Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals the state of Montana has the highest number of serial killers per capita ...

Forensic psychologists explain why serial killers in America far outnumber every other nation's recorded cases. The post Why ...

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 new Netflix docuseries Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, which premiered Thursday, reexamines the story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's most notorious female serial killers, more than two ...

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. New season of ...

If Damien McDaniel is convicted of the 18 murders with which he is charged, he would become the most prolific known killer in Alabama’s history. If he is convicted of just two of those 18 killings, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...