Serial killers grip our imagination with their chilling crimes and complex minds. TV shows about these figures pull us into stories of suspense, psychology, and investigation that keep us glued to the ...

The New York Times this morning ran what may be the most detailed profile yet of the Long Island serial killer. He's "most likely a white male in his mid-20s to mid-40s. He is married or has a ...

Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Over the course of two series and 19 episodes, Mindhunter's run cemented its status as Netflix 's best show to many fans.

A decade after tackling the curious case of a notorious real-life serial killer in Zodiac, David Fincher tackled a whole host of them in his Netflix series Mindhunter. Fincher has been fascinated with ...

Serial killers do not act randomly; they respond to deeply embedded neural scripts formed through early imprinting and reinforced by symbolic releasers. Ethologists like Konrad Lorenz and Niko ...

The Hulu documentary 'Ted Bundy: Dialogue with the Devil' details how one serial killer helped catch another Christopher Rudolph is a contributing writer for PEOPLE. He previously covered ...

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...

n the mid-1980s, tragedy struck two villages in Leicestershire, England. In two separate instances, three years apart, two teenage girls were raped and murdered on their way home from school. On ...

The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark. By S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby is a New York Times best-selling writer from southeastern ...