When sisters Ada and Minna Everleigh opened a brothel in early 1900, citizens were shocked to find that countless potential clients were bluntly turned away at the door.

In 2005, Dr. Felix Polk of San Francisco, was found stabbed to death by his 15-year-old son, Gabriel.

In 2002, after twenty years of marriage, 44-year-old Susan Polk called it quits with her husband, 70-year-old Felix Polk.

Stories of her exploits on Rum Row in the early 1920s made Gertrude Lythgoe a tabloid darling.

During the early days of Prohibition in the 1920s, while most young women were focused on getting married and having a family, Gertrude Lythgoe was busy running her wholesale liquor empire in the Bahamas.

On Monday, January 29th, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer shot 350 rounds at a San Diego Elementary School from her front window.

Before Parkland, before Sandy Hook, was the 1979 mass shooting at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego.

After two months in captivity, Patricia Hearst sided with her kidnappers, the Symbionese Liberation Army.

In February of 1974, 19-year-old Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

She climbed to the top of New York City’s real estate scene by bullying and blackmailing, earning her the moniker "The Queen of Mean."

Born in 1920 to poor, Jewish immigrants, Leona Helsley spent the first 30 years of her life doing whatever it took to rise above her humble origins.

She was out of options and desperately searching for a way back to her home to America.

A Japanese American found herself stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, unable to return to the United States.

In 1983, she was accused of shooting her three children in a twisted attempt to prove her love to her boyfriend.

She was a mother from Oregon who felt like she never received the love she deserved.

Known for stealing from the rich, and giving to the poor, newspapers called her "The Bandit Queen."

She grew up during the Civil War, supporting the Confederacy.

After months of torment and abuse in the summer of 1965, Sylvia Likens stopped fighting back.

In the summer of 1965 in Indiana, teenagers Sylvia and Jenny Likens were invited to stay in the home of their friend's mother, Gertrude Baniszewski.

Mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was perhaps the only man Virginia Hill ever loved.

By the time Virginia Hill was 30, her cutthroat mentality would land her at the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

Deep in debt to dangerous creditors, she had nowhere else to turn.

She served as a courier, sold drugs, and ran her own bookmaking operation.

A small town is turned upside down by one of the biggest stories of 1893.

Was she capable of killing her father and stepmother?