Herbert William Mullin, left, is shown in court during his 1973 trial for 10 of the 13 murders that Mullin, then 26, confessed to. Mullin, right, died Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, at the California ...

Editor's note: This story originally ran in April 2018 and has been updated to reflect the death of Herbert Mullin on Aug. 18, 2022. It started with a fire in the hills above Santa Cruz on the ...

Mullin was one of three serial killers whose crimes led to Santa Cruz being labeled the nation’s ‘murder capital’ in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Herbert William Mullin, 75, died Thursday at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton. According to California prison officials, his death appeared to be from natural causes. Mullin was ...

Herbert William Mullin admitted to killing 13 people in the early 1970s, including two young children and a Catholic priest. The former honor student, 75, died Thursday at the California Health ...