9.
FRED AND ROSEMARY WEST
Rosemary Letts was 15 years old when she met 27-year-old Fred West in 1969.
Her parents opposed the relationship due to the age gap, but Rosemary moved into her older
lover’s Gloucestershire, England home and the rest was history.
When Fred was imprisoned for theft the following year, Rosemary found herself caring for their
newborn and for Fred’s two older children by other women.
Shortly before Fred’s release in 1971, Rosemary murdered one of her stepdaughters, Charmaine.
She told people that the young girl had gone to live with her biological mother.
But Fred had already killed her biological mother - his first wife and the pregnant mistress.
This marked the beginning of a decades-long spree of unspeakable murders and sexual assaults,
including against random victims and their own children.
After Fred sexually abused his daughter, Louise, in 1992, the little girl reached out for help,
sparking a police investigation.
The kids were placed into foster care after they told social workers of the horrific abuse,
including threats to kill and bury them beneath the patio, where their sister, Heather, had
ended up.
The couple told investigators that Heather left voluntarily and that they had no idea
where she was.
But several children refused to testify, and they were acquitted of all charges.
Detectives remained on the case, and when they announced plans to search the West’s
yard for Heather’s remains, Fred confessed to her murder.
Heather’s remains bore signs of excruciating torture, including having had her fingernails
ripped off!
Too cowardice to face accountability for his actions, Fred committed suicide in prison
while awaiting trial.
Rose was found guilty on 10 counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Some believe that the deranged couple killed as many as 60 people over their decades-long
spree of perversion.
8.
GERALD GALLEGO AND CHARLENE WILLIAMS
Between 1978 and 1980, a married couple named Gerald and Charlene Gallego terrorized residents
around Sacramento, California.
They murdered at least 10 victims, who were mostly teenagers that the sadistic pair kept
as sex slaves.
Born to a sex worker and a career criminal, Gerald had a rough start in life.
He began sexually abusing others when he was just 13 years old and ended up being married
seven different times.
Charlene, on the other hand, came from a respectable background and a supportive home.
But she began abusing drugs and alcohol as a young adult, and things only spiraled downward
from there.
She complied with Gerald’s sick desires when he began abducting girls to fulfill his
sexual fantasies.
The couple scoped out their victims at local shopping malls, where Charlene lured them
into Gerald’s van.
In one of their most prolific murders, the pair forced a young couple named Craig Miller
and Mary Elizabeth Showers into their car.
They shot Miller dead and brought Sowers back to their home, where they sexually abused
her before taking her to a field and executing her.
A friend of one of the victims took note of Gerald and Charlene’s license plate numbers
and reported them, leading to their arrest.
Charlene claimed Gerald was solely responsible for the heinous crimes, but many believed
that he never killed her because she complied, and that she was just as guilty as he was.
Gerald died from cancer while awaiting his execution.
Charlene spent 17 years behind bars and was released in 1997, thereafter changing her
name and assuming a new identity to try escaping her dark past.
When the media caught up with her, she maintained her claim that she, too, was a victim.
7.
THE KEN AND BARBIE KILLERS
Paul Bernardo was an attractive and charming Scarborough, Ontario native who used his skills
and looks to manipulate women.
Unbeknownst to the local population at the time, he embarked on a series of violent crimes
against women starting in 1987.
He brutalized his victims for five years, and although Bernardo was questioned twice,
he was never officially considered a suspect.
The same year he started attacking women, he met Karla Homolka, an attractive blonde
from a good family with a seemingly promising future.
Their attraction was instant and magnetic, and as it turned out, Homolka had the same
dark, twisted fantasies as her new lover.
Homolka knew her boyfriend was sexually abusing women and was perfectly fine with it, and
the couple eventually became engaged.
But by then, Bernardo was getting bored.
When he expressed a desire to victimize Homolka’s 15-year-old sister, Tammy, his fiance dutifully
went along with the sick plan, agreeing to secure her younger sister’s virginity for
him as a Christmas gift.
During a family Christmas party, Homolka spiked Tammy’s drinks with veterinary drugs, rendering
her unconscious.
Later that night, she and Bernardo videotaped themselves taking turns raping Tammy.
The teen began choking on her own vomit, prompting the deranged couple to hide evidence and call
911.
Tammy was pronounced dead at the hospital, and her death was ruled accidental due to
alcohol poisoning despite a chemical burn on her face.
Bernardo and Homolka continued their gruesome crimes and got married in the meantime.
Police eventually traced multiple murders to the pair.
After scrambling for a plea deal, Homolka served prison time and was released in 2005.
Bernardo, on the other hand, was sentenced to life.
He is eligible for parole but has not received it yet.
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6.
THE LONELY HEARTS KILLERS
In 1947, single mother and Florida native Martha Beck met Raymond Fernandez through
a singles’ ad she placed.
The pair quickly became engaged, and soon enough, Beck abandoned her two children and
appeared on her lover’s New York City doorstep.
Fernandez perceived Beck’s willingness to leave her children as a sign of her devotion
to him.
She soon began aiding him in a series of sick crimes, murdering at least three people in
1949 alone, including a toddler.
Dubbed the “Lonely Hearts Killers,” the pair used singles ads to lure and kill lonely
women, with Beck sometimes posing as Fernandez’s sister to make the situation seem safe.
Armed with a violent and jealous temper, Beck tried to stop Fernandez from going “all
the way” with his victims.
When it happened, she unleashed her fury on both parties.
At one point, Beck caught Fernandez in bed with a woman named Janet Fay and bludgeoned
her with a hammer.
Fernandez then brutally strangled the 66-year-old.
During their criminal free-for-all, the couple met and stayed with 28-year-old single mother
Delphine Downing near Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Fernandez drugged Downing, who fell into an obvious state of stupor, causing her toddler
to become alarmed.
Set off by the child’s crying, Beck drowned the little one, and Fernandez shot Downing
to death.
They buried the bodies in the basement.
Concerned neighbors summoned police to the household, and the pair were arrested.
Fernandez confessed, but later retracted his confession.
Law enforcement connected the pair to 17 murders altogether.
But they were only ever tried for Janet Fay’s murder, for which they were convicted and
sentenced to death.
Beck and Fernandez were executed on March 8, 1951.
5.
CHARLES STARKWEATHER AND CARIL ANN FUGATE
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate met when he was 18 and she was just 13.
Starkweather committed his first murder the following year, in 1957, when a gas station
clerk refused to sell him a stuffed toy for Caril that he couldn’t afford.
His life derailed from there when he lost his job and couldn’t pay his rent.
While the exact details are murky, Starkweather went to Fugate’s house one night and killed
her mother, stepfather, and baby sister.
The couple continued to live in the house for several days among the decomposing bodies,
with a sign on the front door saying they had the flu to deter visitors from prying.
By the time Fugate’s grandmother became suspicious and called the police, the pair
had fled to a Nebraska farm and killed the owner.
They then murdered a teenage couple they had hitched a ride with and continued their killing
spree from there.
The couple’s disturbing activities led to a full-scale manhunt and an eventual surrender
to police.
At first, Fugate was framed as just another of Starkweather’s victims, but it eventually
became clear that she was a willing accomplice.
Starkweather was sentenced to death and was executed the following year.
Fugate received a life sentence because she could have left her lover several times and
chose not to, which was perceived as a reflection of her guilt.
She was released for good behavior in 1976, after serving 17 years, but was denied a pardon.
4.
IAN BRADY AND MYRA HINDLEY
Between July 1963 and October 1965, a British couple named Ian Brady and Myra Hindley committed
a series of killings known as the Moors murders.
Their victims were all very young, and at least four of them were sexually assaulted.
The pair met in 1961 through work, where Hindley became enamored with Brady, who already had
an extensive criminal record containing dozens of burglary and assault charges.
The couple developed a sick obsession with reading Nazi propaganda and entertained fantasies
of Aryan perfection, prompting Hindley to bleach her hair and change her wardrobe.
They also enjoyed renting books about crime and torture from the library and reportedly
planned robberies together, which never came to fruition.
Hindley would later recall that Brady began fantasizing about committing the “perfect
murder” in 1963.
