Born to Kill?
Each episode is a look into the childhood and life of serial killers.
- 2005-2016
- 7 seasons
- Documentary, Suspense
- TV-14
Each episode is a look into the childhood and life of serial killers.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2005
Episode 1
Fred West
45 mins
Local builder Fred West, along with wife Rose West (née Letts) - both victims of incest themselves - conducted a "House of Horrors" in Gloucester, England, where their sexual appetites, either together or independently, involved rape, bondage, torture, molestation and murder from July 1967 through June 1987.
Episode 2
Dr. Harold Shipman
46 mins
From 1975 through 1998, the remarkably unremarkable general practitioner Dr. Harold Shipman racked up 218 to possibly 250 victims, mainly women living alone and vulnerable. His full death toll remains unknown. School friends, reporters and police authorities piece together what they know to try explaining the "Good Doctor's" motivation for his steadily carried out deeds and how he had gotten away with it for so long.
Episode 3
Jeffrey Dahmer
46 mins
From June 18, 1978, up to July 19, 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer raped, murdered, dismembered and ate seventeen boys and young men, preserving body parts for later meals that made his name synonymous with mutilation, necrophilia and cannibalism. With no evidence of mistreatment or abuse in his severely lonely childhood (and later proved to have a normal, uninjured brain), upper white middle class Jeffrey was deemed a sane, non-malicious man who turned to evil consciously.
Episode 4
Myra Hindley
45 mins
From July 12, 1963, to October 6, 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted and murdered five children ages ten through seventeen in and around Manchester, England. Known as The Moors Murderers, the press christened peroxide blonde Myra Hindley specifically as "the most evil woman in Britain."
Episode 5
The Washington Snipers
46 mins
Allen Muhammad (aged 41) and Lee Boyd Malvo (17) perpetrated twenty-three well-planned, random shootings that caused fifteen deaths and held Washington D.C. hostage in 2002. For the increasingly violent family man, it may have been repayment to a society that removed him from his beloved children; for the abused and abandoned boy, it was a way to honor someone who finally looked after him and gave him purpose.
Episode 6
Ivan Milat
46 mins
Ivan Robert Marko Milat, a.k.a. The Backpacker Killer, took out at least seven victims from 1989 to 1993 in New South Wales, Australia. Born into a large family and concerning himself with a neat appearance, he stood out from the fold to fulfill fantasies of dominance and control, differentiating himself from other serial killers by having no gender preference, by killing either one or more at a time, and by continued savagery postmortem.