A California serial killer who police believe may have killed more than 60 people has been named as a suspect in an unsolved murder from 45 years ago in Oregon.
A Texas man known as the "Desert Serial Killer" is set to be executed March 13 by lethal injection despite his insistence that he is innocent and multiple appeals.
A self-proclaimed Tennessee serial killer who killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend has pleaded guilty to three more murders after making the stunning admission during his first trial.
Defense attorneys for accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann want to block key DNA evidence from being considered in the case that stretches back decades.
Investigators hope to finally positively identify the victims of a notoroius Indiana serial killer who lured gay men to his home, killed them, and buried them in his yard.
Initial fears of a serial killer in the small town of Jal, New Mexico, have been dispelled after human bone fragments found at a property were determined to likely have been legally purchased online, authorities said.
A Tennessee man called police, claiming to be a hiker who had been attacked by a bear in need of assistance after having fallen off of a cliff. In reality, he had actually killed a hiker, and was attempting to pass the murder off as a bear attack, officials say.
Lonnie Franklin Jr., the man accused in Grim Sleeper serial murders, has been convicted in the case. He is now considered as one of the prolific serial killers in California.
A serial killer from Indiana is facing a new murder charge against him. On Monday, a man who confessed to killing a total of seven woman has been charged with murder in five of the brutal slayings.
The trial of an eccentric former Virginia political candidate charged with murdering three people over an 11-year period started on Monday with jury selection.
Indiana police used a dog trained to hunt for cadavers to search more than 120 vacant structures in the city of Gary on Tuesday, following the discovery of the bodies of six women who may have been victims of a serial killer.
The state of Missouri executed 63-year-old Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist murderer who targeted blacks and Jews during a multistate killing spree between 1977 and 1980
Israel Keyes, a serial killer in Alaska, may be linked to 11 killings, and may have possible ties to even more slayings, according to federal agents. Keyes committed suicide in December 2012, after police say he confessed to at least seven murders nationwide, which extended from Vermont to Washington state.
The three women whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags in East Cleveland have been identified, NBC News reported. The three identities are 18-year-old Shirellda Hellen Terry, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheely and 38-year-old Angela Deskins. Suspect Michael Madison is in custody and facing preliminary charges of aggravated murder and kidnapping in the multiple murders.
