To get our 'freak fix' we have reality TV and plastic surgery addicts, but the Victorians took it to a whole new level...

Some say women of a certain age become “invisible”, well ‘Canoe Widow’ Anne Darwin might argue that’s better than being mistaken for Rose...

John Wayne Gary publicly urged the grieving mother of one of his victims to kill herself with a drug overdose.

In this archive footage, Gacy jovially demonstrates to a naïve TV reporter "how to tie knots" - giving a glimpse of how he captured victims.

FINALLY John Wayne Gacy is getting a decent documentary - rather than the usual, crap, straight to DVD movies.

John Wayne Gacy's paintings have become highly sought after in the 'murderabilia' world - but they have also caused a lot of distress.

'Killer Clown' John Wayne Gacy revealed why he invented Pogo and how he found wearing clown-face makeup relaxing

Before his reign as a child-killing clown, John Wayne Gacy had a stint working at a mortuary

The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and necrophile child molester Jimmy Savile struck up an uncomfortable friendship in the late 1980s...

Derek Acorah is the best ghost botherer in the history of the UK - see what happens when he meets the spirit of a very infamous woman...

Zachary Davis killed his mum and tried to set his brother on fire - but later claimed he did't do it - and it was the fault of his sibling.

We all went to school with at least one weirdo... but did any of your former classmates bludgeon their mum to death with a sledgehammer...

In 2000, Katherine Knight was the first woman in Australia to be given a full-life sentence without parole - this is her life now.

What happened at 10:35am, 28 September 1999, would be the worst nuclear accident in Japan for years - and the start of 83 days of hell.

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Ed Kemper's brother lives in fear that his huge murderous sibling will use his IQ to get out of prison... and hunt him down and kill him.

Scorned divorcee Bruce gunned down nine members of his ex's family before torching their bodies with a home made flame thrower.

Cindy Haden was one of the jurors at Richard Ramirez’s 1988 trial, and she took a real shine to the Devil worshipping sodomising burglar.

These days, serial killer groupies have the internet to share their thoughts, feelings and desires - in the 90s they went on TV.

For 19 years, Marie Noe was the most pitied woman in America - every single one of her ten babies had died between April '49 and January '68