Britain's worst serial killer Harold Shipman, known as 'Dr Death', was convicted of murdering 15 patients and forgery in 2000 and hanged himself in prison four years later.

James Holland, the Texas Ranger who helped crack "the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history," is breaking his silence on how he finally got the murderer to confess.

SERIAL killer John Shaw could soon be prosecuted over Elizabeth Plunkett’s murder — as DNA may finally nail him 50 years on.

What did Harold Shipman say about his wife, Primrose, in these personal letters written by him in prison — just weeks before he was found hanging in his jail cell?

To his friends and neighbors, John Wayne Gacy was a friendly contractor and part-time clown. But behind the smile was a prolific serial killer who murdered at least 33 young men and teen boys. Using ...

In a 1991 taped call from jail, Aileen Wuornos told girlfriend Tyria Moore she would confess “to keep [her] from getting in trouble" The Netflix documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers — ...

There’s a theory about how New Jersey native Richard Cottingham, known as the “Torso Killer,” managed to get away with killing so many women and girls in the 1960s and ’70s. It was a different era: no ...

Harold Shipman, Britain's worst serial killer, wrote a series of letters from prison including his final mention of wife ...

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer and one of America’s most prolific convicted serial killers, is receiving end-of-life care in a Washington ...