Experts explain what causes someone to become a serial killer
For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do.
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For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do.
Rex Heuermann may have killed at least one young woman at the Long Island house he shares with his wife and two adult children, sources told CBS News.
The items were taken from the home of Duane Keith Davis, 60, in Henderson, Nevada.
The suspect, identified as Rex Heuermann, of Massapequa, Long Island, is charged with multiple counts of murder.
A surveillance team recovered a pizza box Heuermann threw into a garbage can on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, prosecutors say.
An Idaho judge has granted a 37-day stay to the man accused of brutally murdering 4 University of Idaho students.
The Pennsylvania man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students could be executed by firing squad if he's convicted and sentenced to death – and if the state cannot obtain the drugs necessary for a lethal injection.
Four University of Idaho students were found stabbed to death in a home on Nov. 13.
In a new court filing by an attorney for Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students last fall, attorney Jay Logsdon argues "there is no connection between Mr. Kohberger and the victims."
Bryan Kohberger's DNA is a "statistical match" to DNA collected from the sheath of a knife found at the University of Idaho murders scene, according to court documents filed by prosecutors.
Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death, is asking a judge for more time to decide whether to offer a formal alibi in the case.
Joran van der Sloot has been transferred temporarily into U.S. custody from a Peruvian prison, where he's serving a 28-year sentence for another woman's murder.
Prosecutors said they intend to pursue the death penalty against two suspects in the fatal shooting of three people, including two children who'd been playing with kittens in the yard
Joran van der Sloot, in prison for another murder and awaiting temporary extradition to the U.S., was involved in "a fight between prisoners," his lawyer tells CBS News.
"You put me and my mom and my sister through hours of hell," said a boy who was attacked and left tied up in a closet.
The hip-hop trailblazer was shot in the head in his recording studio in Queens.
Police spread out and scoured the ground near a dam not far from the resort from which British toddler Madeleine McCann vanished in 2007.
Norelis Mendoza of Lindenwold was last seen in Jersey City before she was found in Bayonne, Hudson County.
Van der Sloot, a Dutch national from Aruba, is currently serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for the murder of a different woman.
Kouri Richins is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl months after writing a children's book about grieving death.
The dedication section of her book reads: "Dedicated to my amazing husband and a wonderful father."
Two children, fourth grader Daniela Mendoza and her sister, second grader Sofia Mendoza were killed in Saturday's mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets.
Bethany Funke's attorneys argue in the motion that the defense's claims that Funke has exculpatory information are "without support."
An attorney representing the family of one of the victims has also filed an opposition to the gag order in state court.
A mother is now charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 11-year-old son.
