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Some partnerships are forged in the fires of hell, leaving a trail of unimaginable terror. Join us as we explore the chilling history of notorious duos who murdered together. From manipulative masterminds to depraved followers, these sinister pairs redefined the meaning of shared madness. Brace yourself for a disturbing journey into the darkest corners of criminal psychology, revealing the twisted bonds that led to a rampage of violence.
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00:00He was a real, tough, dangerous guy.
00:04A rebel without a cause that spread terror in a community.
00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:09And today we're taking a closer look at 20 of the most infamous and terrifying serial killer couples in history.
00:14The crimes committed by Moore's murderer, Myra Hindley, shocked the nation.
00:20Yaroslav and Dana Stodolovi
00:22Between September 2001 and December 2002,
00:25Yaroslav and Dana Stodolovi went on one of the most notorious and shockingly violent crime sprees in Czech history.
00:31The married couple, who had struggled for money in the past,
00:34ruthlessly targeted a number of elderly, retired, and presumably wealthy people,
00:38typically by forcing their way into their homes and then tying their victims up.
00:42The Stodolovis then robbed what they could, before killing the people they stole from.
00:47In most cases, a combination of attempted cover-ups plus major mistakes by the investigating police
00:52meant that the pair was never even suspected.
00:54Until, after months of terror and a total of eight murders,
00:58they were found at the scene of the crime, and both were sentenced to life imprisonment.
01:03David and Catherine Burney
01:04The Morehouse murders are one of the darkest cases in modern Australian history.
01:08The Burneys drove around, waiting to spot a single girl to abduct.
01:13Stirling Highway was their favorite hunting ground.
01:16Girls were enticed to the car by what they thought was a harmless married couple asking for directions.
01:21They happened over the course of five weeks in 1986,
01:25when David and Catherine Burney of Perth lured five women and girls to their home at 3 Morehouse Street.
01:31The victims were subjected to horrifying sexual abuse,
01:34and in some cases, they were kept trapped in the residence for days.
01:37The first four women were murdered at the end of their ordeal,
01:40and their bodies were buried in a shallow grave.
01:42The fifth was able to escape, however, make it to the police,
01:46and ensure that her captors were finally caught.
01:49Both were sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment.
01:52The Burneys were sentenced to life on four counts of willful murder,
01:56to be served concurrently.
01:58That meant a 20-year minimum jail term.
02:01But Justice Wallace said then,
02:03in my opinion, you should not be released from prison ever.
02:06James Marlowe and Cynthia Kaufman.
02:09Disturbingly, this killer couple also committed their crimes over a number of weeks in 1986,
02:14but this time in California and Arizona.
02:27James Marlowe and Cynthia Kaufman met shortly after Marlowe was released from a separate stint in prison.
02:32They then toured the country, got married, and began targeting and killing apparently random female victims.
02:38While it's thought that the true extent of their murder spree is still unknown,
02:42both Marlowe and Kaufman were convicted and sentenced to death in 1990.
02:55Kaufman, who is still living on death row,
02:58was the first woman to be issued with the death penalty following its reinstatement in California in 1977.
03:04Susan and Michael Bear Carson.
03:06Susan Bear Carson, formerly Susan Barnes,
03:09and Michael Bear Carson, formerly James Carson,
03:11met and married shortly after James' first marriage ended in 1977.
03:15The couple labeled the San Francisco Witch Killers,
03:18Michael Bear Carson and his second wife Susan,
03:22smiling as the camera rolled.
03:23The pair became involved in mysticism,
03:25with James' first wife reportedly becoming frightened of him,
03:29which led to her breaking off all contact for the safety of her and their daughter.
03:33Meanwhile, though,
03:33Susan and now Michael truly did descend into madness and depravity.
03:38Between March 1981 and November 1983,
03:41the pair murdered three people,
03:43including two who Susan is said to have decided were witches.
03:46They were caught after killing their final victim on the side of the road,
03:50in full view of passing cars.
03:52They were later convicted of three murders and sentenced to 75 years to life in prison.
03:56Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka.
03:59The most infamous couple in Canadian history.
