"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." America saw a spate of headline-capturing serial killers beginning in the 1970s. The captures of Edmund ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Serial Killer; The Exhibition," highlighting 150 serial killers from around the world, includes the Atlanta Child Murders.

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 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A disturbing German film showing the true story of a serial killer who preyed on women in Hamburg's red-light district in the 1970s does not glorify violence but explores the ...

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

The murder of O'Jays member Frankie Little Jr. has been a cold case for more than 50 years. Now, a retired journalist ...

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 ...