Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death
Aired on Jun 25, 2022In 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 Aileen Wuornos, a woman fleeing a troubled past and yearning for a connection. Instead of finding of love, The Damsel of Death develops a simmering rage in her heart, that finally explodes when she picks up her first victim.
Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker
Aired on Jul 02, 2022Before he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen was working at his father’s bakery in a small town in Iowa, slowly developing an animosity for women. Even as a successful business and family man in Anchorage, his intense feelings would build into a dark desire to exert the ultimate control over 17 victims.
Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
Aired on Jul 09, 2022Known primarily for the horrific murders of University of Florida students, Danny’s first murders were in his hometown of Shreveport Louisiana. Growing up with a violent father, Danny dreamed of having a loving family as an adult, but his darker fantasies drove him to destroy a family instead. After that, he couldn’t stop.
Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
Aired on Jul 16, 2022One 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. Growing up yearning for a father figure, he found mentorship with his sadistic cousin, a Vietnam Vet, and, later, Satanism, both eventually paving the way to his first brutal slaying.
Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer
Aired on Jul 30, 2022The articulate and boastful killer, known for his intelligence and charm, is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s. But his desire to kill started when he much younger, as a child fantasizing about murdering members of his own family.
Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the Peeler
Aired on Aug 06, 2022In rural Epping, New Hampshire, everyone knew Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loved her rabbits. No one expected what police uncovered when looking for a missing man. Her turbulent childhood in Alabama, a coma induced vision and the death of her wealthy husband all had sent Sheila on a warped mission to kill.
Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry
Aired on Aug 13, 2022Someone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, North Carolina and the police seem unable to stop it. What the police don’t realize is that the cases all have a commonality: a connection with Henry Louis Wallace. Charming and smart, Henry tried to hide his dark side, fueled from years of abuse and twisted fantasy, until his first murder. Then bad Henry took over.
Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler
Aired on Aug 30, 2022African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing. Their families were desperate for help, but no one seemed to know what was happening to them, no one except the helpful resident of 12205 Imperial Avenue, Anthony Sowell. From a young age, Anthony was desperate for some sort of control and ultimately found it when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim, a woman only hoping to connect with a friendly face.
Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer
Aired on Aug 30, 2022Serial 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 if not, what shaped his trajectory from “Artie Oddball” to murderer? He might have been known for killing women along Rochester’s Genesee River, but his first murder was years earlier and the culmination of years of dark fantasies.
Ronald Dominique: The Bayou Strangler
Aired on Aug 30, 2022Growing 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 inability to connect and a jail sexual assault would cement his decision to ultimately kill his first victim, tragically the beginning of years of senseless murder.