More than 5,000 serial killers have been documented throughout human history, spanning a wide range of motives, behaviors and backgrounds. By studying these cases, we can gain insight into the complex ...

While the term “serial killer” is modern, the phenomenon itself has existed for centuries. Long before forensic science or criminal profiling, individuals committed repeated murders that terrified ...

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 ...

Narcissism is considered to be an antisocial personality disorder, and it is frequently manifested among serial killers, some of whom crave public notoriety. One such example is Dennis Rader, the ...

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.