Evelyn McHale wrote in her suicide note that she didn't want her family to see "any part" of her body. Instead, a photo of her death would become one of the most famous photographs of all time.

Jeremy Delle was just 15 years old when he killed himself in front of his classmates on January 8, 1991. Then, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was inspired to write the song "Jeremy" about him.

In April 2003, mountaineer Aron Ralston spent 127 hours pinned by a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon — until he amputated his own arm and escaped.

Whether exploring the Arctic, fighting the Nazis, or traveling the world, Peter Freuchen did it all — and then some.

Between 2005 and 2008, Vlado Taneski brutally raped and killed at least three women in Kičevo, Macedonia, then reported about their deaths for local newspapers.

Lynette Fromme became a Manson family member as a homeless teenager — and eventually tried to kill President Gerald Ford in 1975.

Elisabeth Fritzl spent over two decades confined to a dirt-walled cellar while being tortured at the hands of her father, Josef Fritzl.

From 1969 to 1980, Colombian serial killer Pedro Lopez raped and murdered up to 300 children — and no one knows where he is today.

Between 1944 and 1949, British serial killer John George Haigh murdered at least six people, destroyed their remains in acid, and stole their assets.

Known for both eating his own feces and mutilating himself on stage, GG Allin was perhaps the most shocking musician in history — until his dramatic death at just 36 in June 1993.

Ted Bundy's mom defended him to the bitter end, saying "You'll always be my precious son" just before his execution in 1989.

Though police only connected him to three murders, Joseph Roy Metheny claimed to have slaughtered a total of 13 victims, some of whom he allegedly turned into patties that he sold to unwitting customers on a Baltimore roadside.