Lorena Bobbitt was born October 31, 1970 in Bucay, Ecuador. Not much is documented about her life until she married John Bobbitt in 1989. On June 23, 1993 Bobbitt claimed that her husband raped her. This wasn’t an uncommon occurrence and she had suffered other forms of physical and mental abuse from him. That night, after he went to sleep, she went to the kitchen and grabbed a carving knife. She then returned to her bedroom and cut off his penis. Bobbitt then left the apartment with the severed appendage and drove away. After a while she threw it out of the window then stopped to call 911, telling the police what happened. The appendage was later found and reattached. Bobbitt was tried for her crimes. During the trial vendors sold shirts that said “Love hurts” and penis-shaped candy. John was charged with marital sexual assault. During this time period, marital rape was a relatively new crime and the law made it almost impossible to prove. He was arrested several more times and has served jail time for assault. In court she testified that he sexually, physically, and emotionally abused her during their marriage. Her attorneys claimed that all the abuse made her snap and that because of the abuse she was suffering from depression and PTSD. John denied the claims but, during cross examination his statements would conflict. John was later acquitted of rape and she was found not guilty due to insanity. As a result she had to undergo a 45 day evaluation at Central State Hospital, after which she was released. In 1995 the two divorced. John went on to form a band and star in two porn films. He was also a regular on the Howard Stern show. This case received a lot of media attention. Terms like the "Bobbittized punishment" and "Bobbitt Procedure" became common and the Bobbitt worm was named after this case. After Lorena served a short sentence in a mental hospital she went back to her life as a manicurist. She remarried and had one child. She also formed a charity called Lorena’s Red Wagon which helps survivors of domestic violence.

Elizabeth Holmes  was born on born on February 3, 1984 in Washington D.C. Her mother worked as a congressional staffer while her dad was employed by Enron and later worked for government agencies like the United States Agency for International Development.  She was considered to be a bright child and, at age seven, tried to invent a time machine. She filled notebooks with notes and ideas.  At age nine she told her family that she wanted to be a billionare when she grew up. She was known to be very competitive.  In high school she was a straight A student and started a business where she sold C++ compilers, a type of software that translates computer code, to schools in China. She also participated in a summer program at Stanford.  After graduating she went to Stanford to study chemical engineering. She spent the summer after her freshman year interning at the Genome Institute in Singapore.  In her sophomore year she went to one of her professors, Channing Robertson, and asked him if he wanted to start a company with her. With his help she founded Real-Time Cures, later changing the company's name to Theranos and filed a patent for a "Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery”. She then dropped out of college to work at her company full time.  She claimed to be developing a machine that could run a variety of tests from a small drop of blood for things like high cholesterol and cancer. Some of the early Theranos investors were Larry Ellision, who founded Oracle, and Tim Draper, founder of VC firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Holmes was able to raise over 700$ million dollars from investors. Holmes began to model her style and speech after her icon, Steve Jobs and was known to dress like him. She also dropped her voice to a lower tone.  She began dating the president and COO of Theranos, Sunny Balwani, who was 20 years older than her. They had met during Holmes' third year in Stanford’s summer Mandarin program, the summer before she went to college.  In 2008 the Theranos board attempted to remove Holmes to replace her with someone more experiences. After a two hour meeting Holmes convinced them to let her stay on.  As Theranos gained in fame so did Holmes. She was on the cover of Fortune and Forbes, gave a TED Talk, and spoke on panels with Bill Clinton and Alibaba's Jack Ma. Theranos also began partnering with other companies such as Capital Blue Cross and Cleveland Clinic. They made a deal with Walgreens to open testing centers in their stores.  Holmes became the world’s youngest self made female billionaire with a net worth of around $4.5 billion but no one in the outside world knew how her company worked. Anyone who visited Theranon had to sign NDAs and was escorted everywhere by security.  In 2015 Ian Gibbons, a chief scientist at Theranos, warned Holmes that the tests weren’t ready to take public and that there were issues with the technology. Others began voicing their concerns too.  In August of that year the FDA began investigating the company and found "major inaccuracies" in their testing.  Then in October John Carreyrou, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, published his investigation. He had discovered that the blood testing machine wasn’t giving accurate results and that they were running their samples through traditional blood testing machines. He spoke to ex-employees and retrieved official company documents.  Theranos threatened to sue if he published the story but did it anyway.  Holmes denied all allegations and appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money to defend herself and her company, saying that "This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world.”  By 2016 the FDA, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and SEC were all looking into Theranos. In January Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent Theranos a warning letter that talked about issues with staff, procedures an

Andrea Yates was born in Hallsville Texas in 1964. She started to show signs of depression at age 17. She graduated from high school in 1982 as class valedictorian,  captain of the swim team, and an officer in the National Honor Society. She went on to get her nursing degree from the University of Texas and then worked as a nurse until she married Rusty Yates on April 17, 1993.

