Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach, Florida, prostitute convicted of killing multiple men and dubbed the "queen of the serial killers," was ready for her close-up after confessing to protect the woman ...

Ted Bundy may have been a killer, but to Edna Martin, he was family. For decades, Bundy’s cousin has kept her silence, but now Martin is opening up about life with the killer—including the personal ...

Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, made her fictional debut in Patricia Cornwell’s first crime novel, Postmortem, published in 1990. Cornwell had been both a ...

Netflix's 'Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers' takes a new look at the woman behind the headlines — in her own words Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her ...

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 ...

These projects reveal the evil lurking underneath the guises of killers who were so often hiding in plain sight.