serial killers

For more than 30 years, the man responsible for a series of murders in and around Wichita, Kansas managed to avoid capture while deliberately taunting police and the media. Dennis Rader became known as the BTK killer, with the initials standing for “Bind, Torture, Kill”, a name he used himself...

Dennis Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer who murdered young men and boys in London between 1978 and 1983. His crimes remained undetected for several years, with many of his victims being vulnerable young men whom he met in pubs or on the streets before inviting them back to his home. Nilsen...

Aileen Wuornos became one of the most notorious female serial killers in American history after killing seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Her case attracted enormous attention because of both the murders and her claims about why she committed them. Wuornos worked as a sex worker and...

Peter Tobin was a Scottish serial killer and convicted sex offender whose crimes raised one particularly disturbing question: were the three murders for which he was convicted the full extent of his crimes? Tobin was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, in 1946. He had a long history of violence and...