Serial Killers

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The ex-wife of alleged serial killer Darren Deon Vann, who was arrested late Monday in Indiana, said she “didn’t believe” charges leveled against the man to whom she was married for more than a decade, the Chicago Tribune reports. RELATED: The Profile Of A Black Serial Killer? Vann, 43, was taken in to custody near […]

Police have identified a convicted sex offender as a suspect in the deaths of seven women whose bodies were found in Gary and Hammond, Ind., over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports. Darren Deon Vann, 43, was arrested Friday night, after a woman was found strangled at a Motel 6 in Hammond, police announced Monday […]

Samuel Little, 72, was arrested for being in possession of a crack pipe and now finds himself accused of being a notorious serial killer responsible for the murders of women in Los Angeles dating back to 1989, reports ABC News. Little, an alleged career criminal, was discovered in a Kentucky homeless shelter and was extradited […]

CLEVELAND — The bodies could have been buried anywhere. In the garbage bin next to his house, which occasionally reeked with the smell of something rotting inside. In the bowels of a boarded-up house down the block. Beneath a pile of debris in an overgrown, vacant lot. Also read: Top 15 Black Bio-Pics Of All-Time

MILWAUKEE — A 50-year-old Milwaukee man was convicted Friday in the deaths of seven women killed over 21 years after he unexpectedly entered no contest pleas during a court hearing.

Washington, DC– A serial killer that terrorized northwest Washington two decades ago is asking for a temporary release from confinement to spend a day with his father. In court Tuesday, a defense psychologist testified that Swann Jr. is not a threat and that his psychosis is under control, NBC Washington’s Pat Collins reported. His father testified […]

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia police have identified a young woman who may be the third victim of the Kensington strangler, and have released enhanced footage of the man police think may be connected to these crimes.

SMITHTOWN, N.Y. – A man believed to be the last person to see a missing New Jersey prostitute voluntarily surrendered his SUV to detectives investigating the deaths of four women whose bodies were found on a deserted beach highway, police said Thursday. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said authorities confiscated the vehicle as part […]