American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment

Melanie Lyn McGuire is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "Suitcase Murder". She was sentenced to life in prison, on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She will not be eligible for parole until she is 101 years old.

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

John Lennon's killer

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women, including his own mother, and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer", as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment and possibly cannibalism.

CIA analyst and Soviet spy (1941–2026)

Daniel Peter Masterson is an American actor. He portrayed Steven Hyde in That '70s Show (1998–2006), Milo Foster in Men at Work (2012–2014), and Jameson "Rooster" Bennett in The Ranch (2016–2018).

American serial killer

FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services (1944–2023)

Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes and then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature.

Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.

American serial killer

Irish-American gangster and crime boss (1929-2018)

Native American activist

American serial killer, rapist, burglar and former police officer

American inmate and ornithologist (1890-1963)

American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road

American gangster (1895/1900–1954)

U.S. civilian intelligence analyst turned Israeli spy

American criminal (1935–2006)

American serial killer (1943–2021)

US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)

American kidnapper-murderer duo, committed "the crime of the century"

American serial killer (1950-2013)

Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

Aaron Josef Hernandez was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played three seasons with the New England Patriots until his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.

American mobster (1904–1971)

American convicted murderer of Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer (as well as a previous murder conviction)

American serial killer (1947–2022)

Warren Steed Jeffs is an American cult leader and convicted child sex offender. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona and is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault after two convictions in 2011. The FLDS Church was founded in the early 20th century when its founders deemed the renunciation of polygamy by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be apostasy. The LDS Church disavows any connection between it and the FLDS Church, although there are significant historical ties.

American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer

American serial killer (1949–1992)

American musician (1945–2023)

American mass murderer, perpetrator of the July 20, 2012 mass shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado

American mass murderer (1925–2008)

American convicted murderer

American actor

American domestic terrorist incarcerated in a US federal prison

American mass murderer (1951–2021)

American serial killer (1947–1996)

attempted assassin of Gerald Ford (born 1948)

Medical doctor implicated in the Lincoln assassination (1833-1883)

American murderer (1929–1990)

American serial killer

American convicted robber, kidnapper, rapist and writer (1921–1960)

Nurse convicted of killing patients

American real-estate heir and convicted murderer (1943–2022)

American serial killer (1905–1965)

Soviet spy (1937–2014)

American criminal and convicted rapist (1931–1973)

American failed assassin

American mobster

American serial killer

American convicted of two murders

American serial killer

American gangster (1931–1996)

American army soldier and mass murderer condemned

American man convicted of murder and previously wrongly convicted of rape