Gay men in San Francisco were targeted by the Doodler serial killer in the '70s. In the decades-long search for a San Francisco serial killer, police released new details Wednesday, including an ...

MGM+'s new The Hillside Strangler documentary series dives into the case of the serial killers who terrorized LA.

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 ...

Serial killers became scarily common between the 1970s and the early 00s, in what’s known as the golden age of serial murder.

Dozens of serial killers have terrorized American communities over the decades, from H. H. Holmes becoming “the Beast of Chicago” in the 19th century to “the Hillside Stranglers” inciting fear across ...

San Francisco police released a new sketch Wednesday depicting what a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s might look like now in hopes of getting a break in the cold case. Known as the ...

Long after the slayings were relegated to cold-case files, a convicted California serial killer who had long been suspected has been indicted in the New York cases, prosecutors said Thursday. Though ...

Over the centuries, there have been hundreds of documented cases of serial murder around the world, but the term “serial killer” is relatively new. Up until the 1970s in the U.S., serial killers were ...

When you bring up the name of an infamous, real life predator like Jack the Ripper, Dennis Rader or Ted Bundy in conversation with a group of strangers (which I often do as a criminologist), it is ...