Nikki Secondino allegedly ran to neighbors for help, claiming two masked intruders broke into her Brooklyn apartment and demanded money. Now, she is charged with her father's murder and sister's attempted murder.
Surveillance video from the My Way Lounge and Restaurant shows Gretchen Fleming leaving with an older man on Dec. 4, shortly after 3:00 a.m. Police say the man, who is now a person of interest in Fleming's disappearance, has provided them with "inconsistent statements."
Darius Sessoms submitted an Alford plea for the 2020 murder of Cannon Hinnant, who he shot in front of the boy's sisters while they were playing outside.
Cari Allen disappeared from her Omaha residence on the night of Nov. 19, two weeks after ending her relationship with Aldrick Scott. Scott was arrested in Belize earlier this month on kidnapping charges and extradited.
Jorge Rueda Landeros was charged with the beating and strangulation death of professor Sue Marcum more than a decade ago, but has been working as a yoga instructor under a fake name for much of the time since then.
Joseph Jowers was fatally shot in the head outside a Tuscaloosa club as he walked his girlfriend to her car more than 26 years ago. Thomas Terry Johnson Jr. is now charged with his murder.
In 2017, Christopher Gonzalez was linked to the 2000 murder of Dora DelValle-Almontaser, who was raped and strangled while housesitting at her uncle's Bronx apartment. A year and a half later, DNA would also connect the suspect to the 2005 murder of Angel Serbay.
Interior designer Jade Janks allegedly killed her former stepfather, Tom Merriman, after discovering his computer contained hundreds of stolen and non-consensual naked images of her dating back to her teen years.
From inheriting genes to the lone wolf caricature commonly seen in Hollywood films, take a look at some of the more common theories surrounding what drives people to become serial killers, and why some of these notions have been disproven.
