Anita Roycewood Is Based on Real-Life Serial Killers Based on real-life cases of child abduction, Anita Roycewood in Criminal Minds Season 5, Episode 6, "Mosley Lane," is disturbingly lethal.

23 Stories About Female Serial Killers That Will Keep You Up All Night. It turned out her crimes were financially motivated; she killed to steal credit cards and valuables to fund her shopping habits.

So, what did some of America's most heinous and notorious serial killers request for their last meals before they were ...

Most of the most famous documented serial killers were active in the 20th or 21st century—coinciding both with increased public interest in serial killers’ stories, as well as with a ...

Contrary to popular mythology, women certainly do commit murder in the U.S. but they do so at decidedly lower rates than men. White women have the lowest homicide offending rates of all groups ...

More than 400 years after her death, the truth about "the Blood Countess," a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the most prolific female serial killer of all time, remains elusive.

New York tops the list with 18 recorded serial killers. In the mid-1970s, David Berkowitz, known as the " Son of Sam ," murdered six people and injured 11 more. In the late 1980s and early 1990s ...