Typically known for Hollywood and sunny beaches, California has been the hunting ground for a disturbing number of serial killers, as evident in Oxygen's Serial Killer Capital: Los Angeles.
Alissa Turney vanished the last day of her junior year in high school after going to lunch with her stepfather, who has been accused of causing the missing woman harm.
While prosecutors painted Lyle and Erik Menendez as spoiled, self-serving liars who killed their own parents to inherit their millions, the defense argued they were traumatized victims of sexual abuse who feared for their lives.
Grey's Anatomy writers believed Elisabeth Finch was drawing from her own painful cancer battle as she wrote for the popular medical drama, but her health battles would turn out to be nothing but a work of fiction.
"None of it felt real," Aya Altantawi said of finding her mom, Nada Huranieh, dead on the patio of their sprawling Michigan home — and the shocker that came next.
Jack Unterweger was known as a reformed killer and respected crime journalist in Austria until it was discovered that he was reporting on his own horrific acts.
Anton Black was struggling with his mental health when an incident with a younger boy prompted witnesses to call police, but what happened next divided the town of Greensboro, Maryland.
