It seems obvious that anyone who willfully and repeatedly commits murder is a psychopath: remorseless, egotistical, manipulative, and cruel. Think of Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, or John Wayne Gacy.

The Missoula Mauler. The Serial Killer Clown. The Giggling Granny. The BTK Killer. These names may send chills through anyone familiar with America’s true crime history. Each bizarre alias belonging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Netflix docuseries Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, which premiered Thursday, reexamines the story of Aileen Wuornos, ...

Elizabeth Arnott’s debut thriller “The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives” follows three women in 1966 L.A. who uncover a serial killer before law enforcement. The novel grew from Arnott’s decades-old ...

Researchers at the University of Bamberg have traced a darkly intricate form of narcissism in sexually motivated male serial killers, reporting that many offenders combine brittle sensitivity with a ...

A man dubbed the “Riverside Prostitute Killer” terrorized the California area in the late ’80s and early ’90s, picking up working girls and discarding their bodies in inhuman ways. Watch Buried in the ...

Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Ed Gein will appear in a Serial Killer Speakeasy event for true-crime fans.

From Jack the Ripper to John Wayne Gacy to Aileen Wuornos, the horrific legacies of serial killers have managed to both appall and intrigue, as people attempt to explore and understand the darkest ...

'The Mind of a Serial Killer' exhibition showcases the crimes of John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and more Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of ...

Jagger Strang wrote in a 'manifesto' that he thought about doing 'something big, something violent' ...