By Victor J. Fisher January 20, 2025 In December 2010, a police officer searching for a missing woman named Shannan Gilbert made a disturbing discovery along Ocean Parkway on Long Island's South Shore...
By Victor J. Fisher January 19, 2025 Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, is often called America's first serial killer. Between 1891 and 1894, he murdered an unknown number of victims...
By Victor J. Fisher January 18, 2025 Israel Keyes was not like other serial killers. He did not hunt in a specific area. He did not target a specific type of victim. He did not follow compulsions that...
By Victor J. Fisher January 17, 2025 Between June 1984 and August 1985, a killer terrorized the greater Los Angeles area. He broke into homes at random, murdering, assaulting, and robbing victims with...
By Victor J. Fisher January 16, 2025 Edmund Emil Kemper III stands six feet nine inches tall and possesses an IQ measured at 145. Between 1964 and 1973, he murdered ten people, including his paternal ...
By Victor J. Fisher January 10, 2025 John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. He buried most of them beneath his own home in suburban Chicago. During those same y...
By Victor J. Fisher January 2, 2025 Every crime leaves evidence. The transfer principle, formulated by forensic scientist Edmond Locard over a century ago, states that every contact leaves a trace. Wh...
By Victor J. Fisher September 5, 2024 Theodore Robert Bundy confessed to murdering 30 women across seven states between 1974 and 1978. Investigators believe the true number may exceed 100. What distin...
By Victor J. Fisher June 10, 2024 Gary Leon Ridgway confessed to killing 49 women. Investigators believe the actual number exceeds 70. For nearly two decades, he murdered vulnerable women along the hi...
By Victor J. Fisher April 15, 2024 For over four decades, the Golden State Killer terrorized California. He committed at least 13 murders, more than 50 rapes, and over 100 burglaries between 1974 and ...
By Victor J. Fisher February 8, 2024 For over three decades, Dennis Rader terrorized Wichita, Kansas. He bound, tortured, and killed ten people between 1974 and 1991. He called himself BTK, an acronym...
When we think of the word psychopath fear comes to mind for many of us. The simple fact is that those who are psychopaths may very well be sadistic enough to find pleasure in the pain they cause. Sadl...
By Victor J. Fisher March 24, 2023 As we reflect on the Jack the Ripper case and the advancements in forensic science since then, there are several key lessons that we, as modern forensic investigator...
Greetings to all you darkness aficionados, Victor J. Fisher here, founder of the Forensic Darkness Organization, and your humble guide through the gruesome and macabre. Today, we embark on a historica...