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 ...

Netflix's 'Woman of the Hour' is based on the true story of Rodney Alcala, a seemingly ordinary contestant on a '70s TV dating show who was secretly a serial killer Ted Soqui/Corbis/Getty In the 1970s ...

The phrase “Elmer Wayne Henley is Houston’s most prolific living serial killer” is a sentence that requires an asterisk at the end big enough to bury six bodies. Henley is a rarity in the world of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It turns out that a serial killer convicted in Marin County 12 years ago may be one of the nation's most prolific. Joseph Naso now claims he killed 26 women, according to a new ...

A serial pedophile has agreed to be castrated as part of a plea deal after he was caught trying to sexually assault a seven-year-old girl. Thomas Allen McCartney, 37, is classified a 'Tier Three' ...

“Murderland,” a new book, links serial killers in the Pacific Northwest to a Tacoma smelter. The book explores the connection between lead exposure and violent crime. It focuses largely on the city’s ...

Fredia Gibbs survived a terrifying encounter with a serial killer and went on to become the first African-American female kickboxing world champion. This video tells the story of how she transformed ...

GREENVILLE, Miss. – Angel Chavez-Heras, a 35-year-old man from Moundville, Alabama, was sentenced Friday to more than 27 years in prison for enticing a minor in Northern Mississippi. Court documents ...

ATLANTA — A Georgia man is standing trial for the murder of his wife, who was also the daughter of a convicted serial killer. Opening statements got underway Thursday in the case against Christopher ...

Shasta Groene was eight years old when, in May 2005, she and her brother Dylan were kidnapped by serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III after he killed her mother, her mother’s boyfriend, and her ...

ATLANTA — Norma Patton, the mother of Melissa Wolfenbarger, testified Monday in a Fulton County courtroom about the abuse her daughter suffered at the hands of Christopher Wolfenbarger, her husband.