Our belief in pure evil influences our feelings about capital punishment, finds a Kansas State University psychology study.
May 14, 2015
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Mass murders in the United States are rare, but they receive a lot of media attention and are the focus of an ongoing controversy regarding the link between mass murder and mental illness among the perpetrators of these heinous ...
May 11, 2015
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Almost eight out of ten people cannot recall the names of the UK's most notorious serial killers, paedophiles or their victims, despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of these cases over the past decade.
Feb 25, 2015
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A German court heard Thursday that a former male nurse had admitted killing more than 30 patients at a hospital where he worked, allegedly out of boredom.
Jan 8, 2015
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Disagreeing with comments made by Richard Friedman in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD, Senior FBI Profiler/Criminal Investigative Analyst (ret.), states that there is "a critical and significant ...
Jun 11, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Mental health specialists at the University of Glasgow have conducted the first review of published research into what causes people to undertake serial killings and mass murder.
May 20, 2014
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With the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, many are left with questions about what leads to this and similar tragedies throughout the U.S. While some have theorized about the common personality ...
Dec 18, 2013
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Health officials say the homicide rate for older children and young adults has hit its lowest point in at least three decades.
Jul 11, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—Some people feel so "creeped out" that they would decline an organ or blood that came from a murderer or thief, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Jun 19, 2013
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Mexican forensic expert Alejandro Hernandez dips dry, yellowish cadavers in a see-through bath, hoping his technique to rehydrate mummified bodies will solve murders in crime-infested Ciudad Juarez.
Mar 24, 2013
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