Richard Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker by the media, terrorized California during the mid-1980s as a serial killer. His frightening method of operation, which also made him particularly difficult ...

A suspect in serial killings has been charged in four additional slayings, bringing the total to seven deaths in Northern California since April 2021. Prosecutors charged the suspect Tuesday in a ...

Lonnie Franklin, the serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," died in his prison cell on March 28, 2020 Christine Pelisek is Senior Writer on the Crime team for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2014.

Netflix's 'Woman of the Hour' is based on the true story of Rodney Alcala, a seemingly ordinary contestant on a '70s TV dating show who was secretly a serial killer Ted Soqui/Corbis/Getty In the 1970s ...

A serial killer currently on death row for a dozen murders has now confessed to the brutal slaying of a 19-year-old woman – finally solving a case that had gone cold for almost 40 years. Cathy Small, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - An elderly former policeman has been arrested and charged with eight murders attributed to the Golden State Killer, a serial criminal responsible for dozens of rapes and ...

An Orange County jury recommended the death penalty Wednesday for a former Marine who killed five women in Southern California and is already serving a life prison term in Illinois for three murders ...

Fresno County Sheriff's detectives argued that King killed out of a sense of anger, believing that his three victims had harmed women or children (Image: ABC30) A California judge sentenced a man who ...