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Velma Barfield

S6 : E18

TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.07.21

She became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection after taking six lives. What drove her to commit these callous murders?

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An in-depth look at the lives and crimes of some of the world's most evil killers.

Cast

Elizabeth Yardley, Fred Dinenage, Geoffrey Wansell

Executive Producers

Kate Beal, Jinal Patel, Emily-Jayne Wilde

full-episodes (20)

Steve Wright

S1 : E1 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.02.17

Steve Wright killed five women over a six-week period in the winter of 2006 without motive or explanation.
Peter Sutcliffe

S1 : E2 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.09.17

Peter Sutcliffe, also known as The Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted of killing thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others.
Ian Huntley

S1 : E3 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.16.17

Ian Huntley abducted two ten-year-old schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, murdered them and tried to burn the bodies.
Fred and Rose West

S1 : E4 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.23.17

Fred and Rose West raped, tortured and killed young women in their house of horrors, including their own daughter.
Levi Bellfield

S1 : E5 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.30.17

Levi Bellfield killed two young women by bludgeoning them to death with a hammer, and he also attempted to murder a third. While in prison, he was convicted of a third murder that was unsolved for years.
Joanne Dennehy

S1 : E6 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.06.17

Joanne Dennehy violently stabbed three men to death in March 2013. She killed for her own entertainment and has been diagnosed as a psychotic sadomasochist.
Stephen Griffiths

S1 : E7 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.13.17

Stephen Griffiths, the self-proclaimed Crossbow Cannibal, had always fantasized about murder. In 2009, he acted on his murderous instincts and killed three women.
Dennis Nilsen

S1 : E8 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.20.17

Dennis Nilsen killed at least twelve men in the late 70s and early 80s in Muswell Hill, London.
Stuart Hazel

S1 : E9 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.27.17

Stuart Hazell had sexually assaulted and murdered Tia, his partner's twelve-year-old daughter.
Peter Tobin

S1 : E10 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.04.17

It is widely believed that Tobin is the 1960s Scottish serial killer known as Bible John.
Michael Ryan

S1 : E11 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.11.17

In 1987, Michael Ryan went on a killing spree in the quiet market town of Hungerford in Berkshirem before turning the gun on himself.
Beverly Allitt

S1 : E12 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.18.17

Beverley Allitt killed four children and attempted to murder nine more while working as a nurse at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991.
John Wayne Gacy

S1 : E13 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.25.17

John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 boys and young men during a six-year period in the 1970s. He hid the bodies of his victims in the walls of his suburban home.
Jeffrey Dahmer

S1 : E14 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.01.17

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious killers in the world. For thirteen years he raped, murdered and ate his young male victims, seventeen of them in total.
Ed Gein

S1 : E15 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.08.17

Ed Gein murdered two women in the 1950s and was also a body snatcher. He would fashion items out of bones and skin.
Joachim Kroll

S1 : E16 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.15.17

Joachim Kroll murdered at least thirteen people during a span of over twenty years.
Volker Eckert

S1 : E17 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.22.17

Volker Eckert, a German truck driver, strangled and killed as many as nineteen women across Europe in a murderous career that lasted over thirty years.
Marc Dutroux

S1 : E18 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.29.17

Marc Dutroux kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls between 1995 and 1996, and he murdered four of them.
Fritz Honka

S1 : E19 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 07.06.17

Fritz Honka killed four prostitutes in Hamburg during the early 70s.
Thierry Paulin

S1 : E20 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 07.13.17

Thierry Paulin murdered 21 elderly women during the 1980s. He lived a lavish lifestyle, funded by the money stolen from his victims.
Stephen Port

S2 : E1 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 02.18.18

Stephen Port callously killed four young men between 2014 and 2015.
Mark Bridger

S2 : E2 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 02.25.18

In October 2012, Mark Bridger abducted and murdered five-year-old April Jones in Machynlleth, Wales. Evidence found on his laptop led to his conviction.
Mick Philpott

S2 : E3 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.03.18

In 2012, fame-hungry Mick Philpott killed six of his own children by setting fire to the family home as they slept upstairs.
Raoul Moat

