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Confessed serial killer Israel Keyes admitted he enjoyed killing people, but couldn't or wouldn't give investigators a more meaningful answer when quizzed why he did it....

Investigators in France are hunting for a suspected serial killer after four fatal shootings with the same weapon in a Paris suburb in the past five months.

Three transients have been stabbed to death since last month. Some are banding together for protection, and police and missions are helping. Cary Singletary is 6-foot-2, an ex-boxer who once worked nightclub security, alternating coffee and water to stay alert through the small hours. Now, encamped on the streets of downtown Santa Ana, he's the unofficial sentry for what he calls "my people," a group of homeless whose wary existence is now shadowed by a new peril: a serial killer.

Genetic testing has identified one of the eight victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy who remained nameless for more than three decades, authorities in Chicago announced Tuesday.

A bizarre criminal rampage that began in September 2007 with the theft of women’s and girls’ underwear from homes in a rural community in eastern Ontario ended almost 2 ½ years later at the unlikeliest of places — the offices of a senior commander in the Canadian Air Force, a standout officer, a man who had piloted planes carrying the Canadian prime ministers and the queen of England, a devoted husband.

Police charged a man Wednesday in the city's "Grim Sleeper" serial killings Wednesday after decades of frustrated investigations into at least 11 slayings dating back 25 years, authorities said.

A man suspected of killing five people and terrorizing a South Carolina community was shot to death Monday by police investigating a burglary complaint at a home 30 miles away.

The coroner's office has said a teen girl shot in father's store is the fifth victim of suspected South Carolina serial killer.