What drives a serial killer? Hardwired instincts, symbolic triggers, and ritualized predation—unraveling ancestral imprints.

Charles William Davis, Jr., 77, confessed to the 1975 killing. He is in prison serving life sentences for other murders.

A former British soldier who pleaded guilty to the murder of three women at their family home north of London has been ...

Army veteran Stephan Smerk, 53, pleaded guilty in October to the 1994 stabbing death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was ...

When Fairfax County police confronted Stephen Smerk, he was married and raising two high school-aged children in a quiet town ...

Historical accounts say Betty Lathen, an enslaved woman in Monmouth County at the time, accompanied her enslaver, Arthur ...

Every DNA fragment tells a story. Forensic experts use these genetic breadcrumbs to solve old mysteries and modern crimes.

A teenager wanted in connection with a string of alleged sexual assaults in the Twin Cities was arrested earlier this week in ...

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The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. An investigation shows they were the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by ...

Days before the attacks, Louise had ended an 18-month relationship with Clifford. She told Clifford, who she had met through a dating app, it was "sucking the life out of me". Her family were ...

The man who police said confessed to stabbing and killing a Springfield woman in 1994 was given the maximum sentence his ...