Why black Africans are considered savages.

[cape]

Nothing surprises me about how low these people will go. Nothing. It comes as no surprise that the zanu pf intend staving the matabelle. The Shona and matabelle have hated eachother forever. And in typical African form, once the shona have power, its only natural they will commit genocide on the non Shona people. Hell maybe they will use the starved and torchured dead bodies to make more muti!

This behaviour is truely disgraceful.

[the_driver]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tiger32

The numbers of blacks on the planet will continue to increase.....

... and so will AIDS good man, and so will AIDS. Read into this comment as you will.. as far as Sub-saharan africa is concerned, its true.

END!

[Karagatho]

Yes I remember that , Damn! how can you forgive killing
a little girl? I mean look at the reasons behind it
The parts of the girl will bring good fortune ,or cure aids?
Even if it somehow did! I just can't see how somebody could
rate their life above that of a little girl?
Surely you should loose your life saving a child? not
selfishly (I can't think of a worse word) kill her
to save yourself ?????

but whites are in there with vileness to , running those
sex slave rings , as if its their right to do it!
and running the Hijacking rings etc...
Murder and mayhem!

This is why I can't wait for dooms day........
that is until I remember my familys got to go there to.

Or that thing going around with raping a toddler or baby cures
Aids by giving the child the sickness ?? Again what person
could do this ? Kill a child to try save their own life?

What madness is this!
I consile in God...
Wait ! don't children like that get a first class ticket to Heaven ? Jesus loves children ,he said so!
Hey ! hey! goodness stomps evil again!!!

[pierre__]

You guys should take a lesson from our national anthem:

Sounds the call to COME TOGETHER,
and UNITED we shall stand.
Let us live and strive for FREEDOM,
In South Africa our land!

[deebee]

Seems like it's not only a black thing people. Oh maybe if cannablism is done for sport,fun or food by whites its excused.



UKRAINE: On July 15, 2002, police in the central Ukranian town of Zhytomyr said they have arrested three men and a woman on suspicion of murdering and cannibalizing up to six people, including an 18-year-old girl. "They killed a young woman in a forest and then cut out fleshy parts of the body and ate them. This is horrible," a police spokeswoman told the Reuters news agency.

In what is believed to have been a Satanic ritual, the suspects killed the 18-year-old with two knife thrusts to the heart, local interior ministry representative Viktor Kurbatov told the press. She was also scalped and decapitated. Then the suspects boiled her head in water and ate pieces from it. The cannibal crew was arrested several days after the murder when they went to meet the girl's parents to collect a $3,000 ransom.

CRIMEA:In March, 1996, police in the Crimean city of Sebastopol were called to investigate a murder. Nothing had prepared them for the carnage they discovered when they entered the home of a former convict and found the mutilated remains of human bodies being prepared for eating. The flat's owner, her mother and her boyfriend, had been stabbed to death by the 33-year-old suspect and their bodies neatly butchered. In the kitchen investigators found the internal organs of two victims in saucepans, and nearby on a plate a freshly roasted piece of human flesh.

PERESTROIKA: Alarmingly, cannibalism is becoming way of life in the former Soviet Union. In the 1996 ten people were charged with killing and eating other people. Police estimate that at least 30 people were eaten that year.

Newspaper reports across the former Soviet Union speak of cases of vagrants being eaten, or their bodies being cut up and sold to unsuspecting passers-by. "We have information about cases where human flesh is sold in street markets; also when homeless people kill each other and sell the flesh. Every month we find corpses with missing body parts."

An apocryphal story -- which may or may not be true -- relates how two winos fed a buddy human flesh. The man ate with great appetite, but when he learned the true source of the meal, he hanged himself.

SIBERIA: In 1996 a man in the Siberian coal mining town of Kemerovo was arrested after he admitted killing and cutting up a friend, and using his flesh as the filling for pelmeni, a Russian version of ravioli which, coincidentally, is the favourite dish of the Yeltsin family. The scam was uncovered when rag-pickers scavanging through a garbage dump discovered a severed human head. Soon they discovered that the rest of the body had been minced, put into pelmeny, and sold at cut-price prices in the local market.

KYARGYZSTAN: Russia's most industrious cannibal, Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev is believed to have killed up to 100 women, and served many of them to his dinner guests. Nikolai used at least 47 of his victims to make ethnic dishes for his neighbors in the Russian republic of Kyargyzstan. When arrested Nikolai pointed out that two women could provide enough delicate meat to keep him going for a week.

PRISON: Twice last year convicts in overcrowded prisons killed and ate their cellmates because they claimed they were hungry and wanted to relieve overcrowding. Criminal experts said that most cases of cannibalism in Russia were part of the general rise of serial killings, and because of Russia's mounting economic and social problems.

BARNAUL: Offering no other explanation than not wanting to share his cell, Andrei Maslich, 24, strangled his fellow prisoner and then cut out his liver with a shard of broken glass. He put the organ in a mug with water and boiled it up on a makeshift fire made from his bedding. Standing in the defendant's cage in the court room, Maslich admitted to drinking up his homemade stew. The next mornign, part of the shrunken organ was found in the mug.

Maslich, a four-time convicted murderer, was initially given his first death penalty last year after he and another inmate strangled, cooked and ate another prisoner. Then they told authorities they were bored and wanted to visit Moscow, where they thought they would be sent for psychiatric examinations.

KAZAKSTAN: In the Semipalatinsk prison in Kazakhstan, four convicts -- who blamed their actions on newspaper articles about instances of cannibalism in prison -- decided to eat the very first "new guy" placed in their cell. So when a convict named Volchenkov showed up, they killed him, cut meat from his arms and back, cooked it up, and ate it. Some pieces were fried on a hot plate and some of were boiled in an electric kettle.

KZYL ORDA: A man guarding a pot field in Kzyl Orda region of Kazakstan confessed to shooting and cannibalising his comrade. The suspect, identified only by the single name Zhusaly, salted the flesh of his buddy and ate it for 10 days. The man -- along with three farmers charged with growing the pot -- was arrested in a drug raid. The three also have been charged with concealing murder.

BEREZNIKI: The grim discovery of cannibalism in Perm Oblast unfolded when Citizen K. brought to the police station a package of human flesh. He had bought it on the street. His wife, having studied the piece, discovered skin on it. Specialists say that the taste of "people meat" is a specific one, and has a distinctive smell when it's cooked. "The taste of a victim," it is asserted, in full seriousness, at the Main Criminal Investigations Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "depends on the victim himself: if he drank or smoked a lot, whether he liked sweets or salt..."

F.A. Boldyshev and his friend N.V. Ostanin, got drunk with a third man, A.P. Vavilin, and killed him. Then they dismembered his corpse and had one of their mother's cook the choice cuts. After gladly gorging themselves, they packed up the remains and sold them in the street. Vavilin's head, hands, and feet were thrown into the attic. In custody the lethal trio confessed they did it so to save money on the purchase of normal food.

THE URALS:Anatoly Dolbyshev, a resident of Berezniki in the Urals region of Perm, was found guilty of stabbing to death a friend of his mother's in a fight. He was also charged with "swindling and appropriation of property through deceit," when he cut up his victim's body and sold pieces of the human flesh to unsuspecting local townsfolk in exchange for vodka. Police arrested Anatoly when one buyer found a strip of human skin in the meat.

MOSCOW: Citizen Kolpakov from Nizhnyy Novgorod, a lodger of a rooming house, was killed by the son of the woman who owned the apartment. The killer cut a piece of soft tissue from the forearm, fried it in a frying pan, and ate it. A panel of experts found him to be of diminished responsibility.

MARSHAL TUKHACHEVSKY STREET: Moskovsky Komsomolets, Moscow's most popular daily, reported a grisly finding on Marshal Tukhachevksy Street. A beggar rummaging for food through the rubbish bins finds a human foot and several other body parts. Police called to the scene found more evidence of murder: four hands, four shoulders and three feet, all female. "It became clear to the detectives that they were dealing with not one, but two murders," the newspaper reported.

CHUVASH AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC: On July 3, 1997, the supreme court of Russia's Chuvash Autonomous Republic sentenced Vladimir Nikolayev, 38, to death for killing and cannibalizing two people in the town of Novocheboksary.

Nikolayev, denounced as a particularly dangerous criminal ten years before, was being arrested in his apartment in the winter of 1996 when police found a pan of roasted human meat on the stove and another cannibal dish in the oven. In the snow on his balcony Nikolayev had more bodies part stored to eat later. Investigators who questioned Nikolayev said he had jokingly asked them to prepare him a dinner using his stock of human meat.

NOVOKUZNETSK: In a one man crusade to cleanse modern Russia from the permissiveness of democracy, Sasha Spesivtsev, 27, killed at least 19 street children who he saw as the detritus of society. The unemployed black marketeer would lure his homeless victims from the streets and local train stations in the Siberian town of Novokuznetsk to his home where, with the help of his mother, he killed and ate them.

UDMURTIAN: In a settlement of Novyy, two men -- Rasskazov and Bobylev -- were charged with killing and eating their drinking partner Alekhin.

In a stream outside Novokuznetsk, 43 bone fragments were found of six bodies -- four boys, one girl, and one man. The criminologists have a theory: A whole family was done away with. But in order to "establish genetic identity," it was necessary to conduct a special analysis of the bones. And the Internal Affairs Ministry official in charge of the case says, "These preserved bones have lain in my refrigerator for a month already, waiting for the chemicals. Special preparations are very expensive..."

MANTOROVO: Situated on a tributary of the Volga, Manturovo is a quiet town of 22,000, where two women -- Valentina Dolbilina, a 36-year-old mother of a four-year-old boy, and Vitaly Bezrodnov, 28, a factory worker -- were accused of killing their drinking partner and then cooking his flesh.

After a night of heavy drinking, Bezrodnov announced he was hungry and "would like some meat". After checking out one of their drinking buddies who was dead drunk in the corridor, they decided he was too skinny and packed him off home. Their gluttonous eyes then fell on a fourth member of the party, who was a bit fatter. Propelling him into the tiny kitchen, Bezrodnov asked Dolbilina for something heavy. With Dostoevskian inspiration she fetched an axe, and the victim was hit on the head, beheaded, undressed and then cut up into pieces. As Dolbilina held a tray, some 15 pounds of meat was cut from the thigh and rump, and put in the frying pan.

Awakened by the unusual smell of cooking meat, her flatmate, Boris Komarov, came into her room and asked to join the feast. Despite the haze of drink, even he noticed something strange. "It was a bit tough," he said. He was reassured by Bezrodnov, who said they had killed a stray dog for the pot.

Satisfied by this explanation, Komarov skept eating the leg of man straight from the pan. Little did he realise the full ghastliness of the situation: the dead man was his own brother, Leonid. Even the little boy, Roma, was served a slice of Leonid. The kid later blurted out: "Mummy killed a man and served him up to her friends."

ST. PETERSBURG: Local cannibal Ilshat Kuzikov liked to marinate choice cuts with onions in a plastic bag hung outside his window. When the police forced their way into his home, they found Pepsi bottles full of blood and dried ears hanging on the wall - his winter supplies. He offered the officers some meat and vodka if they would let him go.

On March 19, 1997, Kuzikov was found guilty of killing three of his vodka drinking buddies and eating their internal organs, and was sent to a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. The confessed cannibal said he killed his first victim in 1992 after inviting him to his flat for a nightcap. Ilshat, 37, said he became a cannibal because he couldn't buy enough to eat on his $20 monthly pension. After sating his appetite Kuzikov dismembered his friends and put them in a garbage dump.

STALINISM: Russians have known cannibalism caused by genuine hunger. Due to the brutality of the Soviet Government there have been famines the like of which has not been seen in the West since the 19th century. In 1921 about five million people died in the Volga and Urals region, while the Ukraine was devastated in 1931 during Stalin's collectivisation of the farms. To survive the 444-day siege of Leningrad by the Germans, the defenders ate corpses.

ROSTOV: The grandfather of Russian-style cannibalism Andrei Chikatilo, believed that his brother had been murdered and his body parts sold during the Ukrainian famine of 1931. In a grim reminder of Andrei's rampage, in January, 1997, Vladimir Mukhankin, 36, pleaded guilty to murdering eight women in Rostov-a-Don.

Robin Gecht: "Have you ever heard of the 'Ripper Crew murders'? Robin Gecht, Tommy Kokorolies, Andy Kokorolies, and Eddie Sprietzer made up this horrible group. They killed over 18 women. Robin Gecht was considered 'the boss'. He was the most evil out of them all. I have recently began corresponding with him. The way they killed these innocent women is unimaginable. They would abduct a female, cut off one of her breast, and would take turns having sex with the open wound. After they would take the severed breast home and each would masturbate into the fresh portion of the breast. Then they would cut the breast into little pieces and then eat it

Georg Karl Grossmann: Another post-WWI-German degenerate that made a living selling human flesh. Georg, a horrifying individual, was acquainted with every kind of perversion, even bestiality. A former butcher, after nights of heavy drinking, he would bring prostitutes home, have sex with them, and hack them into pieces. The next day he would peddle their flesh as beef or pork. He was arrested in August, 1921, when his landlord summoned the police to his door following a loud altercation. Inside his pad they found a freshly butchered lass ready to be chopped up. They also found evidence of at least three other divvied up girls. The mad butcher laughed when he was given the death sentence and proceeded to hang himself in jail.

Karl Denke: A German innkeeper from Silesia with a taste for the "long pig," Denke butchered at least thirty of his lodgers and kept their pickled remains in the basement of his inn. When he was arrested in 1924 he told police that for the past three years he had eaten only human flesh.

Fritz Haarmann: Haarmann stalked the train stations of post-WWI Hannover searching for young boys. He enjoyed biting his prey to death and making sausages with their remains. Always the enterprising killer, he sold the meat and clothing of his victims in the local black markets.

Joaquim Kroll: Kroll operated in the Ruhr-area of Germany for over 20 years to the tune of 14 dead. In the mid-sixties, after his six murder, he tasted human flesh and discovered an affinity for it. On July 3, 1976, police entered his apartment and found plastic bags full of human flesh in the refrigerator as well as a stew simmering on the stove with carrots, potatoes, and the hand of a missing four-year-old girl.

Stanley Dean Baker: When Stanley Dean Baker was stopped in Monterey County, California, for possible involvement in a hit-and-run accident, he shocked the arresting officer when he uttered the highly unusual phrase: "I have a problem, I'm a cannibal." To prove his point he pulled out of his pocket a handful of human fingers. The fingers, which Baker had been snacking on, belonged to the hand of a missing 22-year-old social worker named James Schlosser.


Daniel Rakowitz: In 1989 Daniel Rakowitz cannibalized his girlfriend, Monica Beerle, after accidentally killing her during a sadistic beating in her apartment in New York's Lower East Side. "I killed her and boiled her head," he told a friend, "Then I made soup out of her brains. It tasted pretty good." A small-time drug dealer and devil-worshipper, Rakowitz enjoyed his cannibalistic trangression so much that he scrawled on the door of his apartment, Is it soup yet? Welcome to Charlie Gein's Ranch East... Home of the Fine Young Cannibals.

Gary Heidnik: Gary Heidnik's cannibalism grew out of his abusive relationship to women and his willingness to break all taboos. Heidnik, Philadelphia's most dysfunctional citizen, amassed a small fortune playing the stock market while running his own church and gathering a harem of sex slaves whom he fed dog food and kept chained to water pipes in the basement of his home. When two of the slaves died, Gary, the resourceful type, dismembered and cannibalized them. In an inspired twist of cruelty, he also chopped up pieces of their flesh, mixed it with dog food and fed it to his other captives.

Dale Merle Nelson: A sexually dysfunctional lumberjack, Dale fought his impotence with violence and liquor. On September 5, 1970, tanked up with booze and hatred, he drove to his wife's relatives' house where he killed a women and her seven-year-old daughter. Feeling a bit hungry, he slit the young girl's gut and munched on the half-digested food in her entrails. He then went to a neighbor's house and killed all six inside, sodomizing an eight-year-old girl as she died. Feeling hungry again, he returned to the first house and stole the corpse he previously had for dinner.

Cannibalism in Sebastopol: "These were people who cut up and ate corpses, who killed their own children and ate them, I saw one. She had been brought to the district centre under convoy. Her face was human but her eyes were those of a wolf."

Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev - Possibly Russia's most industrious cannibal, Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev has claimed to have killed between seven to 100 women, and served many of them to his dinner guests. Nikolai used at least 47 of his victims to make ethnic dishes for his neighbors in the Russian republic of Kyargyzstan. When arrested, Nikolai pointed out that two women could provide enough delicate meat to keep him going for a week.

David Harker - On February, 1999, cannibal killer David Harker admitted to manslaughter in the death of 32-year-old Julie Paterson, on grounds of diminished responsibility. Prosecutor Paul Worsley told Teesside Crown Court in northeast England that Harker confided to a psychiatrist that he chopped up his victim and ate part of her body with pasta and cheese. Harker, 24, who has the words "Subhuman" and "Disorder" tattooed on his scalp, claimed he strangled mother-of-four Julie Paterson with her tights after he "got bored" during a sex session. He told psychiatrists he then had sex with her before chopping off her head and limbs, slicing flesh from her thigh, skinning it and cooking it.


Nicolas Claux - Dubbed the "Vampire of Paris" by the French press, this 22-year-old mortician was arrested in the summer of 1994 after a series of random homophobic .22 caliber shootings. In custody, Claux confessed to one murder, claiming to be a practicing satanist. A search of his apartement turned up unidentified skeletal remains, blood bags stolen from a hospital's blood bank, funeral jars filled with human ashes, and hundreds of hardcore S/M videotapes.

Described by court psychatrists as being a "nearly psychotic sadist", Nico shocked investigators when he described how he enjoyed eating strips of muscles from the corpse lying on the slab of the St. Joseph hospital mortuary. He also described how he enjoyed prowling Parisian cemetaries, digging up fresh graves, and drinking human blood mixed with human ashes and powder protein.

Due to the lack of evidence connecting him to the other crimes, Nico was only charged with one count of premeditated murder and six counts of grave robberies. During his trial, psychatrists confirmed that he couldn't be held entirely responsible for his crimes. In may 1997, he unrepentant necrophilic cannibal was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 12 years of prison. He will be eligible for parole in late 2000.

Dorangel Vargas - In a country with hardly any serial killer history, the self-confessed cannibal Dorangel Vargas has become a Venezuelan media darling. Dubbed the "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes" by the local press, Vargas claims to have eaten up to 10 men in the last two years. He was arrested on February, 1999, in the city of San Cristobal, near to the Colombian border.

"Sure I eat people," the candid cannibal told reporters. "Anyone can eat human flesh, but you have to wash and garnish it well to avoid diseases... I only eat the parts with muscles, particularly thighs and calves which are my favorite ... I make a very tasty stew with the tongue and I use the eyes to make a nutritious and healthy soup." Vargas said he prefers the taste of men to women and will not eat hands, feet or testicles, "although I've been on the point of trying them on various occasions." He said he rejected overweight men because they had too much cholesterol, and the elderly were spared because their flesh "is contaminated and very tough."

However, notwithstanding the large amount of bones found buried around his shack, many doubt the veracity of his story. Press reports claim that he preyed on homeless men and laborers whom he clubbed to death with a metal tube, but Vargas said he was "given" the bodies by various people, including the police. Some locals speculate that Vargas may be being used as a scapegoat for a ring of human organ traffickers. Congress said it planned to investigate reports that Vargas is a former mental hospital patient who was arrested on similar charges four years ago but released shortly afterward.

Marc V. Sappington - A man in Kansas City was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a case that investigators said involved "deviant cannibalistic tendencies." Marc V. Sappington, 21, was charged with killing three men since April 7. He was being held on $2 million bond. Kansas City, Kan., Police Lt. Vince Davenport, commander of the homicide division, said evidence indicated cannibalism was the motivation. Police also said Sappington had a fascination with Jeffrey Dahmer.

Sappington was taken into custody April 12 for questioning in the death of 16-year-old Alton "Fred" Brown, whose dismembered body was found in Sappington's basement. Brown's body was found two days before after a resident of the home noticed blood on the basement stairs and called police. Authorities said Brown had been shot to death, with limbs severed. Sappington also was charged with the murders of Terry Green, 25, and Michael Weaver, 22.

Far too many to post but you all get my drift. And you all know who I mean.

[deebee]

To be fair only 99.9999999 of these are whites. Now should I deduce:
1.That whites are as violent as any other race. Or
2.That whites are insane
3.That whites are Satans children therefore evil people who committ heinous crimes for pleasure
4.That whites are all sick people with a propensity to engage in barbaric murders and some act it out while others secretly harbor the desire to do so but are afraid of going to jail. Or
5.THAT THERE ARE WHACKOS IN ALL RACES AND TO DESIGNATE THE TENDANCY OF VIOLENCE TO ONE RACE IS ABSOLUTE LUNACY. SOME OF THE POSTS HERE HAVE REACHED IDIOTIC PROPORTIONS. SEEK HELP WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME AND YOU (THE PEOPLE I AM REFERRING TO KNOW WHO I MEAN)(Amadoda,cape,and the driver
in case its too late)SUCCUMB TO THE MADNESS THAT OVERTOOK THE MINDS OF THE LISTED INDIVIDUALS.


Most mass murderers are male, white, conservative and come from relatively stable, lower-middle-class backgrounds. They are not usually adopted, illegitimate or institutionalized as children. They are usually people who aspire to more than they can achieve. They see their ambitions thwarted, and blame other people for keeping them down. They feel excluded from the group that they wish to belong to, and develop an irrational, eventually homicidal, hatred of that group. Invariably, they choose to die in an explosion of violence directed at a group they feel oppresses, threatens, or excludes them.
There are three types of mass murderers, the family annihilators, the paramilitary enthusiasts, and the disgruntled workers. They all tend to be young, white, males with easy access to weapons. Unemployment, loneliness, a family breakup, or just a tongue lashing from a supervisor can trigger their deadly rage. Though a phenomenon usually related to postal workers, it's becoming commonplace in high schools throughout the U.S., as well as in the Red Army in the former Soviet Union. Strangely, Australians and New Zealanders are also prone to sudden fits of lethal madness. Most rampagers tend to save the last bullet for themselves. Those that don't are usually declared legally insane.

All mass murderers are listed according to the number of hits tallied in their fifteen minutes of homicidal fame. Check the morgue for the latest rampages. Because of its ever-increasing size, the Mass Murderer Hit List has been broken into three sections according to number of hits.

Timothy J. McVeigh & Terry Nichols (168) Speed freak Timothy McVeigh and fellow white-trash-neo-nazi-ex-soldier Terry Nichols are believed to be responsible for blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. McVeigh and Co. thought the assault on the Branch Davidian compound by federal authorities in 1993 was a step towards civil war. (cont.)

Julio Gonzalez (87) Cuban born Gonzalez came to the United States in the 1980 Mariel boat lift. Ten years later, in a fit of jealousy, he killed eighty-seven partiers. Pissed off at his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Feliciano, who was dancing with someone else, Julio bought a buck's worth of gasoline and torched the Bronx's Happy Land Social Club killing nearly everyone inside. Only six survived. As luck would have it, one of them was lucky Lydia, his ex-girlfriend.

Andrew Kehoe (45) The first mad bomber in U.S. soil, on May 18, 1927, Andy blew up a school in Bath, Michigan, killing 45 people, 37 of them children. After detonating explosives he planted under the school, "maniac bomber" Andrew Kehoe, a school board member and treasurer and farmer, blew up his pickup truck, killing himself and the Bath School superintendent.

"I don't remember hearing any noise, but I remember flying in the air and seeing things fly between me and the sun," remembers AdaBelle McGonigal, then 11 and in the fifth grade. "But I don't ever remember falling." AdaBelle's ear was nearly torn off in the blast that killed 38 of her classmates. Seven adults also died that day.

Jack Gilbert Graham (44) Jack, a petty criminal, was always annoyed by his doting mother. In 1955, when she came to visit him in Denver, Jack gave her a Christmas present to take back home with her on the plane. The present, fourteen pounds of dynamite with a timer in a box, blew up shortly after takeoff. This, he said, made him feel freer than he had ever felt before. It also got him gassed in 1957.

David Burke (43) On December 7, 1987, David Burke, a fired airline employee, followed his ex-boss onboard a Pacific Southwest Airline jet with his mind set on revenge. He shot the man in mid-flight and caused the plane to crash, killing all forty-three people onboard including himself.

Martin Bryant (35) On Sunday April, 28, 1996 Martin, a 28-year-old wanna-be surfer with a history of mental problems went on a rampage through the historical town of Port Arthur in the southeastern corner of Tasmania. Packing his car with weapons and a surfboard, Martin headed to the ruins of Port Arthur's famous prison. Outside the Broken Arrow Cafe he muttered, "There's a lot of WASP's around today, there's not many Japs here, are there?" Then he entered the cafe, pulled out two expensive semi-automatic rifles from his tennis bag, and methodically shot at everyone inside.

Once they were all dead he went out and murdered the driver of a tourist bus and shot at tourists around the site. After he walked back up the main road to his car. On the way he passed a woman who worked at the site with her two daughters. He murdered the woman, her toddler daughter and chased after the five-year-old and killed her. Then drove up to the admission booth of the site, murdered the people working there, and shot at people driving by.

Baruch Goldstein (29) In February 1994, Goldstein gunned down 29 Arab worshippers at al-Ibrahimi mosque. The shrine, the traditional burial place of the biblicial Abraham, is also revered as the Cave of the Patriarchs.

The segment of Shuhada Street - Martyrs' Street - opened today had been closed to Palestinian traffic except ambulances and municipal vehicles since February 1994, when Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler and immigrant physician from New York City, gunned down 29 Muslim worshipers in a Hebron mosque.

Israel feared that the street, which passes by heavily guarded compounds where 500 Jewish settlers live, would be the scene of Palestinian retribution. Palestinian traffic is still prohibited from the part of Shuhada Street directly in front of the settler enclaves.

Five years after the massacre, Israel opened the main road in the West Bank city of Hebron to Palestinian traffic that, strangely had been closed to Palestinians after the massacre even though the gunman was Jewish.

Humberto de la Torre (25) 21-year-old Humberto torched the Dorothy Mae Apartment Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in 1982 after a dispute with his uncle who managed the building. The blaze killed 25 residents and got Humberto a 625-year sentence.

George Jo Hennard (23) On October 16, 1991, Hennard crashed his blue Ford pickup truck through the plate glass window of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. As he stepped out of the truck he screamed, "This is what Bell County has done to me! I hope all this is worth it, Texas!" Then he systematically opened fire throughout the cafeteria killing twenty-three and wounding twenty. As he was running out of munitions he went to the rest room and put his last bullet in his brain. One surviving employee hid in the freezer. Another crawled into the dishwasher where he stayed hidden for almost a day.

James Oliver Huberty (21) An unemployed security guard, James Oliver Huberty, had only one friend-- his dog Shep. On July 18, 1984, he donned camouflage pants, told his wife "Society had its chance. I'm going hunting. Hunting humans," and set off to a MacDonald's in San Ysidro. There he shouted, "I killed thousands in Vietnam, and I want to kill more!", and for the next hour and fifteen minutes he slaughtered twenty-one people and wounded twenty. A sniper's bullet ended his bloody rampage. Later the building itself was demolished and a park was built on the site.

Charles Whitman (18) Charlie's head always ached. On July 31, 1966, he decided to take action. He started at midnight by killing his mother and his wife. The next morning he packed a bag with guns, sandwiches, a radio, deodorant and toilet paper, bought ammo and barricaded himself in the University of Texas clock tower. There he started picking off students. After ninety minutes of target practice the police broke through his barrier and shot him to death. When the smoke cleared, Charlie had killed sixteen people and wounded thirty others. An autopsy revealed a golf-ball-sized tumor pressing against the aggression center of his brain which, of course, explains the headaches.

On November 14, 2001, a man shot by Charles Whitman during his 1966 clocktower rampage at the University of Texas in Austin died from complications from the gunshot wound to his good kidney, officials said. David H. Gunby, 58, die at a Fort Worth hospital after deciding to stop dialysis treatment. Gunby, then a 23-year-old engineering student, was one of 31 people shot by during the shooting spree in August 1966. During surgery, doctors found bullet fragments lodged in Gunby's only functioning kidney, forcing him to endure repeated kidney problems, a transplant and dialysis three times a week for 27 years.

Thomas Hamilton (17) An avid gun collector and disgraced scoutmaster, Hamilton was known as "Mr. Creepy" by the boys in Dunblane, Scotland, a village 40 miles from Edinburg. Disliked by all his neighbors, Tom enjoyed taking pictures of young boys with their shirts off. His fixation with young boys eventually got him dropped by the Boys Scouts. In the 1980s he sponsored boys' athletic clubs but it just wasn't the same. Sadly, Hamilton never got over being dropped as a scoutmaster. After nearly twenty years, he was still seething with anger. A week before his deadly rampage Thomas wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth II complaining about a campaign to ruin his reputation. The shame was just too much for him.

On March 13, 1996, Hamilton walked to the Dunblane Primary School with payback in mind. Armed with four guns, he burst into the gymnasium where 29 children were attending class. The vengeful ex-scoutmaster systematically slaughtered 16 kids, their teacher and then shot himself. Another teacher and a dozen other students were wounded during the rampage. The children, ages 5 and 6, were sitting in circles on the floor playing when Hamilton started firing. 13 kids died instantly. Three more died later in the hospital. Surrounded by bodies of the dead and dying, 43-year-old Hamilton turned the gun on himself and put a bullet through his brain.

Scottish police described the crime scene as a medieval vision of hell with "little bodies in piles." Prime Minister John Major said the massacre was a "sick and evil act." Days later he visited Dunblane along with the Queen to express their grief over the senseless tragedy. Dunblane, with a population of 7,300, is a small market town in the Scottish Highlands north of Stirling. It is a popular commuting base for people who work in Stirling and Edinburgh.

Nearly a month after the massacre work crews began demolishing the gymnasium where all the children died. In its place there will be a play area and a flower garden. To avoid having some weirdo try to claim a piece of the building as a trophy, officers have placed a 24-hour police presence around the demolition site.

Michael Ryan (16) On 19 August 1987, 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot to death 16 people and wounded 14 others in the small farming community of Hungerford, approximately 60 miles west of London. After a "Rambo style" blood fest through the streets of Hungerford, he entrenched himself in a school building where he ended his life with a gunshot to his head.

The gunman, a loner who lived with his elderly mother, loved guns and television violence. The killing spree started in a forest outside of Hungerford. Wearing combat fatigues Ryan killed a woman who was preparing a picnic for her two children. Then he drove back to his house and killed his mother and the dog and torched the place. For the next two hours Ryan moved through the town, randomly killing or wounding everyone he met.

Ryan's rampage ended at the John O'Gaunt High School. Despondent over having killed his mom and his dog, Ryan commented "I wish I had stayed in bed". After 4 hours and several talks with the police Mike ended his life with the last round in his 9-mm. pistol.

After his deadly rampage the British government took steps to end the right to wear firearms, and to curtail television violence. Also, the film Rambo III was banned in several towns in the UK, because of Mike's claim of being inspired by Rambo movies.

Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. (16) This hillbilly from hell allegedly was the father of his daughter's son. In Christmas, 1987, he killed his whole family after his wife threatened with divorce. Gene killed fourteen members of his inbred clan making his the most proficient family annihilator of the Archives. When he was arrested for two other unrelated murders, the police sensed something suspicious about the way he talked about his family. When they went to his property they discovered the bunch of them dead.

Genildo Ferreira de Franca (15) Pissed off at being called homosexual by his former father-in-law, Genildo Ferreira de Franca, a former soldier, went on a 22-hour murderous rampage killing 15 people in São Gonçalo do Amarante, a town on the outskirts of Natal, 1,800 miles northeast of São Paulo. The dead included his ex-wife, her parents, his current wife and his mother-in-law.

Genildo, 27, armed with automatic pistol, a .38-caliber revolver with a silencer and wearing the customary mass-murdering camouflage, started his shooting spree the afternoon of May 21,1997, when he killed a taxi driver he suspected of being the lover of his former wife. After stuffing the body in the trunk of the car, he visited and killed his ex-wife, her parents and took his 5-year-old daughter Nayara hostage. With another hostage going along for the ride, 16-year-old Valderice Ribeiro da Silva, he lured people into the cab to go to a party and instead took them to a wooded area to kill them.

Police believe 16-year-old Valderice Ribeiro da Silva was more of an accomplice than a hostage in the killings. "She was with him the whole time and was carrying the ammunition. They were both on drugs," the police spokesman said. "We believe she may have been helping him." According to the girl the rampager, after sharing several joints with her, forced her to have sex with him threatening that it would be her last time.

Valderice said Fanca had a list of 25 people he wanted to kill. He was selective about his victims, crossing them off his list after each kill. Those fortunate enough not to be in the hit list were told, "You may go, you're a good person, you don't deserve to die." Franca was also despondent over the death of his 1-year-old son, who had been run over by a taxi two years ago. A friend and associate of Franca said: "He used to be a calm kind of guy, but ever since his son was run over by a car, he became a bit strange."

Army buddy Francisco de Assis dos Santos, 22, confessed to aiding Genildo with the first five slayings. According to police Dos Santos, a drug addict, confessed to holding the arms of the victims as Franca shot them. He also said that after each kill the ex-soldier would laugh as if possessed by the devil. He stopped helping with the carnage because the laughing was starting to bother him.

In a three-page letter found on Franca after he was killed by police, he said his purpose in "writing these few lines is not to justify the wrong I have done, but it is only in this way that I can ... challenge those who wanted to prove I was a homosexual." Franca's mother, Maria do Carmo said her son "was always kind and gentle with everyone." But when his baby Iuri was killed, "he opened himself to the enemy the devil." She thought her son got worse when his ex-father-in-law started telling everyone Franca was a homosexual. "But that was not true. My son was a womanizer."

Franca met his end at one in the afternoon the day after he started his rampage. He was cornered by 140 police officers in a ceramic tile factory where he shot himself before police riddled his body with bullets. The two hostages, Valderice and his 5-year-old daughter, were unharmed. Apparently, three months before, Ferreira went to buy a coffin, telling the undertaker he was going to commit suicide. Two days after the rampage only 15 people attended his funeral. Sadly only one relative showed up who, curiously, was on his hit list.

Pat Sherrill (14) The patron saint of all rampaging postal workers. Fearing that he might be fired, on August 20, 1986, Crazy Pat killed fourteen co-workers and wounded six others in his Edmond, Oklahoma post office. The day before the slaughter Pat was disciplined by his supervisor. Not one to take criticism lightly, Pat returned to work the next morning with two .45-caliber semiautomatic pistols and about 100 rounds.

Fatefully, the lucky man who chastised Sherrill missed certain death by oversleeping and arriving late to work. Not to be detracted, Pat shot another supervisors who had been critical of his work. Pat moved from cubicle to cubicle through the labirinzine post office shooting at anyone he saw. After 15 minutes and 14 deaths, Crazy Pat returned to the desk of his of the dead supervisors and put a bullet through his head.

