History's Biggest Villains

Even at an early age, Craig Price’s life was filled with nothing but violence. At the age of 9, he started having disturbing thoughts about death and murder. He then joined a gang of juveniles and built up a rap sheet with charges of breaking and entering, robbery, stalking, drug use, and assault. On July 27, 1987, at the age of 13, he broke into the home of Rebecca Spencer and started down a path of infamy, making him the youngest serial killer in U.S history.

On June 3, 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, police received a phone call from a man with a whiny, high-pitched voice, saying, “God damn, will you find me? I just stabbed somebody with an ice pick. I can't stop myself. I keep killing somebody." Later, police found a woman dead in a field, with over 60 stab wounds. The caller’s voice was so unique that the police felt like somebody would recognize him, as they shared the phone calls with the news, receiving numerous tips but the killer's identity couldn’t be provided. However, this would not be the last time that the killer would call and taunt the police.

Anthony Arkwright was someone who knew nothing but rejection from an early age, as his mother abandoned him and his five siblings. He spent a lot of time in children’s homes, drifting into criminality after being expelled from school. By the age of 21, he was fired from his job for poor attendance and a bad attitude. This firing was the catalyst for a 56 hour murder spree that left four people dead.

Karol Kot was a pretty normal kid growing up in Poland, with a normal life and a normal family. But, one summer holiday, his family took a trip down south, where Karol would stumble upon the slaughterhouse. Seeing the graphic deaths of animals firsthand, he became fascinated with blood and the concept of death. He also began to collect knives, which he would use to torture his sister’s cats and kill several small animals. It wasn’t long before his obsession with death compelled him to act out his fantasies.

Samuel Little was a career criminal who had spent his life in and out of jail. At the young age of 13, he was already stealing and breaking into homes. As he matured, he developed a strange obsession with strangling women, and he ultimately gave in to his urges. In 2014, at the age of 74, he was arrested after DNA connected him to the murders of 3 women who were killed in the 80’s. But his confessions would reveal an even higher total. A MUCH higher total.

In the mid 1970’s, Roch Theriault convinced a group of people to leave their jobs and homes to join him in a religious movement. He prohibited the group from remaining in contact with their families and with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as this was against his cult's values of freedom. Thériault made the commune build their town while he relaxed, comparing them to ants working in an ant hill, naming the group the Ant Hill Kids. However, he controlled his cult with a iron fist, which led to severe physical and sexual abuse of the members. When all was said and done, 5 people, including two small children died as a result of Theriault’s actions.

Anu Singh was a very mentally disturbed woman. She would constantly complain that she was fat even though she barely weighed over 100 pounds. She began complaining of aching legs, hot flashes and other pains in her body. Her parents were becoming increasingly concerned about her mental health, and her boyfriend Joe Cinque recommended a drug Ipecac, an vomit inducer, or emetic, that was supposed to help those suffering with bulimia or other eating disorders. For some reason, she blamed all of her perceived medical problems on her boyfriend, saying that he poisoned her.Then, she planned to kill him at a dinner party, with others in attendance. Joe would be dead 36 hours later.

On September 2, 1998 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the green house at 99 Fulton Avenue, which belonged to McKinley and Paulette Francois, was just like any other house on the block, although it looked slightly run down.But, everyone in the neighborhood knew about the house, especially the awful smell permeating from it. As police got a tip from Christine Sala, a sex worker who barely survived an attack by 6 foot 4 inch 350 pound Kendall Francois the previous night, what they found inside the house he shared with his family would turn the stomachs of the entire community.

Everyone around Jennifer San Marco knew she had mental health issues. In 2000, she had to be wheeled out of her post office job by police after she was found hiding under a mail-sorting machine. In 2004 San Marco's car broke down in Grants, New Mexico, where she ultimately chose to stay. There, she earned a reputation for her strange behavior, which included shouting to herself, ordering food at restaurants and running out the door before eating it, stripping naked in public , kneeling and praying in random places , talking to an imaginary friend, screaming death threats, and making racist comments. On January 30, 2006, Jennifer decided that she was done with life, but she didn’t want to go alone.

On June 14, 2015 in Greene County, Missouri, police found the body of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard lying on the bed in a pool of blood from 17 stab wounds to the back and neck. There was no sign of her 23 year old daughter, Gypsy Rose, who apparently had chronic conditions including leukemia, asthma, and muscular dystrophy with "mental capacity of a seven-year-old due to brain damage" as the result of premature birth. When Gypsy Rose and her boyfriend were later arrested, the details of this case would shock the entire country.