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These serial killers didn't do it alone. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be looking at the deadliest duos, be they romantic couples, blood relatives, or simply friends, who spread terror in their corners of the world and together claimed multiple lives.
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00:00While in prison, Faye wrote a letter to her husband assuring him that things would cool down soon.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the deadliest duos,
00:11be they romantic couples, blood relatives, or simply friends,
00:14who spread terror in their corners of the world and together claimed multiple lives.
00:19I really don't think that she was the killer herself. She was just a participant.
00:25Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka
00:27No one suspected it was the attractive young couple next door,
00:31who with three killings behind them, were beginning to unravel.
00:35Infamously known as the Cannon Barbie Killers,
00:38Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka first met in 1987 and instantly fell in love.
00:42That same year, Bernardo began committing a series of sexual assaults in Ontario, Canada,
00:47which eventually escalated to murder.
00:49Together, he and Homolka sexually assaulted and murdered at least three girls,
00:53including Homolka's sister Tammy.
00:55They were finally arrested in 1993, at which point Homolka turned on Bernardo,
01:00claiming she had been coerced into participating in the crimes under threat of violence.
01:05Because he knows Carla Homolka has gone to the police,
01:08he understands that the net is closing in on him.
01:12She struck a deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty to manslaughter,
01:15and received a 12-year prison sentence.
01:18Bernardo, on the other hand, was convicted of multiple crimes,
01:21including first-degree murder and sexual assault,
01:23and was sentenced to life in prison.
01:25Probably the most sinister irony of this case
01:28is the fact that the Mahaffy body was found on the day Bernardo and Homolka were married.
01:34Amelia Sack and Annie Walters
01:36In the late 1800s, British midwife Amelia Sack ran a nursing home in London,
01:40employing a nurse named Annie Walters.
01:42Together, they became involved in baby farming,
01:45offering new mothers, most of whom were servants,
01:48a place to recover after giving birth
01:50and charging them a fee to have their unwanted children adopted.
01:53However, instead of finding new homes for these children,
01:56Sack and Walters sent them to an early grave, either by poisoning or strangulation.
02:01Their deadly collaboration ultimately claimed the lives of over a dozen children.
02:05The two were arrested after Walters' landlord, a police officer,
02:09grew suspicious when she brought one of her victims home.
02:11They were convicted of the murders and executed by hanging.
02:15Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
02:17He then confessed that his name was really Leonard Lake.
02:21Lake told police that the Asian man they were looking for was named Charles Ng.
02:26These two ex-Marines first met in the early 1980s
02:30and began their killing spree shortly after.
02:32They committed their crimes at a cabin Leonard Lake owned in California,
02:35primarily targeting women, but sometimes wiping out entire families.
02:40In total, they were responsible for up to 25 murders.
02:43Their reign of terror ended in 1985 when they both visited a hardware store
02:48and Charles Ng was caught shoplifting.
02:50Forensic specialists dusted for fingerprints and latent evidence.
02:54They hoped that if Lake had indeed kept a prisoner here,
02:57he or she had left behind some clue of their presence.
03:01While Ng escaped on foot before police arrived,
03:03Lake was apprehended, but he ended his own life by swallowing a cyanide pill.
03:08Police later searched the cabin and unearthed the remains of their victims.
03:12It took weeks before authorities found Ng in Canada.
03:15He was extradited to the U.S. and sentenced to death for 11 murders.
03:20Their strategy was to resurrect Ng's dead accomplice,
03:23Leonard Lake, and lay the blame on him.
03:26Lawrence Bideker and Roy Norris
03:28These two fellows met in prison in the California men's colonies facility in San Luis Obispo.
03:35While incarcerated in the San Luis Obispo men's colony prison for various violent crimes,
03:40Lawrence Bideker and Roy Norris developed a deadly friendship.
03:43They bonded over their shared interest in sadism
03:46and discussed plans to act out their violent fantasies once released.
03:49In 1979, after regaining their freedom,
03:53they acted on those plans, kidnapping,
03:55sexually assaulting, and murdering at least five victims that year.
03:59They might have claimed many more lives had Norris not discussed the murders
04:11with another former inmate, who then reported them to the police.
04:14Norris eventually testified against Bideker,
04:17securing a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
04:20Bideker was, however, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.
04:23Both men died of natural causes in prison.
04:26In February 1981, Lawrence Bideker was sentenced to death.
04:32The following month, Roy Norris received a sentence of 45 years to life.
04:37Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate
04:40Charlie ransacks the place in search of guns and money.
04:43Carol remembers sitting in the kitchen, eating cookies and jello from Meyer's refrigerator,
04:48telling Charlie, let's go, I'm scared.
04:51Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate began dating in 1956
04:55after being introduced by Fugate's sister.
04:57Starkweather committed his first murder in November 1957,
05:01but it wasn't until two months later that he killed with Fugate's involvement.
05:04When he visited her house, Fugate's mother and stepfather asked him to leave.
05:08In response, he killed them and her younger sister.
05:12Following this, the two lovers embarked on a week-long killing spree,
05:15traveling from Nebraska to Wyoming and taking at least seven more lives.
05:19Thinking there's been an accident, a geologist named Joe Sprinkle stops to help.
05:24Now he wrestles with Starkweather over a rifle and his life.
05:28Upon their arrest, they turned on each other.
05:30Fugate claimed she was being held hostage,
05:32while Starkweather insisted she was a willing participant.
