Authorities are responding to rumors of a serial killer after 34 bodies have been found in local bayous, saying there is no ...

(CNN) -- For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. Dennis Rader, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey ...

Society is fascinated with the phenomenon of serial killers, with true crime shows and podcasts having surged in recent years. In 2022, Dateline NBC a popular true crime show averaged 3 million ...

In the winter of 2021, “Saturday Night Live” spoofed the true-crime industrial complex with a musical number called “Murder Show.” The sketch sends up the consumption of spectacular depravity as an ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Police worked Tuesday to dispel social media speculation that a serial killer is on the loose in Columbus. After three women were found dead Saturday with gunshot wounds in a ...

Nearly a decade ago, reporters Sarah Koenig and Dana Chivvis set out to tell a different kind of story about Guantánamo Bay, the prison and court created by the US shortly after 9/11, intended to ...

Serial killers are among the worst of the worst criminals. Their crimes? Heinous and shocking. Yet, society's fascination with these murderers is undeniable. Perhaps it's because we seek to understand ...