The computer engineer became a case study in vampiristic behavior after he tortured a surviving 19-year-old hitchhiker and drained nearly half her blood.
Richard Chase believed killing six people and consuming their blood would cure him of his perceived physical conditions. Despite multiple diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia, psychiatrists deemed him fit to stand trial.
Doreen Lioy, who later married serial killer Richard Ramirez, said she was "captivated" by his mug shot when police broke in to interrupt the TV show she was watching.
Marie Noe drew sympathy after she and her husband, Arthur Noe, lost all 10 of their children between 1949 and 1968. Decades later, she confessed to murdering eight of them.
Controversial film producer Joe Francis, now the subject of Peacock's Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story, left the United States amid mounting legal troubles.