Itzcoatl "Izzy'' Ocampo, the ex-Marine accused of murdering six people, is reportedly hearing voices and attempting to bang them out of his head in the Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana. The 23-year-old Iraq War veteran's lawyer, Randall Longwith said Ocampo attempted to hurt himself in his jail cell on Friday or Saturday. more ›

Eder Giovanni Herrera, 24, had been accused of murdering his mother Raquel Estrada, 53, and her son Juan Herrera, 34, according to City News Service. But now prosecutors have dropped charges against Herrera and are trying to pin the murders on Ocampo, who is already accused of murdering four homeless men in Orange County. more ›

A 32-year-old husband and father of two who helped capture the serial killer responsible for the stabbing murders of four homeless men in Orange County will be rewarded today with $5,000. more ›

The Yorba Linda man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing four homeless men in Orange County was charged today with four counts of murder. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas says a decision to seek the death penalty against for Ocampo has not been made. more ›

The family of Itzcoatl Ocampo, who was arrested in connection with the murders of four homeless men in the past month, describe him as a deeply troubled Iraq vet who harbored a troubling secret. more ›

Authorities in Orange County are focused on identifying a suspect considered a serial killer of homeless men who has taken three lives so far. A $5,000 reward has been offered by the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs for information leading to an apprehension. more ›

Did you catch this one on Facebook? There's a serial killer on the loose in the South Bay and he's targeting women! Don't panic, say local authorities, because it turns out that's just an online rumor, and it's totally false. Where's the dislike button?! more ›

After the discovery of the body of a homeless man in Santa Ana this morning, local authorities are not willing to attribute the death to a serial killer targeting the homeless in Orange County. The body was found beside the truck in which the man lived. more ›

The suspected serial killer responsible for the murders of three middle-aged homeless men in Orange County has been captured on surveillance video, along with his vehicle. All three men were stabbed to death in their sleep, and "authorities say each crime scene was extremely gruesome." more ›

Police in Orange County suspect that a serial killer could be targeting homeless men Orange County. Three homeless men have been stabbed to death since late December, and local police agencies and the sheriff's department announced today that are teaming up to investigate the murders. more ›

Chester Turner has been dubbed L.A.'s "most prolific serial killer," for taking the lives of 10 women, and is currently sitting on California's death row. Now Turner will be charged with four additional counts of murder, for killings that took place in the same time frame and in the same vicinity of most of his other murders. more ›

This morning a serial killer who has already been convicted of three murders in Illinois was extradited to California. He will appear before a judge in Orange County to answer for the deaths of five women in Southern California, including the violent slaying of a Saddleback College student, according to the Orange County Register. more ›

Investigators now believe Ramona Price, a 7-year-old girl who went missing 50 years ago in Santa Barbara, may have been a victim of serial killer Mack Ray Edwards, who is thought to have killed as many as 20 children. more ›

Serial killer suspect Lonnie Franklin, Jr., known as the "Grim Sleeper" might be waiting for his day in court for another year, according to CBS2. Thanks to the high volume of information from the District Attorney's office handed over to the defense team, there is extensive investigation work still to be done before the case can go to trial. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department has announced they will make public several photographs collected as evidence from the home of Lonnie Franklin, Jr, aka the "Grim Sleeper," the man suspected of killing nine women and one man over a period of over 20 years. more ›

A map of our nation's highways could prove to be the link the FBI needs in solving hundreds of murders. That's because they are examining what they are calling "a distinctive type of criminal," specifically, "a serial killer operating along the nation's highways," according to USA Today. more ›

Accused serial killer Lonnie Franklin, Jr., today pleaded not guilty to murdering 10 women and attempting to kill another in a spree that last over 20 years. The backyard mechanic ,who once worked for the LAPD's garage and as a city sanitation worker, was arrested in July after years of police work. more ›

Who knew that the suspected Grim Sleeper serial killer and the city of Bell scandal could be somewhat related? They are, but not directly, just anecdotally. City and state worker pensions have been an increasingly controversial topic as government budgets diminish and now Lonnie Franklin's pension from the city of Los Angeles is out there. more ›

Suspected serial killer Lonnie Franklin was supposed to be swabbed for DNA while he was on probation for a felony, but it never happened. If it did, the alleged "Grim Sleeper" may have been caught, sparing at least one woman her life, finds the LA Times. more ›

The alleged "Grim Sleeper" serial killer Lonnie Franklin, Jr., arrested last week and charged with 10 murders, had been arrested at least 15 times, but stayed off the LAPD's radar because DNA was never swabbed. He was eventually caught via familial DNA -- his son was arrested and swabbed, leading authorities to Franklin. It's a first for this approach in the U.S., one that has LAPD Chief Charlie Beck saying it "will change the way policing is done." more ›

Lonnie Franklin, Jr., the alleged "Grim Sleeper" serial killer arrested this week and charged with 10 murders, managed to avoid being sent to state prison despite being arrested at least 15 times in the past four decades, according to the Daily News. more ›

As the arraignment of accused serial killer Lonnie David Franklin, Jr. was postponed to August, police were working to see if other unsolved cases are connected to him. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department today released various booking photos of suspected "Grim Sleeper" serial killer Lonnie Franklin, Jr. In addition to his booking photo taken yesterday after his arrest, there were three others, all from previous arrests. more ›

Police and victims of families of the Grim Sleeper serial killer had a feeling he lived in the neighborhood. Today the suspect, 57-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr., was arrested at his home on 81st Street in Manchester Square, a South L.A. neighborhood. more ›

An arrest has been made in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case, according to an anonymous source to the Associated Press. Since 1985, one man tied through DNA is suspected of slaying 11 people -- 10 black women and one man -- through 2007. more ›

Close to 25 years after the first of eleven confirmed murders by the elusive Grim Sleeper, a major public awareness campaign was launched today in South L.A. Seven billboards now feature three composite sketches of the serial killer. Based on the description from the only known survivor, the images reflect what he looked like then and the LAPD's best guess at what he could look like today. more ›

Rodney Alcala, the serial killer convicted last month in the death of a 12-year-old Orange County girl and four other women in the late 1970s, will be given his sentence today, according to abc7. more ›

Police found over 1,000 photographs of girls and young women inside the storage locker of Rodney Alcala when he was arrested for the 1979 murder of Huntington Beach teenager Robin Samsoe, reports the Daily News. more ›

Fearing that women posing in a stash of hundreds of photos taken by convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala, Police last week released the photos, hoping to identify the women and find out if their contact with Alcala ended fatally as it did with five Southern Californian women. Of the hundreds of calls and photos, six are potentially linked to missing women. Alcala was a one-time photographer and "Dating Game" contestant. more ›

Rodney Alcala, the one-time "Dating Game" contestant back in the late 1970s, was convicted today in the killings of an Orange County girl and four Los Angeles area women, according the LA Times. Alcala, who represented himself during the trial, has twice been convicted and sentenced to death for the slaying of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe... more ›