The couple killed their first victim, 16-year-old Pauline Reade, in July of that year.
They sexually abused and beat her, then buried her in a shallow grave, before moving onto
their next target and killing him in a similar fashion.
The couple also rented a van and robbed a few banks.
Brady’s brother-in-law, David Smith, reported the pair to police after witnessing the murder
of a 17-year-old firsthand.
Officers initially only arrested Brady on suspicion of murder, but soon charged Hindley,
as well.
Both received life sentences and expressed remorse, with Hindley largely blaming Brady
for the crimes.
She died from pneumonia in 2002 at age 60, and Brady was locked in a mental institution
until his death in 2017.
3.
RAY AND FAYE COPELAND
Ray Copeland met and married Faye Wilson in 1940 after serving a prison sentence for fraud.
His record made it difficult for the farmer to purchase cattle, so he began taking in
drifters and employing them as farm hands at his Mooresville, Missouri property.
He had them buy cattle using phony checks.
After being released, Copeland resumed his criminal activities and was repeatedly thrown
into jail throughout the 1950s and ‘60s.
He and his wife eventually became partners in crime, setting up vagabonds to buy cattle
with forged checks and then shooting them after the transaction was over.
This went on for decades, with the couple committing at least five murders before they
were finally caught in 1989, when one of their employees saw human bones on their property.
Faye claimed that Ray had abused her for the better part of 50 years in hopes of copping
a plea deal, but her efforts failed.
The pair became the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in 1993 at ages 69 and 76.
Ray died on death row of natural causes that year.
Faye’s sentence was commuted to life, and she passed away in 2002 from a stroke, just
months after being paroled into hospice care.
2.
ALTON COLEMAN AND DEBRA BROWN
Alton Coleman was a middle school dropout born in 1955 to a mother who worked three
jobs in Waukegan, Illinois.
He was no stranger to the law, having been charged with sex crimes six times between
1973 and 1983 alone, and never held a steady job.
In 1984, Coleman went on a months-long crime spree throughout the American Midwest with
his girlfriend, Debra Brown.
Altogether, the couple committed eight murders, seven sexual assaults, three kidnappings,
and 14 armed robberies.
Their first known murder victim was a 9-year-old girl from Kenosha, Wisconsin named Vernita
Wheat.
The pair then proceeded to Gary, Indiana, where they abducted two girls aged seven and
nine.
One managed to escape, but the other was choked to death.
Soon enough, the FBI was after Coleman and Brown, even creating an eleventh spot on its
Ten Most Wanted List to draw attention to the couple.
But they managed to evade authorities for 53 days while continuing along their path
of destruction.
Finally, a childhood friend recognized Coleman and the police apprehended the pair in an
Illinois park.
They were both sentenced to death, and Coleman was executed in Ohio in 2002.
Brown’s sentence was commuted to life due to her low IQ, despite initially showing no
remorse for her crimes.
Nobody ever determined their motive for committing the disturbing acts.
1.
DAVID AND CATHERINE BIRNIE
Catherine Harrison left her husband and six children to be with David Birnie, whom she
had met years earlier when she was just 12 years old.
The two eventually married, and in 1986, they embarked on a murderous crime spree killing
all but one of their five known victims.
They drove around the city of Perth in western Australia, searching for women who were alone.
Catherine lured the unsuspecting victim into the vehicle, who was then taken to the couple’s
home and tortured.
Chained to the bed, the unfortunate target would be sexually abused and killed by David
while Catherine cheered her husband on.
The law finally caught up with the couple when their final victim, 17-year-old Kate
Moir, escaped after the Birnies abducted her at knifepoint.
While Catherine tended to a drug deal at the front door, having forgotten to chain her
victim to the bed, Kate broke the lock on a window and climbed out.
She then ran to a nearby vacuum cleaner store, where the shop owner called the police.
The couple was arrested and David confessed, revealing the location of four graves in their
yard.
They both received four life sentences.
David committed suicide in prison in 2005.
Birnie remains in prison, but some including her youngest son, who claims he was assaulted
because of who his mother is, don't think the sentence is harsh enough and have called
for her execution.
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