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Born to Kill? Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Beverley Allitt: The Angel of Death
46 mins
From February 1991 through April 1991, a wave of medical emergencies hits the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire, England. Eventually the unthinkable becomes a concept and a reality - a health care professional who kills whose under his/her care.
Episode 2
Colin Ireland: The Gay Slayer
46 mins
From March 8, 1993, through June 12, 1993, Colin Ireland became the British serial killer known as The Gay Slayer. He set himself a unique goal, a new year's resolution to kill sadomasochistic gay men, later chiding police for mistaking at least one death as a sexual game gone terribly wrong.
Episode 3
The Manson Family
45 mins
During mid-1967's California flower power era, unemployed ex-convict and musician Charles Milles Manson, the unwanted and often jailed son of a prostitute, gathered a group of middle class flower children whom he developed into absolutely obedient followers. Extensive prison time throughout most of his life, which long since inured him from fearing punishment, made him institutionalized and dangerous, and a leader who needed followers. Ostensibly to ignite a race war between whites and blacks, he sent forth his mindless minions, his "Manson Family," to carrying out his personal hatred of, and frustrations with, society. Following seven shockingly brutal deaths in July and August of 1969, with slogans written in the victims' own blood (making infamous and ever after associative the Beatles song title "Helter Skelter"), Charles Manson's name would become forever synonymous with evil.
Episode 4
Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono Jr: The Hollywood Hillside Strangler
47 mins
From 16 October 1977 to 11 January 1979, Kenneth Alessio Bianchi and his cousin, Angelo Anthony Buono Jr., partnered up to kidnap, rape and strangle twelve girls and young women in the Hollywood, California, area (later in Washington as well). Posing as policemen, they targeted prostitutes before moving on to college students. Strangulation was their primary means to end a life, though several other methods were tested. Of the two, Angelo was the quiet, thoroughly repellent, torture-loving misogynist, while Ken, with his pronounced "car salesman" persona, was the murder-loving, compulsively lying chatterbox (who would later, when caught, feign a split personality disorder to sidestep conviction). As they became singularly dubbed "The Hillside Strangler," their body dumps became more prominently displayed.
Episode 5
Herbert Mullin: The Serial Killing Saviour
45 mins
In California, mild-mannered Roman Catholic Herbert William Mullin had a normal upbringing, but as he graduated high school and was voted most likely to succeed by classmates, paranoid schizophrenia set in, and soon he would begin a string of thirteen killings and murders (13 October, 1972, through 13 February, 1973) which he claimed God ordered him to do (in his head) to prevent cataclysmic earthquakes. At trial, it wasn't his guilt that was in question but his sanity.
Episode 6
Dennis Rader: The Bind and Torture Killer (BTK)
45 mins
Dennis Lynn Rader, the eldest of four brothers, became notoriously known to fellow Wichita, Kansas, residents as the BTK Killer (Bind, Torture, Kill). With ten victims spanning from 15 January 1974 to 19 January 1991, he escaped notice by an aura of normalcy that none saw past, not even his wife. Over time, he taunted police and media with letters and scavenger hunt "gifts" left about the city. Finally, his own over-confidence tripped him up, whereby authorities were further creeped out over his matter-of-fact descriptions of his crimes.