23-year-old Philip Cline was given eight consecutive life sentences without parole for starting a fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel that killed eight people and injured around 200 others.

Three neighbors identified the man who broke into Debra Reese’s home and murdered her. But by the time DNA technology could prove the man's innocence, it was already too late.

Until this day, the majority of executions in the U.S. were carried out via hanging or firing squad. Gee Jon would become the first American executed by lethal gas.

He killed his wife and two of his children and then buried them beneath his bathroom floor. An international treaty law kept the case in the spotlight for over a decade.

Two gunmen fired on a fraternity party near Youngstown State University, killing 25-year-old Jamail Johnson and injuring at least 11 other people.

A robbery gone wrong led to the deaths of Susan Brouk and her children Adrian and Kyle. Investigators found their bodies in a pond near their home in Vichy, Missouri.

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the dark web marketplace known as the “Silk Road,” was convicted on several federal charges including conspiracy to commit money laundering, computer hacking, and drug trafficking.

An unidentified truck driver killed 27-year-old Terry Milroy and raped 17-year-old Cynthia Nadeau while they were hitchhiking in Florida.

21-year-old convict Susan LeFevre escaped the Scott Correctional Facility in Wayne County, Michigan. She would start a new life under a new name on the West Coast.

After pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, disgraced film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before his sentencing.

Kathie Durst, wife of millionaire Robert Durst, left her friend's house in South Salem, New York, and was never seen alive again.

Archduke Rudolf of Austria and his 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, were found dead in their bedchambers. It is believed to have been a suicide pact.

La Fenice, the 229-year-old Venetian opera house, burned to the ground. Investigators would have to determine if it was an accident or arson.

Captain Henry Morgan led an attack on the Spanish settlement of Panama with 36 ships and over 1,500 buccaneers. The resulting battle left Panama City in flames.

The body of Gerald Earl Cavanaugh, the first victim of a serial killer called the Doodler, was discovered on a beach in San Francisco. The unidentified serial killer committed at least five murders and possibly up to nine more.

Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz was shot and killed by American philanthropist John du Pont on the millionaire's estate.

Juana Barraza, also known as the “Little Old Lady Killer,” was arrested shortly after killing and robbing an 82-year-old woman in Mexico City. It was the last of at least 11 victims.

Donald Newbury and Patrick Murphy, the final two members of seven violent prison escapees, surrendered peacefully to authorities. But not before one last word with the media.

Later called the Tottenham Outrage, a robbery in North London led to a chaotic chase that lasted two hours and resulted in four deaths.

In Manoharpur, India, a militant Hindu faction burned Graham Stuart Staines and his two young sons to death.

A 25-year-old single mother was raped and killed by two teenagers in Dallas, Texas. Despite the evidence against him, 18-year-old Derrick Johnson maintained his innocence until his execution in 2009.

Inspired by a Hitchcock movie he saw at 13, Joel Rifkin would go on to murder 17 women over a period of four years.

In 1975, a 15-year-old girl was found beaten to death on her family’s property. Twenty-five years later, Michael Skakel was charged for her murder.

Joe Bonanno was a mobster who was born in Sicily and found notoriety in New York when, at just 26 years old, he took control of one of the five major crime families.

An Israeli teenager was murdered by Palestinian militants after being lured out of his home by a woman he met online.