Neighbors described Sherrill as a creepy loner who stalked the neighborhood at night wearing camouflage. He had no friends and, since the death of his mother in 1978, lived by himself. Strangely, he was in the habit of riding around town alone in a bike built for two. In his twenties he served with the Marines and became a great marksman. Later he would boast of a tour of duty in Vietnam that was purely fictional. He was once diagnosed with suffering from "fictitious post-traumatic stress disorder" which is imaginary battle fatigue. One has to notice that following his rampage, his imaginary battle fatigue just didn't seem that imaginary.

Marc Lepine (15) Marc loved guns and hated women, a combination that proved fatal in the fall of 1989. Marc went to the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal dressed in typical mass-murdering fatigues looking for "feminists". In the twenty minutes that followed, he became Canada's reigning Mayhem King by killing fourteen female students and a school secretary, saving the last bullet for himself. He shot his first female in the hallway, then walked into a class, asked the men to leave and shouted "You're all a bunch of feminists! I hate feminists!" He killed six of them. With a big smile on his face he proceeded to kill three more "feminists" in the cafeteria and four on another floor before blowing his head off.

After the massacre, a suicide note was received by a newpaper in Canada, that read, in part: "I have decided to send to death the feminists who have always ruined my life...... Being rather backward-looking by nature, except for science, the feminists always have a talent to enrage me. They want to keep the advantages of women, cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceeded by a preventive retreat, while trying to grab those of the men. They are so opportunistic they neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men through the ages.... Will we hear of Caesar's female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50% of the ranks of history, though they never existed?? A real Causus Belli."

Marc then wrote out a "hit list" of 19 women he apparently wanted to kill, then closed his suicide letter by saying: "Nearly died today. The lack of time, because I started too late, has allowed these radical feminists to survive. Alea Jacta Est (The Die Is Cast)."

Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold (13) On April 20, 199 the two students dressed in black trench coats, fatigues and ski-masks opened fire in a suburban high school in Littleton, Colorado, leaving up to 12 students and a teacher dead. At least 24 others were wounded, with five in critical condition. Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone said Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, armed with explosives, two sawed-off shotguns, a .9 mm carbine rifle and TEC-DC9 semiautomatic pistol, appeared to be in a "suicide mission." The mayhem started at 11:30 AM, when half of the student body at Columbine High School was in their lunch break, until four hours later when the two rampagers were found dead in the library from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Following their murderous outbreak schools throughout the nation have experience a rash of copycat threats leading to the closing of entire districts. (cont.)

Saber & Mahmoud Farahat Abu el-Ulla (13) On September 18, 1997, the two brothers attacked a bus outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo leaving nine German tourist and their Egyptian driver dead. Not a novice slayer, Saber was incarcerated in a mental hospital for killing two Americans and a Frenchman at a Cairo hotel in 1993. In light of the bus rampage closely following his release from custody, three doctors, two nurses and six other hospital staffers are are being tried for negligence and accepting bribes.

Saber and his brother Mahmoud were charged with premeditated murder and attempting to harm the Egyptian economy through the use of violence. "This was a heinous crime against Egypt, the land of civilization ... the land of safety," military prosecutor Col. Mohammed Abdel Aziz el-Sheik said during their trial. In no uncertain terms Col. Aziz called for death by hanging for the lethal siblings.

Saber initially said that he launched the attack to avenge a cartoon drawn by a Jewish woman in Israel that depicted Islam's Prophet Mohammed as a pig. During their trial Saber repeatedly stated -- as if trying to justify deadly attack -- that they only meant to target Jews.

Egyptian officials have insisted the attack was not linked to Islamic militants. Saber has said he lacked the contacts to join the militants, but sympathized with them. Seven other people are on trial on charges of selling arms and ammunition to the brothers. Saber, a failed pop musician, said his father paid the head of Egypt's mental institutions $14,700 to have him certified mentally ill so that he could escape the death penalty in that case. The official, Sayed el-Qut, has been arrested and is on trial for bribery. On October 29, 1997, an Egyptian military court sentenced to death the two brothers for the fire-bombing of the tourist bus. The brothers chanted, "God is great!" after a judge read the verdict in the heavily guarded courtroom. Minutes later, Saber said "Jews, Jews, the army of Mohammed is coming back!" Six of seven co-defendants were found guilty on lesser charges of involvement in the attack, and sentenced to terms ranging from one year to 10 years in prison at hard labor.

George Banks (13) A former state prison guard, George Banks was found guilty on charges resulting from a shooting spree with an AR-15 high-powered rifle in Wilkes-Barre city and Jenkins Township on the morning of Sept. 25, 1982. The rampage left 13 dead, including five of his own children and the four women who bore them.

On June 21, 1983, Banks was found guilty of 12 counts of first-degree murder, one count of third-degree murder, and numerous other charges. The next day, the jury returned 12 death sentences and one sentence of life in prison. Banks is on death row at the State Correctional Institution in Greene, near Pittsburgh.

Howard Unruh (13) Meet the father of modern mass murder. A WWII veteran, Unruh never recovered from the war. He kept a list of his neighbors in East Camden, New Jersey who irked or bothered him and mumbled that someday he would get them. For a year Howard planned his lethal foray. Arecluse, he was convinced his neighbors were ridiculing him and plotting against him. "They have been making derogatory remarks about my character," Unruh told authorities after the attack. What set him off was discovering someone had stolen his fence gate.

Shortly after 9 a.m. on September 6, 1949 --the day after Labor Day -- the 28-year-old pharmacy student left the apartment he shared with his mother armed with a war souvenir Luger and 33 rounds of ammunition and set on what later came to be known as the "Walk of Death."

As neighbors screamed and scrambled for cover, Unruh went to the shoe repair shop and shot the cobbler. Next door, at the barber shop, he killed a 6-year-old boy on a hobbyhorse chair and then the barber. Next he stopped at the tailor's, but he had left to run an errand, so Unruh shot his bride of six weeks. Along the way, he shot randomly at anyone who crossed his path: a man, two women and a 10-year-old boy died. A tavern owner shot Unruh in the thigh from a second-story window, but Unruh continued walking. He then went to the house of a family that bothered him killing three. His lethal stroll down the streets of Camden tallied thirteen dead -- including two children -- in twelve minutes. After calmly strolling back home, he told a reporter, "I'm no psycho. I have a good mind... I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets."

Unruh was never prosecuted because he was declared mentally unfit to stand trial on 13 counts of murder and three counts of atrocious assault. The indictments were dismissed in 1980 after a judge ruled he had been denied a speedy trial. Instead he was sent to Trenton Psychiatric Hospital for the criminally insane. A World War II veteran, Harry Rosell, began visiting Unruh in 1983. Rosell said he once asked Unruh if he ever wanted to fire a weapon again, and Unruh replied, "Guns and mental illness do not go together."

On November 7, 1997, Superior Court Judge Linda G. Rosenzweig refused to move 76-year-old rampager to a less secure psychiatric hospital even though he is no longer actively psychotic or an escape risk. Juge Rosenzweig said Unruh is still a threat to society. She said she could not put aside the psychotic homicidal rampage on Sept. 7, 1949, that led to his incarceration.

According to psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Greenberg Unruh should be moved to a facility with patients his age. "He is constantly fearful of being attacked," said Dr. Chung H. Lyou-Kim, another psychiatrist at the hospital. She said Unruh frequently sits alone in a corner to avoid confrontations with younger patients, all of whom have been found criminally insane.

Eric Borel (13) A bored French teenager, Eric woke up a Sunday morning with death on his mind. On September 24, 1995 Borel killed his mother, stepfather and brother with a hammer and a baseball bat. Then he picked up his .22-caliber hunting rifle, walked six miles to the village of Cuers and opened fire in a parking lot outside a bank and in the town square. During his half-hour morning rampage, he killed seven more people and wounded nine others before putting a bullet through his head. Two of the wounded died later in the hospital. Neighbors said the teenager was taciturn and probably upset over his father's recent death from cancer. The posters of Hitler and other neo-Nazi themes plastered all over his room also might have fueled his rage.

David Gray (13) New Zealand's worst mass murderer. In November 13, 1990, David slaughtered 13 people during a 24-hour rampage in the hamlet of Aramoana, a tiny seaside settlement in the province of Otago, near Dunedin in the South Island. He was finally shot dead by police.

Mark O. Barton (12) On July 29, 1999, Atlanta "day trader"Mark O. Barton, angry after losing a chunk of money trading on the Internet, pummeled his family to death, then headed to two brokerage offices were he opened fire, killing nine people and wounding 12. Barton, 44, escaped and shot himself to death after a five-hour manhunt when police stopped his van at a gas station.

The bodies of Barton's wife, 27-year-old Leigh Ann, his son, Matthew, 11, and daughter Elizabeth Mychelle, 7, were found at an apartment in Stockbridge, the town 16 miles southeast of Atlanta where Barton lived. The children's bodies were in their beds, with sheets pulled up to their necks and towels around their heads so only their faces showed. A handwritten note was left on each body and a computer-generated note was left in the living room explaining the reasons for the massacre.

July 29, 1999, 6:38 a.m.

To Whom It May Concern:

Leigh Ann is in the master bedroom closet under a blanket. I killed her on Tuesday night. I killed Matthew and Mychelle Wednesday night.

There may be similarities between these deaths and the death of my first wife, Debra Spivey. However, I deny killing her and her mother. There's no reason for me to lie now. It just seemed like a quiet way to kill and a relatively painless way to die.

There was little pain. All of them were dead in less than five minutes. I hit them with a hammer in their sleep and then put them face down in a bathtub to make sure they did not wake up in pain. To make sure they were dead. I am so sorry. I wish I didn't. Words cannot tell the agony. Why did I?

I have been dying since October. I wake up at night so afraid, so terrified that I couldn't be that afraid while awake. It has taken its toll. I have come to hate this life and this system of things. I have come to have no hope.

I killed the children to exchange them for five minutes of pain for a lifetime of pain. I forced myself to do it to keep them from suffering so much later. No mother, no father, no relatives. The fears of the father are transferred to the son. It was from my father to me and from me to my son. He already had it and now to be left alone. I had to take him with me.

I killed Leigh Ann because she was one of the main reasons for my demise as I planned to kill the others. I really wish I hadn't killed her now. She really couldn't help it and I love her so much anyway.

I know that Jehovah will take care of all of them in the next life. I'm sure the details don't matter. There is no excuse, no good reason. I am sure no one would understand. If they could, I wouldn't want them to. I just write these things to say why.

Please know that I love Leigh Ann, Matthew and Mychelle with all of my heart. If Jehovah is willing, I would like to see all of them again in the resurrection, to have a second chance. I don't plan to live very much longer, just long enough to kill as many of the people that greedily sought my destruction.

You should kill me if you can.

Mark O. Barton

Barton, dark-haired and 6-foot-4, was wearing khaki shorts when he walked into the Momentum Securities brokerage at the Two Securities Centre building in the trendy Buckhead section of Atlanta about 3 p.m. With a 9 mm and a .45-caliber handgun in each hand, he allegedly said "I hope this doesn't upset your trading day" before opening fire killing four people. Then he walked east across Piedmont Road and began shooting in the All-Tech Investment Group, a day-trading firm in the Piedmont Center building where he killed five others.

Not coincidentally, the previous wife and mother-in-law of this chemist turned investor turned mass murderer were bludgeoned to death in 1993 in Cedar Bluff, Alabama. No arrests were made. "He was the No. 1 suspect all the way through and still was," said Richard Igou, district attorney at the time of the killings.

Sadamichi Hirasawa (12) A Japanese artist, Sadamichi poisoned 12 bank employees during a robbery.

Saeed Qashash (12) On June 6, 1999, Saeed Qashash, a 20-year-old Jordanian convicted of shooting to death 11 members of his family and a friend , was hanged in his prison cell. Saeed Qashash was executed shortly before dawn at Swaqa Prison, 60 miles south of the capital, Amman. Qashash was sentenced November, 1998, for gunning down a classmate and 11 relatives, including his parents. He confessed to the murders, saying his family had pestered him to pass his final school exams. After the shooting, Qashash hid the bodies behind a brick wall in the basement of his family home. He was arrested days later. In addition to his parents and friend, Qashash killed his two brothers and four sisters, a brother-in-law and two nephews, ages two and three.

Drug Rampage in Sao Paulo (11) On June 17, 1998, three heavily armed men opened fire in a bar in the Francisco Morato neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo while people were celebrating Brazil's 3-0 victory over Morocco in the World Cup. Eleven people died -- including three women -- and three others were seriously wounding. Police said they believe the killings were drug related. They said most of the dead had been shot in the head.

Charlie Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate (11) Standing at five feet two inches, Charles Starkweather hated everyone he saw. Everyone except his fourteen year old girlfriend Caril Ann. On January 21, 1958, Charlie got into an argument with Caril's parents and settled it the only way he knew -- shooting her mother and stepfather. Then he rammed his gun barrel down Caril's two-year-old sister's throat and choked her to death while Caril watched the tube.

A few days later, after the local authorities became suspicious, the two went on the run killing with reckless abandon. After eluding a two-hundred member posse chasing them through Nebraska, they were captured in Wyoming where they turned on each other. The movie Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek was based on their exploits. Charlie was fried in June 1959 and Caril got life. She was paroled in 1976. The latest confirmed report places Caril Ann in Michigan and working in a hospital in the Mt. Pleasant area.

James Ruppert (11) In 1975, 41-year-old James Ruppert killed his mother, brother, sister-in-law and eight nieces and nephews at an Easter Sunday dinner in Hamilton, Ohio. In 1982 he was convicted of two deaths and acquitted of the nine others by reason of insanity.

The 11 victims were shot a total of 35 times. James then calmly waited for police to arrive, making no attempt to flee. He told arriving cops: "My mother drove me crazy by always combing my hair, talked to me like I was a baby, and tried to make me into a homosexual". At trial, prosecutors said James planned to take the family's $300,000 net worth for himself, by killing everyone else, getting himself declard Not Guilty by reason of insanity. Then having himself "cured" within a few years, he would be released from the hospital a wealthy man.

Rogelio Andrade & Allan Lobos (10+) On November 26, 1998, Rogelio Andrade and Allan Lobos were arrested and charged with murder for a 1993 apartment fire that killed 10 tenants and injured 40 others. Andrade and Lobos, both 22, were charged with 12 counts of murder -- one for each victim and two unborn children -- and one count each of arson. Not the model citizen-type, Lobos was arrested in a Kern County prison where he is serving a 15-years-to-life sentence for two murders

Seven children, all under age 12 were among those killed in the May 3, 1993, fire in the Westlake district of Los Angeles. Three women were also killed, two of whom were pregnant. The fire was in retaliation against an apartment manager who had begun to report drug activity in the complex to police.

Police received new information in May when an informant arrested in a homicide investigation told detectives he knew about the fire. Authorities said the case was difficult to crack because people were too afraid to give information. "What's difficult about it is that a lot of our witnesses and victims were obviously intimated by the gangs. They didn't want to be the 13th victim," Sanchez said.

Mohammed Yaqub (10) A resident of the Kashmir state in Pakistan, Mohammed gunned down 10 people after flying into a rage when his nephew defied him by chopping down a tree. Mohammed shot and killed his nephew, Yaseem, with an automatic weapon, then opened fire on family members and bystanders. The suspect surrendered to police soon after the shootout near Muzaffarabad, 60 miles northeast of Islamabad.

Sgt. Artur Vaganov (10) On June 2, 1997, Sgt. Vaganov, a mentally unstable Russian soldier in a unit posted in the breakaway region of Abkhazia in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, shot and killed 10 sleeping comrades and wounded three others before turning his gun on himself.

Lt. Gen. Dolia Babenkov told the Interfax news agency that Vaganov -- who was probalby drunk or pissed off about a hazing -- had "prepared for the murder beforehand, disabling the weapons" of his fellow conscripts. "He wanted to kill all the 19 men on duty at the 203rd post." The rampage was similar to several other incidents in recent years that have plagued the Russian military. A week earlier, Pvt. Yevgeny Gorbunov ran amok outside a military store in the Chita region of Siberia killing five fellow soldiers and an officer. The Russian Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, which defends the rights of conscripts, says the army is suffering an epidemic of soldiers driven to murder by low morale, bullying and ill-treatment from superiors.

James Edward Pough (10) On the morning of June 18, 1990, James Edward Pough walked in a GMC car loan office in Jacksonville, Florida and started shooting. Police said he was distraught over GMC's repossession of his red 1988 Pontiac. "Pop," as his neighbors called him, started his rampage the night before by killing a prostitute and her pimp. The next morning, at the GMC office, he randomly killed eight and wounded five others. When he saw no one else left alive he turned the gun on himself.

Here's a first-hand account from a reader of the Archives:

The morning of June 18, 1990 started out as a normal one for me. I was unemployed and looking for work. I had a job interview that morning on the southside of Jacksonville, FL. I got breakfast and headed towards Baymeadows Road. It was a pleasant day, so pleasant I actually got lost. After backtracking and finally asking an Electric Company crew for directions, I drove toward my destination. I missed the driveway the first time I passed the building I was to be at. The next building was the GMAC Office. I turned in and circled through the parking lot. As I passed through, I looked at my watch. I thought to myself, "Is there enough time to drop off a resume here?" If I hadn't gotten lost, there would have been. I had to go to my scheduled appointment, but thought I would go back afterward. I never dreamed that I wouldn't have the chance.

As I drove out of the GMAC parking lot an old, faded green Pontiac 4-door was pulling in. A big black man was driving. As we passed, he glared at me. It was the kind of look a wild animal gives just before it attacks. I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I drove quickly out of the parking lot and across the street to my appointment. I had a real bad feeling about the man.

My interview went well and I left the building on my way to the GMAC office across the street. It was a scene I will never forget. The place was absolutely crawling with Police, Rescue, Helicopter Ambulances, you name it. The press wasn't there yet. I asked a bystander what was going on and was told of the massacre in the GMAC office. I felt my knees get weak. I sat down and tried to calm down. I would later find out just how close I came to being gunned down in cold blood. We were all detained while the emergency crews worked at the scene. We watched as stretcher after stretcher was rolled out of the building. 8 people would die that day.

I watched the news that night and they showed a picture of the killer and his car. It was the man in the Pontiac, mass murderer, James Edward Pough. Pough had already killed two people and went into the GMAC office within minutes after I saw him. I thank God to this day that I got lost that morning. I would have been one of the first to be gunned down in the lobby as Pough went on his rampage. He literally worked his way through the office methodically killing people. After he got done shooting the others, he turned a gun on himself and took his own life. It would be Pough's last violent act. An act of a madman.

Yang Mingxin (9)An axe-wielding farmer in northwestern China hacked nine people to death in a dispute over 10 geese. Yang Mingxin, 39, from Chenggu county in northwestern Shaanxi province killed nine fellow villagers and injured three others in a fit of rage on June 23. The oldest victim was aged 71 while the youngest was a four-month-old baby girl.

The problem started when Yang had refused to sell 10 stolen geese for fellow villager Guo Baoning. Unable to find his intended victim Guo, Yang attempted suicide by hanging himself and drinking insecticide after the massacre but was rushed to hospital and saved.


Mark Chahal (9) Straight from the wedding-guest-from-hell-file. Mark walked into a pre-wedding gathering of his estranged wife's family in Vernon, British Columbia, and killed his wife, her sister-- the bride-to-be-- and seven of her relatives. Two others were wounded, an elderly woman and a 6-year-old girl. After the massacre the chagrined husband drove a rental van back to the motel where he was staying, scribbled a short apology and killed himself. The stunned groom heard of the rampage en route to the wedding.

Richard Speck (8+) Richard Speck had a tattoo on his arm that read "Born to raise hell". In 1966 that's exactly what this garbage man and apprentice seaman did when he leisurely slaughtered eight student nurses in Chicago. Rich, a possible serial killer, is believed to be responsible for at least four more deaths in the three month preceeding his blood-soaked swan song.

On the night of July 13, Rich, tanked up with booze and tripping, knocked on the door of the two-story town house occupied by the nurses. He corralled the six women inside and hog-tied them with torn bed-sheets. He then led the first victim upstairs to a separate room and stabbed her to death. Methodically, he smoked the rest of the nurses at a clip of three per hour. Throughout the slow-motion butchery, he only raped one of the women.

As the night wore on three more nurses arrived from their dates to fall prey to his mania. One nurse, Corazon Amurao, survived the deadly visit by scooting under a bed. Rich left the townhouses when he thought there was no one left alive and headed back to a bar. Days later, as police closed in on him, Rich tried to kill himself by slashing his wrist. When he was rushed to the hospital a doctor recognized his tattoo from a news report and turned him in. In 1991 Ricky died of a heart attack while serving a 400 year sentence. He was forty-nine. At the time of his death he was "overweight, a chain-smoker and had poor eating habits." But that wasn't half of it.

In May, 1996, five years after his death, a pornographic video made secretly in prison began airing on Chicago's WBBM-TV showing the mass murderer wearing woman's panties, doing drugs, having sex and bragging about living the good life at Stateville prison. A total embarrassment for Illinois lawmakers, the tape, believed to have been shot in 1988, shows Speck handling $100 bills and casually snorting from a huge pile of coke. At one point he says, "If they only knew how much fun I was having in here, they would turn me loose."

A feminine looking Speck appeared to have taken hormone shots and, like fellow killer Bobby Joe Long, seemed to be sporting a pair of tits. It is unclear how the jailhouse Tarrantinos obtained the equipment to make their porn video. Besides Speck two other inmates appear on the tape, Speck's black lover, or in prison lingo, "his *****," and the film maker himself who casually pops in for a line of coke. After viewing the video, Illinois state Representative, Al Salvi, said the demeanor of Speck and the others suggest "that they had the run of the place." On the tape, the convicts do not appear worried about getting caught. At one point Speck acknowledges that he killed the eight nurses saying that it, "just wasn't their night." For years he claimed to have "blacked out" on drugs, and could remember anything about the killings.

The Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security party unit in Joliet, was used in the filming of the movie Natural Born Killers. It is reputed to be one of the toughest prisons in the United States... And, by the looks of it, the funniest.

Anton Probst (8+) The axe murders in 1866 near Philadelphia were unprecedented. Anton Probst, a farm hand, systematically lured all eight members of the Deering family into a barn, then axed them to death. Beginning about 8:00 in the morning and finishing around 1:30 p.m., he then went into the farmhouse and put on Mr. Deering's fine clothes, sat down and ate the food in their kitchen (a man's got to eat), then plundered the house one room at a time until evening.

He then went into Philadelphia to his favorite saloon, bought drinks for the house with his new found wealth, gambled and lost at bagatelle (an early form of pool) and then treated himself to a lady of the evening until the following morning when he was thrown out of the whorehouse almost penniless. Managing to come up with more money for whoring for the next five days, Probst was finally captured and subsequently hanged, His body was then used for chilling medical experiments at the local college.

Strong evidence also suggests he was also a cold-blooded serial killer who roamed the east coast and enjoyed butchering families.

Richard Durn (8) On March 27, 2002, a man sat silently through a six-hour Nanterre city council meeting, then rose and started firing two semiautomatic Glock pistols, methodically killing eight city officials and wounding 19 more people. The shooter, Richard Durn, was also packing a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver, which he did not use. Durn was restrained by witnesses after an official threw a chair at him. That official was seriously wounded when the Durn managed to free one of his free hands and continued firing. When police arrived, the rampager begged them to kill him. Nanterre is a working-class neighborhood near a business district of western Paris.

Durn, 33, often attended council meetings but never said anything. According to Stephanie Durn, his 68-year-old mother, Richard was deeply disturbed, had been in psychiatric treatment for years and had spoken "probably 10 to 20 times" of wanting to kill people. "The reason why I think he wanted to kill was because he felt very alone," she told reporters outside her home. "When he first went into psychotherapy in 1990, he asked the doctor: 'Help me to die'."

French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who rushed to the scene in the early morning darkness, called the shooting rampage "a case of furious dementia." President Jacques Chirac, who met with grieving family members, described the events as "a completely unimaginable drama." Rightist presidential candidate Alain Madelin called the shooting, "This American-style byproduct, we wished not to have in France."

The rampage took occurred about 1:15 a.m. as about 40 people attending the were getting ready to leave. Nanterre's mayor said she didn't know the attacker and that there had been no heated debate at the meeting which had ended quietly when the shooting began. "He had been sitting in the public area. He shot straight in front of him, and then he moved to where the council members were sitting." The man had waited until there were only officials and bureaucrats left in the room, she said. "He said nothing," she said. "It was long. It lasted many minutes." Showing no party affiliations, shot at municipal officials from both ends of the political spectrum.

Durn had trouble keeping a job and was collecting unemployment. He once worked for several years at a nearby elementary school as a hall monitor. He also volunteered at the local branch of France's Human Rights League. He was described by acquaintances as a sympathizer of ecological organizations, but was not member of the Green Party. "He was somebody opposed to the directives of the city hall," said Christian Demercaster, a municipal official from the Green Party who said he'd greeted the attacker before the session.

Durn had no criminal record and had a permit for his guns, which he'd bought in 1997 and used for recreational shooting. Durn had been practicing shooting regularly for six years at a club in the Garenne-Colombes region. "It seems he regularly practiced shooting, and he never caused any problems to the club," said Alain Joly, an official at the French federation governing the sport.

Mamoru Takuma (8) On June 8, 2001, Mamoru Takuma Armed with a kitchen knife,burst into an elementary school in Osaka, Japan, slashing eight children to death and wounding 18 other children and three adults. Takuma, 37, was subdued by a vice principal and a teacher before police arrived. He was arrested at the scene, but was taken to a hospital, reportedly with self-inflicted injuries. The victims -- six girls and two boys -- were first- or second-grade students, ranging in age from 6 to 8. Two children were killed immediately and another six died at hospitals after the attack. Six more victims were in serious condition.

Police said the suspect, who had a long history of metal illness, worked as a janitor at an elementary school in a nearby city about two years ago but was fired after he spiking the tea of four teachers with tranquilizers. He was arrested at the time but was never prosecuted because he was mentally unstable.

Takuma told police he had taken 10 times his daily dose of an unspecified anti-depressant before heading out to the school. He allegedly said he was "sick of everything" and "wanted to be caught and executed." He told police he had attempted suicide several times but failed to kill himself

The stabbings occurred shortly after classes began at the elementary school. The attacker allegedly climbed into a first-grade classroom during a recess and began slashing children in the back of the room, and then moved into a hallway. Several children were slashed in their sides and arms as he moved into other classrooms. As the attacker tussled with two teachers, school officials called police and rushed the children out to the playground.

Within minutes after the attack, a cashier at a nearby grocery said a group of terrified, bloodied children ran into the store. "I saw one of them, a boy, with blood all over his body," said Ikiyo Iriye, 23. "He had been stabbed in the back."

On December 19, 2001, Takuma pleaded guilty in the Osaka District Court to stabbing eight children to death. Though he had a history of schizophrenia, but psychiatrists reportedly determined he could tell right from wrong and was fit to stand trial. The attack led to calls for greater security at schools. Takuma allegedly entered the school unopposed and went from classroom to classroom knifing children.

Russian Bath House Massacre (8) Five men and three young women were shot dead as they were having a birthday party in the sauna of a bath house in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil. The causes of the massacre were simply that there were not enough girls to go around. As the lucky men paired off in different parts of the sauna, the unlucky ones flew into a drunken rage.

"They went wild, killed one man, then another and when they saw what they had done, they had to get rid of the witnesses," an investigator is quoted as saying. One witness fled stark naked, but died in the snow. The killers have not been caught.

Todd Hall (8) On July 3, 1996, in an act of sheer stupidity, Todd Hall decided that it would be fun to ignite a box of fireworks inside a fireworks store in Lawrence County, Ohio. The bone headed prank left eight people -- six adults and two children -- dead and a dozen injured as the store exploded in flames while customers were shopping for Independence Day fireworks. The bodies of the dead were so badly charred that the Ohio state coroner needed dental records to identify the victims.

Hall, who was described by neighbors as "mentally slow", suffered a head injury as a child. He was no stranger to having trouble with the law. In 1994 he was declared "incompetent" to stand trial on a domestic violence charge. He was also issued a citation for criminal trespass on May of 1996. Two days after the deadly blaze Hall stood up in court during his arraignment on eight counts of involuntary manslaughter and declared, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it, it's not fair." If convicted, Hall could face up to 25 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each count.

Ray Martin DeFord (8) In 1996, 11-year-old Ray -- the youngest member of the Archives -- was charged with eight counts of murder after allegedly setting a lethal fire in a suburban apartment complex west of Portland, Oregon. Three days before his arrest the kid was heralded as a hero. At first Ray told reporters that he was awakened by squeals from a rat he was planning to feed to his pet snake. When he realized the building was being ravaged by fire he woke up the rest of his family and alerted the neighbors. "My dad says I'm the hero for the day,"Ray said. After the fire the Portland media billed the kid as a real-life hero showing him eating chocolate cake at his favorite restaurant and interviewing him extensively.

On July 2, 1996, the story took an unexpected turn. The boy confessed to setting the fire next to the only exit for the 12-unit apartment building and was heralded as a cold-blooded murderer. All the victims of the fire were of Mexican descent. A family of six - four of them young children - that lived in the apartment above, and a teen-age mother and a 3-month-old baby that lived next to them. "He might be a small child, but he had the head to do such a dreadful act, I want him to pay. He killed my family," said Mario Guzman, a relative of the victims. Although authorities assert that no evidence indicates the arson was racially motivated, the boy's uncle said that their Mexican neighbors never liked young Ray. In fact, no one did: "He only had one friend down the street, a little guy named Matt."

On August 22, 1997 a state judge found the now 12-year-old Ray criminally responsible for one count of arson and eight counts of felony murder and criminally negligent homicide. The lethal tot showed little reaction to the verdict.

Wade Frankum (8) In 1991 taxi driver Wade Frankum killed 8 people when he sprayed his chinese assault rifle in a suburban shopping mall in Strathfield, Australia. Then he killed himself.

Frank Vitkovic (8) Like the U.S., Australia has also had it's share of postal rampages. In 1987 Melbourne law student Frank Vitkovic rampaged through an Australian Post Office building killing 8 and injuring 17 before leaping to his death from the 11th floor.

Julian Knight (8) A failed Australian military cadet, Julian shot his way into infamy on August 7, 1987, as he mowed down 7 and wounded 19 on a busy Melbourne street. After his arrest, the 19-year-old maniac blamed the military for his rampage: "They trained me to kill, and I killed." At one with his role of media star, Julian criticized local police for their slow response to his attack and announced plans to write the definitive account of his rampage, casting himself as the hero.

Julian thought his behavior was a result of being ousted from the Royal Military College, where He was he was regularly beat up by his fellow cadets who thought he was a wimp. Adding insult to injury, he was rejected by his girlfriend. And, when the gear box of his car blew up, it pushed him right over the edge. Curiously, the killer counted being adopted and not being breast-fed among his list of reasons for his actions.

On August 7, at 9:35 p.m., Julian took up his position in the shrubbery on the median strip of Hoddle Street and fantasized that the homeland was being invaded. Armed to the teeth with a Ruger semiautomatic rifle, a Mossberg pump-action shotgun, an M-14 and 200 rounds of ammunition, he started shooting at everything that moved. After 38 minutes he ran out of bullets and was captured by police. Later he claimed that he had saved a round for himself and lost it, prompting his surrender. Otherwise, he thought he deserved to be praised for his actions. "I performed exactly as my Army superiors would have expected me to perform in a combat situation... In other circumstances I would have gotten a medal for what I did."

Carl Brown (8) Unhappy with the work done on his lawn mower, Carl Brown returned to a Miami machine shop and shot eight people. He then walked out the back door and rode his bicycle back home. Two witnesses chased after him, shot him down and ran him over with their car to make sure he was dead.

Dale Merle Nelson (8) A sexually dysfunctional lumberjack, Dale fought his impotence with violence and liquor. On September 5, 1970, tanked up with booze and hatred, he drove to his wife's relatives' house where he killed a women and her seven-year-old daughter. Feeling a bit hungry, he slit the young girl's gut and munched on the half-digested food in her entrails. He then went to a neighbor's house and killed all six inside, sodomizing an eight-year-old girl as she died. Feeling hungry again, he returned to the first house and stole the corpse he previously had for dinner.

Gian Luigi Ferri (8) A failed businessman Ferri did what others only dream about doing. In 1993, the avenging angel of all those screwed by lawyers, killed eight and wounded six, as he rampaged through the Pettit and Martin Law offices in San Francisco. Fearing legal recourse, he turned the gun on himself.

On May 8, 1997, a San Francisco judge dismissed a lawsuit against Miami-based gun manufacturer Navegar Inc., saying the company wasn't responsible for the July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri rampage that left eight people dead. Superior Court Judge James Warren ruled two years before that victims and their survivors could try to prove that the Miami-based Navegar Inc. had designed the Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol for mass killing and marketed it in a way that would appeal to criminals.


Larry Gene Ashbrook (7+) Three adults and four teen-agers were killed on September 16, 1999, when Larry Gene Ashbrook -- armed with two handguns and shouting anti-Baptist rhetoric -- opened fire in Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Seven others were wounded. Minutes after the rampage the killer sat in a pew towards the back of the church and blew his brains out.

Armed with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun and a .380-caliber handgun, Ashbrook reloaded several times as he calmly walked down the aisle shooting and spewing out mocking comments about the Baptist religion. Three empty gun clips were found at the crime scene. He also set off a homemade pipe bomb but it did not harm anyone.

Gary Gene Tison & Randy Greenawalt (7+) On July 30, 1978, Gary Gene Tison and Randy Greenawalt had enough of their life sentences at the Arizona state prison . The imposing Tison, feared and respected by fellow inmates, had killed a policeman for shoving his wife. Greenawalt, a pudgy man with a very high IQ, was doing time for serial-killing at least two, maybe four truck drivers, by shooting them in the head while they slept in their cabs.

Transferred to the low-security Trusty Unit for excellent behavior, Tison and Greenawalt pulled off a daring escape in broad daylight. They were aided by Gary's young and near-brainwashed sons Donny, Ricky and Ray. After suffering two flat tires on rough Arizona back roads, they kidnapped a family of four for their car, then shotgunned the whole family to death. A week later, a game warden discovered the sun-bloated corpses in the desert. One of the victims had crawled a thousand feet before dying.

Failing to obtain a plane in which to fly to Mexico as planned, the gang tried to drive across the border in a stolen van. The owners of the van, a couple vacationing in Colorado, were later found dead in the woods. On the night of August 10 they met by a hail of gunfire that killed Donny, the van was forced off the road. Randy, Ricky and Ray were captured and sent to prison, but Gary, who had sworn he wouldn't be taken alive, died of dehydration in the desert, while hiding only a few feet away from a building where he could have turned himself in.

