Sentences with phrase «case of a serial killer»

Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, is the suspect in the case of a serial killer and rapist who terrorized communities in California in the 1970s and 1980s.

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A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.

DNA was credited for cracking the decades old cold case of the «Golden State Killer,» a California serial murderer and rapist.

The first human cases appeared in 2005, and since then the virus has coursed through the country with the stealth of a serial killer.

Somerset realizes that he can't get off the case because he now feels compelled to catch the serial killer, and that Mills doesn't have the experience or the temperament to get this type of killer without his expertise.

He's handed a case involving a desperately sick and teasing serial killer, and a cocky young sidekick in the form of Brad Pitt, who's keen to prove himself in his new surroundings.

Synopsis: FBI criminal profiler Will Graham (William L. Petersen) is called out of early retirement to assist on a serial murder case involving a killer know... [MORE]

His biggest test, however, comes at the end of the season when he takes on his toughest case yet: catching the elusive serial killer Mr. Yang.

Consider the strange case of the «Blood Countess», a 16th - century Hungarian noblewoman / serial killer who bathed in the blood of her victims — 650 servant girls — in the vain pursuit of eternal youth.

Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

The U.S. criminal justice system's first use of DNA profiling in a serial murder case frees an innocent man after he spent two years in prison, and convicts a real killer.

The sensationalist nature of the Hillside Strangers and Beltway Snipers cases helps to further solidify the serial killer's unofficial home in popular culture and on the nightly news.

That's where Inspector Kildare (Bill Nighy) is assigned to track down an urban serial killer reminiscent of Jack the Ripper, only to have his clues lead to dead ends and creaky legends, until he starts questioning a widow (Olivia Cooke) accused of poisoning her husband in a separate case.

This certainly appears to be the case with Sheriff of Contention, a low - budget Western / serial killer mystery.

Bill Nighy stars a London detective investigating the mysterious case of the «Limehouse Golem», a meticulous serial killer haunting the streets of Victorian London.

Lizzie's death seems inevitable, until Detective Inspector John Kildare (Bill Nighy) is assigned to the case of the Limehouse Golem — a nefarious, calculating serial killer, murdering innocent, unconnected victims, leaving behind barely identifiable corpses — and his distinctive, trademark «M».

Set in 1979, Mindhunter follows FBI Special Agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany), a duo who interview imprisoned serial killers to get inside the minds of active murderers and solve cases currently ongoing.

Noir expert Richard Fleischer specialized in true - crime movies («Compulsion,» «The Boston Strangler») and this is one of his best: a chilling realistic thriller modeled on the famous case of British serial killer Dr. John Christie (brilliantly underplayed by Richard Attenborough), and the hapless man he frames for one of his murders, (a brilliant job by John Hurt).

In 2012, former homicide detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrellson) recap one of their very first cases together involving a serial killer, back in 1995.

Cold but capable — the traits of a serial killer; or in this case a very, very quick junior sports sedan.

A new case puts Harry on the track of another serial killer, and once again his obsessive approach to crime - solving puts him at odds with his peers.

This chilling new mystery takes readers back to Charles Lenox's very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London's most brilliant detectives.

After spending two decades researching Jack the Ripper, Patricia Cornwell claims to have cracked the notorious serial killer's case in her new book, Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert (Thomas & Mercer), out today.

But when she is assigned to a gruesome new case - a serial killer targeting the Rosatis, murdering the remnants of the family one - by - one in cold blood - Serafina finds herself digging into a past that involves both the victims and her own tragic history.

Her first case comes quick and is a doozy!She is sent in search of a missing girl, last seen in Yellowstone National Park, who seems to have vanished into thin air, leaving behind her son and father in New York who desperately need to find her.Elise follows the clues as things gets worse and worse, and maybe, just maybe, a dormant serial killer may just be becoming active again.

Deciding to tackle one of the coldest cold cases in the files, retired detectives Lott, Rogers, and Andor uncover far more than simple murder, and possibly the worst serial killer ever.

Set in Victorian era London, The Slaughter: Act One has players assuming the role of hapless private investigator Sydney Emerson who, in between trying to make rent and beer money by finding lost dogs and enduring alleyway kickings, is swept into a case involving a serial killer who is preying upon the denizens of the city.

Players take on the respective roles of Homicide Detective Becky Marney (played by Katie Cassidy) and District Attorney Felicity Graves (played by Christy Choi) as a case involving a deranged serial killer referred to as The Trapper intensifies.

The detectives of the 24 Wards Heinous Crimes Unit have their eyes on one man: Kamui Uehara, legendary serial killer and assassin of a number of government officials 20 years prior in the now famous «Silver Case.»

Hinkle was particularly moved by the case of convicted serial killer Lonnie D. Franklin Jr., a former sanitation department mechanic, dubbed the «Grim Sleeper,» who was convicted of murdering nine black adult women and a teenager over the course of two decades in South Central Los Angeles.

Did taxpayers really need to fund a multi-million-dollar public inquiry into the cases of missing women in British Columbia to know that, essentially, lack of caring on an institutional - wide basis meant women going missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside ended up dead at the hands of serial killer Robert Pickton?

Our response to the over-arching fear of the one - in - ten - thousand case where a first - time accused murders his spouse while on bail has been to treat every single person in the system as an acknowledged serial killer.

Karen Conti has been a lawyer for 26 years, and is a member of the Illinois, California, and U.S., Supreme Court bars, She's handled numerous significant cases, including a successful United States Supreme Court appeal for the Cook County Democratic Party, the death row appeals of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a reversal in the Illinois Supreme Court in an employment discrimination matter, and a wrongful arrest and injury action against the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers.

FOX40 News digs deeper into one of California's infamous serial killer / cold cases: The East Area Rapist.