Serial Killers

Lifetime's new movie, "Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice," references a separate unsolved serial killer case that began in the outskirts of Atlantic City in 2006.

A new Lifetime movie exploring aspects of the so-called Long Island Serial Killer case depicts the arrest of John Bittrolff, who was convicted of the 1990s killings of two women in the same area.

"Real Housewives Of Dallas" cast member Stephanie Hollman celebrated her husband Travis Hollman in a Valentine's Day post by stating that he is "the only person I have ever met who was babysat by a serial killer and made it out alive."

Real agents of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, like John Douglas and Patricia Kirby, inspired some of the fictional characters in "Clarice" and "The Silence of the Lambs," including Jack Crawford and Clarice Starling.

While Elisa Lam is the most recent prominent death linked to the notorious hotel, "Black Dahlia" murder victim Elizabeth Short, as well as serial killer Richard Ramirez, have also been tied to the Los Angeles establishment.

Since the 1950s, hundreds of bodies have been found off America’s highway system, including most of the victims of the Colonial Parkway murders.

The house featured in the film, in which Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling discovers serial killer Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, played by Ted Levine, has sold to a new owner.

Kevin Gavin is accused of killing Juanita Caballero, Myrtle McKinney and Jacolia James in his NYCHA-run apartment building.

Human remains found on a baseball field in 1984 has been identified as teenager Wendy Stephens, who was serial killer Gary Ridgway's youngest victim.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Det. Gil Carrillo was the youngest homicide detective on the force when he put forth the unprecedented but ultimately correct theory that a string of rapes, murders and other assaults in the mid-1980s were the work of one person.