In 1883 she immigrated to Chicago to live with her sister while her brother stayed in Norway.  In 1884 she married Mads Albert Sorenson and they had four kids and one foster child. Her husband owned a candy store.  In 1890 their house burned down and in 1895 the store burned down and they received insurance money for both. During this time two of their children died from acute colitis.  Interestingly acute colitis and strychnine poisoning share some common symptoms, such as abdominal pain and this will come into play later in Gunness’ life.  Her husband also died in this time period on the one day that his two life insurance policies overlapped. His family demanded an inquiry but no charges were filed. The family thought that it was strychnine poisoning but her doctor overruled them and ruled it as heart failure.  With the insurance payout, Gunness bought a farm with more than 40 acres near La Porte, Indiana. She remarried Peter Gunness, who had two children. He suspected that something wasn’t right and sent his oldest daughter to live with relatives. She is the only child who survived Gunness. Peter and his younger daughter both died shortly after.  After this Gunness began posting in a singles column in the local paper.  Many men answered the posting. She demanded that the men sell everything they had before coming to see her. In July 1907 Gunness hired Ray Lamphere to be farm hand and began sleeping with him. He didn’t like all of her suitors but she refused to be with him because of his gambling problem.  She began a long distance relationship with Andrew Helgelien from South Dakota. They wrote each other for 16 months before meeting. He arrived in January 1908 with $2839  to build a new life with her.  Shortly after Gunness and Lamphere got into a fight and she kicked him off the property. She complained to the sheriff that she saw him through her windows and had him arrested and fined for trespassing.  During this time Helgelien’s brother Asle began to worry about him. One of their farmhands found their letters and Asle became suspicious of her motives when he read the she asked him to withdraw all of his money and come to her.  He wrote to Gunness and asked where his brother was. She claimed that he left for Chicago and speculated that he may go to Norway. Alse didn’t think that that sounded like his brother.  Gunness was still worried about Lamphere and in April went to a lawyer and had a will drawn up. After the meeting, she went shopping and came home with cakes, a toy train, and two gallons of kerosene. She treated her family that evening to a large meal of meat and potatoes and spent the night sitting on the floor, playing with her children and their new toy train. The following morning her house had burned down. Four burnt bodies were found, three were children and the last was an adult female. The woman’s corpse was headless. It was assumed that the woman’s body was Gunness’. Lamphere  was arrested immediately and when Alse read this in the paper he rushed to Indiana.   Alse went to the sheriff’s office and the sheriff drove him to the house to search for clues. A week later and the skull of the woman’s body had yet to be found. Some assumed that Lamphere had hidden it.  Since they weren’t having luck digging through the rubble Asle suggested that they look in the hog pen. There they a gunny sack Inside were two hands, two feet, and one head. Asle recognized the withered, rotten face: It was his brother. Then the men digging realized that there were dozens of slumped depressions in Gunness’s yard. As the property was searched more body parts were found. Between 14 to 40 bodies were recovered.  Each body was butchered into six parts: The legs chopped at the knee, the arms hacked at the shoulder, and the head decapitated. Most of the remains could not be identified. The skulls had evidence of blunt force trauma. The bodies that were still in tact had evidence of rat poison. Gunness was nicknamed th

In Nasik, Pune India a mother, daughter, Seema Mohan Gavit, and step daughter, Renuka Kiran Shinde, trio teamed up to commit crimes. The daughters were in their twenties when they started pick pocketing people. In 1990 they realized that they could use children to creat a diversion. Shinde was caught pickpocketing outside a temple and her son was with her. She used him as a defense, convincing the crowd that a woman with a child couldn’t be a thief. Shortly after this the women began abducting children and using them as a front. Most of the kidnappings took place in busy places such as temple compounds and fair grounds in cities like Nasik, Kolhapur and Pune. They were nicknamed the Sinister sisters by the news. Kiran Shinde drove the getaway car, a Fiat. Most of the kidnapped children were from poor families. The first victim was a beggar woman's one-year-old son, Santosh. The sisters used him as a distraction, if they were caught the woman carrying the child would throw them on the floor, creating a commotion while the other escaped. If the child cried or complained they would kill them. The mother was usually the one in charge of this. The sisters were caught when they visited Mohan to kidnap his second daughter in October 1996. His second wife had filed a complaint against them and their mother when her elder daughter went missing. During questioning the police found evidence of the other murders. The women were arrested on November 19, 1996. The police were able to get Shinde to crack and tell them everything, though later the women denied all the charges. On June 29, 2001, The women were charged with thirteen cases of kidnapping and nine murders. The first court found them guilty of kidnapping and murdering of six children. The high court found them guilty in five of those cases and gave them the death sentence. They did not convict them of the murder of Gavit’s son. The mother died while awaiting trail. The two daughters have exhausted their appeals, in 2014 the President of India rejected their mercy appeal.

In 1908 the family moved into the house. That was also the year that Chester won a House a Representative seat in the State Congress.  He died at 63 of a heart attack. When he died he was the richest person in Minnesota.  The adult children later all moved out of the house and Clara remained, living a less lavish lifestyle. She was still involved in the community but it was less public.  Their youngest daughter, Elizabeth, dropped out of college to stay with Clara when her dad died. Elizabeth never married but adopted two daughters to live with her at the estate. Clara died in 1950 at age 96.  Elizabeth suffered a stroke in 1964 and required a full time nurse.  The murders took place on June 27th, 1977. Someone broke into the mansion and killed the 67 year old nurse, Velma Pietila, on the stairway with a candlestick. The killer then went upstairs and smothered Elisabeth Congdon with a satin pillow. The next day it was discovered that a watch and a ring she was wearing were missing, along with other pieces of jewelry and a wicker suitcase.  Suspicion immediately fell to Marjorie Caldwell, one of Elisabeth’s adopted daughters, and her husband, Roger for several reasons. First, in 1949 she had been diagnosed as a sociopath. In 1973 her mother had to be hospitalized after eating a sandwich with Caldwell’s homemade marmalade. She survived, but hospital staff were unable to explain the high level of tranquilizers found in her system. Also Caldwell and her husband were desperate for money. Caldwell was in line to inherit 8$ million when her mother passed.  A month before Elisabeth was killed Caldwell had asked the Congdon trustees for $750,000 so they could buy a horse-breeding ranch. They’d been denied. After the funeral the two went to the Twin Cities where Roger collapsed. He was taken to the hospital and it was found that he had a high dose of sedatives in him, similar to the ones found in Elisabeth’s body in 1973.  While Roger recovered the police searched the couple’s hotel toom and found the diamond watch, sapphire ring, and wicker suitcase, leading to them being charged.  Roger was found guilty and given two life sentences. Caldwell was also charged with conspiring to kill her mother. Many thought that she was the mastermind behind the crimes.  During Caldwell’s trial she would knit at the defense table. She also brought a birthday cake for one of the lawyers. People believe this helped lead to her being acquitted.  Two years after Roger was found guilty two new pieces of information -a disputed fingerprint and changed witness testimony- lead to him getting a new trial.  Prosecutor’s didn’t want to risk a not guilty verdict so they gave him a deal. Roger confessed to the murders and was freed after serving five years in jail. He later committed suicide.  After being acquitted Caldwell left Minnesota. She later served two prison terms for arson and was accused of murdering her third husband after he died of a drug overdose.  She is still alive and lives in Arizona.  The house is open for public tours but they won’t discuss the murders.

