Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” is likely to get people in the mood for more serial killer storytelling, and there are plenty to choose from. Ed Gein’s story inspired a number of movies, as the new ...

What is “The Serial Killer’s Apprentice” about? When “The Serial Killer’s Apprentice” launched on Aug. 17, viewers witnessed unprecedented interviews with Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., the accomplice to ...

Oxygen's new series Death Row Confidential: Secrets of a Serial Killer examines the gripping story of convicted killer Joseph Naso, and how a fellow inmate came to connect him to many more cold cases.

The brand new true-crime documentary The Serial Killer’s Apprentice premieres on Investigation Discovery Sunday, Aug. 17 at 9/8c. The documentary follows Dr. Katherine Ramsland, an American ...

You’re at a bar and strike up a conversation with a cute guy. You have so much in common: You were both competitive college athletes, have the same taste in TV and movies, want to try a local hike you ...

In the winter of 2021, “Saturday Night Live” spoofed the true-crime industrial complex with a musical number called “Murder Show.” The sketch sends up the consumption of spectacular depravity as an ...

The case that captured the attention of people across the country has finally come to a conclusion: Karen Read was acquitted of the 2022 death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe. To a screaming crowd of ...

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman whose widely watched murder trial ended with a hung jury last year, was acquitted of second-degree murder Wednesday after prosecutors retried her in the 2022 death ...

Caroline Fraser grew up in an area defined by unexpected, stochastic bursts of brutality. By the time she was a teen, in the 1970s, she knew of multiple people in and around her Mercer Island, ...

Editor's note: This is a summary of jury deliberations in the Karen Read trial for Monday, June 16. For the latest on the deliberations, visit USA TODAY's story for Tuesday, June 17. Jurors in Karen ...