In a new partnership with Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students, Illinois State Police have identified three ...

A teenager has been arrested in connection with the murder of Sunshine Stewart, 48, a paddleboarder who washed up dead on the ...

Past incidents, human psychology, and an information void conspire against them. A murder in Maine during the first week of ...

The system would be called Tropical Storm Dexter if it became a named storm, but it was expected to be far less lethal than the namesake vigilante serial killer of the Showtime crime drama, “Dexter” ...

Community seeks answers after Sunshine Stewart's body was discovered in Crawford Pond, with authorities investigating the homicide while locals express growing safety concerns.

Maine authorities investigate paddleboarder Sunshine Stewart's murder near Crawford Pond, urging calm amid community fears of ...

Suffolk County’s district attorney says he is weighing options after a grieving family asked him to grant a serial killer immunity in their loved one’s case in exchange for details about what ...

A version of this article appears in print on July 3, 2025, Section A, Page 18 of the New York edition with the headline: Crime Expert Who Taught A Killer Shares Her Story.

Although an internet search on classifications of serial killers might turn up just one, there are multiple systems, depending on the purpose of the research that grounds them.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus on “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers,”by Caroline Fraser, which argues that lead poisoning might have created a generation of serial killers.

Many of these “rare breed” serial killers had “spent quality time in Tacoma, a place where paraphilias flourish like fungi,” she writes.