Baniszewski was born September 19, 1929 as Gertrude Wright, She was very close to her father but had a strained relationship with her monther. When Baniszewski was 11 she watched her dad die of a heart attack.  She dropped out of school at 16 to marry 18 year old John Baniszewski. They had four kids together and he was abuse. Eventually Baniszewski divorced him. She then married someone new, divorced them and remarried Baniszewski and have two more kids. The pair was permanently divorced in 1963.  Baniszewski then began to have an affair with a 23 year old named Dennis Lee Wright. He was also abusive. Baniszewski went on to have one more child with him.  As she aged Baniszewski’s health declined. She was ill with a number of unidentified illnesses. She moved to Indianapolis, Indiana in the 1960s. She was very poor and would make money by watching neighborhood kids. This was how she ended up watching Sylvia Likens and her younger sister, Jenny. Their parents were on the road trying to make money and would leave the kids with her for months at a time. Sylvia was 16 at the time.  Syliva was abused from the beginning, likely because she was attractive. She was punished for eating candy they she purchased, called a slut or whore while being kicked in the genitals. She would be given only scraps to ear or was forced to eat rotten food.  Baniszewski also convinced other people in the neigborhood to engage in the torture.  Baniszewski’s daughter, Paula, and a boy from the neighborhood, Randy, force fed her hot dogs and when she vomited they made her eat the vomit. At one point Paula hit Sylvia so hard that she broke her own wrist and then used the cast to keep beating her.  The kids also practiced brutal judo moves on her. Baniszewski made Sylvia hit her own sister if she didn’t comply with any of the orders.  Sylvia was also raped with an empty soda bottle, her gentials were cut up and mutilated.  At one point, because she had nothing to wear, Sylvia stole clothes from school. She was then beat with a belt for her actions.  The sisters were scared to report the abuse because they thought it would make things worse. Jenny was threatened that she would be beaten as well if she said anything.  When their parents visited they didn’t see any signs of mistreatment. Baniszewski would stay with the girls, not letting them be alone with their parents.  The two girls had an older sister that they did tell but she thought that they were exaggerating.   Sylvia became incontient due to all of this abuse but wasn't allowed to use the bathroom. If she soiled herself she was punished.  Eventually Baniszewski tied Sylvia up in the basement. She was kept down there naked and rarely fed or given water. People from the neighborhood could apy five cents to see her body and mutilate her. Salt was rubbed in her wounds and her screams were muffled. Baniszewski and her son rubbed urine and feces in her mouth. Her son then made her eat soup with her fingers but took the bowl away when she tried.  Baniszewski  then allowed Sylvia to sleep upstairs, on the condition that she not wet herself. Jenny secretly gave her sister water and Sylvia wet herself. She was punished by being made to mastrubrate with a soda bottle and was then put back in the basement.  Baniszewski  then branded the words "I'M A PROSTITUTE AND PROUD OF IT" on her abdomen with a heated needle. She then instructed one of the neighborhood children who was present at the time to finish. He would later claim that he only lightly etched the remaining letters. She continued to torture the girl, branding her more and taunting her.  Baniszewski made Sylvia write a letter saying that she had run away with a group of boys and implying that they had tortured her. The plan was to take Sylvia into the woods and dump her body.  On October 25th Sylvia tried to escape but Baniszewski caught her. She was then beat again and put back in the basement.  By the morning of the 26th Sylvia couldn’

