Explore the most notorious locations in California. Fact-checked. Verified. Morbidly fascinating.
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Legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were allegedly stabbed to death in their Brentwood home by their son Nick in 2025.
The infamous & seedy Los Angeles hotel where Night Stalker Richard Ramirez once lived.
The house where the Manson Family killed Rosemary and Leno LaBianca.
The house where the Manson Family killed 6 people, including Sharon Tate.
The Los Angeles house where OJ Simpson allegedly killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
The Beverly Hills mansion where the Menendez Brothers, Erik & Lyle, murdered their parents.
22-year-old Elizabeth Short's mutilated body was found in a Los Angeles vacant lot in 1947 in one of America's most famous unsolved cases.
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Charles Manson and members of his Family were captured at this remote Death Valley hideout in October 1969.
The only location to be hit twice by Unibomber Ted Kaczynski.
The small house where Unibomber Ted Kaczynski lived during his stint at UC Berkeley.
East Coast rapper Biggie Smalls was shot & killed in front of this Los Angeles Museum
A movie ranch turned hideout for the Manson Family.
The home where Scott & Laci Peterson lived before he violently ended her life.
Golden State Serial Killer Joseph James DeAngelo lived in this quiet Citrus Heights home.
Singer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father inside this Los Angeles home.
The Los Feliz mansion with a murderous past that stood empty for years.
Famous comedian Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife who then took her own life.
Twelve-year-old Courtney Sconce was abducted from this corner in 2000.
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Music producer Phil Spector murdered Lana Clarkson in his LA area mansion.
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Serial killer Ed Kemper lived in this apartment where he killed his mother & buried some of his victims.
Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by stalker Robert Bardo at her LA area apartment.
A jealous ex-wife murdered her husband and his new wife in this San Diego home.
Sacramento landlady Dorothea Puente poisoned nine of her boarders in the 1980s and buried seven of them in the yard.
A man killed his business partner and their entire family in this San Diego area home.
