serial killer
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The Roadside Stand: Joe Metheny
Baltimore, Maryland, 1994–1996 a drifter who started killing to find his family and kept killing because he found he liked it, and the stand along the highway where nobody asked… Read more.
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The Freeway Phantom and Washington DC’s Forgotten Serial Killer
The Capital in 1971 Washington DC in the spring of 1971 was a city at war with itself. On May 3rd and 4th, less than two weeks after the first… Read more.
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The Redhead Murders and the Killer Who Rode the Interstates
The Interstate as Crime Scene In the 1970s and 1980s, the American interstate highway system was one of the great enablers of violent crime that nobody had thought to account… Read more.
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Gerald Stano and the Forty-One Women Who Disappeared Along Florida’s Roads
He was not born Gerald Stano. He was born Paul Zeininger on September 12, 1951, in Schenectady, New York, the fifth child of a woman who appears in the record… Read more.
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Harold Shipman and the 215 Patients
A Childhood in Nottingham Harold Frederick Shipman was born on January 14, 1946, in Nottingham, into a working-class family his father a lorry driver, his mother a woman of fierce… Read more.
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Timothy Evans, John Christie, and the House on Rillington Place
A Street in Notting Hill Rillington Place was a short, narrow cul-de-sac in Notting Hill, west London a working-class pocket of the city in the years just after the Second… Read more.
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Mary Ann Cotton and the Twenty Years Nobody Noticed
A Village Girl from Low Moorsley She was born Mary Ann Robson on the last day of October, 1832, in the village of Low Moorsley in County Durham a place… Read more.
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The Guildford Four: How Britain Jailed Four Innocent People and Spent Fifteen Years Pretending It Hadn’t
The Horse & Groom pub on North Street, Guildford, was busy on the evening of Saturday, October 5, 1974. It was a regular haunt for soldiers stationed at Pirbright Barracks… Read more.
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The Murder of Megan Kanka – The Crime That Changed Laws Across America
The Crime That Changed Laws Across America The summer of 1994 in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was like any other. Children played outside. Families gathered in their neighborhoods. It was… Read more.
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The Ritual Killing of Mark Kilroy – A Spring Break Disappearance That Exposed a Cult of Horror
A Spring Break Disappearance That Exposed a Cult of Horror In March 1989, Mark Kilroy, a University of Texas student, traveled with friends to South Padre Island for spring break.… Read more.
