Prosecutors in multiple counties announced charges for individuals accused of being serial killers this year. The FBI defines serial murder as “the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same ...

Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

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“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” is likely to get people in the mood for more serial killer storytelling, and there are plenty to choose from. Ed Gein’s story inspired a number of movies, as the new ...

Slapstick comedy is a purposefully exaggerated form of performance that can portray a cartoonish reality. In the world of slapstick, characters are constantly getting hurt, mugging their faces, ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Supreme Court created doubt Wednesday, Aug. 6, over the viability of a decades-old state law that makes it a crime to possess certain firearms that lack serial numbers. In ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial ...

Among his Michigan victims were the mother of a 3-year-old girl and a former Detroit News food writer. But it’s suspected that serial killer Coral Eugene Watts slayed far more women than those tied to ...

Watch Buried in the Backyard on Oxygen. Unknown Serial Killers of America, a new Oxygen original series premiering Sunday, May 18, 2025, takes a look at the lesser-known serial killers of the country, ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adnan Syed, whose case amassed a worldwide following of “Serial” podcast listeners, will remain free — even though his murder conviction still stands, a Baltimore judge ruled on ...