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 8, 2025 Between December 1968 and October 1969, a killer terrorized Northern California. He shot couples in lovers' lanes, stabbed picnickers at a lake, and murdered a taxi...
By Victor J. Fisher January 4, 2025 Aileen Wuornos killed seven men along Florida highways between 1989 and 1990. She was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed in 2002. She remains one of the fe...
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...
The Ortega Highway, also called State Route 74, is a historically significant and scenic road located in Southern California. This highway not only covers 28 miles of mountainous terrain, but it also ...
Netflix has a way of bringing to life history in a manner meant to bring out our emotions. Serial killers who dismember their victims are thought to be some of the sickest people alive. To think someo...
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...
Serial killers are a subject of great interest for many reasons. As we have seen on TV and in real life, throughout the years serial killers have caused not just fear in the public but fascination. Sa...
January is National stalking awareness month and the United States Department of Justice vows to help victims and survivors find the help they need. Stalking is a serious offense and can be quite terr...
If you are a surviving family member of a victim of a murder, there is help. While no one can even begin to imagine your pain, knowing that you are not alone is essential. There is a whole world waiti...
On July 15th 2002, 5 year old Samantha Runnion was kidnapped outside her home in Stanton, California. Her mother was nearby, but sadly unaware a child predator was watching her child, until it was too...