Investigative historian Peter Vronsky explains how Edmund Kemper, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and others reached celebrity status during the 'Golden Age' of American serial killing.

Although ruled accidental, Elisa Lam's mysterious death at the Cecil Hotel continues to fuel conspiracy theories and speculation.

Jeffrey Dahmer was just 18 when he committed his first murder, much younger than the average age of serial killers, which researchers have determined is around 29 years old. Why did he wait nearly a decade before killing his next victim?

Over nearly two decades, Dennis Rader murdered at least 10 people in the Wichita, Kansas area under the pseudonym BTK ('Bind, Torture, Kill'). But despite his repeated taunts to the police and media, investigators were unable to hone in on a suspect.

Manson's murder conviction in 1971 left many, including his biological family, with guilt and unanswered questions.

The disappearance of LaToyia Figueroa, who was Black and Hispanic, sparked controversy in 2005 when the case didn't garner the media attention it deserved.

In the 1960s, an unidentified serial killer terrorized London sex workers. The Hammersmith Nude Murders remains one of Britain's most infamous unsolved crimes.

Posthumous DNA testing proved what Roger Keith Coleman repeatedly denied—that the Virginia man raped and murdered his sister-in-law in 1981.

After the Golden State Killer's arrest in 2018, dozens of rape victims learned their assaults weren't isolated incidents but the work of a serial killer. Read how many survivors bonded through mutual trauma.

Shayna Hubers shot and killed her boyfriend, Ryan Poston, claiming it was self-defense. But at the murder scene, there were few indications of a domestic disturbance. Read more about this bizarre case.