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Born to Kill? Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2011 - 2011
Episode 1
Pee Wee Gaskins Jr.: Meanest Man in America
45 mins
Towards the end of his antisocial life, career criminal Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins claimed (or boasted) to have tortured, killed and disposed of 105 people (with only thirteen ever found). Bullied due to his short stature (5'-4"), even by his half-brothers, his span of crimes (robberies, assaults and a gang rape) stretched from 1953 as a ten-year-old juvenile to September 2, 1982, when he achieved the heretofore believed impossible task of killing a fellow inmate locked in solitary within a maximum security prison, earning both the title of "Meanest Man in America" and a death sentence.
Episode 2
Gary Ridgway: The Green River Killer
45 mins
Five strangled bodies of women, found beneath the surface of the Green River in Seattle, Washington, herald the nineteen-year crime spree (1982-1998 but possibly to 2001) against prostitutes by Gary Leon Ridgway, a truck painter whose aura of normalcy and "safeness" put his victims at ease till advancement in DNA testing finally brought his connection to light.
Episode 3
Edmund Kemper: Co-ed Butcher
45 mins
Emotionally abused and rejected (and sentenced to a state hospital as a criminally insane juvenile), extremely tall and smart Edmund Emil Kemper III, a.k.a. the Co-ed Butcher, killed his paternal grandparents, six hitchhiking female college students, his mom and his mother's best friend from 1964 to 1973 before telephoning police to confess. This outwardly "gentle giant" shattered the peace in the Santa Cruz, California, area and stunned police by his friendliness to them, his method of decapitating, dismembering and perversely violating his victims, and being the only murderer to their knowledge of leaving a note of apology at a crime scene.
Episode 4
Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker
44 mins
Ricardo Leyva Muñoz 'Richard' Ramírez, known throughout several California communities as The Night Stalker, conducted a home invasion crime spree of thirteen deaths and thirty attempted rapes and sexual assaults between April 10, 1984, and August 24, 1985. Strongly influenced during his sexually formative years by an older cousin - a decorated U.S. Army Green Beret combat veteran who shared gory stories and Polaroid photos of his gruesome exploits during the Vietnam War (rapes and decapitations) - Richard grew into a self-schooled student of serial killers, taking drugs, adopting Satanism, and varying his death-dealing methods to become a highly unpredictable and exceedingly vicious, callous and prolific killer.
Episode 5
Dennis Nilsen: The Kindly Killer
46 mins
Scottish born civil servant Dennis Andrew Nilsen strangled to death twelve to fifteen young men and teenage boys from 30 December 1978 to 26 January 1983. Controlling, remorseless and psychologically unfit to carry out a relationship yet desperately lonely, Dennis would kill his male pick-ups (those he liked) then care for and converse with the bodies till their conditions became too foul to keep.
Episode 6
David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam
45 mins
David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco) conducted a reign of terror in New York City, USA, from July 29, 1976, through July 31, 1977. Calling himself Son of Sam in a letter to police, he targeted courting couples in lovers' lane areas, leaving six dead and seven wounded by gunshot. Prior to killing, David set over a thousand fires and slew a multitude of dogs, mainly German Shepherds. Berkowitz eluded the biggest police manhunt in New York City history till a parking ticket finally fingered him. Initially blaming the Devil for his behavior, he would later recant it.