The San Francisco Police Department hopes a new composite sketch – plus a $250k reward – will push people to come forward about an elusive serial killer who murdered at least five men in the mid-1970s.
Paul Onions was hitchhiking to a fruit picking job in southern Australia when he had a near-deadly encounter with a man named Bill. Three years later, he provided the crucial information that took down Australia's "Backpacker Murderer," Ivan Milat.
Shirley Hughes, the mother of Jeffrey Dahmer victim Tony Hughes, slammed Evan Peters after he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of the serial killer in Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story."
Wesley Brownlee is also facing a new attempted murder charge from the Office of the District Attorney San Joaquin County. He's now accused of seven murders spanning 2021 and 2022.
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.
At a gruesome California serial murder scene, Leonard Lake left a record of his deadly rationale. He's not the only murderer to leave such a document behind. Why?
