Detectives have long wondered what secrets serial killer John Wayne Gacy and other condemned murderers took to the grave when they were executed - mostly whether they had other unknown victims.
Authorities say more human remains have been recovered in Northern California near the site where two victims of a convicted serial killer were recently found.
Authorities on Sunday unearthed more skull fragments and other human remains, along with clothes, a purse and jewelry, in a well in rural Northern California, an area where a convicted serial killer said there may be 10 or more victims.
Siblings who feared their brother was one of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's eight unidentified victims were amazed and overjoyed to learn that he's been living in Florida for decades.
At least two killers dumped body parts along a remote beachfront highway, and remains discovered in recent months include the heads and limbs of two women whose torsos were found years ago in another town, a prosecutor said Monday.
State and local police, including cadaver dogs and crime scene investigators, are heading back to a Long Island barrier island in search of possible victims of a serial killer.
The latest two sets of remains found along a New York beach highway are human, authorities said Tuesday, bringing to 10 the number of bodies found in a search for victims of a suspected serial killer.
Authorities looking for victims of a possible serial killer are wrapping up an intensive search of a seven-mile stretch along a remote New York beach highway.
The killings made headlines, spurred extensive investigations and frustrated authorities for decades: A flight attendant found raped and strangled with a pair of stockings in her Manhattan apartment in 1971. A Hollywood nightspot owner's daughter whose remains were found in the woods in 1978 after she disappeared in Manhattan the year before.
A serial killer who police say sexually assaulted and strangled three women, and possibly attacked three others, in a neighborhood rife with drugs and prostitution might want to hope that authorities find him before the neighbors do.
Police on Thursday scoured a 10-mile stretch of a beach access road where four bodies were discovered within the past week, seeking clues or additional corpses still hidden in the sand.