According to a new report, the recent assassination of a female mayor in Mexico was purchased for less than $30,000.

Jim Webb, a man who once watched the light go out in another man’s eyes after shooting him full of lead, is very excited for what he’s getting this holiday season.

The judge who presided over Robert Durst's Texas murder trial says the cable TV darling once cut the head off a cat and left it on her doorstep.

Perhaps you heard the news that Charles Manson is maybe, possibly engaged to a 25-year-old? Or at least that's what Manson's paramour, Star (left, with her bb on the right), told Rolling Stone's Erik Hedegaard during the arduous process of assembling a lengthy profile on the very famous convicted murderer. Unfortunately for the aspiring bride, when Manson was asked about their impending nuptials, he rebuffed the idea as "a bunch of garbage." But apparently that's just something endearing the face of evil does.

This Instagram shows the new faces of Uncle Sam's Lean, Mean Green Killing Machine.

Way to exercise restraint, New York City killers! For the second time in less than a year, New York has made it 24 hours without anybody getting shot or stabbed.

After two gay men were found strangled in Queens within one week of each other, a City Council member is warning members of the LGBT community that a killer may be targeting them.

What's new with notorious mass murderer Charles Manson? Not much. He's 77 now. Still in prison. The California department of Corrections has released an updated mugshot in advance of his 12th parole hearing next week. He probably won't attend (hasn't gone to one since 1997) and he certainly won't get parole.

Alyssa Bustamante—the 18-year-old Missouri girl who, at 15, confessed to murdering a 9-year-old neighbor and bragged about "killing people" on MySpace—has been sentenced to life in prison.

If you were worried about the fact that police have been saying two different serial killers, both well-versed in police techniques, were responsible for the ten bodies found on Long Island's Gilgo Beach over the last year, stop worrying: there's just one serial killer! So, good news! Or something.

Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch sociopath who killed Natalee Holloway and Peruvian student Stephany Flores, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Flores's father. He once tried to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family for information about her remains.

In 1964, two black teenagers disappeared as they were hitchhiking in Mississippi. Two months later, their bodies turned up in a river. From the NYT:

On the Day After Dead Bin Laden Day, America woke up and asked: "Who was the anonymous heroic machine gun-wielder who personally pulled the trigger to shoot the bullet into the bad man we dislike?" Let's inventory what we know:

The U.S. government won huge lawsuit against the tobacco industry five years ago, based on the fact that the tobacco industry has been unconscionably killing Americans with blatant lies for 50 years. And the tobacco companies were like, "you got us! Okay, haha, you got us. We'll stop that."

Future U.S. President Sarah Palin shot and killed a majestic caribou right there on her reality teevee show last night. Of course, this was necessary to sustain her family through the harsh Alaskan winter. Take a good look, America.

In Georgia, a state wracked by drought and educational miseries, local newspapers are involved in a holy pursuit: arguing about hunting. Haw haw, can you believe that reporter next town over don't like hunting? Haw haw.

Celebrities: scaredy-cats! Turns out it's not just paranoid right-wing action star wannabes like Roger Ailes and Sean Hannity who are licensed to carry guns. So do a host of other New York celebrities. What is Marc Anthony so scared of?

As this summer's movie season continues to falter, a third-week runner beat a slew of new releases for the lackluster top spot. A cult-potential sci-fi film disappointed, and Katherine Heigl shot her way to the middle.

Stephen Hill, the porn actor who used a prop machete to kill a coworker, once played President Obama in a film called Palin: Erection '08. Can't wait to see what kind of conspiracy theories Glenn Beck can draw from this.

Police say that America's most dangerous gangs are increasingly turning to Twitter as a communication tool for their criminal networks. We investigated the Twitter accounts of five notorious sets; the results may alarm you.