John Eric Armstrong- Confessed to 5 prostitute killings as well as 12 other killings from around the world that he said that he committed while he was traveling aboard the air craft carrier USS Nimitz from 1993-98. He was noticed by police when he called them about seeing a body of a girl floating on the riverbank underneath a bridge he just happened to be throwing up over. The authorities became suspicious of him and he became their number one suspect for the murder and others that had recently been occurring. He was sentenced with 31 years-life in prison for only three women, all of which he had plea-bargained down to second degree murder.

Joe Ball- May have murdered as many as twenty women, though it can’t be proved because of the fact that he fed his victims to his alligators. After he finished school at the University of Texas he bought a saloon called The Sociable Inn near Elmendorf, Texas sometime in the late 1920s. He added a large alligator pond and invited customers to watch the alligators fight over raw meat or live cats and dogs he threw into it. On September 24, 1948 police went to confront him about the murders of his barmaids and girlfriends and possibly two of his wives, and his reaction was to pull out a revolver and kill himself.

William Bonin- Murdered and raped 21 young men and boys. He was jailed twice because of sodomy, kidnapping, and child molestation when he was released on parole he started killing. He had three assistants at different times through the whole time he was doing this and they all later testified against him in court. He was convicted in 1982 and he died on February 23, 1996. One of the assistants hanged himself in his cell after several tried but failed attempts to take his life.

David Carpenter- Killed at least 10 people but was only convicted of 7 of them. Also known as the “Trail side Killer”. He was sentenced to die in the gas chamber for two of the murders and was later on convicted of 5 more.

Richard Trenton Chase- Killed 6 people, one of them 3 months pregnant. He cut 3 of his victims up and drank their blood… one of those was the pregnant lady, the other was a mother, and the last was a young child no more than 22 months old. He was convicted and was to die by electric chair but that didn’t happen because he overdosed on a prescribed medicine on December 26, 1980.

Nannie Doss- Killed 10 people, all her family. She used arsenic for all of them and she got everyone to believe that they died of stomach pains until her fifth husband died and the Dr in charge did not take her at her word and had the body autopsied. Because of the fact that they found arsenic in the body they exhumed the bodies of her husbands, children, and relatives it was found that she had killed two of her infant babies, 4 husbands, 2 sisters, her mother, and a nephew. She was sent to prison for life but died of Leukemia a year later.