Killer Celebrities
This professional wrestler won more than a dozen championships before killing his family in 2007
Who is Chris Benoit
This is a fingerprint made of the sweat and oil from one's skin (rather than blood or something more visible). Crime scene investigators usually need powders or chemicals to identify this type of print.
What is a latent print
This American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri was part of the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang.
This serial killer told Dateline in 1994 that he killed his victims and chilled them in his refrigerator and freezer because he wanted to "keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them."
Who was Jeffrey Dahmer
Sometimes called the "American Stonehenge," this granite monument was built in 1979 in Elbert County, Georgia. It contains ten commandments written in eight languages. Not commandments from the Bible. One states: "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature."
What are Georgia Guidestones
This actor starred in tv series the OC and Sons of Anarchy as well as roles in major feature films such as Alien v Predator before killing Catherine Davis, the Villa Manager where he lived...
Who is Johnny Lewis
This chemical emits a blue glow when mixed with a certain oxidizing agent. By spraying a violent crime scene with this, investigators can detect traces of blood that aren't visible to the naked eye.
What is luminol
He is the famous serial killer that was never caught in England, brutally murdering (at least) five prostitutes in the East End of London throughout the autumn of 1888.
Who is Jack The Ripper
This former New England Patriots tight-end seemingly had it all. That all came crashing down, though, when he was arrested for murdering a friend of his.
Who was Aaron Hernandez
This Virginian, as the old west legend goes, states he found gold and silver in New Mexico (worth $43 million today) and brought it back to Bedford County Virginia and buried it. He left a letter with clues for his friend, which have now been cyphered but no treasure has been found as of yet.
Who was Thomas J Beale
This rap music mogul was charged with murder in 2015 after committing a fatal hit-and-run following a disagreement that broke out on the set of N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton.
Who is Suge Knight
Twentieth-century forensic scientist Dr. Edmond Locard came up with this idea after observing that criminals will almost always bring something into the crime scene with them and leave something behind, providing valuable evidence to investigators.
What is the
LOCARD'S EXCHANGE PRINCIPLE
This American outlaw Johnny Ringo was found shot dead on 14 July 1882. Although officially ruled suicide, doubts have been cast upon the sequence of events, and both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were implicated in murdering him...
Who is Johnny Ringo
This 2018 Netflix series focuses specifically on the case of Garrett Rodriguez, who was found murdered in Northern California- that just so happens to encompass a marijuana industry both legal and illegal enterprises. The mixing of these different sects has led to disappearances, murders, and cover-ups as locals prefer to take an outlaw view on doling out justice.
What is Murder Mountain
On August 20th, 2007, a disembodied human foot, still in an Adidas tennis shoe, washed up on a beach near here. A week later, another foot washed ashore, this one in a white Reebok. In the eleven years since, a grand total of thirteen feet, usually in sneakers, have been found on the beaches of this place.
What is Vancouver British Columbia
This South African sprint runner was charged with culpable homicide after the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013.
Who is Oscar Pistorius
These scientists look at how insects interact with crime scenes. Based on what type of bugs are hanging around a corpse and which stage of development they're in which helps investigators determine a time of death.
What is a Forensic Entomologist
She is believed to have murdered hundreds of babies during the 19th Century. Her crimes led to one of the most sensational trials of the period and shone a spotlight on the Victorian practice of "baby farming".
Who is Amelia Dyer
What famous author wrote his only nonfiction book called The Innocent Man (turned Netflix series) which looks at the 1998 wrongful conviction of Ronald Keith Williamson for the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter. The series also looks at another pending wrongful conviction in the same small town of Ada, Oklahoma.
Who is John Grisham
Long before the word "hacking" was a part of our national vocabulary, two Chicago television stations in 1987 were briefly taken over by a mysterious hacker, who interrupted broadcast signals and appeared on screen wearing a mask and sunglasses. Name that famous mask
What is or Who is Max Headroom
This famous television star known for hunting down bad guys was charged with murder in the ’70s when he was present during his friend’s altercation with a drug dealer that ended in the dealer’s death. He was convicted of first degree murder in 1976 and sentenced to five years in a Texas prison, ultimately serving 18 months.
Dubbed this, because of its prevalent use among Scottish gangs in the 1920s and '30s, this mark has appeared in numerous murder cases such as the The Black Dahlia.
What is the
GLASGOW SMILE
In the 1800's deceased bodies were needed for medical research and thus began an underground heist of recently buried people. The need for fresh bodies was so high, that in 1828, these two "Williams" began to take advantage of it by selling the bodies of people they’d murdered.
Who were Hare and Burke
This popular Netflix series (season 2), introduced a new practice in crime investigations to our culture called Brain Fingerprinting-that senses brain activity of a suspect when being questioned and given details of the crime.
What is Making A Murderer
Many take for granted that when Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" on July 20th 1969, he was actually walking on the lunar surface. Some claim it was all an act. The theory is that the whole thing was staged, filmed in a Hollywood studio by this director who had wowed audiences a year earlier with his pretty realistic outer space epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Who is Stanley Kubrick