handle Rejection
Jarrod Ramos, 38, is charged with killing five people at a Maryland newspaper that he’d harassed for years after they wrote about him harassing a woman. Did his inability to deal with rejecti… → Read More
David Berkowitz: Did The ‘Son Of Sam’ Terrorize New York City Alone?
David Berkowitz, AKA “Son of Sam,” carried off a string of nighttime shootings in the boroughs of NYC from 1976 to 1977 that terrorized a metro area of 14.5 million people. But did he a… → Read More
Rodney Alcala: The ‘Dating Game’ Killer Who Seduced Women With His Camera and A Smile
Rodney Alcala appeared on hit TV show The Dating Game in 1978 and used his charm to win the girl. No one knew he’d already murdered at least four women and served prison time for raping an ei… → Read More
David Parker Ray: Did The ‘Toy-Box Killer’ Murder 60 Women In His Trailer?
David Parker Ray, AKA the “Toy-Box Killer,” may have murdered up to 60 women in a trailer he’d rigged as a sadomasochistic torture chamber. But he died before ever facing murder c… → Read More
Dennis Rader: What Made BTK ‘Bind, Torture, And Kill’ 10 People?
Serial killer Dennis Rader chose his own nickname—”BTK” for “Bind, Torture, Kill.” He murdered ten people in Kansas while evading justice for over 30 years. → Read More