New research provides evidence that sexually motivated serial killers are often driven by a complex combination of grandiose entitlement and deep-seated emotional vulnerability. A study analyzing the ...

The Big Apple’s most notorious serial killer is getting a new close-up. In the Netflix docuseries, “Conversations With a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes” (now ...

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...

In a 1991 taped call from jail, Aileen Wuornos told girlfriend Tyria Moore she would confess “to keep [her] from getting in trouble" The Netflix documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers — ...

How a director’s dream true crime project accidentally became the most entertaining and insightful media criticism of 2025. Charlie Shackleton started working in documentaries in 2015, the same year ...