Fatal attraction. Are you on a date with someone who’s handsome and kind? They could be a psychosexual sadist. At least that’s the theory floated by University of Alabama scientists, who found that psychopaths can exhibit desirable characteristics during a romantic outing, including humor, charm and physical attractiveness. In other words, they’re someone you might … Read more
A clown with a menacing grin. Bodies bound and dangling from the ceiling. A severed head in the freezer. No, this isn’t a nightmare or some suburban haunted house. This is real — or, at least, it was. Welcome to “The Mind of a Serial Killer: The Experience,” a bone-chilling immersive journey that dares New … Read more
Sex Ed is in session for true crime-obsessed chicks. Hot and homicidal. That’s the dating criteria for 20-somethings with hybristophilia, a sexual attraction to criminals — like serial killer and body snatcher, Ed Gein. It’s an outré affinity toward bad boys that’s being fueled by social media, according to blood-curdling new data. Gein, infamously nicknamed “The Butcher of … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. A new Hulu documentary series is unearthing hours of never-before-heard tapes of serial killer Ted Bundy. “Ted Bundy: Dialogue with the Devil,” which is now streaming in full on Hulu, … Read more
Expecting parents are taking a stab at it — quite literally. Villains, crooks and knife-wielding nuts. Although they’re bad guys of society, their first names are becoming bloody good options for moms and dads-to-be, per a nightmarish new report. Baby names inspired by true crime icons, such as accused con artist Anna Delvey and mass murderer Ted Bundy, … Read more
“Who lives next door to you?” asks psychologist and true crime expert Emma Kenny in “The Serial Killer Next Door: Chilling True Stories of the Killers Hidden Among Us” (Mobius). “Perhaps a friendly postman or a businessman in a sharp suit? These are the faces you recognize, individuals as ‘ordinary’ as you or me. But it’s … Read more
Edna Cowell Martin was at work processing king crab legs in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in late 1975 when she got a long-distance phone call from her brother. John told Edna the good news that an arrest in Utah led authorities to believe they’d caught the psycho who’d been kidnapping and killing female college students in … Read more
A recent college graduate from Virginia is attracting attention from true crime lovers on social media, as he cooks and tastes the final meals that were requested by well-known death row inmates. Since Sept. 1, Josh Slavin, 23, has shared 26 different Instagram Reels featuring his ratings of death row meal requests. The first one he posted … Read more
In his controversial novel “American Psycho,” Pisces Brett Easton Ellis writes, “It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.” Given the popularity of true crime as entertainment and our cultural fascination with serial killers, it would seem we as people crave constant confirmation of that cruelty. … Read more