S2 : E4 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.11.18

In 2010, bodybuilder Raoul Moat shot his ex-girlfriend and her partner and went on the run and declared war on Northumbria police, vowing not to stop killing officers until he was dead.
Stefano Brizzi

S2 : E5 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.18.18

For one week in 2016, Stefano Brizzi stored the body of a policeman in his flat in central London. Taking inspiration from the TV show "Breaking Bad," he tried to dissolve the body in his bath tub.
Roy Whiting

S2 : E6 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 03.25.18

On July 1st, 2000, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was snatched from the street in Littlehampton, West Sussex. She had been abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting.
Tracie Andrews

S2 : E7 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.02.18

On December 1st, 1996, Tracie Andrews had stabbed her own fiance Lee Harvey to death and was trying to get away with murder.
Dorothea Puente

S2 : E8 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.08.18

In 1988, Puente had drugged and killed her victims so she could continue to fraudulently claim their social security benefits.
Rodney Alcala

S2 : E9 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.15.18

Rodney Alcala appeared on "The Dating Game" and it led to his arrest. In 2011, he was found guilty of murdering six women and a twelve-year-old girl.
Richard Ramirez

S2 : E10 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.22.18

In August 1985, the fourteen-month killing spree of Richard Ramirez, known as the "Night Stalker," was ended after he claimed at least thirteen lives.
Charles Ng and Leonard Lake

S2 : E11 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 04.29.18

Serial killing partners Leonard Lake and Charles Ng murdered eleven people in California in the 1980s. They had a secret bunker where they raped and killed their prey.
Steven Grieveson

S2 : E12 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.06.18

The Sunderland Strangler, Steven Grieveson, killed four teenage boys in the early 90s.
The Railway Killers

S2 : E13 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.13.18

Railway Killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy killed three women and raped many more across a four-year period in the early 1980s.
Cary Stayner

S2 : E14 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.20.18

In 1999, California handyman Cary Staynor raped and murdered four young women. Obsessed with Big Foot, he became the monster in the woods.
Edmund Kemper

S2 : E15 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 05.27.18

Edmund Kemper killed ten people: his grandparents, six co-eds, his mother and his mother's friend. He was caught in California in 1973 and confessed it all.
Horst Kroner

S2 : E16 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.03.18

In December 2015, Horst Kroner boarded a plane. He had brutally murdered his wife while she slept and was now headed to Thailand for easy sex.
Wolfgang Schmidt

S2 : E17 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.10.18

Between 1989 and 1992 in East Germany, Wolfgang Schmidt, known as the Beast of Beelitz, murdered four women and a baby.
Jack Unterweger

S2 : E18 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.17.18

In May 1990, convicted killer Jack Unterweger was freed from prison. He became a celebrated writer and a prison reform advocate in Austria until it was discovered that he killed nine more women.
Danilo Restivo

S2 : E19 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 06.24.18

Danilo Restivo murdered two women nine years apart: sixteen-year-old Elisa Clapps in Italy and Heather Barnett in Bournemouth.
Pawel Tuchlin

S2 : E20 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 07.01.18

In and around Gdansk, Poland from 1975 to 1983, Pawell Tuchlin attacked twenty women with a hammer. He brutally killed nine and sexually assaulted them all.
Karol Kot

S3 : E1 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 10.01.19

By the age of nineteen, Polish schoolboy Karol Kot, aka the Vampire of Krokow, had killed two people. He tried to kill many more in arson and poison attempts and was executed at the age of twenty-one.
Diane Downs

S3 : E2 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 10.08.19

Diane Downs shot her three children, killing her seven-year-old daughter Cheryl and wounding her other two children.
Gary Ridgway

S3 : E3 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 10.15.19

Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer, got away with mass murder across the Pacific Northwest for nearly twenty years. He was finally caught in 2001 and was convicted of 49 murders.
Ted Bundy

S3 : E4 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 10.22.19

America's most notorious serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to the murder of thirty young women across the US between 1974 and 1978. He was executed in 1989.
Colin Ireland

S3 : E5 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 10.29.19

Colin Ireland made a New Year's resolution in 1993 to become a serial killer and then murdered five gay men in London. In 2006, he got a whole life term.
Angus Sinclair

S3 : E6 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 11.05.19

In 1977, Angus Sinclair kidnapped, raped and murdered two seventeen-year-old girls after meeting them in a pub in Glasgow, Scotland.
Aileen Wuornos

S3 : E7 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 11.12.19

Aileen Wuornos, one of America's most prolific serial killers, murdered seven men in Florida by shooting them at point-blank range. She was eventually convicted and sentenced to death.
Robert Lee Yates Jr.

