H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman Mudgett, took a job as a pharmacist in Chicago. At this point, he changed ...

Richard Cottingham, also known as the ‘Times Square Killer,’ admitted to killing Alys Eberhardt in Fair Lawn in 1965.

After 27 years without answers, Kentucky police have tied the unsolved homicide that haunted the Lexington department to a ...

A convicted serial killer imprisoned in connection with multiple murders has confessed to killing 18-year-old nursing student ...

Texas is a state known for its Wild West history — for the outlaws, the criminals and the bandits. People like Sam Bass, the legendary train robber and John Wesley Hardin, notorious gunfighter, are ...

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare told KPRC: “There is nothing, nothing, and I want to be crystal clear, to indicate that there is someone operating here as a serial killer. There are many ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Caroline Fraser, the author of “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in ...

Ready for shivers down your spine—and maybe skipping your next construction site visit? If you thought Netflix’s obsession ...

Jeff Mudgett learned he is the great-great-grandson of H.H. Holmes, America's first known serial killer. Mudgett claims handwriting analysis proves H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper were the same person ...

Jeff Mudgett learned the shocking truth at a family dinner: His great-great-grandfather was H.H. Holmes, the infamous con man and serial killer who operated a so-called “Murder Castle” during the 1893 ...