Maybe it helps assure our own humanity. Maybe it’s simply to stare into the moral abyss. Or maybe it’s because the best serial killer movies try to tell us something about what creates a serial killer. In putting together this list, we’ve paid attention to movies that probe the condi...
Fifty years from now when we look back to explore what sort of entertainment defined the 2010s into the 2020s, true crime and serial killer stories will absolutely be at the top of the list. Birthed out of the true-crime podcast boom of the 2010s which led to the true crime docuseries...
Mary Ellen O'Toole | Former FBI profiler:He was constantly in predatory mode. … that is behavior that involves hunting human beings and that's part of a serial sexual killer. …That … is often as exciting as the actual homicide and sexual assault. At the same time Rodney Alcala was o...
Often there follows a montage of scenes lifted from the cliffhangers of previous serials to depict the ways in which the master criminal was a serial killer with a motive. In the first episode, various suspects or "candidates" who may, in secret, be this villain are presented, and the ...