This is what led to the family breaking into the home of pregnant actress Sharon … Known as the Candy Man and the Pied Piper, Dean Corll raped and murdered at least 28 male victims, enlisting two teenage boys as his accomplices. For the supposed offense of hitting on a white and asking her on a date, Carolyn Bryant's husband Roy Bryant and his brother kidnapped the boy from his great uncle's house and tortured, mutilated, and killed him in one of the most infamous lynchings of the Jim Crow era. Though not officially solved, authorities believe Rob Evans, AKA Terrence Peder Rasmussen, was responsible for all four deaths.
Unfortunately, the level of violence that was happening in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Era meant that such a cowardly act was inevitable. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death on the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. Knight left home at 20 without notice and spent the next few decades living off food found in houses and vacation cabins in the area and stealing propane and other supplies to help him survive in the wild. Knight was sentenced to 7 months in jail, the majority of which he served while awaiting sentencing, plus $2,000 in restitution, counseling, and three years of probation. Then she sent a box of chocolates with the note, "With love to yourself and baby.". By the mid-1920s, its membership was as high as six million people, depending on the source. Though mother Casey Anthony was acquitted of first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee, the public seems convinced the young mom, who didn't report her daughter missing for a month, is the responsible party. New Jersey's most notorious crime was the kidnapping of the 18-month old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lingbergh, on the evening of March 1, 1932. Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City at age 14 and held captive for 9 months by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.
Speculation as to what happened has kept him alive in true crime fans' memory all these years, with the prevailing theory for many years holding that he was buried underneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey, though when no human remains were found when the football venue was demolished in 2010. But the Golden State Killer wins for the nature of his crimes and for how long he successfully evaded capture. (L-R) SheilaEddy, Rachel Shoaf, and Syklar Neese.
Susan Smith is a child murderer who claimed a black man had carjacked her at gunpoint and drove off with her two sons in the car in 1994. Baltimore holds the dubious record of having the most murders per capita of any city in the U.S., so it can be hard to choose one crime in the state of Maryland out of such a big pool. A third potential victim, Amy Anderson, escaped before she could meet a similar fate. Though authorities doubt he survived the risky jump, DB Cooper has been a source of endless intrigue and speculation ever since, with a long string a possible suspects. Source: Arizona Department of Corrections, Orange Couty Dept of Corrections, Florida Dept of Corrections, Source: Arizona Department of Corrections, Source: FBI, United States Marshals Service, Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. The trial and conviction of the "West Memphis Three" drew national attention, with celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder advocating for their exoneration.
The destruction caused by the 16th street baptist church bombing – Npr.org 1 – The 16 th Street Baptist Church Bombing – 1963 This terrible crime was the very essence of KKK evil in action. The youngest, an 8-month-old baby girl, was in her crib, alive, but the rest of the home's residents were found either shot to death or bludgeoned with a hatchet. The victims were between the ages of 8 and 10, and were raped and murdered. Dahmer killed him and at least four others before he was caught. (AKA Dan) Cooper.
Eventually, it came out she was in hiding after having killed her mother after enduring years of abuse. Elizabeth testified against both her captors in court, detailing daily rape and abuse and threats upon her life and family that kept her from fleeing. Investigators, including famed FBI profiler John Douglas, believe "the forensic and behavioral evidence points conclusively to Wayne Williams as the killer of 11 young men in Atlanta." Elizabeth shared the chocolates with her sister and some others on the porch of her father's home. Ransom money paid to the perpetrator led police to Bruno Hauptmann, whose trial was dubbed the Trial of the Century by newspapers.