On October 20, 1997 Belgian authorities charged Andras Pandy -- a 70-year-old protestant pastor from Hungary -- with the murder of two of his ex-wives and four of his eight children. His daughter Agnes, 40, who claims that her father sexually abused her from the age of 13, confessed to helping kill five family members and was charged as an accessory to the murders. [ReadOn]

A son of Prussian immigrants, born at Warren, Minnesota, in 1891, Panzram logged his first arrest at age eight, for drunk and disorderly conduct. Three years later, a series of robberies landed him in reform school, and he set the place on fire at age 12, causing an estimated $100,000 damage. [ReadOn]

This 17-year-old boy in El Salvador has been charged with 17 counts of murder. ( The judge found insufficient evidence on 10 of the counts. On April, 1999, the judge convicted PARADA MORALES Gustavo Adolfo of killing seven people and sentenced him to seven years in prison -- the maximum sentence for a minor for any crime. [ReadOn]

Known as the "Bedroom Basher," serial rapist Gerald Parker thought he had gotten away with murder until DNA testing linked him to the murder of five women and an unborn child in Orange County, California. Parker, a former Marine, was linked through genetic evidence to attacks on young women who where raped and bludgeoned in their homes in the late 1970s around El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. [ReadOn]

An unemployed from Shoreline separately killed two neighbor women and set fire to their Shoreline apartments in 1995. Also is suspected of shooting and killing a man in a passing car in 1996. [ReadOn]

A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Paul was first diagnosed as schizophrenic in the early 1960s. He spent the next two decades in Cambridge, Maryland, and was briefly married there. In early 1982, his wife filed criminal charges against him on two separate occasions, but both cases were dismissed. [ReadOn]

Known as the "Old Ladies Killer" and the "Monster of Montmarte" these two men terrorized elderly Parisian ladies in the district of Montmarte from 1984 to 1987. Paulin, a native of Guyana, was a black transvestite drug addict with dyed platinum blonde hair. [ReadOn]

Frenchman, born in 1897, Petiot first demonstrated criminal tendencies in public school, by stealing from classmates. He later moved on to looting mail boxes, and during military service, in 1917, he stole drugs from an army dispensary for sale to street addicts, at black market prices. [ReadOn]

A few weeks before Charles Pierce died, the convicted child killer confessed to killing two more children in Lawrence, Mass., more than 40 years ago. During an almost two-hour interview, in which he sometimes fell asleep or became confused, the former carnival worker provided the location of where the children's bodies and other details about the slayings. [ReadOn]

A prolific poisoner who undertook her work as much from sympathy as for the minor fees she charged, Madame Popova was an advocate of women's liberation long before the cause was recognized. A native of Samara, Russia, she was so distressed by the travail of peasant wives held "captive" by their brutish husbands that she volunteered an inexpensive, lethal remedy. [ReadOn]