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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 ...

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 ...

Over the centuries, there have been hundreds of documented cases of serial murder around the world, but the term “serial killer” is relatively new. Up until the 1970s in the U.S., serial killers were ...

San Francisco police released a new sketch Wednesday depicting what a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s might look like now in hopes of getting a break in the cold case. Known as the ...

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 ...

France — Marcel Petiot, a medical doctor and serial killer convicted of 26 murders (though suspected of killing as many as ...

Long after the slayings were relegated to cold-case files, a convicted California serial killer who had long been suspected has been indicted in the New York cases, prosecutors said Thursday. Though ...

Serial killers became scarily common between the 1970s and the early 00s, in what’s known as the golden age of serial murder.