When a group of students from a rural college in Guerrero, Mexico, attempted to find transportation to a protest, their arrival in nearby Iguala was not received well. Confronted by police, students and civilians were fired upon, killing 6 and injuring 25. Most egregious of all, 43 students were forcibly disappeared with hardly a trace.

Chris Benoit, a legendary wrestler who met a fatal end in 2007 by his own hand. In the end, not even his own family was safe.

Two days before Christmas in 1996, the small town of Toormore in West Cork, Ireland, was rocked by the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, the first murder in the area in almost four decades. Although the murder is still considered unsolved in Ireland, the French legal system found Ian Bailey guilty of her murder.

When 3 separate suitcases washed up with body parts in May of 2004, police were stunned.

On Valentine's Day weekend in 1993, 29-year-old Ignacia Manriquez was trying to enjoy time with her sister, a friend, and her children. That was all interrupted when her ex, Juan Navarro, decided he was going to get her back by whatever means necessary.

Judith Barsi was a child star on the rise, having been discovered at the age of 5 at a skating rink in the San Fernando Valley. That all came to an abrupt halt in 1988 when she and her mother were killed by her own father.

On the night of June 7th, James was walking home from a party when he accepted a ride from three white men. He was killed in what is better known as a modern day lynching.

On February 9th, 1997, six-year-old Brooke was waiting for her mom to join her in bed, but she never made it up. She was woken up the next morning by her father, explaining her mom had died in a car accident, but the story didn’t add up. Now much older, Brooke is sharing her story on social media in the hopes of getting justice for her mother–and a conviction for her father.

In 1893, starting on January 24th and lasting until February 25th, "Black Week" can only be described as a series of distressing events, including forbidden love, embezzlement, and murder in the city of Atlanta, Georgia.