In 1857, Mormon settlers killed over 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows, Utah. The victims were just passing through on their way to California.
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Michael Ryan, the Hungerford UK Mass Murderer
On a quiet Wednesday in 1987, Michael Ryan started shooting people in a small English town. Nobody saw it coming until it was too late.
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Mark Essex wanted to be a dentist when he was in the Navy. Two years later he gunned down 19 people in New Orleans, including 10 cops.
More »Marc Lepine: The Montreal Massacre
On a cold December evening in 1989, Marc Lepine sat outside the registrar's office at Montreal's engineering school with a rifle in a green bag. Nobod...
More »Carnival of Death: The Barbaric History of Lynching in America
In 1916, a Texas mob dragged 17-year-old Jesse Washington from his sentencing and burned him alive in front of City Hall. Fifteen thousand people watc...
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Jeffrey Don Lundgren, Prophet of Death
Jeffrey Lundgren said God spoke to him directly. On April 17, 1989, this self-proclaimed prophet executed five innocent people in cold blood.
More »The Columbine High School Massacre
Two teenagers walked into their high school in Colorado and started shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed 13 people that day.
More »Into The Dark: The My Lai Massacre
1968 was America's worst year. Vietnam exploded with the Tet Offensive while cities burned after MLK died. Then came My Lai in Quang Ngai province.
More »Kermit Gosnell and the Philadelphia Abortion Mill
Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic looked like a horror movie set. When cops raided it for drugs, they found something much worse—dead babies and ...
More »Jonestown Massacre: A ‘Reason’ to Die
Leo Ryan read about families losing kids to Jim Jones's jungle cult. When he flew to Guyana to check it out, Jones had him killed at the airstrip.
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