STARKE, Florida (CNN) - Fifty-four-year-old Judy Buenoano, known as the "Black Widow," was executed in Florida's electric chair Monday morning for poisoning her husband in 1971. Buenoano, who was given the nickname by a Florida prosecutor who said she preyed off her mates and her young...
Birthplace:Orlando, Florida Jeffrey Dahmer Photo: Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office Fair Use Jeffrey Dahmer has the reputation as one of the most heinous serial killers in U.S. history for his 1978-1991 murders. Dahmer raped, murdered, and dismembered the bodies of at least 17 young male vict...
"We want to think that serial killers are easily identifiable, that once you see them you know, 'OK, that guy must be a serial killer,'" Berlinger continued. But "people really liked him." And they liked him until the day he died at 42 years of age in the electric chair at Raifor...
In the 20th century the subject of serial murder inspired countless popular novels, becoming a virtual subgenre of crime literature by the 1980s.Filmsabout serial killers became reliable box-office draws and ranged from the critically acclaimed to the more formulaic. The former group included the ...