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House of Horrors (2012)
… fascinating documentary that tells the horrific story of American serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a.k.a ‘The Killer Clown’ through the eyes of those who thought they knew him best – his sister and his daughter….
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The Craigslist Killer: Seven Days of Rage (2009)
… examines the case of Philip Markoff, the American medical student, a.k.a ‘The Craigslist Killer’ who in 2009 went on a week-long horrific crime spree that took the life of Julisma Brisman….
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The Monster of Florence (2009)
Two innocent men were jailed for the murders, many more arrested, and the evidence in a later trial was gruesome enough to cause one of the police to collapse. But to this day, no one knows for sure the identity of the killer, or even killers, that murdered and mutilated under the moniker, ‘The Monster…
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The Chessboard Killer (2009)
He is the worst serial killer in Russia’s history… for years, Alexander Pichuzhkin, a.k.a ‘The Chessboard Killer’ kept a city in fear… for years he taunted the police… he preyed on the lonely and vulnerable and he kept a unique record of his crimes…
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Top 10 Deadliest Women (2011)
FBI Profiler Candice DeLong counts down the ’10 Deadliest Women’ featured on the show in seasons 2–4 as determined by viewer votes on investigationdiscovery.com…. they include Myra Hindley, Caril Fugate, Lisa Montgomery, Christa Pike, Sarah Makin, Betty Lou Beets, Rosemary West, Griselda Blanco, and Gertrude Baniszewski…
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The Boston Strangler (1987)
The Boston Strangler operated in the Boston, Mass. area during a two-year span in the early 1960s. The “Silk Stocking Murders” is another epithet given to the same series of crimes… Though Albert DeSalvo confessed to the murders, many experts and investigators have doubts as to his involvement in the crimes…
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Tabloid (2010)
Terrifically odd and highly entertaining Errol Morris documentary that tells the story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who in the ’70s was accused of kidnapping and raping Kirk Anderson, an American Mormon missionary…
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The Assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald (2011)
‘Evidence of Revision’ is a 6 part documentary containing historical and original news footage that reveals that the most seminal events in recent American history have been deeply and purposefully misrepresented to the public…. This episode focuses on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald…
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The Sex Chamber (2008)
…examines the crimes of David Parker Ray, a.k.a the ‘Toy-Box Killer’ who kidnapped, tortured and murdered a string of women in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico… Police discovered a sexual torture chamber on his premises but had trouble getting a conviction because of taped evidence being disallowed and the two main witnesses, women who escaped…
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Happy Face Killer (2010)
Keith Hunter Jesperson is a Canadian serial killer who murdered 8 people in Nebraska, California, Florida, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming while working as a truck driver… the media would coin him the ‘Happy Face Killer’ after Jesperson wrote a confession on the bathroom wall of a truck stop and signed it with a smiley face….
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Serial Killer Groupie Sondra London (2000)
Sondra London is an American true crime author who has been dubbed the “Queen of Serial Killer Groupies”… this documentary is an episode of director Errol Morris’, ‘First Person’ television series centered on Sondra London which originally aired in 2000 …
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Witch Hunt (2008)
… tells the bizarre and troubling story of John Stoll and other Bakersfield, California parents who were wrongfully arrested, tried and convicted of horrific ‘child molestation’ charges in the early 1980s due to inexperienced social workers and the over-zealousness of sheriff’s department officials and the popular Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels …
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The Manson Murders (2008)
Forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone has devised a 22 level ‘Scale of Evil’ that gauges the pure evilness of certain notorious criminals.. In this episode he takes on the notorious and complex case of Charles Manson who convinced others to do the killing for him…
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Monster of The Miramichi (2005)
Allan Legere, a.k.a ‘Monster of The Miramichi’ is a Canadian serial killer and arsonist, convicted of the deaths of 5 people in the late 1980’s…. while serving time in jail for one murder, Legere escaped from prison and went on an 8 month crime spree which took the lives of 4 more people…
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Stalker (2007)
Jealous lovers, obsessed acquaintances, delusional admirers.. ‘Killer stalkers’ hunt the object of their affection like a predator hunting it’s prey… This episode of ‘Most Evil’ examines the cases of notorious stalkers: Richard Farley, Robert John Bardo, Mark David Chapman, and Gerald Atkins…
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A Serial Killer Calls (2005)
An incredible episode of A&E’s ‘The First 48’ in which the Kansas City detectives being featured find themselves on the bloody trail of a serial killer of ‘Prospect Avenue’ prostitutes…. to complicate things even further and heighten the already palpable drama, the killer begins to call the police taunting them with information of more bodies…
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The Original Night Stalker (2009)
Between 1976-1986, the Original Night Stalker committed 50 rapes in Northern California and at least 10 murders in Southern California. As DNA was linked to these different crimes, a portrait suddenly emerged of a terrifying and prolific sexually sadistic killer. To this day, it is not known if the killer is alive or dead. ..
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Dream Deceivers (1992)
Just before Christmas 1985, James Vance and Ray Belknap shot themselves with a 12-gauge shotgun as part of a suicide pact… one boy lay dead and the other was left horribly disfigured … the parents of the surviving teen would later take the English heavy metal band Judas Priest to court based on their belief…
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His Name Is Evil: Levi Bellfield (2012)
Levi Bellfield is a British serial killer that was convicted in 2008 of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy… in 2011, Bellfield was also found guilty of the murder of Milly Dowler……
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Charles Starkweather (2008)
During a two-month road trip in 1958, with his 13 year old girlfriend Carl Ann by his side, the 19 year old Charles Starkweather murdered 11 people in Nebraska & Wyoming… He is considered as one of the worst ‘spree killers’ in American criminal history…
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The O.J. Verdict (2005)
On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million people stopped what they were doing to witness the televised verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial. For more than a year, the O.J. saga transfixed the nation and dominated the public imagination. Ten years later, FRONTLINE revisits the “perfect storm” that was the O.J. Simpson trial….
