But even more so, the image of a serial killer may be surprising when it comes to females. "It's going to be not who you think it is," Marissa Harrison, a professor of psychology at Penn State ...

A Tampa, Florida, police officer who miraculously escaped the clutches of a serial killer as a teenage girl and helped authorities nab her attacker is now on track to become a detective ...

TARRANT COUNTY – Fort Worth cannibal serial killer Jason Thornburg received ... 11.22 years on death row before their execution. The shortest time an inmate spent on death row was Joe Gonzales ...

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 England authorities are not sharing "enough" information to quash speculation about a serial killer following the recent discoveries of 12 sets of human remains between March and April ...

A homicide victim who remained unknown for more than four decades has been identified as a 30-year-old Vietnam veteran whose death may be linked to the so-called serial Scorecard Killer ...

I think every crime and mystery writer has four types of novels they will inevitably write in their career: a murder mystery, a heist novel, a novel of revenge — and a serial killer novel.

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. From Ted Bundy to the Zodiac Killer, serial killers have long captured the public's imagination. Millions of viewers and ...

Fears that a serial killer may be on the loose in New England have been reignited after an eighth body was discovered in the region. The woman, who has yet to be identified, was found unresponsive ...

Watch Serial Killer Capital: Los Angeles on Oxygen and Peacock. Serial Killer Capital: Los Angeles gives audiences a front seat to an elusive killer known as the “Southside Slayer,” once believed to ...

Rex A. Heuermann appears in Suffolk County Court on August 1, 2023 in Central Islip, New York ; Asa Ellerup, estranged wife of alleged serial killer Rex A. Heuermann, in the office of her attorney ...

Writer Saratoga Schaefer is seen with the book they wrote, “Serial Killer Support Group,” in Shark Tooth Tattoo on March 10 in Saratoga Springs. Writer Saratoga Schaefer is pictured with ...