Mass Killings
Four or more people killed in a single attack.
10 cases
Captain Cash
London heroin dealer Ken Avery — 'Captain Cash' to the underworld — lost everything when he turned informant, so he changed his name to Ken Regan and fixed his ambitions on a wealthy Heathrow freight importer named Amarjit 'Neil' Chohan.
Saving a Soul
Devout Tom Pendergast made it his God-given mission to rescue wayward boys, so when he found six-foot-four teenage runaway Carl Eder sleeping in a coat closet at the Mission Beach Ballroom, he brought him home to his wife and children in El Cajon.
The Magnificent Gentleman
Elliot Rodger grew up amid Hollywood privilege — a filmmaker father, lavish holidays abroad — nursing resentments that began with his parents' divorce and never stopped growing. The shy boy who couldn't make friends would come to call himself something far grander.
The Kuwaiti Wedding
Nasra al-Enezi's mental illness went undiagnosed her whole life in Kuwait, where stigma kept her suffering in silence as she raised two special-needs sons. When her husband Zayed decided to take a second wife, the wedding celebration ended in catastrophe.
The Goleta Postal Massacre
Coworkers at the Goleta mail facility knew Jennifer San Marco as the quiet sorter who argued with someone who wasn't there. After being forced out of her job, she moved to New Mexico, bought a handgun — and in January 2006, she came back.
The Vanishing Act
When police climbed through a window of the darkened List mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, in December 1971, the house was ice cold, the family had been 'away' for a month — and church hymns were still playing over the intercom.
The Broken Arrow Massacre
A whispered 911 call from a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, home began: 'My brother's attacking my family.' Then the screaming stopped, a male voice said hello, and the line went dead.
Mockingbird Hill
On a December morning in 1987, a man in a black coat and cowboy hat shot receptionist Kathy Kendrick in a Russellville law office and drove off toward the next name on his list — and what Ronald Gene Simmons had already done at Mockingbird Hill was worse.
The Port Arthur Massacre
Martin Bryant, a jobless young millionaire with a childlike smile, set an alarm for the first time in his life on April 27, 1996 — then loaded an AR-15 into his yellow Volvo and drove toward Port Arthur, Tasmania.
The Sleepover
Ashley Freeman turned sixteen on December 29, 1999, and her best friend Lauria Bible stayed over at the family trailer near Welch, Oklahoma. Before dawn the trailer was in flames, and the two girls were gone.
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