Michel Peiry, or "The Sadist of Romont", is a Swiss serial killer whose crimes were committed between 1981 and 1987. All that is known about him is that he handpicks his victims: teenage boys hitchhiking home at night, whom he picks up in his vehicle before gagging, raping and burning them alive.

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In the early 1960s, mysterious child abductions and murders were making headlines. Between July 1963 and October 1965, five children and teenagers were horribly raped and mutilated and their remains buried on Saddleworth Moor. The long investigation led by the Manchester Police Department will gradually shed light on two immoral and demonic personalities: Myra Hindley is a charming blonde, and her partner, Ian Brady!

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the American pilot Charles Lindbergh became famous for his famous 33-hour flight from New York to Paris in his Spirit of Saint Louis monoplane. But at the height of his professional career, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrrow were faced with an unprecedented tragedy: on 1 March 1932, Chaz, their twenty-month-old baby, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, having been kidnapped.

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On 20 April 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, two teenagers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, opened fire on their fellow students at Columbine High School. The two boys, armed with a veritable arsenal of weapons, fired for fifty minutes non-stop at students and teachers..., before the killing spree ended with the suicide of the two friends! The questions then arise: why did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two intelligent and cultured teenagers, commit the irreparable? What was the trigger for this duettistic killing spree?

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Leonarda Cianciulli was born in 1893 and died in 1970. She is widely considered to be the Correggio's soapmaid. In case you don't know her, let me tell you that she killed three women in Reggio Emilia. These incidents occurred from 1939 to 1940, and the worst part is that she turned their corpses into cakes and soap.

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Elizabeth wettlaufer is an ex-nurse...a serial killer in a white coat. No one would have suspected that this pleasant, plump lady in her fifties from Ontario would commit crimes of such cruelty and with such methodical coolness.

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Between 1987 and 1990, a series of rapes by an elusive assailant shook the peace of mind of the residents of the Canadian city of Toronto. "The Scarborough Rapist, as he was dubbed in the media, always drugged and sedated them before sexually assaulting them. The rapist always worked in tandem with his wife and accomplice who acted as a flirt. This couple is Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka! No one could have discovered their secret, not even their families.

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Annaliese Michel, a twenty-three year old German woman, spent long periods of time in various clinics in the late sixties. And Anneliese never knew what she was really suffering from! Convinced that their daughter is possessed, her parents call in two exorcising priests to get rid of the possible entity that seems to have haunted her. But things don't go as planned: her condition deteriorates rapidly, her physical and vocal metamorphosis is frightening and her seizures become uncontrollable. For those around her, it is the devil himself who has taken hold of her.

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In the early 1980s, Singapore experienced its darkest and most difficult times. It was in this context that the terrible crimes of the Toa Payoh district took place, in which two young children were kidnapped, tortured and then murdered in sordid and horrible conditions.

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Between October 1994 and March 1997, 74 people died: burnt in fires and placed in circles in cottages. Order of the Solar Temple remains, to this day, one of the biggest sectarian aberrations of the end of the 20th century. Who is really behind the glossy façade of the two emblematic gurus, Jo Di Mambro and Luc Jouret?

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