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America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil Season 1 Episodes

  • 2009-2009
  • 1 Season
  • Mill Creek Entertainment
  • Documentary, Suspense
  • Watchlist
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Wars have terrorized entire populations for thousands of years. The American West was home to ruthless killers who were idolized in fiction and folklore. Evil evolved to a hideous new form with the genocidal dictators of the 20th Century such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung who ordered the execution of tens of millions. But in the middle of the 20th Century a new and chilling phenomenon emerged in the post-war Western society: The Serial Killer! As if fashioned from our nightmares, they terrified and fascinated us. Lurking behind masks of bland normality, the serial killer often evaded capture for years, decades or eternity. These are America's Serial Killers!

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

10 Episodes 2009 - 2009

Episode 1

The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper

Tue, Jan 27, 200947 mins

Episode 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

Tue, Feb 3, 200947 mins

This 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

Tue, Feb 10, 200945 mins

A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish, child killer and cannibal.

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Episode 4

Serial Killing Begins Again

Tue, Feb 17, 200950 mins

The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing, with Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer representing the increase in serial murder in the United States.

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Episode 5

Men Who Like to Kill

Tue, Feb 24, 2009

The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing, with Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, Charles Manson and the Zodiac Killer representing the increase in serial murder in the United States.

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Episode 6

Homosexual Serial Killers

Tue, Mar 3, 200943 mins

Some 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

Tue, Mar 10, 200947 mins

The 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

Tue, Mar 17, 200945 mins

One of the defining traits of serial killers - sociopathic behavior. This episode looks at the Gainesville Ripper, the Unibomber, and other serial killers operating in the 1980s.

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Episode 9

To Catch a Serial Killer

Tue, Mar 24, 2009

The only sure way to bring about the end of a serial killing spree is to identify and capture a serial killer. Unfortunately it can take decades, like in the cases of the Green River Killer and BTK.

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Episode 10

Why Serial Killers Kill

Tue, Mar 31, 200946 mins

The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?"

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