Anna Sorokin is a Russian Immigrant. Her father was a truck driver in Russia who later ran a heating and cooling business in Germany. Sorokin moved to Paris for an internship at Purple magazine and then moved to New York in 2014.  From here she began to embed herself in high society. She wasn't as rich as many of the people in her social circle so she began to run a scam to trick banks and shops into paying for a more extravagant lifestyle.  She began telling people that her name was Anna Delvey and that she was a German heiress so she could open a members only arts club on Park Avenue South. She told her friends that Delvey was her mother’s maiden name, which wasn’t true, and that her dad was a diplomat, oil executive or a solar panel magnate. She began buying expensive brands and living in fancy hotels. She would hired private planes and buy expensive gifts for her friends.  She also met some members of high society. She became friend with Gabriel Andres Calatrava who is an architect and the son of famous architect.  She nearly got him to agree to build her private club.  She paid for all of this by getting loans from banks. City National Bank gave her 100,000$ and let her overdraft her account. With this money she went on a shopping spree at Apple and Net-a-Porter.  All of this was going well until she took a trip to Morocco with one of her close friends, Rachel DeLoache Williams, who was a former Vanity fair editor and her friend. The two stayed in a five star resort and racked up a 62,000$ bill. When Sorokin’s card got decline she convince Williams to pay the bill, promising to pay her back. When Sorokin didn’t repay her Williams went to the police.  Sorokin was first arrested in July 2017  for skipping out on thousands of dollars of bills at the Beekman and W New York hotels and a lunch bill of less than $200 at a restaurant at the Le Parker Meridien hotel.  She was released but then arrested again in October.  Before her trial Sorokin was offered a plea deal with a sentence of three to nine years in prison but she considered that too long and instead took her chances at trial.  At her trial Williams, her friend, testified against her.  The jury deliberated for only two days and, on April 25th 2019, returned a guilty verdict. She was found guilty on multiple fraud charges, including second-degree grand larceny and theft of services. She was, however, found not guilty on two other charges: one of two counts of attempted grand larceny, and one for allegedly stealing more than $60,000 from Williams. She was sentenced to four to twelve years in prison and ordered to pay almost $199,000 in restitution, as well as a fine of $24,000. During the trial Sorokin seemed unconcerned. The district attorney commented that she, "more seriously her clothing than anything else." Sorokin has not since expressed any sadness or remorse over her actions. She is quoted as saying: “The thing is, I’m not sorry. I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything. I regret the way I went about certain things.” After her release Sorokin hopes to move to London but will likely be deported to Germany. Williams is writing a book about her time with Sorokin and Netflix has acquired the right to a TV show on her.

The Forty Elephants got their name from the Forty Thieves, a similar male gang. They were different in that they were comprised entirely of women and instead of breaking into stores they would steal while the stores were open. They were in existence from at least 1873 through the 1950s but it’s possible they were around longer.  They ran the largest shoplifting operation in Britain and made special coats, cummerbunds, muffs, skirts, bloomers and hats with hidden pockets to stuff the stolen goods into.  They would enter a store and steal from it, never keeping the goods but instead selling them off at a merchant’s.  They eventually became so well known that they needed to spread out because panic would erupt as they neared.  They would also sleep with wealthy men and then blackmail them to stay quiet and get maids positions in wealthy houses in order to rob them.  As technology advanced they invested in cars and would also leave empty suitcases on trains to deposit the stolen goods into.  If caught, they were freed using a fund that the women set up for exactly that.  Their leaders were known as Queen and their most renowned queen was Alice Diamond, she lead the group starting in 1912 after coming from a criminal background herself.  Her second in command was Margaret Hughes. Diamond would use a local male gang to ensure that her blackmail was paid. She also kept razors and diamond rings on her to use as a weapon.  Their decline started with a woman in the group named Marie Britten. She fell in love with a man outside of the group, which was against their rules. She was summoned to Diamond and brought her dad along with her. Britten refused to stop seeing the man and Hughes attacked Britten’s dad with a razor. The two escaped but Diamond went after them.  Members of the gang hurled rocks through Britten’s windows, injuring several people. The police were called and many members of the gang were arrested- Diamond and Hughes escaped though. At trial they were the only ones charged and were convicted and sentenced to hard labor.  When Diamond returned to the gang they had weakened and she gave up her leadership. They crumbled after that.

Yoselyn Ortega Yoselyn Ortega was a nanny for a New York family. The family had three children, Lucia, Leo and Nessie. On October 25th, 2012 Marina Krim, the mother, went to their apartment with her youngest child, Nessie, because Ortega hadn’t showed up at the other daughter’s ballet lesson.  This is when she discovered the bodies of her two other children in the tub surrounded by blood and with multiple stab wounds. When Krim went to confront Ortega the nanny began to stab herself with a kitchen knife.  Ortega claimed that she had killed the children because she wanted more money and that when she asked her employers about it they suggested that she could do housework.   In November of 2012 Ortega was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder. She plead not guilty, using a psychiatric defense but was found guilty of both first and second degree murder on April 18th, 2018.    Claudia Ochoa Felix  Felix  is the alleged leader of a Mexican Cartel, Los Antrax, and also a famous instagram model. She is said to have taken over after her significant others was arrested in January 2014. She is often compared to Kim Kardasian in appearance.  Felix denies leading the cartel but has often posed with a pink AK- 47. Recently a hit was attempted on her when gunmen grabbed a woman who looked like Felix. Her body was later found behind a school and she had been tortured to death. Felix denies the connection and claims that fake social media accounts have been used to frame her. Since the incident she has made all her accounts private.  Fred and Rose West Fred and Rose West were renowned serial killers. They met when Rose was 15 and Fred was 27 and began dating later that year. She was pregnant at 16 and Fred ended up going to jail after she gave birth, leaving her with her child and two of his to raise.  While he was away she murdered one of his kids, Charmaine, and then the pair buried the body. When Charmaine’s mom came to look for her they murdered her as well.  After this Rose became a prostitute and forced several of their kids into it as well.  Between April of 1973 and August of 1979 they murdered several other people including Shirley Robinson- whom they dismembered and removed her fetus- Heather, Fred’s Daughter, and eight others. To hide their tracks Fred would pretend to be doing home improvement projects.  In August of 1992 Fred was arrested and charged with raping his daughter. Rose was arrest then as well for child cruelty. She denied it, claiming that it was entirely her husband. Fred committed suicide in January of 1995 and Rose’s trial began in November of 1995. She was found guilty of ten murders and sentenced to life in prison.    Winona Ryder In 2001 Winona Ryder stole $5,500 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Ryder said that she did it because, “Psychologically, I must have been at a place where I just wanted to stop. I won’t get into what happened, but it wasn’t what people think.”  She has been open about her struggle with mental illness and spoke about it in an interview with Diane Sawyer. She talked about managing her depression and anxiety while also acting. She admitted to buying into the ‘tortured artist’ idea and thought that depression would make her a better actor.  She was found guilty of two counts of shoplifting and vandalism and sentenced to community service.   Mary Frances Creighton  Her Wikipedia page reads: Mary Frances Creighton (July 29, 1899 – July 16, 1936), was a housewife, who along with Everett Applegate, a 36-year-old former American Legion official, was executed in Sing Sing Prison's electric chair, Old Sparky, for the poisoning of Applegate's wife, Ada, in Baldwin, New York on September 27, 1935. She had passed out before the execution, and was executed in an unconscious state We hope to investigate further.  New Zealand Vampires - Xenia Gregoriana Borichevsky These are about a string of vampire attacks in New Zealand.  In February 2

