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Born to Kill? Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2010 - 2011
Episode 1
Ted Bundy
45 mins
Born Theodore Robert Cowell, Theodore 'Ted' Robert Bundy abandons his fiancee after wining her back to begin a string of thirty confirmed murders (possibly more) between February 1, 1974, and February 9, 1978, across seven American states. Neither his college roommate nor his co-worker at a suicide hot-line center could image his connection to the rash of missing young women on campus or of the environment of uncertainty in which he grew up (raised to believe his unwed mother was his older sister).
Episode 2
John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown
43 mins
Hard-driving, hard-working, pillar of American society John Wayne Gacy beguiled, entrapped, sexually assaulted, tortured and all but once asphyxiated or strangled at least thirty-three young men and teenage boys from January 3, 1972, to December 11, 1978. Raised beneath the roof of an emotionally, verbally and physically abusive alcoholic father, adult John would finally begin to earn his dad's respect as a prosperous businessman, only to use his outward, Midwestern success as a cover for mangled homosexual desires.
Episode 3
Richard Trenton Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento
45 mins
Richard Trenton Chase began life normally enough, but heavy drug use may have exacerbated a physiological condition that lead him to a deranged crime spree of killings in Sacramento, California, in 1977 and 1978. Suffering erectile dysfunction alongside worsening schizophrenia, Chase would progress from killing cats to randomly targeting humans for their blood (to drink) and internal organs (to examine and play with).
Episode 4
Charles Starkweather: The Teenaged Spree Killer
46 mins
During a period of intense James Dean popularity, 19-year-old Charles Raymond "Charlie" Starkweather - a fan of cowboy movies and "Rebel Without a Cause" - adopted a bad boy persona that lead him and Caril Ann Fugate, his 14-year-old girlfriend, on a spree of eleven brutal murders from December 1, 1957, to January 29, 1958, in Wyoming and Nebraska, U.S.A. Neither age nor gender mattered in their killings.
Episode 5
Albert DeSalvo: The Boston Strangler
46 mins
Raised amidst family violence, Albert Henry DeSalvo, later known as The Boston Strangler, would come to satisfy his insatiable sexual appetite through the rape/deaths of thirteen victims from 14 June, 1962, through 4 January, 1964. Earlier escaping a charge of sex with a minor, he'd go door-to-door as a modeling agent, becoming known as The Measuring Man, then later on becoming The Green Man who raped women tied to their beds. Shortly after his release from prison, the deaths began, with decorative bows tied around the victims' necks. The victims were elderly for a while, then they got younger, then rape alone became enough without killing.
Episode 6
Aileen Wuornos: The Highway Killer
45 mins
Aileen Carol "Lee" Wuornos, born Aileen Carol Pittman, lives a brutal childhood in Michigan. Raised by abusive and alcoholic grandparents, lead to believe her mother was her sister, sired by a convicted child molester, and developing an incestuous relationship with her brother, she starts trading sexual favors at a young age for cigarettes and small change. Known and rejected by most classmates as the neighborhood sleaze, giving birth at fourteen (to a baby boy that's taken and immediately put up for adoption), then thrown from the house at fifteen after her grandmother's death, she survives the only way she knows how - prostitution - and lives among fringe groups, eventually heading to Florida. In her thirties, when her looks begin to go, an incident sets her on a new course - killing men for money.