A man named Peter Sgromo has described a violent encounter he says took place last year with Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old Toronto-area landscaper who was charged this week with the murders of five men. On January 18, Toronto police found remains of three dismembered people in flower planters at a property where…
Bruce McArthur, a Toronto-area landscaper and part-time mall Santa, has been charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of five men, and police have announced that they anticipate more victims to surface.
Karla Homolka, who murdered and raped three teen girls with her boyfriend Paul Bernardo in the early 1990s, has been seen volunteering at her children’s elementary school in Montreal, according to City News.
Police in the Chinese province of Gansu say they’ve arrested the man that the media has dubbed “China’s Jack the Ripper.” Gao Chengyong is suspected of raping and murdering 11 women and girls between 1988 and 2002. Police say Chengyong has confessed to the crimes, which sometimes included the removal of the victims’…
Authorities in Brazoria County, Texas have confirmed that human remains found on a remote patch of private land belong to Kelli Cox, a 20-year-old college student who vanished in 1997. William Reece, a former truck driver serving 60 years on a kidnapping charge, told police he buried Cox there. Reece is linked to the…
Goodnight, sweet prince. After only three episodes, ABC has pulled the mini-blinds down on Wicked City. The serial killer drama starred Ed Westwick and Erika Christensen as a murderous couple living in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, and was inspired by real-life serial killer couple Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy,…
Candice Franklin is an ex-sex worker and a survivor of rape and attempted murder who came forward to report her attack. In doing so, she identified and help convict Michael A. Johnson Jr., a serial killer who had been at large in Chicago for years.
During a panel at the Television Critics’ Association press tour, American Horror Story co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk revealed new information about Hotel, the horror anthology’s upcoming fifth season.
A sex worker in Charleston, West Virginia shot and killed a man in self-defense who had a list of prostitutes in his pocket and a “kill kit” in his Subaru. Police are now beginning to link the 45-year-old man, Neal Falls, to the unsolved murders of sex workers in the Las Vegas area and in Chillicothe, Ohio.
On July 20, 2012, James Holmes entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and killed 12 people (70 others were injured). Immediately after, James Holmes fan sites—most of them helmed by young women—began appearing on Tumblr. At the time, many of these women proclaimed him to be innocent, but now, two years later, he…
A recent study from Penn State has put together a definitive profile of the average American female serial killer, combing through the 64 "FSKs" who committed their crimes in the US between 1821 and 2008.
"It" being this Brazilian serial killer. Well, would you?
A nurse in Italy has been arrested for allegedly killing 38 patients because she found them and their family members annoying.
This is the third installment of Lady Killers, a series about female serial killers. Read chapters 1 and 2 here.
Swedish self-confessed serial killer Sture Bergwall has been acquitted after a re-trial. After spending 20 years in a high-security psychiatric facility, it's now thought that he invented the dozens of false murders, rapes, and cannibalism that he confessed to committing as "Thomas Quick." Go read GQ's long, excellent…
Creepy news, everyone! There's been some movement in one of the most disturbing serial killer cases in forever. In June of 2010, 57-year-old Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested and charged with 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the deaths of women over several decades in South Los Angeles.…
Well, more like Lizzie the Ripper, but somebody (don't deny it) was going to make a gratuitous Jack and Jill joke, and hopefully this opening gambit will head any attempts at macabre doggerel about Jack and Jill trying to murder each other off at the commenting pass.
Why are so many women fascinated with serial killers? That evergreen topic came up again this week in two different articles in Psychology Today. Both pieces focus on the specific phenomenon of women who fall in love with and attempt (with mixed success) to marry imprisoned murderers. What they leave unanswered is a…
In December, the bodies of four women were found near a stretch of highway on Long Island while police were looking for Shannan Gilbert, a missing New Jersey woman who worked as a prostitute. In the next few months, the remains of six more people turned up a few miles away. Yesterday police revealed that they still…
At a news conference today authorities identified another body found along Long Island's Ocean Parkway, and revealed that the 10 sets of human remains discovered since December were likely dumped by at least two killers, and probably more.