Kim Saenz was born in Fall River, Massachusetts 1973. In 2007 she moved to Lufkin, Texas and was hired as a nurse at DaVita's dialysis clinic. She was hired despite a poor employment history. She had been fired from four health care jobs for stealing medical and cheating on a urine test.  She had also been arrested for public intoxication and criminal trespass after a 2007 domestic disturbance with her husband, though the two later reconciled. She has two children.  In the spring of 2008 the clinic that Saenz worked for saw a spike in patients falling seriously ill. Paramedics were called to the clinic 30 times in April (double the previous years).  Patients also went into cardiac arrest , In one instance one patient, Thelma Metcalf, had to go the ER several times due to getting too much blood thinner and later died.  DaVita sent one of its clinical coordinators,  Amy Clinton, to Lufkin to find out what was wrong. She instituted several changes to minimize risk and protect against death. Nurses were reassigned to different tasks and hours.  On April 28, 2008, Saenz showed up to work and was told by Clinton that she had been reassigned for the day to work as a patient care technician. Saenz didn’t like this and felt like it was beneath her.  She was rude to coworkers and clients. Several coworkers passed their concerns onto their superiors. A department official wrote the state health inspectors and asked them to investigate.  Patients Linda Hall and Lurlene Hamilton testified that they saw Saenz draw a bleach solution into two syringes, then inject the substance into dialysis lines. When confronted Saenz said she was cleaning an unused dialysis machine and used a syringe to get a precise measurement–a method that was contrary to policy. The bucket and syringes both tested positive for bleach and the police were called in. The clinic was shut down for two weeks and several other syringes she used were tested. When the results came back positive she was fired and her license was suspended.  Saenz then applied to work as a receptionist in a Lufkin medical office, in violation of her bail. A search of her hard drive revealed searches for whether or not bleach could kill. When questioned by the cops she said she used bleach to clean the needles and claimed there were no measuring cups available.  She was then arrested on five counts of capital murder and five counts of aggravate assault with a deadly weapon.  The local police, having no way to test for bleach in deceased patients, contacted Mark Sochaski, an analytical chemist and bioterrorism expert. He was developing a test for measuring chlorine exposure by measuring the presence of chlorotyrosine, an amino acid formed from exposure to chlorinating agents like bleach. He tested several samples sent to him by investigators and found that chlorotyrosine peaks in nine samples–something that could only be explained by exposure to bleach.  When the bleach entered the patients' bloodstream, it causes blood cells to explode, which in turn released iron. This process, called hemolysis, caused them to go into cardiac arrest and die. In March 2012 Saenz was convicted of murdering five patients and injuring five others. Prosectors sought the death penalty but she was sentenced to life in prizon with no possibility of parole.

Loreta Velazquez was born in Cuba on June 26, 1842 to a wealthy family. In 1849 she moved to New Orleans for school. At age fourteen she married an office of the Texas army and when he joined the confederate army she wanted to join to. He refused so she made a uniform and join the army under the name of Harry T. Buford. She joined as lieutenant and gathered a group of soldiers under her command and took them to Florida for her husband.  His reaction to this is unknown because he was shot and killed the next day.  Velazquez  decided to head North as an independent solider. She joined up with a regiment to fight at the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) and the Battle of Ball’s Bluff. After this she changed back into female attired and went to Washington DC, where she began to gather intelligence for the Confederacy.  She claimed to have arranged meetings with Secretary of War Simon Cameron and President Abraham Lincoln. She then returned South and was made an official member of the detective corps. Disguised as Lieutenant Buford she went to Tennessee to join another regiment. She fought in the Battle of Fort Donelson on Feb, 11 1862. She was wounded and didn't want her gender to be discovered so she fled back to New Orleans. While in New Orleans she was arrest for being a possible union spy but was released with a fine for impersonating a man.  Velazquez then went back Tennessee and found the regiment that she had recruited for her husband. She fought with them in  the Battle of Shiloh on April 6-7, 1862. While on burial detail, she was wounded in the side by an exploding shell, and an army doctor discovered her true gender. Velazquez decided at this point to end her career as a soldier, and she returned to New Orleans. She volunteered her services as a spy and was able to travel freely in the North and South as she donned both female and male disguises.  After the war, Velazquez married, Major Wasson, and immigrated to Venezuela. After he died, she moved back to the United States, where she traveled extensively in the West, and gave birth to a baby boy. In 1876 Velazquez needed money to support her child and decided to publish her memoirs. The book is titled ‘he Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velázquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army’.  The reaction to the book was mixed and Confederate General Jubal Early claimed that it was pure fiction with no proof throughout. There is still a debate today about the accuracy of the book.   Early claimed that there were several inconsistencies and some of what she claimed was impossible. He also claimed that because she didn’t use full names it was impossible to verify her claims.  He interviewed Velazquez and was even more convinced after that she had lied. In May of 1878 she wrote him a letter protesting his defamation. Velazquez maintained that her story was true and that every story of the war would be different.  Also, please follow this link for more information about cross dressing and the history of it.

