"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 ...

Dozens of serial killers have terrorized American communities over the decades, from H. H. Holmes becoming “the Beast of ...

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 ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial ...

We know that true crime about serial murder is dark and disturbing – so… why do we love to watch? And are there real-life consequences for this genre’s explosion? Welcome to WatchMojo’s series The ...

(CNN) — Here’s a select list of convicted American serial killers and notable open or unsolved cases. Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time. Serial ...

Over the centuries, there have been hundreds of documented cases of serial murder around the world, but the term “serial killer” is relatively new. Up until the 1970s in the U.S., serial killers were ...

New DNA could reveal whether a San Antonio man was a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. His family needs anyone who ...

Justin and Amber Hicks were shot to death in their home, their son left alone with their bodies for 12-hours. Dwain Hall was ...