To his family and neighbors in suburban New Jersey, Richard Kuklinski was an all-American husband. To his victims, he was a terrifying murderer known as "The Iceman."Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesKnown as the Iceman killer, Richard Kuklinski could be one of the most prolific murderers in recorded history. “Do you liken yourself to an assassin?” an interviewer once asked “The Iceman” Richard Kuklinski. “Assassin? It sounds so exotic,” the hitman replied with a hint of amusement and a small smile.

Police found everything from disturbing photos to remains in jars to even a video titled "video lessons for cannibals."Dailymail Left, Dmitry Baksheev, and his wife, right, Natalia Baksheeva. A couple in Russia have been arrested for murder, after admitting to killing up to 30 people– and then eating them. Dmitry Baksheev and his wife Natalia were arrested after a dismembered body was discovered at their home, a hostel-community on a military base in Krasnodar.

The leather saddle, discovered in an ancient cemetery in northwest China, was made between 724 and 396 B.C.E.Patrick WertmannThe discovery of the saddle in a woman’s grave challenges long-held ideas about who rode horses in ancient times. While excavating a tomb in Yanghai — in the Turpan Basin of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region — archaeologists came across the grave of a woman. To their surprise, they also found that she was posed sitting on a leather saddle.

"[These urchins] are minute but terrifying," a scientist studying them said. Wikimedia CommonsThe collector sea urchin. If you’re in the market for a pet, the collector urchin is probably not the way to go. Though they might be aesthetically pleasing — small and round with vibrant, multi-colored spikes — anyone who frightened your new friend would risk getting hit with a cloud of chomping, venom-spitting jaws. Officially named the Tripneustes gratilla and nicknamed the cake sea urchin or the Parson’s hat sea urchin, these coral reef-dwelling creatures have developed a defense system much more elaborate than their urchin cousins.

The remedy to California's drought-stricken lands or just the world's biggest ball pit? See for yourself how shade balls are making a huge impact.From the pictures, it’s hard to tell whether California has dreamed up some creative ways to conserve water, or is just super intent on creating the world’s largest ball pit. (For the record, the drought-stricken state is doing a little of both.) This week, municipal workers dumped the final 20,000 shade balls into the Los Angeles Reservoir, transforming the body of water into a sea of floating black spheres.