8 Killers With Bizarre Motivations

When she committed her first murder in February 1994, Dana Sue Gray was in a whole heap of financial trouble. She had recently lost her job, and over the previous several years had racked up a large amount of debt.

So, desperate for cash, she turned to murder in order to fuel what was later described as an overwhelming need to shop.

Over the coming weeks, Gray would kill people, steal their credit cards, and then go on massive shopping sprees using those cards. This is the formula she followed after murdering 66-year-old June Roberts and 87-year-old Dora Beebe - such was the strength of her shopping addiction, that Gray would usually go on these sprees literally right after dispatching her victims.

Gray was ultimately undone when she tried to murder Dorinda Hawkins in March 1994. Gray strangled her with a telephone cord and left her for dead, and she then - unsurprisingly - headed out on yet another shopping spree. However, Hawkins survived the assault, and soon gave the police a description of her attacker.

In late 1998, Gray pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to life without parole.