As any devoted fan of the Serial podcast knows, one of the main issues listeners struggle with is what journalist Sarah Koenig refers to as “the Jay problem,” or the lies and inconsistencies in the ...

For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. Dennis Rader, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert ...

The question "Are serial killers born or made?" inevitably comes up in almost any discussion of the most notorious and most barbaric serial killers in human history (that is, serial killers who not ...

When Gil Carrillo joined the homicide division at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in the early Eighties, his future partner Frank Salerno was already something of a celebrity. He had recently ...