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

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.

A serial killer from N.J. evaded capture for decades. Why he’s just now confessing to more crimes. There’s a theory about how ...

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Serial murder is neither a new phenomenon, nor is it uniquely American,” reads a public report from the FBI on the subject.

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

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. True-crime expert, Hollywood insider and 'Sisters in Death' author Eli Frankel breaks down why we're all so fascinated by serial killers ...

Convicted serial killer Richard Cottingham recently confessed to a 60-year-old New Jersey cold case murder, police said.