Mauro Antonello (7) On October 16, 2002, a man in the northern Italian town of Chieri shot and killed his ex-wife and six others relatives and neighbors before turning the gun on himself. The gunman, Mauro Antonello, a 40-year-old construction worker, former security guard and gun collector, reportedly had a bitter breakup two years ago with his wife, 40-year-old Carla Bergamin. Antonello left a videotaped message for the couple's 7-year-old daughter, who was at school when the slayings occurred, to "explain why you have been left without me," the Turin-based La Stampa newspaper reported Wednesday. "It was all mom's fault. It was she who didn't want to go back with me, who didn't want to reunite our family."

The man also reportedly left notes in the trailer he rented last week and where he spent the night before carrying out the massacre. "I kill you because I love you," he reportedly wrote to the people he would shoot. Chieri, a relatively well-off suburb of about 32,000 people, near the norhtwestern industrial city of Turin. The victims were Bergamin, her mother, brother, sister-in-law, as well as two neighbors and a woman who worked in the Bergamin family textile factory.

A day before the family rampage, a former customs police official in the northern town of Reggio Emilia videotaped himself shooting and killing his wife and daughter and injuring his daughter's boyfriend. The gunman then unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, but eventually died in the hospital two days later. Two weeks before, in the northern suburb, Leno, near Brescia, police found the body of a missing 14-year-old, Desiree Piovanelli, who had been stabbed to death in what allegedly had been planned as a gang rape. Three teenagers, including one who lived next door, and a 36-year-old neighbor who lived across the street were arrested and charged with the murder.

Adam Moss (7) On August 31, 2001, the day after mass murderer Nikolay Soltys was captured in Sacramento, another man, 23-year-old Adam Matthew Moss, was arrested in Sioux City, Iowa, for the murders of two adults and five children. The suspect, 23-year-old Adam Matthew Moss, is believed to have been the boyfriend of Leiticia Aguilar, the 31-year-old female victim and mother of the five murdered children. The other adult victim, 58-year-old Ronald Earl Fish, was found dead in the entryway of his home on the north side of town. Authorities believe Moss, who had worked in Fish's tire company, murdered him to steal his car. The bodies of Aguilar and her children were discovered by a babysitter who came looking for them after they did not show up at her house after school. Apparently the family had been dead for several days.

According to authorities, this murder rampage is the worst crime committed in Sioux City history. Once the bodies of Aguilar, her children and Fish were found, police identified Moss -- who had been living with Aguilar -- as their primary suspect. After an frantic, all-night search for Moss throughout the city, police found him hiding behind a pile of plywood outside a shack they had been watching.

Neighbors said Moss could be friendly and helpful but had a history of violence. His own brother filed a restraining order against him last week; court officials would not explain the cause. Fred Scaletta, spokesman for the Iowa Corrections Department, said Moss was sentenced to a year of probation in 1995 for assault. The next year, he was placed on two years' probation for burglary and theft. Moss and Aguilar had worked at Smurfit-Stone Container Co., which makes cardboard and paper products.

Nikolay Soltys (7) For reasons unknown, Nikolay Soltys, a 27-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, stabbed to death his 22-year-old pregnant wife, Lyubov, in their outside Sacramento. Twenty minutes later he went to his uncle's home in nearby Rancho Cordova were he killed his aunt and uncle, Galina Kukharskaya, 74, and Petr Kukharskiy, 75, and two of their grandchildren, Tatyana Kukharskaya and Dimitriy Kukharskiy. The two cousins were 9 years old. About an hour later Soltys went to his mother's house in Citrus Heights, another Sacramento suburb, from where he left with Sergey, his 3-year-old son. According to the mother Soltys seemed fine, and showed no sign of anything wrong. The next day police found the child in a bloodied with his throat slit... (Continued)

Craig Godineaux & John Taylor (7) Craig Godineaux, 30, and John Taylor, 36, are accused of entering a Wendy's in Flushing, Queens, on May 24, 2000, and ordering seven employees into a basement freezer. There, they allegedly bound and gagged their victims with duct tape, placed bags over their heads, then shot them one by one in the head during a robbery.

"[The victims] were marched single file into a big freezer box. They were told to get on their knees, and they were each shot by the defendants once in the head," said Lasak Assistant District Attorney Greg Lasak. Two of the employees survived the attack, in which $3,200 was stolen from the eatery. Police say most of that money was found at Taylor's home.

Craig Godineaux told the cops he didn't wear a mask during the robbery that left five dead and two wounded because "nobody was going to be left." The suspect also allegedly told cops that he put a coat on victim Anita Smith to keep her warm in the basement freezer before she was murdered on May 24. The new information came out in the Queens courtroom of Supreme Court Justice Robert Hanophy as Godineaux and Taylor were arraigned on five murder charges. Taylor, a former co-worker of some of the victims, was also arraigned on unrelated indictments, charging him with three robberies of McDonald's restaurants in June of last year.

After his arrest on Long Island Taylor told two detectives while en route back to Queens that they should arrest Godineaux. "Please get Craig," Taylor allegedly said. "Please get Craig because I was the only one who saw him shoot those people. I knew three of those people. It was supposed to be a robbery."

In reading the charges against Godineaux, the suspect made it clear to detectives he did not wear a mask because the murders were part of the robbery plan. "This is that fat bastard's [Taylor's] fault," Godineaux allegedly said. "I only shot the survivors." Godineaux later allegedly added. "I shot five of them. I didn't shoot the girl. That fat bastard shot Anita [Smith]. I liked her. I put a coat on her before she went into the freezer."

On January 22, 2001, Craig Godineaux pleaded guilty to murdering three people and wounding two others. According to prosecutors Godineaux, who will be sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without parole, was spared from the death penalty because he is mentally retarded. "I know my apologies to the families will never bring their loved ones back," he said at his sentencing hearing on February 22. "I do deserve what I get. I don't expect nobody to accept my apology." As for Taylor, prosecutors plan to push for the death penalty in his trial.

Byran Uyesugi(7) On November 2, 1999, Byron Uyesugi, a Xerox copy repairman who believed his coworkers were plotting gainst him, showed up at the offices of Xerox in Honolulu and hunted down seven of his coworkers.

In the opening statements in the Byran Uyesugi trial City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle described murder defendant Byran Uyesugi as a calculating, disgruntled employee out to settle a grudge and defense attorney Rodney Ching described the gunman as sick individual with a history of mental illness who was legally insane at the time of the shootings.

According to Ching the rampage was the product of a delusional mental disorder fueled by the belief that his co-workers were spying on him and sabotaging his work. Uyesugi, Mr. Ching said, believed for years that unseen demons stalked and tormented him, and that the FBI and co-workers bugged his bedroom, mutilated his prized fish, stole his woodwork and put sugar in his gas tank. Against such odds, who can blame the man for going on a shooting spree.

In the first day of testimony in the trial of Uyesugi coworker George Moad described his horror and disbelief as he ran to the second floor of Xerox warehouse to see what was going on and stumbled over the bleeding and lifeless bodies of coworkers as he looked for a phone to call 911. "I saw bodies and I couldn't understand, fathom," he testified. "I felt sick."

In fact Moad sued both Uyesugi and the Xerox Corporation for the emotional distress he suffered after seeing the carnage. Attorneys for Xerox argued that the multinational conglomerate could not be held liable for an employee acting outside the scope of his employment. Uyesugi's actions were "privately and personally motivated acts of violence," said lead attorney Crystal Rose. "Xerox didn't hire Byran Uyesugi to murder his co-workers."

According to David Gierlach, Moad's attorney, Xerox knew before the slayings that Uyesugi had threatened to kill co-workers, that he suffered from delusional disorder and that he had a collection of guns. Furthermore the killing spree was motivated in part by Uyesugi's desire to serve Xerox because he thought co-workers were sabotaging his repair work. Xerox denied all charges and tried to have two of the six counts against them dismissed.

December 26, 2000, a Massachussets software tester allegedly gunned down seven co-workers at their Internet consulting company because he may have been upset by a request by the IRS to garnisheed his wages to pay back taxes. Michael McDermott, 42 -- wielding a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and a pistol -- made his way through the offices of Edgewater Technology on the day after Christmas, leaving in his wake a stream of spent shells and the bodies of four women and three men.

Pvt. Oleg Naumov (7) On January 28, 1998, Pvt. Oleg Naumov -- a glue-sniffing Russian soldier on guard duty in the far eastern island of Sakhalin -- went on a rampage killing seven soldiers. Zonked on acetone fumes, Pvt. Oleg Naumov pick-axed one comrade -- who escaped alive -- before picking up his army-issued AK and killing his commander and a six others. The rampaging private -- who had been addicted to drugs since age 13 -- was detained five hours later and hospitalized under heavy sedation.

Illustrating the murderous epidemic plaguing the Russian army, a day before the rampage, a soldier shot a fellow serviceman to death and deserted his post on the outskirts of Moscow. Such episodes have become increasingly common.

Ahmad Dakamseh (7) In 1997 Jordanian soldier Ahmad Dakamseh shot to death seven Israeli schoolgirls on a field trip. The soldier was sentenced to life in prison by a military tribunal after he opened fire on a group of Israeli girls in Baqoura in the northern Jordan Valley, a small piece of land the kingdom retrieved from Israel under their 1994 peace treaty. Six other girls were wounded in the rampage. On May 26, 1999, sources at the Jordan Bar Association said that Prime Minister Abdul Raouf Rawabdeh recently told the association's president that the "government may decide to free " the incarcerated rampager.

Zurab Chkheidze (7) On June 25, 1997, Zorab, a Russian soldier, shot and killed four other guards and a technician at a gasoline storage depot 12 miles east of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Zurab then fled with Petre Kamkamidzean -- another soldier -- taking with them two Kalashnikov rifles. Later they killed a couple and stole their car before being arrested at a nearby roadblock.

Roland Smith (7) On December 8, 1995, Ronald Smith, an overzealous black activist, turned the white-owned Freddy's Fashion Mart across the street from Harlem's famous Apollo Theatre into a flaming grave for seven low-wage workers and himself. Fueled by a bitter dispute stemming from the clothing store's planned expansion that would result in the eviction of the black-owned Record Shack next door Ron grew tired of picketing and decided to take matters into his own hand. On that fateful morning he entered Freddy's with a .38-caliber revolver and a bag of lighter fluid, yelled for everyone to leave and started firing wildly wounding four people who managed to stumble out of the shop.

Then he proceeded to set up barricades trapping seven people inside. After exchanging gunfire with police the mad activist set several fires in the store. Ronnie, who liked to call himself Abubunde Mulocko, feeling he had done his job for the cause, ended his morning rampage by putting a bullet in his head. The seven others trapped in the store burned to death. Police are still investigating the reasons for his attack.

Richard Farley (7) A computer technician obsessed with a female coworkers, Richard Farley killed 7 people -- including the object of his obsession -- in one day. On the positive side, Rich single-handedly forced a revision of the California law against stalking.

Ramón Salcido (7) After a night of heavy drinking and snorting cocaine, Ramón pondered his impending unemployment and divorce. On April 14, 1989 --the next morning --he decided what to do. First he took his three daughters to a municipal dump and slit their throats. One survived, two died. Then he went looking for his wife in his in-laws house. There he killed his mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law. When he returned home he found his wife, Angela, and smoked her too. He finished the day's work by murdering his boss whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

Jorjik Avanesian (7) On February 6, 1996, this 40-year-old Iranian immigrant, killed his wife and six children by torching their Glendale, California apartment. Jorjik, after years of anger at his wife, set the lethal fire out of jealousy because "his wife was involved with drugs and had been with another man." The lethal familicide fled the one-room inferno with burns on his hands and headed to the offices of Asre Emrooz, a Farsi-newspaper in Encino, to tell his side of the story. Jorjik, unaware of having charred his wife and six children, ages 4 to 17, said that he burnt down their home to scare his wife. He was hoping to get a divorce and get her deported.

However, as news came that the whole family was dead, Houshiar Nejad, the publisher, called the cops. Later, his sister Maro Ovanesyan told authorities that he had been arrested in Iran for trying to stab his wife. He was also arrested in the United States for using excessive force disciplining one of his children. His wife complained to police that he threw a chair at one fo the children and brandished a knife. He served no jail time but received counseling.

Fire officials could not explain why the Avanesians where trapped in their one-bedroom apartment and could not escape the fire. Three bodies were found in the bathtub and another on the bathroom floor. The bodies of two small children and a teenager were found in the bedroom.

Mattias Flink (7) Sweden's premier mass murderer. In June, 1994, Mattias killed seven and wounded two during a one-night rampage through the town of Falun. Matt, an army man, was distraught over the impending break-up with his girlfriend. After a night of serious drinking he returned to his barracks, grabbed his AK-5, extra ammunition clips, and went back to town to mow down citizens. After killing seven people he climbed on a crane and waited for the police. Two hours later he got bored, climbed down, and was spotted by the police who tracked him to a railway station. When he saw the cops he tried to fire at them but his AK-5 jammed with a casing caught in the ejector. The two lucky cops shot him on the buttocks before arresting him. Now Mattias spends his times in Sweden's premier prison wishing he had stayed on the crane.

Raymond Ratima (7) In June 1992, a month after the Schlaepfer family massacre, 25-year-old fellow New Zealander Raymond Ratima bludgeoned and stabbed to death seven relatives, including five children, in the quiet rural town of Masterton, north of Wellington.

Joseph Wesbecker (7) At 8:30 a.m., September 14, 1989, Joe entered the Kentucky printing plant where he worked, armed to his teeth with an AK-47, two Mac-10s and two other pistols. After testing out all his weapons and killing seven, he put a bullet in his head. A former co-worker thought that Joe was argumentative, confrontational and paranoid. "This guy's been talking about this for a year." He went in looking for bosses but ended up shooting at anyone that moved.

Daniel Patric Lyman (7) In July, 1987, Danny boy, a thirty-six year-old resident of Tacoma, Washington, decided his family had bothered him long enough. He proceeded to kill the whole lot: his parents, his parents-in-law, his wife, his two children, and then, himself.

Edward Charles Allaway (7) In 1976 Ed shot nine people, seven fatally, in a homicidal rampage at the library at Cal State Fullerton where he worked as a janitor. Not a marksman, Eddie used a .22-caliber rifle to shoot his victims at close range. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, the killer has been confined to the Atascadero State Hospital. In 1992 he was transferred to the less restrictive Napa State Hospital and has been deemed well enough to be released into the community. Dr. Paul Blair, a state psychiatrist and UC Irvine professor said that Allaway's psychopathic behavior appears "to be in full remission." If released maybe Dr. Blair could give him some work in the UC Irvine campus. However, he should stay clear of the library.

Mark Essex (7) Mark Essex left the U.S. Navy because he thought the white man did not care about his problems. He moved to New Orleans where he brooded over racism a little too long. On a Sunday morning in January, 1973, Mark stormed into a Howard Johnson's Motel with his rifle in his hand and a private race war on his mind. A black maid spotted him but he reassured her, "Don't worry. We're not killing blacks today, just whites. The revolution is here." With that, he torched the drapes of his room and started shooting at the white folk.

He spent the rest of the day on the roof of the hotel shooting people.He killed two hotel workers, three cops, a newlywed couple, and wounded twenty-six others. Eventually he was shot down by Marine sharpshooters who were called in to take him out.

James Schnick (7) Another from the family-annihilator file. In September, 1987, this Elkland, Missouri, resident wasted seven family members, including four of his children. He then tried to blame his14n-year-old nephew for the crime.

Josef Gautsch (6) On November 22, 1997, Josef Gautsch shot and killed his ex-wife, her 3-year-old daughter and four other people in a central Austrian town before turning the gun on himself. The dead included the ex-wife's live-in companion and a school principal, who also served as deputy mayor of the town. The gunman, identified as 36-year-old mechanic Josef Gautsch, killed himself shortly after the shootings.

Robert Bryant (6) On March 16, 2002, Robert Bryant shot and killed his four children, his wife and himself in the family hillside home in Yamhill County, Oregon. The children -- ages 8 to 15 -- were found in their beds, dressed in their night clothes. Their mother, 37-year-old Janet Ellen Bryant, was found on the floor in the master bedroom. Robert Bryant, the 37-year-old familicidal dad, was found in the living room dead from an apparent self-inflicted shotgun wound. Authorities believe the family was dead for several days before they were discovered. The Bryant home sits on about two acres in a rural subdivision outside McMinnville, a prosperous town in Oregon's vineyard country about 35 miles southwest of Portland.

The children were last at school on Feb. 22, and the shootings are believed to have occurred the following night. Karen Richey, assistant superintendent for the McMinnville School District, said teachers had noticed the children's absence from school and several attempts were made to contact the Bryants. "We had people knocking on the door several times," but no one ever answered. When two Yamhill County sheriff's deputies were in the area on an unrelated call, neighbors asked them to check on the family. The deputies used a ladder to look into a window in the rear of the house and spotted Robert Bryant's body.

The Bryants moved last summer to Oregon from the Sacramento, California, area, where they had lived for nearly a decade, according to Mark Messier, a family friend. Court records show that before they moved, Bryant had filed for bankruptcy. Messier said the family's move came as a surprise. "Their uncles and aunts and grandparents all loved those kids, and they wanted to maintain contact, but Rob wouldn't let them," Messier said. "We don't even know when they moved. They just up and went."

Pvt. Yevgeny Gorbunov (6) Police and federal agents in the Chita region of Siberia announced an all-points bulletin for Pvt. Yevgeny Gorbunov. While on guard duty at a military installation Gorbunov ran amok killing five fellow soldiers and an officer.

Poor morale, mental abuse, severe hazing, and underfunding in the Russian military have led to a series of shooting incidents involving soldiers.

Feng Guohui (6) After endless taunts from his neighbours for his hermaphroditism, on April 28, 1997, Feng stabbed six people to death in Yangjiang, southern China, and was later captured by police.

Forestry worker Feng Guohui, 25, born with both male and female sexual organs, became a man through a series of operations four years ago, but his neighbors kept making fun of him. In a fit of rage, Feng attacked them with a long knife, killing three women aged 81, 59 and 27, along with two 4-year-old boys and another 5-year-old boy. An 8-year-old girl survived the vengeful rampage.

Mohammed Nazari (6) Distraught over "indiscretions" by his teen-age daughters, Hassan opened fire at two high schools in the Yemeni capital of San'a, killing at six people, including four students.

On March, 30, 1997, the angry father waited outside the gates of Al-Tallai private high school, which his two daughters attended, for the headmistress, Asma al-Nomaan. When she arrived, he fatally shot her in the head. He then killed a cafeteria employee who rushed to cover her body and wounded a bus driver who tried to block him from entering the school.

Once inside the schoolhouse, he went from classroom to classroom, shooting at hundreds of students killing three and wounding one teacher before walking 500 yards to the nearby Moussa bin Nussair High School. There he killed three more students and wounded another teacher before being wounded and arrested. An Interior Ministry statement said 11 pupils from the two schools and three other people were wounded.

A day after his deadly rampage, the disgruntled Yemeni father was sentenced to death by firing squad. Nazari told the court that he worked as a bus driver for the two schools where he rampaged and that the headmistress he killed had him fired. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that Hassan intended to kill a headmistress and her husband because of the couple's part in the alleged rape of his daughter.

On April 7, 1997, as crowds yelled "God is greatest,"the vengeful father was publicly executed in front of the two schools were the rampage took place with a single bullet from a sharpshooter. His corpse was then nailed to a cross and left displayed in public for three days.

Sergei Lepnev (6) On March 8, 1997, a first-year cadet at a Russian military school opened fire on his classmates killing six people and wounding two others. The rampager, 18 year-old Sergei Lepnev, decided that a career in the military was not his calling and at 4 a.m., after the changing of the guard, he shot and killed the officer on duty, a 32-year-old captain who had served in Afghanistan, and then opened fire on his fellow students.

After the shooting, the cadet and a friend fled the Kamyshin Higher Military Construction School with two automatic rifles and ammunition. 12 hours later, the gunman and his buddy were arrested hiding inside a home in Kamyshin.

Stephen Anderson (6) A 24-year-old native of Wellington, New Zealand, Stephen went berserk during a family reunion in a small ski resort killing six people and wounding five others. The shotgun wielding maniac was tracked down by authorities through the surrounding rugged terrain using helicopters and planes. Within an hour he surrendered to police commandos naked and unarmed close to the ski lodge where many of the victims were blasted to death.

The suspect, described by local residents as a former psychiatric patient, vented his lethal anger against mostly relatives, although several passers-by were also hit by the gunfire. 18 members of the Wellington family gathered at the ski lodge in Raurimu for a reunion. After a family argument, Stephen picked up his shut gun and started blasting away. Unconfirmed reports include his father and three other relatives among the casualties. After his arrest,Stephen was formally charged with the death of Hendrick Derek Young Van de Wetering, a local resident, and ordered the killer to undergoe psychiatric testing at the Tokanui Mental Hospital. On February 12, he was charged with five additional counts of murder, eight counts of attempted murder and unlawful possession of a 12-gauge shotgun when his firearms licence had been revoked.

New Zealand, known mostly for its sheep and butter exports, is now in danger of becoming the homeland of the mass killer. Since 1990 there have been five massacres. Before that there was just one other incident. A decade ago just one murder was enough to send the nation into a state of shock. Now there is an average of more than one homicide a week. Psychologists and criminologists are baffled by the rising body count.

The fact that most mass murders occur in rural areas has led experts to believe they are the result of families living in isolated surroundings. Some say that contributing to the mayhem is the "settler" mentality which has bred a macho culture, in which men can only express their anger through extreme violence. Perhaps New Zealand's lax gun control might also be contributing to the slaughter. New Zealanders own a gun for every household. After the massacre there was an outcry for tighter gun control. However, a coalition of firearm users lashed back saying that the government should be looking at improving the mental health system instead of changing the gun laws.

Brian Schlaepfer (6) Another in a long list of New Zealand rampagers. In May, 1992, 64-year-old wealthy farmer Brian Schlaepfer shot or stabbed six members of his family before killing himself with a shotgun at Pukekohe, near the northern city of Auckland. Only his granddaugher Linda, then nine, survived the massacre.

Eugen Berwald (6) In 1996 a Frankfurt court convicted Russian immigrant Eugen Berwald for the murders of four Russian prostitutes and the husband-and-wife team that pimped them in a high-class brothel. Eugen's wife, Sofia, was handed a six-year sentence for robbery after the court determined that she did not participate in the killings.

Four days after massacre was uncovered, Eugen was caught during a routine inspection with checks, a golden watch, plane tickets and passports belonging to the dead brothel owners. When he was arrested he claimed that Russian Mafiosis had killed the couple and their four maids. However, the judge and jury didn't believe him. They sentenced him to 25 years in prison. His wife Sofia came away with six years for robbery. The jury assumed that she did not help him with the murders and found out about them the next morning when she read about them in the paper.

Colin Ferguson (6) On December 7, 1993, Colin decided to ignite his own race war and started firing at white people on the Long Island Commuter Train. His rampage left six dead and several injured. Colin defended himself at his trial claiming that he was the victim of a racist conspiracy.

Alexi Polevoi (6) According to supporters, evidence failed to show how Alexi Polevoi could single-handedly have murdered his father, stepmother, her parents and two friends in the family house at Louveciennes. One of the victims was a former army officer turned bodyguard and the killings appeared to be professional hit -- 15 shots fired, from three different guns, with only one round missing its target. On March, 1998 -- eight years after the carnage -- investigators have been accused of turning a blind eye to evidence of Russian mafia involvement.

Although Alexi -- who was 16 at the time of the killings -- admitted his guilt after police found his fingerprints on the murder weapons, he retracted his confession nine months later, claiming that he had been forced to load the guns by a masked Russian who had threatened to kill him, his mother, his girlfriend and his baby sister unless he "confessed" to the crime.

However, magistrates and police maintained that Alexi was a fantasist as well as a mass-murderer. His dream-scenario linking the killings with the business dealings of his father - Yevgeni Polevoi, 42 - was dismissed as irrelevant by the judge ruling over the case. Alexi, the prosecutor insisted, was motivated purely by rage against his heavy-drinking father, who delighted in humiliating him in public. As for the other victims, they died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The prosecution failed to take into account dad's own fears of assassination by unscrupulous business contacts.

Mr Polevoi, a Soviet apparatchik turned entrepreneur, was fired at in Moscow shortly before his death and again while out hunting. Five months after the Louveciennes killings, dad's key business associate was found dead in his Moscow office. In December 1995, Polevoi's brother, Dmitri, who had inherited his business affairs, also died from bullet wounds, in Belorussia.

Leo Held (6) On morning in the fall of 1967, Leo, a devout Christian, woke up and decided to take care of his problems. He drove his kids to school, dropped his wife at her job and showed up at the paper mill where he worked packing heat. There he wasted five supervisors. Then he went to a local airport and wounded a switchboard operator that was part of his car pool. Next he went home and shot his neighbors, the Quiggles, while they slept. One died, the other survived.

When he returned home, the police had surrounded his house and shot him. He died in the hospital but not before saying why he shot each person. All the victims had irked him in some way or another. There was one person he couldn't get to, a seventy-year-old neighbor, a fact which he lamented on his death bed.

Frederick Cowan (6) Nazi-lover and amateur weightlifter Freddie Cowan shocked the New Rochelle community on Saint Valentine's Day, 1977, when he shot 10 people at the Neptune Worldwide Moving Company. Five died on the spot, a sixth person died weeks later.

From all accounts, people thought that Freddie was a regular guy with a couple of chips on his broad shoulders. A hardworking ex-GI, Freddie lived with his parents and fantasized about being "like Hitler." He kept a collection of Nazi weapons and other memorabilia and enjoyed wearing his German tanker helmet and pretending he was in the SS. In one of his Nazi books found by authorities in his attic bedroom he had written "There is nothing lower than black and Jewish people unless it's the police who protect them."

Once, when he was drunk, he kicked a puppie to death because it was black. On another occasion he smashed a TV in a bar after finding out the woman he was talking to was Jewish. He also threatened a neighbor with his rifle for dating a black man. Freddie claimed to have no interest in women and told an acquaintance, "If you want to be a man, buy a gun." Surprisingly, people were stunned when this bigoted maniac went on a killing spree.

The rampage started at 7:45 when he arrived at the moving company, gun in hand, looking for Norman Bing, a Jewish supervisor who previously had him suspended. On his way through the lobby and the cafeteria of the office complex, Cowan killed three black employees and a dark-skinned Indian immigrant. Bing, the object of his anger, saw the crazed white supremacist entering the building, left his office and hid under the table in another room.

Ronnie DeFeo (6) Ronnie DeFeo shot and killed the six family members at 3:15 a.m. on the morning of November 13, 1974 with a .35 caliber rifle. In court he testified to being possessed by Satan whom he blamed for the murders. The house itself, located in Amityville, New York, was believed to be under demonic attack. When the new owners of the house started seeing signs of demonic possession, they fled the house in complete terror and fear, never to return to it again. Later, it all turned out to be a publicity seeking hoax.

The house was rumored to have been torn down, but it was just a remodelling project. The most recent owners, a family of five, are very happy in the house and have not experienced any paranormal activity. On a lighter note, the DeFeo murders and its subsequent haunting became part of pop culture with the brilliant "Amityville Horror" film series.

A reader of the Archives, Lisa_Marie, wrote to us leting us know that there is still paranormal activity in the house:

Your information on the house in Amityville is incorrect. The "horror" story was never proven a fake. Infact the Lutzes all passed a lie detector test. Paranormal investigators checked out the house and did photograph spectral phenomena. You might want to watch History's Mysteries for a re-air of the two part documentary. Pretty good.

Also, the house was never reported to have been torn down. A later family just changed the "famous" windows in hopes of detering drunk kids.

Subsequent families have all had problems though few of them report "haunting" activities because they don't want the freaks to return. Two boys using Butch's old room, from two separate families living in the house, have passed away from drug problems. Coincidence? Could be!

William B. Cruse (6) Retired librarian and delusional paranoiac William Cruse always thought his Palm Bay, Florida, neighbors thought that he was gay. He felt that the clerks at the local supermarket gossiped about him everytime he went shopping. He also felt that the neighborhood kids enjoyed taunting him and tresspassing into his property.

Not the easiest going person in the world, 60-year-old Billy would scream obcenities and shoot his rifle in the air to warn of any tresspassers. Things turned from bad to worse on April, 1987, when two young boys accused him of making obcene remarks and sexually provocative gestures. When he was taken in by the police for questioning, Cruse told them that a man had stuck his tongue at him in the store. That, he reasoned, "was his way of saying I was queer." Obviously uncomfortable with his sexuality, Cruse was a timebomb ready to explode.

For Cruse the **** hit the proverbial fan at around 6 p.m. on April 23, 1987, when he felt the taunting of two kids outside his door was too much. Cruse grabbed three guns and went after them. He shot an innocent bystander -- a 14-year-old kid who was playing basketball in his drivewave accross the street -- jumped into his white Toyota and headed for the nearest Publix supermarket.

He killed three people in the parking lot, two Kuwaiti students and a woman, but was unable to get into the store to kill more. Cruse got back into his car and headed for the nearby Winn-Dixie supermarket. As he started firing at the store, a cop arrived at the scene. Cruse sprayed the patrol car with seven rounds mortally wounding the officer. A second officer unloaded his weapon on Cruse without hitting him. Cruse, on the other hand, first hit him on the leg before finishing him off as the frantic officer desperately tried to reload his weapon.

On a roll, Cruse proceeded into the supermarket shooting at anyone he saw. By the time he was done, Cruse had killed six people and wounded ten others. As police surrounded the store he took a 21-year-old woman hostage who he found hiding in the women's restroom. After six-hour siege, he let her go. A little later police swarmed into the store and arrested him.

William Cook (6) Billy Boy had tattooed HARD LUCK on his left hand. As a child he grew up in a mine shaft, then reform school, and then the pen. While in jail he nearly killed an inmate with a baseball bat. In 1950, a short time after being released from prison, he flagged down a car and forced a family of five to drive aimlessly through four states. After seventy-two hours of driving he shot all five family members and their dog. When he got to California he commandeered another car and shot the driver in Yuma, Arizona. He was finally arrested by Mexican police six hundred miles south of Tijuana. Before getting gassed in 1952 he stated he hated "everybody's guts."

Stanley Graham (6) The grandaddy of mass murder in New Zealand. On October 1941, Stanley, a farmer on the west coast of the South Island, shot dead seven men including four police officers.

Alexander Pogosyan & Michael Martinez (5+) Authorities believe Alexander Pogosyan and Michael Martinez are responsible for a shooting rampage that left six people dead in Aurora over Labor Day, 1998. Pogosyan is accused of killing five of the six people who died in the September 7 shootings. Authorities say the sixth victim, Michael Martinez, helped Pogosyan carry out the crime. Martinez later was found shot to death in a field, but no one has been charged in his death.

Authorities believe Pogosyan and Martinez went on a shooting spree that day and gunned down Ed Morales Jr. and Zack Obert, both 18, at the Morales home. Then they went to another home and killed Greg Medla, 18, Penny Bowman Medla, 37, and Marissa Avalos, 16. Martinez was killed later the same day. His body was found in a field with 13 gunshot wounds.

Their alleged getaway driver Artur Martirosyan, who fled Colorado after the Labor Day murders and is still at-large, told police that after the killings Martinez announced he wanted to find his girlfriend and kill her, too. "They all snitched on me, and I'm going to get them," Martinez told Martirosyan. About 9:30 p.m. that night, Martirosyan said Alex Pogosyan called him, sounding dejected. "They got Mike. I'm just sitting here at home waiting for Mike,'' Pogosyan told him. Who "they" are is still uncertain.

Michael Martinez's father, Miguel Martinez, testified that he drove his son to Denver Health Medical Center early Sept. 7 to be checked for a sexually transmitted disease. He left the teen with $20 to take a cab home, but Pogosyan picked him up. When they returned to his house, Martinez said he found his son in the kitchen taking knives but disarmed him. "He told me everyone was going to die,'' the elder Martinez said. "I told him nobody was going to die. Then he left and slammed the door on me."

Esther Martinez said she and her husband had returned home that weekend to find their son had broken a rule prohibiting him from having friends over when no adults were present. Martinez broke into tears as she described finding Pogosyan's clothing on her son's bed, along with a duffel bag that contained shotgun shells. She also found surgical gloves among the clothing.

When the teens returned moments later, Esther Martinez said she demanded that Pogosyan leave, but he refused. "He say I just came here to protect Michael. They are going to come to kill Michael, blast out your windows and kill you and your husband." She testified that Pogosyan gave her a telephone number of the alleged enemy. When she called the number, a teenage girl answered, and Martinez said she told her to "leave the boys alone and don't call my house anymore."

John Wolfenbarger & and Dennis Lincoln (5) - Two men were charged with murdering five family members during a December 21, 2002, robbery at their suburban Detroit home. John Wolfenbarger, 31, and Dennis Lincoln, 27, were charged with five counts each of premeditated murder and felony murder. Jeweler Marco Pesce, 38, his mother, Maria Vergati, 68 and Pesce's three children, Melissa, 6, Sabrina, 9, and Carlo, 12, were gunned down execution-style in Pesce's home. Police said the safe was open and the house ransacked. The killings happened after Pesce dropped his children off at his house in Livonia, then went to his office without entering the home, prosecutors said.

"We believe these three children walked into a home where the armed killers waited for them," Prosecutor Michael Duggan said. The burglars may have forced Carlo Pesce to call his father and ask him to come home after realizing the children didn't know the combination of the safe. Wolfenbarger and Dennis, who had been cellmates also were charged with armed robbery, home invasion, being a felon in possession of a firearm and using a firearm during the commission of a felony.

The uncle of John Wolfenbarger testified in a preliminary hearing that his nephew bragged that he had done something that would make the national news. Wolfenbarger's uncle, William Smith, 36, of Detroit, testified that he went to police after his nephew came to his home late on the night of the killings looking for a change of clothes and bragged that something he did would be shown on CNN.

Investigators suspect the two men began zeroing in on Pesce's house sometime in early December 2002. Pesce's 3,000-pound safe was filled with jewels, watches and other valuables. The men were believed to have been cellmates in a Carson City prison and were paroled earlier in the year. Lincoln served nine years for armed robbery, and Wolfenbarger served eight years for a series of burglaries.

Joseph Ferguson (5) - On September 9, 2001, Sacramento police launched a nationwide manhunt for former security guard Joseph Ferguson after he shot and killed three former co-workers and a park employee. Ferguson, 20, was allegedly despondent over breaking up with his girlfriend, 20-year-old Nina Susu, and being suspended from his job for vandalizing Susu's car. The heavily armed suspect then made several cell phone calls to Burns Security employees saying he was going to Old Sacramento, a downtown entertainment district, were he was going to kill more people than fellow Sacramento rampager, Nikolay Soltys.

