An upstate New York man who is serving prison time for a pair of vicious murders — and who is the chief suspect in a third killing — allegedly told police he stabbed his own grandmother to death when ...

A death row inmate who as a teenager killed five people and terrorized a community has been executed. Frank Athen Walls, 58, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, Dec. 18, for the 1987 murder ...

A Canadian man who died in 2019 has been identified as the perpetrator of three cold case homicides in Toronto, and investigators believe there could be more victims. Toronto police said Thursday ...

As effortless or even empowering as being single can look from the outside, plenty of others struggle to embrace it at all. Preferring to be partnered up is deeply human. But what’s different is ...

Florida authorities are pushing back on social media rumors about a "serial killer on the loose" in Jacksonville after three women were found dead in separate incidents over three days. The ...

A New England serial killer has been unmasked — but he doesn’t appear to be connected to rampant rumors in the region sparked by the discovery of over a dozen bodies. Kevin Lino, 38, was charged in ...

There’s a typical profile people expect when they think about serial killers: cunning, cold-blooded, and most importantly, male. So when Aileen Wuornos was first arrested in January 1991 as the prime ...

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” is likely to get people in the mood for more serial killer storytelling, and there are plenty to choose from. Ed Gein’s story inspired a number of movies, as the new ...

HOUSTON — Houston leaders held a news conference on Tuesday afternoon to address a recent rise in bodies being found in city bayous. Houston Mayor John Whitmire, along with Houston Police Chief J. Noe ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Comics and serial killer characters weirdly go hand in hand. Almost every hero has one such ...

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 ...