How many murders are serial killers responsible for each year?

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To add to the confusion, other personality disorders have been associated with criminal behavior and serial murder.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser's 'Murderland' delves into the lead-crime theory behind the proliferation of ...

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It seems obvious that anyone who willfully and repeatedly commits murder is a psychopath: remorseless, egotistical, manipulative, and cruel. Think of Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, or John Wayne Gacy.

Serial killers may seem like a modern phenomenon tied to the 20th century, but history reveals that humans have been fascinated—and horrified—by repeat murderers for centuries. While recordkeeping in ...

FROM a young age Jemma Lilley immersed herself in horror – shelves of gory films, blocks of razor-sharp knives in her home, ...

A man dubbed the “Riverside Prostitute Killer” terrorized the California area in the late ’80s and early ’90s, picking up working girls and discarding their bodies in inhuman ways. Watch Buried in the ...

If Damien McDaniel is convicted of the 18 murders with which he is charged, he would become the most prolific known killer in Alabama’s history. If he is convicted of just two of those 18 killings, he ...

Three women survived marriages to serial killers and use their experience to catch one. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Elizabeth Arnott about her new novel, "The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives." ...