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Tag: A&E Biography

  • 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…

  • Jack the Ripper: Phantom of Death (1995)

    Jack the Ripper: Phantom of Death (1995)

    In the annals of crime, perhaps no name evokes terror more than that Jack the Ripper… A&E Biography goes to England to investigate the murder of five women, which took place in 1888 and have gripped the collective psyche ever since….

  • Ted Bundy: The Mind of a Killer (1995)

    Ted Bundy: The Mind of a Killer (1995)

    ‘A&E Biography’ pretty much invented the ‘serial killer documentary’ genre… One of their earlier episodes and still one of the most popular is this examination into the life of notorious American serial killer Ted Bundy…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo (2004)

    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

  • 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…

  • Biography: Gary Ridgway “Green River Killer” (2006)

    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…

  • 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 his…

  • 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…

  • Biography: Jack Unterweger (2004)

    Biography: Jack Unterweger (2004)

    He was a celebrated author and cold-blooded killer… a convicted murderer set free only to kill again… A&E’s ‘Biography’ series takes a closer look at Jack Unterweger, AKA, ‘The Vienna Strangler’ or “The Vienna Woods Killer’, the Austrian serial killer who is suspected of killing up to 15 prostitutes in several different countries…

  • Biography: Theodore J. Kaczynski: The Unabomber (2007)

    Biography: Theodore J. Kaczynski: The Unabomber (2007)

    For almost 20 years, the ‘Unabomber’ conducted a campaign of terror across America.. his goal was to rid society of technology and return to a more primitive state… his targets were those behind the rise of modern industry… scientists, corporate executives – anyone who had an eye toward the future…

  • 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 …

  • Biography: Charles Manson (1987)

    Biography: Charles Manson (1987)

    Charles Manson speaks of his life and crimes; cocky, sneering, and unrepentent to the end. Profiled is his troubled childhood, his early prison days, his “Haight Ashbury” period, and the murders .. Highlights include Manson’s confrontations with the parole board; even he realizes that that’s a lost cause. A good show with a lot of…

  • 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.