Tag: Serial Murder

The last person to be hanged in Western Australia, serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke terrorized the Perth suburbs with random killings before he was caught.

Take a look at the research into the brains of serial killers including the statistics and the motivations behind their killing.

Serial killer Ted Bundy was a handsome and charming man at first glance, but he was a man who harboured dark thoughts and sinister intentions. A man who just before ...

Serial killers are an unique kind of individual. Their behaviour has fascinated psychologists, criminologists, journalists and the general public for years. To that end there is a never-ending stream...

A review of true crime book Clutches of Madness, exploring the crimes of serial killers and just what lies beneath the surface of these individuals.

Criminal profiler Robert Ressler has analyzed some of the worst serial killers in American history including Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy.

She was an innocent blond child who got into the wind, snatched from her home in the dead of night and carried off into oblivion...

An Australian teacher claims to have unmasked the Jack the Ripper identity revealing Francis Thompson as the prime suspect in the historic killings of 1888.

In films, books, and crime dramas, serial killers tend to leave dramatic signatures behind. The killer in the 1980 film Maniac scalped his victims to use their hair on his ...

A deeply personal book from Lionel Dahmer, the father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, trying to understand his son's actions.

In his first historical true crime book, Brian Forschner uncovers an unknown serial killer who in 1900’s Dayton, Ohio brutally murdered five young women.

Alexander Pichushkin was a Russian serial killer who between 1992 and 2006 aimed to kill 64 people to match the number of squares on a chessboard.