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.
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.
Some studies claim male sexual-homicide offenders over age 50 are rare—murders committed by them account for only 0.5 percent of sexual homicides in the U.S.—which may be due to steep declines in their testosterone levels. But could a decline in testosterone really put a halt to a killer's murderous spree?
Professors Bryanna Fox and Edelyn Verona of the University of South Florida are leading a project that evaluates all inmates that come through the Pasco County jail to compare people who are arrested for domestic violence to people arrested for burglary to people arrested for murder.
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.
Psychologist Al Carlisle, who was part of a diagnostic team at Utah State Prison who evaluated Ted Bundy, talks about the serial killer's lonely childhood, participation in illegal activities at a young age and strong desire to control women, which Carlisle believes led to his psychopathic tendencies as an adult.
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realize that the bloodbath was actually the climax of a series of foretelling clues from an angry, violent, paranoid, withdrawn person, who happens to have a newfound fixation with guns.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?
A&E True Crime spoke with Dr. Gail Saltz, clinical associate professor of psychiatry, about why the serial killer was so well-behaved after he was locked up.
Why was Borden acquitted so quickly? And is there any relationship between Borden's rumored crimes and the homicides of other famed Victorian-era female killers like Belle Gunness?