04:02Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka killed three young women throughout the early 90s.
04:06Their first victim was Homolka's younger sister, Tammy.
04:09Two days before Christmas in 1990,
04:12the couple severely mistreated her.
04:14Tammy Homolka then choked on her vomit and died.
04:17Tammy Homolka's unexpected death would not signal the end of Paul and Carla's deviant games.
04:23The couple then kidnapped Leslie Mahaffey and Kristen French.
04:26Only this time, they intentionally killed the girls.
04:29After they were captured, Homolka conned the investigators
04:32and received a very favorable plea bargain in exchange for testifying against her husband.
04:38While Bernardo was sentenced to life,
04:40Homolka was freed on July 4, 2005.
04:43She has remained free ever since, and even started a family.
04:48Ultimately, the deal Carla made with the prosecution would stand.
04:52She would serve just 12 years for her part in the crimes.
04:57Fred and Rose West
04:58The horrific crime spree of Fred and Rose West
05:01lasted throughout much of the 70s and 80s.
05:04By the time they were finally arrested in the 90s,
05:07the couple had killed at least 10 people.
05:09The Wests would kill their victims inside their Gloucester house,
05:13and bury their remains in the basement and yard.
05:1525 Cromwell Street was the burial ground for nine young women.
05:19Fred was the more prolific killer of the two,
05:22having killed at least two people without the involvement of his wife.
05:25His personal body count may exceed 13.
05:28Fred and Rose West appeared at Gloucester Magistrates Court,
05:32jointly charged with nine murders.
05:34Rose helped kill nine women with her husband,
05:36in addition to her stepdaughter, whom Fred had from a prior marriage.
05:40Their Gloucester home later became known as the House of Horrors.
05:45Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
05:47In 1947, a single mother of two named Martha Beck
05:51placed a personal ad in the newspaper,
05:54and it was answered by a man named Raymond Fernandez.
05:57Martha.
05:58Raymond.
05:59Beck developed an intense fascination with Fernandez,
06:02and even sent her children away so she could devote herself to him.
06:05The two quickly fell into a routine of violence,
06:09and killed at least three people in the late 40s.
06:12One was a 66-year-old woman named Janet Fay,
06:15and the other two were 28-year-old Delphine Downing and her daughter.
06:19Downing's neighbors alerted the police, and the couple was arrested.
06:23Both were executed on the same day, March 8, 1951.
06:28Fernandez was 36, and Beck was 30.
06:31Oh, my God.
06:33Oh, my God.
06:34He kills for me.
06:37Gwendolyn Graham and Kathy Wood.
06:39This couple worked as nurses' aides in Michigan's Alpine Manor nursing home.
06:43Beginning in January of 1987,
06:46the two conspired to kill elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's.
06:50For the next few months,
06:51both Graham and Wood took the lives of five nursing home residents.
06:54Wood cooperated with police,
06:56telling them that Graham suffocated the women with washcloths
06:59while she was the lookout.
07:01Graham later began dating another nurse at the facility
07:04and moved with her to Texas,
07:06effectively ending the crime spree.
07:08However, Wood told her ex-husband about the crimes,
07:11and he in turn informed the authorities.
07:13Wood portrayed herself as a victim during the resulting trial,
07:16but it's now believed that she masterminded the whole enterprise
07:19to exact revenge against Graham,
07:22who had begun dating another woman.
07:24It worked, and Graham was given life in prison.
07:26I thought that Gwendolyn was the first person to ever love me.
07:30Samantha Baczynski and Patrick Selipak
07:32In Michigan in spring 2006,
07:34Samantha Baczynski and Patrick Selipak killed three people in a matter of days
07:38in a shocking crime spree that caught national and international attention.
07:43The pair first murdered a married couple,
07:45Scott and Melissa Barrels,
07:46who was pregnant at the time in the Barrels' own home.
07:49Then, while subsequently on the run,
07:51the couple also killed a man named Winfield Johnson.
07:53Johnson had offered Baczynski and Selipak a place to stay,
07:57unaware of the crimes that they had already committed.
