Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood are a rare case in which two women teamed up in a series of sexual murders. Wood was a recently divorced 450-pound supervisor in a nursing home when she entered into a lesbian relationship with Graham, a nurses aide. The dominant Graham told Wood that it would be a sexual thrill to murder six elderly patients in the home so that their last names would spell out the word murder. Their spelling game failed when some of the patients did not die as easily as the couple hoped. Nevertheless, using a wet washcloth to suffocate the patients, Graham killed five victims while Wood stood guard. After each murder, the couple immediately retired to a vacant room in the nursing home and had sex. In exchange for her testimony, Wood received a twenty-to-forty sentence, while Graham was given six life sentences.

“You will work for us, you will wash for us, you will fuck for us.”

In the early 1980′s Leonard Lake and Charles Ng somehow found each other and this would prove deadly for many. They lived in a bunker on a piece of remote wooded property in northern California. There they would live out their fantasies of raping, torturing and killing. Not only would the commit these horrible deeds but they would tape them as well. Their crimes came to an end in June of 1985 when a hardware store employee saw Ng hiding a stolen bench vise in the trunk if Lake’s car. By the time police arrived Ng had fled but a check of Lake’s car proved that it belonged to someone else. Lake was taken to the station for questioning. Sensing his time was up, on the way to the station Lake swallowed two cyanide pills. He would go into a coma and die 4 days later. A search of his property turned up blood soaked bed sheets, restraints and bloody power tools. They would also find the videos that showed the 2 men with various victims. Diaries filled with horrible details were found on the property as well. The bodies of 7 men, 3 women and 3 babies were found as well as 45 pounds of human bones suggesting atleast 25 people had met their death there. Ng had fled to Canada where he was arrested for the shooting of a guard during a robbery. After years of legal bullcrap Ng was finally sent back to the United States. His trial wouldn’t start until 13 years after his capture. After a trial lasting 8 months, he was found guilty of the murder of 6 men, 3 women and 2 babies. He was sentenced to death.

Two 16-year-old girls have been jailed in Hickory, N.C., on charges of robbing and murdering a taxi driver last August. If convicted, the girls face life in prison. Emily Starnes and Consandra Tyree were arrested Saturday afternoon and are jailed without bond at the Catawba County Jail, ABC News reported. The girls were charged on Monday with murder, robbery, conspiracy and firearms offenses in the stabbing death of taxi driver Adam Williams. “In North Carolina, for criminal court purposes, when you’re 16, you’re treated as an adult,” Hickory Police Department Capt. Thurman Whisnant told ABCNews.com. “The possibility exists of life in prison, but it’s still early to tell.” The charges follow indictments last year accusing Camyron Johnson and Matthew Hopkins on murder and robbery charges, according to WBTV. The station reported that a third man, Robert McElwee, was indicted on one count of accessory after the fact. Adam Williams had worked for Yellow Cab Co. for a few weeks and had been  planning to quit for another job when he was slain. He worked two shifts the night he was killed.

Williams was attacked and stabbed around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2011, answering a call at Fuddruckers parking lot, according to the Hickory Record. Williams, bleeding from slashes to his face and throat, struggled to the door of the nearby LongHorn Steakhouse. Employees called an ambulance to take Williams to Frye Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Officials told ABC News that robbery was the motive. Ronald Stevens, who manages the Yellow Cab Co. in downtown Hickory, said Williams had $39 on him. The money was missing when he was found, according to WSOC-TV. “It just makes no sense,” Stevens told WBTV. Starnes and Tyree were both arrested on Oct. 5, 2011, and charged with obstruction of justice. “We knew these two young ladies were involved from the get-go, but wanted to do a complete, thorough investigation,” Whisnant told ABC News. “It was clear that they had involvement before, during and after the crime.” Whisnant would not say what role police believe the girls played in the crime. The teenagers are scheduled to appear in court on May 14.

Maxwell Garvie married Sheila Watson in 1955 and during the next nine years, the couple had three children. In 1967, Sheila Watson Garvie began an affair with 22-year-old Brian Tevendale, while her husband became attracted to Tevendale’s married sister, Trudy Birse. The foursome cavorted until May 14, 1968, when Maxwell Garvie left on a trip from which he would not return. Five days later, Garvie was reported missing and a search began. Mrs. Garvie admitted to her mother that she had killed her husband, and her mother went to the police. In mid-August the body of Garvie, badly bludgeoned and shot through the neck, was found in an underground tunnel. On August 17, Sheila Garvie and Brian Tevendale were charged with the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On 13 December 1994 Fred West was charged with 12 murders; his wife, Rose West, would later be found guilty of 10 murders and sentenced to 10 life sentences. The Wests lived at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, which had literally, over a period of many years, become a house of horrors. Fred’s murderous tendencies pre-dated even meeting Rose. The Wests lived a bizarre life of extreme sex, prostitution, rape, imprisonment and murder. Their cellar was a torture chamber, where Rose would entertain clients and Fred would murder women. A succession of young women and unfortunate family members were raped, strangled, suffocated and then buried within the grounds of the house; several unwanted children were also dispatched. It was only the tenacity of Detective Constable Hazel Savage, who was investigating the rape of a young girl, that linked the Wests with a series of disappearances. When the police finally searched the house, on 24 February 1994, no fewer than nine different sets of bones were found in the cellar alone. The forensic evidence was overwhelming and, rather than face trial, Fred West committed suicide at Winston Green Prison, Birmingham on New Year’s Day 1995.

“How many people can a football stadium hold? Can it hold fifty, sixty thousand? Most stadiums can … Now, picture a stadium filled, not just seats but the field and all the air above it, with dead men, women, and children,”

-Eric Harris.