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Marc Sappington of Kansas City, Kan., was sentenced to life for murdering three friends in April 2001. Sappington said that voices in his head urged him to kill and commit cannibalism. In a confession to police, Sappington said he drank the blood of two victims and ate the flesh of a third.

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Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, who murdered the Herb Clutter family of Holcomb, Kan., a crime that was later publicized in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood." Hickock and Smith were executed in 1965 in Lansing, Kan.

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Richard Grissom was convicted of murdering three young women in Johnson County in 1989. No trace of Joan Butler, Theresa Brown or Christine Rusch has ever been found since their disappearance. Prosecutors were able to win a conviction despite the lack of a body, a first at the time. (Note: this mugshot is a recent Department of Corrections photo, not his original booking photo.)

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Murderer Robert Stroud's booking photo from Leavenworth. Stroud would later be known as the Birdman of Alcatraz. Stroud actually died in Missouri -- at a medical facility for federal prisoners in Springfield.

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The late Anthony "Tony Ripe" Civella. Federal officials believed that Civella headed the Kansas City mob during the late 1980s and 1990s. He did time in the 1970s for bookmaking and again in the 1990s when he was busted in a prescription-drug scam. This mugshot is from 1963, when he was accused of stripping a car.

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Lorenzo Gilyard was convicted of strangling six women in 1986 and 1987, but his DNA allegedly linked him to six others murders, which Jackson County prosecutors did not prosecute but could do so later. (He was found not guilty of murdering a seventh victim in his 2007 trial.)

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Edwin Hall pleaded guilty to the abduction, rape and murder of Kelsey Smith, a young woman who was abducted from a Target parking lot in Overland Park in June 2007, in broad daylight. Smith was 18 and had graduated from high school a few days before. Hall received a life sentence with no hope of parole.

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Daniel Porter shot and killed his own children, Sam and Lindsey, and buried them in shallow graves in Sugar Creek. For years, Porter taunted his wife and police by saying the children were safe and living in hiding. Porter eventually confessed to the 2004 murders.

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Wayne DuMond, a paroled rapist from Arkansas, was convicted in 2003 for the murder of Carol Shields in a Kansas City, North, apartment. Less than two years later, he was found dead of natural causes in his prison cell. (Years earlier, DuMond had been castrated while awaiting trial in the Arkansas case.)

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Bob Berdella, one of the most notorious killers that Kansas City has produced. Berdella confessed to sexually torturing and murdering six men at his home in south Hyde Park. His last victim, wearing nothing but a dog collar, escaped by jumping from the second story of that house, which was later razed by a local bank robber-turned-millionaire.

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Reginald Thurber pleaded guilty to shooting and injuring three people after he was kicked out of a Kansas City bar in 2008.

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For years, it seemed like BTK would never be caught. The serial killer took the lives of 10 people between 1974 and 1991 in Sedgwick County, Kan. He frequently boasted in letters to police and eventually started corresponding with them -- which is how they caught Dennis Rader.

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Terry Blair was convicted of killing six women in the Prospect Avenue corridor in 2004, and he was suspected of two others. Blair was a parole absconder who had done time for killing the mother of his children.

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Toby Young was a prison volunteer when she helped a convict named John Manard escape from the prison in Lansing. The two of them shared a romantic getaway in Tennessee until a nationwide manhunt captured both. Young served about two years in prison.

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John E. Robinson was convicted of killing eight women in Missouri and Kansas over the space of 15 years. Many of the bodies were found in barrels that Robinson stored at his LaCygne farm or a Raytown storage unit. He seduced many of his victims with offers of work or financial help. Particularly shocking was how he arranged for his brother to unwittingly adopt one victim's infant daughter.

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Keith D. Nelson kidnapped 10-year-old Pamela Butler while she was rollerskating near her home in Kansas City, Kan., in 1999, sparking one of the metro area's largest manhunts. Nelson brutally killed Butler near Grain Valley and was eventually sentenced to death. "People say, 'How can you kill a 10-year-old girl?"' said Nelson. "It's not that hard."

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Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death for killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Skidmore, Mo., and stealing Stinnett's unborn baby from her womb in 2004. Investigators were able to recover the little girl, whom Montgomery tried to pass off as her own, the day after the murder.

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And for the road, though the mugshot might be more notorious than the case. Ricky Brooks is accused of shooting a man in the leg in a Westport parking lot, sending hundreds of people running.

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Dennis Rader, Wayne DuMond, Lisa Montgomery, Toby Young, Robert Stroud

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