Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence.

In the winter of 2021, “Saturday Night Live” spoofed the true-crime industrial complex with a musical number called “Murder Show.” The sketch sends up the consumption of spectacular depravity as an ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adnan Syed, whose case amassed a worldwide following of “Serial” podcast listeners, will remain free — even though his murder conviction still stands, a Baltimore judge ruled on ...

Society is fascinated with the phenomenon of serial killers, with true crime shows and podcasts having surged in recent years. In 2022, Dateline NBC a popular true crime show averaged 3 million ...

In 2014, the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee gripped the world. But the crime in question happened 15 years earlier. Lee, a Baltimore-area high school student, was strangled to death in 1999. Her ...