These projects reveal the evil lurking underneath the guises of killers who were so often hiding in plain sight.

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...

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. A majority of ...

Another victim of Ted Bundy has been confirmed 37 years after the serial killer was put to death – raising the likelihood ...

For decades, the profile of a serial killer was almost exclusively male. The idea of a woman committing multiple, violent roadside murders was unthinkable. Then came Aileen Wuornos. Between 1989 and ...

In 1996, Jack Spillman (a k a the Werewolf Butcher) confessed to murdering three people, two of them children and one just 9 years old. His brutality was staggering, not just raping his victims but ...

After 52 years, a huge DNA breakthrough has confirmed that notorious cross-country serial killer Ted Bundy was responsible ...

BAY CITY, MI — The witching season is upon us, the days before Halloween tantalizing us into revisiting classic horror movies or reading vintage ghost stories. But for the most macabre and ...

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 ...

Contrary to popular myth, not all serial killers are white. Serial killers span all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. The racial diversity of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall ...