Killers: Behind the Myth
Killers: Behind the Myth
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Killers: Behind the Myth

7.0 / 10
2014
3 seasons
20 episodes
Documentary

A look at some of Europe's and America's most horrific serial killers and how bizarrely simple blunders eventually brought them to justice.

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  • Bala: The Novel Killer

    1.Bala: The Novel Killer

    04-03-201460m

    When a body is found trussed up in the River Odra in western Poland, the police are baffled. The man has been starved and tortured, before being thrown alive into the river. It has...

  • Kot: The Vampire of Krakow

    2.Kot: The Vampire of Krakow

    11-03-201460m

    For two years the baby-faced killer Karol Kot terrorised the Polish city of Krakow. Unlike many serial killers he appeared to have no fixed modus operandi when targeting his victim...

  • Kroll: The Duisburg Cannibal

    3.Kroll: The Duisburg Cannibal

    18-03-201460m

    For over 20 years, sex killer Joachim Kroll had been strangling women across northern Germany. He claimed an internal force drove him, picking women walking alone in the countrysid...

  • Honka: The Ripper of St Pauli

    4.Honka: The Ripper of St Pauli

    25-03-201460m

    Fritz Honka quietly lived in Hamburg's red light district of St Pauli, picking up elderly prostitutes for the price of a glass of schnapps and a bed for the night. He began to lose...

  • Tuchlin: The Scorpion

    5.Tuchlin: The Scorpion

    01-04-201460m

    Between 1975 and 1983, brutal sex killer Pawel Tuchlin terrorised the region around Gdansk, Poland. Known as 'The Scorpion' for the swift deadliness of his attacks, he targeted wom...

  • Onoprienko: The Terminator

    6.Onoprienko: The Terminator

    08-04-201460m

    Anatoly Onoprienko, 'The Terminator', earned his nickname from an unprecedented spree of mass killings in Ukraine. In just 4 months he slaughtered 43 people, entering households an...

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