Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scroll through true crime offerings on Netflix or Hulu and you’ll see it: our culture’s basic perception of the serial killer. Usually he’s a white man with a wife and kids ...

What began as a search for one missing woman — Shannan Gilbert — led to multiple bodies and the capture of Rex Heuermann.

Richard Cottingham, also known as the “Torso Killer,” is an infamous serial killer who is serving life in prison for murders he committed in the 1960s and 1970s. Amid his old age and ailing health, he says he is ready to admit to nearly 100 murders.

These projects reveal the evil lurking underneath the guises of killers who were so often hiding in plain sight.

Scroll through true crime offerings on Netflix or Hulu and you’ll see it: our culture’s basic perception of the serial killer. Usually he’s a white man with a wife and kids, fooling everyone with his suburban mundanity. But what makes a serial killer ...