While the term “serial killer” is modern, the phenomenon itself has existed for centuries. Long before forensic science or criminal profiling, individuals committed repeated murders that terrified ...

A serial killer born in Vermont was executed today in 1989.

Dennis Quaid didn’t have to spend a lifetime preparing to play serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson in “Happy Face.” “It turned out to be surprisingly easy because serial killers don’t have any ...

Ever wonder if there are as many serial killers lurking in the shadows as there used to be? Well, tried-and-true crime followers have, which is why Oxygen.com wanted to get to the bottom of the truth ...

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 ...

Amid internet speculation about a serial killer in New England, one New Hampshire woman who survived a suspected serial killer herself in the 1980s is encouraging locals to remain "vigilant." Social ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Serial killers are known and remembered for the horrific crimes they commit, no matter how long ago the crimes occurred. True crime, investigative documentaries, and horror films ...

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, ...

Houston Mayor John Whitmire refuted social media conspiracies of a serial killer in Houston during a press conference on September 23, after five bodies were found in local bayous last week. Houston ...

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...