Rodney Alcala, dubbed “The Dating Game Killer,” was a sexually sadistic serial killer and rapist who murdered at least eight people (mostly young women and girls) between 1971 and 1979, though investigators believe he may be responsible for over 100 victims. Alcala posed as a photographer to lure his victims, often torturing and strangling them repeatedly before finally killing them.

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Missy Bevers, a 45-year-old fitness instructor and mom, was murdered before dawn on April 18, 2016, inside Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas, as she prepared to lead a boot camp class. The killer—captured on church surveillance footage—was dressed in police-style tactical gear and carried a hammer, prowling the hallways and smashing windows and doors but stealing nothing.

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Deborah Ann Danhaus was an 18-year-old from Amboy, Illinois, whose partially unclothed body was found on August 7, 1971 at the edge of a field. She had been murdered earlier that month, but the exact date of death remains unknown. Deborah’s case is considered unsolved; news reports from the time describe a “standstill” in the investigation, and no perpetrator has ever been identified or convicted. Decades later, the mystery endures in both local memory and cold case discussions.

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The Las Vegas country concert shooting—known as the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre—occurred on October 1, 2017, when Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,000 rounds from a 32nd-floor room at Mandalay Bay into a crowd of 22,000 attending the outdoor music event on the Las Vegas Strip. Country star Jason Aldean was performing as the shooting began, and concertgoers initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks before chaos erupted.

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Cosmo DiNardo lured four young men—Jimi Patrick, Dean Finocchiaro, Thomas Meo, and Mark Sturgis—to his family’s rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania farm in July 2017 under the guise of selling them marijuana. DiNardo shot all four men, burned three bodies in a pig roaster with help from his cousin Sean Kratz, and buried the remains in deep pits using heavy equipment.

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