H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman ...

The Zodiac Killer is known to have murdered five people, including teenagers Betty Lou Jensen and David Arthur Faraday, new ...

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 ...

Serial killers became scarily common between the 1970s and the early 00s, in what’s known as the golden age of serial murder. From twisted killer Dennis Nilsen, notorious for stuffing body parts down ...

It’s a question that confounds criminologists. Where have all the serial killers gone? Serial murder may not be a strictly Western phenomenon but across the US, the UK, Europe and in Australia, serial ...

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 ...

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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 ...