Serial Killer Documentary List


Serial Killer Documentary List (Free, full-length, serial killer documentaries)

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  • The Kindly Killer (2009)The Kindly Killer (2009)
    … a routine inspection of a blocked drain proves to be anything but routine when the obstruction is discovered to be human tissue… the only place where the remains could of come from is the attic flat of 23 Cranley Gardens who’s sole resident is 37 year old Dennis Nilsen…
  • Murder Hotel (2005)Murder Hotel (2005)
    Fascinating documentary on America’s first known serial killer, the psychotic Illinois doctor, Herman Webster Mudgett, aka, H.H Holmes who built his own ‘murder hotel’, specifically with murder in mind, complete with secret packages, sliding chutes a cellar morgue …. While Holmes would confess to 27 murders, of which four were confirmed, the actual body count …
  • Richard Ramirez – Born To Kill? (2011)Richard Ramirez - Born To Kill? (2011)
    Richard Ramirez, aka ‘The Night Stalker’ terrorized California residents in the 1980’s with a series of senseless, random acts of late-night home invasions, sexual assaults and murder…
  • Garavito: The World’s Worst Serial Killer (2012)Garavito: The World's Worst Serial Killer (2012)
    Fascinating Discovery channel documentary on how Colombian investigators tracked down serial killer Luis Alfredo Garavito who admitted to 147 rapes and murders of young boys but according to local officials, the actual number could easily exceed that …
  • The Monster of the Andes (2005)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 …
  • The Beast of Ukraine (2007)The Beast of Ukraine (2007)
    Anatoly Onoprienko, a.k.a ‘The Beast of Ukraine’ is the most prolific serial killer in the history of the Ukraine… a cold-hearted, ruthless killer, Onoprienko confessed to the murders of 52 people over a 6-year period…
  • My Brother the Serial Killer (2012)My Brother the Serial Killer (2012)
    Brilliant documentary by David Monaghan chronicling the life and crimes of American serial killer Glen Rogers, a.k.a, the ‘Casanova Killer’ as told by the man who knew him best – his childhood friend, partner-in-crime and older brother Carl… documentary gained wide media attention for one of the claims made by the Rogers family that their …
  • The Gainesville Ripper (2011)The Gainesville Ripper (2011)
    Roughly 20 years after Ted Bundy terrorized the students at Florida State University, five young people were killed in Gainesville, Fla., all students at the University of Florida or Santa Fe Community College… police feared they might have a copycat killer on the loose or even worse, a new form of evil to confront…
  • The Diary of Jack the Ripper (1993)The Diary of Jack the Ripper (1993)
    After more than a century–out of the mists and fogs of Victorian London comes this astonishing new documentary. Reading from the infamous murderer’s 63-page diary, a macabre record of obsession, horror and madness, Jack the Ripper’s own words are the basis for this dramatized analysis, overturning all previous theories and investigations.
  • The Phoenix Strangler (2006)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”….
  • Case Reopened: The Zodiac with Lawrence Block (1999)Case Reopened: The Zodiac with Lawrence Block (1999)
    Lawrence Block, Edgar Award-winning author and best-selling crime fiction writer, proposes a new and interesting twist to the case of the Zodiac…
  • Mind Hunters (1998)Mind Hunters (1998)
    … examines the modern investigative field of ‘psychological profiling’… features the work of renown ‘criminal profilers’, Robert Ressler & Robert Hazelwood and how their ‘psychological profiles’ helped track the violent crime sprees of Richard Chase (The Vampire Killer), Mike DeBardeleben, (The Mall Passer) and John Wayne Gacy (The Killer Clown) …
  • The Perverted World of Marc Dutroux (2007)The Perverted World of Marc Dutroux (2007)
    Marc Dutroux, a.k.a. ‘The Monster of Belgium’ is a Belgian serial killer, kidnapper and child molester whose high-profile crimes led to one of the most controversial and highly anticipated court cases in Belgian criminal history…
  • Bazaar Bizarre (2004)Bazaar Bizarre (2004)
    Appropriately named, ‘Bazaar Bizarre’ is a fascinating documentary by Benjamin Meade that examines the truly bizarre life and crimes of American serial killer Robert “Bob” Berdella , also knows as ‘ The Kansas City Butcher’ who raped, tortured and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987.
