The story of a desperately lonely overweight woman who lets herself fall into partnership with a man who murders women for money. The so-called Lonely Hearts Murders, entwined in voodoo magic and kinky sex, became one of the most sensational cases of the 1940s.

Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler, and the Freeway Killer. He murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in California.

Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard, Jr. is an American serial killer. A former trash company supervisor, Gilyard is believed killed at least 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of six counts of murder on March 16, 2007.

Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko, aka The Beast of Ukraine, was a prolific Ukrainian serial killer, family annihilator, mass murderer, serial arsonist, and robber active from 1989 to 1996. He admitted to killing 52 people in a seven-year period.

Hadden Irving Clark is a murderer and suspected serial killer who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. He is currently incarcerated at Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland.

Charles Becker was a lieutenant in the New York City Police Department between the 1890s and the 1910s. He is known for the scandal of being tried, convicted, and executed for the first-degree murder of the Manhattan gambler Herman Rosenthal in 1912 near Times Square.

Keith Hunter Jesperson is an American serial killer who murdered 8 women in the 1990s. They called him The Happy Face Killer because he sent letters to the prosecutors and media and drew smiley faces on the letters. At the age of 35, he was standing 6 feet 7.5 inches (2.02 m) and weighed approximately 240 pounds (110 kg).

Joel David Rifkin is an American serial killer who was sentenced to 203 years in prison for the murders of nine women between 1989 and 1993. He is believed to have killed up to 17 victims between 1989 and 1993 in New York City and on Long Island, New York. Although Rifkin often picked up sex workers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, he lived in East Meadow, a suburban hamlet on Long Island.

Beverley Gail Allitt is an English serial killer who was convicted of killing four children, attempting to kill three other children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six.

Michel Paul Fourniret, also known as the Ogre of the Ardennes, is a French serial killer who confessed to killing twelve people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003.

Craig Chandler Price is an American serial killer who committed his crimes in Warwick, Rhode Island between the ages of 13 and 15. He was arrested in 1989 for four murders committed in his neighborhood: a woman and her two daughters that year, and the murder of another woman two years earlier. He had an existing criminal record for petty theft.

Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer, who was sentenced for killing 110 girls, but who claimed to have killed more than 300 girls across Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. Aside from uncited local accounts, López's crimes first received international attention from an interview conducted by Ron Laytner, a longtime freelance photojournalist who reported interviewing López in his Ambato prison cell in 1980.

Gary Ray Bowles was an American serial killer who was executed in 2019 for slaying six men in 1994. He is sometimes referred to as the I-95 Killer since most of his victims lived close to the Interstate 95 highway.

The "Snowtown" murders (also known as the bodies in barrels murders) were a series of murders committed by John Bunting, Robert Wagner, and James Vlassakis between August 1992 and May 1999, in and around Adelaide, South Australia. A fourth person, Mark Haydon, was convicted for helping to dispose of the bodies. The trial was one of the longest and most publicized in Australian legal history.

Aileen Carol "Lee" Wuornos was an American serial killer and sex worker who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990 by shooting them at point-blank range.

Robert Christian Hansen, known in the media as the "Butcher Baker," was an American serial killer. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen abducted and killed at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska; he hunted many of them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. He was arrested and convicted in 1983 and was sentenced to 461 years and a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French doctor and serial killer suspected of killing more than 60 people in Paris, during WW2.

Mary Ann Cotton was an English serial killer, convicted of, and hanged for the poisoning of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton. It is likely that she killed three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies and many others. She may have killed as many as 21 people, including 11 of her 13 children. She chiefly used arsenic poisoning, causing gastric pain and rapid decline of health.

Henri Désiré Landru was a French serial killer, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais, who killed at least seven women in the village of Gambais between December 1915 and January 1919. Landru also killed at least three other women, plus a young man, at a house he rented from December 1914 to August 1915 in the town of Vernouillet, 35 km northwest of Paris. The true number of Landru's victims, whose remains were never found, was almost certainly higher.

A quick look at the serial killers who surrendered and some of the serial killers who confessed crimes they did not commit, to gain some notoriety.