Cassie Chadwick as born as  Elizabeth Bigley in Eastwood, Ontario, Canada in 1857.  When she was 14 years old she moved to Woodstock, Ontario, where she opened a bank account using a suspicious letter from a fake uncle.  With the account she managed to pass dozens of worthless checks around the city. In 1870 the police discovered her scheme and arrested her for forgery. She escaped because she was a minor and people thought she was mentally ill.  After this Chadwick moved to the Cleveland to live with her sister. She married Dr. Wallace but the marriage ended after 11 days when he discovered her background. They were divorced in 1883 after he paid her debts.  Chadwick became a fortune teller known as Lydia Scott and then as Madame Lydia DeVere. She opened a small shop and funded it by pawning her sister furniture.  She married again, this time to John R. Scott, a farmer in Ohio. This marriage was also short lived and she sued him for adultery.  In 1897 she married Dr. Leroy Chadwick. She introduced herself as Mrs. Hoover and claimed she ran a boarding house.  Her husband was well respected in the community and lived on a street known as Millionaires Row.  From 1897- 1905 Chadwick began to borrow large amounts of money from local banks by claiming to be the heir of Andrew Carnegie. She convinced people of this by first going to Carnegie’s house with a lawyer and pretending to speak with him. Then she dropped a fake promissory note in from of the lawyer that had Carnegie’s signature.  From here she managed to convince other banks to loan her money, including the Oberlin bank. She would convince people that she was related to Andrew Carnegie by inviting them over and showing them a picture of a man hung on her wall.  She would then explained that the man was her uncle who used to supply her family with money and on his deathbed told her that she was related to Andrew Carnegie. She claimed there was proof in a safety deposit box in New York but would never reveal the name of the bank.  She also claimed that there was $7 million in promissory notes tucked away in her Cleveland home, and she was to inherit $400 million upon Carnegie's death. She said that she could contact Baldwin, a man who worked at the bank, to get the money. He was completely made up.  Eventually people caught on and the bankers took her to New York. She then told them that she left the papers back in Ohio.  They followed her back home where she tried to avoid them for several days, until they insisted on seeing her.  She accumulated over $1 million in debts, and was exposed on November 2, 1904 when one of the bankers  brought suit to recover $190,800. She fled to New York but was brought back to stand trail. On March 10, 1905 she was found guilty of 7 counts of conspiracy against the government and conspiracy to wreck the Citizens Natl. Bank of Oberlin. Chadwick was sentenced to 14 years in prison and fined $70,000. Chadwick was jailed on January 12, 1906, and died a year later.

Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Lizze Borden was born on July 19th, 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts to Sarah Anthony and Andrew Jackson Borden. She also had an older sister, Emma. Initially Mr. Borden struggle financially but the n got his big break selling furniture and caskets. The Casket business lead him to becoming a successful property developer. His estimated value at time of death was 300,000  (equivalent to $8,370,000 in 2018). As a young woman Borden was religious and taught Sunday school to immigrant children. She also became involved in the women's temperance movement.  Borden’s mom died and three years after her death Andrew married Abby Durfee Gray. Lizzie was indirect about her feelings for her step mom but she rarely ate dinner with the family and it seemed like there were tensions in the house. Lizzie’s dad also showered her in gifts while being very frugal with the sisters.  Their stepmother's sister received a house and the sisters were mad and demanded that they receive a rental property from their father. They bought the house they grew up in from their father for $1. A week before the murder they sold it back to their father for $5000 (139,000 in today’s money). Lizzie also kept pigeons and one day her father killed all of her pet pigeons.  A family argument in July or 1892 prompted the sisters to take an extended vacation in New Bedford. They returned home a week before the murders and Lizzie choose to stay in a local rooming house.  One August 4 1892 the Bordens were murdered. The day before they had had an overnight guest and then Andrew went out for his morning walk.  Abby was killed first and was facing her killer. She was hit on the side of the head with a hatchet. This cut her just above the ear, causing her to turn and fall face down on the floor. The collision with the floor caused contusions on both her nose and forehead (her face was smashed). She was struck 17 times.  When Andre came back from his walk his key didn’t work and their servant had to let him in. The servant, Bridget “Maggie” Sullivan, claimed to have heard laughter that sounded like Lizzy coming from upstairs but Lizzie would later deny this.  Lizzie stated that she had then removed Andrew's boots and helped him into his slippers before he lay down on the sofa for a nap (an anomaly contradicted by the crime scene photos, which show Andrew wearing boots) Andrew was found slumped on a couch in the downstairs sitting room, struck 10 or 11 times with a hatchet-like weapon. One of his eyeballs had been cut in two, suggesting that he had been asleep when attacked. His still-bleeding wounds suggested a very recent attack and that he was killed after his wife.  At first the police suspect a Portuguese immigrant. Lizzie claimed that she came into the house from the barn and saw the bodies then called for their servant, quote, "Maggie, come down! Come down quick; Father's dead; somebody came in and killed him." Lizzie told the servant to go get their family doctor but he wasn’t home so she sent Maggie further away to get a different doctor, leaving her alone.  When the police came Borden initially claimed that she heard a groan, or a scraping noise, or a distress call before she entered the house, but two hours later she told police she had heard nothing and entered the house not realizing that anything was wrong. Much of Lizzie’s story kept changing, causing her to be a prime suspect.  An office also discovered that Lizzie had tried to buy prussic acid, which it deadly, the day before the murder.  In the basement the police found two hatchets, two axes, and a hatchet-head with a broken handle Lizzie was arrested on August 11, a week after the murders. She was confined to a small cell for nine months.  Many women’s groups flocked to her side and showed up at the trial to support her.  The trial began on June 5, 1893. Alice Rus

