During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the threat of serial and mass murder became a topic of great popular and academic interest in America. While there is no murder "epidemic," as hyperbolic writers and law-enforcement officials claimed...

A serial killer is someone who murders three or more people with a 'cooling off' period between each murder, largely for psychological gratification.[1] All serial killers suffer from some form of Antisocial Personality Disorder but rarely...

Understanding and Apprehending America's Most Dangerous Criminals Predatory serial killers are not a recent cultural trend; cases of serial killings are documented throughout history. Predator killing has undoubtedly been with us since the beginning of human history. Crime analysis, mapping software, scientific...

ELAINE D'AURIZIO, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-25-1993 TRACKING SERIAL KILLERS -- PSYCHODATA N.J. STATE POLICE USING COMPUTER TO SORT CLUES By ELAINE D'AURIZIO, Staff Writer Date: 07-25-1993, Sunday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Joel Rifkin, who police...

A man described by prosecutors as the city's most prolific serial killer deserves the death penalty for the murders of 10 women and a fetus in the 1980s and 1990s, a jury said Tuesday.A judge will consider the jury's recommendation and impose a sentence for...

A suspected serial killer has been arrested in the deaths of five women in the city in just over a month _ and he is also connected to an assault on a woman whose dog ran the attacker off, police said.Local, state and federal investigators...

What type of people do serial killers usually kill? The serial killers find a type of person they like, or a person that will fit a certain criteria that will fulfill their fantasy, always weaker than them selves.