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Basic Info

First Air: July 01, 2018

Rating: ⭐ 6.0/10 (2 votes)

Status: Returning Series

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Last Episode

Name: End of Innocence

Season: 1, Episode: 13

Air Date: 2018-09-23

Two 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, Ian Brady. The couple tortured and murdered five children, burying four of them among the Saddleworth Moors outside of Manchester. But when the depraved cruelty of their crimes were revealed in an audio recording, their actions outraged a city and a nation. During the steaming hot summers of the sleepy Australian coastal city of Perth, the unpredictable and opportunistic Eric Edgar Cook ...

35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget

2018 1 seasons 13 episodes ⭐ 6.0/10 2 votes

Overview

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.