For years, police have denied the existence of a serial killer in the heart of Austin, insisting “no foul play” in most cases and concluding they lacked connections beyond a few similar details: ...

Is the law getting better at catching serial killers, or are serial killers getting better at getting away with murder?

Convicted "Alphabet Killer" Joseph Naso may have slain far more than four women, raising new questions for families and ...

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 ...

The 22-year-old Fairfield man may not fit the traditional idea of a serial killer, but one expert says that’s exactly what he is.

For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes people to become serial killers. CNN spoke with three forensic psychologists and serial killer ...

When This American Life announced that they would be producing a spin-off show called Serial, a podcast that tells the true story of a murder investigation by producer Sarah Koenig (seen above ...

Herb Baumeister, a thrift store owner, is believed to have killed at least 25 people from the 1980s to the 1990s and buried them throughout his $1 million, 18-acre property.