During the trial for Yusuf Hawkins' murder, the defense attempted to argue Gina Feliciano, an ex-girlfriend of one of the accused killers, was actually to blame for his death.
"I was a Black kid in a white neighborhood and I wanted to be a white kid living in a white neighborhood," Russell Gibbons said in HBO's "Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn."
After reports emerged that Joseph DeAngelo yelled about hating "Bonnie" to one of his victims, some speculated his relationship with his ex-fiancée Bonnie Colwell was a potential catalyst for the Golden State Killer.
Charles Manson's early years were shaped by his teen mother's arrest for robbery and a strict uncle who once forced him to go to elementary school in a dress.
