All news on the topic: Serial killers

Steve Gibson and David Crampton were at court in 1993 to see Beverley Allitt sentenced. The two fathers said the Angel of Death nurse should never be released from prison

The identity of the 'Zodiac Killer' has puzzled America for six decades and now, thanks to a mistake made by the monster himself, he has been unmasked

Sarah Spurrell, 44, accused Sussex police of treating her as a “complete and utter joke” after the vicious assault in January 2004 - she only found out about Bellfield’s confession, allegedly made earlier this year, when she was told this month by ITV News London

Unviersity of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger allegedly broke into a colleague's apartment and moved things around so she would call him for help according to a new Dateline special

Bryan Kohberger stands accused of slaughtering four University of Idaho students in a case which has shocked America - Criminal defence lawyer Duncan Levin, who has represented high profile clients such as Harvey Weinstein, tells The Mirror about the case against the suspect

Elizabeth Chau's furious loved ones say detectives are refusing to immediately dig where Levi Bellfield claimed to have dumped her body because the area is "too vast"

Journalist Thomas Colbert and his group of sleuths Case Breakers have claimed to find evidence suggesting the 'Zodiac Killer' was Air Force veteran Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018

Remarkable real-life crime story is gripping viewers of BBC1 drama Steeltown Murders, with DCI Bethell played by Philip Glenister and Scott Arthur

Chloe Coehlo was attacked by girlfriend Chloe James two years after being dumped having being allegedly warned that she would 'turn into' warped killer Joe Goldberg

Levi Bellfield, who murdered Milly Dowler, continue to face interrogation after claims he wrote a confession to a string of offences, some concerning the disappearance of student Elizabeth Chau

Monster Levi Bellfield, 54, has been quizzed in prison over the alleged murder of student whose body was never found following claims he admitted killing Elizabeth Chau, 19, in April 1999

John Wayne Gacy was sentenced to death for the murder of 33 young men who he tortured, raped and killed in the 1970s and told his lawyers that to him his victims were "not human beings"

Rod Beattie has spent 20 years trawling national archives and believes Britain’s most notorious serial killer, who slaughtered five women, was aggrieved police constable Bowden Endacott

Netflix's new Monster series - which told the story of Jeffrey Dahmer last year - will focus on two brothers convicted of brutally killing their parents in 1989

Port, 48, killed four young gay men but despite obvious similarities the Met Police failed to spot a connection, or even realise they were murdered

The notorious serial killed - dubbed 'Bible John' - was held responsible for the deaths of three women in Glasgow in the late 1960s - but now its believed there is a fourth victim

The police inspectorate said murderers probably continue to escape justice because their crimes are not spotted by poorly supervised and inexperienced officers

The lag was 37 when he was handed three life sentences for bludgeoning Dr Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan to death with a hammer

Serial killer and rapist Levi Bellfield - whose victims include Miller Dowler, Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell - has now confessed to killing Lin and Megan Russell, his solicitor says

Ted Bundy confessed to the murders of 36 women but police believe the total number of people he killed was much higher

Many residents of Austin, Texas, are living in fear The Rainey Street Killer is stalking among them. Four bodies have been pulled out of nearby Lady Bird Lake already this year

Serial killer Levi Bellfield is said to have written a signed confession to killing Elizabeth Chau, a 19-year-old law and ­business student who disappeared while walking to her family home in April 1999

A number of men in their 30s have been pulled from Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, sparking fears there could be a serial killer on the loose - with some linking the deaths to the similar circumstances of the 'Smiley Face Murders'

Patrick Mackay has been in jail for 47 years after being convicted of three murders - and Victor Davies, who is convinced his mum Ivy also died at the killer's hands, said he must remain in jail

After four men in their 30s were pulled from the water at Lady Bird Lake in a short space of time, many are speculating there may be a serial killer on the loose in Austin targeting young men on nights out at bars on nearby Rainey Street