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An undated photo of Kristen Gilbert, a nurse at a veterans hospital in Massachusetts who was convicted of killing four of her patients.

When Serial Killers Strike: The Angel of Death on Ward C

By Stephen Loiaconi

updated 1:32 PM EDT, Mon April 01, 2013

“There are three explosive devices in building one. You have two hours,” the caller said.

James Perrault received the first of several threatening phone calls around 5:30 p.m. on September 26, 1996, according to court records. Perrault, a hospital police officer, was on duty at the security desk at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Sanborn Fire Insurance map of Austin, Texas in 1885, the year of the servant girl murders

Kickstarting the search for a 19th century serial killer

By Stephen Loiaconi

updated 2:09 PM EST, Wed February 13, 2013

Martin Wagner thought it would never work.

When he first heard of the crowd-funding website Kickstarter, he did not think people would trust strangers on the internet enough to give them money with no guarantee that they would ever get anything in return.

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Map of Austin, Texas in 1885, the year of the servant girl murders

When Serial Killers Strike: The Austin Servant Girl Murders

By Stephen Loiaconi

updated 12:23 PM EST, Tue February 12, 2013

James Phillips stood barefoot in a Texas courtroom holding his 175-pound attorney in his arms, trying to convince a jury that his footprints were too small to match those left by his wife's killer.

Eula Phillips had been dragged from their Austin home on Christmas Eve 1885 and brutally murdered, court records show. It appeared at the time that her attacker had also severely wounded James Phillips with an ax, and yet there he was several months later, on trial for Eula's murder.

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When Serial Killers Strike: The California Freeway Killer

By Stephen Loiaconi

updated 10:00 AM EST, Thu January 10, 2013

On the night of February 22, 1996, William George Bonin requested two pepperoni and sausage pizzas, three pints of coffee ice cream and three six-packs of Coke for dinner. He watched “Jeopardy” while he ate.

Hours later, he put on a new pair of denim pants and a blue work shirt and was led to the execution chamber at San Quentin Prison, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Jodi Arias’ last words: After key witnesses for Arias’ defense make a last-minute bail out & the defense team begs to be let off the case, Arias is now left to take the stand and vouch for herself. It’s Jodi Arias’ last chance to sway the jury, but what will she say to the 12 men & women deciding her fate? Will it be a last request to spare her life—or will Arias hold true to her words in the post-conviction interview and plead for death instead?