Erik Hawkins

Robert and Michael Bever thought they would kill their family quickly, like ninjas, before embarking on a cross-country murder spree. 

Matthew Williams drew his brother, Tyler, into his extreme beliefs, leading to torching synagogues and the slaughter of Winfield Mowder and Gary Matson. 

At one point, while plotting her husband’s murder with inmate Rick Hampton, corrections officer Pamela Dickens said her two kids would “get over it.”

"Jersey Shore" star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro had to be hit with a Taser after his alleged fight with girlfriend Jen Harley.

A minor dispute between police and the Stovall brothers escalated to a night of bloody terror that gripped a whole region in a 24-hour chase and gun battle.

Robert and Stephen Spahalski committed murders with bizarre similarities, and even spent time in the same prisons.

Doug Gustafson was a young hellraiser whose prank ended up killing an innocent teen. That was only the beginning for the killer Gustafson siblings, though. 

The terror and tragedy of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017 didn’t come out of nowhere, experts Peter Simi and Oren Segal warn in “Uncovered: Killed By Hate.” 

Horrific hate crimes like the murders of James Byrd Jr., Matthew Shepard, Blaze Bernstein and Heather Heyer sow terror and outrage — but some of them also sparked change. 

Contract killers risk botching a hit if they see their target as a human being, researchers found in one of the only large-scale studies of hitmen ever.