Throughout history, some criminals have committed crimes so shocking that their names became symbols of fear. From trusted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Miller: There's a lot swirling around in Murderland. You've got the history of Tacoma, Seattle, and the greater Pacific ...

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, 480 pages, $32 The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and ...

Two women who were slain in Miami in the 1970s were killed by the United States' deadliest serial killer, authorities said. In a memo written by an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade County on ...

Netflix's 'Woman of the Hour' is based on the true story of Rodney Alcala, a seemingly ordinary contestant on a '70s TV dating show who was secretly a serial killer Ted Soqui/Corbis/Getty In the 1970s ...