Serial Killers

Man may be victim of 1970s Houston serial killer

A medical examiner in Texas believes she has found another victim of a serial killer who terrorized Houston in the early 1970s.
 

Rally at Cleveland bodies house thanks coroner

Crowd rallies at Cleveland house where 11 bodies found to thank coroner for speedy ID work. Residents have come together in Cleveland to thank the coroner's office for quickly identifying women whose remains were found at the home of a suspected serial killer.
 

Serial killer named suspect in 1984 Calif. killing

Police names death row serial killer as suspect in 1984 San Francisco homicide of girl. For 25 years, the unsolved murder of 9-year-old Mei Leung haunted San Francisco police homicide Inspector Holly Pera, a novice patrol officer at the time who now helps solve the department's cold cases.
 

Alleged serial killer charged in US as bodies mount

A US judge charged Wednesday an alleged serial killer with five counts of murder and refused him bail as investigators examined the gruesome remains of up to 11 victims found at his home.
 

Alleged serial killer denied bail in US as bodies mount

A US judge refused bail Wednesday to an alleged serial killer as investigators examined the gruesome remains of up to 11 victims found at his home.
 

More charges filed against LA serial killer

Convicted LA serial killer charged with 3 more murders, including 15-year-old girl. A Los Angeles County grand jury has charged a convicted serial killer with three more murders based on DNA evidence.
 

Suspected Wis. serial killer wants separate trials

Wisconsin man accused in serial killings seeks to have 7 cases tried separately. A man accused in a string of Milwaukee killings is seeking to have the cases tried separately. If granted, that would be harder for prosecutors to link details from the seven cases.
 

Man may be victim of 1970s Houston serial killer

A medical examiner in Texas believes she has found another victim of a serial killer who terrorized Houston in the early 1970s.
 

Suspected US serial killer pleads not guilty

A suspected serial killer pleaded not guilty Friday in a rape and kidnapping case that led to the discovery of the remains of 11 women in and around his Ohio home.
 

Suspected US serial killer pleads not guilty

A suspected serial killer pleaded not guilty Friday in the rape and kidnapping case that led to the discovery of the remains of 11 women in and around his Ohio home.
 

FBI digs into backyard of Ohio home with 11 bodies

FBI agents sifts for evidence in backyard of Cleveland home where remains of 11 women found. FBI agents sifted through dirt with rakes and shovels Saturday in the backyard of a suspected serial killer's home and ran a thermal-imaging device across the ground near the area where the decomposing bodies of several women were found.
 

India court acquits "house of horrors" murder suspect

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court on Friday overturned the death sentence of a wealthy businessman for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl on the outskirts of the capital, lawyers and relatives said.
 

Suspected LA serial killer charged with 5 killings

Man suspected of killing as many as 30 women in LA-area charged with 5 more murders. A man already accused of killing two women and suspected in the deaths of as many as 30 more was charged Wednesday with raping and murdering five other victims.
 

Milwaukee man ordered to trial in serial killings

Judge orders Milwaukee man suspected in serial killings of 7 women to stand trial. A judge has ordered a Milwaukee man accused of killing seven women over 21 years to stand trial.
 

Penalty phase opens in Phoenix Serial Shooter case

Co-defendant Samuel Dieteman faces possible death penalty in Phoenix's Serial Shooter attacks. One of two men convicted in a series of random nighttime slayings that terrified this desert city should be spared the death penalty because he tried to right his wrongs, a defense lawyer argued Wednesday.
 

Hundreds at funerals for 2 victims of SC killings

Funerals held for SC mother and daughter who were victims of suspected serial killer. Hundreds of mourners thronged Sunday's funeral services for an elderly mother and her daughter, two of five victims of a suspected serial killer whose crime spree has terrorized this rural South Carolina community for more than a week.
 

Letters link Son of Sam and victims' advocate

From one form letter, an unlikely alliance between Son of Sam killer and victims' advocate. The letters are unfailingly polite, the carefully crafted correspondence of a man with too much time on his hands.
 

Letters link Son of Sam and victims' advocate

From one form letter, an unlikely alliance between Son of Sam killer and victims' advocate. The letters are unfailingly polite, the carefully crafted correspondence of a man with too much time on his hands.
 

Canada court denies convicted serial killer appeal

Canadian appeal court denies appeal for convicted serial killer. A court on Thursday rejected the appeal of a farmer convicted of butchering women and feeding them to his pigs in what police say was Canada's worst serial murder case.
 

Great white sharks hunt just like Hannibal Lecter

CSI Ocean: Combining serial killer tracking and shark biology to see how great whites stalk. Great white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They don't attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.