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H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer and His Murder Castle

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...

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H.H. Holmes serial killer criminal psychology
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Israel Keyes: The Methodical Monster

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...

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Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker's Reign of Terror

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...

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Richard Ramirez Night Stalker serial killer
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Ed Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer Who Turned Himself In

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 ...

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John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown

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...

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John Wayne Gacy serial killer criminal psychology
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The Zodiac Killer: America's Most Infamous Unsolved Case

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...

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Zodiac Killer serial killer unsolved cases
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Aileen Wuornos: The Highway Killer

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...

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Aileen Wuornos serial killer criminal psychology
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Ted Bundy: Charisma and Carnage

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...

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The BTK Killer: Hiding in Plain Sight

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...

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