Serial Killers

Eliot Ness went to the grave in 1957 without ever convicting the Cleveland Torso Murderer. Decades later, his family wou... Read more

When a torso washed up on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in 1937, the police initially assumed a crime of passion. But ... Read more

In the 1980s, after decades of snowballing violent impulses, Dayton Leroy Rogers began murdering women and leaving their... Read more

After a repressive religious upbringing filled with abuse from his fundamentalist father, Dayton Leroy Rogers grew into ... Read more

After a 7-month hiatus between 1918 and 1919, the Axeman jumped back into his killing spree. City officials tried to tra... Read more

While the U.S. was wrapped up in the final days of World War I, New Orleans was facing an enemy right in their own backy... Read more

By 1985, the Monster of Florence had claimed 16 lives—but authorities were no closer to catching the killer than when th... Read more

One of Italy’s most notorious serial killers has never (definitively) been identified. The mysterious Monster of Florenc... Read more

In the so-called murder capital of the world, Terry Childs grew up in the shadows of infamous serial killers. Until he b... Read more

Following a string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the Zodiac Killer continues to write letters taunting the pre... Read more