The year is 1981. Thirteen women are dead—bludgeoned, stabbed, and mutilated in a display of brutality that hasn’t been seen in England since Jack the Ripper. There were attempts on the lives of at least seven others, and police would still be asking questions about other possible victims nearly 30 years later. The British press and tabloids are having a field day with Peter Sutcliffe, a man they would dub “the Yorkshire Ripper.”

From 1975 to 1980, someone had been terrorizing England, largely in the Yorkshire area. The murders mostly consisted of prostitutes, and in a move right out of Jack the Ripper’s playbook, the corpses were almost always mutilated. It was the heyday of modern serial killers, and everyone in England is trying to make sense of what just happened. Sutcliffe was a loner who did very poorly in school and was always a little weird. He had been caught with a prostitute and was arrested for having false plates on his car.[1] Before long, the police were convinced they had their man. Here are ten facts about Peter Sutcliffe, also known as the Yorkshire Ripper.

The FBI is tasked with ensuring the safety of US citizens from domestic threats such as terrorism, organized crime, and corruption of public office. As such, the FBI is imbued with certain special powers that make this organization a truly formidable force. For instance, the FBI is one of a handful of federal agencies that has the legal authority to kick down your door at any moment and have you on the ground faster than you can say “Uncle Sam.”

It’s vitally important that an organization as powerful as the FBI be kept on a short leash of public accountability at all times. Given the chance to overrun its mandate, the agency could quickly transform from a defender of the weak into a malignant force of oppression.

But what if the FBI has already run amok and is now a puppet of special interests driven by anti-American agendas? If these recent telling signs of corruption in the FBI are truly indicative of widespread misconduct, then America may have a constitutional crisis on its hands.

It’s easy to be callous about a murderer on death row. It gets harder, though, when you watch every step they take toward the execution chamber. For all the horrors these people have brought into the world, they’re still human beings, afraid to die—even if they deserve it.

Sometimes, the final moments of a killer can reveal all the horrors that made them the monsters they became, and sometimes, even a death deserved can be nothing short of heartbreaking.

It’s a daunting and terrifying fact of life that around the world, hundreds of thousands of people are abducted every single year. While some of these people are rescued or released from captivity, some sadly die unspeakable deaths at the hands of their captors. However, there are also some victims who, once they realize they’re going to die, manage to find the strength to fight unflinchingly for their escape and their survival, no matter what it takes. There are also those who don’t manage to escape and instead are left for dead, butchered and broken, but just downright refuse to die no matter what atrocities have been inflicted on their bodies.

Here are the stories of ten heroic abductees who refused to die. In many cases, these incredibly brave individuals came out of their horrific ordeals stronger than they were when they went in, and some even have inspiring lessons to share with us.

Convicts serve their sentence for the crimes they commit by being incarcerated. We would like to think that prisons are sufficiently guarded and secure enough to make it impossible for prisoners to ever escape. And most of the time they are, but other times, inmates find unbelievable ways to make a break for freedom. In extreme cases, prisoners have escaped on multiple occasions. Here are ten of the best escape artists the prison system has ever seen.

The Tiananmen Square massacre was more than just a photograph. Today, it’s immortalized in the image of a lone man standing against a line of tanks. But “Tank Man” was just one small moment in a fight for freedom that played out over 50 long days and across nearly every part of the country.

The battle started on April 15, 1989, when the death of Hu Yaobang, a party leader with democratic leanings, sparked protests across the country. Students came out with seven demands calling for greater freedoms and an end to government corruption.

It started as a peaceful protest. But it soon turned violent and, in time, into a massacre that will be etched into history forever.

High-profile killers are served justice when caught, but what happens to the children of these monsters in the wake of their atrocities?

When we read and hear stories of infamous murderers, we naturally become fixated on the perpetrators and their stories. It’s not often that we stop to think about how the children of these dangerous criminals might have been affected by their coldhearted acts. Here are ten people who live in the shadow of a parent’s fatal deeds and what became of them in the aftermath.

Forensic evidence is crucial to crime scene investigators. Witnesses may be unreliable, and memories might be foggy, but scientific evidence doesn’t lie. If handled properly, forensics can make or break any trial against dangerous criminals. The following are ten cases where shocking forensic fails bungled the case and allowed murderers to walk away from justice—or sent innocent people to prison.

Whatever your personal opinion may be on the sport of bodybuilding or whether “roid rage” is a thing, you have to admit there have been an extraordinary number of murders, assaults, and other violence associated with members of the sport, both male and female. In a great deal of these cases, the offenders were described as being completely nonviolent before they started using steroids. Although some believe that roid rage is a myth, research shows that even light usage of steroids causes aggression.

That is not to say that everyone who uses them becomes violent, though. Obviously, bodybuilding isn’t the only sport that has participants who use steroids or exhibit issues with violence. We can only hope that as more brains are studied and more is learned about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), we can one day understand more fully why people do the things that they do.

Over the past 120 years, the United States has executed almost nine thousand people, and some went better than others. Out of all the ways to kill a criminal, lethal injection has the highest error rate. Over 7% of all lethal injection procedures are botched—compare this to lethal gas at 5% or firing squad at 0%.[1] Out of the many problematic executions in American history, this article will explore ten instances where lethal injection wasn’t quite lethal.

We expect members of the upper class to be greedy. We expect them to be spoiled and oblivious to the plights of the common folk, but we don’t expect them to be outright murderers. However, people like Gilles de Rais and Elizabeth Bathory have showed us that some of them aren’t content with wealth and power and also indulge in torture and murder. If anything, their status helped them secure victims, obtain help from servants, and, in some cases, get away with their crimes for as long as possible.

We expect members of the upper class to be greedy. We expect them to be spoiled and oblivious to the plights of the common folk, but we don’t expect them to be outright murderers. However, people like Gilles de Rais and Elizabeth Bathory have showed us that some of them aren’t content with wealth and power and also indulge in torture and murder. If anything, their status helped them secure victims, obtain help from servants, and, in some cases, get away with their crimes for as long as possible.

Day jobs can be particularly handy for a serial killer. Believe it or not, living on the dark side of the human condition doesn’t exactly pay well. Besides, it’s always helpful to have a virtuous occupation that throws the public off your scent before roaming around on your next night prowl. That being said, here’s a list of killers who took their masquerade to the very edge of absurdity with the most outrageously inappropriate (and in some cases borderline-ironic) day jobs.

People who break the law have to live with the consequences. Sometimes, the only consolation the victims of those crimes get is the knowledge that the criminals are paying for what they did. Serial killers, in most cases, get the worst punishments. However, some of them would rather die than suffer the consequences of their actions. Here is a list of the top ten serial killers who committed suicide in prison.

There is an African superstition that albino people are not truly human. Many believe that they are demons or ghosts. They also believe that albinos are immortal, and their bodies contain magic healing properties. Witch doctorsstill practice dark magic in many countries, although the persecution of Albinos primarily occurs in Tanzania and Malawi. Clients are willing to pay high prices for albino body parts because they are used in spells to bring good luck and success. Life as an albino is terrifying, to say the least. These ten stories of persecution and mutilation are so tragic; they are almost unbelievable.