Cleophus Prince, Jr., known as The Clairemont Killer, is an American serial killer convicted and sentenced to death in 1993 for the murder of six women in San Diego County, California from January through September 1990. Before these crimes and while serving in the United States Navy, Prince was court-martialed in 1989 due to larceny. Upon being convicted, he was recommended to be discharged after serving his sentence. Multiple books have been written on Prince and his crimes.

The Truro murders is the name given to a series of murders uncovered with the discovery in 1978 and 1979 of the remains of a young woman and teenage girl in bushland east of the town of Truro in South Australia. After police searches, the remains of seven women and girls were discovered in total: five at Truro, one at Wingfield, and one at Port Gawler. The victims had been murdered over a two-month period in 1976–1977.

Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester, and cannibal who committed at least three murders from July 1924 to June 1928. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man.

Lifetime psychopathic misfit is permitted to rape and assault women, rewarded with short prison times, and then released to wreak havoc on the female population. Finally, after a number of murders, he is locked up for good. He should be the poster boy for much tougher sentencing laws in Australia.

The scene was that of the most brutal, seemingly random, and senseless crime in the history of Mont Vernon, N.H. The motive? Killing for the thrill, the fun, and to seal an irrevocable initiation with innocent blood.

The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act. This is contrasted with an excuse of provocation, in which the defendant is responsible, but the responsibility is lessened due to a temporary mental state.

AMBER is a backronym standing for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. It was created in reference to Amber Rene Hagerman, a girl who was abducted and later found murdered in 1996.

Ruth Snyder, Anna Antonio, Eva Coo, Frances Creighton, Helen Fowler, Martha Beck, and Ethel Rosenberg are sure to be among the last women who will ever be executed in the State of New York, once the national showcase for capital punishment.

A pair of elderly women seemingly pulled from the script of Arsenic and Old Lace stand accused of the insurance-motivated murder of two Los Angeles vagrants.

Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia).