A new book by a Penn State faculty member examines the differences between male and female serial killers, what motivates women to kill and why they often get away with it.

But to get that truth, detectives had to go on one of the darkest journeys imaginable -- inside the mind of a serial killer. They spent six months living with Ridgway, taping every conversation.

When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary Ridgway, the future Green River Killer, grew up just a few miles north. Both ...

Inside a serial killer’s mind Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and Samuel Little are just some of the most infamous American serial killers. Fascination with their stories continues ...

In fiction, the serial killer is a tempting trope because if the story slows, the writer can just drop another body to create more fear and suspicion in the mind of the reader. SEE ALSO: The Best ...

Author Robert P. Maroney explores this tantalizing concept in his new book titled 'THE KILLER'S HANDBOOK.' Add a Show Listing: BOOKS. Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Oxygen Media, the destination for high-quality crime programming, will examine one of the most infamous criminal masterminds in U.S. history with“Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer,” ...

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Getting inside the mind of one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history may have taken two decades for Dave Reichert, but it was worth the effort, an effort being portrayed in a new ...

It ends—as these books often do—in a game of cat and mouse, and the serial killer is no cat. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.