S1 E1: Deadly Affairs
When a distinguished Navy doctor and his wife are found stabbed inside their San Diego home, police launch a hunt for a brutal killer. The attack leaves the doctor dead, and his wife clinging to life.
21 minutes
Motive To Murder
Motive to Murder takes a psychological look into some of the real-life murder cases that have made headlines around the world: from crimes of passion and serial killers, to opportunistic slayings and mass shootings.
Cast: Tom Ohmer
Director: Peter Mcdonnell
S1 E2: Psycho Shooter
In 2011, a lone gunman sets off on a killing spree at an Arizona shopping center. His target: prominent Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. After killing six and wounding thirteen, police capture a disturbed, twenty-two-year-old suspect.
21 minutes
S1 E3: Killers By Blood
When a beloved grandfather goes missing in rural Utah, investigators begin a multi-state search for him. What starts as a simple missing persons case becomes a complex crime of kidnapping and a shocking murder.
21 minutes
S1 E4: Texas Teen Love Triangle
A beautiful high school girl goes missing in the middle of the night without a trace. When her body is found, the entire community of Mansfield, Texas is in shock. Rumours buzz around the high school that a killer is walking the halls.
30 minutes
S1 E5: Pickaxe Murders
Houston, Texas is rocked by a grisly crime scene- a man whose head is practically hammered off his body and a semi-nude woman riddled with pick ax wounds.
30 minutes
S1 E6: Fast Food Massacre
A Wendy's restaurant in Queens, New York is hit by a pair of robbers just before closing time. The robbery escalates as the pair slaughter five employees, while leaving another two for dead.
30 minutes
S1 E7: Speed Freak Killers
A drug-fueled, killing spree terrorizes a small California town. Police believe they are dealing with a serial killer who lives quietly among them. They are shocked to discover not one but two childhood friends.
21 minutes
S1 E8: Misogynist Murderer
In a small Australian town, residents start finding bodies of dead women in rural locations. The killer leaves behind strange marks on the victims that seem to be made with a homemade knife.
30 minutes
S1 E9: Southside Slayer
Los Angeles is a dangerous city in 1986 with over a 1,000 homicides reported and many going unsolved. Police find the bodies of more than 50 African-American women dumped into the trash.
30 minutes
S1 E10: South African Strangler
A police reservist stumbles across a mass grave of women just outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. The investigation leads to the leader of a child advocacy group who lures dozens of women with the promise of a job helping kids.
30 minutes
S1 E11: Camden Ripper
A homeless man finds bloody body parts in a North London dumpster. Police soon find more and realize they have a killer in the neighborhood. The investigation stalls until a suspect's door is left slightly ajar revealing weapons.
21 minutes
S1 E12: Cosa Nostra Killer
For decades, Italy is in fear from a Mafia hit man known as "Ice Eyes." He is an emotionless killer and the authorities can do nothing to stop him. However, he is betrayed while planning the mob's most daring hit ever.
21 minutes
S1 E13: Bound To Die
Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Marriott goes missing. The investigation leads to Kat McDonough who claims that Marriott died during rough sex but she admitted to authorities that she offered Marriott to her dominant boyfriend, Seth Mazzaglia.
30 minutes
S1 E14: Doctor Death
An English doctor who makes house calls has the bedside manner of a saint for his elderly female patients, but when the family of a deceased patient contests the will-the truth is exhumed.
30 minutes
S1 E15: Texas Tower Sniper
In America's first mass slaying, a sniper randomly guns down students and pedestrians from atop the University of Texas clock tower. Police have no plan in place for such an event; the police are out-gunned and over their heads.
30 minutes
S1 E16: Co-ed Killer
Young, female students have disappeared with alarming frequency from the college town of Santa Cruz, California. Then mutilated body parts show up as almost a human jigsaw puzzle.
21 minutes
S1 E17: Hawaiian Horror
When a killer burst into a Honolulu conference room at a button-down, no nonsense office, he leaves behind seven dead - and the biggest mass slaying in Hawaiian history.
30 minutes
S1 E18: The Killer Nurse
At hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, patients are mysteriously dying. The rumour is that a serial killer is at work. After the Reverend Gall unexpectedly dies in 2003, tests reveal that he has five times the dose of medication.
21 minutes
S1 E19: Snuff Film Killers
A fisherman in Bates City, Missouri, discovers the nude body of a woman; 41-year-old Marsha Spicer. Police learn she was an acquaintance of ex-con Richard Davis. For years, Davis had a fantasy to make a snuff film.
30 minutes
S1 E20: Christmas Eve Massacre
A man wearing a Santa suit makes a surprise visit to a Pardo family Christmas Eve party in Covina, California, in 2008. The man is carrying a gift-wrapped flamethrower in one hand and in the other, a handgun.
30 minutes
S1 E21: The Fiendish Friend
Samuel Herr and Julie Kibuishi are a young couple living in California. On May 22, 2010, Julie's partially clothed body is discovered in Herr's apartment, and Herr, apparently, is on the run.
30 minutes
S1 E22: The Makeover Murder
The former beauty queen Michele MacNeill married a prominent surgeon Martin MacNeill in Utah. On April 11, 2011, her husband and six-year-old daughter find her dead in the bathtub and suspicious circumstances arise.
30 minutes
S1 E23: Bus Stop Killer
Jessica Keen, an honor student and cheerleader, gets in an argument with her boyfriend. Jessica strolls to a nearby bus stop. This is the last time anyone sees her alive. Police focus their investigation on her ex-boyfriend.
30 minutes
S1 E24: House Of Horrors
In Gloucester, England, Rosemary Letts meets 27-year-old Frederick West, married father of two daughters, on her 15th birthday. They move in together, and soon, one of his daughters, and then his wife, disappear.
30 minutes
S1 E25: Lying In Wait
A man kills 16-year old Colette Aram in Nottinghamshire, England and goes to a local pub to wipe his own cuts with a napkin. Twenty-five years pass until police match the blood on the napkin from the pub to a relative of the killer.
30 minutes
S1 E26: Dangerous Obsession
Joanna Clare Yeates is a 25-year-old landscape architect from Hampshire, England, who goes missing. Eight days later, someone finds her strangled body along the roadside.
30 minutes