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Theories abound but none are without major problems. The mysterious death of William Desmond Taylor continues to fascinate.

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STRUCK DEAD BY A SPEEDING PAROLEE.

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In 1778, Bathsheba Spooner earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first woman executed in the newly independent country called the United States of America.

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The tale of the Bloody Benders remains one of the most horrifying stories of the Old West.

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Fidel Lopez was having sex with his girlfriend Maria Nemeth when she moaned her ex-husband’s name, and Lopez, in a jealous rage, “became a monster.”

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The serial killers claimed a total of 15 victims — six died, at least one of the attack was videotaped and circulated in Russian social networks, showing the dead body of a woman being mutilated with a knife.

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1. ONE OF THE FIRST ‘MILK-CARTON KIDS’ It was a fateful May morning in 1979 when six-year-old Etan Patz’s parents finally felt safe letting him walk to the bus stop alone in Manhattan.

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Russian maniac Alexander Komin was a modern day slave owner and serial killer. Despite claiming “only” four victims, he was dubbed the Maniac of the 20th Century by the media.

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The most remarkable injuries, by far, were the words in block letters that had been burned directly onto her stomach: “I’M A PROSTITUTE AND PROUD OF IT!” Thus ended one of the most horrible crimes ever committed against a single victim.

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In the 1980s, California was terrorized by a man dubbed “The Night Stalker” for a period from June 1984 until August 1985.