Serial Killers

On FX's The Bridge, Serial Killers Are a First-World Problem

Despite State Ban, Federal Inmate Ronell Wilson Is Sent to Death Row

KILLER INSTINCT

Solve the crime in Bryant Park

Elijah Wood Kills Party Girls as a Maniac

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files Uncovers Nothing New

The Collection

Murder, Inc.

The biggest criminals are on the loose

Q&A: Tech N9ne On Lil Wayne, The Doors, And Getting Drunk On Hip-Hop Squares

Midwestern rap weirdo Tech N9ne had an unexpected guest spot on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV last year ("Interlude" with Andre 3000), but the 40-year-old Kansas City motormouth's most memorable track has to be "Areola," his 2009 not-at-all-joking breast anthem that comes with its own anatomy lesson ("D ... More >>

A Brief History of Cannibalism in America

Last Saturday, 31 year-old Rudy Eugene was eating a homeless man's face before being shot dead by Miami police. A few days later, reports surfaced that a New Jersey Man stabbed himself and threw pieces of his intestines at cops. Shortly after, news broke that Alexander Kinyua, a student at Maryland' ... More >>

BEING JACK UNTERWEGER

John Malkovich is once again in the line of fire

Monsieur Verdoux

I Can't Sleep

A Horrible Way to Die: So I Dated A Serial Killer (or Am One)

Michele Bachmann Mixes Up Iowa's John Wayne, Compares Herself to Serial Killer

In what's sure to be a year-and-a-half of high-profile, overanalyzed gaffes, Michele Bachmann, one of the down home candidates attempting to drive the Republican clown car, doesn't really know that much about American pop culture or geography, shouting out Waterloo, Iowa's John Wayne -- "that's the ... More >>

Long Island Dead Bodies Reward Raised to $25,000

​Way too many bodies have been found since December along the Jones Beach, Gilgo Beach and Ocean Parkway area of Suffolk County, Long Island. The four identified so far -- Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Melissa Barthelemy -- are thought to be the work of a Lon ... More >>

Long Island Serial Killer Connection: Cocaine?

​This week's issue of New York magazine has the most in-depth feature yet about the serial killer search spooking locals this year, with body after body being found near Long Islando's Gilgo and Jones beaches. Though remains from 10 bodies have been discovered in the area, the case for a seria ... More >>

The Silence of the Lambs

There Are Two Long Island Serial Killers; Fifth Victim Identified as Jessica Taylor

​Police found the remains of six bodies last month on Long Island, and when added to the four bodies found previously nearby, all belonging to women who worked as prostitutes, the state had something scary on its hands. Things just got a little bit more terrifying: a fifth victim has been iden ... More >>

Long Island Serial Killer Could Have Wife and Kids: A Personality Profile in Order of Surprise

​Serial killer experts, criminologists, an ex-FBI profiler, and two New York Times reporters have worked together to bring us this terrifying personality profile for the man -- yes, he's almost definitely a man -- who could be responsible for the 10 sets of human remains found so far on Long I ... More >>

Long Island Serial Killer Website Is Like An Art Project, Creator Claims

​LongIslandSerialKiller.com looks part-cheesy and part-terrifying, like any good murder movie. The header is written in the scratchy font you might find on a metal band T-shirt and the headlines are equally ominous and outrageous. But the events discussed on the blood red and black website are ... More >>

Long Island Serial Killer Victims, Plus Atlantic City Women, All on Facebook After Death

​Eight murdered women -- four found on Long Island among ten total bodies and four found in Atlantic City years ago -- have all shown up recently in fake Facebook profiles, the Philadelphia Daily News reports today. The creepy and sparse page for Kim Raffo, for example, found in 2006, features ... More >>

Amber Lynn Costello, New York Serial Killer Victim, Was Targeted by Erotic Message Board

​Members of the LongIslandErotic.com sex forum were none too pleased last year with Amber Lynn Costello, a woman who advertised herself as a prostitute on Craigslist and has been since found dead among ten other bodies in the Gilgo Beach and Jones Beach area of Long Island. The New York Daily ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Probably Didn't Hit New Jersey

​Police said on Wednesday that the bodies of four prostitutes found around Atlantic City, New Jersey back in 2006 do not seem to have anything to do with the eight bodies (and maybe ninth and tenth sets of remains) found on Long Island, near Gilgo and Jones Beach, since late 2010. Thought to b ... More >>

Serial Killer Dorothea Puente Is Dead, But Her Cookbook Lives On

Amazon.comFirst class murder, first class recipes​Convicted serial killer Dorothea Puente died in Central California Women's Facility prison on Sunday. But her legacy will live on past her death. And not just the legacy of her murders, but her culinary one. Yes, Cooking with a Serial Killer ... More >>

Suspected Long Island Serial Killer Murdered Prostitutes Who Advertised on Craigslist

​It's official: the Daily News says Suffolk County cops are pretty sure the speculated Long Island serial killer really is a serial killer. Better (worse?) yet, he's a Craigslist serial killer. Police say they've finally identified the bodies they found along Long Island's Oak Beach last mont ... More >>

Long Island Serial Killer Weighs in on Other Possible Long Island Serial Killer, and Other Updates

​Suffolk County police are still are still looking into the four bodies they found near Oak Beach this week. Some new details -- and theories -- surrounding the case have already begun to emerge. The FBI is now involved, and the Daily News, hot on the scandal's trail, talked to a serial killer, ah ... More >>

From Foxy Knoxy to Son of Sam: Are Facebook Fan Pages the New Trend in Jail Mail?

​Amanda Knox, the college student convicted in December of murdering her roommate while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, receives hundreds of letters in jail every month, and says they are "great support." But jail mail no longer means just letters. Slews of other supporters and haters share ... More >>

Bluebeard

LGBT Criminals Ruin It For Everyone

Skylar Deleon, the one-time costar of the immortal Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has been handed the death sentence because he killed a couple, supposedly to get money to finance his own sex change operation. Thanks, a lot, Skylar! You have shamefully joined the hordes of LGBT criminals who have rui ... More >>

'Dr. Octagon vs. Dr. Dooom'

The Chaser

Justice for Alistair Cooke, and the 'Smiley Face Gang'

Son of Sam is Back! Lock Yourselves In!

To Catch a Predator

In his hunt for the Zodiac killer, David Fincher forgoes the personal for the process, and in the process Nathan Lee geeks out.

'Dirty'

Rack Focus

1977

Mourning news: Murders and a muted Mambo Mouth

Math Saves Lives

Film

Eve Ensler and Amnesty International March on Juarez to Stop the Murder of Young Women

Sarah Jacobson 1971-2004

Remembering an unstoppable force of DIY moviemaking

Blown Away by Aileen

Broomfield takes a second shot at figuring out a serial killer

Love Kills

Killer Instincts

The Aesthetics of Gore

Killer Instinct

APB Online Hopes Crime Will Pay

Rumbling in the Bronx

Spike Lee spins a raucous '70s morality tale