Robert Pickton:
The Vancouver-area pig farmer was found guilty of second-degree murder in an estimated, highly controversial, $100 million investigation and longest trial in Canadian history. Pickton preyed upon sex trade workers and is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of some 60 women.
Charles Manson
Investigators follow new leads in the Manson case. Read the whole story of the charismatic cult leader who was willing to resort to murder to see his prophecy of doom fulfilled.
John Wayn Gacy
The jury in the case of one of the most notorious serial killers, responsible for a total of 33 murders, returned a guilty verdict 28 years ago last week
A "respectable" Chicago-area businessman, he hired young men to work in his contracting company, then raped and murdered scores of them, burying their bodies on his properties. In prison, he became the focus of researching the psychopathic mind.
At least five patients recovering from brain surgery at the Albert Einstein Medical Center were murdered by injections of heparin, which caused them to bleed to death. Intensive investigation by the Bronx D.A.'s office led to suspects but insufficient evidence to prosecute. The public was never notified and families may not have learned that their loved ones were victims of a serial killer.
Notorious
The notorious and very bizarre serial killer who called himself The Zodiac remains one of the world's great unsolved cases. In Oct., 1966, a girl was viciously murdered in Riverside, California when she permitted a man to help start the car that he had intentionally disabled when she was in her school library.
This homicide began a ghoulish series of murders that panicked the people of the San Francisco area. For years the Zodiac taunted the police with weird ciphers, phone calls, insulting and cryptic messages.
Even though police investigated over 2,500 potential suspects, the case was never solved. There were a few suspects that stood out, but the forensic technology of the times was not advanced enough to nail any one of them conclusively.
Partners in Crime
The Birnies
David's insatiable sexual appetite caused him to enlist wife Catherine into abducting, raping, and eventually, brutally murdering four women in the their Perth, Australia, love nest and torture chamber at 3 Moorhouse Street. David's cruelty finally got to Catherine who couldn't stand to participate in another murder. The victim escaped and resulted in the capture of the two serial killers.
Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
It was a daring thing to do, but writer and director Joel Bender made a true-crime drama based on the infamous story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Karla was quite controversial when released in Canada in 2006, and some groups even tried to block it. They were unsuccessful. Now it's available on DVD.
The film adopts Karla's point of view throughout, and if you believe the performance you'll regard Karla as the prototypical battered wife and compliant accomplice. This can get annoying for anyone familiar with the facts, but in the end it's made clear that her story is pretty much a self-serving "reorganization" of what happened: she never apologized to victims' families, never expressed public remorse, and seemed as narcissistic upon her release as she'd ever been.
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