All news on the topic: Serial killers

Mary Ann Cotton had just given birth to her 13th child when she was accused of killing her young stepson - she had killed 20 other people too

James Hurley, now 60, who killed off-duty constable Frank Mason in 1988 and then went on the run for 13 years, and Paul Weddle, who stabbed Sgt Bill Forth to death in 1993, are bidding for freedom

The court heard of how Groves had framed pictures of serial killers on her walls, collected books about gangsters, including the notorious prisoner Charles Bronson, and watched true crime documentaries

Coronation Street fans have also been doing their own digging alongside Todd Grimshaw's detective work to uncover the truth about Sean Tully's lover Laurence Reeves

The term "Redhead Murders" was given to six to eleven redhead women after the first murder in 1980 in Wetzel County, West Virginia, US, which was committed by a suspected male serial killer

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: The Cleveland Torso Murderer shocked the US when 13 bodies were found dumped and only two could be identified as their limbs had been amputated by a gruesome killer

A woman who wants to remain anonymous believes she bumped into killer Christopher Halliwell on several occasions. She says her first encounter happened near Tinsley Marina in Sheffield in 2009

The Route 40 Killer, Steven Brian Pennell would prowl that road looking for women to abduct and kill in Delaware, US

William Paterson, 43, was pictured handcuffed to a male officer while attending a funeral for his father the at Glasgow Crematorium - he's currently serving a life sentence

Shaye Groves was found guilty of murder by a jury after sliting her boyfriend, Frankie Fitzgerald's, throat before stabbing him a total of 17 times and pretending to be a victim

Coronation Street boss Iain MacLeod say producers are going in a different direction with Hope Stape's character over fears the 12-year-old child actress could 'burn out'

An investigating source in Paris said the woman who was found decapitated in Buttes-Chaumont park lived locally with her husband who reported her missing earlier in February

Kathleen Folbigg, 54, has spent 20 of a 25 year sentence in Australian prison after being found guilty of killing her three children, all the while maintaining that they died due to the symptoms of a rare genetic condition

From Ted Bundy to Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killers have gathered a surprising number of adoring fans but the reason goes far deeper than the charisma of the murderers themselves

Investigators discovered a woman's dismembered pelvis area before finding her head in a bag near a disused railway line in the southern area of the Buttes-Chaumont Park in the 19th Arrondisement of Paris in France

Blue Bloods viewers could watch Frank Reagan 'fire' his grandson Joe Hill after he breaks FBI protocol during a joint task force mission in an upcoming episode

Alyssa – a cancer survivor – met Naga Munchetty after receiving life-changing treatment for leukaemia in the video and spent the day playing with therapy dogs

Charles Sobhraj, dubbed ‘The Serpent’ in the hit BBC TV drama of the same name, speaks out weeks after he was released from jail in Nepal because of his age and declining health

Four decades ago drains blocked by rotting corpses exposed one of Britain’s most notorious mass murderers – Dennis Nilsen

Patrick Mackay, 70, has served 47 years for three killings but originally owned up to eight more – before retracting his admission

Artist Rakele R has created a miniature replica of evil Dennis Nilsen's North London flat featuring a body in a bin bag, a severed head cooking on the stove and body parts clogging up the drains

Chance Seneca, 21, from Louisiana, US, used Grindr and Snapchat to convince men into meeting him as he wanted to satisfy a Jeffrey Dahmer "compulsive murder-fantasy"

Shane Draper, 30, believes the truth is out there but his friends aren't so sure, as he shared a photo of something strange he spotted on his way to work that many think is just a plane

Feared serial killer Robert Mawdsley has now set the record for the longest time in solitary confinement. "The Brain Eater's" cell in HMP Wakefield is known to have cockroaches and flies

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was found guilty of stabbing aspiring marine 21-year-old Thomas Roberts to death outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth