Stav Dimitropoulos

Stav Dimitropoulos is an international journalist and columnist who has written for A&E Real Crime, BBC, Discover, Playboy, Runner's World, Womankind, VICE, Science, Nieman Journalism Lab and others, and has reported for CBC, CBS Radio and Fox TV.

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Crime + investigation

Did Lizzie Borden Try to Poison Her Parents Before Their Murders?

Andrew and Abby Borden were killed at their Massachusetts home in 1892.

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Crime + investigation

Ted Bundy's Childhood: From Lonely Boy to Window Peeper to Serial Killer

How the serial killer's youth led to adult crimes.

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Crime + investigation

Was a Bad Childhood to Blame for 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez Becoming a Serial Killer?

A&E talks with Dr. Scott Bonn, criminologist and author of the book, 'Why We Love Serial Killers' about what he thinks were the powerful catalysts for the makings of a serial killer.

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Crime + investigation

Serial Killer Ed Gein Was a 'Model Patient' After Being Incarcerated for His Gruesome Crimes

Why the serial killer was so well-behaved after being locked up.

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Arraignment Held For Alleged "Golden State Killer" Joseph DeAngelo Jr

Crime + investigation

Why Do Some Serial Killers Stop Killing? It Might Be Hormonal

Could a decline in testosterone really put a halt to a killer's murderous spree?

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Can We Predict the Next Mass Shooter?

Quite often it is only in hindsight that the friends and family of a mass-shooting perpetrator realize that the bloodbath was actually the climax of a series of foretelling clues from an angry, violent, paranoid, withdrawn person, who happens to have a newfound fixation with guns. Such devastating epiphanies beg the question: Can we predict tomorrow's mass shooter?

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Crime + investigation

Who's the Most Psychopathic of All? Study Will Track and Compare Every Offender in a Florida Jail

Professors at the University of South Florida are leading a project that evaluates all inmates that come through the Pasco County jail.

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Edmund Kemper: Why Would a Serial Killer Help the FBI Understand Other Serial Killers?

Bryanna Fox, Ph.D, former FBI agent and researcher at the bureau's Behavioral Science Unit, talks to A&E True Crime about whether convicted serial killers are the key to catching active serial killers.

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How Rodney Alcala, 'The Dating Game Killer,' Used Photography to Lure Victims

Nicknamed 'The Dating Game Killer' after his 1978 appearance on the TV show of the same name while in the middle of a killing spree, Rodney Alcala died on July 24, 2021. Although convicted of seven murders, investigators speculate there are more victims.

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