Nearly 20 years ago, retired NYPD detectives started tracking the suspicious drownings of young men across the country after they discovered a graffiti smiley face near at least a dozen locations where they found bodies.

Lisa McVey was 17 years old when she was abducted, beaten and raped by a serial killer—and managed to survive. We spoke with McVey, now a master deputy in the Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheriff's Office, about how she outsmarted her kidnapper, Bobby Joe Long.

We spoke with legendary FBI profiler John Douglas about how a childhood injury may have pushed Joseph Paul Franklin to serial murder.

Having endured a violent and abusive childhood, Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos sold sex to survive—ultimately killing seven men. We spoke with feminist writer Phyllis Chesler about her motivation to help Wuornos's case.

It's an exceedingly rare group of people who escape the clutches of a serial killer—only to find their lives forever changed by the ordeal. Read what happened afterward to five survivors.

Eddie Seda, Matthew Milat and Michael Madison are just a handful of killers who claim to have been inspired by other killers.

A popular theory claims three childhood behaviors—animal cruelty, fire setting and persistent bedwetting—can indicate a serial killer in the making.

The serial killer seemed to be a well-adjusted adult. But his crimes included binding, torturing, raping and ultimately murdering 33 male victims, some as young as 15 years old.

We explore the serial murders committed by Earl Taylor, Robert Spangler and Jack Reeves: men who killed more than one of their wives.

Looking back on when a brutal, satanic gang terrorized Chicago by torturing and killing women at random in the 1980s. One of the killers, Thomas Kokoraleis, was released from prison in 2019. Many are unhappy that he's a free man.