Joseph Vacher was executed via guillotine after he was found guilty of murder, but the true number of his victims remains a mystery Sean Neumann has more than a decade of experience working as a ...

Douglas Starr's "The Killer of Little Shepherds" tells the granddaddy of all true-crime stories and, in the process, recounts the history of forensic science itself. In the 1890s, a man named Joseph ...

The stranger wore a white rabbit fur toque for its symbolism of purity. Inside his hobo sack he carried necessary accouterments of the wandering class and various weapons, including a knife and wooden ...

His sadistic nature and gruesome crimes earned him the nickname the French Jack the Ripper and, over a century later, he is still one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. During his trial ...

It was the fashionable shoes protruding from under a hedge that caught her eye. Known as Molière shoes, after the playwright whose characters sported the style, they had turned-up toes and signature ...

Few know the name Joseph Vacher — even though his crimes surpassed those of the world's most infamous serial killers. Even Jack the Ripper — to whom Vacher is often compared — was linked to fewer than ...