America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

A 10-Part Journey into Darkness

• Ep 1

  1.The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper

  27-01-200945m

  Episode One discusses 'The Monster Within And Among Us', and discusses Jack The Ripper (even though he's not American), since he is pretty much the first recognized serial killer....

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• Ep 2

  2.Killers Without Conscience

  03-02-200945m

  This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).

• Ep 3

  3.The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You

  10-02-200945m

  A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.

• Ep 4

  4.Serial Killing Begins Again

  17-02-200945m

  The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer

• Ep 5

  5.Men Who Like to Kill

  24-02-200945m

  Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy

• Ep 6

  6.Homosexual Serial Killers

  03-03-200945m

  Some serial killers kill out of desire. But it's thought that some kill out of a rejection of their own desire - which is explored through a look at John Wayne Gacy and the Highway...

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• Ep 7

  7.Buddy Serial Killing

  10-03-200945m

  The sensationalist nature of the Hillside Strangers and Beltway Snipers cases helps to further solidify the serial killer's unofficial home in popular culture and on the nightly ne...

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• Ep 8

  8.The Many Faces of Serial Killers

  17-03-200945m

  One of the defining traits of serial killers - sociopathic behavior. This episode looks at the Gainesville Ripper, the Unabomber, and other serial killers operating in the 1980s.

• Ep 9

  9.To Catch a Serial Killer

  24-03-200945m

  Featuring: The Green River Killer and BTK

• Ep 10

  10.Why Serial Killers Kill

  31-03-200945m

  The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?" Featuring: The Night Stalker and Jeffry Dahmer