Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser's 'Murderland' delves into the lead-crime theory behind the proliferation of serial killers from the Pacific Northwest.

An amateur sleuth thinks he's cracked a decades-old mystery tied to a founding member of the O'Jays—by pointing to a largely forgotten serial killer. In Rolling Stone, Brenna Ehrlich revisits the case ...

Serial killers capture the public imagination like few other criminals, partly because of the mystery surrounding their crimes and the psychology behind them. While some have been apprehended and ...

BAY CITY, MI — The witching season is upon us, the days before Halloween tantalizing us into revisiting classic horror movies or reading vintage ghost stories. But for the most macabre and ...

Directed by Emily Turner and written by Turner with Jinx Godfrey, the Netflix documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers draws on extensive interviews with and footage of Aileen Wuornos herself ...

There’s a theory about how New Jersey native Richard Cottingham, known as the “Torso Killer,” managed to get away with killing so many women and girls in the 1960s and ’70s. It was a different era: no ...

Serial killer shows, like Monster: The Ed Gein Story and the equally as disturbing The Serpentabout Charles Sobhraj, have never been more popular – and most of these stories focus on disturbed men ...