According to Authorities, Ferguson began killing people because he was despondent over getting suspended from his supervisor's job at Burns Security a week earlier. Burns officials said Ferguson was suspended after his ex-girlfriend, fellow security guard Nina Susu, said he vandalized her car after their breakup. The officials also notified the FBI that Ferguson might be dangerous because he made threats after the suspension. An FBI check revealed Ferguson had no history of violence and nothing was done.

Susu and and Marsha Jackson, a 32-year-old single mother of three, were the first to die. They were shot as they worked at a city maintenance yard. Then Ferguson headed to a city-run marina where he shot and killed 48-year-old George Bernardino, another Burns employee, and 19-year-old John Glimstad, who just started working for the marina. All four vicitms were unarmed and riddled with gunshot wounds. Police found AK-47 rounds, shotgun rounds and 9 mm handgun shells at the crime scenes. Police found a handgun at the first shooting scene and recovered an assault weapon at the marina. Ferguson then headed to the Sacramento Zoo where he handcuffed another former co-worker to a tree and fled in her car. Police Chief Arturo Venegas Jr. said the woman was spared because "he thought she was just a nice person."

Police searched the south Sacramento house where Ferguson had been living with his father and brother and found a cache of weapons, including two shotguns, two assault rifles, two revolvers, a ballistic helmet, a flak jacket and a gas mask. They also discovered an undisclosed assortment of white supremacist paraphernalia.

As Sacramento authorities frantically searched for rampaging killer Joseph Ferguson, police and Burns officials evacuated employees from their homes and escorted them to safe houses. However Ferguson did appear in the home of a Burns supervisor who had not been evacuated where he filmed a video suicide note before killing the supervisor and stealing his car. In the video, Ferguson said he would soon kill himself. "I've taken four victims, this should be good enough to last about a week on the news. It's time to feed the news media."

After disappearing all day, Ferguson was spotted by a highway patrolman at 11:30 p.m., triggering a 40-minute high-speed chase through suburban Sacramento. Ferguson fired more than 200 rounds at the pursuing officers before smashing his car into a light pole. The lovestruck killer then committed suicide inside the stolen car. In the video Ferguson bragged about putting on "a hell of a show," adding, unambiguously, "I giveth and I taketh away, that's how it goes in ****ing life."

Andrea Yates (5) - On June 21, 2001, housewife Andrea Yates decided she had caused irreparable damage to her kids and the best thing for her to do was to kill all five of them. And that's exactly what she did by systematically drowning them after her husband left their suburban Houston home and went to work. As news of her infanticide trickled through the air waves, a Houston-area radio disk jockey called her a ***** and said she should be shot. Ironically the squad car taking her into custody was playing that very station and the arresting officer said that only then he saw her show any emotion over what she had done. Her husband, Russell Yates, said that his wife Andrea was driven to commit infanticide because she was suffering from a severe case of post-partum depression... (Continued)

Larry Dame (5) - On October 20, 2000, Police in Minnesota have arrested an ex-convict Lawrence Scott Dame for the murders of his sister, her husband and their three young children. Dame, had been released the day before the killings from the Anoka County jail where he was being held for allegedly stealing one of the family's cars.The victims were identified as Donna Mimbach, 29; her husband, Todd Mimbach, 32; and their children, Daniel Mimbach, 22 months; Amber Duval, 9, and John Mimbach, 12. The bodies were found in the family's suburban Minneapolis home after a concerned co-worker of the father's called police because he hadn't shown up to work.

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported that as a condition of his release, Dame was supposed to report to a hospital for a mental health crisis intervention. Don Ilse, director of field services for Anoka County Community Corrections, told the newspaper that Dame spoke with a mental health professional at the hospital. Family members said they unsuccessfully tried admitting Dame to the hospital. Hannah Dame told the Pioneer Press her son had been acting strangely and recently claimed to hear voices. She quoted her son as saying, "The spirits said your family is going to kill you. Well, I better kill everyone before they kill me."

Police said that Donna Mimbach called Lino Lakes police for help the night before she and her family were killed by her brother. "We did everything legally possible to assist Donna Mimbach on the night of October 18," said Lino Lakes Police Chief Dave Pecchia addressing the fact that officers could not legally arrest Larry S. Dame from her home unless she evicted him. According to the police report the morning after Dame beat the Mimbach family with a hammer and stabbed all but his sister with a kitchen knife as they slept.

According to friends Donna loved her brother. Their other brother, Walter Dame, 23, said Larry drank to quiet the voices. The voices told Larry Dame that his family was out to kill him because they were trying to commit him to a mental hospital, his brother said. Dame had been jailed for a week this month after taking one of the Mimbachs' cars. He was released the day before the killings. Todd and Donna Mimbach picked him up at the jail late that afternoon. After taking his wife home, Todd Mimbach took Dame to Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids hoping to have Dame admitted to the hospital. Instead, Dame was sent back to the Mimbach home.

At 9:26 p.m. Donna called 911 for help: "Um, it's regarding, OK my brother got discharged from the um jail today and the consequences were that he was supposed to go to the hospital because he hears voices and he stole my car and all this stuff. My husband brought him to the hospital and the hospital will not take him, and so my husband is bringing him back here because we can't get ahold of his parole officer. Well, I can't have him stay here. He has to go back to jail or something." The next day, after relatives could not gain access to the house, police were called and the massacre was discovered

Richard Scott Baumhammers (5) - On April 29, 2000, racist immigration lawyer, Richard Scott Baumhammers, went on a one-hour ethnically-motivated shooting rampage leaving five dead in four different locations around the city of Pittsburg. The victims were a Jewish woman, an Indian grocer, two Asian employees in a Chinese restaurant and an African-American man in a karate school. A second Indian man was critically wounded. The 34-year-old rampager, reportedly was trying to form a political party to act against immigrants. Not surprisingly he had unspecified mental problems that led to a recent voluntary hospitalization. The killings took place within a 20-mile range through suburbs surrounding Pittsburgh. Baumhammers used a .357- caliber handgun for the rampage... (Continued)

Dexter Alonzo Levingston (5) - On October 21, 2000, authorities believe Dexter Alonzo Levingston killed five people killed in a suburban Tampa home. The victims were 57-year-old Nancy Marlins, her sister and brother-in-law, Lillie and Barry Cacciamani, Lillie's adult daughter, Connie, and Marlins' grandson, Dexter Levingston. police arrested, Levingston, 25, after a three-hour standoff at the home. Neighbors said Levingston was the grandson of Lillie Cacciamani. The suspect was charged with three counts of aggravated assault for allegedly pointing a gun at authorities who approached the house and was being questioned about the victims, said Hillsborough County Sheriff's spokesman, Sgt. Rod Reder.

Marlins and the Cacciamanis were described by friends as warm and kindhearted people. Since April 1993 Marlins has been a school bus aide for disabled children, helping them on and off the bus. Her sister was a school bus driver since October 1997. It was their failure to report to work that prompted school security officers Harry Pasquale and Thomas Klecka to visit the home, which led to the standoff with Levingston. It is unclear why the suspect killed the five victims.

Larry Keith Robison (5) - On August 13, 1999, aTexas panel refused to commute the death penalty of Larry Keith Robison, a mentally ill man who is scheduled to die next week for decapitating his roommate and killing four other people in 1982. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously to reject Larry Keith Robison's request for a commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment.

If other appeals fail, Robison will be given a lethal injection August 17 for the 1982 slaying of Bruce Gardner. Found dead with gunshot and multiple stab wounds were Gardner, his girlfriend Georgia Ann Reed; her son, Scott; and her mother, Earline Barker. The slayings immediately followed the decapitation, sexual mutilation and partial cannibalization of Robison's roommate, Ricky Lee Bryant, next door. Robison was arrested for the crimes the following day in Kansas, where he was stopped while driving Gardner's car. Blood evidence, a .22-caliber handgun and stolen property found in the car linked him to the slayings, trial testimony showed. He was convicted of capital murder in Tarrant County in 1987 when jurors rejected his insanity defense and sentenced him to death.

In recent months, Robison's supporters, including family members, mental health activists and the U.S. papal nuncio, have pleaded publicly for Bush to grant Robison clemency to verify his compassion. But only if the parole board had endorsed Robison's request could Bush have commuted his death sentence to a term of life imprisonment. Robison, 42, along with some of his family members, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, indicates a case summary compiled by Attorney General John Cornyn. Robison's trial defense was based on a claim that he was chronically schizophrenic, delusional and legally insane at the time of the crimes, Cornyn said. Prosecutors countered that Robison was feigning mental problems. And although Robison had a history of abusing illegal drugs, there was no evidence that he was under the influence of narcotics or alcohol when he went on the killing spree on Aug. 10, 1982.

Gunter Hermann Ewen (5) Police in three countries, France, Germany and Luxemburg, launched an all-points search for Gunter Hermann Ewen, aderanged killer of five people. The fugitive, provisionally identified as Gunter Hermann Ewen, 36, murdered the five people, including a British woman, in a series of shootings in Germany and France. He was believed to have fled on foot into thick woodland east of the town of Sierck-les-Bains. The fugitive eventually killed himself when police stormed the hotel room where he was hiding.

The trail of bloodshed began in the southwest German town of Dillingen on May 15, 1999, when the presumed killer walked into a discotheque around 4:30 a.m. and fired into a crowd of 20 people, killing the managerand a customer, and wounding three others. He then broke into a nearby flat, where he killed a Frenchman and his British wife. The couple's daughter, 11, was shot in the face, but survived. Investigators said the couples' murder may have been prompted by revenge. The husband had recently testified against the suspected gunman in a court case involving theft charges.

Two hours later he crashed his car near the small spa town of Sierck-les-Bains across the border in France. Then he held up a motorist at gunpoint and hijacked his Peugeot, before breaking into a house and murdering a 39-year-old Frenchman. He escaped on foot after failing to start his victim's car. Near a retirement home in Sierck, he fired at and wounded a nurse and shot at another vehicle, injuring its driver, a fireman. He then hijacked another car, but abandoned it about six miles further on.

On May 18, 1999, Ewen committed suicide as police stormed his Luxembourg hotel room.The international spree-killer was already slightly injured from a car crash while fleeing police.

Richard Gary Beach (5) On April 7, 1999, Gary Beach, a 56-year-old limousine-driving mass murderer, was charged with first-degree murder for one of five bodies found decomposing in his house. The rational type, Gary left behind a handwritten card listing the names of the dead and how they could be identified. Gary was charged in the death of his step-nephew, 45-year-old Kenneth Gulley, who was shot in the face.

Beach was captured without a struggle at a hotel parking lot just five blocks from the crime scene after he called his other Kenny's brother and said: "Tell that (expletive) nephew of mine he is next. Tell him I am going to get him." Beach previously allegedly called The Kansas City Star and left a voice-mail message for a reporter, talking about some of the victims: "I think you're on the wrong track. You kept emphasizing about men, men, men. It was all a crazy crack situation, where crack suppliers wouldn't leave certain people alone, and I finally got fed up with it. And two of the boys there, Mark Nelson and Mike Davis, I just didn't want them to live with the shame on their conscience of what they were."

Beach's series of telephone calls alerted police to his whereabouts. Detectives directed all available patrol cars to saturate the midtown area, especially hotels. Police believed Beach was staying at a hotel after he moved out of his house over the weekend.

A rookie and his field training officer who were first at Beach's house after the relatives discovered the bodies were the officers who found Beach. Officer Marty Lyons said he and Paul Myers, who graduated from the academy three weeks ago, decided to check the parking lot of Embassy Suites, 220 W. 43rd St., a few blocks from Beach's house. "When he saw we were behind him, he pulled up behind a Dumpster, stopped his car and got out," Lyons said. Then Beach told them, "You got me. You got me. No resistance. I have a gun in the front seat and it's unloaded."

Beach's longtime friends depict him as the hard-working driver of an airport limousine, a large, gentle man who wore pressed black suits and loved to trade jokes with other chauffeurs. Friends said he was unusually close to Davis, his stepson from a marriage that failed more than 20 years ago. Beach ate meals and vacationed with Davis, who was among the victims found at Beach's home.

Reporter Christine Vendel. A relative of Gary Beach's and a long-time neighbor, identified the voice on the message as Beach's.

"Christine, this is Gary Beach calling. I understand that people are looking for me about the bodies that were found at 4275 Jefferson. Reading the article in the newspaper yesterday, I'm going to call the police department next, I think you're on the wrong track. You kept emphasizing about men, men, men. It was all a crazy crack situation, where crack suppliers wouldn't leave certain people alone and I finally got fed up with it. And two of the boys there, Mark Nelson and Mike Davis, I just didn't want them to live with the shame on their conscience of what they were, and Mark was about ready to go back to jail. The rest of it was strictly-crack related, nothing else at all."

It took investigators more than nine hours to locate all of the bodies because of the complicated crime scene: The bodies were in the kitchen, living room, bathroom, a basement stairwell and the basement. Police said their reluctance to disturb bloody footprints delayed their search of the basement, where the fifth body lay. Detectives called in carpenters to build a platform so they could walk over the footprints.

"I've never seen anything like it," said Capt. Jerry Gallagher. "We have no idea why this occurred. It's hard enough to tell one family their relative is dead. We are going to have to tell five."

Richard Ivan DeLong, Stacy Leffingwell & Harold R. Lingle(5) Two men and a woman have been arrested in connection with the murders of Erin Vanderhoef, her three children -- Darlene Vanderhoef, 9, Chris Franklin, 10, and Jimmy Vanderhoef, 11 -- and her unborn baby, 40-week-old female fetus, who the medical examiner says would have been born healthy.

On January 20, 1999, the victims were found dead inside their Springfield, Missouri home, by a neighbor who came to borrow a cup of sugar. The first arrested for the bloodbath was Rick DeLong, a police informant out on parole with a long record of drug convictions. The Springfield News-Leader reported that DeLong confessed to strangling the very pregnant Erin Vanderhoef and her three children. DeLong is also believed to be the father of the unborn baby girl, who, according to friends, Erin planned to call Hannah.

Stacy Leffingwell and Harold R. Lingle were also charged with five counts of murder. Lingle was DeLong's neighbor in Joplin. Liffingwell was DeLong's old girlfriend. Springfield Police chief Lynn Rowe hasn't ruled out the chance that someone else could be arrested. "We are still verifying details from witnesses and suspects," Rowe told a news conference. According to a court affidavit filed by Prosecutor Darrell Moore, Lingle admitted to police that he allowed Delong to drive his car to the Vanderhoef home on the morning of January 19, about 36 hours before the bodies were found.

Lingle said that he and Leffingwell went with Delong and discussed the killings on the way there. Once at the house, Delong and Leffingwell stayed while Lingle drove Vanderhoef to the store to buy donuts. While the two were gone, the three children were killed by Delong with the help of Leffingwell. Upon returning to the home, Lingle helped restrain Vanderhoef while Delong strangled her with help from Leffingwell.

According to Lingle, Stacy Leffingwell, wass dying of cancer. Suppossedly DeLong wanted to make her life, her last days onspaceship Earth, as comfortable and loving as possible, which make point at a motive for the killings.

As for Erin Vanderhoef who police believe that Delong strangled to death, Lingle says she also knew Delong's former girlfriend. "She called Stacy a really bad name, said she wished she'd hurry up and die so she'd have Rick and the baby," Lingle said.

Court records reveal some facts about Delong's past, however, that might point to a motive. Delong was the subject of two child support cases involving four of his children by two other women. A judge ordered him to pay $137 a month each to support a seven-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son from one previous marriage. He also was ordered to pay $101 a month each for two daughters, ages 11 and 12, from another previous marriage.

When this unemployed man was arrested, he was delinquent on his child support to the tune of nearly $19,000 for the four children. Springfield Police Chief Lynn Rowe said Sunday night that detectives believe Delong is the father of the unborn daughter of Erin Vanderhoef who died in her womb. That would have been Delong's fifth child. Police and prosecutors won't say if this growing child support debt might be part of the motive.

Delong's history shows a man who has been in and out of trouble with the law for more than a decade. Delong also had a history of probation violations, including one in which he blew up part of an apartment building while on parole for burglary in the early 1980s. The previous times that Delong spent in jail, he often wrote judges and prosecutor asking for their help. In 1983, Delong wrote Judge John Appelquist, a Greene County circuit judge at the time, about a job offer he had while in jail.

Seth Stephen Privacky (5) On November 30, 1998, police arrested 18-year-old Seth Stephen Privacky and accused him along with a friend of methodically shooting to death five people -- his father, mother, grandfather, brother and his brother's girlfriend.

Authorities said the shootings were stretched out across Sunday afternoon, with the victims probably shot one by one at the family's home. The crime was discovered around midnight Sunday, when the body of the father, an elementary school teacher, was found in his driveway.

Familicidal teen, Seth Privacky, pleaded no contest to shooting five people to death before his family's Thanksgiving dinner, guaranteeing himself a lifetime prison term with no chance at parole. Seth will be formally sentenced May 27 for the Nov. 29 shootings of his father, mother, grandfather, brother and his brother's girlfriend. Police said Privacky confessed to systematically shooting each victim point-blank in the head, then calling best friend Steven Wallace, also 18, to help him move bodies around the house to make it look like a robbery.

Privacky has said he was angry because his father had threatened to kick him out of the house. Like one of the homicidal Columbine teens, Seth had been prescribed anti-depressant medication at the time, but it was not known if he was taking it. The father, Stephen Privacky, 50, taught fifth grade. His wife, Linda Privacky, 49, was a receptionist at a medical office. Her father-in-law, John Privacky, was 78 and lived nearby. Seth's brother, Jedidiah Privacky and April Boss, both 19, were studying at Muskegon Community College to be teachers.

The brother was shot while watching television, the mother when she got out of the shower, the father and grandfather were killed when they arrived home, and the girlfriend died when she arrived. Wallace remains charged with being an accessory and disposing of the firearm Privacky used in the killings. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted.

Kuang Yingxue (5) Chinese police said that Kuang Yingxue, a disgruntled schoolteacher at Micheng's No. 3 Primary School, set off a bomb at a citation ceremony for outstanding instructors in China's southwestern Yunnan province in April, killing himself and five other teachers. The April 3 attack also wounded 41 teachers, the Communist Party boss of Micheng town in Midu county and a town vice-mayor. Kuang Yingxue, 38, had been recommended to receive an award for outstanding teachers but was frustrated after he was passed over for citation.

Mitchell Johnson & Andrew Golden (5) In a disquieting trend that is turning rural schools into the postal office of the 90s, on March 24, 1998, two heavily armed kids dressed in camouflage opened fire on classmates and teachers in the Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing five and wounding 10. The snipers -- cousins Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11 -- lay hiding in the woods behind their school and started taking students down as they exited during a fake fire drill. (cont.)

Reco Jones (5) At the age of 23 Reco Jones was convicted of stabbing an ex-girlfriend, Yolanda Bellamy, and four children to death because she threatened to abort his child. Yolanda was killed August 13, 1997, after telling him that she was breaking off their relationship and getting an abortion. Jones became enraged and lunged at her with a butcher knife. Yolanda -- who was not pregnant -- was stabbed 11 times. Her sons, ages 3 and 5, her 5-year-old nephew and her 3-year-old niece were stabbed a total of at least 17 times. The niece also was tortured, with 30 shallow puncture wounds.

Jones at first blamed the murders on another girlfriend but admitted helping destroy evidence and clean up the scene. During cross-examination, Jones went through a series of sarcastic admissions, denials, contradictions, and at one point, he pulled out a piece of paper, called it a script, and said: "I've been acting this out all long. This script I had is just putting me farther in the hole."

Daniel Remeta (5) On March 31, 1998, Daniel Remeta -- convicted of killing five people in a tri-state crime spree -- took a seat on Old Sparky. Twelve minutes later, he was pronounced dead Remeta had no last statement. He was calm and expressionless when strapped into the chair. Before the hood was lowered, he nodded to someone on the other side of a glass partition.

More of a rampage killer than a mass murderer, Daniel collected five dead over six days in February 1985 .His first victim was the convenience store clerk, 60-year-old Mehrle Reeder. Within six days, he had gunned down Linda Marvin and Larry McFarland in Arkansas, and Glenn Moore and John R. Schroeder in Kansas. Three more were wounded. The violence ended in a gun battle with police in an unoccupied farmhouse in Atwood, Kansas. Remeta was sentenced to life for the Kansas murders and to death in both Arkansas and Florida.

Remeta once said he wanted to be extradited to Florida because it imposes capital punishment. "I want them to pull the switch," he said. "I'm not afraid. Death is only as ugly as you make it.''

Ricky & Barbara Brown and Janette Ables (5) Three adults -- Ricky Brown, 23; his wife, Barbara, 32; and Janette Ables, 22 -- killed their five children in a November, 1997, arson fire they set in their own home to cash in on an insurance policy. Following the fire that killed five children ages 3 to 10, suspicion of the two parents and a stepfather mounted partly because the house was immediately engulfed in flames before firefighters arrived from just two blocks away. Horrified neighbors in Weston, West Virginia, called for burning them alive after finding out they had killed their kids.

Killed in the fire were Barbara Brown's three children, Seronica Castner, 10, Kimberly Castner, 9, and Brandon Castner, 8, along with Ables' two children, Rayshell, 5, and Jimmy, 3. Ricky Brown was stepfather of the Castner children. "People don't understand how they got their dog, guns and food stamps out of the fire but not one of their kids," said Pat Vankirk, a member of a team that helped residents cope with the children's deaths.

State Fire Marshal Walter Smittle would not say whether the three meant to kill the youngsters or if they died in an arson plot gone horribly wrong. He refused to disclose the amount of the policy on the house. Brown, whose three stepchildren died, has said one of the children started the fire by playing with matches. He said his fire extinguisher didn't work. Neighbor Scott Hathaway said the children were often neglected while their parents partied late into the night. He said he believes the children are better off now.

On September 18, 1998, the lethal parents were indicted on 15 federal counts, including arson resulting in death, mail fraud and conspiracy, and could get the death penalty. According to the federal indictment, the fire was set with gasoline to cash in on a $91,000 homeowners' insurance policy and $5,000 life insurance policies that Ms. Brown had taken out on each of her three children. She also took out a $10,000 policy for herself. Ricky Brown blamed the fire on children playing with matches and a faulty fire extinguisher.

David Gorton (5) As the family of Heidi Challand wiped their tears, David Gorton, her fiancee, pleaded guilty on December 11, 1997, to murdering her and her four children. David, 37, told police he "snapped" because he thought his fiancee -- who he was to marry a month later -- was being unfaithful. Not one to hold back bludgeoned to death her and four of her children with an ax.

A veteran in bloody manhandling of his lovers, evidence presented in the British Columbia Supreme Court showed that in 1977 David lured his 16-year-old girlfriend to a secluded spot and stabbed her 19 times. She was hospitalized for a month. In 1983, he attacked his then-wife with a knife and served two years for aggravated assault.

Pvt. Vladimir Maltsev (5) On November 22, 1997 -- in what's becoming a routine event -- a Russian teen-age conscript allegedly shot to death five fellow servicemen. Authorities in Siberian city of Chita arrested Border Guard Vladimir Maltsev for opening fire on his unit, killing five soldiers and wounding a sixth.

Jose Luis & Alonso Cruz Osorio (5) On October 6, 1997, brother Jose Luis and Alonso killed their five migrant worker roommates in an apparent robbery at their home in Magnum, North Carolina. A sixth worker, known by his last name, Benitez, survived and identified the attackers. The killers -- Jose Luis,28, and his 18-year-old brother, Alonso -- were each charged with five counts of murder and five of robbery.

More than 32 shell casings from a Chinese-made SKS assault rifle and some kind of .22-caliber weapon were found on the blood-smeared hardwood floors of their sparsely furnished home. Some of the victims were shot in the head. The survivor ran to a neighboring house and collapsed, in a pool of his own blood, on the concrete front steps.

Kitty Hamilton, who lives across the road from the home where the slayings happened, said the bloodied survivor, Jorge Benitez, came banging on her door. "We didn't realize he was as scared as he was... It was more of a scream of terror. I thought he was going to bust the door down. It was out in the country and there were no lights." The Hamiltons called 911 but stayed out of sight, peering through windows.

All eight men had worked together harvesting pumpkins on a farm about 50 miles east of Charlotte. Each had been paid $200 before the lethal robbery. One neighbor, Kim Chandler, said the men were polite and respectful. One man she knew only as Jose used her telephone to call his mother and family in Mexico City, where he sent much of his pay.

Jean-Pierre Allain (5) For reasons unknown, on August 6, 1996, Jean-Pierre, a divorced 55-year-old fuel-trader, shot to death his girlfriend's family and two police officers. In what investigators call a "crime of passion" Jean-Pierre walked to the house of his girlfriend, Solange Briet, in the hamlet of Val, near Rennes, in Brittany and started blasting away with a shotgun at her, her parents and her handicapped younger brother.

Although wounded, Solange managed to flee to a neighbor's house and call the police. Her brother and parents died instantly. When two policemen arrived they found Jean-Pierre standing on the lawn outside the house. Witnesses say he put his hands in the air and agreed to give himself up. But moments later he picked up the shotgun, which he had hidden in a bush, and fired at the officers killing them both.

A third policeman, who had been interviewing neighbors, arrived when Jean-Pierre was reloading and was attacked with a knife. After a brief struggle, the policeman brought Jean-Pierre down with a shot which left him seriously wounded. Both Solange and Jean-Pierre were sent the hospital where their conditions were reported to be stable. Like always, neighbors described Jean-Pierre as a quiet man.

Mark Storm (5) Chalk this one up to the troubled outpatient treatment file. On March 7, 1997, Mark Storm checked himself out of a psychiatric ward in Wheeling, West Virginia, and proceeded to blow away five family members and himself.

Storm, a riverboat pilot on leave from his job, checked into the Ohio Valley Medical Center the Sunday before the killings complaining of stress and panic disorder. Four days later, he checked out of the facility after making plans for a follow-up visit. That afternoon Mark talked on the telephone with his brother and mother who were concerned about his well being and wanted him committed. Then he went with his family to a party for a neighbor's daughter. According to the party's host, Storm -- who was taking three different types of medication -- seemed "stressed-out" and left after only half an hour.

Back home that night Marky went blood simple. Police said Storm first killed his wife, Betty, 26, in the living room, then shot his two daughters, Jessica, 8, and Megan, 3, as they lay in their bunk beds. He then drove about 2 miles to his mother's house where he shot his brother, Benjamin Storm, 32, and their 59-year-old mother, Roberta Nyles. Then he went to his favorite childhood fishing spot on the Ohio River and shot himself in the head with the last bullet in his 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol. In the trunk of his car, police found a load of Girl Scout cookies awaiting delivery by his older daughter.

Jean-Michel & Jean-Louis Jourdain (5) On February 21, 1997, French police found the lifeless bodies of two pairs of sisters -- Audrey and Isabelle Lamotte and Amelie and Peggy Merlin, ages 17 to 20, -- who had disappeared 11 days earlier after going out together in the English Channel port town of Boulogne to celebrate carnival. The corpses, wearing fancy carnival dresses, were discovered in shallow graves in the dunes near a bunker built by the Nazis during World War Two in Sainte-Cecile, a seaside resort ten miles south of Boulogne. Investigators soon suspected two brothers who led the officers to the graves of the four girls who had been sexually assaulted before being strangled to death.

Scrap metal dealers Jean-Michel and Jean-Louis Jourdain, who lived near were the girls had been hastily buried, were arrested after it was determined that their red van was seen near where the girls vanished. No strangers to violence and sexual assault, both men served time in jail. Jean-Michel, 35, the younger man was freed in 1995 after serving 11 years of a 15-year prison term for strangling his companion. His older sibling Jean-Louis, 38, was released a year earlier after serving eight years of a 10-year term for rape. After their arrest investigators said they blamed each other for the killings.

After hearing of their arrest, thousands of neighbours clamoured for the reinstatement of the guillotine -- abolished 16 years ago -- for the two rapist-killers and threatened to torch the home of two killers and lynch members of their family.

Danny Keith Hooks (5) A convicted rapist and known drug addict, Hooks was arrested in California on February 4, 1997, for the murders of five women whose bound, gagged and stabbed bodies were found in a Oklahoma City drug house in 1992. After years of fruitless leads, investigators cracked the case when California authorities called to say that a DNA sample found at the 1992 crime scene matched one that Hooks gave in California.

Hooks was mentioned once in the many reports on the Oklahoma City investigation but was never a suspect. After making the DNA match, police linked a bloody palm print found at the scene with a print taken from Hooks in a drunken driving arrest in Oklahoma. Not your model citizen, Hooks, a transient with relatives in Oklahoma, went to prison in California in 1988 for rape, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. He was released in 1991.

Theofilos Sechidis (5) In May, 1996, 24-year-old, Greek law school student Theo Sechidis confessed to murdering his parents, sister, grandmother and an uncle on the northeastern Aegean island of Thasos. Theo told police he murdered each one separately over a five-day period, hacking up their bodies and placing the remains in black plastic garbage bags and leaving them in a garbage dump. During his trial Theo said he thought his family members were plotting against him and he had to act in self defense. On June 20, 1997 he was found guilty of five counts of murder.

Jean-Claude Romand (5) After maintaining a bogus identity as a medical expert for 20 years Eurotrash "Doctor" Romand killed his wife, children and parents because they were about to discover his counterfeit existence. To his friends and family Jean-Claude Romand, 42, seemed to be a brilliant doctor specializing in cardiovascular diseases. The good "Doctor" had all the trappings of success: a beautiful wife, two children, an elegant home in the town of Prevessin-Mons near the Swiss border and a wealthy mistress in Paris.

Sadly, it was all a lie. Unscrupulously, Romand turned to murder rather than face exposure. Records show he went no further than the first year of medical school in Lyons. Instead of admitting it to his doting parents and his future wife, "Doctor" Romand invented his credentials and the life to go with them. He maintained his successful lifestyle by borrowing money from his rich mistress and others and carried on as a respected member of the community . His con began to unravel in 1992 when his mistress demanded her money back.

On January 10, 1993, the **** hit the fan when the Romand family home burst into flames. Inside, firemen found the partly burnt bodies of Florence, his wife, who had been killed by a blow to the head while sedated, and their two children, ages five and seven, who had both been shot. Romand lay near them after unsuccessfully trying to kill himself with a combination of sleeping pills and gasoline. Later the bodies of Romand's elderly parents were discovered shot dead in their home in the Jura. All dead because Jean-Claude could not get past the first year of medical school.

Phan Thi Ai (5) The only Vietnamese entry to the archives. . On January 20, 1997, 27 year old Phan Thi Ai was sentenced to death by the People's High Court in the City of Ho Chi Minh for killing five in a "crime passionelle". In February, 1996, while she was having an affair with a married man, she was overcome by jealousy and decided to pour two liters of gasoline into the man's home and torch the place. The fire charred the adulterer, his wife and their three children.

Alejandro Perez de la Rosa, Martin & Josefina Hernandez (5) On December 3, 1996, Yolanda Figueroa, a prominent Mexican journalist, her husband and three children were found brutally beaten to death in their home in Mexico City. Yolanda had been very outspoken about the alleged ties between the government and powerful Mexican drug lords therefore authorities assumed that the family had been a victim of a narco hit.

The lone survivor of the massacre, the family driver, was left in critical condition by the assailants. However, when Alejandro Perez de la Rosa -- the driver -- regained consciousness he told a wild tale of sex, revenge and murder rivaling anything a Hollywood writer could concoct. The murders of Yolanda Figueroa, her husband, Fernando Balderas -- former anti-drug agent -- and their three children, had nothing to do with the drug cartels and were, in fact, a simple act of revenge.

According to de la Rosa, Fernando Balderas became a sexual monster following the success of his and his wife's muckraking book on the narco lord Juan Garcia Abrego. For months following the release of the book Fernando sexually abused two maids within their stately home in Mexico City's tony Pedregal district.

Balderas, publisher of the weekly scandal sheet Cuarto Poder (Fourth Estate), had been under investigation for alleged links to drug traffickers. Arrest warrants had also been issued in the past but never served for rape, and for trying to extort account holders of a bank. During an investigation, police also reported discovering possessions such as expensive cars that would seem beyond the family's earnings.

With no hope for justice, the two family chauffeurs and one of the victimized maids decided to kill the torturing couple. On the fateful night of the murders, the suspects only intended to kill the parents, but went blood simple and killed the children too. After, the two men argued over cash and jewelry they found inside the home. Martin and Josefina, who both share the last name of hernandez but are unrelated, attacked their accomplice Alejandro and left him for dead.

On May 15, 1998, one of the lethal chauffeurs, Alejandro Perez de la Rosa, was sentenced to 118 years in prison for the grisly murder binge. Judge Jose Eligio Rodriguez Alba said the 118-year sentence was a symbolic gesture because of the brutality of the crime, even though Mexican law allows only a 50-year sentence. As of this report, his two other accomplices Martin and Josefina remain at large.

Shane Harrison & Esther Beckley (5) 28-year-old Shane Harrison was been charged with five first-degree murder counts and more than 20 other charges for killing five people in a March 3, 1996, botched armed robbery that turned into Albuquerque's worst mass slaying.

Harrison's co-defendant Esther Beckley, pleaded guilty in March, 1997, to two first-degree murder counts in the deaths of the couple and eight other charges. She was sentenced to 95 1/2 years in prison and agreed to testify against Harrison as part of a plea bargain that spared her the death penalty. Police say 77-year-old George McDougall and 72-year-old Pauline McDougall -- the grandparents of one of the video store workers -- were kidnapped outside the store as they waited for their grandson, 19-year-old Zachary Blacklock, to get off work.

Beckley testified that she had talked her way into the McDougalls' car at the video store by telling them she knew their grandson and that she just needed to keep warm while waiting outside the store. She said she had been led to believe no one would get hurt during the robbery. While Beckley and the McDougalls sat in the car they could hear popping sounds as Harrison allegedly shot and killed Blacklock and two of his fellow employee, 30-year-old Mylinh Daothi and 18-year-old Jowanda Castillo. She thought it sounded like someone beating on concrete with a hammer, but then she "realized that it was gunshots." Police say the McDougalls were then driven to a remote mountain area and killed.

At Shane's murder trial Esther testified that she thought they would be armed with nothing more than a BB guns when they went to rob the video store. Instead, Harrison had a pump-action shotgun and a Tech-9 semiautomatic pistol. In court she said that Shane pumped off shotgun blasts "as fast as he could cock the gun" and finished off the elderly couple with a pistol. "He said something about, 'They're still making noises.' I said, 'Leave them alone, they're dead. They're dead.'"

Girley Logsdon Crum (5) On May 10, 1996, Crum, an ex-con with an extensive rap sheet, was charged with the murder of three adults and two children at a trailer park in Bandon, a town of 2,400 people along the Oregon coast. His numerous previous offenses included assault, robbery, driving under the influence, carrying a concealed weapon and overall criminal mischief. Recently Girley--a curious name for a slasher --had served three years in prison for attacking someone with a screwdriver during a robbery.

