See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The accused Gilgo Beach murderer fits the chilling profile of a serial ...

(CNN) -- For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. Dennis Rader, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Despite the abhorrent atrocities they commit, many people can’t ...

Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect arrested this summer in the highly publicized Gilgo Beach murders, may go down as one of last in a vanishing species of American criminal. Hundreds of serial ...

When you bring up the name of an infamous, real life predator like Jack the Ripper, Dennis Rader or Ted Bundy in conversation with a group of strangers (which I often do as a criminologist), it is ...

Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the ...

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, 480 pages, $32 The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and ...

In 2014, the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee gripped the world. But the crime in question happened 15 years earlier. Lee, a Baltimore-area high school student, was strangled to death in 1999. Her ...

Serial murders have dwindled, thanks to a cautious citizenry and improved technology. But sociopaths have found new methods of mayhem. By Hurubie Meko Rex Heuermann, the meticulous architectural ...

In this parody of the true crime genre, a mother with murderous tendencies reflects on the hard work and thankless sacrifices ...

There’s a fine line between moving through a handful of serious relationships over a long period of time and “serial monogamy,” the pattern of hopping from partner to partner, endlessly. In fact, many ...