In the true story that inspired Pain & Gain, Daniel Lugo and the Sun Gym gang botched multiple kidnapping plots, accidentally killed several of their extortion targets, and brutally disfigured their victims' corpses in a failed attempt to cover up their crimes.

Terry Davis believed that God ordered him to create TempleOS, an operating system with a "digital oracle" that he claimed allowed users to speak directly with God.

A gang of thieves stole over $1.2 million in cash and $1.5 million in checks and securities from a Brink's building in Boston on January 17, 1950. But even though the culprits thought they were in the clear, they were caught six years later.

Zachary Andrew Turner's mother, Shirley Turner, was arrested for murdering his father in 2001 — and after she was released on bail, she killed Zachary, too.

In 2018, 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was abducted and killed by Cristhian Bahena Rivera, who later dumped her body in a cornfield in Poweshiek County, Iowa.

John Edward Robinson met most of his eight murder victims through chat rooms in the early days of the internet, including BDSM forums where he recruited sex slaves.

When Ashley Benefield fatally shot her husband Doug Benefield in 2020, she claimed that she'd acted in self-defense — but she was convicted of manslaughter after prosecutors argued that she'd lied about Doug's abuse.

Police believe Charles Sobhraj murdered at least 20 tourists on Asia's famous Hippie Trail in the 1970s — but even though the "Bikini Killer" was sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, he walks free in France today.

In 2006, Crystal Mangum accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her at a party where she performed as an exotic dancer. She later admitted she lied — while in prison for murdering her boyfriend.

Between 1975 and 1998, Robert Lee Yates brutally killed at least 16 people, mostly female sex workers, near Spokane, Washington.