Can't Make This Stuff Up: The True Crime Quiz

The defense tried to poke holes in the crime scene by claiming that the meter reader found the body sooner, then moved it so that he could be assured the reward. He denied this on the stand.

Adam Walsh was abducted from a shopping mall in 1981 and his severed head was later found. Ottis Toole confessed to the killing, but recanted. That, plus major evidence and other missteps led to him never being convicted. He died in prison for other crimes, and after a review of evidence it was determined in 2008 that he was the killer. Walsh's father John became a victims' rights advocate and created/hosted the TV show "America's Most Wanted."

Bundy was convicted in 1979 of the murders of two Florida State University students and then in 1980 of the murder of a 12-year-old girl. Prosecutors brought in forensic specialists who matched Bundy's teeth with bite marks on one of the college women.

"Rope" was inspired by the 1920's case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, close friends in their early 20s who murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks just to see if they could get away with it. They didn't.

Since many of his crimes were committed well before DNA technology became available, Joseph DeAngelo evaded arrest for years. In 2018, however, police uploaded DNA obtained from one of his crime scenes to a familial DNA sharing site and a match was made with a close cousin of the killer.

Manson predicted that "Helter Skelter" was coming, which he described as a war between "whiteys" and "blackies." His idea was to frame African Americans for the murders of high-profile white people.

That's right, there are postal police (who normally investigate mail-related crimes), and they were the first authority figures to show up to the crime scene when Knox called the cops. This misstep, among others, eventually led to the American's conviction being overturned permanently.

Ramirez killed at least 13 people in California from 1984 to 1985. Once he was finally identified and publicly named he was spotted by a crowd of people in a neighborhood, who took turns beating him until the cops came.

A shawl from one of the crime scenes remains, and DNA technology traced it back to Aaron Kosminski, a Polish émigré who was on the list of original suspects. He was believed to be a paranoid schizophrenic, and eventually institutionalized. Some dispute the validity of the study or note that earlier research using DNA from letters written by the Ripper ID'd painter Walter Sickert instead.