The article discusses the top 10 most evil couples in history, who committed heinous crimes together. The list includes:
10. Fred and Rosemary West - serial killers who murdered at least 12 people, including their own children.
9. Phillip and Nancy Garrido - kidnapped and held Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years, subjecting her to physical and emotional abuse.
8. Roman Podkopaev and Anastasia Tarver - a Russian couple who committed numerous robberies and murders, including the deaths of over 30 people.
7. Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik - carried out a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and injuring 22 others.
6. Alvin and Judith Neely - kidnapped, raped, and murdered a 13-year-old girl, and targeted several other victims.
5. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate - went on a killing spree, murdering 11 people, including Fugate's own family.
4. Gerald and Charlene Gallego - kidnapped, raped, and murdered 10 people, mostly teenage girls.
3. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - known as the "Moors Murderers," they killed five children and teenagers in England.
2. Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck - known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers," they used newspaper personal ads to find and kill lonely women.
1. Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka - raped and murdered three teenage girls, including Homolka's own sister, and were convicted of their crimes.
The article highlights the disturbing and often sadistic nature of these couples' crimes, and how they worked together to commit atrocities that shocked and horrified their communities.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Alton Coleman and Deborah Brown were a couple wanted by federal and local law enforcement in the summer of 1984.
2. Fred West had trouble with the law at 19, was arrested for fondling a 13-year-old, and killed a boy with his ice cream truck at 24.
3. Fred West met 15-year-old Rose Letts in 1968, and together they killed at least 12 people, including some of their own children.
4. Phillip and Nancy Garrido kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and kept her in captivity for nearly two decades.
5. Jaycee Dugard gave birth to two of Garrido's children during her captivity.
6. Roman Podkopayev and Anessa Tarver-Divas were a couple who, along with two of Tarver-Divas' daughters, terrorized Russia for six years, committing numerous robberies and over 30 murders.
7. Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire on guests at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, in 2015, killing 14 civilians and injuring 22 others.
8. Alvin and Judith Neely kidnapped and murdered 13-year-old Lisa Milliken in 1982, and similarly targeted a young couple, with John Hancock surviving and identifying his attackers.
9. Judith Neely became the youngest woman in the United States to be sentenced to death, but her sentence was commuted to life in 1999.
10. Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate went on a killing spree in Nebraska and Wyoming in 1957-58, murdering 11 people, including Fugate's own family.
11. Gerald and Charlene Gallego kidnapped, raped, and murdered 10 people, mostly teenage girls, in California, Nevada, and Oregon between 1978 and 1980.
12. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley committed five confirmed killings in Britain, with most of their victims being between the ages of 10 and 17 and being sexually abused before their deaths.
13. Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck used newspaper personal ads to find, rob, and kill lonely women, killing at least three people, including a two-year-old.
14. Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were involved in the death of Karla's 15-year-old sister Tammy in 1990 and were later convicted of raping and murdering three teenage girls in the early 1990s.
15. Karla Homolka's sentence was reduced to 12 years for manslaughter after she testified against Paul Bernardo.
16. Paul Bernardo remains behind bars, while Karla Homolka was released from prison in 2005.