A collection of some of the strangest last wishes.

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The ruthless queen of New York real estate, didn’t want her reputation as one of the meanest women in America to survive her, but that was precisely what happened.

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Financial wizards that use fountain pens, bank transfers and parachutes — golden or otherwise — to take the money and run.

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At the peak of his success, money manager Kenneth Wayne McLeod was living the high life off the savings of his many clients, who believed their money was safely invested and earning them interest. Though his Ponzi scheme was not remarkable, his victims were. They numbered in the hundreds, many were law enforcement employees.

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On October 5, 2011, a jury found Steven Hayes guilty of murder in case of the bloody Petit murders, a savage home invasion that rocked a peaceful Connecticut town, and left a woman and her daughters dead.

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Suspended judge William Adams, whose 2004 videotaped beating of his daughter, then 16, went viral after she went public with it, is seeking reinstatement to his position as a court-at-law judge in Aransas County family court.

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Jarrod Wyatt, the former MMA fighter, who committed a frenzied 2010 killing of his sparring partner after drinking psychedelic mushroom tea, was sentenced to 47 years in state prison today.

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It was 12:34 a.m. Thursday when Texas teen Jake Evans, 17, picked up the phone and made the call saying, “Uh, I just killed my mom and my sister.”

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Days of celebration that turned into bitter battles.

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On April 21, 1988, 28-year-old Mary Kelly left her home in Bel Air, Maryland, to meet a friend for drinks and never returned. Months later, a construction crew found her body in a wooded area. Her killer has never been found.

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