Having endured a violent and abusive childhood, Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos sold sex to survive—ultimately killing seven men. We spoke with feminist writer Phyllis Chesler about her motivation to help Wuornos's case.

It's an exceedingly rare group of people who escape the clutches of a serial killer—only to find their lives forever changed by the ordeal. Read what happened afterward to five survivors.

Eddie Seda, Matthew Milat and Michael Madison are just a handful of killers who claim to have been inspired by other killers.

A popular theory claims three childhood behaviors—animal cruelty, fire setting and persistent bedwetting—can indicate a serial killer in the making.

The serial killer seemed to be a well-adjusted adult. But his crimes included binding, torturing, raping and ultimately murdering 33 male victims, some as young as 15 years old.

We explore the serial murders committed by Earl Taylor, Robert Spangler and Jack Reeves: men who killed more than one of their wives.

Looking back on when a brutal, satanic gang terrorized Chicago by torturing and killing women at random in the 1980s. One of the killers, Thomas Kokoraleis, was released from prison in 2019. Many are unhappy that he's a free man.

There have been many high-profile crimes over the years, but only a fraction have been successfully translated into film. What does a true crime need to make it into the silver screen? Crime author Harold Schechter on what makes for good true-crime movies.

Stephen Port had a type: young, gay men, preferably unconscious while he raped them in his East London apartment. Careless police work enabled the serial killer to carry on undetected for years. Read more.

A&E True Crime speaks with Anne E. Schwartz, a former crime reporter for The Milwaukee Journal, who broke the story about Jeffrey Dahmer's arrest on July 22, 1991, about what it was like uncovering the life and murders of one of America's most notorious serial killers.