Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Directed by Emily Turner and written by Turner with Jinx Godfrey, the Netflix documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers draws on extensive interviews with and footage of Aileen Wuornos herself ...

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 ...

The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that two cold-case home invasion rapes in the 1980s have been connected to four similar sexual assaults in other states, though the ...

Comics and serial killer characters weirdly go hand in hand. Almost every hero has one such villain that they’ve faced off with, and in some cases, deal with regularly as one of their main antagonists ...

The Candyman Killer‘s infamous apprentice, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., breaks his silence for the first time in 50 years in the all-new documentary “The Serial Killer’s Apprentice,” premiering Sunday, ...

People like typologies. They simplify complex subjects and make them easier to discuss. Sometimes, a typology will seem to be the standard. Look up “types of serial killers” and you’ll likely get the ...

In the winter of 2021, “Saturday Night Live” spoofed the true-crime industrial complex with a musical number called “Murder Show.” The sketch sends up the consumption of spectacular depravity as an ...

Caroline Fraser grew up in an area defined by unexpected, stochastic bursts of brutality. By the time she was a teen, in the 1970s, she knew of multiple people in and around her Mercer Island, ...