America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil (2009)
This true crime docuseries strips the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation to expose history's most brutal serial killers.
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Episode 1 - The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper
Release Date: 2009-01-27Episode 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. Since a lack of real footage is obvious, this episode uses footage from an old black and white move, loosely based on Jack The Ripper.
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Episode 2 - Killers Without Conscience
Release Date: 2009-02-03This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).
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Episode 3 - The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You
Release Date: 2009-02-10A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.
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Episode 4 - Serial Killing Begins Again
Release Date: 2009-02-17The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer
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Episode 5 - Men Who Like to Kill
Release Date: 2009-02-24Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy
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Episode 6 - Homosexual Serial Killers
Release Date: 2009-03-03Some 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 Killers.
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Episode 7 - Buddy Serial Killing
Release Date: 2009-03-10The 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 news.
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Episode 8 - The Many Faces of Serial Killers
Release Date: 2009-03-17One 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.
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Episode 9 - To Catch a Serial Killer
Release Date: 2009-03-24Featuring: The Green River Killer and BTK
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Episode 10 - Why Serial Killers Kill
Release Date: 2009-03-31The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?" Featuring: The Night Stalker and Jeffry Dahmer