Looking back on when a brutal, satanic gang terrorized Chicago by torturing and killing women at random in the 1980s. One of the killers, Thomas Kokoraleis, was released from prison in 2019. Many are unhappy that he's a free man.
Chris Watts, the Colorado man serving three life sentences for the brutal murder of his wife and two young daughters claims to have had a religious conversion behind bars and is now an evangelical Christian. Murderers David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer and Karla Faye Tucker also claimed to have found or rediscovered God after being incarcerated. We speak with experts about why so many notorious criminals might make such claims while behind bars.
Richard Lopez, a former prison chaplain, spoke to A&E True Crime about how murderers on death row come to embrace a higher power while awaiting execution.
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