The Missoula Mauler. The Serial Killer Clown. The Giggling Granny. The BTK Killer. These names may send chills through anyone familiar with America’s true crime history. Each bizarre alias belonging ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." America saw a spate of headline-capturing serial killers beginning in the 1970s. The captures of Edmund ...

Serial murder has received sustained interest and fascination from the general public for close to fifty years. The topic is regularly covered in all forms of the media including film, print, and ...

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

When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary Ridgway, the future Green River Killer, grew up just a short drive north. Both ...

Serial killers may seem like a modern phenomenon tied to the 20th century, but history reveals that humans have been fascinated—and horrified—by repeat murderers for centuries. While recordkeeping in ...

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, ...

If Damien McDaniel is convicted of the 18 murders with which he is charged, he would become the most prolific known killer in Alabama’s history. If he is convicted of just two of those 18 killings, he ...

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 ...

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka went from young, beautiful newlyweds to two of Canada’s most notorious criminals. Their facade as a picture-perfect couple was shattered just two years into their ...

America saw a spate of headline-capturing serial killers beginning in the 1970s. The captures of Edmund Kemper and the Son of Sam early in the decade were followed by the falls of Ted Bundy, John ...