Serial killers may seem like a modern phenomenon tied to the 20th century, but history reveals that humans have been fascinated—and horrified—by repeat murderers for centuries. While recordkeeping in ...

H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman ...

It seems obvious that anyone who willfully and repeatedly commits murder is a psychopath: remorseless, egotistical, manipulative, and cruel. Think of Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, or John Wayne Gacy.

The new Netflix docuseries Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, which premiered Thursday, reexamines the story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s most notorious female serial killers, more than two ...

The Lorain Palace Theatre, 617 Broadway, will host “Serial Killers with Dr. Scott Bonn.” Bonn will take audiences to the darkest corners of the human mind Sept. 28. The criminologist, best-selling ...

Although we do not know whether or to what extent you can be “born” a serial killer of the monstrous kind, we do know that many barbarous serial killers have antisocial personality disorder (not ...

The Big Apple’s most notorious serial killer is getting a new close-up. In the Netflix docuseries, “Conversations With a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes” (now ...

Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. was a 15-year-old gas station worker when he became an accomplice to the "Candy Man" serial killer. Now 69, Henley is serving a life sentence for his part in helping Texas ...

Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach, Florida, prostitute convicted of killing multiple men and dubbed the "queen of the serial killers," was ready for her close-up after confessing to protect the woman ...

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 ...