  • The Mind of a Murderer: The Mask of Madness (1984)The Mind of a Murderer: The Mask of Madness (1984)
    Fascinating look at the trial of Kenneth Bianchi, one of the killer-cousin duo known as ‘The Hillside Stranglers’ … and how he tried using a ‘multiple-personality’ defense plea as the main cause for his actions – Incredibly, he had a few of the psychologists convinced…
  • Kenneth McDuff: Free to Murder Again (2000)Kenneth McDuff: Free to Murder Again (2000)
    Kenneth Allen McDuff, also known as the “Broomstick Killer” is an American sexual predator and serial killer that is the only person in US history to be sentenced to death row, pardoned and set free and then sent back to death row after he killed again…
  • Fred West – Born To Kill? (2005)Fred West - Born To Kill? (2005)
    Fred West was a British serial killer. who between 1967 and 1987, aided by his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple’s homes including the now infamous 25 Cromwell Street…
  • AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS: In Their Own Words: Ed Kemper (2015)AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS: In Their Own Words: Ed Kemper (2015)
    Original web documentary series by DARK DOCUMENTARIES that examines the life and crimes of notorious American serial killers through their own words .. this episode features the ‘Co-ed Butcher’, Edmund Kemper, who was responsible for the murders of 10 people in California in the 1970’s …
  • Great Crimes and Trials: Ted Bundy (1992)Great Crimes and Trials: Ted Bundy (1992)
    “Great Crimes and Trials” is an early 1990’s British documentary series narrated by famed actor Robert Powell that examines the crimes and subsequent trials of famous crimes or criminals.. This 1992 episode details the horrific crimes and unusual trial of American serial killer Ted Bundy…
  • The Monster of Florence (2009)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 …
  • Death Diploma (1987)Death Diploma (1987)
    Interesting documentary on some notorious US murderers of the 1970’s… Examines the cases of Charles Manson and his family, Kenneth Bianchi “The Hillside Strangler”, Henry Lee Lucas, and Otis Toole…
  • The BTK Killer (2012)The BTK Killer (2012)
    Fascinating documentary from National Geographic that traces the horrific crimes of Dennis Rader, a.k.a ‘The BTK Killer’ and shows how DNA profiling first established in Britain led to the eventual capture of the BTK Killer in Wichita, Kansas.
  • Paul Bernardo Interview (2007)Paul Bernardo Interview (2007)
    In June of 2007, the Toronto Police Services Sex Crimes Unit, trying to gain information on the disappearance of Elizabeth Bain, sit down with serial rapist and murderer Paul Bernardo at Kingston Penitentiary to see if the ‘Scarborough Rapist’ can shed some light on the case…
  • Mystery Quest: San Francisco Slaughter (2009)Mystery Quest: San Francisco Slaughter (2009)
    For years a mysterious serial killer terrorized residents of the Bay Area… ‘Mystery Quest’ looks back at the 40 year cold-case with new information and modern scientific methods in hopes of revealing the true identity of ‘The Zodiak Killer’…
  • The Boston Strangler (1987)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…
  • The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke (2008)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….
  • The Pig Farm (2011)The Pig Farm (2011)
    Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton, also known as ‘The Pig Farm Killer’ is suspected to be the worst serial killer in Canadian history… Although prosecuted and sentenced to life in prison for the murders of 6 women, Pickton claims to have brutally slaughtered as many as 49 prostitutes at his ‘pig farm’ in Port Coquitlam, British …
  • Profile of a Serial Killer (1994)Profile of a Serial Killer (1994)
    Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer whose gruesome crimes shocked the world when on July 22, 1991, Milwaukee police discovered the remains of some of his victims still in his apartment… Dahmer later confessed to and was convicted of the murder of 17 young men and boys…
  • The True Story: Silence of the Lambs (2012)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…
  • Myra: The Making of a Monster (2003)Myra: The Making of a Monster (2003)
    Until her prison death in 2002, Myra Hindley was recognized as ‘the most hated woman in Britain’. The public hatred towards her was so intense, that after she was arrested w/ boyfriend Ian Brady’s in 1966, for the murders & rapes of 5 children, the name ‘Myra’ almost disappeared from UK society.
