Serial Killers

Twitter users are already a little confused.

Peter Sutcliffe killed 13 women and tried to kill seven others.

Gary Ray Bowles confessed to brutally murdering six gay men over an eight-month period in 1994. After 20 years on death row, his execution is scheduled for Thursday.

Nine new episodes feature details from real-life cases.

"Mindhunter" Season 2 will follow the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit as they investigate the Atlanta child murders, a case with many open questions decades later.

"We weren't aware of their status, of them being wanted," said tribal councilor Nathan Neckoway. Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, are wanted in conjunction with the murders of three people in British Columbia.

"He struck me as being a rather shy person with a lot more going on under the surface than what was on the surface."

Parents express concern that five-time murderer is now living near to Chicago school.

There have been dozens of serial murder cases in the United States in the last 60 years. Newsweek takes a look at four notorious cases.

"Those opulent, gilded interiors can be just as perverted-looking as an isolated and desolate street."

The film is tentatively titled "Manson's Bloodline."

The Siberian man, labeled the "Novosibirsk Maniac" is on the verge of being convicted after a marathon investigation, and it all began with a stolen phone.

Police have charged a landscaper with first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of five men.

Berkowitz murdered six people and wounded seven more in New York City using a .44-caliber Bulldog revolver in the '70s.

The claim comes from a scientist who has independently tracked murder data for years, according to 'The New Yorker.'

Before Manson coerced his cult members into murder, he was a musician who seduced and preyed on young women. Dianne Lake, whose new memoir recounts her years with him, was one of his victims.

Casting director Laray Mayfield has chosen actors for Marvel's 'Defenders' series and David Fincher's 'Mindhunter.' She says her casting approach is similar for both superheroes and serial killers.

The Texas senator has been dogged by jokesters and conspiracy theorists who think he's the actual Zodiac Killer.

The stories behind the murderers of Netflix's "Mindhunter."

Sutcliffe, now known as Peter Coonan, murdered 13 women in England during the 1970s.

Robert Pickton was convicted of the murder of six women.

Can you tell whether these are story arcs from young adult novels or real-life stories of serial killers?

Robert Durst also once beheaded a human, but was acquitted of murder charges.

An Italian nurse is accused of murdering up to 96 of her patients which, if true, makes her one of the most prolific serial killers in history

The state attorney's office in the town of San Luis Potosi said Filiberto Hernandez, 43, was detained on Thursday and confessed to five murders between 2010 and 2013

The publisher managed to keep secret a book on the identity of the infamous serial killer