A convicted serial killer imprisoned in connection with multiple murders has confessed to killing 18-year-old nursing student ...

Richard Cottingham, also known as the ‘Times Square Killer,’ admitted to killing Alys Eberhardt in Fair Lawn in 1965.

H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman ...

THE depraved serial killer who claims to have violently murdered 100 women has now made yet another horrific confession.

Elmer Wayne Henley was briefly considered a hero after he fatally shot serial killer Dean Corll and saved the lives of two ...

Jeff Mudgett learned the shocking truth at a family dinner: His great-great-grandfather was H.H. Holmes, the infamous con man and serial killer who operated a so-called “Murder Castle” during the 1893 ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Caroline Fraser, the author of “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in ...

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 ...

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Jeff Mudgett learned he is the great-great-grandson of H.H. Holmes, America's first known serial killer. Mudgett claims handwriting analysis proves H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper were the same person ...