From the opening moments, you can just feel that Hangman is going to suck. Before you catch a single lousy performance, or a sampling...

I have kind of an odd history with Manhunter . It was 2001, and the first post- Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lecter film was bein...

“What’s one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?”

Dennis Nilsen was born on 23 November 1945 in Scotland to an alcoholic, Norwegian father and a strict Catholic mother. His parents divorce...

Warning: Graphic. Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a Butcher of Rostov and Red Ripper, was a Soviet serial killer who sexually assaulted and mutil...

After stabbing a woman to death in 1945, serial killer William Heirens carved this message onto the wall:  “For heavens sake catch me...

  From hell.  Mr Lusk.  Sor, I send you half the kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it ...

Leonarda Cianciulli (November 14, 1893, Montella, Province of Avellino – October 15, 1970) was an Italian serial killer. Better known as t...

Judith Ridgway was married to serial killer Gary Ridgway, “The Green River Killer,” for 13 years before his capture. While in prison, Gary...

On the night of March 22, 1970, Kathleen Johns was driving from San Bernardino to Petaluma to visit her mother. She was seven months pregn...

My unintended marathon reading of true crime books continues with The Cannibal: The Case of Albert Fish . This non-fiction account of Al...

As I’ve said before, there’s been no better friend to the horror genre than Edward Gein. Perhaps you’ve heard of him? He killed two wom...

Dear Mrs. Budd:   In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Franci...

"This world would be a damned fine place if man were off it."

"We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow....

Every once in a while, a genuinely great horror movie—one that would rightfully be considered a classic, had it gotten more exposure and lo...

A part of me wishes I could have met Carl Panzram…preferably with an inch of steel or reinforced glass between us. He was a dark man—som...