Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the ...
In 2014, the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee gripped the world. But the crime in question happened 15 years earlier. Lee, a Baltimore-area high school student, was strangled to death in 1999. Her ...
Former homicide detective Pat Postiglione reviews portrayals of serial killers in movies and TV shows. He analyzes the psychology and methods of serial killers as seen in "Silence of the Lambs," ...
A serial killer is an individual who murders a series of victims over a period of time, typically with gaps between each killing. Some serial killers kidnap and or torture their victims before ...