When an elderly Ed Edwards died in 2011 while awaiting execution, he had confessed to five murders. He was suspected in more.

"I like killing people because it is so much fun." These chilling words were part of a cryptic letter sent to newspapers in ...

“The Paris of the Midwest,” some call it. Once a year, over the first weekend in March, Columbia, Missouri becomes the most ...

In the late 1960s, a mysterious figure known as the Zodiac Killer murdered at least five people in northern California, all ...

After 100 years at Mission and Fifth, the SFGATE and San Francisco Chronicle newsrooms are moving across the city.

Although these movies didn't create this trope that pops up in the best crime movies, they did make for memorable depictions.

Gordon Stewart Northcott, 23, was hanged in San Quentin Prison in 1930 after being convicted the year before of kidnapping, ...

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Inspectors Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) and Armstrong (Anthony Edwards) in Zodiac are more attuned to each other as they struggle to apprehend the titular killer. Detective Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens ...

It would be an ominous day: The Zodiac Killer had sent his first cipher to the paper. In this version of the infamous story, the cartoonist would puzzle it out. In a later scene, reporter Paul ...

Clint, Cal and Cardy talk about the film’s incredible wide shots, how hairy Jake Gyllenhaal’s knuckles may or may not be and why Cardy refuses to say who the real Zodiac killer is. Meanwhile ...