
The official definition of a serial killer is someone who kills three or more people. But do they have more in common than just a statistic? The series looks deeply into contemporary serial killers, to the most meticulous killer of modern times, Sacramento's Dorothea Puente, the owner of the 'House of Horrors'. Then there are the educated killers, like Dr Harold Shipman, who is thought to have killed nearly 300 people who were his patients and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who held a PhD in Mathematics. At the other end of the scale, Los Angeles serial killer Lonnie Franklin was organised but not smart, his reign of murder led to the deaths of so many disadvantaged women.
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Air Date: 2018-07-01
The Hillside Stranglers, tortured and murdered women before dumping their bodies around the Los Angeles hillsides. No...
Air Date: 2018-07-08
Chester Turner, according to LAPD, is the most prolific serial killer in the history of Los Angeles. Joanna Dennehy b...
Air Date: 2018-07-15
Fostering an image as a kindly medical professional, Dr Shipman had for years cunningly disguised his addiction to dr...
Air Date: 2018-07-22
Between 1986 and 1987, the bodies of missing young women were dug up around Sacramento,California. The locations all ...
Air Date: 2018-07-29
Richard Chase was labelled the Vampire of Sacramento by police. He had a lust for blood whose depravity would include...
Air Date: 2018-08-05
Army veteran and ex-police officer, Dennis Nilsen asphyxiated young men, stored their bodies before dismembering them...
Air Date: 2018-08-12
With his IQ of 155, Michael Bruce Ross desire for power and control would lead to the violent murder of eight young w...
Air Date: 2018-08-19
Gerald Gallego and Charlene Williams were a toxic mix that led to the rape, bludgeoning and murder of 10 people in ju...
Air Date: 2018-08-26
The hand written list of 61 initials found in Randy Kraft's car was in fact a scorecard of men he had murdered. For o...
Air Date: 2018-09-02
The Bittaker and Norris case that lawyer Stephen Kay prosecuted in 1981 was the worst murder case he ever handled owi...
Air Date: 2018-09-09
In a three month spree, 5 women were slain and mutilated on the impoverished streets of London. An inexperienced poli...
Air Date: 2018-09-16
Roger Kibbe roamed California's major freeway in his urge to rape and strangle unsuspecting young women. A London Sum...
Air Date: 2018-09-23
Two cities either side of the globe lost their innocence after the harrowing crimes of serial killers. Myra Hindley a...