serial killer

From the days of London's Jack The Ripper in the 1880s, serial killers have often gotten away with it, in part because their victims were easy targets living on the margins of society.

It comes after investigators turned up "quite a lot of evidence" after searching Rex Heuermann's home.

A man could also be seen operating a piece of equipment that can be used to scan for buried objects.

For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do.

Cops search ramshackle home in Long Island after cold case blown wide open.

A number of women have been found dead in secluded, wooded areas in the last three months, triggering fears a serial killer may be in the area.

Rex Heuermann is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

Rex Heuermann, who has lived for decades across a bay from where the remains of many women were found, is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.

California’s governor has announced he won’t ask the state Supreme Court to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten.

The loved ones of young women brutally killed want a new law passed to stop jailed monster being freed early.

Florida executed a man known as the "ninja killer" on Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey.

Paul Denyer is eligible for parole from today after serving 30 years for the murders of three women in Melbourne in 1993.

Wesley Brownlee has been tied to a string of shootings in Southern California, prosecutors say he used a handgun in at least three murders.

Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, has been ordered to be released because of poor health, good behavior and having already served most of his sentence.

New technology paints a grisly picture, as US officials claim the body count for Indiana's most prolific serial killer could be double what they originally thought

When a 43-year-old man was arrested police found he was armed with a handgun and may have been out hunting for another victim.

A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings over a period of three months has been arrested in northern California.

Keith Bennett, 12, was walking to his grandmothers' when he was abducted and killed by a notorious serial killer couple.

A serial killer may have ambushed five men in central California separately in recent months, shooting them to death alone in the dark, and police are baffled as to why the victims were targeted.

The California Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and death penalty for one of two men implicated in at least 11 notorious horrific torture-slayings in the mid-1980s.

A California panel has denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of slayings more than a half-century ago.

Forensic investigator and reporter John Silvester has revealed shocking new details about the conviction of the 'Frankston serial killer,' who could be released from prison on parole from next year.

Diane Cusick's lifeless body was discovered in the parking lot of a mall. Her killer may have killed more than 80 people.

A Melbourne serial killer who murdered three women in the late 90s will be eligible for parole next year.

The New South Wales attorney-general has recommended another inquiry into the convictions of Kathleen Folbigg for killing her children following new scientific evidence.

A woman who disappeared in a beach community on New York's Long Island more than a decade ago, sparking an investigation into a possible serial killer, said “there's somebody after me" in a newly released 911 tape.

Hybristophilia, the "Bad Boy Syndrome", is the attraction to and sexual interest in criminals who heinous and violent crimes and its a lot more common than you think.

A bloodstained shoe lace measuring 99cm long could help convict a notorious British serial killer of two 1996 murders and free an imprisoned former heroin addict convicted over the brutal killings.

US police have identified a serial killer who murdered five women more than 40 years ago: Joe Michael Ervin.

Today Times Square in New York is known for its neon signs and dazzling billboards, but in the 1970s it was the hunting ground of a "sick" serial killer .

Security camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man suspected in at least six killings over the past two months in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.

When the discovery of more than two dozen bodies stashed under John Wayne Gacy's house near Chicago was making headlines all over the world in the late 1970s, Francis Wayne Alexander's family in North Carolina didn't think much of it.

A woman known for 37 years only as Horseshoe Harriet, one of dozen or so victims of a notorious Alaska serial killer, has been identified.

The NSW Police and Australian Federal Police could soon be using the crucial DNA tool that US law enforcement used to catch the 'Golden State Killer'.

A team of investigators believe they have cracked the case of the notorious Zodiac killer, identifying a man who died three years ago as the culprit.

On December 28, Isao Kakehi became the fourth and final victim of Japan's "Black Widow" killer. Kakehi eventually confessed to poisoning Masanori Honda, Minoru Hioki and Toshiaki Suehiro with cyanide capsules.

Samuel Little died in December in California, where he was serving a life sentence for multiple counts of murder after confessing to killing 93 people.

American authorities said a Brazilian man who died in a plane crash in South America in 2005 was responsible for the slayings of three Florida women two decades ago.

Regina Arthurell will be supervised for another two years after a Supreme Court judge found it would be far too dangerous to set her free.

For crimes he called “vicious and frightening,” a judge gave a death sentence to a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.

The agreement between the governments of Spain and Portugal divided the 'New World' into resources and land claimed by the nations, according to National Geographic.

Police excavations at a cafe in the quiet English city of Gloucester revived a half-century-old puzzle: What happened to Mary Bastholm, a carefree 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1968.

The crimes of William Reece Miller stretch from Oklahoma to the notorious 'Killing Fields' in Texas.

Two Australian journalists spent weeks interviewing Asia's most notorious killer; Charles Sobhraj after his arrest. One said it was impossible not to fall under his spell.

The cellar of a UK cafe will be excavated as police search for the body of a missing teenage girl who it's feared was the victim of a notorious serial killer.

Keren Rowland was five months pregnant when she went missing on the 26th of February, 1971. Nearly three months later the 20-year-old's body was found in a pine plantation.

For years, a savage murderer called the "Torso Killer" dribbled out confessions to a New Jersey detective, closing cold cases into the brutal deaths of four young women that dated back to the late 1960s.

Human remains found at an Indiana farm have been identified as a male Chicago victim of the late serial killer Larry Eyler

Joseph Edward Duncan, whose victims included two young boys, has died after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

A California serial killer who authorities say strangled and raped at least seven women was fatally choked himself in a state prison, officials have said.