serial-killer
A new podcast is taking an investigative look at the unsolved murders carried out in the early 1970s by a Washington D.C.-area serial killer known as the Freeway Phantom. The new series from Tenderfoot TV, iHeartPodcasts, and Jay Ellis’ Black Bar Mitzvah spans 10 episodes and is hosted by journalist Celeste Headlee. In a statement, Headlee—who’s been […]
Law enforcement is investigating an Iowa woman’s claim that her late father was a serial killer who murdered dozens of women over the course of three decades. In a recent conversation with Newsweek, Lucy Studey revealed her late father, Donald Dean Studey, who died in 2013 at 75, killed 50 to 70 women, most of which were sex […]
Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story creator Ryan Murphy is addressing the backlash the hit Netflix series has received. While speaking at an event in Los Angeles’ DGA Theater on Thursday, Murphy revealed his team tried their best to contact the families and friends of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, but never heard back. “Over the course of the […]
Stockton police say they believe a “potential serial killer” is “on a mission” after ballistics evidence linked seven different shootings. During a press conference on Tuesday, per a video shared by regional outlet KCRA, Stockton Police Department Chief Stanley McFadden first addressed the national discussion of California presently “having a serial killer,” a description he suggested […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Convicted serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver will spend the rest of his life behind bars. According to the Associated Press, […]
A Texas man was arrested on Monday after he allegedly dismembered three people before lighting their severed body parts on fire in a dumpster. According to The Daily Beast, 41-year-old Jason Alan Thornburg told Fort Worth police that he committed these murders because he had “an in-depth knowledge of the bible and believed he was being called to commit […]
Investigators in Mexico said Saturday that they have found nearly 4,000 bone fragments, which apparently belonged to 17 different victims, underneath the house where an alleged serial killer lived, ABC News reports. A search of the property began after the 72-year-old man, who cannot be named due to Mexican laws which protect a suspect’s identity, was arrested for the gruesome murder […]
Evan Peters is set to play Jeffrey Dahmer in the limited Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, according to Deadline. The series, which was first announced in October, is the creation of both Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy. Note that Peters and Murphy have collaborated many times, like in the first eight seasons (and upcoming 10th season) of American […]
A New Jersey man went on a killing spree that lasted three months in the fall of 2016. Khalil Wheeler-Weaver has been accused of murdering three women and attempting to murder a fourth. On Thursday, a day of testimony was filled with evidence about his cell phone searches for date-rape drugs, curiosity about deadly poisons, […]
Samuel Little is now considered the “most prolific serial killer” in American history after the FBI confirmed his connection to at least 50 murders. Last year, the 79-year-old inmate confessed to strangling 93 women between the years of 1970 and 2005. Little was sentenced in 2014 to three consecutive life sentences for murdering three Los Angeles […]
