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Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)
Brilliantly disturbing documentary by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney that exposes the systematic ‘cover-up’ of child sexual-abuse cases within the Catholic Church…
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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1997)
Narrated by Paul Sorvino, ‘The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre’ documents in great detail one of the most infamous days in American history when on Valentine’s day in 1929, the streets of Chicago ran with blood as the gangs of Al Capone and Bugs Moran battled to the death…
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Fatal Compulsion (1998)
‘The New Detectives’ is a documentary crime series that chronicles notorious murders committed in North America and the forensics used to convict the murderers of their crimes … this episode focuses on the horrific crimes of serial killers: Ted Bundy, Aileen Wournos, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, a.k.a the ‘Ken & Barbie Killers’…
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David and Catherine Birnie (2010)
Australian documentary crime series that delves into some of Australia’s most infamous ‘Crime Families’ … this episode focuses on David and Catherine Birnie who abducted, raped and murdered four women in their home in the 1980s… These crimes were referred to in the press as the ‘Moorhouse murders’…
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The Granny Killer (2005)
Over a fourteen month period in the late 1980’s, John Wayne Glover attacked and killed six elderly women in Sydney’s North Shore (Australia) for which he was dubbed the “The Granny Killer”…
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The Phoenix Strangler (2006)
… Sipho Thwala is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1999 for the murders of 16 women… He was sentenced to 506 years in prison. Thwala was known by the moniker “The Phoenix Strangler”….
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Kill At Will: America On Trial (2012)
… ‘Panorama’ takes a look at America’s disturbing gun-culture by focusing on 3 recent cases: Trayvon Martin’s profiled murder at the hands of self-appointed neighborhood vigilante George Zimmerman; Texas grandfather Joe Horn’s shooting of two burglars robbing his neighbors house; and the Aurora Theater mass-shootings…
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Monsters Among Us (2011)
… Joseph Edward Duncan III is an American convicted serial killer and sex offender who is currently serving multiple concurrent death sentences and life sentences in conjunction with the 2005 kidnapping and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho….
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The Vampire of Sacramento (2011)
… Richard Trenton Chase, a.k.a ‘The Vampire of Sacramento’ because he drank his victims’ blood and cannibalized their remains was an American schizophrenic serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in Sacramento, California in the 1970’s…
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The Serpent (2004)
Charles Sobhraj, is a serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed “the Bikini Killer” and “the Serpent,” due to his skill at deception and evasion, Sobhraj allegedly committed at least 12 murders…
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The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke (2008)
… Eric Edgar Cooke nicknamed ‘The Night Caller’ was an Australian serial killer who from 1958 to 1963 terrorized the city of Perth, Western Australia by committing 22 violent crimes, eight of which resulted in deaths….
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Name, Rank, Serial Killer (2011)
…CBS’s ’48 Hours’ investigative documentary series takes a look at the case of Canadian serial killer Col. Russel Williams who’s sadistic sexual perversions led to countless ‘breaking and entering’ charges as well as the horrific deaths of two young women …
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Final 24: Tupac Shakur (2012)
… ‘Final 24’ is a terrific documentary series that uses archival footage, dramatic reenactments and interviews with family and friends, to relate the final 24 hours in the life of a famed personality… this episode focuses on the final moments of the still unsolved murder of Hip Hop icon, Tupac Shakur…
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I Escaped a Cult (2012)
… National Geographic’s ‘I Escaped a Cult’ takes a grim look into the Church of Latter Day Saints led by convicted pedophile Warren Jeffs and church elders and the various horrific crimes that are perpetuated on the children of cult members and how 3 of those children eventually escaped the clutches of the church to…
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The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
… Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his…
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Joel Rifkin (2004)
… a routine traffic stop in 1993 would eventually unleash the horrific details to the many crimes of the worse serial killer in the history of the State of New York… Fascinating A&E Biography on American serial killer Joel Rifkin, who in his own, cold, casual words details the murders of 17 N.Y City prostitutes…
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Roads to Memphis (2010)
… brilliant PBS documentary that chronicles the disparate yet paralleled journeys of Martin Luther King, Jr. (the charismatic US Civil Rights leader) and James Earl Ray (the unknown career criminal) and how they converged on that tragic April day in 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee…
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The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1993)
… fascinating documentary detailing the climate of fear and suspicion that surrounded and led to the assassination of famed 60’s Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. particularly within the US government ‘intelligence’ agencies…
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The Real Amityville Horror (2005)
…Ronald DeFeo, Jr. is an American mass murderer that was tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters… The case is notable for being the real life inspiration behind the book and film versions of The Amityville Horror…..
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The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo (2004)
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed The Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper, and The Rostov Ripper, who committed the murder of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990