"Silence of the Lambs" to "The Bad Seed." ...

There is no shortage of great crime shows out there, running the gamut from series based on true crime stories to entirely fictional — if not pushing toward the fantastical — characters and universes.

America harbors an enduring obsession with serial killers, a fascination that has firmly established these figures as recurring archetypes across all forms of fiction. This dark fixation originates ...