Serial Killers

A duo known as the Serial Shooters stalked Phoenix, Arizona the same time the Baseline Killer did.

While the Case Breakers claimed this week that they believe that the Zodiac Killer had another victim, Cheri Jo Bates, Riverside police spokesperson Ryan J. Railsback said that police have ruled out any connection.

In the 1980s, Larry Eyler, a vicious murderer who preyed on young men, became known as the Highway Killer.

A team of investigators point to a man named Gary Francis Poste as the notorious serial killer her terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s.

Sebastian Shaw, 53, was convicted for the murders of Donna Ferguson, 18, Todd Rudiger, 29, and Jay Rickbeil, 40, in the 1990s. An autopsy is pending.  

François Verove’s DNA matches that found at the scene of several crimes attributed to the the “Le Grêlé” serial killer, including the murder of Cécile Bloch.

"I beat her to death, raped her, and loved it. Yes, I’m sick but I enjoy myself, too," serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson wrote in one chilling bathroom wall message.

Here's how murderers like "The Giggling Granny" and "The Barbie and Ken Killers" got their names.

Before Oxygen’s “Snapped Notorious: The Happy Face Killer," premieres, learn about the case and the loosely related Smiley Face Killer.

While many of the most notorious serial killers have been based on the West Coast, there are many who made the Southern part of the United States their hunting grounds.