Name: Murder Made Me Famous
Uploaded: 2019-08-02T19:44:49.000Z
Description: An in-depth look at killers who gained public notoriety when their crimes received media attention.

An in-depth look at killers who gained public notoriety when their crimes received media attention.

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Jack the Ripper is the well-known name for an unidentified serial killer in London in 1888.

Jack The Ripper

Jeffrey Dahmer is responsible for killing and dismembering 17 young men between 1978 and 1991.

Jeffrey Dahmer

John Wayne Gacy, widely thought to be the inspiration for Stephen King's character Pennywise the Clown, murdered 33 young men and teen boys, most of whom he buried in the crawl space beneath his home.

John Wayne Gacy

Seemingly average husband and father-of-two Dennis Rader lives a double life as a serial killer who terrorizes the Wichita, Kan., area from the 1970s to the '90s as the self-proclaimed BTK Killer.

BTK Killer

Hitchhiking sex worker Aileen Wuornos garnered national attention after she was charged with murdering at least six men in less than a year by shooting them at point-blank range.

Aileen Wuornos

For three weeks in 2002, the streets of Washington D.C. are terrorized by 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo and 42-year-old John Muhammad who hunt random civilians in broad daylight with a rifle.

D.C. Sniper

Canadian serial killers Karla Homolka and her husband, Paul Bernardo, drugged, raped and murdered three teens, including her younger sister.

Ken & Barbie Killers

Three years after five brutal and disturbing murders in Gainesville, Fla., Danny Rolling is called to trial, but he unexpectedly pleads guilty to each charge and claims he wanted to become a superstar like Ted Bundy.

The Gainesville Ripper

Ruthless drug lord Pablo Escobar turns Columbia into the murder capital of the world and may have been responsible for 4,000 to 5,000 murders.

Pablo Escobar

David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, goes on a yearlong murderous rampage killing six people in 1976 and bringing New York City to its knees.

Son of Sam

Police officer turned killer Laurie Bembenek is convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife, Christine Schultz; Bembenek claims she was framed for the savage murder, but the evidence included her husband's police revolver and fibers from her wig.

Bambi Bembenek

Known as the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo's murder spree claims the lives of 13 women, many of whom he strangled to death with their own nylon stockings.

The Boston Strangler

In 1966, mass murderer Richard Speck systematically tortures, rapes and murders eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital.

The Nurse Killer Richard Speck

On the FBI's Most Wanted list for more than a decade, Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden orchestrates an attack against the United States, using 19 militants to hijack four airplanes with which to carry out suicide missions on Sept. 11, 2001.

Murder Made Me Famous

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