  • Dealing with the Devil (2001)Dealing with the Devil (2001)
    In 1979, after testifying about a federal prison slaying in Atlanta, Marion “Mad Dog” Pruett, was given $800, a new name (Charles “Sonny” Pearson), and placed in the US Federal Witness Protection Program. With his new identity in tow, Pruett went on a 2 year crime spree that took the lives of 5 innocent …
  • The Tool Box Killer (2021)The Tool Box Killer (2021)
    The Toy Box Killer is a terrific full-length documentary, produced by Mike Mathis Productions, that tells the disturbing story of Lawrence Bittaker, a.k.a the ‘Tool Box Killer’
  • The Killing Game (2010)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’…
  • Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993)Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993)
    Nick Bloomfield’s brilliant documentary ‘Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer’ chronicles Bloomfields’ attempt to interview America’s most notorious female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos …
  • Edmund Kemper: Born to Kill? (2012)Edmund Kemper: Born to Kill? (2012)
    Edmund Kemper, also known as “The Co-ed Killer”, is a 6’9″ American serial killer that killed and dismembered 6 female hitchhikers in the 1970’s… he’s also responsible for the murders of his grandparents, his mother and one of her friends…
  • Bodies at the Beach: The Search for a Serial Killer (2012)Bodies at the Beach: The Search for a Serial Killer (2012)
    The Long Island Serial Killer (also referred to by media sources as the “Gilgo Killer”) is an unidentified suspected serial killer who is believed to have murdered 10 to 14 people associated with the sex trade over the last 15 or so years and dumped their bodies along the Ocean Parkway, near the remote beach …
  • House of Horrors (2012)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….
  • Interview with FBI Profiler John Douglas (1996)Interview with FBI Profiler John Douglas (1996)
    FBI Profiler John Douglas sits down with TVO (TV Ontario) host Allan Gregg and discusses the many high-profile serial killer murder cases that he has investigated and how the personal and psychological toll that he had to endure almost took his life…
  • Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)
    Award winning documentary film maker Nick Broomfield revisits the serial killer subject matter with this incredible feature on the crimes of the Grim Sleeper – an LA serial killer accused of the murders of 10 women but suspected of having close to 100 victims, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in criminal …
  • Karla Homolka (1997)Karla Homolka (1997)
    One of the most infamous serial killers in Canadian history, Karla Homolka along with her serial rapist husband, Paul Bernardo, brutally raped & murdered 3 young girls (including her 15 year old sister Tammie) in the 1990’s, …
  • The Poughkeepsie Killer (2012)The Poughkeepsie Killer (2012)
    Kendall Francois, a.k.a “The Poughkeepsie Killer” is an American serial killer who is currently serving life in prison for killing eight women and burying/hiding their remains in and around his N.Y home….
  • Fatal Compulsion (1998)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’…
  • Son of Sam Speaks: The Untold Story (1997)Son of Sam Speaks: The Untold Story (1997)
    On the 20th anniversary of his arrest for the ‘Son of Sam’ murders in N.Y City in the mid 1970’s, David Berkowitz opens up about the murders and makes the disturbing claims that ‘The Process’, a satanic cult operating in N.Y at the time, was responsible for the murders and he was just a willing …
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  • American Occult: The Ripper Crew (2010)American Occult: The Ripper Crew (2010)
    The Ripper Crew, a.k.a. the Chicago Rippers was a satanic cult and organized crime group composed of Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer with brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis) that drove a van around the streets of Chicago looking for women to sacrifice.. they were suspected in the disappearances, murders and mutilations of 18 women in …
  • Wicked Attraction: Toolbox Killers (2009)Wicked Attraction: Toolbox Killers (2009)
    Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, also known as ‘The Toolbox Killers’, met in the California prison system and hatched a sinister plan to rape and kill young girls… when they met up again outside the prison system, they put their dark plan into action…
  • The Serpent (2004)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…
  • The BTK Killer Speaks (2005)The BTK Killer Speaks (2005)
    ‘A&E Documentary Special: The BTK Killer Speaks’ looks into the recently (2004) solved case of the BTK Killer through the use of Dennis Rader’s own court testimony describing his grizzly actions …
  • Top 10 Serial Killer DocumentariesTop 10 Serial Killer Documentaries
    This Top 10 Serial Killer Documentaries List is not based on any ‘scientific’ calculations of IMBD stats, critic polls or ‘website views’ but more of a personal collection of what I feel are some of the best documentaries in the ‘serial killer’ genre
  • His Name Was Arthur Leigh Allen (2007)His Name Was Arthur Leigh Allen (2007)
    Arthur Leigh Allen is widely considered as the prime suspect behind the still unsolved ‘Zodiak’ killings of the late 70’s in Southern, California… in this documentary, Allen’s friends and acquaintances speak about the man and why they consider him to be the prime candidate…
  • American Occult: The Ripper Crew (2010)American Occult: The Ripper Crew (2010)
    The Ripper Crew, a.k.a. the Chicago Rippers was a satanic cult and organized crime group composed of Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer with brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis) that drove a van around the streets of Chicago looking for women to sacrifice.. they were suspected in the disappearances, murders and mutilations of 18 women in …
  • Myra: The Making of a Monster (2003)Myra: The Making of a Monster (2003)
    Until her prison death in 2002, Myra Hindley was recognized as ‘the most hated woman in Britain’. The public hatred towards her was so intense, that after she was arrested w/ boyfriend Ian Brady’s in 1966, for the murders & rapes of 5 children, the name ‘Myra’ almost disappeared from UK society.