07:59Over time, he found out, though,
08:01and Selipak shot him twice in the back.
08:03Almost 17 years later, in 2003,
08:06it was also reported that Selipak had attempted to murder another prisoner in jail,
08:11Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
08:13The story of Bonnie and Clyde has long captured the attention
08:15and imagination of America and the world.
08:18The most infamous outlaws of all
08:20were a pair of young lovers.
08:22whose two-year crime spree included
08:26armed robbery, car theft,
08:28abduction, murder,
08:30and a series of dramatic gun battles across at least 11 states.
08:35The infamous outlaws were media sensations in the 1930s
08:38at the height of the Great Depression.
08:40As key figures in a notorious gang,
08:42the Barrow Gang,
08:43they were involved in numerous major robberies
08:45and multiple killings until their own violent deaths in 1934.
08:49In all, they're thought to have killed at least 13 people,
08:53and likely more.
08:54Thanks to a series of photographs discovered of them,
08:56including many of them posing with weapons,
08:59the couple is still insanely recognizable even today.
09:02But the legend of Bonnie and Clyde
09:04would continue to captivate the world
09:06for generations to come.
09:08At the time,
09:09they were among a select group of criminals
09:11referred to by authorities as public enemies.
09:14Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier
09:16Operating across France and Belgium for 16 years,
09:20between 1987 and their eventual arrest in 2003,
09:23Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier
09:25murdered at least 8 people,
09:27including multiple young girls.
09:29They had met via a prison pen pal scheme in the 1980s,
09:33at a time when Fourniret was serving a sentence
09:35for multiple sexual assaults.
09:37Back then,
09:37Fourniret had reportedly written of his depraved fantasies,
09:41and Olivier had responded saying
09:42that she would help him to fulfill them.
09:44Over the following years,
09:45after Fourniret's release,
09:47the couple would drive across France and Belgium
09:49concocting elaborate ruses
09:50to trick victims into their vehicle,
09:52after which they would abuse and ultimately kill them.
09:55Carol M. Bundy and Doug Clark
09:57These two met at a bar in 1980
10:00and quickly developed a relationship.
10:02She instantly became infatuated
10:04with a man named Doug Clark.
10:06It wasn't long before Clark moved in with Bundy
10:09and embarked on his now infamous killing spree
10:11that would leave multiple people dead.
10:14While the two would later be known
10:15as the Sunset Strip Killers,
10:17the killings themselves were mostly committed by Clark.
10:20Two months later,
10:22Doug told Carol he killed the two runaways.
10:26The homicides troubled Bundy,
10:28but she nevertheless remained an accomplice,
10:30refusing to give up Clark.
10:32Bundy eventually told her ex-lover Jack Murray
10:35about the crimes,
10:36but she killed him to ensure his silence.
10:38However, the crime spree troubled Bundy so much
10:41that she eventually confessed to the authorities,
10:43and she and Clark were both arrested.
10:45She tells them that she and Doug
10:47are the serial killers they have been looking for.
10:50Alton Coleman and Deborah Brown
10:52In 1983, Deborah Brown was engaged to be married
10:56when she met a criminal named Alton Coleman.
10:58They quickly developed a relationship,
11:00and Brown left her fiancé to be with Coleman.
11:03Coleman was facing a criminal trial
11:05relating to a previous crime
11:06when he and Brown fled Illinois to Wisconsin.
11:09He saw the approaching officer and took off.
11:12There, they killed the young Vernita Wheat.
11:15This began a killing spree
11:16that spread throughout the American Midwest.
11:19They were eventually caught and arrested
11:21on July 20th, 1984,
11:23having killed a total of eight people.
11:25With surprising ease,
11:27they were able to corner Coleman.
11:28Both were sentenced to death,
11:30but Brown was later spared
11:31and given life in prison.
11:33Coleman was executed by lethal injection
11:35on April 26th, 2002.
11:38Gerald and Charlene Gallego
11:40Gerald and Charlene Gallego killed 10 people
11:43from September 1978 to November 1980.
11:46Charlene Williams came from a supportive family,
11:49but her life fell into disrepair
11:51when she started using drugs.