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The True Story: Silence of the Lambs (2012)
The film ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was inspired by an FBI unit whose members revolutionized the pursuit of America’s deadliest criminals… these pioneers went far beyond traditional forensic evidence to probe the minds of the killers…
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The Killer Handyman (2005)
In 1999, on the outskirts of Montreal, the normally peaceful suburbs would become the hunting grounds of one of Canada’s most violent criminals… William Fyfe, a.k.a ‘The Killer Handyman’ would eventually be convicted of killing five women, although he claims to have killed four more….
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Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
Disturbing documentary about Father Oliver O’Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children…
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Killer Kids: Occult Killers (2012)
Occult-motivated killings are discussed in this episode of this documentary series… Pagan beliefs, satanic rock, horror films and Satanism are included as motives for murders to gain favor with Satan! Occult-related crimes committed by young people are examined in the United States, Canada and France.
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Charles Manson Then and Now (1992)
Tracing America’s morbid fascination with the infamous sociopath, Charles Manson, jailed in 1970 after members of his cult “family” went on a murder spree, this latterday documentary provides a modest update on Manson’s prison existence and other matters. Some interview footage with the culprit justifies a viewing for interested parties….
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Biography: Gary Ridgway “Green River Killer” (2006)
One of the most prolific serial killers in American criminal history, Gary Leon Ridgway a.k.a ‘The Green River Killer’ for his propensity to dump the bodies of his victims in, near or around the Green River in the State of Washington, has been convicted of the murders of 48 prostitutes … Ridgeway has confessed to…
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West of Memphis (2012)
With unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense team, never-before-seen or heard personal accounts from those involved, acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson examines the tragic case of the ‘West Memphis Three’ trying to come to terms with how the American legal system could of failed them so badly…
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The Mary Bell Case (1998)
… in December 1968, Mary Flora Bell was convicted of the manslaughter of two boys, Martin Brown (aged four) and Brian Howe (aged three)… Bell was 10 years old when she killed Brown and 11 when she killed Howe, making her one of Britain’s most notorious and youngest child killers….
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Phil Spector (2010)
An actress turns up dead at the home of Phil Spector and the music legend is charged with murder. Crime writer Aphrodite Jones uncovers videotape that Spector hoped would clear his name, but instead is a damning self-portrait….
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The Sunday Morning Slasher (2012)
He killed because he thought women had ‘evil in their eyes’… Convicted of two murders, Carl Eugene Watts, aka, The Sunday Morning Slasher is an American serial killer who would eventually confess to more than 80 murders of women in Texas, Michigan and Ontario, Canada…
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Zodiac Killer (2010)
The 40 year mystery as to the identity of the “Zodiak Killer” has been replete with exclusive revelations, false identities, Hollywood movies and countless conspiracy theories… Crime writer Aphrodite Jones takes a new look into the Zodiak Killer mystery…
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O.J. Simpson (2010)
The Las Vegas kidnapping case that put former football great O.J. Simpson in jail was one of many highly publicized Simpson cases with a singular theme – rage… Crime Writer Aphrodite Jones uncovers new information about the fall of an icon. …
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The Long Island Railroad Massacre (2012)
On December 7, 1993, a Jamaican man (Colin Ferguson) opened fire on a Long Island commuter train killing 6 and injuring 19 more in an incident coined the “Long Island Railroad Massacre”… Investigation Discovery’s ‘Killer Trials: Judgement Day’ crime series examines the case of Colin Ferguson and the strange court proceedings that followed …
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Killer Kids: Psychopath Killers (2012)
… examines the cases of 3 young killers: Mary Bell, the 11 year old double murderer; Guy Georges Rampillon, who in childhood exhibited all the signs that would later lead to his serial killer lifestyle and Peter Woodcock, the Canadian teenager that was convicted of 3 grizzly child murders in the 1950’s…
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The Monster of the Andes (2005)
Pedro Alonso López, aka, ‘The Monster of the Andes’ is one of the most horrific and prolific serial killers in history… the peasant son of a Columbian prostitute Lopez has been convicted of the rape and murder of over 100 little girls from various mountain regions and villages of South America… Alonso claims that his…
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Capturing Saddam (2006)
… the terrific ‘Zero Hour’ documentary series takes a fascinating look back at the final hours leading to the capture of Iraqi dictator, Sadam Hussein as told by the men that tracked him down and eventually captured him…
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Terror in Tokyo (2004)
…on March 20, 1995, the most serious violent attack in Japan since the end of World War II occurred… The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of the religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo that took the lives of 13 and injured thousands…
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Massacre at Columbine High (2004)
… minute-by-minute account of the Columbine High School massacre that horrified the world… featuring chilling video footage of Klebold and Harris, ‘Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High’ offers a real insight into the twisted minds that devised a devastating plan too horrific to believe and then carried it out with cruel and fanatic precision….
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The Killing Game (2010)
CBS investigative series ’48 Hours’, documents the horrific crimes of American serial killer, Rodney Alcala, aka ‘The Dating Game Killer’ due to his appearance on the 70’s TV Game Show, ‘The Dating Game’…