  • Dennis Nilsen: Born To Kill? (2005)Dennis Nilsen: Born To Kill? (2005)
    Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born 23 November 1945) is a serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer, who committed the murders of 15 young men in London, England, between 1978 and 1983.
  • Edmund Kemper: Born to Kill? (2012)Edmund Kemper: Born to Kill? (2012)
    Edmund Kemper, also known as “The Co-ed Killer”, is a 6’9″ American serial killer that killed and dismembered 6 female hitchhikers in the 1970’s… he’s also responsible for the murders of his grandparents, his mother and one of her friends…
  • Donald ‘Pee Wee’ Gaskins – Born To Kill? (2012)Donald 'Pee Wee' Gaskins - Born To Kill? (2012)
    This episode deals with the diminutive-sized American serial killer Donald ‘Pee Wee’ Gaskins who as well to his many grizzly crimes is also know as the first man to commit the murder of a fellow US death row inmate…
  • The Yorkshire Ripper (2009)The Yorkshire Ripper (2009)
    … a regular user of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe would eventually be convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others…. The brilliant British documentary series “Crimes that Shook the World” examines the crimes of the man that would come to be known as “The Yorkshire Ripper”…
  • Killer Couples: The Moors Murderers (2009)Killer Couples: The Moors Murderers (2009)
    Perhaps the most notorious ‘killer couple’ of them all, Ian Brady and Mira Hindley kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered 5 children in the 1960’s in Greater Manchester, England… the were referred to as ‘The Moors Murderers’ as 3 of their victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor…
  • The Poughkeepsie Killer (2012)The Poughkeepsie Killer (2012)
    Kendall Francois, a.k.a “The Poughkeepsie Killer” is an American serial killer who is currently serving life in prison for killing eight women and burying/hiding their remains in and around his N.Y home….
  • The Scorecard Killer (2014)The Scorecard Killer (2014)
    This episode of ‘Killers: Behind the Myth’ deals with Randy Kraft, a.k.a the “Scorecard Killer”, the American serial killer that raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered over 16 men in Southern California between 1972-1983 .. he’s currently on death row in San Quentin State Prison.
  • The Diary of Jack the Ripper (1993)The Diary of Jack the Ripper (1993)
    After more than a century–out of the mists and fogs of Victorian London comes this astonishing new documentary. Reading from the infamous murderer’s 63-page diary, a macabre record of obsession, horror and madness, Jack the Ripper’s own words are the basis for this dramatized analysis, overturning all previous theories and investigations.
  • The Boston Strangler (1987)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…
  • Joel Rifkin (2004)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 …
  • Zodiac Killer (2010)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…
  • Mystery Quest: San Francisco Slaughter (2009)Mystery Quest: San Francisco Slaughter (2009)
    For years a mysterious serial killer terrorized residents of the Bay Area… ‘Mystery Quest’ looks back at the 40 year cold-case with new information and modern scientific methods in hopes of revealing the true identity of ‘The Zodiak Killer’…
  • David and Catherine Birnie (2010)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’…
  • Anatomy of Crime: Deadly Predators (2000)Anatomy of Crime: Deadly Predators (2000)
    Anatomy of Crime: Deadly Predators takes a look into the dark and terrifying world of the serial killer, through the eyes of detectives, psychologists, and the “human monsters” themselves to try and gain a better understanding as to what internal or external forces might be at play that lead some men to become ‘deadly predators’…
  • The Chessboard Killer (2009)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…
  • The Highway of Tears (2012)The Highway of Tears (2012)
    The ‘Highway of Tears’ is a 800 km section of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, that has been witness to the unsolved deaths or disappearances of at least 18 women since 1969… CBS investigative crime series ’48 Hours’ takes a closer look at the mystery surrounding the disappearances…
  • Serial Killer: An Interview With Arthur Shawcross (2011)Serial Killer: An Interview With Arthur Shawcross (2011)
    Fascinating look back at the horrific crimes of Artur Shawcross as told through the dark, cold, matter-of-fact recollections of the killer himself..
