S1 E1: Victims and the Media
American culture and its urban settings, streets of prostitution, homeless and lost people, will continue providing the victim pool for serial killers.
55 minutes
Becoming Evil Serial Killers
A 7-Part Investigative Documentary Series True crime. Americans have become fascinated with the media genre in which actual crimes of real people are explored in depth. A genre which exploded at the beginning of the 21st century. A genre that focuses on murder. The more hideous and bizarre...
Cast: Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz
Director: Ron Meyer
S1 E2: America's Most Notorious Serial Killers: The First Wave
We profile some of America's most notorious serial killers including the Axeman of New Orleans who terrorised the city, and the gruesome crimes of Albert Fish, the infamous Brooklyn vampire.
56 minutes
S1 E4: Lady Serial Killers
There was a golden age of female serial killers in the U.S. and Europe. Female serial killers that targeted their children, husbands, and other family members. This was a time when women were becoming educated but had very little control over their lives. As a result they had very little recourse or legal remedies if they found themselves in a bad marriage or untenable domestic situation, a solution was to 'free themselves' by poisoning their husbands, or anyone controlling their lives and even killing their children.
57 minutes
S1 E5: International Serial Killers
There's been a long-held belief in the public that serial killing is largely an American phenomenon. That America, with its large faceless urban centers, street prostitution, poor and neglected inner cities, drug problems, and homelessness, is not only a unique breeding ground for murdering psychopaths but has created a ready-made victim pool for serial killers. Now we know serial killing has no boundaries.
53 minutes
S1 E6: 21St Century Serial Killers
21st-century America is a technological wonder: cell phones, internet, 24 hour news media, DNA breakthroughs, people on the move, amd expanding urban centers. But many of the old problems remain: drug addiction, homelessness, prostitution, poverty, gangs, murder, and serial killing. Starting in the 1990s serial killing in America has transitioned and adapted to the changing world, while at the same time in many ways staying the same. What has changed: There is new forensic technology particularly DNA analysis, better cooperation between law-enforcement jurisdictions, increasing awareness and fascination in the media and on the Internet with the serial killer.
53 minutes
S1 E7: Mind of The Serial Killer
Prior to the true crime explosion, psychologists, and criminal investigators thought they had the serial killer figured out. But it turns out the answers are much more complex and troubling. Even the profile of the typical serial killer has changed dramatically. It is a change in the profile of who serial killers are and why they kill. It is a change that will send chills up your spine.
54 minutes