Serial Killers

  • "Monster"

    Charlize Theron pours herself into the body and mind of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Patty Jenkins' devastating directing debut.
    By Stephanie Zacharek December 25, 2003

  • When books kill

    Movies and video games get blamed for acts of senseless violence all the time. But some famous murderers got their ideas from literature.
    By Aidan Doyle December 15, 2003

  • Snipercountry.com fires back

    An administrator from the popular Web site says long-range marksmen are being smeared by the media.
    By Joshua Micah Marshall October 16, 2002

  • A serial killer analyzes serial killing

    The 1960s "Moors Murderer," Ian Brady, still haunts the British psyche. His recently published book shows why.
    By Stephen Lemons January 3, 2002

  • The mind of a killer

    A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated.
    By Suzy Hansen July 27, 2001

  • "Manhunter"

    The first Hannibal Lecter movie is sweetly simple, but the stars say it was creepy as hell.
    By Max Garrone March 1, 2001

  • Jonathan Kellerman

    "Monster"
    By Jonathan Kellerman October 5, 2000

  • Thomas Harris

    "Hannibal"
    By Thomas Harris October 5, 2000

  • "The Cell"

    Tarsem Singh's opulent serial-killer thriller descends into special-effects hell.
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 18, 2000

  • Vincent D'Onofrio: Killing us softly

    The star of "The Cell" and "Steal This Movie" talks about playing a serial killer, the head yippie and a job that requires him to be suspended above a naked woman.
    By Stephen Lemons August 18, 2000

  • The stars can't help it

    Gina Gershon wants to pull your chain. Plus: Billy Bob Thornton's strange compulsions; Chicago alderman's way is not Hugh Hefner's; and Monica Lewinsky and Jenny Craig, still an item?
    By Amy Reiter April 12, 2000

  • Death, we hardly knew ye

    The new Museum of Death offers a dark spot in otherwise shiny Los Angeles.
    By Stephen Lemons February 1, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Will staying unmarried save your relationship? Plus: Camille Paglia sparks new "Sensation" debate; should technology change the way we have children?
    Letters to the Editor November 24, 1999

  • The art of crime

    Galleries making a killing any way they can; Unabomber's new editor ethically impaired? Sporty Spice declares herself the Antichrist. Plus: New Dubya scandal! He once got his kicks from a "roaring afterburner." Yeow!
    By Amy Reiter August 26, 1999

  • Profiler

    The real-life model for Thomas Harris' serial-killer expert psychs out the O.J., Ramsey and Dahmer cases -- and David Byrne, too.
    By David Bowman July 8, 1999

  • "Nightwatch"

    Charles Taylor reviews 'Nightwatch,' directed by Ole Bornedal and starring Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette and Nick Nolte.
    By Charles Taylor April 17, 1998

  • femmes fatales

    Are women as violent as men
    By Margaret Talbot January 26, 1998

  • Newsreal: How mad was Ted Kaczynski?

    A criminologist explores the mind of alleged Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski and finds differences with other serial killers, but believes the former maths professor, who killed three people and maimed 23 others, knew what he was doing.
    By Ros Davidson November 14, 1997

  • A Killer Site

    After AOL shut down a Web site devoted to the musings of serial killers, free speech advocates helped to rebuild the site and get it back up on the Web.
    By David Cassel October 3, 1997

  • "Con Air"

    A review of the movie 'Con Air', directed by Simon West and starring Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi, reviewed by Charles Taylor.
    By Charles Taylor July 6, 1997
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