  • The Railroad Killer (2010)The Railroad Killer (2010)
    Fascinating episode of CBS’s ’48 Hours Mystery: Live to Tell’ that tells the horrific tale of Holly Dunn, one of the few survivors of Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, an itinerant Mexican serial killer responsible for as many as 15 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s..
  • Karla Homolka (1997)Karla Homolka (1997)
    One of the most infamous serial killers in Canadian history, Karla Homolka along with her serial rapist husband, Paul Bernardo, brutally raped & murdered 3 young girls (including her 15 year old sister Tammie) in the 1990’s, …
  • Robert Ressler: The Man Who Lives With Monsters (2002)Robert Ressler: The Man Who Lives With Monsters (2002)
    A look at the life and work of one of the world’s foremost authorities on the profiling of violent offenders, and his chilling encounters with such notorious serial killers as Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy.
  • My Brother the Serial Killer (2012)My Brother the Serial Killer (2012)
    Brilliant documentary by David Monaghan chronicling the life and crimes of American serial killer Glen Rogers, a.k.a, the ‘Casanova Killer’ as told by the man who knew him best – his childhood friend, partner-in-crime and older brother Carl… documentary gained wide media attention for one of the claims made by the Rogers family that their …
  • The Sunday Morning Slasher (2012)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…
  • Killer Kids: Psychopath Killers (2012)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…
  • Biography: Jeffrey Dahmer (2000)Biography: Jeffrey Dahmer (2000)
    A&E Biography on American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer who was responsible for the horrific deaths of 17 young men in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area …
  • Journey Into Evil (2012)Journey Into Evil (2012)
    A harmless-looking shoplifting incident and a strange suicide in San Francisco in 1987 would eventually lead police down a bloody trail of kidnapping, torture, rape, and multiple murders as one by one, the sadistic crimes of Leonard Lake and Charles NG are discovered and revealed.
  • Biography: John Wayne Gacy (1999)Biography: John Wayne Gacy (1999)
    A municipal politician, a children’s party clown, an ambitious entrepreneur, a self-proclaimed family man–these were the roles played by John Wayne Gacy to mask the fact that he was a serial killer who murdered 33 boys and young men and buried their bodies in the crawlspace of his home.
  • The True Story: Silence of the Lambs (2012)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…
  • Serial Killers On The Loose (2008)Serial Killers On The Loose (2008)
    A serial killer is someone who murders more than one person with a ‘grace’ or ‘cooling off’ period in between… usually after 3 murders, a person is deemed to be a ‘serial killer’… fascinating documentary about ‘serial killers’… featuring harrowing interviews with survivors of some serial killers who are still operating today…
  • Jerome Brudos: The Lust Killer (2008)Jerome Brudos: The Lust Killer (2008)
    Fascinating documentary that tells the bizarre and horrific life & crimes of American serial killer Jerry Brudos, a.k.a “The Lust Killer” or “Shoe Fetish Killer” who between 1968 and 1969, bludgeoned and strangled four young women to death… Brudos, the cross-dressing, necrohpiliac serial killer would eventually confess to the grizzly murders and spend the rest …
  • The BTK Strangler (2006)The BTK Strangler (2006)
    Terrific episode of the brilliant UK crime documentary series ‘Crimes that Shook the World’ that focuses on the methods used to eventually capture the elusive Wichita Kansas serial killer known as the BTK Killer
  • This Is the Zodiac Speaking (2007)This Is the Zodiac Speaking (2007)
    This fascinating documentary examines the crimes of The Zodiac a little bit closer, and tries to make the case as to who he may have been and what motivated him to kill …
  • Serial Killer John Hughes Interview (2010)Serial Killer John Hughes Interview (2010)
    John Hughes (self-proclaimed “Antichrist”) in this interview with KMBC claims that he killed 15 to 20 people… On September 8, 2008, Hughes killed Valentin Kirilchuk, a 39-year-old trucker from Springfield, in a rest area on Interstate 29 north near Dearborn, with the help of hid girlfriend, Dana Tutor.
