The opening scene of the new Netflix documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers is freaky because Aileen Wuornos comes across as so personable. The film, which is available to stream now with a ...

Strange Harvest (now streaming on Hulu) may be the first mockumentary to truly embrace the style and format of the modern ...

One of the two teenage accomplices of a serial killer dubbed "The Candyman Killer" is speaking out from behind bars in a new documentary. Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (above left) was just a 15-year-old kid ...

"Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a documentary that never got to be made. Charlie Shackleton tried to buy the rights to a memoir that explored a theory about who might have murdered five ...

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...

British director Charlie Shackleton was in Vallejo, California, where at least two of the murders committed by the Zodiac killer took place, when he discovered that a documentary that he planned to ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Charlie Shackleton, whose newest documentary, "Zodiac Killer Project," dissects the tropes of true-crime documentaries. "Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a ...