Curated playlist
American people convicted of attempted murder
- Nikolas CruzNikolas Cruz told a psychologist that he chose Valentine's Day for his attack because he believed no one loved him. On the 14th of February 2018, Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he had once been a student, and…
- George AtzerodtGeorge Atzerodt was assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson on the night Lincoln was shot.
- Diane DownsDiane Downs drove a blood-spattered car to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon, on the 19th of May 1983. Her three children were inside it. She told the staff that a stranger on a rural road had done this to them. Her…
- Jared Lee LoughnerAt 2:05 on the morning of the 8th of January 2011, Jared Lee Loughner left a voicemail for a friend. "Hey man, it's Jared. Me and you had good times. Peace out. Later." The message was short and casual. Within hours, a shooting in the…
- Lawrence SingletonLawrence Singleton, born in Tampa, Florida, in 1927, once told a judge that he was "a confused, muddleheaded old man." His record said otherwise. Singleton committed one crime so brutal that California rewrote its sentencing law because of…
- Dylann RoofDylann Storm Roof, born on the 3rd of April 1994, is an American white supremacist and neo-Nazi who carried out the Charleston church shooting. On the evening of the 17th of June 2015, a routine Bible study was under way at Emanuel African…
- Richard RamirezRichard Ramirez was an American burglar, sex offender and serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. A California judge, upholding nineteen death sentences against him, said his deeds showed "cruelty,…
- Robert Eugene BrashersRobert Eugene Brashers died in January 1999, and while he lived, no investigator ever named him as a suspect in any of his murders. Investigators now link him to at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas…
- David BerkowitzDavid Berkowitz was sitting in his parked car outside a Yonkers apartment building at about 10:00 on the night of the 10th of August 1977 when Detective John Falotico aimed a gun at him. A second detective, Sergeant William Gardella,…
- James Holmes (mass murderer)James Eagan Holmes, an American born in 1987, made a phone call to a mental health crisis hotline in the moments before he carried out the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. By his own account, he hoped someone might talk him out of it at the…
- Grim SleeperLonnie David Franklin Jr., known as the Grim Sleeper, was responsible for at least ten murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles between 1984 and 2007. His nickname came from an absence. Between 1988 and 2002, investigators saw no…
- David CarpenterDavid Joseph Carpenter is the American serial killer whom the press came to call the Trailside Killer. In 1980, detectives in Marin County, California, were searching for a man in his twenties or thirties. Carpenter was 50. Pathologists…
- Anthony CassoAnthony Casso signed his letters "Tony Gaspipe." In 2006, writing to his biographer Philip Carlo from a federal cell, he made a startling statement for a man in his position. "I have always hated rats and as strange as it may sound I still…