S3 : E8 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 11.19.19

Robert Lee Yates Junior was a well-respected family man and war hero, but by night he was a cold-blooded serial killer. He was convicted of killing fourteen young women and one man.
Robert Black

S3 : E9 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 11.26.19

Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap, rape, sexual assault and murder of four girls aged between five and eleven.
Mark Hobson

S3 : E10 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 12.03.19

Mark Hobson killed four people in North Yorkshire, England in July 2004. Hobson committed his first two murders within six days of each other. He is currently serving a whole life sentence.
Bobby Joe Long

S3 : E11 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 12.10.19

Bobby Joe Long is an American serial killer and rapist who terrorised the Tampa Bay Area in Florida during 1984. During his eight-month sadistic killing spree, he murdered ten women.
Robert Berdella - KCB

S3 : E12 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 12.17.19

Robert Berdella was an American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher, who was responsible for drugging, raping, torturing and murdering six young men.
Derrick Bird

S3 : E13 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 12.24.19

In Cumbria, 2010, taxi driver Derrick Bird took his gun and, in less than 24 hours, shot dead 12 people and injured 11 more.
Danny Rolling

S3 : E14 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 12.31.19

Danny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five university students in Florida in 1990. Rolling also confessed to murdering a family in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
David Heiss

S3 : E15 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 01.07.20

Twenty-one year old David Heiss stabbed twenty-year old Matthew Pyke eighty-six times after he became infatuated with Matthew's girlfriend, Joanna.
BTK - Dennis Rader

S3 : E16 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 01.14.20

Dennis Rader, known to the World as the BTK Killer, killed ten people, including young children, between 1974 and 1991 in Wichita, Kansas.
Trevor Hardy

S3 : E17 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 01.21.20

30-year-old Trevor Hardy, known as The Beast of Manchester, killed three teenage girls in a series of brutal attacks in the mid- to late 1970s and was one of Britain's longest-serving prisoners.
Christopher Halliwell

S3 : E18 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 01.28.20

Christopher Halliwell strangled a twenty-year-old woman and evaded justice for eight years until his arrest for killing another young female. He finally got a whole life sentence in 2016.
John Cooper

S3 : E19 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 02.04.20

Serial killer John Cooper, known as The Bullseye Killer, killed four people between 1983 and 1996. He was given four life sentences.
Vincent Tabak

S3 : E20 | TV-MA | 43 min | Aired: 02.11.20

Vincent Tabak strangled his neighbour to death in her own flat in December 2010. In 2011, he was given a life sentence.
John Sweeney

S4 : E1 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 03.17.20

John Sweeney killed two of his former girlfriends and then dumped their dismembered bodies in canals in Rotterdam and London. He was sentenced in 2011 and was given a whole life tariff.
Dale Cregan

S4 : E2 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 03.24.20

In 2012, one-eyed gangster Dale Cregan went on a ruthless killing spree and murdered four people in Greater Manchester. He killed a father and son as well as Police Constables Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes.
Christopher Hightower

S4 : E3 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 03.31.20

In 1991, Christopher Hightower slaughtered an entire family to cover up a trail of fraud. He buried his victims in shallow graves. In 1993, he was sentenced to life without parole.
David Berkowitz

S4 : E4 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 04.07.20

David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, is a serial killer who murdered six people and brutally wounded seven others in the late 60s. When he was arrested, he claimed that the devil made him do it.
Robert Napper

S4 : E5 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 04.14.20

In July 1992, Robert Napper stabbed Rachel Nickel in front of her 2-year-old son. In November 1993, he broke into the home of Samantha Bisset and stabbed her to death.
Sante and Kenny Kimes

