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

Jeff Mudgett learned the shocking truth at a family dinner: His great-great-grandfather was H.H. Holmes, the infamous con man and serial killer who operated a so-called “Murder Castle” during the 1893 ...

The Zodiac Killer is known to have murdered five people, including teenagers Betty Lou Jensen and David Arthur Faraday, new ...

It’s a question that confounds criminologists. Where have all the serial killers gone? Serial murder may not be a strictly Western phenomenon but across the US, the UK, Europe and in Australia, serial ...

Texas is a state known for its Wild West history — for the outlaws, the criminals and the bandits. People like Sam Bass, the legendary train robber and John Wesley Hardin, notorious gunfighter, are ...

Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach, Florida, prostitute convicted of killing multiple men and dubbed the "queen of the serial killers," was ready for her close-up after confessing to protect the woman ...

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Jeff Mudgett learned he is the great-great-grandson of H.H. Holmes, America's first known serial killer. Mudgett claims handwriting analysis proves H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper were the same person ...