The convicted robber was released the Monday before the killings after serving 21 days on a parole violation. Three days after his release he slit the throats of the Jacobs family in their trailer home. It seems that Girley knew the victims. Police say they have no motive for the slaying.

Kenneth Tornes (5) Tornes, a Jackson, Mississippi fire fighter and walking time-bomb, joked about rampaging through the firehouse killing "the chiefs". On April 24, 1996, his fantasies became reality when, after gunning his wife at home, he went to the fire department to hunt "the bosses". Before leading police in a high-speed chase, Kenny, an eight-year fire department veteran, killed four supervisors in the fire station.

Police chased the fuming fire fighter from the downtown Jackson Fire Department to the parking lot of a suburban shopping center causing many wrecks on the way. There, after exchanging gunfire with the cops and wounding an officer, Ken was hit in the left eye. Last we heard of him Tornes was in serious but stable condition after they surgically removed the bullet from his eye.

Clifton McCree (5) A fired Fort Lauderdale, Florida, beach maintenance crew worker, Cliff returned a year later to extract revenge from his co-workers. At 5:00 AM on February 9, 1996, Clifton returned to a temporary trailer office a block from the beach and systematically started firing on the beach cleaning crew he once worked with as they sat around a table preparing for work. McCree entered the trailer carrying a .9 mm semi-automatic handgun and said: "Everyone is going to die." He then started shooting, killing five co-workers and wounding another who survived by playing dead. After the rampage, the gunman killed himself. When police arrived, they found an empty 10-round magazine, another partly loaded magazine in the gun next to his body and 12 spent shell casings. The killer also had a .32-caliber loaded pistol under his coat.

A longtime maintenance crew worker, McCree, 41, was fired after a 20-day suspension for failing a drug test, "threatening and harassing" his co-workers and making "insulting remarks" to tourists and residents on the beach. At the time he said his threats were a joke. For a year his co-workers never heard from him until he showed up at the trailer at dawn. After the massacre his family expressed their condolences in a statement that said, "We knew he was distraught, but not to that extent." In a semi-coherent suicide note he left behind, McCree said the shootings were "to punish some of the cowardly, racist devils" that got him fired. Nonetheless, by noon of the very day of the massacre the yellow crime-scene tape around the murder site was taken down to allow a fund-raising go-cart race to take place.

Josh Jenkins (5) 15-year-old Josh, the poster boy for family dysfunction, allegedly killed his adoptive parents, grandparents and sister during a visit to his grandparents' condominium in San Diego County because he was unhappy about being sent to the Vista del Mar boarding school for troubled youths in West Los Angeles. On February 2, 1996, his family -- who lived in Las Vegas -- picked him up from school and took him to his grandparent's condominium in the exclusive community of The Terraces to spend the weekend. There, after an argument with his mother, he bludgeoned his parents and grandparents to death with a hammer. Inexplicably, somehow he kept his 10-year-old sister Megan from discovering the carnage.

The next morning he took her with him to buy an axe which he used to kill her once they returned to the condo. That afternoon, Megan's friend Phaedra telephoned to speak to her pal, but Josh told her "something has come up. Megan's really busy right now and can't talk."

Shortly after, Josh torched the condo to cover up the crime and sped away in the family's silver Mercedes Benz. The youth was arrested the next morning after he stopped at an AM/PM Minimarket off California 78 where he inquired about what route to take to Las Vegas. The clerk at the market recognized the youth from the description in the local paper and called 911. When police arrested him, Josh was verbally abusive. Curiously, he had his grandparent's white poodle with him.

Initially Josh pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Although all psychologist and psychiatrist who have examined the troubled youth agree that he is mentally ill, some do not consider him insane. On April 16, 1997, a day before his trail was set to begin, Josh changed his plea to guilty. Jenkins' defense lawyer, Jack Campbell, said the plea change was in the teen-ager's best interest but was unusual because neither the judge nor the prosecutors made concessions. If found insane, he could be sentenced to a state hospital. If found sane, he faces a maximum of 140 years in prison.

Michael Vernon (5) On December 19, 1995, at the peak of the holiday shopping season, Mike, a gun-toting shopper seeking to buy a pair of size 13 1/2 boots, opened fire in a crowded store killing five people and critically wounding three others. Police arrested the 22-year-old mass murderer and possible foot fetishist after a chase through the snowy streets of the Bronx, New York. Displeased with the service at the Little Chester Shoe Store, a small shop near the Bronx Zoo, short-tempered Mike pulled out his automatic 9mm. pistol and started firing at close range when an assistant gave him a hard time. "It looks like he had an argument with one of the employees," said a police spokes person. Maybe a little too much eggnog and one too many rude attendants fueled his deadly Christmas rage.

On October 25, 1997 Michael, who has a history of mental illness, was found guilty of all five counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder. During the trial it was uncovered his disgruntled shopper killing spree was in fact more of a bungled robbery attempt.

David Bain (5) In June 1994 New Zealander David Bain shot to death his two parents and three other siblings in the village of Dunedin, in the South Island. . Although he was convicted for the mass killing, David contended that his father carried out the murders before committing suicide.

John Lindley Frazier (5) Along with big Ed Kemper and Herbert Mullin, Frazier was the third cog in the legendary Triumvirate of Evil of Santa Cruz in the early seventies. As a young man Johnny Boy dropped out of society because he didn't want to participate in the killing of the planet.

On October 19, 1970, this acid-dropping environmentalist set out to settle a score with an eye doctor who hated hippies. After entering the home of the doctor, he found the wife and shot her with her own gun. He then proceeded to bound and kill everyone as they arrived. By the time he was done, he had killed the doctor, his wife, his secretary and his two children. Frazier wrote a rambling letter on the doctors typewriter about how World War III had started and that anyone who misuses the environment would be executed. He then tossed the bodies into the swimming pool and torched the place.

His hippie friends thought he had gone a bit to far and turned him in to the police. During his trial Johnny showed up with half of his head, half of his beard and one eyebrow shaved. He got the death sentence before his hair could grow back in.

Geoff Ferguson (5) Geoff Ferguson is currently on trial in Danbury, Connecticut, for shooting five people and setting a house on fire. Geoff had a rent dispute with the tenants of his house in Redding, Connecticut. He threatened his three tenants repeatedly, and on the night of April 18, 1995, after they were late with the rent, he decided to take action. Geoff allegedly came to the house, shot the three tenants, two guests, and set the building on fire. One of the tenants, Scott Aurbach, managed to crawl out of the blaze and tell the emergency workers that, "Ferguson did it." Unfortunately Scott later died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

On June 11, 1998, disgruntled landlord Geoffrey Ferguson, was sentenced to life in prison for killing three tenants and two of their friends. "May you rot from the inside out," Dale Gartrell told Ferguson. Ms. Gartell's 25-year-old son, David, was one of the friends killed.

Bruman Alvarez (5) On Friday July 21, 1995, Bruman, a twenty-year-old Potomac, Maryland, resident was charged with the murders of a podiatrist, his three daughters and a house painter. Bruman, day laborer, was hired to assist the painter with the doctor's house. On that fateful Thursday Bruman, tired of working and wacked-out on paint fumes, went ballistic and bludgeoned and stabbed everyone in the house. Then called 911 and pretended someone else did it.

Gustavo "Tavinho" Pissardo (5) On the night of September 29, 1994, Tavinho, a 22-year-old Brazilian student in São Jose dos Campos, Brazil had a bad headache. His father took him to the hospital where he was given an injection and sent back home to bed. At midnight he woke up and found his mother and his sister watching TV. Maybe he didn't like what they were watching. Who knows? In any case, he took a .32-caliber revolver from the top of the fridge and killed them both with a bullet to the head. Then he killed his father. He proceeded to mess up the house and undressed the women to make it look like a robbery and an attempted rape.

He then took his father's pickup truck and drove 94 miles to Campinas to visit to his grandparents. There he confessed to the killings and apparently didn't like their reaction. He killed both his grandparents and drove back to São Jose where he picked up his girlfriend. Before turning himself to the police Tavinho spent four days with his girlfriend enjoying the beaches of São Paulo.

Michael Stevens (5) Fearing that his girlfriend Brenda Chevere's family was trying to end their relationship, Michael sent six booby-trapped mail bombs to Brenda's relatives across Upstate New York. Four of the bombs exploded, one failed to detonate and another was intercepted by the police. Brenda's mother, sister and stepfather were killed as well as two unlucky bystanders. Three more people were injured.

Patrick Purdy (5) Patrick Purdy, a mentally disturbed flophouse habitue with a penchant for toy soldiers, thought Asians where at the root of all his problems. In January 17, 1989, he decided it was time for resolution. He left his flea bag motel wearing the customary army fatigues with "Death to the Great Satin" (a typo or perhaps a strange fixation with fancy evening wear) scribbled on his sleeve and headed for the Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California.

In the next six minutes the the lethal drifter opened fire in the schoolyard with an AK-47 killing five youngsters of Southeast Asian descent and wounding 29 children and a teacher. Purdy, 24, ended the attack by turning his gun on himself.

Arson investigator Marty Galindo was at a nearby car wash when he got a radio call of a vehicle fire near Cleveland Elementary School. Purdy, in what detectives later said was a diversion attempt, had stuffed his station wagon with fireworks and set the car ablaze moments before he walked onto the campus and opened fire.

"I can still smell the gunpowder. That's what I remember most -- the gunpowder. There were bullet casings everywhere. And I remember walking by a little girl's shoe, it couldn't have been more than a few inches long, that was sitting there on the ground. There was flesh on it. It had to have been cut off. I walked around the corner of a building and saw all those kids down. It was surreal. This was supposed to be where kids are playing games, happy," Galindo said.

When the smoke settled, Michael Jackson, the Peter Pan of auto-erotica, descended on the school to spread goodwill (and maybe something else) among the surviving kids. Four of the dead children were Cambodian, one was Vietnamese. Most were born in Thailand in refugee camps as their parents fled the genocidal regime of Cambodian ruler Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

Brad Bishop (5) In 1976 Brad seemed to have it all. A family , a home in Bethesda, Maryland, and a good job at the State Department. One day, after telling his psychiatrist that a "voice inside me" was the only thing he was answerable to," he took off early from work and bought a gallon of gas and a small sledgehammer at a local mall.

That night, while his mother-in-law was out walking the dog, he hammered to death his wife and three sleeping sons. When his mother-in-law came back, he killed her too. Then he drove the bodies out to a remote forrest in North Carolina 300 miles away and torched their corpses with gasoline. Since then he has been seen only once --a former neighbor spotted him in a bathroom in Serano, Italy. No one knows where he is today. A former U.S. Foreign Service officer, Bishop speaks Italian and Serbo-Croatian.

Robert Benjamin Smith (5) Bobbie just wanted to be known, to carve a name for himself. Following the leads of his two heroes, Richard Speck and Charles Whitman, this high-school senior from Mesa, Arizona, headed to the Rose-Mar College of Beauty ready to gun down someone for his 15 minutes of homicidal fame. At the College he forced five women and two children into a back room and systematically shot them in the head killing five of them. When the police arrived at the scene, he gleefully confessed to everything.

John Emil List (5) The deeply religious John List must have had a religious epiphany before killing his mom, wife and three teenage children. In 1971 this fastidious accountant executed all members of his family, left their bodies neatly laid in the ballroom of his mansion (except for his mom who was too fat to drag down the stairs), arranged photos and books he had borrowed from a neighbor on a table, and disappeared.

Seventeen years later, after his story was detailed on the TV show, "America's Most Wanted", a caller sent authorities to Richmond, Virginia, where they found him living as Robert P. Clark. The Lutheran matricide was leading a normal life there very much like the one he finished off in Westfield, New Jersey, seventeen years before.

Robert Coulson (5) A cold-hearted killer motivated by greed, Robert Coulson killed five family members because he thought his parents were carelessly "spending his inheritance." On Friday June 13, 1992 Bob snuck into his adoptive parent's home and systematically killed everyone inside. Curiously, together with five other unrelated murders, that Friday proved to be the deadliest day in Houston history.

24-year-old Bob started his murderous rampage with his mother with whom he often bucked heads. He first shocked her with a stun gun and bound her hands and feet. Then he smothered her with a pillow. Next came his frail father whom he asphyxiated with a plastic bag wrapped around his head. He moved upstairs to his younger sister's room who was recuperating from a cesarean. Soon after, his biological sister and her husband arrived and were met by Bob at gun point. After being whacked on the head with a crowbar, they were tied and smothered with plastic bags. Before leaving the crime scene, Bob doused his parents bodies with gasoline and set the house on fire.

A few blocks away, his roommate and alibi, Jared Lee Althaus, waited for him in a truck. As planned, they took off to Bob's grandparents cabin to go fishing in a remote area in Central Texas disposing of the incriminating evidence on the way as Bob told him that he botched the job. Later, in court, Althaus testified that they both had carefully planned out the killings and had meticulously bought everything necessary over a period of a month. Althaus, who got 20-years for being accessory to the murders, testified that Bob promised to take care of him financially once he collected his inheritance. Dimwitted Althaus went along with Bob's murder scheme because, "Bob took care of me. He made beds and did laundry... He was my leader, my protector."

Lethal Bobbie's cover-up began to unravel after his parent's funeral when several relatives noticed how he was more interested in the money he was about to inherit and the $600,000 life insurance policy of his parents than in grieving the dead. According to a family friend he was very anxious about how much of the inheritance would go to his sister Sarah's newborn. He was also overheard by a cousin gleefully describing where the bodies were found as he walked through the charred remains of the house with a group of local teen-agers.

The very night of the funeral Bob was arrested after a guilt-ridden Althaus spilled his guts to the police. During the trial Bob tried to blame his roommate for everything, but all evidence contradicted what he said. Many of his friends testified hearing Bob wishing that his parents would die and stop spending his money. A couple of times he suggested that he would have to do something about it himself. After all was said and done, a jury of his peers found Bobbie responsible for the killings and sentenced him to death by lethal injection. Presently Bobbie sits in death row as his case is on its final appeals before he has to face death.

Archives reader Trysha Hatton-Mann believes Bob is innocent of of all charges. On Febrary 3, 2002, in no uncertain terms, she told us what thinks of what we wrote:

You have him listed Bob Coulson as one of the mass murders on the http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/murder2.html I just wanted you to know for starters that apart from the fact we can now prove Bob is innocent that what you have said is not what the police said happened. If you are going to sprout abuse then at least get your story right before putting it on the internet for people to read. If you want the truth read the following text from http://freebobc.tripod.com/Bobby/

It has been claimed that only 1% of inmates on death row were ever innocent. This 1% was based on those who were released after new evidence came to light and the judicial system discovered that these inmates did not commit these crimes. What about the other inmates that were on death row and had their executions carried out and were innocent! Bob is an innocent man on Texas Death Row. Please don't be like me when I first met Bob and ignore his pleas of innocents. Read about Bob's case and the manufactured evidence that was used to convict him. Also read the real story of where Bob was the night of the murders.

Robert was sentenced to death row in 1994 for the 1992 murders of 5 of his family. To gain a conviction the Police/Prosecutor used manufactured evidence, in a hearing after Bob's trial Police/Prosecutors admitted the evidence was not true as it was presented but claimed it was an accident! Read about the manufactured evidence and what Robert Coulson the person is really like. Whether you believe in the death penalty or not, whether these men are guilty or not they have the right to be treated as humans. The conditions at Terrell is appalling were the inmates are in their cells for at least 22 hours a day and the only human contact they ever have is when they are being handcuffed!!

Don't be a bystander and let Bob be executed for a crime which he did not commit. Bob should be at home with his sisters, brother-in-law and parents but someone robbed him of his family and the state of Texas has robbed him of his freedom!

Gang Lu (5) A Chinese graduate physics student, Gang Lu resorted to a killing rampage when his department did not reward his dissertation with the award he believed it deserved. On the afternoon of November 1, 1991, Lu went to the physics department of the University of Iowa and shot at three dissertation-committee professors and a student. Then he went to the administration building and shot the vice president for academic affairs who supervised the award-giving and a student-secretary before turning the gun on himself.

The only survivor of his academic tantrum was the student-secretary working in the administration building who is now a quadriplegic. If only Gang Lu's space-plasma theory had been a little more engaging all this would have never happened.

James Simpson (5) Another one from the disgruntled-ex-employee-returns-on-a-rampage file. On April 3, 1995, 28-year-old James Simpson walked into the Walter Rossler Co., a refinery inspection company in Corpus Christi, Texas, and killed his former boss, his wife and three other employees. He then walked out the back door and shot himself.

Leonardo Morita (5) Leo, a 46-year-old electrician, wanted to collect on the insurance policies he took out on each member of his family. To expedite matters, in May, 1995, he set his San Marino, California, home ablaze killing his wife, three children and housekeeper. He poured so much gasoline on the stairs to make sure no one got out alive, it leaked to the basement igniting the water heater's pilot flame and sparking a massive explosion. Greedy Leonardo died two months later from injuries suffered during the blaze.

Michael Perry (5) In the early 1990s Michael Perry, an escapee from a mental hospital, began to stalk Olivia Newton-John. He was convinced the Australian star was responsible for the dead bodies that were floating up through his floor at home. He also knew that she was communicating with him by changing the colour of her eyes.

Perry, from Louisiana, was twice turned away from Newton-John's California home by her security company. Not long afterwards, he killed five people, including his mother and father, shooting out their eyes. He fled and was finally captured in a hotel room in Washington.

Remy Lecrenier (5) Angry over his girlfriend meeting another man, Remy Lecrenier, 29, killed her with a crossbow and a Colt-45, then killed her mother and her two sisters. Remy, a weapons freak and karate expert, lived with his girlfriend -- Vinciane -- and her family in the small village of Bas-Oha, 50 miles from Brussels.

Remy's July 7, 1997, murderous rampage is believed to have been triggered when Vinciane told him that she had met another man, and that he would have to move. Police believe Vinciane, 24, and her two sister, ages 21 and 19, were probably drugged before the massacre because there were no signs of struggle. Vinciane was found dead in her bedroom. Her two younger sister were found in their bedroom. They were naked and one had been sexually assaulted. The mother was found in the garage. Apparently she was shot after she returned from work. The father, Philippe Resbouxi, was in Spain at the time of the massacre preparing their upcoming vacation.

Remi, the king of the understatement, left a note on the fridge for the mother saying "You daughter drives me crazy." The lethal Romeo escaped after the massacre. Following a four-day southern international manhunt, Remy was arrested at a camping ground close to St. Tropez after being recognized by Belgian tourists

Mike Stagner (4) On July 5, 2001, a local drunk, manic-depressive and schizophrenic seemingly reaching a boiling point over the growing Hispanic population in the area, went on a shooting rampage through a trailer park in Rifle, Colorado, killing four people and leaving three others wounded. All victims were Hispanic.

Police said the shooting spree began when Mike Stagner, 42, shot and killed Juan Hernandez-Carillo as he talked on a pay phone outside a grocery. Then Stagner walked across the parking lot toward the trailer park, shooting 19-year-old Anjelica Toscano. She was left in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Three days later she died at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. Once inside the trailer park, Stagner fatally shot two men sitting outside a small mobile home. Stagner then walked all the way through the trailer park before shooting and wounding three more men, investigators said. He walked back through the park, reloaded and was arrested in the supermarket parking lot.

Hours before the shooting, Stagner spoke about going on a murder suicide spree at The Sports Corner bar, bartender Ted Diaz Jr. said. He said he didn't pay attention to the threats because Stagner had nonchalantly talked about killing and suicide many times before. Earlier in the day, Stagner had been ranting about "hellfire and damnation" at a liquor store near the scene of the shootings, said owner Linda Trujillo. She said Stagner bought a mini-bottle of whiskey and a Gatorade but she ran him off when he started yelling at passers-by. The Denver Post, citing an unidentified source, reported that Stagner had recently been treated for schizophrenia and may have stopped taking his medication. His family tried for about 20 years to have him committed to a long-term-care mental health institution. "We were told that until he did something like kill someone, he couldn't be committed," said Karen Kimberlin, one of Stagner's relatives. Stagner's criminal record includes arrests on charges of burglary, assault, drug possession and driving under the influence.

William Lembcke (4) According to court documents, family annihilator William Lembcke killed his family after a confrontation with his father over secretly videotaping his 18-year- old sister, Jolene, while she undressed and showered. On December 23, 2000, Lembcke, 16, shot to death his parents, Robert and Diana Lembcke, his sister and his 11-year-old brother Wesley in their home in Colville, Washington. The suspect also admitted having sex with his sister after killing her. Her half-nude body was found by sheriff deputies in a roadside ditch with the rest of the family.

In court, Lembcke's lawyer attempted to have the confession and most of the other evidence against him thrown out on grounds that he suffered "diminished mental capacity" when he gave statements to officers and authorized them to search the family home. Lembcke's trial on four counts of aggravated first-degree murder is to start August 20. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison without possibility of parole. Although he is being tried as an adult, state law wouldn't allow him to be executed because he is younger than 18.

Detective Loren Erdman said in a search warrant affidavit that Lembcke is believed to have made a second videotape of himself masturbating while watching the video of his nude sister in the shower. Erdman says Lembcke had no reason to believe anyone outside his family knew about "his sexually deviant recordings" when he committed the murders. Apparently Jolene Lembcke told her boyfriend, Dylan Simpkins, as well as her parents about finding the video in the family's new video camera December 21. Simpkins approached detectives January 2, after they had already searched the Lembcke's rural home a dozen miles southwest of Colville. Simpkins reportedly told officers that Jolene Lembcke showed her parents a video that showed her showering and then showed William Lembcke masturbating while watching a duplicate copy of the shower video. Simpkins said she showed the video to her parents and then erased it, but he didn't know whether the duplicate video was found or erased.

According to detectives Wesley Lembcke was the only family member William Lembcke "had no reason to be angry with," and Wesley was the only victim to be killed by a single shot in the head. All the other victims were shot several times. Police were alerted by Diana Lembcke's brother, Andy Davenport, that everyone in the family except William were missing. When deputies found William at the house he claimed at first that the rest of his family had gone to California to visit a sick relative. Then he broke down in tears when they found what appeared to be a blood stain showing through fresh paint on the kitchen ceiling.

On August 27, 2001, Lembcke was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his parents and his two siblings. The troubled teen showed little emotion during most of the trial but sobbed openly during the sentencing phase. Deputy Stevens County Prosecutor David Bruneau applauded the verdict and sentence.

Jihad Hassan Moukalled (4) A Michigan man suffocated his three children and shoot his pregnant wife before killing himself over gambling debts surpasing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Jihad Hassan Moukalled, 42, scribbled a suicide note found on the kitchen counter of their two-story suburban saying: "I never ever had a bad intent toward anyone. I think that I was gripped by the hope of 'one more shot.' I did not know how else to escape what I got myself into. It is over." The victims were identified as his wife, Fatima, 31; daughter Aya, 7; son Adam, 5; and daughter Lila, who would have turned 3 within five days. Police Chief William Dwyer said Moukalled's Oak Park printing business had amassed $500,000 in debts because Moukalled withdrew the money to cover his gambling. Three credit cards found inside the house carried $60,000 in debt, Dwyer said. "Over the past two years, he's been making weekly trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, gambling large sums of money," Dwyer said. "According to a statement by one of the relatives, he was gambling all over the place." On November 22 Moukalled returned home at 4 a.m. from Las Vegas. During the three-day trip, police said Moukalled had asked his business to deposit $85,000 into a bank account with hopes the money could be transferred to a Las Vegas casino. The bank wouldn't honor the check. Police said he killed his family after returning home, suffocating the children as they slept in their beds. There were signs in the master bedroom of a struggle with his wife, police said.

Alarmed that his wife was starting a relationship with their neighbor, Richard Labatt, a Sacramento suberbanite, freaked out, shot his wife, both his sons the neighbor,and then himself. The tragedy unfolded on August 19, 1999 in a upscale suburb outside Sacramento. Three of the victims died at the scene. Stephen La Franco, the neighbor, survived until early the next morning. Cody Labatt the 5-year-old son of the murderous father, remained alive until mid afternoon, when he stopped breathing. The rage that drove Labatt to familicide stemmed from the fact that his wife and their neighbor had begun a relationship after both marriages fell appart.

The La Francos and the Labatts both had separated in recent months, although the splits differed greatly, according to authorities and neighbors. For La Franco, 35, a state correctional officer and bodybuilder, it was his second marriage. He stayed in the house on Laguna Pointe Way, while his wife moved out. At about the same time, the Labatt marriage next door was disintegrating, although with more bitterness. Richard Labatt, 27, had been charged with domestic violence for slapping his 26-year-old wife during an argument at their home. The quintuple murder-suicide was the largest single slaying case in Sacramento since the April 1991 siege of an area good guys! store that left six people dead.

Lawrence Michael Hensley (4) Rampager Michael Hensley, 30, surrendered to police on July 13, 1999, after a two-hour standoff at a gas station. Hensley gave up around 5 a.m. ending the standoff in which a clerk and two customers were held hostage at the station. Five days before police believe Hensley killed three teenage girls at his home in Sidney, a western Ohio town with a population of 19,000. He then injured another person and killed his Bible study teacher at the teacher's home outside Sidney.

The first to die was 14-year-old Amy Mikesell. Hensley stabbed and beat her to death and then stuffed her body in a crawl space under an addition to his home. Next Hensley shotgunned to death his neighbour Sheri Kimbler and her cousin Tosha Barrett. Both girls were 16. A third woman was able to escape and ran to the basement and hid in a closet. Hensley shot through the closet door but did not check to see if she was dead or not. She then climbed out a basement window where Hensley's neighbors saw her and summoned an off duty police officer that lives in the area. Police found the 22-year-old woman slumped outside the house. She miraculously survived after being shot in the leg and shoulder. She identified Hensley as the gunman.

Officers immediately sealed off the street but 30 minutes later Brett Wildermouth, 37, a Bible study teacher at Hensley's church, was shot and killed at his home five miles away. Hensley then drove off, leaving his terrified wife Julie at Wildermouth's house. Neighbours described him as a private, church-going man who had lived quietly for years at the same small house with his wife. But Lisa Perin, a former colleague at the car parts factory where he worked, called him weird. Officers found 24 Molotov cocktails on a workbench at Hensley's home.

According to Reverend Ben Davis of the First Church of God, Hensley, before joining the church, had delved into devil worship. Cheryl L. Cai, Ms. Kimbler's mother, said she believes Hensley killed the girls because he feared his sex secrets were close to being revealed. One girl told authorities Hensley tried to lure some youths to his house for sexual reasons.

The Dayton Daily News reported that Hensley was convicted twice in four years for public indecency, but told investigators in one case that he had exposed himself more than 30 times and wanted to stop. Police Captain Dean Kimpel said investigators were examining suggestions that Hensley (known as Mike) and Wildermouth were rival leaders of a religious cult who had fallen out over sharing sexual favours from the teenage girls. Authorities say Hensley had been involved in devil worship but was receiving counseling at the church which, for apparent reasons, was not effective enough.

In 2000 Hensley took a plea agreement to serve I believe 4 life sentences without the possiblity of parole to avoid the death penalty.

Terry Todd Wedding (4) Accused of killing his parents, a popular police officer and his pregnant wife, Terry Todd Wedding, 27, pleaded innocent to four counts of murder. According to police Wedding shot and killed his mother, bludgeon his father to death with a baseball bat, then shot and killed police officer Joey Vincent, a pastor and Wedding's first cousin, and Vincent's wife.

Police believe Wedding first killed his parents, Manville Todd Wedding, 59, and Beverly W. Wedding, 56, in an open field about a mile from the family home in Depoy, Kentucky. Then he killed Vincent, 29, and his 22-year-old wife, Amy, in the driveway of their home, which is adjacent to the home of Wedding and his parents. The Vincents' 3-year-old daughter was found inside unharmed.

Zane Michael Floyd (4) Dressed in camouflage and a sporting a shaved head, 23-year-old Zane Michael Floyd opened fire in a supermarket in Las Vegas, killing four people. Three of the dead were employees of the Albertsons supermarket, the fourth was a shopper. A fifth victim was critically injured. The rampage ocurred early morning June 3, 1999. Floyd surrendered to police following a short standoff outside the supermarket.

"He took the path of least resistance, shooting at everybody he saw," Las Vegas Sheriff Jerry Keller said. "He roamed throughout the store." Floyd, a former Marine in Camp Pendleton, was fired from a local bar where he worked as a bouncer. In an obvious downward spiral, he was also forced to move to his parents' guest house.

The night before the rampage Floyd allegedly raped and threatened an escort service employee who he called to his home. Floyd told the escort he had been trained to kill, and had 19 bullets which he planned to use to kill the next 19 people he saw. An employee at Love Bound, an escort service, told The Associated Press that a man named Zane had called for the services of a young woman, age 18 to 21, at his home on West Oakey. The service dispatched a 20-year-old woman to the address about 3:30 a.m. The employee said the young woman arrived at the residence and "as soon as she walked in the door he grabbed her, handcuffed and taped her, then raped and sodomized her." The employee said the man threatened to kill the young woman, fired five shots from a pump-action shotgun, then released her and toward the supermarket.

Joseph Corcoran (4) On July 28, 1997, Fort Wayne resident Joseph Corcoran was charged with four counts of murder after killing his brother, his sister's fiancee and two other men. Apparently Joe, 22, believed the victims were talking about him and he became angry. So he went downstairs with his semiautomatic and shot the victims as they sat in a living room, eating pizza and watching television. Three of the men were found dead on couches in the living room. The fourth man was shot in the kitchen as he attempted to escape. Officers later found 20 to 30 weapons in the upstairs and attic areas of the home.

Not the family type, Joe was acquitted of killing his parents five years ago. Now his sister -- who lost her future husband in this latest rampage -- thinks her brother did kill their parents. "I knew right then and there that he killed my parents... Everything's gone. He's ruined my life. I hope he fries... I just think he's sick. I don't know what made him do it... I don't know what it was ... maybe it was the heat."

During his first trial in 1992 police said Corcoran -- described by neighbors as a quiet loner with "movie-star looks" -- killed his parents because they were too strict, then got on a bus and went to school. Tom Wilson, Steuben County Prosecutor, said there were too many discrepancies in the Joe's story, and police turned up nothing that indicated anyone else was involved. Jurors ultimately acquitted Corcoran after a five-day trial, saying there wasn't enough evidence to convict.

On May 14, 1999 -- four days before going to trial for murdering his brother and three other men -- defense lawyer John Nimmo announced that his client was guilty. "What we're here for, what it all boils down to, is the sentencing phase," Nimmo said. "It's going to be like an Al Pacino movie. I don't let them convict my client. I'm going to convict my client."

Corcoran, now 24, is accused of shooting his brother, James Corcoran, 30; Robert Scott Turner, 32; Douglas A. Stillwell, 30; and Timothy G. Bricker, 30, because he couldn't stand to hear them talking about him. Brother James had been one of his brother's fiercest defenders when Joseph was accused of shooting his parents to death in 1992.

Joseph Ture (4) Convicted murderer Joseph Ture was indicted by a Stearns County grand jury on four counts of first-degree murder in the 1978 shotgun killings of Alice Huling and three of her four children in their home near Clearwater. The children, Susan, Patti and Wayne, were shot to death in their beds in the middle of the night. A fourth son, Billy, survived by lying still in his bed after shots were fired at him.

"I'm kind of relieved that it's kind of happening. I can't really say I'm happy, but just relieved," Billy Huling told WCCO-TV today in a telephone interview. "As far as timing goes, I think it all should have gone back 21 years ago, four days after the murder when he was first picked up. Why wasn't anything done then? After that came out, after I got information about that, during this last trial, it kind of upset me, just knowing of the other people he hurt."

According to WCCO, investigators believe Ture broke into the home to rape Susan Huling. Ture has denied any involvement in the murders, reports WCCO. Ture was convicted last year of the 1979 murder of Afton teenager Marlys Wohlenhaus. He already was serving time for the murder of West St. Paul waitress Diane Edwards.

Masumi & Kenji Hayashi (4) In her first day of trial, Japanese mass poisoning suspect Masumi Hayashi admitted to commiting insurance fraud. Yet she added she had nothing to do with the poisonings, which killed four and sickened 60 others at a town festival last July. Hayashi, 37, is being tried on eight charges, including multiple counts of murder, attempted murder and insurance fraud. Her husband Kenji, whom Masumi Hayashi is suspected of trying to poison as well for insurance gains, also admitted to defrauding insurance companies.

Prosecutors allege that Hayashi mixed arsenic into curry served at a summer festival after being criticized by her neighbors for not arriving on time to prepare the curry. Her alleged curry killings inspired a wave of dozens of poisonings around Japan last year, including the case of a man who died after drinking canned tea laced with cyanide.

On July 25, 1998, at a neighbourhood festival in the western Japan city of Wakayama four people who died that night and the following morning after ingesting a poisoned curry dish. The dead were the council president and vice president of Wakayama, along with a boy aged 10 and a 16-year-old girl. Over 100 people attended the festival, about 280 miles west of Tokyo, and scores of participants became sick minutes after the curry was served.

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashi-moto expressed regret over the incident and urged stricter control of toxic materials. Laboratory tests initially did not find any poison, but later tests detected a cyanide compound in the curry, which was served on polystyrene plates.

Pierre Lebrun (4) A disgruntled former transit worker compiled a list of co-workers he didn't like before setting out on a deadly rampage, killing four employees and then himself at Ottawa's main bus garage. The man, identified as Pierre Lebrun, opened fire at transit workers with a high-powered rifle in what police described as a premeditated attack. In addition to the dead, two workers were injured.

The president of the transit workers union, Paul Macdonnell, described Lebrun as a "very sick" man with chronic mental problems. Lebrun, 40, was hired in 1986 by OC Transpo and briefly worked as a bus driver. By choice he took a job in the garage. His problems began about two years ago when it was noticed he had difficulty working with others. He had some altercations with co-workers and was fired in August 1997. His union, the Amalgamated Transit Union, intervened and after mediation, Lebrun was reinstated a month later. The union intervened because it felt the punishment didn't fit the crime. "He appeared to have made a mistake. He apologized and he was put in an easier job."

Recalling the fistfight that got him fired, garage supervisor Robert Manion said: "He had a bit of a speech impediment and he was teased a little bit. It got to him because he had sensitive feelings about it. But maybe they just got him at a bad time when maybe there was other stuff going on in his life at the same time."

But the problem didn't end there. Mr. Lebrun complained about co-workers and once said some people were making fun of his stutter. Mr. Macdonell says Lebrun's apparent sense of victimization probably stemmed from his emotional problems. "We investigated the complaint about stuttering," Mr. Macdonell said. "We had a talk with his colleagues. We believe his illness contributed to his sense of what was happening to him,"

Taking his severance pay Lebrun set out to Las Vegas in one last chance at success. When his luck ran out at the gaming tables, Lebrun drove back to Ottawa virtually non-stop through the northern U.S. His last known whereabouts before the bus depot rampage was a gas station in Idaho.


