While people have always held a fascination for the minds and methods of serial killers, a chilling fact remains evident—not all of them are caught. With improved police tactics, broader information ...

Many serial killings seem to be completely devoid of meaning or motivation on the part of the criminal. In actuality, however, there is great diversity in the needs and desires of serial killers that ...

Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, Dennis Vader and Aileen Wuornos are among the most infamous serial killers in American history — here's how their slayings ended Chris Harris has been a senior true crime ...

In 2014, the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee gripped the world. But the crime in question happened 15 years earlier. Lee, a Baltimore-area high school student, was strangled to death in 1999. Her ...

(CNN) -- For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. Dennis Rader, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey ...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for convicted serial killer Charles Ng, who’s been on death row for 23 years, according to court records. Ng, now 61, was convicted ...

A woman known for 37 years only as Horseshoe Harriet, one of dozen or so victims of a notorious Alaska serial killer, has been identified through genetic genealogy and a DNA match, authorities said ...

Male and female serial killers tend to choose their victims and commit their crimes in different ways, which may be due to thousands of years of psychological evolution, according to researchers. Male ...