some deaths stick with us. Some lives are extinguished in such strange and horrifying ways that they haunt us for years. They become those famous murders that dominate headlines and airwaves around the world and haunt our collective dreams.

It’s not just the deaths themselves that makes these famous murders so chilling. Millions of lives end every day without a single peep on the news. But in a handful of cases, there’s something else that hits us on a deeper, more primal level, something that feeds into our darkest fears.