America saw a spate of headline-capturing serial killers beginning in the 1970s. The captures of Edmund Kemper and the Son of Sam early in the decade were followed by the falls of Ted Bundy, John ...

Which countries have the most documented serial killers? The U.S. tops the ranking by a staggering margin with 3,803 identified cases.

Dozens of serial killers have terrorized American communities over the decades, from H. H. Holmes becoming “the Beast of Chicago” in the 19th century to “the Hillside Stranglers” inciting fear across ...

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 ...

Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of graphic violence, sexual assault, rape, and suicide.Serial killers have fascinated society for decades. What causes someone to cross that ...

When you bring up the name of an infamous, real life predator like Jack the Ripper, Dennis Rader or Ted Bundy in conversation with a group of strangers (which I often do as a criminologist), it is ...

Two women who were slain in Miami in the 1970s were killed by the United States' deadliest serial killer, authorities said. In a memo written by an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade County on ...

Stéphane Bourgoin, a self-described French expert on serial killers, lived in a world of make-believe. While making low-grade films, he learned what hooked an audience: shock, sex, and gore. In the ...

Serial killers became scarily common between the 1970s and the early 00s, in what’s known as the golden age of serial murder. From twisted killer Dennis Nilsen, notorious for stuffing body parts down ...

In Caroline Fraser’s 2025 book “Murderland,” the air is always thick with smog, and sinister beings lie around every corner. Fraser, Ph.D. ’87, in her first book since “Prairie Fires,” her Pulitzer ...