What drives serial killers to commit murder repeatedly? After many years of research, the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI has concluded that serial killers program themselves in childhood to become ...

Writer Saratoga Schaefer is seen with the book they wrote, “Serial Killer Support Group,” in Shark Tooth Tattoo on March 10 in Saratoga Springs. Writer Saratoga Schaefer is pictured with their book, ...

Ever wonder if there are as many serial killers lurking in the shadows as there used to be? Well, tried-and-true crime followers have, which is why Oxygen.com wanted to get to the bottom of the truth ...

When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary Ridgway, the future Green River Killer, grew up just a short drive north. Both ...

The Candyman Killer‘s infamous apprentice, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., breaks his silence for the first time in 50 years in the all-new documentary “The Serial Killer’s Apprentice,” premiering Sunday, ...

Jack the Ripper. “The Butcher of Plainfield.” Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. These are just five of 150 murderers featured in the sprawling new “Serial Killer: The Exhibition” at Pullman ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Caroline Fraser, the author of “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in ...

People like typologies. They simplify complex subjects and make them easier to discuss. Sometimes, a typology will seem to be the standard. Look up “types of serial killers,” and you’ll likely get the ...

"The Serial Killer's Apprentice": Inside the Mind of Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., the Man Who Killed Houston's Infamous Candyman Killer He helped the Candyman Killer, then killed him.