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Mark Kostabi

Mark Kostabi was arguably the most controversial painter of the 1980s. The controversy surrounding Kostabi differed from that other controversial 80s artist Robert Mapplethorpein the fact that it was the content that drew ire, but the method. Kostabi publicized the fact that most of his paintings were actually done by assistants, and that some of [...]

Mary Bell

Mary Bell was convicted of killing 2 toddlers in her native home in England when she was just 11 years old in 1968. Found guilty of “manslaughter for diminished responsibility” and sentenced to “detention for life” Mary spent the next 12 years incarcerated in a reform school and later a women’s prison. All the while [...]

Sexy Sadie

One of Charlie Manson‘s “girls” convicted for the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders of the summer of 1969. “Sexy Sadie” bragged of actually killing Sharon Tate to her cellmates and initially testified before the grand jury before recanting her testimony out of loyalty to Charlie! She and all of her co-defendents were found guily and sentenced to [...]

Caril Ann Fugate

She was the 14-year-old girlfriend of spree-killer Charles Starkweather.They were captured in january 1958 after an 8-day rampage through Nebraska and Wyoming that left 11 people dead. Despite Caril Ann’s claim that she was Starkweather’s hostage both were tried as adults!Charles-age 19 was executed in Nebraska’s electric chair.Caril Ann received life imprisonment! 

Ed Gein

A polite man, quiet, kept to himself alot…turned out to have a dead woman on a meathook in his shed and many others in various forms of dismemberment. He was the original American Psycho, who’s real life antics in backwoods Wisconsin later served as the foundational basis for fictional killers such as Robert Bloch’s Norman [...]

O.J Simpson

“The Juice“, football star, Heisman Trophy winner, went on to be an actor ie. Naked Gun series, and then in the most sensational episode of his life, offed his wife Nicole Brown and got away with it.

Ronnie Biggs

The Great Train Robber, or more accurately, one of the 16 guys who carried out The Great Train Robbery of 1963 in England. He distinguished himself from the rest by escaping from prison in 1965 and commenced a life on the run that lasted for the next 30+ years.

John McVicar

Once Great Britain’s “Most Wanted Man”, he escaped from prison twice in the 1960s while serving time for robbery and assault, managing to remain at large for 2 years on the second breakout. 

Patty Hearst

Grand-daughter of William Randolph Hearst, media mogul who was the basis of Orson Wells’ Citizen Kane. She was kidnapped in 1974 by a group calling itself The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and held for 57 days. She seemingly threw in with her captors, and was caught on tape robbing a bank with them. She escaped [...]

Valerie Solanas

The founder and sole-member of S.C.U.M (Society For Cutting Up Men), author of The SCUM Manifesto. She is the chick who shot Andy Warhol in 1968.