Thanks to a murder rate that ranks as one of the highest in the country, and as the setting of the HBO’s “The Wire”, Baltimore, Maryland has earned itself the nick name “Body-More, Murder-land”.
When caught in 2010, William Holbert confessed to the murders of five people in Panama and one in Costa Rica. His motive? Financial gain through taking over his victims properties after he had so callously taken their lives.
The story Shannon O'Leary has to tell in her autobiography The Blood On My Hands is chilling and it is terrifying. A child who endures a childhood full of terror is child that when grown into an adult, has to find a way to process and deal with their experiences.
Only 14% of recorded serial killers are under the age of 20 when they start killing and Cody Legebokoff of Canada was one of them. A boy who grew up in British Columbia, he was popular, friendly and sociable with no hint of the violent and brutal behaviour that was to come.