The Thai reporter was investigating the folklore in parts of north and north-eastern Thailand which talks of mysterious ‘widow ghosts’ or lai thai spirits that claim the lives of healthy young men

In late July 1960, a family searching for precious stones in the hot deserts of Arizona instead stumbled across the body of a young girl, partially buried in the sand. Although her body had badly decomposed, her nails retained their bright red nail polish and her hair had been dyed a distinct auburn. Nameless and unknown, the community raised enough money for a proper burial - a service attended by 70 people. During the eulogy, someone said: “Somewhere, someone is watching to see what happened to a little girl left in the desert.”

The Smiley face murder theory is a theory advanced by retired New York City detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, and Dr. Lee Gilbertson, a criminal justice professor and gang expert at St. Cloud State University. They allege that a number of young men found dead in bodies of water across several Midwestern American states from the late 1990s to the 2010s did not accidentally drown, as concluded by law enforcement agencies, but were victims of a serial killer or killers.

In February of 1949, police raided a warehouse on Leopold Road in West Sussex, owned by John George Haigh. Inside, they found several 40-gallon drums and containers of concentrated sulphuric acid. Outside, they found 28 pounds of melted human body fat, part of a human foot, human gallstones, and part of a denture.

A serial killer finds a newly vulnerable class of victims: white, working-class men.

Craigslist murderer Richard Beasley. Murder by Craigslist

Charles Frederick Rogers (December 30, 1921[1] – disappeared June 23, 1965) was an American seismologist, pilot, and suspected murderer. Rogers disappeared in June 1965 after police discovered the dismembered bodies of his elderly parents in the refrigerator of the Houston home all three shared, in what the media later dubbed "The Icebox Murders".[2] Rogers has never been found and was declared dead in absentia in July 1975. He remains the only suspect in the murders, which are still considered unsolved.

JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A long handwritten ransom note was found in the home. Her father, John, found the girl's body in the basement of their house about seven hours after she had been reported missing.

Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer, rapist, cannibal, and necrophile who killed six people in the span of a month in Sacramento, California. He was nicknamed The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains.

evidence in the Mexico serial killer house suggest 3,787 bone fragments of multiple victims.

 Murder of Dorothy Jane Scott - Wikipedia, “I was just reading about Dorothy Scott recently. Her story is the saddest, and the creepiest was the bones of the dead dog the killer left on top of her remains to throw scavenger dogs off of his trail. Also, how her watch was stopped to the exact moment she died. I just can’t believe that he called her family so often and they could never trace the calls…I know it was the times though. But the whole thing is so horrifying.”