Throughout history, some criminals have committed crimes so shocking that their names became symbols of fear. From trusted ...

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Serial killer Rex Heuermann is finally going to hell. It comes in the form of one of New York state’s oldest prisons, a bleak facility isolated in the frigid Adirondack Mountains near the Canadian ...

“I spent almost 10 years rotting inside after he was arrested. Not being able to speak, not thinking I was allowed to speak,” she says in the documentary. “In the Midwest code, you don’t ever air your ...

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 ...

Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach, Florida, prostitute convicted of killing multiple men and dubbed the "queen of the serial killers," was ready for her close-up after confessing to protect the woman ...

There’s a typical profile people expect when they think about serial killers: cunning, cold-blooded, and most importantly, male. So when Aileen Wuornos was first arrested in January 1991 as the prime ...

Serial killer shows, like Monster: The Ed Gein Story and the equally as disturbing The Serpentabout Charles Sobhraj, have never been more popular – and most of these stories focus on disturbed men ...

BAY CITY, MI — The witching season is upon us, the days before Halloween tantalizing us into revisiting classic horror movies or reading vintage ghost stories. But for the most macabre and ...

Cinema draws much of its power from letting us witness things we wouldn't otherwise see in real life. Thankfully, most of us will never encounter serial killers in our day-to-day lives, but we sure do ...