Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Experts note an 80% drop-off since US serial killing peaked in the 1970s – but that hasn’t stopped a surge of interest For the past two years, rumors of a serial killer have preoccupied residents of ...

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

In the winter of 2021, “Saturday Night Live” spoofed the true-crime industrial complex with a musical number called “Murder Show.” The sketch sends up the consumption of spectacular depravity as an ...

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 ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Society is fascinated with the phenomenon of serial killers, with true crime shows and podcasts having surged in recent ...

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Serial Maven Studios has launched a distribution division ahead of MIPCOM. The unit debuts with 300 hours of factual content, with Serial Maven CEO Solange Attwood in charge.

For over 30 years Stéphane Bourgoin was known in France as the leading expert on serial killers. During his tenure he interviewed 77 murderers, including Charles Manson. He trained at the FBI’s base ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains minor spoilers for “Milk & Serial,” now available to watch on YouTube. Curry Barker has delivered the year’s most unlikely hit. The filmmaker and comedian is the ...

In motion pictures, we like to think of the silver screen as a window through which the audience gets transported into another world. But it’s more than that. It’s also a mirror, reflecting our own ...