There is no shortage of great crime shows out there, running the gamut from series based on true crime stories to entirely fictional — if not pushing toward the fantastical — characters and universes.

America harbors an enduring obsession with serial killers, a fascination that has firmly established these figures as recurring archetypes across all forms of fiction. This dark fixation originates ...

It was Charlize Theron’s 2003 Oscar-winning turn as female serial killer and prostitute Aileen Wuornos, who brutally killed seven men in 1989 and 1990, that reignited an explosion in movies and TV ...