On April 7, 1999, Lebrun arrived at OC Transpo at 2:30 p.m.in his black, 1997 Pontiac Sunfire. He pulled out a high-powered Remington 760, pump-action rifle and headed into the garage. Once inside he started firing at his ex-work colleagues. Someone grabbed the public-address microphone and screamed for employees to run and call police.

As people scrambled for their lives -- hiding in closets, under tables, in buses, and running for the exits -- a highly agitated Lebrun proceeded into a small office not far from the supervisor's office, where he cornered two victims and killed them instantly with two blasts from his gun. From there, the gunman moved down a hallway and made an inept attempt at setting a fire with oil cans. The fire barely ignited before petering out.

He then headed up the nearby stairs for the mezzanine level and walked all the way back to near the midpoint of the garage, affording him a wide-open view of the garage area and an excellent vantage point to continue shooting. He had 36 rounds of ammunition left. The killing could have gone on. But, instead, he turned the rifle on himself and ended his life.

According to police, Lebrun left a suicide note at his home listing seven colleagues, four of whom he had problems with. But as fate would have it, the four people he killed were not on his list. "His intentions were very clear. From that letter, one could surmise that he was intending to cause very serious harm or death. It is our view that he had intentions to shoot far more people than he had the opportunity to do," said Inspector Ian Davidson.

"Clearly he was a troubled individual that had some difficulties in the workplace," said Inspector Davidson, lead investigator. "His motivation was based on some disagreement he perceived that he had with individuals that he worked with. As a result of that perception, his action was to exact revenge."

Arthur Goodman (4) On March 28, 1999, 19-year-old Arthur Goodman from Abilene, Texas, was charged with killing his girlfriend and three of her friends -- possibly because she refused to help him conceal a crime. Authorities are also looking for his 16-year-old brother, who may have been with him when the shootings occurred.

Goodman's girlfriend, Sandy Witt, 20, lived in a duplex in a high-crime area of Abelene. Detective Jay Hatcher said family and friends gave police two versions of a possible motive. In one, Ms. Witt wouldn't supply an alibi to police for an undisclosed crime in which Goodman is a suspect. In the other, Ms. Witt was planning to give police incriminating information about Goodman. Sandy's friends -- Naomi Martinez, 23; Erica Arispe, 21; and Penny Estrada, 21 -- "just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," Hatcher said. An apartment handyman, Larry Hammond, was also shot and critically wounded when he tried to help the women.

Officers also suspect Goodman in a previous shooting of a 16-year-old boy who survived. Police wouldn't say if that was the crime to which a possible motive might be linked. Hatcher said the motive in that shooting was revenge for an attack on Goodman's 16-year-old brother.

On April 1 Goodman was shot to death by police after aiming a handgun at officers. Arthur was in the back seat of a white Mercury Cougar that had been pulled over on Interstate 35 when police shot him. Three other people, including Goodman's 16-year-old brother -- were in the car at the time of the shooting. They were questioned by police and it is unclear whether they were taken into custody.

Shon Miller (4) On March 10, 1999, family annihilator Shon Miller kicked open the doors of a church in Louisiana, fired twice into the ceiling and ordered everybody to hit the floor. Miller then marched down the aisle, shooting between the benches as screaming parishioners scattered in horror. When the smoke settled, three were dead including his wife, Carla, 25, and their 2-year-old son, Shon Jr. Four others were wounded at the one-story stucco church 20 miles southeast of Baton Rouge. Miller, a homeless former welder, also shot his mother-in-law, Mildred Vessel, 53, to death at her home a the few blocks from the church.

"His little boy turned and said, 'Daddy.' That's when he shot. He hit his wife first and then the baby," congregation member Lolitsa Enkadi said. "And then he just started emptying his gun." In fact, once he emptied one clip of his semiautomatic pistol, he reloaded and continued shooting into the pews. As Miller left the New St. John Felllowship Babtist Church, the Reverend Wilbert Holmes heard him mumble, "That will show you."

Officers said it took three hours of searching around the single-family homes and winter cabbage gardens near the church in this small town of 7,000 before they found Miller. When they discovered him in a shed about 100 yards away, he tried to kill himself, Landry said. An officer blasted the pistol out of his hand with a shotgun at close range, wounding him. Miller was taken to Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, where he was listed in guarded condition. He was paralyzed from the waist down with buckshot wounds to the back, right hand and face, said hospital spokesman Jerry Romig.

Nathan Dunlap (4) On March 9, 1999, the death sentence of Chuck E Cheese mass murderer Nathan Dunlap was upheld by a unanimous Colorado Supreme Court, which called the evidence against him staggering. "In the final analysis, it is the horror of the crime itself that looms large in our (decision)," Justice Rebecca Kourlis wrote. "Dunlap killed four people and seriously wounded a fifth. He did it without provocation or cause, but rather with a brutal contempt for human life."

A jury convicted Dunlap in 1996 for the Dec. 14, 1993, shootings - the worst multiple homicide in Aurora at the time. He received four verdicts of death. Dunlap killed restaurant employees Colleen O'Connor, 17; Sylvia Crowell, 19; Benjamin Grant, 17; and night manager Marge Kohlberg, 50. Another employee Bobby Stevens, 22, shot point-blank in the face, survived and testified against him.

The then 19-year-old Dunlap began working as a cook at the Chuck E Cheese in May 1993 but was fired over whether he would work extra hours. Dunlap was angry and felt his supervisor had made a fool of him. Later that summer, Dunlap told a former co-worker he planned to "get even." He talked about robbing Chuck E Cheese's and killing his former supervisor. And on the day of the shootings, while playing basketball with friends, Dunlap said he had decided to "go to Chuck E Cheese, kill them all and take the money." The night of the killings Dunlap entered the restaurant, ordered a sandwich, played a video game and then hid in the restroom until closing.

Armando & Valree Nunez (4) - Authorities suspect that a suicide pack between a married couple led to the death of Armando Nunez, his wife Valree, their two sons Curtis, 7, and Robert, 4, and the family dog. The whole group was found on January 27, 1999, inside the family Chevy that was parked behind the new duplex where they lived, on a hill in a blue-collar Fort Worth neighborhood.

Police found freshly used hamburger wrappers, a bottle of whiskey and cigarettes inside the car. There were pillows in the back for the children. Police say when they arrived, the family car was covered with a tarp. Under the tarp, police found a hose attached to the cars muffler and it ran into the window of the car. Richard Carlberg of the Fort Worth Police Department says, "Momma wasnt forced in there. They were drinking and smoking cigarettes and there was no sign of trauma or she was forced or held in there." Police suspect Valree was with Armando Monday when he bought a tarp and the hose that would carry carbon monoxide into the car and kill the family of four.

Neighbors said they didn't realize there was trouble in the family until Nunez's Jan. 11 arrest on an outstanding traffic warrant. That same day, state workers began investigating his sons' complaints that he had physically and sexually abused them. Marleigh Meissner, a spokeswoman for Child Protective Services, said Ms. Nunez kicked her unemployed husband out, sent the children to live with relatives and changed the locks on the house. Ms. Meissner said the investigation into the abuse charges had not been completed.

Problems surrounded the Nunez family. Child Protective Services was investigating them. CPS says it was investigating allegations the boys father sexually and physically abused them. Caseworkers say the boys mother was cooperating. CPS spokesperson Marleigh Meisner says, "When she learned of sexual abuse allegations, she was horrified. She changed the locks on the doors. She ordered the husband to move out of the home."

Reginald Sublet (4) On July 16, 1998, Reginald Sublet, a twice-fired Texas police officer living in Montana herded his ex-girlfriend, their son and two others into a closed garage and started a car, killing everyone, including himself.

Police said they found the body of Reginald Sublet, 34, leaning inside the open door of a car on his knees, a gun in his hand. His ex-girlfriend, Rosalind Tramble, 33, was bound on the floor and had severe head wounds. Her husband, Michael Tramble Jr., 32, was found bound and gagged inside the trunk of a car.

Police found two boys, 12-year-old Reginald Sublet Jr. and Michael Tramble III, inside another vehicle. Michael was strapped in; Reginald was slumped in the back. Sublet, the husband and the two boys apparently all died of carbon-monoxide poisoning, while Mrs. Tramble probably died of a combination of poisoning and head wounds.

The killings came just a month after Sublet was released from a Texas jail, where he spent five months for failing to pay child support. Sublet joined the Dallas police force in 1989 and was fired in 1995 for being absent without leave and making false statements to internal investigators, Dallas Sgt. Jim Chandler said. The firing was overturned on appeal. Sublet was fired again in March after failing to submit medical documentation to back up claims that job-related stress was making him sick.

Arturo Juarez Suarez (4) On July 14, 1998, Arturo Juarez Suarez, a ranch worker in Auburn, California, lured the family of his estranged wife to a cattle ranch, killed her niece, nephew and two brothers and buried the bodies under a blackberry thicket. Arturo Juarez Suarez was being sought for questioning in the slayings on the remote 160-acre horse and cattle ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Authorities said he also raped his estranged wife's sister-in-law.

Authorities were called when the 30-year-old alleged rape victim regained consciousness, untied herself and escaped from a trailer on the ranch. She told investigators that Suarez called his in-laws and asked for help retrieving a deer he claimed to have killed near his trailer on the ranch. After the family arrived, Suarez and his two brothers-in-law went into the woods. Suarez returned alone.

He then tied up, raped and beat his sister-in law while her children played in a screen porch outside the trailer, authorities said. When she regained consciousness, both Suarez and her children were gone. The bodies of her husband, Jose Luis Martinez, 37; their children, Jack, 5, and Arele, 3; and Martinez's younger brother, Juan Manuel Martinez, 28, were discovered in a shallow grave the following day.

Sandi Nieves (4) A Santa Clarita, California, mother undergoing a bitter custody dispute was arrested on July 13, 1998, for asphyxiating her four daughters and setting her house on fire to cover the murders. The four girls -- ages 5, 7, 11 and 12 -- were found next to the stove in the kitchen where Momie Dearest conviced them to have a slumber party. During the night she asphyxiated them with gas from the oven. The next morning she drenched the house with gasoline and torched the place. Authorities believe the fire could have been a suicide attempt.

When firefighters arrived to put out the mid-morning blaze, they were baffled when they found the four dead girls in an area of the house hardly affected by the fire. Nieves -- a devout Mormon -- and her 14-year-old son David were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Later she was arrested. Authorities speculate that Nieves killed the children because of a custody dispute with David Folden, her ex-husband and the father of the two younger girls. Both Nieves and Folden -- who previously was married to Sandi's Mom -- were due the next morning at a Riverside County court in advance of a hearing to reconsider their custody agreement as well as the division of shared property.

Deputy Public Defender Howard Waco, in his opening statement, rejected the allegations that Nieves set out to kill her children. "Her children were her world," Waco said. "Sandi's love for her children was far greater to her than any disappointments or dislikes that she had with any of the men in her life." Somehow deflecting the blame onto her dysfunctional upbringing Waco remarked that Nieves' mother was married six times, used men "like a pawn," and sent photos of Nieves' dead brother to her and other relatives. "Sandi is a victim as much as her children," Waco said. Nieves was arrested the day after the fire. Prosecutors say samples taken from carpeting in the home tested positive for gasoline, and that the fuel was found on the clothes Nieves had been wearing * along with her fingerprints on the bottom of the gasoline can.

In court the infancidal mom testified about having a "flashback" of the moment when she lit the fire that killed her daughters. "I was hoping it would be a dream," she testified. "It scared the hell out of me. I had a flashback of a flash... a lighter... a fire... I don't know what it was!" Nieves shouted at one point, "I sit here and wonder every day what happened. I have no idea!" Days before the fire, Nieves testified, she bought sundresses and sandals, shopped for an expensive dress she was to wear to a friend's wedding in August, and stocked her refrigerator. She filled her van with gas, and she mailed a check for $1,075 to her landlord for her July rent. But she testified that she had no memory of a letter she wrote to an ex-husband, which appeared to have been mailed hours before the fire. "Now you don't have to support us anymore... you scum," Nieves wrote.

The morning after the fire Nieves said she got up from the kitchen floor to go outside. "So you stepped over the bodies of your children?" asked Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman. "I thought they were asleep," Nieves answered. "I don't remember stepping over my kids. I don't remember any of it." Silverman asked Nieves to look at photos of her dead daughters and to explain how she could step over them without seeing them. Nieves refused to look at the pictures. "I'm not looking at my children if they're dead. I'm not looking at them!"

A witness for the defence said Nieves was in an unconscious, sleepwalking-like state at the time she set the lethal fire. "Mothers who kill their children are often in a disassociative state," said Dr. Philip G. Ney, a neuropsychiatrist. Nieves, who had an early childhood history of epilepsy, was also taking a combination of phentermine, a prescription diet drug, and Zoloft, an antidepressant. "The two drugs don't go together," Dr. Ney said. He likened the possible effect on the brain to a car's motor that is being accelerated to top speed just as it's running out of gas. Adding to the mix, Nieves was also hormonally unbalanced because of a recent abortion. All those factors made her more vulnerable to a "disassociative state."

On October 6, 2000, Sandi Nieves was formally sentenced to death for the arson murder of her four daughters. The 36-year-old mom will be transferred to the state's death row for female inmates at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. "We believe this woman should have received the death penalty and she did. She killed four of her children," said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.


John Orr (4) Whoever said that reality was not stranger than fiction did not live in Los Angeles. John Leonard Orr, a former fire department Captain and admitted serial arsonist, is now on trial for four arson murders in a 1984 hardware store fire. Even stranger is the fact that Orr had written a manuscript -- "Points of Origin" -- about an arsonist who torches businesses across California. The book was discovered when he was arrested in 1991. Not unlike the character in his book Orr -- who is already serving a 30-year sentence in federal prison for arson -- was in the habit of setting fires to develop material for a novel he was writing about an fireman-turned-arsonist who got sexual pleasure from his crimes.

The busy arsonist type, the former top arson investigator was convicted on several other arson charges for a series of brush and house fires in the Los Angeles area in 1990 and 1991, one of which destroyed 67 hillside homes, In 1992 he was convicted of setting three fires in the San Joaquin Valley. Curiously he tended to set fires while returning home from arson investigator conferences. On June 27, 1998, the former captain with the Glendale Fire Department was convicted for the arson-murders of four people who died in the 1984 fire at Ole's Home Center in South Pasadena.

Dennis Wayne Eaton Dennis Wayne Eaton - On June 18, 1998, rampage killer Dennis Wayne Eaton, 41, was executed in Virginia by lethal injection for the 1989 murders of Judy McDonald, 24, Jerry Hines, 48, Walter Custer Jr., 26, and Ripley Marston Sr., 68.

Apparently Eaton shot Custer and Marston, stole their car and fled south with his girlfriend, Judy McDonald. Hines, a state trooper, tried to pull the couple over on Interstate 81. He was shot twice and left to die. After a police chase through Salem, Eaton crashed into a telephone pole and shot his girlfriend.

Eaton pleaded guilty to killing Custer, Marston and McDonald, and received three life terms. Though he claimed Judy shot the trooper as he tried to arrest her, he still recieved another death penalty for Hines' muder. Maria Hines, sister of the slain trooper, said she forgave Eaton after watching the movie "Dead Man Walking" and did not want him executed.

Kipland P. Kinkel (4) On May 21, 1998 -- a day after being expelled from school for bringing a gun to class -- 15-year-old Kipland Kinkel returned to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, and opened fire in the cafeteria, killing two students and wounding 22 others. The attack was brought to a halt by 17-year-old wrestling student, Jake Ryker, who despite being shot in the chest, tackled Kipland as he was reloading. Several others quickly piled on to pin the freckled-face rampager to the ground until police arrived.

The heroic Ryker was shot in the hand while trying to subdue the killer and is presently listed in guarded condition in a local hospital with another gunshot wound to the chest. When it was all over, 17-year-old Mikael Nickolauson was dead on the scene, and 16-year-old Ben Walker died in the hospital early the next day from wounds to the head.

The day before the rampage, Kip -- who was jokingly voted "Most Likely to Start World War III" in middle-school -- had been arrested, expelled from school and released to his parents' custody on a charge of possession of a stolen firearm. Following the rampage, investigators found the parents dead in separate rooms of their suburban home. The parents, William P. Kinkel, 59, and Faith M. Kinkel, 57, were both teachers. The father was retired from teaching Spanish at Thurston High. The mother taught Spanish at a nearby high school. Investigators think Kip might have killed them separately the day before the rampage.

Bomb squad officials were called in after police searching the Kinkel home found five "sophisticated" bombs, 15 other inactive explosive devices, detailed bomb-making instructions, and various chemicals that could be used to make explosives. When the demolition experts where removing some of the explosives, one of the homemade devices was accidentally detonated. A fifth bomb was found by investigators when they tried to remove his mother's body. Authorities also found two Howitzer shell casings and a hand grenade.

The school shooting occurred just before 8 a.m. when up to 400 people were gathered in the cafeteria for a farewell ceremony for graduating seniors. Witnesses said they saw Kipland, dressed in a cream-colored trench coat, running through the cafeteria firing from the hip 51 rounds from his .22-caliber Ruger semiautomatic rifle. He was also packing a .22-caliber Ruger semiautomatic handgun and a 9mm Glock semiautomatic pistol. In his backpack police found several fully loaded ammunition clips and an assortment of loose ammunition.

In retrospect Kip was nothing other than a budding psychopath. "He always said that it would be fun to kill someone and do stuff like that," said student Robbie Johnson. "Yesterday, he told a couple of people he was probably going to do something stupid today and get back at the people who had expelled him."

Kinkel allegedly gave a talk in speech class about how to build a bomb and bragged about torturing animals. According to Nissa Lund, 14, Kip told her he once stuffed lit firecrackers in a cat's mouth. Rachel Dawson, Kip's former girlfriend in middle school, said he boasted about shooting little cats. Clearly a serial-killer-in-the-making, Kip also talked about blowing up a cow. In a recent literature class Kip stood in the front of the room and read from his journal his plans of to "kill everybody." On the other hand, friends said when he was not busy with revenge fantasies, bombmaking and killing animals, Kip was a normal, boisterous, high school freshman who was into alternative rock bands like Nirvana and enjoyed playing guitar and football.

About a year ago, the Kinkels discovered Kip was downloading bomb-making instructions from the Internet and building bombs, said Kim Scott, a best friend of Kip's sister, Kristin. "They tried to discipline him and they tried to keep him from making more bombs, but at some point, Kristin said, they just pretty much had given up on being able to control him." Friends of the family said the parents knew of the son's penchant for making bombs. Bill -- his father -- bought the guns used in the killings as a way to divert his son's obsession with weapons into a supervised hobby. They even hired an anger-management counselor who clearly had no success with the junior Charlie Manson.

Two days after the rampage, police disclosed that Kip had lunged at an officer in the police station with a hunting knife he had taped to his leg. When he arrived at the station the handcuffed freckle-faced killer was briefly placed in an interviewing room while his accompanying officer left to secure his weapon. When he returned, Kinkel attacked the officer with the knife and the officer pepper sprayed him.

With six instances of rampaging students in schools logged into the Archives, experts and psychologist are trying to explain this emerging phenomenon. In fact, they have coined a new term to classify this kind of schoolyard behavior: Intermittent Explosive Disorder. All occurences of IED seem to have taken place in predominantly white, semi-rural, middle-class school districts with no prior history of violent crime coupled with easy access to high-powered weapons.

On November 2000 national elections Kinkel emerged as a central figure in the debate over an Oregon ballot measure that could reduce the sentences of thousands of inmates. "If Kip Kinkel is resentenced, I will be living in fear every day, along with my family and fellow victims, that if he is released he will hunt us all down," Jennifer Alldredge, a student wounded by Kinkel, wrote in the state's official voter guide. The Republican candidate for attorney general is also featuring Kinkel in TV ads that accuse the incumbent of supporting the earlier guidelines, which theoretically could reduce Kinkel's 112-year prison sentence to one that frees him at 21.

State Representative Jo Ann Bowman, a leading repeal supporter, argued that opponents are using Kinkel as a scare tactic. Even if the ballot measure passes, she said, no judge would resentence Kinkel as a juvenile. "There's no way that anyone could kill four people and wound 25 without spending an extremely long time in prison," the Portland Democrat said.

Hank Earl Carr (4) With three officers, a young boy and a repeat offender dead the carnage in the town of Brooksville, near Tampa, May 19, 1998, will be remebered as one of the deadliest days in the Florida's law enforcement history. The bloodshed started shortly after 10 a.m.,when Carr - then identifying himself as Joseph Lee Bennett - and his wife carried his 4-year-old stepson Joseph into a neighborhood fire station with his face blown off. They said the boy had been dragging the rifle behind him when they yelled at him to put it down and it went off. After the boy died he changed his story when questioned and the two detectives in charge cuffed him and decided to take him to headquarters.

Once he was in the back of the cruiser, he slipped out of the cuffs, grabbed the weapon of one of the two police officers and shot them both dead. Then he carjacked a truck and killed a rookie state trooper who tried to stop him. Next he crashed into another Florida Highway Patrol car and shot at a truck driver who suffered minor injuries. He then pulled off the highway when officers blew out the tires of the truck, and he fled into the gas station as shots rang out around him.

With more than 170 officers ready to pump him full of lead Hank took a 22-year-old female gas station clerk hostage and demanded to speak with his wife. Thing got even weirder when WFLA, a local radio station, decided to give him a call and and interview him live.

After repeated pleads from the radio host, Carr released the hostage unharmed after a nearly four-hour standoff, then put a bullet in his head as police shot tear gas into the station and the SWAT team closed in.

Not the nicest of men, Carr, 30, had a criminal record dating back to 1986 that included burglary, domestic violence, assault, grand larceny, possession of cocaine and resisting an officer with violence. "He would beat me constantly," said Evelyn Sacks, his ex-girlfriend in Ohio and mother of two children to Carr. "I'm glad he's dead. Live like that, die like that." Police confiscated three rifles from his home, including a Chinese version of the AK-47 assault rifle.

Hank Carr: I turned around to put it up, and I guess the butt hit the side of the wall and it went off. It discharged a round right through my son's face. I didn't know what to do. I was scared, I panicked, I flipped out. I knew he was still alive. I tried to get him medical attention. We threw him the car, we took him up, I seen a cop on the side of the road. I stopped him, he was acting like, he was just moving too slow for the emergency situation. I told him, "Look, I can't wait, my son's been shot, I got to go." He hollered out, "Go to the fire department down the street." I pulled into the fire department down the street. All this was an accident.

Well, when I pulled him out of the car and gave him to the paramedics, I felt his pulse again. It was gone. I knew at that time my son was dead.

We had left our little girl there with the neighbors, because my wife, Bernice, didn't want Kayla in the car with Joey, with him bleeding, because it would have freaked her out. So, I took off in the car again, I wasn't under arrest. So, I left and went back to get my daughter and to get the rifle for the cops, to show them. Well, while I was there, the cops showed up, and one of the cops grabbed his gun and said, "Don't move." So, I didn't move. They were sitting there talking to me. I said, "Am I under arrest?" They said, "No." I wanted to go be with my wife and see if my daughter was all right.

So, I took off to be with my wife. I hurt my leg, the cops surrounded me, they threw me in the back of the car, they took me downtown, they asked me a bunch of questions, they called me a liar. I tried to tell them it was an accident. They took me back to the scene, which was bad enough. My son's blood was all over the floor and the walls. And I tried to explain to them exactly what happened, they started calling me a liar, and this and that, and I was going to jail and prison, and blah blah blah.

They put me back in the cop car, and I asked them, you know, "Am I going to prison?" They said, "Yes." I got one of the handcuffs off. I reached up front and got the pistol away from the officer that was driving. The other one jumped in the back seat trying to get it away. I shot them both. I got in the truck that was parked behind me and made the guy get out. I opened up the back of the cop car and grabbed my rifle that they had took. Then I took off up north. I was heading north when the cops started chasing me. They were shooting at me, every underpass I went under they would shoot at the truck. They were shooting at me. They blowed my tires out. Ninty mile an hour, I almost wrecked twice. I finally got the car on the road. They were shooting at me, they shot me through the truck. I was hit in the ass, it's a big hole, I think it's a 45, I'm bleeding bad.

They've surrounded this place, now. I fell off into this gas station, running for my ****ing life, and here I am.

And, that's my story. What happened to my son was an accident. It was a terrible accident, and I don't even think I deserve to live. It's unlikely that I'll come out of this alive. I can't see giving myself up to fry in the electric chair. I know I'll fry for the cops.

Don Richards: Who's in the Shell Station with you?

Carr: Um, the lady that works here. No harm will come to her, she's been very nice, very cooperative. If anything, I'll shoot myself. But my wife is supposed to be on the way. They're going to let me talk to her, hopefully she can talk me into making the right decision. Basically, I want to tell her that I'm sorry, and that it was an accident. She was there, she knows it was an accident. And I'm waiting on them.

Richards: Joseph, could you let that lady out?

Carr: Not at this time. Not until I hear from my wife. Which may be time to call now, I don't know what's going on.

Richards: Joseph, what is preventing you from putting down that weapon and just walking out?

Carr: I don't have the weapon, the weapon is laying right here beside me. I haven't had the weapon in my hand for over 15, 20 minutes, now. I'm not in no way threatening this lady. She's visibly upset, but she knows she's going to live. She will live.

Richards: Why don't you just open that door and walk out very slowly?

Carr: Well, there's snipe shooters ... and they're all laying under their cars and all. The police have surrounded ... there's cops everywhere. I'm not going out there. They done shot at me all day. They've been shooting at me for the last 30 miles, you know?

Richards: But if you are not a threat to them, then you should be able to get out OK. Isn't that sort of logical?

Carr: Well, I'm already shot. Logically, I don't want to fry in the electric chair. I don't want to go to prison. I don't want to have to eat the food. I don't want to have to live with people. I just ... I don't want to go to prison. I don't want to go.

Richards: The best advice I can give you would be to let that lady, who has nothing to do with any of this, out of that store. And, you know, and to follow her yourself.

Carr: Do me a favor. My real name isn't Joseph Lee Bennett.

Richards: What is it?

Carr: Hank Earl Carr.

Richards: Hank Carr?

Carr: Yep.

Richards: How do you spell that?

Carr: C-A-R-R. H-A-N-K.

Richards: Can we call your wife, Hank?

Carr: I'm trying to get them to get a hold of her, so I can talk to her now. That's why I'm fixin' to get off the phone, in case she calls. In case they're bringing her in to try to talk me out of this. She's the only one that can. I know you're trying, I appreciate that.

Richards: That lady has nothing to do with any of this, and, you know, she's treated you well.

Carr: She's only served her purpose. She's just keeping me alive long to where I can see my wife.

Richards: Well, again, let her out and ...

Carr: I just wanted to tell my story. My son was an accident. We don't keep loaded guns around the kids. That gun was supposed to be empty. I don't understand what happened.

Richards: A lot of people are going to be asking a lot of questions for a long time about this particular day in the history of Tampa Bay. Hank, let that lady out and then follow her with your hands up. What's your wife's name, Hank?

Carr: Bernice Marie Bowen

Richards: Bernice. Let that lady out and then follow her with your hands up and the situation probably can come to a ...

Carr: Right after I talk to Bernice, I'll probably give her the guns and let her go out and then I'll just lay on the floor here and they can come and get me. But for right now, I want to talk to my wife before I do anything.

Richards: This situation could end peacefully, Hank. Please. Please. OK?

Carr: Ya'll got the story?

Richards: I think we do.

Carr: Thanks, buddy.

Richards: OK.

Carr: Bye.

Matthew Beck (4) On March 6, 1998, Matthew Beck, a disgruntled accountant at Connecticut's lottery headquarters, opened fire at his supervisors killing four people before putting a bullet through his own head. Beck, 35, had just returned from a four-month stress related medical leave. He succesfully filed a grievance report involving his demotion from accountant to data processor and was awaiting back pay. A day before the carnage he met with his union representative to complain about the change of his job classification.

Beck, an eight-year lottery employee, came to work armed with a Glock semi-automatic handgun, a butcher knife and three clips containing at least 19 rounds each. Half an hour after reporting to work he left his office and headed for the executive suites where he pulled out his weapons and started wasting supervisors. Witnesses said he was a man on a mission: "He didn't come in and just start blasting. He planned it. He was definitely after the managers."

Beck killed with a calculated coldness. First he walked into the office of Michael Logan, an information services manager who first denied his grievance, who he shot and stabbed with the butcher knife. He then walked into an adjacent area where chief financial officer and a former one-term mayor of New Britain Linda Mlynarczyk, 38, sat waiting to meet with him. Beck pointed his gun at Mlynarczyk -- with whom he had recently discussed his new duties -- said, "Bye, bye," and pumped three bullets into her.

The third to go was Rick Rubelmann, 40, vice president of operations who he had once appealed to for help. Then he chased Otho Brown, the state's lottery president, out to the parking lot. Brown, 54, stumbled, fell on his back, held up his arms, and started begging "Don't kill me, don't kill me," to which Beck answered, "Aw, shut up," and shot him. As police closed in on him, Beck shot himself in the right temple and fell just feet from his last victim. He died a short time later at Hartford Hospital.

Beck, a Florida Institute of Technology graduate who had worked for state government for eight years, contended he got a bad deal in July 1996 when supervisors shifted him from number-crunching at the lottery agency to testing computer software. He thought he should have been paid more for the computer job than his accountant's salary. Now in retrospect, they should forked over the back pay he demanded. Especially after reading the sticker on the front door of the house where he lived with his father: "Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."

Months before the rampage Beck -- who had taken to shaving his head and wearing a goatee -- complained to at least two newspapers that lottery players were being cheated. He claimed the Connecticut Lottery Corp. exaggerated potential winnings to spur ticket sales, and that store clerks were taking winning scratch tickets for themselves by cracking the computer system. He also complained to The Day of New London and The Hartford Courant about unfair treatment at work. The Courant described him as frothing at the mouth and said his eyes were "wild," while the Day described him as "scruffy" in appearance.

Beck's father, choking back tears, read a written statement from him and his wife apologizing to the victims' families. "His murderous act was monstrous, but he was not a monster, as his friends and family can attest." Not surprisingly, Beck was described by friends and co-workers as a quiet and diligent. "He was the all-American guy. He was Mr. Clean-cut," a childhood friend told the press. And, like many other all-American guys in the Mass Murderer Hit List, Beck had a powerful cache of weapons -- including three assault rifles and two large-caliber handguns -- stashed in his house.

His father said Matthew did not hint at what he was planning to do as he left to work the morning of the rampage. After waking up he fed his cat, greeted his father and headed out the door saying, "Well, I'm off." The soon-to-be-rampagerplanned to see the blockbuster "Titanic" with a friend that night. "He looked perfectly normal. I had seen him when he was depressed, and he certainly wasn't depressed."

The father acknowledged that his son suffered from bouts with depression and attempted suicide several times. The most recent was last year, when he found him nearly comatose from an overdose of medication. Donald sobbed as he recalled saving his son's life. "That might have been a mistake," he said, "That might have been a mistake."

Arturo Reyes Torres (4) On December 19, 1997, a disgruntled state transportation worker shot and killed four men at a maintenance yard before he was shot to death by police in a gun battle. More than 60 people were at the maintenance yard run by the state Transportation Department when Arturo Reyes Torres arrived armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a handgun, and circled the trailers in the pelting rain, firing through the windows and methodically picking off employees. When police arrived, Reyes started to drive away, but a motorist blocked his brown Mercedes and the gunfight broke out.

Reyes, 41, who had worked at the yard for about 15 years, was fired after he was videotaped selling about 100 dollars worth of scrap aluminum from the yard. A common practice for Caltrans employees, Reyes complained to friends that he had been singled out by his supervisor.

Three of the men shot by Reyes died at the yard. They were identified as Hal Bierlein, 51; Wayne Bowers, 43; and Paul White, 40. The fourth, Michael Kelley, 49, died later at a hospital. The officer, John Warde, was taken to St. Joseph Hospital, where he was in stable condition. Another worker, Reginald Tennyson, 54, was reported in fair condition.

Patrick J. Biller (4) On December 5, 1997, short tempered Patrick J. Biller, 53, killed his wife and three children early in the morning before putting a bullet through his head. Biller, a phone company technician, was described by co-worker Brian Abdallah as a scary individual. "He was unpredictable. He had some temper. He explodes at people. He cursed at the boss and walked out of the office."

Biller was driven to commit family annihilation by mounting health and money problems. He developed a heart condition and had as many as six bypass operations. He also underwent a kidney operation that didn't go too well, and a gallbladder operation. Meanwhile his wife developed breast cancer. "His health was deteriorating. He had financial pressures of school tuition, a mortgage and lack of overtime due to light duty. He just couldn't see an alternative," said a co-worker.

Jerry Scott Heidler (4) On December 4, 1997, three weeks before Christmas, a Georgia couple who cared for foster children, along with two of their own children, were shot to death while they slept by an intruder who then took three other children from the home. Later, the children were found alive by a farmer along a country road about 30 miles away. The children said Heidler had kidnapped them as he fled the murder scene. Heidler was also charged with molesting one of the surviving girls.miles away.

Toombs County Sheriff Charles Durst said Jerry Scott Heidler -- a man who is not related to any of the children -- was arrested and charged with the killings. The dead, identified as Danny and Kim Daniels, their 16-year-old daughter and their 12-year-old son, were all shot in their beds as they slept.

The kidnapped children were the couple's 10 and 8-year-old daughters, and a 9-year-old foster child, also a girl. The girls were dropped off on the side of a road in Bacon County, two counties to the south. A farmer found them and called authorities, who alerted police in Toombs County. Left alive at the blood-splattered home were a 10-month-old boy and a 5-year-old boy, who was the brother of the 9-year-old foster girl.

Information obtained from the surviving children of the Dasher Lane Massacre led investigators to Jerry Scott Heidler -- who the children knew as Scott Taylor -- for the murder of their foster parents and their two childen. Heidler, 20, was charged with murder, kidnapping and burglary. The Daniels were residents of the curiously named town of Santa Claus, a community 70 miles west of Savannah where the streets are named for reindeer.

Before the killings, Heidler had briefly lived with the family while trying to overcome drug and alcohol problems. According to his mother Heidler, who had dated Jessica Daniels, was distraught because his girlfriend had given birth to a stillborn baby two days earlier. GBI agents found Heidler hiding under his mother's house in Alma. According to testimony in hearings, Heidler said he remembered the killings as a dream.

Heidler, who had open-heart surgery when he was 4 years old, was placed in two foster homes because of poor supervision by his mother. He had imaginary friends, a mouse that he carried around in his hand, said Sylvia Boatright, Heidler's foster mother when he was 11. "Scotty was also afraid of the dark. He was afraid a knife would come through the ceiling and cut him."

