35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget
The official definition of a serial killer is someone who kills three or more people. But do they have more in common than just a statistic? The series looks deeply into contemporary serial killers, to the most meticulous killer of modern times, Sacramento's Dorothea Puente, the owner of the 'House of Horrors'. Then there are the educated killers, like Dr Harold Shipman, who is thought to have killed nearly 300 people who were his patients and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who held a PhD in Mathematics. At the other end of the scale, Los Angeles serial killer Lonnie Franklin was organised but not smart, his reign of murder led to the deaths of so many disadvantaged women.
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1.When Darkness Falls
01-07-2018The Hillside Stranglers, tortured and murdered women before dumping their bodies around the Los Angeles hillsides. No one was off limits to Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker's, ra...
2.Killers Against the Grain
08-07-2018Chester Turner, according to LAPD, is the most prolific serial killer in the history of Los Angeles. Joanna Dennehy became only the third woman in UK history to be jailed forever w...
3.Death's Door
15-07-2018Fostering an image as a kindly medical professional, Dr Shipman had for years cunningly disguised his addiction to drugs and killing his patients. Dorothea Puente appeared to be a...
4.Homicidal Horror
22-07-2018Between 1986 and 1987, the bodies of missing young women were dug up around Sacramento,California. The locations all shared a trait: handyman Maurice Solomon Jr had either worked o...
5.Trail of Atrocities
29-07-2018Richard Chase was labelled the Vampire of Sacramento by police. He had a lust for blood whose depravity would include rape, murder, mutilation, cannibalism and necrophilia. Roger a...
6.Very Bad Bachelors
05-08-2018Army veteran and ex-police officer, Dennis Nilsen asphyxiated young men, stored their bodies before dismembering them. Rodney Alcala was a sadistic rapist and serial killer who had...
7.Roads of Rage
12-08-2018With his IQ of 155, Michael Bruce Ross desire for power and control would lead to the violent murder of eight young women and teenagers, seven of them sexually assaulted before, du...
8.The Depths of Depravity
19-08-2018Gerald Gallego and Charlene Williams were a toxic mix that led to the rape, bludgeoning and murder of 10 people in just over two 2 years. During LA's crack epidemic, there were few...
9.Malevolent Motives
26-08-2018The hand written list of 61 initials found in Randy Kraft's car was in fact a scorecard of men he had murdered. For over a decade, Kraft hunted young men, drugging them with his ch...
10.Torture that Torments
02-09-2018The Bittaker and Norris case that lawyer Stephen Kay prosecuted in 1981 was the worst murder case he ever handled owing to the brutality against the five teenage victims. The sadis...
11.Coming as the Devil
09-09-2018In a three month spree, 5 women were slain and mutilated on the impoverished streets of London. An inexperienced police force were hunting for the world's first serial killer. Just...
12.Suburban Nightmare
16-09-2018Roger Kibbe roamed California's major freeway in his urge to rape and strangle unsuspecting young women. A London Summer was stained when murderer and necrophiliac, Kenneth Erskine...
13.End of Innocence
23-09-2018Two cities either side of the globe lost their innocence after the harrowing crimes of serial killers. Myra Hindley actively sought children for her sadistic paedophile boyfriend,...
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