Austin has its first known serial killer since the "Servant Girl Annihilator" was believed to have killed eight women in 1885, according to city authorities. They never captured a suspect in that case ...

The accused Gilgo Beach murderer fits the chilling profile of a serial killer, according to criminal psychologist Rachel Toles who shared her insights with Newsweek. Rex Heuermann, who was first ...

More than 5,000 serial killers have been documented throughout human history, spanning a wide range of motives, behaviors and backgrounds. By studying these cases, we can gain insight into the complex ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 Dahmer, Albert ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were no surprises when Barbara Holmes and Tom Williams bought their two-story Victorian home at 1426 F St. at auction for $226,000 in 2010. They outbid just one other contestant in a packed room ...

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 ...

The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark. By S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby is a New York Times best-selling writer from southeastern ...

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 ...