Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
I read a lot about serial killers.
Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