  • The Pig Farm (2011)The Pig Farm (2011)
    Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton, also known as ‘The Pig Farm Killer’ is suspected to be the worst serial killer in Canadian history… Although prosecuted and sentenced to life in prison for the murders of 6 women, Pickton claims to have brutally slaughtered as many as 49 prostitutes at his ‘pig farm’ in Port Coquitlam, British …
  • Confessions of the DC Sniper (2010)Confessions of the DC Sniper (2010)
    …via prison phone, William Shatner interviews Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the killers known as the “DC Snipers”… Malvo claims that he and John Allen Muhammad had committed about 42 shootings and tried to recruit more people to carry out the 2002 killings that terrified the Washington, D.C. region…
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  • Happy Face Killer (2010)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….
  • The Gainesville Ripper (2011)The Gainesville Ripper (2011)
    Roughly 20 years after Ted Bundy terrorized the students at Florida State University, five young people were killed in Gainesville, Fla., all students at the University of Florida or Santa Fe Community College… police feared they might have a copycat killer on the loose or even worse, a new form of evil to confront…
  • Monsters Among Us (2011)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….
  • Lair of a Sadist (2009)Lair of a Sadist (2009)
    Terrific episode of Investigation Discovery’s ‘I Escaped Death’ documentary series that tells the harrowing 1st person account of Cynthia Vigil – one of the few survivors of sadistic serial rapist and suspected serial killer David Parker Ray and his ‘ToyBox’ chamber of horrors…
  • Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)
    Award winning documentary film maker Nick Broomfield revisits the serial killer subject matter with this incredible feature on the crimes of the Grim Sleeper – an LA serial killer accused of the murders of 10 women but suspected of having close to 100 victims, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in criminal …
  • Killer in the County (1999)Killer in the County (1999)
    A&E’s ‘Cold Case Files’ looks back at the story of Faryion E. Wardrip, an American serial killer who terrorized the small town of Wichita Falls, Texas, in the 1980’s… when all the counting was done, Wardrip would claim 5 young women as his victims …
  • Biography: Aileen Wournos (2003)Biography: Aileen Wournos (2003)
    In August, 2002, just weeks before her scheduled execution, Aileen Wuornos (America’s most notorious female serial killer) wrote out her last confession… A&E’s ‘Biography’ uses her own words to lay out the tragic tale of a murderous life…
  • The Ken & Barbie Killers (2007)The Ken & Barbie Killers (2007)
    A serial rapist strikes in the suburbs outside Toronto, Canada… years later a serial killer brutally targets young girls in another Canadian town… the bloody trail leads police to a pair of unlikely suspects – a young beautiful, married couple…
  • Bodies at the Beach: The Search for a Serial Killer (2012)Bodies at the Beach: The Search for a Serial Killer (2012)
    The Long Island Serial Killer (also referred to by media sources as the “Gilgo Killer”) is an unidentified suspected serial killer who is believed to have murdered 10 to 14 people associated with the sex trade over the last 15 or so years and dumped their bodies along the Ocean Parkway, near the remote beach …
  • Sign of the Zodiac (2003)Sign of the Zodiac (2003)
    In the early 1990’s, a serial killer claiming to be ‘The Zodiak Killer’, was hunting people in N.Y city… Terrific episode of Forensic Files that details how science was used to debunk those claims and eventually capture him before he struck again..
  • Ted Bundy – Born To Kill? (2011)Ted Bundy - Born To Kill? (2011)
    Documentary examining the crimes of American serial killer Ted Bundy, who is believed to have sexually assaulted and killed up to 100 women in the 1970s …
  • Fred West – Born To Kill? (2005)Fred West - Born To Kill? (2005)
    Fred West was a British serial killer. who between 1967 and 1987, aided by his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple’s homes including the now infamous 25 Cromwell Street…
  • Wicked Attraction: Toolbox Killers (2009)Wicked Attraction: Toolbox Killers (2009)
    Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, also known as ‘The Toolbox Killers’, met in the California prison system and hatched a sinister plan to rape and kill young girls… when they met up again outside the prison system, they put their dark plan into action…

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