11:53Things got even worse
11:54when she met and married a career criminal
11:56named Gerald Gallego.
11:57He thought he was God's gift to women.
11:59Their crime spree began on September 11th, 1978,
12:03when they abducted two teenage girls.
12:05The Gallegos were caught
12:06abducting an engaged couple in November of 1980,
12:09and the police were promptly informed.
12:11College sweethearts Mary Beth and Craig
12:14would be Gerald and Charlene's final victims,
12:17as their abduction led to their arrest.
12:20This led to their arrests,
12:22and Gerald was sentenced to death.
12:24Charlene was given nearly 17 years
12:26in exchange for testifying against her husband.
12:29Charlene's testimony allowed the prosecution
12:32to secure the sentence they desired.
12:34Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole
12:36The names Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole
12:39are well-known.
12:40For a time, it was believed
12:42that Lucas had killed over 600 people,
12:45making him the most prolific killer
12:47in American history.
12:48Lucas bragged to police
12:50that he killed more than 600 men,
12:52women, and children.
12:54Toole claimed 125 victims.
12:56However, it was later found
12:58that these confessions were fabricated
13:00so that Lucas could enjoy rewards in prison.
13:02Lucas and Toole likely developed
13:04a sexual relationship
13:05after meeting in 1976,
13:07and the extent of their crimes
13:09remains ambiguous.
13:11They met at a soup kitchen in Jacksonville,
13:13soon became lovers,
13:15and moved in together
13:16at Toole's mother's house.
13:18Lucas was confirmed
13:19to have killed two people in 1983,
13:21and eight other victims remain disputed.
13:23Toole is widely suspected
13:25of having killed
13:25the young Adam Walsh in 1981.
13:28The nature of their crimes
13:29may forever remain uncertain,
13:32but they nevertheless conspired
13:34to fool the authorities
13:35and wasted precious time
13:37and resources in the process.
13:38He died in prison
13:39on September 15, 1996.
13:42Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
13:45Known as the most evil woman in Britain,
13:47Myra Hindley embarked
13:49on a horrific crime spree
13:50with her boyfriend, Ian Brady.
13:51The crimes committed
13:52by Moore's murderer,
13:54Myra Hindley,
13:55shocked the nation.
13:56Between July 1963
13:57and October 1965,
14:00Brady and Hindley
14:00killed five young persons
14:02and dumped at least
14:02some of their bodies
14:03in the Saddleworth Moor.
14:05It's because of this
14:06that their crime spree
14:07is now known
14:08as the Moor's murders.
14:09A case like this was unique.
14:11For the first time
14:12in British history,
14:14a woman had been implicated
14:15in a killing partnership.
14:17One of their victims
14:18buried at the Moor
14:19was Leslie Ann Downey.
14:20The couple's dealings
14:21with Downey
14:22were captured on tape
14:23and in various photos,
14:24ensuring that Brady and Hindley
14:26became infamous
14:27public enemies in Britain.
14:28She's got the devil in it.
14:30She's the devil itself.
14:31Charles Starkweather
14:32and Carol Ann Fugate.
14:34These two met in 1956
14:36when Starkweather was 18
14:38and Fugate 13.
14:40Starkweather quickly
14:41grew attached to Fugate
14:42and dropped out of high school
14:43to be closer to her.
14:45The two eventually
14:46began a relationship
14:47and Starkweather killed
14:48Fugate's mother,
14:49stepfather,
14:50and sister
14:50on January 21, 1958.
14:53I think he got in an argument
14:55over Carol
14:56with Mr. Bartlett
14:58and I think it just
14:59escalated from there.
15:01They were Starkweather's
15:02second, third,
15:03and fourth victims
15:03as he had killed
15:05a gas station attendant
15:06the previous November.
15:08Starkweather and Fugate
15:09then embarked
15:10on a crime spree
15:10throughout Nebraska
15:11and Wyoming
15:12that left a further
15:13seven people dead.
15:14In the space
15:15of less than two months,
15:1711 innocent people
15:18had died
15:19in a killing spree
15:20that sent shockwaves
15:21around the United States.
