"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." America saw a spate of headline-capturing serial killers beginning in the 1970s. The captures of Edmund ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Miller: There’s a lot swirling around in Murderland. You’ve got the history of Tacoma, Seattle, and the greater Pacific ...

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, 480 pages, $32 The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and ...

San Francisco police released a new sketch Wednesday depicting what a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s might look like now in hopes of getting a break in the cold case. Known as the ...

When you bring up the name of an infamous, real life predator like Jack the Ripper, Dennis Rader or Ted Bundy in conversation with a group of strangers (which I often do as a criminologist), it is ...