The Zodiac killer claimed 37 killings; officials positively linked the killer to 6. Evelyn Nieves (NYT).
The disease is the UK's biggest cancer killer, claiming more than 35,000 lives a year.
Yet every time the confessed killer points out the grave, the gravediggers come up empty; much of the landscape looks alike, it's dark out, and anyway the killer claims he was drunk.
The abduction and murder in County Clare eight years ago of a priest, a mother and her young child by an itinerant Irishman, Brendan O'Donnell, shocked many people especially as the killer claimed he'd been driven to it by the devil.
Harry's father, the town barber and constable, does his best; but when the killer claims a white victim, he can't stop his Klan neighbors from lynching an old black man for the crimes.
Michael Dunn, his accused killer, claimed he saw a gun and was acting in self-defence when he fired into a car full of teenagers at a petrol station in Jacksonville, Florida, in November 2012.
Baker's would-be killer claims his weapons of choice include an indestructible guided giant boulder and special bullets "with built-in face recognition - Bush-seeking bullets", which suggests that Baker might not take his premise seriously beyond the column inches it was bound to generate.
Mr. Cullen would soon tell the authorities an astounding story of his 16 years as both caregiver and killer: claiming to have fatally poisoned 12 to 15 patients at Somerset, at least half a dozen at St . Lukes and 10 to 20 at other stops.
But heart disease is still America's top killer, claiming 630,000 lives annually.
In many parts of the world measles is still a killer, claiming the lives of 164,000 under-fives every year, or around 450 children every day.
The killer claimed allegiance to terrorists.
