

First Blood
“First Blood" examines some of America’s most notorious serial killers through the prism of their first known kills to reveal what drove them to the moment when violent fantasy and curiosity became a devastating reality.
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"First Blood" Premieres Saturday, June 25 at 9pm ET/PT on A&E
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death
1.025-06-202243mIn 1989, Richard Mallory is found shot dead in the brush off the side of a Florida highway, just the first of seven murdered men found in a similar setting. Their predator is Ailee...
- Ep 2
2.Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker
1.002-07-202243mBefore he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen was a successful businessman with a family in Anchorage, but his intense feelings would build into a da...
- Ep 3
3.Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
09-07-202243mKnown primarily for the murders of University of Florida students, a man's first murders were in his hometown of Shreveport, La.; the man dreamed of having a loving family as an ad...
- Ep 4
4.Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
16-07-202243mOne of the most well-known serial killers, Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, where anyone could be a target of the sadistic murderer.
- Ep 5
5.Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler
23-07-202243mAfrican American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing; Anthony Sowell found the control he was so desperate for when he overpowered his first vulnerab...
- Ep 6
6.Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer
30-07-202243mThe articulate and boastful killer is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz, where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s.
- Ep 7
7.Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the Peeler
06-08-202243mIn rural Epping, N.H., everyone knows Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loves her rabbits; her turbulent childhood in Alabama, a coma-induced vision, and the death of her we...
- Ep 8
8.Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry
1.013-08-202243mSomeone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, North Carolina and the police seem unable to stop it. What the police don't realise is that the cases all have a commo...
- Ep 9
9.Arthur Shawcross
20-08-202245mThe Genesee River Killer Serial killer Arthur Shawcross tells a lot of stories about his life before he began to kill. Abuse, bestiality, cannibalism...but is any of it true? And...
- Ep 10
10.Ronald Dominique
1.027-08-202245mThe Bayou Strangler Growing up gay and effeminate in the hyper-masculine Bayou was tough on Ronald Dominique. But that's not why Ronald began to kill African American men. An inab...
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