15:23Fugate claimed
15:24that she never
15:24personally took a life
15:25but Starkweather
15:26said otherwise.
15:28Regardless,
15:29Starkweather was executed
15:30for his crimes
15:30and Fugate
15:31was released from prison
15:32in 1976
15:33after spending
15:3517 years behind bars.
15:37Until they had been stopped
15:38they would have kept going.
15:39There was nothing behind.
15:41They had no remorse.
15:42They had no reason.
15:43Ray and Faye Copeland
15:45From 1986 to 1989,
15:48Ray and Faye Copeland
15:49conspired to kill five men
15:51although their victim count
15:52may be as high as 12.
15:54They appeared to be
15:55just an elderly farm couple
15:57that were kind of shy
15:59and didn't mix much
16:01with the people.
16:01The Copelands ran a farm
16:03in Mooresville, Missouri
16:04but Ray was a proven fraud
16:06so local providers
16:08refused to sell him cattle.
16:10To get around this,
16:11Copeland devised a scam.
16:12He would pick up drifters,
16:14write them fraudulent checks
16:15and have them
16:16buy the cattle for him.
16:17There were eight men
16:18wanted for writing bad checks
16:20to cattle auction houses
16:21in central Missouri.
16:23All had disappeared
16:24from the area
16:25without a trace.
16:27He would then sell the cattle
16:28for a profit
16:29before the checks bounced
16:30and kill the drifter
16:31who bought it
16:32to ensure their silence.
16:34Despite the efforts
16:35of her defense team,
16:36Faye was found to be
16:37a knowing accomplice
16:38to her husband
16:38and both were sentenced
16:40to death.
16:41Ray Copeland
16:42was convicted
16:42of five counts of murder
16:44and sentenced to death.
16:46Alvin and Judith Neely
16:48In 1980,
16:5027-year-old Alvin Neely
16:51left his first wife
16:52and eloped
16:53with 16-year-old Judith Adams.
16:55Two years after their marriage,
16:57the Neelys kidnapped
16:58the young Lisa Millikan
16:59from a mall
17:00in Rome, Georgia.
17:01Millikan was subsequently
17:02taken to an Alabama motel
17:04and killed.
17:05Just a few days later,
17:06the Neelys did the same thing
17:07to Janice Chapman
17:08after shooting
17:09her fiancé John Hancock.
17:11However,
17:12Hancock survived
17:13and reported the Neelys
17:14to the authorities.
17:15The next day,
17:16he was at the Rome
17:17police station
17:18sitting on a bench
17:19when he heard a recording
17:20of Judith Neely's voice.
17:22They were promptly arrested
17:23and 18-year-old Judith Neely
17:25became the youngest
17:26American woman
17:27ever sentenced to death.
17:29However,
17:29this was later commuted
17:31to life in prison
17:31in 1999.
17:33You don't see
17:34those crimes around here.
17:35That's something that
17:35you always hear about
17:37somewhere else
17:38and it was just
17:39a tragedy.
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17:56Inessa Tarverdieva
17:58and Raman Potkapaev
17:59Hailing from Stavropol, Russia,
18:02Inessa Tarverdieva
18:03and Raman Potkapaev
18:04were part of the Gang of Amazons.
18:07This serial killing family
18:08also consisted
18:09of the couple's two children,
18:10Victoria and Anastasia.
18:12The entire family
18:13was supposedly aided
18:14by Potkapaev's sister
18:16and her husband,
18:17a law enforcement officer
18:18who fed the family
18:19inside information.
18:20Between 2007 and 2013,
18:23the Gang of Amazons
18:24embarked on a massive crime spree
18:26that left dozens dead.
18:27The victims included
18:28a lieutenant colonel
18:29and his family
18:30and a patrol officer
18:31who pulled over
18:32Potkapaev and Victoria.
18:34However,
18:34it was this confrontation
18:35that proved their downfall.
18:37Potkapaev was killed
18:38by responding officers
18:39and the rest of his family
18:41was rounded up
18:41and arrested.
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