Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, 480 pages, $32 The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." America saw a spate of headline-capturing serial killers beginning in the 1970s. The captures of Edmund ...

Speculation continues to swirl over the health of Washington state’s “Green River Killer” — who murdered at least 49 women and girls in the 1980s and 90s – after local reports claimed he was “near ...

You wouldn't know it from watching the three Law & Orders, three CSIs, and two NCISs, but the number of confirmed serial murders declined almost 70 percent in the last two decades. Lest one think ...

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.

Communities in Texas are panicking after bodies of multiple young women turned up in local bayous. With pressure on police to solve these killings building, speculation about a possible serial killer ...

Oxygen audiences are no strangers to some of the deadliest serial killers in the nation. Jeffrey Dahmer, for example, earned notoriety for the cannibalistic murders of 17 young men and boys in the ...

Ever wonder if there are as many serial killers lurking in the shadows as there used to be? Well, tried-and-true crime followers have, which is why Oxygen.com wanted to get to the bottom of the truth ...

People like typologies. They simplify complex subjects and make them easier to discuss. Sometimes, a typology will seem to be the standard. Look up “types of serial killers” and you’ll likely get the ...