A mother. A seamstress. A cook. For two years, women were stalked and killed, while officials dismissed the deaths as the ...

Although an internet search on classifications of serial killers might turn up just one, there are multiple systems, depending on the purpose of the research that grounds them.

Amelia Dyer is believed to be the UK's most prolific serial killer, with the murderess killing as many as 3,900 babies - and ...

Caroline Fraser has pulled a major switcheroo with her new book, “Murderland.” ...

Japan has executed a death row prisoner, public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said Friday, the first time since ...

Japan hangs the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

Walking tours, a museum and even a fish and chip shop all trade heavily on the legend of one of the world’s most notorious ...

In 1919, a jazz-loving killer known as the "Axeman" terrorized New Orleans — but a century later, one local historian believes the murderer may have been an Axewoman.

The Bender family is believed to have killed around 20 travelers in the late 1800s. ... University of Kansas are uncovering remnants from the suspected home of America’s first serial killer family.

Butting up to Camden Park in Milan is a wooded area that in the late 1800s was the farm of Henry Bastian. Young men Bastian hired as farm hands worked Tour tells tale of 1800s serial killer in Milan ...