Serial killers have long haunted yet fascinated audiences. While there’s no question that people fear murderers, they also can’t help but want to know more about their motivations for harm, offering a ...

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in 'Psycho' (1960) ; Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein in 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story.' Ahead of its release, Murphy told Tudum that it took him "a long time to land" on Gein ...

Few things are as dependable in television as the annual onslaught of true-crime nightmares. Each year, a new crop of gruesome, devastating and, admit it, often fascinating documentaries about the ...

Joseph Naso, the convicted murderer known as the "Alphabet Killer," is once again under scrutiny following new claims he may have killed as many as 26 women—and that he was "giddy" about one victim ...

A new serial-killer documentary has just hit Netflix. But this time the focus is not on one of America’s most notorious murderers — but rather on his daughter. The new doc from director Skye Borgman, ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Charlie Shackleton, whose newest documentary, "Zodiac Killer Project," dissects the tropes of true-crime documentaries. "Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a ...

It was Charlize Theron’s 2003 Oscar-winning turn as female serial killer and prostitute Aileen Wuornos, who brutally killed seven men in 1989 and 1990, that reignited an explosion in movies and TV ...