Later, when he returned to his mother, he attended a school in Baxley for children with learning disabilities. He mutilated himself by picking at his skin until he bled, testified Marilyn Dryden, his teacher at the time.

James Maish, a forensic psychologist from Augusta, testified Friday that Heidler suffered from a severe case of borderline personality disorder. He said Heidler had eight of the nine symptoms, including suicide attempts, outbursts of uncontrolled anger and "frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment."

On July 6, 1999, Heidler, along with nine other prisoners, escaped from a Toombs County, Georgia, jail cell. He was quickly found and returned to captivity. On August 27 jury selection began for his four counts of murder and three counts of kidnapping. On September 4 Heidler was sentenced to death for the murders of four members of the Daniels family. The execution date was set for between Oct. 1 and Oct. 8, although the sentence will be automatically appealed to the Supreme Court of Georgia within 30 days.

Daryl Keith Holton (4) In a twisted attempt to resolve a child custody fight, on November 30, 1997, Daryl Keith Holton shot his three children and his ex-wife's 4-year-old daughter and surrendered to police. After the killing Holton -- who lived in Shelbyville, Tennessee -- went to the police station and confessed. He said he killed the kids because he was afraid he would never gain custody of his three sons. He also told police he had made some bombs that were in his apartment. Investigators don't know why he made the bombs.

"It all just built up and he snapped," his cousin Keisha Leverette said. "He's always been a very quiet man, moody. But there was never any indication of this. He was very concerned about his children." The children -- Stephen, 13, Brent, 10, and Eric, 7, and Kayla, 4 -- were shot to death with a Russian SKS semiautomatic assault rifle, police said. Kayla was not Holton's daughter, but he considered her his child, Leverette said.

The children thought they were going Christmas shopping when Holton picked them up on Nov. 30, 1997. Instead, they stopped by the auto body repair shop where he worked. There, 4-year-old Kayla, ex-wife Crystle Holton's daughter by another man, wrote a letter asking Santa Claus to bring her a "Tickle Me Elmo" doll for Christmas. Then, police said, Holton line the kids up and shot them from the back. Not satisfied with the carnage, Holton went looking for his former wife and her boyfriend but could not find them, police said, then turned himself in.

Holton, 35, was born in Shelbyville but moved often during his childhood because his stepfather was in the military, relatives said. He worked in the repair shop the last three years but lived in public housing until moving into the shop earlier this year.

An Army veteran who served in the Gulf War, Daryl and his former wife divorced about four years ago. Crystle, the ex-wife, allowed the children to visit Daryl so they could go Christmas shopping. Although he visited the kids regulary, she had kept the children away from him for 2 1/2 months, after filing a protective order because "he beat the crap out of me." She said he loved the children, especially Kayla, even though he wasn't the girl's biological father. "All I could be thinking about is what could possibly be going through their minds, the expressions on their face, when they realized what he was going to do," she said tearfully.

On June 16, 1999 the infanticidal dad was sentenced to death for killing the four children. Holton refused to let anyone defend him.

Courtney Mathews & David Housler (4) A former soldier was convicted of murder for the deaths of four Taco Bell workers during a robbery in 1994, David Housler -- who confessed to being the getaway driver and lookout man-- was handed a mandatory sentence of life in prison. "You've just convicted an innocent 23-year-old man," defense attorney Michael Terry told the jury.

Housler, of Radcliff, Ky., was found guilty of helping gunman and fellow Fort Campbell soldier Courtney Mathews, 23. Mathews, who had worked at the Taco Bell for 10 days as a part-time dishwasher and food handler, forced his co-workers to lie on the floor after the restaurant closed, then shot them. The safe and the cash register were cleaned out, but the amount taken was not disclosed.

Coy Wayne Wesbrook (4) Annoyed that his ex-wife had sex with another man at a party, on November 13, 1997, Coy Wayne Wesbrook went on a murderous rampage killing her and three others. A fifth person, the woman's 28-year-old boyfriend, was critically wounded. Wesbrook, 39, was arrested at his ex-wife's house in the Houston suburb of Channelview and was charged with capital murder.

The lethal ex-husband allegedly became enraged when he found out that his ex-wife had just had a sexual encounter. Apparently he tried to leave but one of the guest took his keys and began taunting him. He then went for his high-powered deer rifle and opened fire. A neighbor who heard gunshots at about 2 a.m., grabbed a cellular phone, went next door, saw the bodies, and called 911.

Susan Eubanks (4) One for the white-trash-with-a-gun-file. On October 28, 1997, hard drinking 33-year-old Susan Eubanks shot her four children to death and then turned the gun on herself. Drunk and distraught over debts, a failed marriage, and her latest lover leaving her, Sue shot her 6-year-old, 7-year-old and 14-year-old sons in the head killing them instantly. Her 4-year-old son was found by sheriff deputies in critical condition and later died in the hospital.

Sheriff's deputies were called to her home in San Marcos by her estranged husband who said he had recieved suicidal telephone message from her. When they arrived deputies said they found another boy -- a visiting cousin -- unharmed inside the house. Among the dead bodies littering the room deputies found Susan bleeding and crying for help. She had unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide by shooting herself in the abdomen. Court documents show Sue was afraid of her abusive, drunken, ex-husband who had threatened previously to kill her.

The child killing Mom staged a miraculous recovery from her self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen at the Palomar Medical Center where she once worked as a medical technician. On October 30, she was arraignment held in her hospital room. Susan -- with tubes in her arms and down her throat -- pleaded not guilty to charges that she murdered her four sons. San Diego County Municipal Judge William Draper refused to set bail and scheduled a court hearing for November 21.

Infanticidal mom Susan Eubanks, who blamed her shooting of her four sons on drugs, alcohol and bad relationships with men, was convicted of murder by a California court. Ms. Eubanks shot her sons, ages 4 to 14, after an argument with her boyfriend in October 1997. She stopped once to reload the .38-caliber revolver and then shot herself in the stomach.

Defense attorney Bill Rafael claimed his client - an unemployed, debt-burdened nursing assistant - was a good mother until work-related injuries led to her addiction to pain killers. She also began drinking to kill the emotional pain caused by bad relationships with men. Prosecutors argued that Ms. Eubanks deliberately plotted to kill the children to torment her boyfriend and the boys' fathers - her two ex-husbands.

The day of the killings, Ms. Eubanks' boyfriend, Rene Dobson, called police and asked deputies to accompany him to her home. The two had been drinking all day and argued, and she took away his car keys and slashed his tires. Eubanks had been watching a football game on television and drinking heavily at a bar in Escondido on Oct. 26, 1997, when she returned to the family's ramshackle home in nearby San Marcos and shot each boy in the head with a .38-caliber pistol. During the shootings, she reloaded the pistol and also shot herself once in the stomach.

Eubanks had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19%, far above the legal limit for intoxication, and had ingested more than her daily dose of the tranquilizer Valium, authorities said.

While at the bar, Eubanks and her boyfriend, a construction worker, had an argument, which led him to say he wanted to end the relationship. As he tried to remove some clothes and construction tools from the home, Eubanks smashed his truck and the two nearly got into a fistfight.

After sheriff's deputies arrived, the construction worker left. The fatal shootings took place only moments after the deputies left. Evidence at the trial indicated that Eubanks had long suffered from alcohol-related problems and was a victim of spousal abuse during a volatile marriage. At the time of the murders, Eubanks had a restraining order against her husband of nine years, Eric Eubanks, a cabinetmaker who had been convicted four months earlier of spousal battery and sentenced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Carl Drega (4) A local troublemaker and former soldier, Carl Drega blasted his way to infamy on August 19, 1997 when he killed a New Hampshire judge, two state troopers, a newspaper editor and wounded four officers in a three-hour rampage. The carnage began at about 2:45 p.m. outside a grocery store in Colebrook, a tiny town just south of the Canadian border, when Drega killed two New Hampshire state troopers.

He shot the first trooper, Scott Phillips, with an assault rifle after he was pulled over for having excessive rust on the back of his red pickup truck. Unaware of shots being fired, the second trooper arrived and was immediately shot dead. Then Drega finished off the wounded Phillips with four pistol shots at point-blank range. Drega then took a bullet-proof vest and fled the crime scene in one of the officer's patrol car.

Drega, 62, drove to a building housing both the offices of part-time Judge Vickie Bunnell -- a former Columbia selectwoman who he had tangled with repeatedly over property disputes -- and the weekly News and Sentinel newspapers. Before being shot in the back in the building's parking lot, Judge Bunnell ran through the offices of the newspaper shouting: "It's Drega. He's got a gun!" Next Drega shot Dennis Joos, paper's editor, eight times as they struggled for the gun. Everyone else in the building fled out the back door.

The slain judge had once obtained a restraining order against Drega, whom she called a "time bomb." Her troubles with him dated back to 1991, when she had him removed in handcuffs from the town hall over a zoning dispute. Not satisfied with the carnage, Drega jumped back into the stolen cruiser and raced across the Connecticut River and went looking for another town official, Kenenth Parkhurst, who was also involved in his zoning dispute. Fortunately Mr. Parkhurst was not home. He was at a dentist appointment and his wife was visiting a relative. In a tailspin Drega decided return to his own clapboard house in Columbia -- the property involved in the alleged planning violations -- and burn it to the ground.

Next he drove to Bloomfield, Vermont, where he shot at a fish and game officer. The injured deputy apparently slumped against the accelerator, and his patrol car swerved into some trees. Drega then abandoned the stolen police cruiser and waited for more officers to show up. The rampager positioned himself to ambush anyone who approached the cruiser. Fortunately a police dog sensed the danger and snapped to a position signaling, "alert." In all, three officers were wounded in the 45-minute ensuing firefight that ended with Drega's death.

Officers searching through the burnt hulk of his house discovered a cache of explosives and a series of booby-traps in an "elaborate system of tunnels" surrounding the property. It included 600lb of ammonium nitrate and 60 gallons of diesel fuel, the lethal cocktail used by McVeigh & Co. in the Oklahoma City bombing. State police also found bomb-making books and a weapons manual in the smoldering ruins of his home.

As a precaution ATF agents decided to torch Drega's barn -- called by one official a booby-trapped "bomb-making factory" -- to avoid any further injuries to investigating law officers at the site. Witnesses to the fire counted up to 40 small explosions inside the structure as it burned. The New Hamshire Attorney General Philip McLaughlin said it was not clear whether Drega had planned his deadly rampage or was improvising as he went along.

Neighbors said Drega was a rampage waiting to happen. For the last three days they kept hearing him shooting his gun. One neighbor thought he was: "Weirder than a three-dollar bill." Another described him as: "Somebody that you should be goddammned afraid of. He had bad blood for everybody. He was a psycho, a terror." Kenneth Parkhurst -- the man saved by his dentist appointment -- said: "He was extremely clever, but as nutty a man as you'd ever meet. He was one you were afraid to be around because you never knew what he was going to do next."

Kenneth Ray Ransom, Richard Wilkerson & James Randle (4) On October 28, 1997, Kenneth Ray Ransom became the 32nd Inmate in 1997 to be executed in Texas. Ken was executed by lethal injection for having killed at least one person in a 1983 botched robbery of an amusement center in Houston that left four men dead. Insisting on his innocence to the very end, Ken said his death would be "an instrument to abolishing the death penalty." He apologized to the victims' families not because he felt guilty, but "because of the pain all of them are going through each holiday, each birthday that they're without their loved ones."

As Ken began chanting a Muslim prayer, his mother, who witnessed the execution from a chamber behind a glass partition, pleaded with him to contact her if he returned in another life. "If you can come back, come back and tell me how you are doing," she said. As her son began to lose consciousness after being lethally injected Pearlie Ransom collapsed, pleading, "Oh, Jesus, oh, Jesus."

On the night of the rampage Ken and two accomplices -- the already executed Richard Wilkerson and James Randle, who was 16 at the time of the killings and is now serving a life sentence -- went to the Malibu Grand Prix video arcade and go-cart track ostensibly to collect Wilkerson's final paycheck and avenge his firing.

The men arrived at the arcade at closing time packing butcher knives and herded three workers -- 22-year-old Roddy Harris and brothers Arnold, 19, and Joerene Pequeno, 18 -- into a bathroom and locked them in the stalls. They then pulled the victims out one by one and stabbed them repeatedly. A fourth victim, 18-year-old night manager Anil Varughese, was forced to open a safe containing the approximately $1,300 taken in the robbery. Varughese was found dead in the arcade's office, where Wilkerson slashed his throat so violently he broke the 6-inch blade on his knife.

Charles Smith (4) On July 28, 1997, Charles Smith, 53, fatally shot his ex-girlfriend, 34-year-old Cindy Benson in her hometown of Joliet. Then he drove with her body 36 miles to her sister and brother-in-law's home and killed three of her relatives and raped another. Charlie hanged himself after the raping a 13-year-old girl and unsuccessfully trying to strangle two other children. A neighbor said the quick-tempered Charlie was upset that his ex-girlfriend's family disapproved of their relationship because he was black and she was white.

Alex Baranyi Jr. & David Anderson (4) Alex and David, a pair of high-school dropouts from hell, 17, have been charged as adults with four counts of murder for the senseless slayings of a Bellevue, Washington family of four. The two boys are accused of killing Rose and William Wilson and their daughters, Kimberly, 20, and Julia, 17.

Court papers show that Baranyi confessed to the killings after his arrest. The first to die was Kimberly who was strangled in a Bellevue park early January 4, 1997. Then her parents and younger sister were bludgeoned and stabbed to death in their nearby home the same day. In November, both teens dropped out of the Off Campus School, an alternative high school program in Bellevue. Before that, they attended Bellevue High.

Mark Anthony Duke (4) On March 4, 1999, a Shelby County Circuit Court jury in Alabama needed less than 35 minutes to find 17-year-old Mark Duke guilty of four counts of capital murder. Duke was convicted in the March 23, 1997 murders of his father, Randy Duke, 39; the elder Duke's fiancee, Dedra Mims Hunt, 29; and Ms. Hunt's daughters, 7-year-old Chelsea Hunt and 6-year-old Chelisa Hunt. Defense attorneys did not disputed he killed his father, but painted Randy Duke as a heavy drinker who abused his son.

Witnesses testified Duke was angry that his father had denied him use of a truck, and that he and Samra entered the house intending to kill the four. According to testimony, Duke shot his father after telling him "I'll see you in hell." The woman was shot and the girls stabbed and their throats were slit.

Samra, 21, was convicted of four counts of capital murder last year and sentenced to death. He testified against Duke, saying Duke shot his father and Ms. Hunt and slashed Chelisa's throat. Samra admitted cutting Chelsea's throat, but said Duke was holding the little girl down.

Michael LaFayette Ellison, 18, and David Layne Collums, 19, pleaded guilty to murder and were sentenced to 16 years in prison in exchange for testifying against Duke. Prosecutors claimed Collums and Ellison provided Duke and Samra with transportation to and from the house the day of the killings.

Private Oleg Lokhmatov (4) For reasons unknown Oleg Lokhmatov, a Russian draftee at a military facility in the Ural mountains, killed three fellow soldiers on guard duty with him and a civilian in a one night rampage.

At about 2 a.m. on January 11, 1997, Oleg killed his fellow guards, stole their ammunition and went to the nearby village of Oboryno, about 1,200 Km. east of Moscow. In Oboryno he entered a shop, killed a customer and wounded an employee. A special operations team apprehended the rampaging private about two hours after the bloodshed.

Norman Dean Yazzie (4) On September 1, 1996, Norman Dean Yazzie, a man driven insane by his cheating wife, shot at his five children, killing his four daughters and wounding his son. The vengeful familicide fired 35 times at his children inside the family's trailer home on a Navajo reservation in Dinnehotso, a small community just south of the Arizona-Utah border.

Yazzie shot his four daughters repeatedly in the head with a .22-caliber rifle. His 11-year-old son survived the rampage by playing dead as he was shot in the shoulder and the chest. Before the killings Yazzie wrote a rambling note to his wife, Cecilia, describing his outrage over her ongoing affair with another man.

Johnny Satterwhite (4) On November 18, 1996, having been separated from his wife for a week, millworker Johnny Satterwhite, in a desperate act of revenge, killed his son and three stepchildren before committing suicide.

After the collapse of his 12-year marriage with his wife Bertha, Johnny, a resident of Laurens, South Carolina, criptically wished his estranged wife a merry Christmas. He also told her that she would be alone in 97. On the side he asked his employee to remove her from his life insurance policy.

Sometime during the weekend of November 18 Johnny shot the four children in their beds. He then asked a friend to tell Bertha that he had left four packages in the house waiting for her and then drove to a nearby reservoir to commit suicide.

Dale Pierre & William Andrews (4) Known as the "Drano killer". Dale was born on the Island of Tobago on Jan. 21, 1953. His family moved to the US in 1970. He entered the Air Force in 1973, and was stationed at Hill AFB in Utah at the time he committed the infamous "Hi-Fi Murders.". On April 22, 1974, Dale and his partner, William Andrews rounded up a six innocent employees in a stereo shop in Odgen, Utah, tied them up in the basement, and made them all drink Drano.

While they were wrenching and vomiting, he went around and forced them to drink another round. He then took the time to rape one of the girls after she was done vomiting, while the others lay there and suffered. After the girl was raped, she pleaded for her life. He then took his .38 and shot her in the head, along with all the others-one at a time. One of his victims, a middle aged man, was still alive. John proceeded to take a ball point pen and kick it all the way into his ear until the man could feel the end of it in his throat.

This man, and another young boy, Cory Naisbitt. survived the ordeal. The young boy suffered horrible brain damage from the bullet, along with numerous operations to repair his esophagus which was destroyed by the Drano.

Fred Heyworth (4) In 1997 Fred, 59, was convicted of murdering his four nieces and nephews in an act of revenge against their mother. The iracible type, Fred poured gasoline through the mail slot of the family's Southampton home at night and set it ablaze, creating a fireball which turned the house into an inferno. Ms. Justice Steel said during his sentencing: "What evil brainstorm prompted you to act as you did we will never know."

The Winchester Crown Court heard about Heyworth's feelings of anger, jealousy, unhappiness and revenge after his wife, Janette, left him and sought refuge at the home of her sister, Beverley Good. Four of Mrs Good's children died in the fire caused by Heyworth; Terry, 12, Alison, 10, Nicola, eight, and Patrick, six.

The judge told Heyworth: "You perpetrated an act of the very greatest wickedness. Your actions were premeditated and carefully planned. You intended to burn the house. You intended, by the jury's verdict, to cause really serious harm to the occupants or kill them." She sentenced him to life for the death of each child.

Afterwards, Mr and Mrs Good said in a statement that they were pleased justice had been done. "However, no punishment will be sufficient for the crime that has been committed. No sentence would compensate or end the loss and suffering felt by us. We love our children and will miss them every day of our lives."

Virgil Martinez (4) A security guard in the Houston area, Virgil was first hailed as a hero on the local news for thwarting a robbery at an EZ-Pawn pawn shop before he became another jealous-ex-boyfriend-rampage killer.

After repeated rejections to his marriage proposals by his ex-girlfriend Veronica Fuentes, Virgil cracked and shot her to death. He also killed her two children, Joshua and Cassandra, and a friend John Gomez. On the run, Virgil was captured when it was discovered that he had checked himself into a Kerrville, Texas, mental hospital, claiming to be hearing voices.

David Alvarez (4) Jilted by his girlfriend, Dave went on a shooting and stabbing rampage in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Park killing two men and two girls--sisters age 9 and 12--and wounding three others. Three of the dead--the girls and a gardener working at the house--were gagged, forced to lie face-down on the floor and shot in the head. The girls' uncle was the fourth victim. Their father was left in critical condition. Two boys, ages 2 and 3, cousins of the dead girls, were later found cowering in the house unharmed.

Jesús Andrés Iglesias (4) Before being riddled with bullets, Jesús -- a 40-year-old, mentally disturbed man -- fired more than 30 shots with his double-barrelled hunting rifle at a religious procession passing below his window. The "Corpus Christi Massacre" as it was immediately dubbed by the Spanish media, ocurred in Herreros de Rueda, a tiny village of 35 inhabitants near León in northwest Spain.

Three people in the procession - Victorico Martínez, 73, Herminio Martínez, 72, and Eva González, 22 - were shot in the back and died on the spot. A young sergeant of the Civil Guard died during the ensuing gun battle. "Everyone knew the killer was disturbed, loco. But why did the police let him keep his guns? Why was he allowed a licence?" one of the villagers said. "This is what happens when you allow just anyone to have a gun."

The killer had a history of confrontation with the villagers. He was often abusive and threatening. He was known to fire several rounds from his rifle every night into the trees in his yard. "We complained several times to the Civil Guard," one villager said, "but they never did anything. They said that he hadn't hurt anyone."

Jacqueline Williams, Fedell Caffey & Levern Ward (4) On March 20, 1998, a jury convicted and sentenced to death Jacqueline Williams, 31, for the 1995 killings of Debra Evans; her 10-year-old daughter, Samantha; and her 7-year-old son, Joshua.

In what could be a bad episode of the Twilight Zone, Williams -- described by prosecutors as "the enormously evil" -- pretended to be pregnant, held a baby shower and made a fake birth certificate before the savage murder of the very pregnant Debra Evans who's baby was cut out of her womb. The baby, fathered by Jackie's cousin and co-defendant, Laverne Ward, survived and now lives with his grandparents. Evans, 28, and her daughter Samantha, 10, were murdered in their apartment in the Chicago suburb of Addison on November 16, 1995. Evans' 7-year-old son, Joshua, was abducted and later stabbed to death. His body was dumped in an alley.

The defense portrayed Williams as an abused and frightened woman who would do anything to please her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, who has also been charged with the murders. During some of the most compelling testimony, Joshua implicated Williams, Caffey, and her cousin Levern Ward before dying from multiple stab wounds. On August 17 Ward, 26, was sentenced to life in prison. On November 11, 1998 Fedell Caffey was convicted of three counts of murder and one of kidnapping for the gruesome killings.

Anthony & Damian Clemente (4) On May 12, 1997, Anthony and Damian, a murderous father and son team, were given mandatory life sentences for a lunchtime shooting spree that left four neighborhood rivals dead in a crowded Boston eatery. Vincent Perez, a family friend, was acquitted of murder charges and will be sentenced later on weapons charges.

The 1995 shootings at the 99 Restaurant climaxed a longtime feud between the Clementes and the Luisi family. Prosecutors said the dispute involved attempts to carve out a niche in the neighborhood's drug trade; Clemente family members said only that it was about respect.

The younger Clemente and Perez were captured outside the restaurant by two plainclothes officers who were eating at the restaurant. The elder Clemente was arrested at his son's arraignment hearing. Anthony Clemente testified that he shot the men to protect his son and Perez. However, one unidentified juror told The Boston Globe that the elder Clemente was convicted of all four murders because he "hunted them down and killed them."

Mark A. Clark(4) On September 18, 1995, Mark decided go out with a bang, and take his family with him. Mark, a laborer, packed his estranged wife and three kids in the family station wagon and took them to the a Maryland shopping center to buy back-to-school clothing. As they arrived to the Middlesex Shopping Center he detonated a bomb made out of commercially available explosives hidden in the glove compartment spewing car and body parts all over the parking lot of the mall.

David Whitson (4) On the same day as the Clark familicide, David Whitson shot-gunned to death his estranged wife and three daughters and wounded his mother-in-law in Scotts Mills, Oregon.

Willie Woods(4) Willie, a Los Angeles city electrician, felt he was being singled out by his supervisors at work. Taking matters into his own hands, on Wednesday July 19, 1995, Willie went to work at the Piper Technical Center in Downtown Los Angeles with payback in his mind and a gun in his hand. At 10 a.m., after a brief argument about a negative performance evaluation he received, the vengeaful radio repairman left the room and returned moments later with a 19-shot Glock semiautomatic pistol in his hand.

Willie shot and killed two supervisors in their work cubicles in the offices of the Piper Tech technical center. Then walked downstairs to the basement and hunted down his other two victims. He found and killed one in the hallway, and the other in another office. Two officers of the police gang unit who happened to be inside Piper Tech on an unrelated matter arrested Willie as he tried to leave the building. Co-workers said that Woods, "seemed like a mellow guy." His problems with his supervisors started 6 months before the killings. Once he threw a chair across the room when he was being counseled by one of the victims.

On November 5, 1996, Willie was found guilty by a Los Angeles court of three charges of first-degree murder and one of second-degree murder. On February, 7, 1997 Willie was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.

Tommy Zethraeus (4) On December, 1994, Swedish mass murderer Tommy Zethraeus opened fire on a crowd waiting in line to get inside a nightclub in Stockholm. Apparently the bouncer had pissed him off earlier that night. Short tempered Tommy went home to get a standard Norwegian army issue AG-7 (equivalent to AK-47) and returned shooting his gun. Four died -- the bouncer and three innocent girls -- and seven others were wounded.

After a three-day manhunt police caught up with him and his buddies that accompanied him to the club. In September 1995 Tommy was sentenced to life and is currently serving time in Sweden's premiere maximum security prison.

Ever the humanist, Tommy, in a 40 minute interview on Swedish television, expressed that he regretted killing three innocent bystanders while shooting at the bouncer. Too bad the bouncer didn't let him into the club in the first place.

Dean Mellberg (4) On June 21, 1994, Dean Mellberg killed four people and wounded at least 21 as he opened fire for less than 10 minutes at Fairchild Air Force Base Hospital. The rampage ended when a military police officer shot and killed Mellberg , who had been ousted from the Air Force one month before for mental problems stemming from chronic masturbation. The psychologist who recommended his discharge was the first to die. The supposedly secure area turned into a war zone as Mellberg turned his AK-47 on men, women and children in the hospital waiting room. As he left the building, he fired on anyone moving in the parking lot. He was shot dead in the parking lot. Mellberg, a Michigan native, had been stationed at Fairchild since 1993.

Clay Shrout (4)On May 25, 1994, 16-year-old Clay Shrout got ready for school differently than any other day. Instead of getting his school work in order, he loaded a .22-caliber rifle, and killed his mother, father, and his two sisters. Then he got in his parents car and started driving. Along the way he kidnapped a girl he knew at gun point. Eventually he drove to school where he held his class hostage. After several hours Clay gave up to police.

Alan Winterborne (4) All Alan wanted was a job and no one would give it to him. So on December 2, 1993, this computer analyst became the avenging angel of the unemployed. First he went to the Star-Free Press in Ventura, California, and presented his case against the Unemployment Agency to an editor. Then at 11:41 he entered an unemployment office in Oxnard and started shooting at state employees, killing three. Afterwards he headed to another unemployment office killing a cop on his way. He was shot down by the police in the parking lot of the second unemployment office before he could wreak more havoc.

Christopher Green(4) On March, 1995, Christopher Green, a former postal worker, returned to rob the tiny neighborhood post office where he worked and executed four-- two workers who knew him and two customers. A third customer was left in critical condition with a bullet in his head. Green said he held up the post office because he owed back rent and was buried under "a mountain of debt."

Eric Houston (4)On May 1, 1992, Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in an armed siege at his former high school in Olivehust, California. Prosecutors said the attack was in retribution for a failing grade. Houston was convicted and was given a death sentence.

Joseph M. Harris (4) After mail clerk Joe Harris was fired from his job at the Ridgewood , New Jersey, post office he threatened with retaliation. Many feared that he would. While at work in the night shift, the chronically angry Harris made a habit of practicing his kung-fu kicks on the mail bags instead of doing his job. One former co-worker remarked after his killing spree: "He was always walking around like some karate guy, chopping his hands in the air."

18 months after his dismissal, Joe made good on his promise to return. On October 9, 1991, Joe first went to the home of his former supervisor armed for war. He packed an Uzi, a .22-caliber machine gun with silencer, several knives and hand grenades, a homemade pipe bomb, and a samurai sword. His first victim was his supervisor's fiancee who he shot in the head execution style while watching TV. Then he headed upstairs and sliced his supervisors on her bed with his samurai sword. Around 2 a.m. Joe arrived at his former post office and killed the two mail handlers on duty. After a 4-hour standoff, he surrendered to the police SWAT team. At the time Joe was wearing a Ninja-styled hood over a gas mask, a bulletproof vest and black fatigues.

Thomas McIlvane (4) In 1991 -- a month after lethal postal worker Joseph Harris rampaged through his Ridgewood post office -- another fired postal worker express mailed himself into obvlivion. When Thomas McIlvane's appeal to be reinstated as a letter carrier in suburban Detroit was denied all his former coworkers knew there would be hell to pay. McIlvaine, a champion kick boxer with a black belt in karate, was fired a year before for cursing at his supervisor as well as threatening other clerks and fighting with customers.

Thoroughly pissed-off about losing his job, the 31-year-old ex-Marine repeatedly warned that he would make Pat Sherrill's massacre at Edmond look like "Disneyland." After Harris' rampage in Ridgewood, one of the supervisors most hated by McIlvaine got very nervous and called the post-office security division in Detroit to ask for protection. The request was denied. Jokingly, some of the other workers drew up escape plans in the event of Tommy's return. On November 14, 1991, the day after his reinstatement was denied, the inevitable happened. Tommy Boy returned to his former post office in Royal Oak with a sawed-off Ruger .22-caliber semiautomatic hidden under his raincoat and wasted four supervisors -- among them the poor man who requested protection -- and wounded five others. After his ten minutes of inflicting terror on his former coworkers, McIlvane ended his rampage by stamping a bullet through his head. He lingered in a coma for a day before dying. Hopefully someone at the postal security division in Detroit lost their job over this senseless tragedy.

Douglas M. Buchanan Jr. (4) Unhappy about his father remarrying shortly after his mother died of cancer, Douglas M. Buchanan Jr. shot and stabbed to death his father, stepmother and two stepbrothers (ages 10 and 13). According to testimony at his trial in 1989, Buchanan felt left out when his father remarried six months after his mother died of cancer when he was 10.

On September 15, 1987 -- nine years later -- Buchanan showed up at the family home with a rifle and an argument erupted over a remark his father made about Buchanan's mother. Doud proceeded to shoot his father. Then he waited and fatally shot stepbrothers Donnie, 10, and Joel, 13, when they arrived home from school. Later he killed stepmother Geraldine Buchanan with a gun and knife.

Buchanan then fled with his wife, but they were captured 17 days later in New Mexico. His wife, Christianne, is serving four life terms for helping to plan the carnage. Asked why he killed the four, Buchanan told investigators: "They never treated me like a son, they treated me like an outsider all the time. I mean, I don't think they cared... They never talked to me when I was living there." On March 18, 1998, the jealous stepbrother was executed by lethal injection in a Virgina death chamber. When asked if he had a final statement, Doug, 29, smiled at witnesses and said, "Get the ride started. I'm ready to go."

Kevin Weaver (4) Another one from the file of unrequited lovers with a grudge. In 1987, 24-year-old Kevin Weaver clubbed his mother and sister to death in Bristol. Then, armed with three shotguns, he went hunting for his former fiancee killing two of her colleagues when she escaped. He was arrested and sent to Broadmoor for his lethally jealous tirade.

Wyley Gates (4) As a teen in the 1980's, Wiley Gates calculately murdered his father, brother, 3-year-old cousin and father's girlfriend. Thirteen years later, he failed to show up for two consecutive parole hearings, and was denied denied early release. He's serving an eight-and-a-third to 25-year sentence for conspiracy in the Columbia County murders. His accomplice, Damian Rossney, is up for a parole hearing next month.

Tom Grant, spokesman for the Division of Parole, said Gates, a prisoner at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County, will remain behind bars until at least Feb. 2001, when he is eligible to again petition for parole. "Your indifference to human life demonstrates that you present a serious threat to community safety and welfare," the board said in a notice to Gates. "Release would also deprecate the seriousness of your offense."

Gates was a 17-year-old honors student in 1986 when he confessed to killing his father, brother, 3-year-old cousin and the father's girlfriend. At trial, Gates was convicted of conspiracy to murder his father and sentenced by Columbia County Judge John G. Leaman to the maximum sentence. Gates first became eligible for parole in 1995.

Gates, now 29, will have another opportunity to seek parole in two years. If the Parole Board continues to deny release, Gates will remain in prison until Aug. 7, 2003. A co-defendant, Damian Rossney, was convicted of conspiracy and criminal facilitation after evidence showed he helped plot the murders and hid the murder weapon. Rossney, who is serving a term of 8 1/3 to 25 years in Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Sullivan County, is slated for a parole hearing next month. Without parole, Rossney is slated for release July 10, 2005.

Barry Wayne McNamara (4) For some reason Barry thought he was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth II and that his TV told him to kill his family because they were Soviet spies. So on a fateful January night in 1985, Barry did as he was told. He shot his father, sister and niece, and crushed his mother's skull with a rock. All, of course, in the name of democracy.

Lawrence Moore (4) On May 7, 1981, Lawrence Moore, a 20-year-old man with a brain defect, burst into the Oregon Museum Tavern and began shooting. Within seconds four people lay dead and 19 others were wounded. During the trial of another lethal Oregonian, serial killer Randy Woodfiend, defense attornies tried to lay the blame of Randy's killings on the mentally defective Moore. Fortunately good sense prevailed Moore did not become Woodfield's escape.

Robert Excell White (4)At age 36 Robert Excell White was sentenced to death for killing a small-town grocer Preston Broyle with a machine-gun. Not the nicest guy in the world, he also beat his pregnant Nicknamed "Excell the Executioner," Robert turned 61 in Huntsville Death Row on March 14.

When White arrived on Texas' death row August 26, 1974, four other men had already been sentenced to die under a new capital punishment law passed after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out all existing death penalty statutes in the nation. One of White's predecessors committed suicide. The three others had their sentences commuted to life terms, leaving White the dean of the Texas death row.

Some inmates suggest his status has allowed White to delude himself about the chances of being put to death. "They just can't get around to killing me because I've been here longer than anyone else," he's told fellow inmates. After he wrote to the Supreme Court asking that appeals of his 1974 capital murder conviction be ignored, his case languished in the courts.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the conviction in 1987 because White was not advised that what he told court-appointed psychiatrists could be used against him. Such warnings weren't required in 1974, but a 1981 Supreme Court ruling required them and allowed the mandate to be applied retroactively. In June 1987, he again was convicted of killing Broyle and sentenced to death. He was never tried for the other killings. Two 18-year-old customers, Gary Coker and Billy St. John, also died in the machine gun burst.

With the second conviction, the mandatory appeals process, which has averaged 10 years before Texas inmates are executed, began over. It's taken a dozen more years for White's appeals to run their course. In the total time he's been on death row, he's been joined by more than 600 condemned prisoners, 172 of whom have been taken to the death chamber.

In a confession, White said his crime spree began May 10, 1974, in Waco, where he fatally stabbed gun collector Robert Perryman, 53, and stole more than two dozen weapons, including a .30-caliber machine gun.

