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Tag: Serial Killers

  • 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…