The Dexter Copycat Killer | Mark Twitchell

A charming stranger walked into San Francisco’s gay nightlife scene with a pencil, a smile, and a sketch meant to make his victims feel seen. But behind the drawings was one of the city’s most disturbing cold cases: the Doodler, a killer linked to at least six men and possibly ma ...  Show more

In 1912, an entire family and two young guests were found murdered inside a quiet Iowa home, but the crime scene was destroyed almost immediately by the very town desperate for answers. What followed was a maze of false leads, suspicious ministers, powerful enemies, coerced confe ...  Show more

The Cleveland Torso Murderer is an unknown serial killer who murdered at least 12 and maybe as many as 20 in the 1930s. The murders were absolutely horrific, as victims were decapitated, dismembered, and disembowled. The famous lawman Eliot Ness even headed up the search for the ...  Show more

“BTK Killer” Dennis Rader claims in a just-released interview that a “demon” inside of him caused him to kill 10 people over a 17-year period in Wichita, Kansas. Nancy Grace explores that the 73-year-old serial killer says in the Oxygen documentary “Snapped: Notorious BTK Seri ...

During the funeral of his wife, Allene, David Lamson sat in a jail cell, the prime suspect in her murder. A forensics pioneer came to his defense in an attempt to prove that her death was an accident. But prosecutors felt that between his temper and his alleged affair, he had a m ...  Show more

Elizabeth Short’s gruesome murder is the LAPD’s most infamous unsolved case. But there’s one person who thinks he’s cracked it — the alleged killer’s own son. Today, we reopen the case against George Hodel, a certified genius and once-celebrated doctor who rubbed elbows with note ...  Show more