White and two companions, brothers James and Gary Livingston, drank until about midnight, then hopped into White's car and drove north to Dallas and beyond, toward McKinney. At daybreak, May 11, they pulled into the Hilltop Grocery Store in Princeton for gas. They had $2.

According to court documents, White grabbed the machine gun and ordered the three men inside the store. "All of them were shot repeatedly in the back of the head," Mrs. Lawson, 73, says. "We were never able to see my father after his death and I had a terrible time for years accepting it, because I didn't see him."

White and the Livingston brothers got $6 from the register and $60 from the victims' wallets and returned to Waco. White then fled to Cleveland, Miss., where he told a cousin about the shooting and turned himself in to police.

James Livingston, who accompanied White inside Hilltop Grocery but didn't shoot, was also convicted and condemned. His sentence was commuted to life in 1983. No parole is imminent for Livingston, whose record shows at least eight stints in solitary confinement. He remains in administrative segregation, meaning he has violated rules. On March 30, 1999, 61-year-old Robert Excell White was executed by lethal injection. Nicknamed "Excell the Executioner" by police, White's final words were, "Send me to my maker, warden."

Gary Livingston, who remained outside the store as a lookout, received a 20-year term and was freed in 1984. He committed suicide two years later.

Reynaldo Herrera Rodriguez (3) On September 7, 2001, a man in Simi Valley, California, allegedly shot and killed three relatives of an ex-girlfriend because he wrongly believed the woman had given him a viral disease. Reynaldo Herrera Rodriguez, 35, allegedly entered his ex-girlfriend's home through a garage door and shot five family members, killing three. The ex, Maria Rios, 24, was not home at the time. Police have launched a statewide manhunt for the murderous civil engineer who worked for the state Transportation Department. Rios said she casually dated Rodriguez after meeting him at a 2000 New Year's Eve party but told him about five months ago that she didn't want a romantic relationship with him. At one point, she said, he accused her of giving him a virus.

The dead were identified as Rios' grandmother, Espiranza Martinez, 80; her younger brother, Ricardo Calderon, 12; and her daughter, Shantal Rios, 4. Rios' sister, Lucia Vargas, 19, was shot in the abdomen and hand and was in stable condition. Her brother Rigoberto Calderon, 16, was shot in the leg. Another brother, Rafael Calderon Jr., 18, broke a wrist after jumping out a second-story bathroom window.

The manhunt for the gunman accused of killing three members of his ex-girlfriend's family ended in the Los Padres National Forest a day after the killings at a campsite when the suspect killed himself as officers closed in. "I would've much rather for him to stay alive and suffer like we are suffering, but he took his own life and he's not suffering anymore," said Rios, his 24-year-old ex-girlfriend. Rodriguez, apparently drove his SUV into the forest and set up camp there despite the intense manhunt. Campers told rangers he had been in the area begging for water and food. U.S. Forest Service rangers alerted sheriff's deputies after spotting a vehicle that fit the description of his Ford Explorer. The vehicle was parked at the trailhead of a campground near Reyes Peak, about 30 miles north of Ojai.

Ronald Taylor (3) On March 1, 2000, Ronald Taylor, who is black, went on a racially motivated rampage through Pittsburg killing three people. Taylor, 39, set his apartment on fire and fatally shot a maintenance man in anger over a broken door. He then allegedly went to two nearby fast-food restaurants, where he shot four more people. Two of those victims died.

In court, on November 6, 2001, prosecutors handed jurors copies of rants against whites, Jews and homosexuals, recovered from Taylor's apartment in the suburb Wilkinsburg. "Jesus Christ made a very big, costly mistake by putting white trash people on the face of this earth," he wrote on what prosecutors called a "hit list". His attorney, John Elash, said the documents proved that Taylor is innocent by reason of insanity, arguing that Taylor suffers from paranoia and delusions.

In earlier testimony Patrice Papenmeier said that Taylor came into her office at the West Penn Center, grabbed her and a co-worker, and positioned them against a wall. Then he said he had only one bullet left and asked them if they knew how many people he had just shot. "Which one am I going to kill?" Papenmeier recalled him saying, as he waved his revolver back and forth between their foreheads. When police arrived at the scene he went into a room where he said he was going to shoot himself. Hours later, he surrended to police.

Alan Eugene Miller (3) Defense attorneys for Alan Eugene Miller -- accused of fatally shooting three people at two offices he worked -- say that Alan is, "at best, very slow" and should be in a mental health facility rather than in prison. Shelby County District Attorney Robby Owens disagrees and said he would "absolutely" seek the death penalty for the lethal driver killer.

Miller, 34, pleaded innocent by reason of mental disease or defect in the shooting deaths of co-workers Lee Holdbrooks, 32, and Scott Yancy, 28, at Ferguson Enterprises, and the shooting death of Terry Jarvis, 39, at Post Airgas. Miller was a truck driver for Ferguson and worked at Post Airgas until January.

Holdbrooks and Yancy were Ferguson employees, and Jarvis was a supervisor at Post Airgas. Miller was a Ferguson truck driver at the time of the incident, and was laid off from Post Airgas in January. A friend of Holdbrooks has said Miller was angry because he felt Holdbrooks, another driver, was receiving longer and better routes than he was.

Miller reportedly had a history of fighting with fellow employees and once was fired for fighting on the job. The Birmingham News, citing interviews with Miller's former co-workers and employers, also reported that he had repeated shouting matches with one of the three men he is charged with killing on Aug. 5. But the newspaper said Miller's former colleagues also described him as a hard worker who kept to himself.

David Copeland (3) On May 2, 1999, London police charged white supremacist David Copeland with murder in a nail-bombing campaign against gays and ethnic minorities that killed three people and wounded at least 116. Officials said 22-year-old David Copeland operated alone and was not linked to neo-Nazi groups that claimed responsibility.

The disgrintled engineer was captured on closed-circuit TV in the neighborhood where the first blast occurred. He was arrested at his home in Cove, southwest of London, where police seized explosive material.

Copeland has been charged with the deaths of three people in the worst explosion -- a nail-bombing at a gay pub in central London -- and with similar attacks April 17 and April 24 in London districts with large ethnic minorities.

Chevie Kehoe & Daniel Lewis Lee (3) Two from the skinheads from hell file. Two white supremacists were convicted of engaging in a murderous scheme to set up a whites-only republic in the Pacific Northwest. Chevie Kehoe and Daniel Lee, both 26, could get the death penalty for the 1996 killing of an Arkansas gun dealer, his wife and her daughter. Federal prosecutors said the men pursued their dream of an all-white republic by stockpiling military-style weapons, robbing several people and suffocating gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, before throwing their bodies into a river.

Prosecutors said that as part of their conspiracy, Kehoe and Lee also carried out crimes in other states, including two killings in Idaho and the 1996 bombing of City Hall in Spokane, Wash. Chevie and brother Cheyne Kehoe first entered the public eye in 1997, following a videotaped shootout with police in Ohio. Cheyne Kehoe later helped authorities find his brother. Cheyne Kehoe and their mother, Gloria Kehoe, also testified against Chevie, saying he described how he and Lee committed the Arkansas murders.

According to prosecutors, Daniel Lewis Lee is a psychopath who would pose a danger even to fellow prisoners and prison guards and thus should be sentenced to death. But Lee's attorney, Cathleen Compton, said Lee is a victim of neurological problems, or bad wiring, and suffered a horribly abusive childhood. The murderous skinhead was convicted, along with the strangely named, Chevie Kehoe, of three counts of murder and conspiracy to overthrow the state and create a white's-only nation.

Liroff presented evidence of Lee's participation at age 17 in the murder of another Oklahoma youth. On July 24, 1990, Wavra was beaten, stripped, stabbed and finally had his throat slit because he incited Lee's anger by urinating on another man's recliner at a party.

A federal jury decided to give white supremacist Chevie Kehoes a life sentence, sparing him from the death penalty. Prosecutors had asked that Kehoe be put to death for the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell. The three were suffocated with plastic bags, weighed down with rocks and tossed into a western Arkansas bayou during a robbery. In deciding Kehoe's sentence, jurors apparently were persuaded by the defense argument that Kehoe came from a dysfunctional family. They argued that he was influenced by his parents, particularly his father, Kirby Kehoe, and other adults who held extremist political and social views.

Marilyn Lemak (3) Suburban Chicago nurse Marilyn Lemak, accused of drugging her three young children and suffocating them in their sleep, was found fit for trial allowing prosecutors to proceed with first-degree murder charges. DuPage County Judge George J. Bakalis issued his ruling after defense mental health experts agreed that Marilyn Lemak is capable of understanding the charges and assisting in her own defense.

Lemak's attorney, Jack Donahue, raised questions about her fitness almost as soon as she was charged in the March 4 deaths, leading to a battery of mental and physical tests and months of hearings. Lemak, 42, had appeared disheveled and unfocused in early court appearances, and defense and court experts had originally considered her unfit.

On May 6, 1999, a court-appointed psychiatrist said Marilyn Lemak -- accused of drugging, then suffocating her three children -- was found unfit to stand trial on first degree murder charges. Prosecutors said they want to study the report before deciding whether to have their own experts examine her. Police said Lemak admitted giving her children a combination of prescription drugs before putting them to bed, then suffocating them.

Keith Scavo (3) Convicted triple killer Keith Scavo told the judge in a prepared speech that it was the jurist who would be shaking hands with the devil. Scavo, who represented himself during the trial, claimed Common Pleas Judge David N. Savitt "gagged" him by barring evidence that would have helped his case.

The Palm Sunday murders happened after Scavo showed up at his former mother-in-law's Brill Street home to return his 3-year-old daughter after a custody visit. He shot his ex-wife, Kimberly, 29, her mother, Tamar Carsello, 50, and Kimberly's boyfriend, Bill Sauer, 46. Scavo was sentenced to life in prison for Sauer's slaying, but the jury imposed death sentences for the other killings because he murdered his ex-wife and mother-in-law after breaking into Carsello's home, and after already having killed Sauer.

Michael Carneal (3) In what's becoming frighteningly commonplace, on December 1, 1997, a high school freshman went on a deadly rampage killing three fellow student and wounding five others. Michael Carneal, a self-professed atheist, shot 11 rounds at a morning prayer circle in the lobby of his Paducah, Kentucky, high school. The boy, who had three spare clips of ammunition and four other guns, surrendered when Ben Strong -- a pastor's son and leader of the prayer circle -- talked him into putting the gun down. Afterward, in what could be the understament of the year, Mike told Heath High School Principal Bill Bond that he was sorry. "He acted just like he had been caught with some minor offense." The principal said he locked the freshman inside his office with a teacher to guard him until police arrived. The teen-ager told English teacher Tobe Dulworth after the shootings, "It was like I was a in dream, and I woke up." (cont.)

Luke Woodham (3) On October 1, 1997, Luke opened fire on a bunch of schoolmates in Pearl High School, killing two and wounding seven. Luke, a sophomore, started the day by slitting his mother's throat before heading to school in her car with a rifle tucked under his trench coat. Witnesses said he walked into a crowded atrium with hundreds of students milling about and started blasting "anybody he could find." Woodham talked to at least one of the wounded. "He apologized, said he was sorry and was not shooting anybody in particular." (cont.)

Jeffrey MacDonald (3) Former Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, whose murder conviction inspired the "Fatal Vision" book and movie, has insisted for years that a band of drug-addled hippies killed his pregnant wife and two daughters. Now federal court set ground rules for DNA testing that will (or not) back up his claim, 29 years after the three were bludgeoned and stabbed to death in their Fort Bragg home.

The DNA testing, which was not available during MacDonald's 1979 trial, is the latest attempt by the former Green Beret to win a new trial. U.S. District Court Judge James Fox ruled that an independent lab would perform the tests and told lawyers on both sides they had two weeks to pick one. The lab also will determine which samples of blood, hair and fibers from the crime scene will be tested.

MacDonald, 55, is serving three life sentences for killing his wife, Colette, and daughters Kimberly and Kristen on Feb. 17, 1970. He claims hippies attacked his family, chanting "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs."

The MacDonald prosecution drew widespread notice and was chronicled by Joe McGinniss in his best-selling book ``Fatal Vision,'' which was made into a television miniseries.

MacDonald thought he had found a sympathetic author. But McGinniss painted him as a cool liar and womanizer who murdered his family, then created a cover-up.

Twenty-five years after the slayings, Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost wrote "Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the MacDonald Murders" in which they criticized the government's case and argued the Army bungled the crime scene.

Lawyers for Jeffrey MacDonald are again seeking a new trial, contending the FBI lied about evidence that could have cleared him of charges that he murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters 27 years ago. MacDonald's case has dragged on since his conviction in 1979, with numerous appeals rejected by every level of the judicial system, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

But MacDonald's lawyers said Thursday that recent discoveries about shaded testimony and flawed testing by FBI laboratory workers bolster their arguments that he deserves a new trial. "Pure and simple, testimony offered by the FBI was false, and that false testimony prevented us from proving that Dr. MacDonald did not commit these murders," said Harvey Silverglate of Boston, his attorney.

The case also was notable for the tortuous path by which it finally came to trial. Murder charges first were considered in the military justice system soon after the slayings, but a military grand jury failed to indict MacDonald. He then left the Army and was free for years before he was indicted in federal court in 1975 and finally brought to trial four years later. Both the original indictment and his conviction were overturned and reinstated by higher courts.

MacDonald has steadfastly maintained that he awoke the night of the murders to find a group of hippies, high on drugs, in his home. They killed his wife and children, he said, and stabbed him as well. He has argued that one of the intruders, a woman, was wearing a long blond wig, and that contention is at the heart of the request for a new trial.

The reason is this: Found in a hairbrush in the MacDonald home was a 22-inch strand of fake blond hair. Prosecutors knew the strand was found shortly after the murders but never informed defense attorneys for fear of bolstering MacDonald's version of events, the attorneys contend. MacDonald's defense attorneys, however, learned of the strand of hair after MacDonald was convicted, and they sought a new trial based largely on that evidence.

As part of the appeals process, an FBI agent, Michael Malone, was asked to run laboratory tests on the strand. He concluded that it was made of a fiber called saran, and offered an opinion that it came from dolls belonging to MacDonald's daughters. Saran, he said, was not normally used to make wigs. The conclusion was important. The judge, Franklin Dupree Jr., cited Malone's findings when, in July 1991, he denied MacDonald's appeal. "According to Malone," the judge wrote, there was nothing in the FBI's reference collection to indicate that the strand could have come from a wig.

After the appeal was rejected, Silverglate and a team of attorneys used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the books that Malone may have used to draw his conclusions. Two books belonging to Malone's laboratory said that saran was, in fact, used to make wigs. "We have developed an airtight case showing that his statements were false," Silverglate said. "What the FBI scandal has done is confirmed to us that this is a pattern-a pattern for the whole FBI lab, which in this case tainted our trial."

Vuthy Seng (3) On December 10, 1997, a jury rejected a insanity defense and sentenced Vuthy Seng, 34, to three life terms for fatally shooting his girlfriend's three sons in the head. A fourth child, now 16, escaped and recovered from a gunshot wound in the head. Relatives said Seng was angry after girlfriend Chhong Yim told him to move out of her apartment because her children didn't like him. When she left the house after an argument, he killed the youngsters, ages 9, 12 and 15, in the living room. The defense conceded Seng shot the children but said that he suffered a head injury when a stack of crates fell on him in 1993 at a bottling factory where he worked, and was hearing voices.

Daniel Vitaver (3) On December 6, 1997, a man depressed about financial problems shot and killed his wife and two teen-age children as they sat at the breakfast table in their rented home in an affluent gated community in Weston, Florida. Then, daddy dearest turned the gun on himself. Vitaver, a medical technology salesman, brought his family from Argentina about six months ago in search of a better life. Perhaps he meant a better afterlife!

Richard Lyle Timmons (3) One for the abusive family annihilator file. Although he was jailed for threatening his wife Anita with a knife and throwing her out a window, Richard Lyle Timmons returned home when he was released from prison. On June 8, 1997 -- 10 days after his release -- he killed his wife Anita, computer clerk at New York University Medical Center, and her two sons with a hatchet and knife.

"It was the worst thing I've ever seen," Deputy Inspector Robert Cividanes said. When police arrived at the family's apartment they found the decapitated bodies of Anita and the couple's 7-year-old son, Aaron, who's final screams for help were captured on a 911 call. Sharron, Anita's 13-year-old son from a previous relationship, was also killed but not decapitated.

Timmons, 33, a subway station cleaner, had been in jail since September while awaiting trial for previous assaults against his wife. He pleaded guilty May 29 and was sentenced to time already served and released. Despite the beatings Anita refused to testify against him and even hired a lawyer to defend him against charges he threw her through a plate glass window, slammed her head against a wall and refused to let her get medical help when he cut her legs.

Sam Lau (3) On June 16, 1997 a family of four was found dead inside their home in the well-to-do Seattle neighborhood of Bellevue. What at first seemed to be a mob hit, unfolded instead into another case of familial murder-suicide. Sam Lau, a successful businessman from Hong Kong, citing "personal and financial problems," fatally shot his wife, two sons and himself in their home in Seattle.

Strangely, this was the second family killing in Bellevue, a leafy neighborhood of $400,000 homes on curving streets and cul de sacs, in the past six months. The previous killing occurred in a house two miles from the Lau home. A Bellevue couple and their two daughters were killed in January by Alex Baranyi Jr. & David Anderson, two thrill-killing 17-year-old boys. In 1994, a family of three -- parents and a 20-year-old daughter -- were bludgeoned to death in their Bellevue home.

Richard D. Herr (3) On April 10, 1997, Rich, an Amtrak machinist known as the "pigeon man" because he talked to birds, killed three fellow employees in an early morning rampage. For reasons unknown Richard D. Herr fired at least 15 shots from a 9 mm handgun as he rampaged through the Wilmington, Delaware, 450-employee Amtrak repair shop before police shot him to death.

"This guy, he'd talk to the walls. He'd apparently talk to the sky. He wasn't stable," said union official James Riley. "He must have snapped." Two police officers found Herr climbing to an elevated catwalk above them. One officer shot and killed him when Herr pointed a gun at them. Herr fell 25 feet to the shop floor. Compassionately, Amtrak announced that their train schedules would not be affected by the deaths. Mussolini would have been proud of them!

Jimmy Ray Price (3) On March 12, 1997, Jimmy Ray, a Fairbanks, Alaska resident was charged with murdering three fellow boarding house residents because their TV was too loud. Jimmy Ray, 53, shot and killed his three adult neighbors after asking them to turn down their TV. After killing them he walked across the street to a fried chicken restaurant and called 911.

Allen Lane Griffin Jr. (3) Depressed over a "domestic situation," Allen, 21, went to a Comerica bank branch in suburban Detroit and killed three people before being shot dead by the police. At first authorities thought the March 11, 1997 incident was a failed bank robbery. Later they reclassified it as a random act of violence.

Allen, dressed in customary mass-murdering fatigues, entered the bank and shouted,"Where's the money?" Then he forced everyone to lie on the floor and asked them to recite the Lord's Prayer. As he recited it with them he started shooting. Inside the bank he killed Stanley R. Pijanowski III, 52, assistant vice president and branch manager, and James L. Isom, 25, retail services representative.

Once outside, the gunman took hostage a man on his way to the ready teller. Police said they tried to talk him into releasing his hostage, but instead he shot him to death. Then police killed the Allen with a barrage of 200 bullets.

More than 24 hours after the rampage, a bank janitor found an unarmed security guard cowering in the bank's boiler room. Police said Virene Brown was found frightened and dehydrated. Apparently the gunman had put his shotgun to her head and said he was going to kill her. Somehow, when he was distracted, she fled to the basement and stayed there for more than a day.

Marcelo Kenji Yoshino (3) On December 18, 1996, Marcelo Kenji Yoshino, 22, an employee of the Sao Paulo State Sanitation Company, entered the offices where he formally worked with a Glock 9 mm pistol hidden in a gift package. Once inside, he looked for the object of his obsessive and unrequited passion -- co-worker Valeria Lellis -- and opened fire, killing three women and wounding two men.

Six months previously Yoshino had been transferred to another unit of the company because of his stalking and harassment of Valeria. He was also sent to a psychologist, but continued frequenting his former office to visit her.

On the fateful payback day, Marcelo hunted down Valeria and fired at ten coworkers killing her, their supervisor, and another woman, and wounding two men. After the rampage, the obsessive coworkers shot himself in the head.

Laxma Reddy (3) On March 18, 1997, Laxma, a medical professional, killed his wife, her 13-year-old daughter and his father-in-law in Brookline, Massachusetts. The three victims were shot in the head execution-style in their beds. Three days later, after an All-Points-Bulletin was put out for him, he was shot and killed when he pulled a gun on a sheriff's deputy during an unrelated traffic stop in Elko, Nevada.

After the familicide was discovered, investigators turned to Reddy as a suspect when they determined that the killer used a key to enter the apartment. Brookline police and Massachusetts State Police flew to Cleveland, Reddy's last known address, after discovering the bodies. They learned that Reddy had left in the middle of his second year of residency in internal medicine at St. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland.

Reddy recently visited his family in Brookline, but had not been seen in weeks, friends said. The family is originally from Andhrapradesh in southern India, but moved to the United States so he could study medicine. He received his medical degree in August 1979 from Gandhi Medical College in India and interned at Cabrini Medical Center in New York City from July 1993 to June 1994.

Alexei Petrichev (3) On February 21, 1997, Alexei, a 22-year-old unemployed Russian ex-convict, went on a killing spree stabbing three neighbors to death and wounding two others.

He first killed a male neighbor stabbing him 20 times with a dagger at an apartment building in southern Moscow. Then he broke into another apartment, killed a 20-year-old woman and injured her 1-year-old son. Not wanting to call it a day, the slasher stabbed to death the woman's father and wounded her brother-in-law. When police arrived at the scene they shot the killer in the stomach and the leg. According to police, his wounds were not life threatening.

Paul Ely Jr.(3) On October 27, 1996, in a typical fit of love gone sour, Paul Ely Jr. of Anchorage, Alaska, went hunting for his estranged wife leaving three dead and one wounded before killing himself. The suspect first attacked a police officer who was responding to a domestic violence call. After wasting the cop in the hallway of the apartment building where his estranged wife and children lived, Ely shot his wife in the gut, ran to a neighbor's house with his two small children and killed them. Then, committed suicide.

Seely, 40, died about an hour after the shooting. Christina Ely, 27, was hospitalized and is in stable condition. "I had heard that they had just gotten divorced and I know they had been having problems for more than a year because the kids would come to the bus stop and talk about the parents fighting," said one of the neighbors. At the time of the rampage Paul was not living with Christina and the kids.

Steven Renfro (3) On Aug. 25, 1996, after taking what he told authorities were 70 doses of Valium and tanking up on booze, Renfro put on camouflage clothing, blackened his face, armed himself with four guns and 500 rounds of ammunition, and went hunting humans. First he killed his live-in girlfriend, Rhena Fultner, 36, then an aunt, Rose Rutledge, 66, who lived with them. After he went to the nearby trailer of an acquaintance, George Counts, 40 -- against whom he had a grudge -- and fired more than 150 rounds into the mobile home killing him instantly. When police arrived, he wounded Officer Dominic Pondant in the shoulder and turned his patrol car "into Swiss cheese."

Steven was executed by lethal injection in Huntville's death row on February 9, 1998. Renfro voluntarily headed to the death chamber on a conviction less than 10 months old. He asked that no appeals be pursued and his execution be carried out as soon as possible. Rick Berry, a high school classmate and the prosecutor in the case, said the decision not to fight was Renfro's way of trying to get into heaven. "By voluntarily going ahead and being punished, it's like an atonement."

Martin Mendoza-Garcia (3) Martin, a short-tempered Nevada construction worker, killed two stepdaughters and a niece when he went searching for his estranged wife. Rocio Cervantes had fled Carson City, Nevada for her brother's house after her husband Martin was arrested on a domestic battery charge for beating his stepdaughter. Three weeks later, on January 26, 1996, Martin showed up at his brother-in-law's home in Landers, California, with blood on his mind.

As the family was getting the children ready for school, Martin knocked on the door and pulled out his gun. Angelica Cervantes, Rocio's sister managed to call 911 before Martin fired shots into the house and threatened to kill everyone. He then grabbed Sandra, his 13-year-old stepdaughter whom he admitted having beaten previously in Carson City, and held the gun to her head. By the time police arrived, he had three children in his car and Sandra in a headlock. When he saw the cops he shot Sandra at point-blank range killing her instantly, then turned and fired into the car full of children killing another stepdaughter, a niece and wounding his biological son before police fired back wounding him. He then ran to the back of the house where he was tackled and disarmed by his brother-in-law.

On August 28, 1997, the 34-year-old construction worker was convicted of three counts of murder. As of September 29 a Sacramento jury recommended the death penalty which could be formally accepted by the judge on November 21.

Dora Buenrostro(3) A San Jacinto, California resident, Dora was charged with the murders of her three children. On October 27, 1994, she led police officers to her apartment were they discovered the bodies of her children Susana, 9, and Vicente, 8. The body of her youngest was found 10 miles away inside her abandoned car still strapped to the car seat. She tried to pin the bloody knife attacks on her estranged husband living in Los Angeles. A San Jacinto police officer remarked that before her arrest Dora, "was like a roller coaster. She went from laughing and joking to being tired to being nonchalant, but never showed remorse or sadness, even after we told her we found the body of her third child." Obviously they never believed her and on November, 1995 a jury decided she was competent to stand trial despite the defense's contention that she is psychotic.

Barry Loukaitis (3) On September 2, 1996, Barry, a 14-year-old honor student in Moses Lake, Washington, broke into algebra class with a high-powered rifle and shot three students and their teacher. Two of the students and the teacher died. The third student was left hospitalized in serious condition shot in the abdomen and right arm. Hearing the shots, physical education teacher and champion wrestler Jon Lane burst into the classroom, disarmed the boy and held him until police arrived. It seems that Barry and Manuel Vela, one of the students shot, were always exchanging words. "I guess he finally got sick of it," said fellow-student Walter Darden. (cont.)

Errol S. Dehaney (3) On November 25, 1995, Errol, a Hartford, Connecticut resident with a history of domestic violence, shot and killed his wife and two kids. The couple argued in the car after leaving a friend's Thanksgiving party. Shennavia, his unfortunate wife, went back to the friends' house where Errol followed her and shot her in the head. He then returned to the car and killed his two children.

Ernesto Cruz Jimenez(3) A Mexico City police officer, said to be suffering from depression opened fire with his 9-mm. pistol in a crowded subway car on Thursday, September 21, 1995. He fired 10 rounds on the rush hour passengers before being seized by an unarmed subway police officer. Three passengers died and five others were wounded. The sister of the 22 year-old gunman said that Ernie had been very depressed and twice had tried to commit suicide.

James Floyd Davis (3) James, a classic loner from Ashville, N.C., was fired from a machine-tool company for fighting with co-workers and returned later to kill three people and injure four others. Later he walked out the back door, threw his two guns down and emptied his pockets of shells. He then lit a cigarette and surrendered. His co-workers knew he was dangerous. They said he kept talking about his guns and knives. At work he talked to himself and never associated with anyone.

The families of two men killed when a fired worker went on a shooting rampage in North Carolina have won $7.9 million from a jury that found the company was negligent in protecting them. The jury awarded $3.9 million to the family of Gerald Allman, 52, and $4 million to the family of Frank Knox, 62. Both men were shot and killed on May 17, 1995, by James Floyd Davis at the Union Butterfield tool distribution plant in south Asheville.

The key issue at the civil trial was whether company officials properly protected employees from Davis, who was fired two days earlier because of a string of violent incidents. "This verdict shows that companies cannot ignore a real, credible threat of workplace violence," said David Kirby, who represented the Allman family. "This man was a ticking time bomb and the management knew it, yet they did nothing to protect their employees."

Employees testified that plant managers were told that Davis had threatened that if he were fired he would come back and "take management with me." Others cried from worry, and some planned escape routes, witnesses testified. Three people were killed and two wounded in the shooting. Davis was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and is on death row in Central Prison in Raleigh.

Albert L. Petrosky (3) Distraught over marital woes, Al Petrosky opened fire in a crowded supermarket in Littleton, Colorado, killing his wife and two others. The wife, Terry, worked in the store and had recently obtained a restraining order against him. Albert, didn't take it too well. He decided to strap on a bullet-proof vest, grab his pistol, assault rifle and hunting rifle, and head to Albertson's. There he shot his wife, the store manager and a sheriff's sergeant who was getting out of his patrol car. As he tried to flee, the rampager was tackled by a construction worker who held him down until police arrived.

Ivan du Plessis (3) On October 17, 1996, Ivan du Plessis, 45, shot to death his children and then himself with a weapon police had earlier given back to the killer. Curiously on a previous occassion he handed his firearm to police because he was afraid he would do something stupid with it. Sometime later authorities returned his 7.65mm pistol. The morning of high drama ended in tragedy when police returned to him his and Du Plessis opened fire inside the family's home killing his son and two daughters seconds before police and Boksburg Traffic Department officials stormed the front entrance.

Larry Buttz (3) On November 5, 1996, Larry Buttz, 41, shot his wife and two children to death in their beds and then killed himself. A resident of Iowa, a month before the murder-suicide, Larry was charged with simple assault after his wife filed a complaint. The dead were identified as Larry's wife, Delane, 38, and their two children, Ryan, 15, and Lindsey, 12 as well as Larry. The house where the shootings took place had worn wicker furniture and shriveled jack-o'-lanterns on the front porch left from Halloween.

Sylvia Seegrist(3) On October 30, 1985, Sylvia Seegrist, 26, put on camouflage pants, combat boots, a wool cap, and a shirt with the word "Jihad" printed on the back. She then headed to the Springfield Mall near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle killing three and wounding seven. Several months before the mall shooting, Sylvia took to wearing army fatigues in combination with a shirt that had printed on the front, "Kill 'em all".

Ruth Seegrist, Sylvia's mother, recalled the events that occurred during the last month before the rampage. "By the third week in October she was completely out of touch with reality, continuously agitated, vitriolic, restless, unable to concentrate, or even comprehend questions directed at her. 'You!' she would screech, pointing an accusing finger at me, eyes ablaze with scorching anger, 'you gave me birth, you will be lucky if some day you don't die by my hand.' I was terrified. I did not doubt that she was capable of killing me".

John Markle (3) John was the son of the Academy-award winning actress Mercedes McCambridge (who won the Oscar for "All the King's Men," but was best known as the voice of the demon in "The Exorcist"). In the late 80's John murdered his family and killed himself after he was suspended by his employer for embezzling money into his mother's account. His employer was Stephens Inc., a bond brokerage firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Unable to withstand the shame, John put on a "Freddy Kruger" mask, killed his wife and two daughters in his prestigious home in Little Rock's historical section. Then he called his lawyer and shot himself in both temples simultaneously.

The family tried to suppress a lot of documentation in the case, but the two newspapers in Little Rock sued and eventually got everything released. It included some venomous letters to his mom about how he had never been able to please her and felt unloved.

Tina Jackson (3) A Desperate-Mom-From-Hell, Tina Jackson decided to shoot her three children and herself rather than get evicted. The bodies of Tina Jackson, 31, her twin 1-year-old daughters, Monique and Dominique Howard, and 2-year-old son, Javon Jackson, were found after a fire broke out in the family's home. Another son, Laurence Bates, 5, was found critically burned, but alive.

Coroner Paul Matus said Jackson's wound suggests that she committed suicide, as does the fact that all the bodies were in one place. "It's common in a case like this for a mother to put all her children together," he said. "She doesn't want them to be alone."

Jamie Rouse (3) On November 19, 1997, Jaime Rouse, a Tennessee high school senior, was found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in the 1995 rampage at Richland High School. Angry over poor grades Jamie Rouse, 19, walked into school with a rifle and shot teachers Carolyn Foster and Carol Yancey and 14-year-old student Diane Collins who accidentally got in the way. Ms. Foster and Miss Collins died. Ms. Yancey was wounded. Rouse's lawyers claimed he was a paranoid schizophrenic and was not in control of his actions. But prosecution witnesses disputed that. In closing arguments, defense attorney Dan Runde said Rouse was hearing voices and thought he was on a mission from God when he opened fire.

Steven Abbott -- Rouse's friend -- was convicted August 1 of criminal responsibility in the slayings and got 40 years in prison. Abbott drove Rouse to school on the day of the rampage and knew Rouse was carrying a rifle and 400 rounds of ammunition. Abbott testified that he didn't believe Rouse when he said he planned to shoot people. Rouse's 16-year-old brother, Jeremy, was convicted in 1996 of solicitation to commit murder after trying to persuade classmates to "finish the job" his brother started.

Robert Bloom (3) On December 22, 2000, a Van Nuys, California, jury recommended the execution -- for the second time -- of Robert Bloom Jr., for the murders of his father, stepmother and 8-year-old stepsister. Bloom, who looked dazed as he heard the verdict that concluded his three-month retrial, represented himself after firing his court-appointed attorneys and dropping his insanity plea. Prosecutors called Bloom, 37, a sociopath who deserves to die for the 1982 Sun Valley murders he committed at age 18. "He's evil," said Deputy Dist. Atty. Dmitry Gorin, recounting how Bloom once stabbed another inmate in the neck and had threatened prosecutors during the retrial. "He's a complete danger to society." Melanie Bostic, Bloom's mother, said he deserved sympathy. "My son's mentally ill and should be in a mental hospital, not a gas chamber," she said. "He has double personalities."

Jurors found Bloom guilty of the first-degree murder of his father, Robert Bloom Sr., and the second-degree murders of his stepmother, Josephine Lou Bloom, and stepsister, Sandra Hughes. Bloom's lawyers, before being fired, argued that he had been severely abused by his father and was insane at the time of the killings. After firing his attorneys, Bloom told jurors he had been an award-winning high school mock trial attorney and that his insanity plea was hogwash. He zealously cross-examined witnesses, subpoenaed a judge, used legal terminology and made frequent objections.

Bloom told jurors he felt no remorse for killing his father and called the deaths of his stepmother and stepsister a "necessary evil." The next time around, he said, he would be "a better killer."

Brendan Spencer (3) On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brendan Spencer killed two people and wounded nine when she fired on San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School with a .22-caliber rifle from her family's house across the street. The two victims were Principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar. Eight students and a police officer were wounded. Spencer, the original high-school ramapger, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. When asked why she did it, she said the often quoted: "I just don't like Mondays." At the time she also told negociators, "It was a lot of fun seeing children shot." (cont.)


STILL, TOO MANY TO POST BUT AGAIN, YOU GET THE DRIFT!!!!!!

[Malayamerican]

people like the person who started this thread are the reason SA is how it is. dumbasses like that are the reason SA is getting worse and worse and dumbasses like that are the reason hardly anyone likes white people.