“The fact that one of Dahmer’s victims escaped, made it to the police, and then was returned to Dahmer because he told them the 14-year-old was his lover and drunk.”

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"Her mother couldn't read, so her older brother actually read it. He wrote to tell them that he made up his mind to eat her while he was sitting in their kitchen, enjoying strawberries and pot cheese he had brought them. Even monsters sometimes get old." 

"It’s so much worse. Dahmer had drilled a hole in his head and poured acid into it. Two black women from the neighborhood begged the police to take Dahmer into custody because they knew the kid was some kind of a victim, and the cops not only disregarded their pleas; they threatened them with arrest if they didn’t leave. One of the detectives (fired then rehired) later became president of the Milwaukee Police Union until he retired."

"The police incompetence in that case was absolutely legendary. They interviewed Sutcliffe nine separate times throughout the investigation. The main reason he kept getting cleared was because the detectives were completely obsessed with the "Wearside Jack" cassette tape, which was a hoax message sent by a prankster with a heavy Geordie accent. Since Sutcliffe had a Yorkshire accent, they just assumed he couldn't be the guy and let him go." 

"Harold Shipman was a local general practitioner in the UK for like 20 years; he went unnoticed even though his own staff questioned his death turnover, not that he should have had a license, as he got caught stealing drugs in his early career but still kept his license. He only got caught because he got greedy with fraud and tried to alter a will of a patient; at first they suspected 15, but now that estimate is at least 215. It's wild how you can have triple the death count of any local doctor, die when in his care, have the will altered, and go unnoticed."

"How Dutroux managed to escape from custody for several hours despite being the most infamous prisoner in the country. How investigators lied about having evidence DNA tested. The list goes on and on."

"Richard Chase genuinely believed his blood was turning to powder and that he had to drink blood to survive." 

"Also, Angela Lansbury's daughter Deirdre was briefly a member of the Manson Family. Lansbury and her husband saw what their daughter was getting into and immediately moved their family from Hollywood to rural Ireland. It likely affected her career for a while, but at least Dierdre isn't in prison for life." 

"Gacy blamed the victims constantly and claimed he killed them after they cheated him, robbed him, or tried to blackmail him. From the very few that survived, we know he would offer jobs or a place to stay to get them to go with him and then tried to rape and kill them. So his version is most likely bullshit." 

"The brothers completely lost control of the cult they had started, and Magdalena ended up eating one of the brothers for his disbelief. They engaged in mutilation, blood orgies, impalings and the consumption of hearts to feed their newborn goddess.

One of their final victims was a 14-year-old boy, who reported them to the police, but no one believed him and sent him home. They captured him and ate him. They did send police out to investigate, but they never came back either. Eventually they called in the Mexican army and raided the temple, where they were attacked by people wielding obsidian blades and wearing skins and face paint. They shot many of them and captured others. When they got the cult members back to the police headquarters, they discovered that one of the madmen was the missing officer they'd sent to investigate the cult in the first place!" 

"Also, the investigators held back small bits of information from the press to use in questioning survivors to establish if it was the same guy. One clue was that while he took his time attacking his victims in their homes, he'd leave the TV on but throw a towel over the screen to reduce the light. When he was captured and arrested, it was noted that DeAngelo had a small towel over his computer laptop's screen." 

"Ridgeway responded in a voice that was completely void of emotion, "I would have killed him, of course," like he had been talking about the weather. When they arrested Ridgeway and searched his home, they found some of his victims buried around his home; one of them was underneath the window of his son's bedroom, and he planted flowers on top of the grave."

"Karla Homolka helped Paul Bernardo rape and kill his 15-year-old sister. Karla is walking free now, by the way." 

"Pickton, who also lost three liters of blood that evening, drove himself to Eagle Ridge Hospital and was then transferred to Royal Columbian. The two stabbing victims were in separate operating rooms when a handcuff key was found in the pocket of Pickton’s pants. It was taken to the woman’s room and used to unlock the cuffs dangling from her wrist. Pickton was charged with attempted murder, assault with a weapon, and forcible confinement following the incident, but the charges were eventually stayed because the Crown considered the woman too unstable to testify in court at the time.

The stabbing that occurred 13 years ago predates the disappearance of all six women Pickton was convicted of murdering at his 2007 trial—and also predates the disappearance of 15 of the other 20 women he was accused of murdering."— u/Jobdefinesme

"He was so offended that he sent a letter back to the newspaper that published the article, and the letter was easily traced back to him."