S4 : E6 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 04.21.20

Sante and her 23-year-old son Kenny Kimes were a murderous duo who killed three people in the late 90s, including an 82-year-old woman.
Stephen Seddon

S4 : E7 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 04.28.20

45-year-old Stephen attempted to kill his parents and nephew in a car crash. After the plan failed, the ruthless killer mercilessly executed his elderly parents with a shot gun.
Richard Chase

S4 : E8 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 05.05.20

Richard Trenton Chase was an American serial killer who brutally murdered six people within a month in the late 70s in California. Chase was given the nickname "The Vampire of Sacramento."
The Hillside Stranglers

S4 : E9 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 05.12.20

In the late 70s, adoptive cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi reigned terror over Los Angeles by strangling ten young women and dumping their bodies on hillsides.
William Suff

S4 : E10 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 05.19.20

Bill Suff mutilated and murdered twelve sex workers in Riverside, California during the late 80s. At its peak, his spree of killings resulted in a victim a month.
Angel Resendiz

S4 : E11 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 05.26.20

In December 1998, Angel Resendiz brutally beat Dr. Claudia Benton to death in her own home. He's suspected of murdering at least nine more people and evaded authorities by using multiple aliases.
Harold Shipman

S4 : E12 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 06.02.20

Once a respected local doctor in Hyde, Manchester, Dr. Harold Shipman became better known as Dr. Death. In January 2000, Shipman was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Arthur Hutchinson

S4 : E13 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 06.09.20

Rapist Arthur Hutchinson escaped from police custody in October 1983. Whilst on the run, he broke into the Laitners' house in Dore, Yorkshire and murdered three family members.
Robert Ben Rhoades

S4 : E14 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 06.16.20

Robert Ben Rhoades, aka the Truck Stop Killer, raped and tortured women in the back of his truck for over a decade from the mid-70s.
Andrew Dawson

S4 : E15 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 06.23.20

Andrew Dawson brutally stabbed his neighbors to death before leaving their bodies in bathtubs full of water and bleach.
Peter Moore

S4 : E16 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 06.30.20

Peter Moore was a sadistic serial killer who killed and mutilated four men in North Wales in 1995. The local cinema owner had an obsession with Nazis and sadomasochistic sex.
Daniel Siebert

S4 : E17 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 07.07.20

Daniel Siebert was an American serial killer who confessed to killing ten people in the 80s. At the height of his killing spree, he murdered five people, including two children and his girlfriend.
Todd Kohlhepp

S4 : E18 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 07.14.20

Todd Kohlhepp was a serial killer who murdered seven people over a 13-year period.
Anthony Arkwright

S4 : E19 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 07.21.20

Anthony Arkwright slaughtered his grandparents before murdering and mutilating two neighbours in a rampage over a four-day period in 1988.
Andrzej Kunowski

S4 : E20 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 07.28.20

41-year-old Andrzej Kunowski was a prolific paedophile who entered the UK illegally in 1996.
Phillip Austin

S5 : E1 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.10.20

A chilling profile of the father who took his two young children for fish and chips after murdering his wife and then strangled them when they returned home.
Russel Bishop

S5 : E2 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.24.20

An investigation into the man known as the Babes in the Wood Killer, who evaded justice for over thirty years after strangling and molesting two nine-year-old girls in 1986.
Jason Marshall

S5 : E3 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.01.20

A look into the case of a sadistic killer who posed as an MI5 agent in order to torture and murder his victim during a bondage sex session.
William Bonin

S5 : E4 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 01.26.21

William Bonin is known to some as the Freeway Killer, thought to have raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of twenty-one boys and young men before he was executed in 1996.
Lonnie David Franklin

S5 : E5 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 01.19.21

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is better known by the nickname Grim Sleeper. He lured vulnerable women into his car before murdering and sexually assaulting them for more than two decades.
Billy Dunlop

S5 : E6 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.17.20

Billy Dunlop killed Julie Hogg in 1989 but was acquitted after two failed trials. However, due to a change in the UK law in 2005, Dunlop was finally convicted and sentenced to seventeen years in prison.
Patrick Kearney

