Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and '80s, some of whom claimed very large totals ...

Ed Killer," terrorized the area around Santa Cruz County in California, but it was 1,377 miles away from the city itself, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Miller: There's a lot swirling around in Murderland. You've got the history of Tacoma, Seattle, and the greater Pacific ...

San Francisco police released a new sketch Wednesday depicting what a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s might look like now in hopes of getting a break in the cold case. Known as the ...

Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time. A majority of serial killings are sexually motivated, according to the FBI. Serial murders are relatively rare.

Serial killers became scarily common between the 1970s and the early 00s, in what’s known as the golden age of serial murder.

Two women who were slain in Miami in the 1970s were killed by the United States' deadliest serial killer, authorities said. In a memo written by an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade County on ...

Stéphane Bourgoin, a self-described French expert on serial killers, lived in a world of make-believe. While making low-grade films, he learned what hooked an audience: shock, sex, and gore. In the ...

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, 480 pages, $32 The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and ...