Aileen “Lee” Wuornos is infamously known for killing seven men across central Florida between 1989 and 1990. While her high-profile case inspired the 2003 movie Monster, even more insight into her ...

H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman Mudgett, took a job as a pharmacist in Chicago. At this point, he changed ...

For sheer random evil, it is hard to match The Joker. However, there are many real-world murderers whose crimes might match ...

The crime genre operates as a guilty pleasure but also as a cultural symptom, revealing the conditions that make such stories feel necessary and persistently resonant.