S5 : E7 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 03.02.21

A profile into the murderer who terrorised the gay community as the Trash Bag Killer and confessed to killing 32 victims.
Sabah Khan

S5 : E8 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.08.20

An investigation into the woman who was driven into a jealous rage and stabbed her sister to death while her children slept upstairs.
Stephen Farrow

S5 : E9 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.15.20

Stephen Farrow committed two murders in early 2012 motivated by an obsessive hatred of Christianity, which he attributed to sexual abuse from a priest.
Jerry Brudos

S5 : E10 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 02.02.21

Jerome Brudos was a serial killer and necrophile who murdered four women in Oregon during the 1960s. He was known as the The Lust Killer and The Shoe Fetish Slayer.
Colin Pitchfork

S5 : E11 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.29.20

Colin Pitchfork is a child murder who killed fifteen-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in the 1980s. He was the first person in the UK to be convicted of murder using DNA evidence.
Victor Ferrant

S5 : E12 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.22.20

Victor Farrant is a convicted rapist who murdered his former girlfriend in 1996 and attempted to murder another woman after he was released from prison.
Kenneth Regan & William Horncy

S5 : E13 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 01.05.21

In 2003, Kenneth Regan and William Horncy murdered a millionaire and his young family. The killers wiped out three generations of the Chohan family, including two young children.
Ali Qazimaj

S5 : E14 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 01.12.21

Ali Qazimaj is an Albanian conman who brutally murdered an elderly couple in 2016.
Sunset Strip Killers

S5 : E15 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 02.23.21

Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy were a deadly duo who terrorised the streets of Los Angeles in the summer of 1980, targeting vulnerable women, teenagers and even a child.
Keith Jesperson

S5 : E16 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 02.09.21

Keith Jesperson, known as the Smiley Face Killer, brutally killed at least eight women across five American states in the early 1990s.
Dayton Rogers

S5 : E17 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 03.09.21

Dayton Leroy Rogers, known as The Molalla Forest Killer, is a serial killer who mutilated and killed at least eight women in the US.
Arthur Shawcross

S5 : E18 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 02.16.21

Arthur Shawcross, known as the Genesee River Killer, was a serial killer who murdered eleven women from 1988 to 1990 in upstate New York.
Richard Roszkowski

S5 : E19 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 03.16.21

Richard Roszkowski gunned down three people in Connecticut in 2006, including a nine-year-old.
Cesar Barone

S5 : E20 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 03.23.21

Cesar Barone was an American serial killer who took the life of four women in and around Hillsboro, Oregon in the 1990s.
Lee Ford

S6 : E1 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 08.10.21

The chilling story of Lee Ford, who killed his wife and four stepchildren in a cold-blooded murder spree over 24 hours in September 2000.
Jamie Raynolds

S6 : E2 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 08.17.21

The story of the 23-year-old killer who murdered 17-year-old former head girl Georgia Williams in 2013.
Trimaan Harry Dhillon

S6 : E3 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 08.24.21

The story of the killer who attacked his ex-girlfriend in a jealous frenzy and committed a brutal murder after a campaign of harassment.
Stuart Campbell

S6 : E4 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 08.31.21

Stuart Campbell was convicted of the murder of his 15-year-old niece in 2002, even though her body has never been found.
Sarah Williams and Katrina Walsh

S6 : E5 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 09.07.21

Sarah Williams and Katrina Walsh: the story of two friends who carried out the evil, jealousy-fuelled murder of Sadie Hartley.
Pawel Relowicz

S6 : E6 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 09.14.21

The story of 27-year-old Pawel Relowicz, who raped and killed 21-year-old Hull student Libby Squire in a case that made headlines around the UK.
Daniel Gonzalez

S6 : E7 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 09.21.21

The story of the killer who took four lives during a chilling two-day killing spree in 2004 after being inspired by horror films.
John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans

S6 : E8 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 09.28.21

The story of serial killer Geoffrey Evans and his accomplice John Shaw, who hit headlines in 1976 after the murders of two women in Ireland.
Mark Martin