NXIVM was founded in 1998 as a multi-level marketing company that offered "Executive Success Programs" and self improvement seminars. Keith Raniere was one of the founders and he said the purpose of the company was to "have people experience more joy in their lives." It was a pyramid scheme where those involved called each other Nxians.  In 1996 the company said that it wasn’t a pyramid scheme but agreed to pay a 40,000$ fine  and was permanently banned from "promoting, offering or granting participation in a chain distribution scheme". In 2003 nearly 3,700 people had taken their classes.  Details began to emerge in October 2017 when the New York Times wrote an article about DOS, a secret sisterhood within NXIVM where the female members were referred to as ‘slaves’ and were branded with the initials of the founders. They were also beaten and required to hand over nude photos as collateral. DOS stood for a  Latin phrase meaning “Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions” women were slaves and had masters and were ordered to do sexual things with Keith Ranier the group's leader. Allison Mack was recruited by another actress and got heavily involved in the cult. She became close with Nancy Salzman, one of the co-founders of NXIVM  and she began to recruit other members, including young women. One of these women was Nicole. At the time of the recruitment, Nicole did not know that the all women's group was a group of sex slaves headed up by Keith Ranier, or that she would be branded with his initials. She testified that once she was a part of the group she was told to seduce Ranier and was blindfolded, tied down and told to have oral sex with someone but she had no idea what their identity was. She claimed to have had physical punishments and required to have close up photos of her vulva. Once she was in the group she had to refer to Mack as "master" and always have her phone on for "readiness drills" where if her master texted her she would have to immediately respond. Mack later plead guilty to conspiracy, extortion and forced labor charges, but not sex trafficking. Clare Bronfman, the heiress to Seagram, also paid the the legal fees of her accused fellow sex cult members. She was on NXIVM’s executive board and was accused of spending 100 million dollars to fund the cult. She ended up pleading guilty on two counts- conspiracy to conceal and harbor illegal immigrants for financial gain, and fraudulent use of identification.

Johnson was a single mom who was arrested in 1993 for her nonviolent involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization. She became involved in the drug trade after she lost her long time job at FedEx. Johnson had a rough like. She had a gambling addiction, got a divorce and lost her youngest son in a motorcycle accident.  For the drug trade she acted as a go-between, delivering coded messages by phone but says that she never make the drug deals or sold drugs. The drug trade was connected to Colombian drug dealers that operated out of Texas.  Once caught she was convicted of money laundering and structuring.  The second crime because she bought her house using a down payment structured to avoid hitting a $10,000 reporting threshold.  Over a dozen people were arrested at the same time as Johnson.  In the indictment she was described as a leader in a multi-million dollar cocaine ring, and detailed dozens of drug transactions and deliveries.  In 1997 Johnson received a life sentence without parole plus 25 years. She was a first time offender. At her sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Julia Gibbons said that Johnson was "the quintessential entrepreneur" in an operation that dealt in 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms of cocaine, with a "very significant" impact on the community. However, co-defendants who testified against Johnson were given sentences ranging from probation without jail time to 10 years. Johnson applied to Obama's clemency program in 2014 but was denied.  During her time in prison she wrote an op-ed for CNN. From this she got a bunch of media interviews and got in trouble with the prison because her permit didn’t cover that type of media outlet.  She wrote a book titled, “After Life: My Journey From Incarceration to Freedom.” On June 13th 2019 Kim Kardashian went to the White House to promote efforts helping those who were affected by the First Steps act. She is working to help people be successful once they are home. The First Step Act reforms the federal prison system of the United States of America, and seeks to reduce recidivism. The act was signed by President Trump in December of 2018.  With Kim’s help Johnson was released. She was 63.

In Kansas in 1872 there was a family of four- the dad, John Bender, Sr. or Pa, a son John, a wife whose name was Almira  or Elvira Ma and a daughter Kate. They were a homestead family and got a plot of 160 acres. The parents mostly spoke German and maybe a little English but both of the kids knew English.  They were older when they moved to Kansas, possibly in their 50s or 60s. It was possible that they weren’t a family. There are theories that the kids were actually husband and wife and that the mother had several other husbands before that she murdered. She may have had ten kids and Kate was the youngest. The family owned a general store which supplied travelling wagons with  with liquor, tobacco, horse feed, gunpowder, and food. They also owned an inn. The space was a large room divided by heavy canvas curtains. The men in the family weren’t very chatty but the daughter was kind and attractive. The family were spiritualists, which was a system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums. Kate claimed that she was a psychic medium who could contact the spirits of the dead and even cure sickness for a donation. She appeared in the small town  as "Professor Miss Kate Bender" where she gave public séances and entertained crowds. In the inn, travelers would sometimes complain of hearing strange sounds coming from behind the curtain when they ate. . Kate would also place her spiritualist clients with their backs to the curtain. In the darkened room, she made all sorts of strange manifestations appear, usually with her family’s earthly assistance, and managed to keep the traveler transfixed in place for a long time. The men would come behind and bludgeon the traveler. They would fall through a trap down and they’d murder them then bury them in the garden. One day, Dr. William  York left Independence Kansas and disappeared. His brothers were determined to find out what happened. They held searches but the Bender’s avoided being searched until people realized that they were being shaded and that their garden was always freshly plowed. Their property was searched and the trap door was discovered. The house was searched and people said that the house smelled like blood. When they dug up the garden that found dozens of men’s bodies with their heads smashed in. The house was then taken apart piece by piece by people who wanted souvenirs. The Bender’s were never found.

