Ed Kemper terrifies 1970s Santa Cruz when he picks up and dismembers hitchhiking college students. But the articulate, charming and boastful killer’s desire for murder began at a much younger age.
Richard Mallory is found shot dead beside a highway in 1989. He’s the first of seven victims. Their killer is Aileen Wuornos, a woman fleeing a troubled past and harbouring a violent rage.
Danny Rolling is infamous for brutally killing five Florida college students within just a few days. But his first murders were in his hometown in Louisiana, where he grew up under a violent father.
Before hunting his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen works at his father’s bakery in Iowa, where he becomes increasingly misogynistic. He goes on to kill at least 17 women.
When Black women disappear in Mount Pleasant, Cleveland, one man lies at the centre of it all: Anthony Sowell. Desperate for control from a young age, as an adult, he preys on the vulnerable.
Anyone could be a target of Richard Ramirez’s violent attacks in mid-80s California. Growing up yearning for a father figure, he falls in with his sadistic Vietnam vet cousin and takes up Satanism.
Arthur Shawcross readily shares details about his life before he killed 14 women along New York State's Genesee River. But are his disturbing stories about abuse, bestiality and cannibalism true?
Years of abuse and twisted fantasy precede Henry Louis Wallace’s first murder. He kills 11 young Black women across North and South Carolina.
In rural Epping, New Hampshire, Sheila LaBarre is known as an eccentric widow who loves her rabbits. So everyone is shocked by what police uncover. How did a turbulent childhood affect her adult life?
Between 1997 and 2003, Ronald Dominique kills at least 23 boys and men. Many of his victims are Black and homeless. What impact did Dominique’s childhood in hyper masculine Bayou have on him?
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