"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." America saw a spate of headline-capturing serial killers beginning in the 1970s. The captures of Edmund ...

Herbert Mullin was an infamous serial killer in California in the 1970s. No one suspected him of being a serial killer at ...

Murdaugh defense lawyer Dick Harpootlian recently released a true-crime book about notorious 1970s serial killer Donald “Pee ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A disturbing German film showing the true story of a serial killer who preyed on women in Hamburg's red-light district in the 1970s does not glorify violence but explores the ...

Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time. A majority of serial killings are sexually motivated, according to the FBI. Serial murders are relatively rare.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...