H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman Mudgett, took a job as a pharmacist in Chicago. At this point, he changed ...

Jeff Mudgett learned the shocking truth at a family dinner: His great-great-grandfather was H.H. Holmes, the infamous con man and serial killer who operated a so-called “Murder Castle” during the 1893 ...

Richard Cottingham, also known as the ‘Times Square Killer,’ admitted to killing Alys Eberhardt in Fair Lawn in 1965.

A convicted serial killer imprisoned in connection with multiple murders has confessed to killing 18-year-old nursing student ...

THE depraved serial killer who claims to have violently murdered 100 women has now made yet another horrific confession.

Texas is a state known for its Wild West history — for the outlaws, the criminals and the bandits. People like Sam Bass, the legendary train robber and John Wesley Hardin, notorious gunfighter, are ...

After 27 years without answers, Kentucky police have tied the unsolved homicide that haunted the Lexington department to a ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Caroline Fraser, the author of “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in ...

It’s almost Halloween, so it’s time for all things spooky and creepy. And there isn’t muchthat’s scarier than knowing that there is (or was) a serial killer on the loose in your area! Let’s take a ...

Jeff Mudgett learned he is the great-great-grandson of H.H. Holmes, America's first known serial killer. Mudgett claims handwriting analysis proves H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper were the same person ...