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  • Best Dark Documentary Channels on YouTube (2021)

    Best Dark Documentary Channels on YouTube (2021)

    Crime / Murder Documentaries » Dark Documentary Channels … Top 10 Dark Documentary Lists: “Best Dark Documentary Channels on YouTube (2021)

  • 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’

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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..

  • Top 10 Serial Killer Documentaries

    Top 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

  • IN THE MIND OF CRIMINAL PROFILERS (2000)

    IN THE MIND OF CRIMINAL PROFILERS (2000)

    Terrific TLC documentary that delves into the fascinating world of the FBI ‘criminal profiler’ … John Douglas, Robert Roy Hazelwood and other renown FBI profilers, guide the viewer through their thoughts & actions surrounding the notorious cases of serial killers Wayne Williams, Gary Heidnik, Gary Ridgeway, Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross and Jack Unterweger…

  • The Hunt for Ted Bundy (2015)

    The Hunt for Ted Bundy (2015)

    Fascinating documentary from Investigation Discovery (ID) about the hunt and eventual capture of notorious American serial killer, Ted Bundy, as told by FBI criminal profiler, Bob Keppel, the man that tracked Bundy’s movements the last 4 years of his horrific crime spree.

  • Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind (1999)

    Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind (1999)

    Former FBI agent John Douglas, the inventor of criminal profiling, leads the audience through a journey into the dark minds of some of 20th Century’s most notorious American killers… This episode deals with the cases of Wayne Williams, Robert Hansen, Larry Gene Bell, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

  • Ted Bundy: Mind Of A Monster (2019)

    Ted Bundy: Mind Of A Monster (2019)

    Brilliant documentary by Investigation Discovery that uses enhanced audio from Bundy’s final interviews to portray the mind of a monster in his own, cold words.

  • 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 people.

  • Deranged Killers: DC Sniper (2009)

    Deranged Killers: DC Sniper (2009)

    In the autumn of 2002, a ruthless killer stalked the suburbs of Washington, DC… people were murdered at random and then the killer would vanish without a trace…

  • 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…

  • Killer Trials: The Ken And Barbie Killers (2012)

    Killer Trials: The Ken And Barbie Killers (2012)

    ‘Killer Trials: Judgement Day’ examines the horrific crimes and eventual court trial of Canadian serial killer couple Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo, aka, ‘The Ken and Barbie Killers’……

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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 …

  • 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…