A group of German scientists have defined the traits that can reveal a potential serial killer. They analysed the statements of 45 sexually-motivated serial killers, active across 60 years, to reach ...

Germany's most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history has appealed his life sentence for 85 murders, a district court said Tuesday. The murder spree of patients aged between 34 to 96 ...

German nurse Niels Hoegel, already serving a lengthy term for previous killings, will go on trial before anguished relatives Tuesday over the murders of around 100 more people -- a spree prosecutors ...

H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman ...