Larry Gene Bell was a divorced electrician who kidnapped and murdered at least two girls in South Carolina in 1985 — then tormented their families with taunting phone calls.

After Walter Collins vanished in 1928, police made his mother take in an impostor of the boy — then forced her into a psychiatric ward when she insisted that the child wasn't her son.

In October 1949, Jean Spangler vanished without a trace, and some believe she may have fallen prey to mobster Mickey Cohen's henchmen — or the same killer who murdered "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short.

In March 1999, 19-year-old Caroline Reed Robertson killed aspiring dancer Rachel Barber in Melbourne, Australia — then tried to assume her identity.

On September 2, 2010, 24-year-old Michelle O'Connell was found dead at Jeremy Banks’ home in St. Augustine, Florida. Authorities initially concluded it was a suicide, but O'Connell’s loved ones thought otherwise.

In August 1993, Eric Smith became known as the "Freckle-Faced Killer" after he tortured and murdered young Derrick Robie in the woods of Savona, New York.

Thomas Dillon shot and killed five men in rural Ohio between 1989 and 1992, but he was only caught when his friend turned him in to the FBI because he'd been acting so unhinged.

In April 2011, Seath Jackson of Belleview, Florida was lured by his ex-girlfriend Amber Wright to a mobile home — where a group of youths brutally killed him.

Between 2007 and 2009, Anthony Sowell killed 11 women and hid their decomposing remains in his house and backyard, creating a foul stench that ultimately pervaded the entire neighborhood.

Frustrated with his low-paying job guarding armored cars for Loomis, Fargo & Co., Philip Noel Johnson made off with $18.8 million of the company’s money one day in March 1997.

After Florida hairstylist Joleen Cummings vanished in 2018, authorities questioned her co-worker “Jennifer Sybert” — and soon found out that wasn’t her real name.