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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…
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Monster in Spokane (2010)
Terrific episode of ‘Usual Suspects’ that examines the crimes of Robert Lee Yates, an American serial killer who in the late 1990’s terrorised residents of Spokane, Washington with a grizzly run of murders of female prostitutes working the Skid Row section of town…
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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…
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Carl Panzram – The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge (2011)
Carl Panzram’s self-professed motto was: “Rob them all… Rape them all… Kill them all”… and he certainly tried… Before he was finally captured, Panzram had committed 22 murders and 1000’s of robberies and rapes..
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Serial Killers (2013)
Since the 1970’s the United States has produced over 1,000 serial killers… The documentary series, ‘America’s Book of Secrets’ takes a closer look at this mostly-American phenomenon… the cases of: Christpher Dorner, Anthony Sowell, the Long Island Serial Killer, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Rader, Donald Harvey, John Wayne Gacy, and Lonnie David Franklin Jr…
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Killer in a Small Town: The Ipswich Murders (2009)
Brilliant UK documentary that examines the lives of five ordinary women from an ordinary English town whose lives descended into drugs and prostitution, making them easy prey to Steve Wright, a.k.a. “The Suffolk Strangler”, one of Britain’s most prolific serial killers…
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The Weepy-Voiced Killer (2004)
Fascinating episode of A&E’s ‘Cold Case Files’ that examines the bizarre story of Paul Michael Stephani, an American serial killer that would call the police after his crimes and rant in a strange, over-emotional, crying tone that the media would later dub as ‘The Weepy-Voiced Killer’ …
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Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield (2004)
Terrific documentary-short by Michelle Palmer, that tells the horrific story of 1950’s American serial killer, Ed Gein – the man whose bizarre life and sadistic crimes would shock the nation and inspire the film characters Norman Bates in “Psycho” and Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs”…
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Hunting The Zodiac (2007)
‘Hunting The Zodiac ‘ is a fascinating look at the team of ‘armchair investigators’ that have taken it upon themselves to continue investigating the 40 year old cold-case murders attributed to the Zodiak Killer …
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Killing Spree (2004)
Terrific episode of ‘Forensic Factor’ that examines the 5-day horrific murderous spree of Danny Rolling, a.k.a. “The Gainesville Ripper” and how forensic science helped track down and eventually prosecute this violent offender…
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Finding Jack the Ripper (2011)
… follows retired UK detective Trevor Marriott and a team of forensic experts as they examine the possibility that the notorious London slasher, Jack the Ripper, may also have been the world’s first international serial killer who may be responsible for murder’s throughout Europe and the US.
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Dance with a Serial Killer (2008)
On the afternoon of Sunday, May 14, 1989, a woman was stabbed to death on the beaches of Brittany, France… a local police officer, Jean-Francois Abgrall, conducted the investigation and his inquiries into the murder revealed that the body on the beach was just one in a series of murders that led back to the…
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Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer (2005)
Truly fascinating documentary examining the horrific crimes and eventual capture of Gary Ridgway, a.k.a “The Green River Killer” as told by Dave Reichert, the lead Seattle detective that was there throughout the 20 year nightmare…
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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….
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America’s First Serial Killer (2004)
Torture chambers, acid vats, greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor, H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors… “H.H Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer” is a terrific documentary by John Borowski that traces Holmes’ entire life as a criminal mastermind….
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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”…
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The Hunt for the Red Ripper (1994)
Fascinating documentary by A&E’s ‘Investigative Reports’ that goes behind-the-scenes at the trial of Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a ‘The Butcher of Rostov’, ‘The Red Ripper’, and ‘The Rostov Ripper’ to examine the murderous crime-spree of Russia’s worst serial killer…
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The Casanova Killer (2001)
Terrific episode of ‘The FBI Files’ that examines the case of American serial killer, Glen Edward Rogers, also known as “The Cross Country Killer” or “The Casanova Killer,” who was convicted of a series of murders and arsons throughout the United States that began in 1995…
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Dr. Death (2008)
Dr Harold Fredrick Shipman, a.k.a ‘Dr. Death’, is a British General Practitioner, who was convicted in 2000 of murdering 215 of his patients by lethal injection of the drug diamorphine, over a 25 year period…
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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….
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Beast of the Bastille (2008)
‘Beast of the Bastille’ is a British documentary about the notorious French serial killer Guy Georges Rampignon, who raped, tortured and murdered at least seven women from 1991 to 1997 in an east Parisian neighbourhood, known as Bastille Quarter…
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Natural Porn Killer (2006)
… Fascinating documentary by Sascha Olofson that examines the startling death-row interview claims of American serial killer Ted Bundy that ‘violent pornography’ were a major factor in his horrible crimes…
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Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)
…tells the horrific true story of a sadomasochistic cannibal and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Elderly but still deadly, Albert Fish distorted biblical tales by taking the stories of pain, punishment, atonement, and suffering literally as he preyed on victims to torture and sacrifice…
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The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012)
… blends dramatizations of Jeffrey Dahmer’s day to day life with archival news footage and exclusive interviews w/ the lead detective on the case; the state coroner at the time and one of Dahmer’s neighbours to tell the harrowing tale of one of America’s most notorious serial killers…
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Deadly Desires (2006)
… in this episode of “Most Evil”… Dr. Michael Stone, the creator of a psychological scale that measures the degree of pure evil in certain notorious criminals, profiles the horrific crimes and psychological motives of : Jerry Brudos, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Parker Ray and Westley Allan Dodd …
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To Catch A Serial Killer (2012)
… fascinating documentary by CNN on suspected serial killer Larry Hall and how an Indiana district attorney devised a plan that offered ‘early release’ to a convicted drug dealer if he were able to infiltrate the trust of Larry Hall in prison and gain a confession to the cases of the missing women…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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
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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….