05:36Ultimately, Starkweather was executed and Fugate received a life sentence,
05:39though she was paroled after serving 18 years.
05:43Ward wants Fugate to be pardoned.
05:45She says there's no evidence Fugate participated in the murders,
05:50instead calling her the victim of the fear and anger of the time.
05:56Prosecutors build their case around the theory Ray pulled the trigger
05:59and Fay helped organize and cover up his crimes.
06:02Ray Copeland began his life of crime by forging checks.
06:05After marrying Fay Wilson in 1940, Ray remained fraudulent,
06:09hiring drifters to buy cattle with forged checks,
06:12only to swiftly sell off the cattle and fire the farmhands to avoid being traced.
06:17Eventually, police uncovered the scam and sent him to jail.
06:20Upon his release, Ray devised a more sinister plan
06:23to ensure the drifters couldn't be found.
06:25Initially, the charges are conspiracy to commit theft,
06:28in reference to Murphy and Warner's fraudulent checks.
06:31Together with Fay, he murdered at least five employees.
06:35Their crimes went undetected until one man reported to the police
06:39that Ray tried to kill him and that he had seen human remains on their farm.
06:43The Copelands were both convicted of murder and sentenced to death,
06:46although Fay's sentence was later commuted to life in prison.
06:49Every time he'd get arrested, he would call me to come and bail him out.
06:54I bailed him out of jail quite a few times.
06:56Gwendolyn Graham and Kathy Wood
06:58Wood and Gwendolyn Graham were nurse's aides at Alpine Manor Nursing Home in 1987,
07:03when they killed at least five elderly patients.
07:06In the 1980s, Gwendolyn Graham and Kathy Wood were nurse's aides
07:10at a Michigan nursing home where they became romantically involved.
07:13By January 1987, they committed their first murder together,
07:17smothering an elderly patient who had Alzheimer's disease.
07:20This was the first of five murders they would carry out
07:23in the nursing home over a span of weeks.
07:25The crimes were eventually discovered in 1988,
07:28after the two lovers split up when Wood confessed to her ex-husband.
07:32She ultimately cooperated with authorities,
07:34claiming Graham was the mastermind while she only acted as a lookout.
07:38Although this account has been disputed,
07:40Wood served prison time for second-degree murder and was released in 2020.
07:45Graham, however, was convicted of first-degree murder
07:47and received five life sentences.
07:49We have heard from attorneys, her victims' families, and Wood herself.
07:55But what about Wood's partner, the woman in prison for life,
07:58for suffocating five patients?
08:00Delfina and María de Jesús González
08:03Born in Jalisco, Mexico, Delfina and María de Jesús González
08:07became known for running several brothels across the country.
08:10But what many did not know was that they killed
08:12some of their workers and customers and buried their remains on the property.
08:16Their mysterious spree came to an end
08:18when police arrested one of their recruiters, who gave them up.
08:21A search of their property revealed the remains of 91 men and women,
08:25although it's believed their total victim count could exceed 200,
08:29ranking them among the most prolific murderers in history.
08:32Both sisters received the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.
08:36While Delfina died in an accident during her sentence,
08:39María completed her term and essentially vanished after her release.
08:43Fred and Rose West
08:44It's horrible to think that there are, you know,
08:47dead bodies in a garden just down the road.
08:50It's just thoroughly disgusting.
08:53After separating from his first wife, Catherine,
08:55Fred West began seeing Rosemary Letts,
08:57whom he married in 1972 following Catherine's mysterious death.
09:01During their marriage, Fred and Rose lured several women to their house,
09:04often under the pretense of offering lodging.
09:07Once there, they would sexually assault and murder them,
09:10then bury their remains on the property.
09:12Detectives believe the solution to an eight-year mystery
09:15may be buried in the back garden of this terraced house in Gloucester.
09:18It belongs to a couple whose daughter vanished in 1986.
09:22Among their victims were their own daughter Heather
09:24and Fred's stepdaughter Charmaine.
09:26It's believed that Fred was also responsible for Catherine's death.
09:30In 1994, police visited the West's home in Gloucester, England
09:33to investigate Heather's disappearance,
09:35but discovered several human remains.
09:37In 1995, after their arrest, Fred took his own life in prison,
09:42while Rose was convicted of 10 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
09:46After the application had been submitted,
09:49she said, I don't want to come out of prison, I'd rather stay in prison.
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10:08Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole
10:17This notorious serial killer duo met at a soup kitchen in 1976
10:21and began working together.
10:22They traveled across multiple states committing random murders,
10:25primarily targeting hitchhikers and drifters.
10:28One of their supposed victims was Adam Walsh,
10:30a high-profile murder that drew national attention.
10:33They were eventually arrested in 1983 for separate unrelated crimes,
10:38Toole for arson and Lucas for unlawful possession of a firearm.
10:42The two no-account drifters basked in the glow of celebrity.
10:46They wanted to be together, they were lovers.
10:48While in custody, Lucas confessed to numerous murders,
10:51claiming to have committed nearly 600 and implicating Toole.
10:55Many of these claims have now been proven false.
10:58Nevertheless, Lucas and Toole were both convicted of multiple murders
11:01and sentenced to death, but these were later commuted to life in prison,
11:05where they ultimately died.
11:13Which of these cases terrified you the most?
11:15Let us know in the comments below.
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