S6 : E9 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 10.05.21

The chilling story of Mark Martin, who murdered three homeless women in his quest to become Nottingham's first serial killer.
Malcolm Green

S6 : E10 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 10.12.21

The story of Malcolm Green, who was jailed for life for the brutal murder of a Cardiff prostitute, only to kill again when he was released after 18 years.
John Allen Muhammad & Lee Malvo

S6 : E11 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 10.19.21

The story of the Beltway sniper attacks. John Allen and his teenage accomplice carried out the brutal series of shootings that killed ten.
Robert Pickton

S6 : E12 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 10.26.21

The story of one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history, dubbed "The Pig Farmer Killer" by the media.
Sean Vincent Gillis

S6 : E13 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.02.21

The story of the serial killer who brutally snatched away the lives of eight innocent women during a decade-long killing spree in Louisiana.
Judy Buenoano

S6 : E14 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.09.21

The story of a killer so evil that not even her own son could escape her clutches. She became the first woman to be executed in Florida since 1848.
Don Miller

S6 : E15 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.16.21

The story of a terrifying killer who snatched away the lives of four victims before being caught while trying to claim his fifth.
Gary Ray Bowles

S6 : E16 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.23.21

The story of the I-95 killer, who brutally killed six men in 1994 before being executed three years later.
Derrick Todd Lee

S6 : E17 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.30.21

The story of the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, known for murdering seven women in the area and sentenced to death for his chilling crimes.
Velma Barfield

S6 : E18 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.07.21

She became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection after taking six lives. What drove her to commit these callous murders?
Chester Turner

S6 : E19 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.14.21

The story of the cold-blooded serial killer who took the lives of eleven people during a terrifying decade-long murder campaign.
Genene Jones

S6 : E20 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 12.21.21

The chilling story of the serial killer who worked as a nurse in Texas, where she killed many children and infants by injecting them with drugs.
Stephen Unwin & William McFall

S7 : E1 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 11.01.22

Deadly consequences come from a friendship between two murderers who met in prison.
John Cannan

S7 : E2 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 10.04.22

A dangerous sexual predator who murdered one young woman just days after his release from prison is suspected of many other crimes.
Lewis Daynes

S7 : E3 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 09.13.22

The horrifying story of a computer engineer who lured a 14-year-old school boy to his flat and killed him.
Colin Campbell

S7 : E4 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 11.08.22

A convicted killer serving life for manslaughter is found to be guilty of a second murder 32 years later.
Ben Field

S7 : E5 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 09.20.22

A young criminal plots the deaths of his two elderly landlords in a bid to inherit from their estates.
Nathan Matthews

S7 : E6 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 09.27.22

A family's worst nightmare when 16-year-old Becky Watts goes missing from her home and is found dead a few days later, murdered by her own step-brother.
David Bieber

S7 : E7 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 10.11.22

A fugitive from the United States tackles the British police and goes on the run.
Adrian Prout

S7 : E8 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 11.15.22

A master manipulator accused of his wife's murder is eventually caught by a polygraph test.
Ian Stewart

S7 : E9 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 10.18.22

A jailing for the shocking murder of author Helen Bailey leads to a second conviction of another murder six years earlier.
Zahid Zaman

S7 : E10 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 10.25.22

On the surface, he portrayed himself as a pillar of the community, but the story of this cult killer was deeply sinister.
Anthony Shore

S7 : E11 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 12.27.22

Shore was a dangerous sexual predator who will be remembered as one of the world’s most evil killers.
Charles Albright

S7 : E12 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 12.13.22

Charles Albright’s entire life revolved around crime. He graduated from being a small-time crook to a child molester before turning into a killer.
Jorge Avila-Torrez

S7 : E13 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 11.22.22

Jorge Torrez was a prolific predator capable of carrying out heinous and horrific acts against some of the most innocent in our society.
Paul Michael Stephani

S7 : E14 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 01.24.23

Paul Michael Stephani became etched into the minds of all who knew him as the notorious, weepy-voiced killer.
Joshua Wade

S7 : E15 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 12.20.22

Joshua Wade had all the hallmarks of a psychopathic killer with motives we will never understand.
Heriberto Seda

