A GERMAN serial killer who murdered five female hitchhikers accidentally killed himself performing a strange solo sex act in his prison cell over the weekend, reports claim. Egidius Schiffer, dubbed ...

Wanted poster police from Lower Saxony, Germany, in 2011 as a man later identified as Martin Ney killed three and assaulted at least 40 children at school camps before he was arrested in 2011. (Image ...

A German male nurse serving a life term for killing six hospital patients with lethal drugs out of "boredom" will face trial for another 97 murders, prosecutors said Monday. The third trial of Niels ...

Peter Kürten, aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf or the “Düsseldorf Monster,” was a German serial killer who operated in the city of Düsseldorf. Along with taking the lives of people, he even used to ...

A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country’s post-war history was handed a life sentence Thursday for murdering 85 patients in his care. Niels Hoegel has already ...

Germany’s most prolific serial killer in the country’s post-war history has appealed his life sentence for 85 murders, a district court said Tuesday. Germany’s most prolific serial killer in the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A disturbing German film showing the true story of a serial killer who preyed on women in Hamburg's red-light district in the 1970s does not glorify violence but explores the ...

A German serial killer nurse was jailed for life on Thursday for the murder of 85 patients in his care, according to a statement from a court in the northwest city of Oldenburg. A German serial killer ...