Too Evil (For A Proper Name)

Herbert Richard Baumeister (April 7, 1947 – July 3, 1996) was an American businessman and suspected serial killer who came under suspicion of murdering over a dozen men in the early-to-mid 1990s, most of whom were last seen at gay bars in central Indiana. Police ultimately found the remains of eleven men, eight identified, on Baumeister's property. He died by suicide after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Since his death, h...

Joseph Edward Duncan III (February 25, 1963 – March 28, 2021) was an American convicted serial killer and child molester who was on death row in federal prison following the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was also serving 11 consecutive sentences of life without parole for the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California.  Additionally, Duncan confessed to — b...

Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (September 27, 1940 – December 13, 2019) and Roy Lewis Norris (February 5, 1948 – February 24, 2020), also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American serial killers and rapists who committed the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls in Southern California over a five-month period in 1979.

Described by FBI special agent John Edward Douglas as the most disturbing individual for whom...

Susan Marie Powell Cox; born October 16, 1981) is an American missing person from West Valley City, Utah, whose disappearance and suspected murder in December 2009 garnered national media attention. Her husband, Joshua Powell, was named by law enforcement as a person of interest in the case but was never charged. Joshua killed himself and the couple's two young sons in February 2012 after custody of the boys had been given to S...

Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York, between 1972 and 1989. Shawcross's first known murders took place in his hometown of Watertown, New York, where he killed a young boy and a girl. Under the terms of a plea bargain, he was allowed to plead guilty to one charge of manslaughter, for which he served 14 years ...