S7 : E16 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 06.11.22

Over six years, a copycat Zodiac killer stalked the streets of New York City in search of easy targets.
Mark Goudeau

S7 : E17 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 01.03.23

Goudeau terrorized victims in the Phoenix metro area between August 2005 and June 2006.
Robert Hansen

S7 : E18 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 11.29.22

Robert Hansen was a monster who preyed on the most vulnerable women in society, dehumanising them for his own twisted fantasies.
Paul Runge

S7 : E19 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 01.10.23

Paul Runge raped and killed six women and one young girl in Chicago. Police lacked evidence to arrest him despite strong suspicions.
Ronald Dominique

S7 : E20 | TV-MA | 44 min | Aired: 01.17.23

For nearly a decade, the Bayou Strangler deceived, bound, assaulted and murdered men as he drifted across South Louisiana.
Lester Jones

S8 : E1 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

In 2007, single mother of three Paige Birgfeld went missing.
John Eric Armstrong

S8 : E2 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

In 1999 and 2000, John Eric Armstrong cruised the streets of Detroit, Michigan looking for sex workers.
Steven Dean Gordon

S8 : E3 | TV-MA | 46 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Along with his accomplice, Frank Cano, Steven Dean Gordon murdered at least four sex workers in California between 2012 and 2013.
Jerald Wingeart

S8 : E4 | TV-MA | 46 min | Aired: 01.01.23

In January 1973, 20-year-old mother of one Dawn Magyar vanished while on a shopping trip in Owosso, Michigan.
Randy Kraft

S8 : E5 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Randy Kraft was a well-spoken, well-respected computer expert...and a prolific serial killer.
Richard Kuklinski

S8 : E6 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

New Jersey native Richard Kuklinski ran a burglary ring, distributed pirated pornography and dealt in weapons and drugs.
Richard Biegenwald

S8 : E7 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Over a 25-year career of murder, Richard Biegenwald killed at least six people, but he is suspected of many more murders.
Richard Paul White

S8 : E8 | TV-MA | 46 min | Aired: 01.01.23

When police in Aurora, Colorado found the body of a young man in in his own home with a bullet wound to the head.
Billy Mansfield Jr.

S8 : E9 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Billy Mansfield Jr. moved between Florida and Michigan, targeting vulnerable women and girls.
Wayne Adam Ford

S8 : E10 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Wayne Adam Ford is an American serial killer who strangled and dismembered three of his four victims.
Harry Jarvis

S8 : E11 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

When Carol Jarvis disappeared, her husband Harry told their friends and family that she'd simply gone on a little holiday to Dundee.
Graham Coutts

S8 : E12 | TV-MA | 46 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Musician and special needs teacher Jane Longhurst vanished during her day off work after making a plan to go swimming with her friend's boyfriend.
Jordan Monaghan

S8 : E13 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Jordan Monaghan killed his 24-day-old daughter Ruby on New Year's Day in January 2013.
Danville Neil

S8 : E14 | TV-MA | 46 min | Aired: 01.01.23

In 2022, Danville Neil was finally jailed for the brutal 1993 murders of a WWII veteran and his sister.
Nicholas Burton

S8 : E15 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

In April 1997, 27-year-old Rachel McGrath was stabbed to death by an unknown attacker in a car park.
Joe O'Reilly

S8 : E16 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

In October 2004, Rachel O'Reilly left her home to drop her children off at school.
Colin Whelan

S8 : E17 | TV-MA | 45 min | Aired: 01.01.23

When Mary Gough was found dead at the bottom of her stairs in her family home, her husband Colin Whelan appeared shocked.
Charlotte and Linda Mulhall

S8 : E18 | TV-MA | 46 min | Aired: 01.01.23

In March 2005, the gardaí recovered human body parts from the Royal Canal in Dublin.
Catherine Nevin

S8 : E19 | TV-MA | 47 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Catherine Nevin and her husband Tom were successful publicans and property developers in the Dublin and Wicklow areas.
Eric Locke

S8 : E20 | TV-MA | 46 min | Aired: 01.01.23

Dublin man Eric Locke refused to accept it when Sonia Blount, a mother of one, ended their relationship.

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