Glory Johnson and Brittney Griner are both NBA stars. They played against each other in college Johnson for Tennessee, Griner for Baylor. They were both first round draft picks after college,  Johnson to the Tulsa Shock and Griner to Phoenix Mercury. The pair met in basketball camp in 2013 and were together by summer 2014. In August 2014 Griner proposed to Johnson at a party in front of their friends and family. Johnson said that she went to the bathroom and was unsure of of what to do. She eventually said yes. Johnson started to spend all her extra time with Griner. When Johnson’s season was over she went on tour with Griner for the rest of the playoffs. During the off season Johnson played in Russia while Griner played in China. Griner requested that Johnson quit and go on tour with her. Then Johnson  discovered that Griner was texting her ex girlfriend and the couple began arguing. Johnson packed up and was going to leave but Griner had a break down and locked herself in the bathroom. Johnson knew about Griner’s mental health issues and decided to stay, worried what would happen if she left. After this the couple decided to start over, though they’d only been together a few months. They made plans to buy a house and start a family. Since Johnson wasn’t playing she decided now would be a good time to try and get pregnant. The pair decided that she would sit out this season and do in vitro fertilization. They choose a sperm donor in spring 2015 and bought a house. Everything came to a head on April 22nd 2015. Johnson cold the police later that she knew that Griner had a gun in the house. At the time of the fight she didn’t know about it but her sister did. Both women were arrested after an argument turned physical and became a full on fight in their Arizonia home. Several people inside tried to break up the fight and the police were called by Johnson’s sister. Griner claimed it began because Johnson disrespected her. Johnson told the cops that Griner had gotten too close, so she pushed her back to get some separation and began talking to her sister when she was pushed in the back of the head by Griner. Johnson turned around and the physical altercation began, with both fighting on the floor for 4 to 6 minutes. The entire episode lasted about 20 minutes, according to the report. Griner pleaded guilty and enrolled in domestic violence courses and Johnson pleaded not guilty – fueling backlash from her wife who felt Johnson had thrown her under the bus. The two moved past the fight and got married on May 8th 2015. In early June they announced that Johnson  was pregnant. One day later Griner filed for an annulment. They were married for 28 days. The twins, named Ava Simone and Solei Diem, came four months early and Griner was out of the picture. A judge denied temporary spousal support after Johnson requested 6,000 a month  in support. Griner had been paying $2,665.81 per month. A second judge ordered that Griner continue to pay that amount. Domestic Abuse Hotline The hotline.org LGBT violence Health Relationships, setting boundries, communication etc.

Glory Johnson and Brittney Griner are both NBA stars. They played against each other in college Johnson for Tennessee, Griner for Baylor. They were both first round draft picks after college,  Johnson to the Tulsa Shock and Griner to Phoenix Mercury. The pair met in basketball camp in 2013 and were together by summer 2014. In August 2014 Griner proposed to Johnson at a party in front of their friends and family. Johnson said that she went to the bathroom and was unsure of of what to do. She eventually said yes. Johnson started to spend all her extra time with Griner. When Johnson’s season was over she went on tour with Griner for the rest of the playoffs. During the off season Johnson played in Russia while Griner played in China. Griner requested that Johnson quit and go on tour with her. Then Johnson  discovered that Griner was texting her ex girlfriend and the couple began arguing. Johnson packed up and was going to leave but Griner had a break down and locked herself in the bathroom. Johnson knew about Griner’s mental health issues and decided to stay, worried what would happen if she left. After this the couple decided to start over, though they’d only been together a few months. They made plans to buy a house and start a family. Since Johnson wasn’t playing she decided now would be a good time to try and get pregnant. The pair decided that she would sit out this season and do in vitro fertilization. They choose a sperm donor in spring 2015 and bought a house. Everything came to a head on April 22nd 2015. Johnson cold the police later that she knew that Griner had a gun in the house. At the time of the fight she didn’t know about it but her sister did. Both women were arrested after an argument turned physical and became a full on fight in their Arizonia home. Several people inside tried to break up the fight and the police were called by Johnson’s sister. Griner claimed it began because Johnson disrespected her. Johnson told the cops that Griner had gotten too close, so she pushed her back to get some separation and began talking to her sister when she was pushed in the back of the head by Griner. Johnson turned around and the physical altercation began, with both fighting on the floor for 4 to 6 minutes. The entire episode lasted about 20 minutes, according to the report. Griner pleaded guilty and enrolled in domestic violence courses and Johnson pleaded not guilty – fueling backlash from her wife who felt Johnson had thrown her under the bus. The two moved past the fight and got married on May 8th 2015. In early June they announced that Johnson  was pregnant. One day later Griner filed for an annulment. They were married for 28 days. The twins, named Ava Simone and Solei Diem, came four months early and Griner was out of the picture. A judge denied temporary spousal support after Johnson requested 6,000 a month  in support. Griner had been paying $2,665.81 per month. A second judge ordered that Griner continue to pay that amount. Domestic Abuse Hotline The hotline.org LGBT violence Health Relationships, setting boundries, communication etc.