Tag: Serial Killers

  • 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…

  • 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 Columbia…

  • 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 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…

  • 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 …

  • Ryan: The Singing Serial Killer (2012)

    Ryan: The Singing Serial Killer (2012)

    Very Idam Henyansyah, also known as ‘The Butcher of Jombang’ or ‘The Smiling Serial Killer’ is one of the most brutal serial killers in the history of Indonesia..

  • 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…

  • The Devil You Know (2012)

    The Devil You Know (2012)

    Anthony Sowell, also known as ‘The Cleveland Strangler’ is an American serial killer that was convicted of murdering 11 women and hiding their remains inside and outside his duplex in Cleveland, Ohio..

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • David Berkowitz – Born To Kill? (2012)

    David Berkowitz – Born To Kill? (2012)

    David Berkowitz, aka ‘Son of Sam’ and ‘.44 Caliber Killer’ terrorized the residents of NY City in the 1970’s with a series of late-night shootings on unsuspecting couples… he would later blame his actions on ‘Sam’, the dog of his neighbor which apparently was feeding Berkowitz instructions to kill…

  • Hillside Stranglers – Born To Kill? (2012)

    Hillside Stranglers – Born To Kill? (2012)

    Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, aka the ‘Hillside Stranglers’, were a serial killer cousin duo that terrorized residents of Los Angeles in the 70’s and were responsible for the deaths of 12 women … but were they ‘Born to Kill?’…

  • 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 …

  • Scotland’s Most Evil Murderer (2011)

    Scotland’s Most Evil Murderer (2011)

    Revisiting the murders of serial killer Peter Manuel in Scotland in the late 1950s, and asking whether the state of his mental health should have prevented him from being hanged…

  • 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..

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ted Bundy Confession Tapes (1989)

    Ted Bundy Confession Tapes (1989)

    Just hours before his execution, Ted Bundy, one of America’s most notorious serial killers, begins to reveal details about his grizzly actions to Seattle detective Bob Keppel …

  • 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 …

  • 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.

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 Trial of Jeffrey Dahmer (1992)

    The Trial of Jeffrey Dahmer (1992)

    Incredibly rare courtroom footage of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s 1992 murder trial… Dahmer’s confession and life story are read into the court transcript and then, one by one, Dahmer’s victims are named and the horrific actions associated with that name are laid out in grizzly fashion for the jury to hear…

  • Cropsey (2009)

    Cropsey (2009)

    The legend of the local ‘boogeyman’ has fascinated and terrified children throughout the world for centuries on end… ‘Cropsey’ takes that ‘power of the urban legend’ and creates, arguably one of the most intriguing investigative-crime documentaries ever made in the ‘serial killer’ genre…

  • 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 Acid Bath Murderer (2011)

    The Acid Bath Murderer (2011)

    John George Haigh, commonly known as the “Acid Bath Murderer”, was an English serial killer during the 1940s. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine.

  • 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.

  • Gary Ridgeway – Born to Kill? (2012)

    Gary Ridgeway – Born to Kill? (2012)

    Gary Leon Ridgway is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer, convicted of 49 separate murders and confessed to nearly double that number… but was he ‘Born to Kill?’…

  • 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 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 …

  • 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…

  • 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 Haircut Killer: Danilo Restivo (2012)

    The Haircut Killer: Danilo Restivo (2012)

    Danilo Restivo, also known as ‘The Haircut Killer’, is an Italian man serving a life term sentence in Britain for the 2002 murder of Heather Barnett in Bournemouth, England… he was subsequently implicated in at least 2 other murders…

  • Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters (2001)

    Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters (2001)

    This documentary examines a selection of real life serial killers and compares them to the fictional movie character Hannibal Lecter.

  • Confessions of a Serial Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer (1994)

    Confessions of a Serial Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer (1994)

    In February 1994, NBC’s Stone Phillips with Jeffrey Dahmer’s father, Lionel, and his step-mother, Shari traveled to the Columbia Correctional Institution, near Portage, Wisconsin and sat down with Wisconsin serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer for his only network television interview.

  • 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.

  • Fatal Addiction: Ted Bundy’s Final Interview (1989)

    Fatal Addiction: Ted Bundy’s Final Interview (1989)

    On January 23 1989, the day before his execution on Florida’s electric chair, Ted Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), gave his last interview to Dr. James Dobson.

  • 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…