Some serial killers get all the fame and movie adaptations, but what about the depraved killers you've never heard of? In ...

Your parents might have told you that monsters don't exist, but serial killers sure do. These real-life monsters prey on all ...

Contrary to popular myth, not all serial killers are white. Serial killers span all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. The racial diversity of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall ...

It seems obvious that anyone who willfully and repeatedly commits murder is a psychopath: remorseless, egotistical, manipulative, and cruel. Think of Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, or John Wayne Gacy.

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Caroline Fraser grew up in an area defined by unexpected, stochastic bursts of brutality. By the time she was a teen, in the 1970s, she knew of multiple people in and around her Mercer Island, ...

Aileen Wuornos was convicted of murdering six male motorists between between 1989 and 1990. She was arrested in January 1991 and later sentenced to death. Her story is the subject of a new Netflix ...

It’s a glorious time of the year if you’re obsessed with fictional serial killers (as I am). Detective Alex Cross (played brilliantly by Aldis Hodge) chases a charming one in the new series “Cross” ...

Sacramento’s very own serial killer, Dorothea Puente, is back to tell her story. Almost thirty-seven years after the first body was dug up on her property, the F St. boarding house killer has shown up ...