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Born to Kill? Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Donald Neilson: The Black Panther
45 mins
Connective evidence links the 1975 kidnap/murder of a 17-year-old heiress to The Black Panther, a prolific burglar in Northern England whose crimes had recently escalated to the robbery/murders of three sub-post office workers. The Black Panther, born Donald Nappey, grew up a bullied child, leaving him fearless, daring and adventurous. His draft into the army was his true calling, where he enjoyed the disciplined life, giving and taking orders, and training for preparedness. Leaving to raise a family (thereby legally changing his problematic name to Donald Neilson for their sake) forced him into a life of crime when living an honest, hard-working life proved impossible. Always methodical, a chance encounter with two police officers, with an impromptu attempt to kill both, brought an end to his criminal career.
Episode 2
Peter Sutcliffe: The Yorkshire Ripper
44 mins
Labeled the Yorkshire Ripper by the press, Peter William Sutcliffe eludes capture during his five-year span of vicious murders, terrifying communities of Northern England from 1975 to 1980. Viciously targeting prostitutes and schoolgirls, leaving thirteen dead, his actions trigger a massive manhunt that completely overwhelms pre-computer era police investigators, running tens of thousands of lines of investigation manually. Under intense public demand for an arrest, police get tragically sidetracked by a hoaxer, an interference that allows the killer's violent acts to continue.
Episode 3
Hadden Clark: The Cross-Dressing Cannibal
44 mins
Hadden Irving Clark, later known as The Cross-dressing Cannibal, exhibited a long history of weird behavior that included cross-dressing. Eventually brought to justice after dispatching and impersonating his last victim (a female college graduate), details would lead to connections with an earlier victim, that of a child; but, based on his trophy stash, his entire span of killings (1986-1992 known) and his total victim count (12-22 suspected) may never fully be known.
Episode 4
The Thriller Killers
45 mins
Childhood friends Loren Joseph Herzog and Wesley Howard Shermantine, Jr. become the Speed Freak Killers, claiming lives from 1984 through 1999. Four to nineteen victims are known or attributed to their methamphetamine-fueled carnage, but their practice of hunting down humans for sport leaves them suspect in the deaths and disappearances of as many as seventy-two others in and around California's San Joaquin County area.
Episode 5
Thor Christiansen
45 mins
Between November 20, 1976, and April 18, 1979, Thor Nis Christiansen shot, killed and raped to the corpses of several young women in the Californian college town of Isla Vista and the larger city of Los Angeles, with a two-year gap that could mean more victims in Oregon.
Episode 6
Twisted
46 mins
Dale Shawn Hausner, Jeff Hausner and Samuel John Dieteman, collectively known as the Serial Shooter, turned their misfortune and rage into random, recreational violence in Phoenix, Arizona, from May, 2005, to July 30, 2006. Jeff would leave but not before introducing Sammy to Dale. At first, the unwitnessed animal shootings were thought to be the work of an individual, but as these drive-bys progressed to include human targets and two acts of arson, authorities sought a team.
Episode 7
Doug Clark & Carol M. Bundy: The Sunset Strip Killers
46 mins
From June 1 to August 4, 1980, Douglas Daniel Clark and Carol M. Bundy, collectively known as the Sunset Strip Killers, committed a string of gunshot deaths followed by necrophilic play with their victims (including taking head trophies for reuse). While Doug slipped into depravity by indulging in his own dark fantasies, Carol's descent came about from an abject eagerness to please anyone she could call her man.
Episode 8
Patrick MacKay: The Devil's Disciple
45 mins
From the age of ten, Patrick David Mackay, a.k.a. the Psychopath, was seen as a dangerous future killer of women. Though institutions could diagnose him correctly, none were set up to know what to do with him and released him. Under the dubious honor of being pronounced the most dangerous man in Britain (targeting those he saw as weak), only three of his eleven kills could be proved, landing him finally behind bars for life.
Episode 9
John Linley Frazier: The Killer Prophet
45 mins
In 1970, in the midst of the hippie era, schizophrenic John Linley Frazier - hearing instructions from "God" - slew a Santa Cruz, California, family group of five (father, mother, two sons and a secretary) for environmental travesties. His twisted act and motive would earn him the moniker "Killer Prophet."
Episode 10
Cary Stayner: The Yosemite Park Slayer
45 mins
Cary Anthony Stayner - older brother of famous child abductee Steven Stayner (kept for seven years by pedophile Kenneth Parnell) - killed three tourists and a park worker in 1999. Considered a high-functioning autistic, he clung to a violent, childhood sexual fantasy for twenty years before finally acting on it. Living in the shadow of a missing sibling didn't help to derail that impulse.
Episode 11
The Briley Brothers
45 mins
The Briley brothers - Linwood Earl, James Dyral and Anthony Ray - were three African-American siblings responsible for a seven-month killing spree that rocked Richmond, Virginia, in 1979. Even their fearful parent slept with a padlock on their bedroom door. Interests in exotic, dangerous pets (such as tarantulas, piranhas, and boa constrictors) and bullying others in school grew to become fearless and remorseless interests in murder for fun. Shooting and killing a neighbor for target practice in 1971, the wily Linwood lead the way for his brothers to follow. Once caught and imprisoned, Linwood and James fashioned a tight team of fellow convicts to boldly and successfully break out of their state's "inescapable" prison in 1984, much to the renewed horror of Richmond.
Episode 12
Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka: The Schoolgirl Killers
46 mins
Paul Kenneth Bernardo and Karla Leanne Homolka were the perfect Canadian couple but not a match made in Heaven. Already making a name for himself as the Scarborough Rapist in March of '86, Paul's intensifying sexual assaults sunk to new lows of torture and murder when he found and married Karla. With their killing spree ending on April 19, 1992, homemade porn videos surfaced featuring the couple and their victims, including Karla's younger sister, dead four months before her big sister's Disneyesque dream wedding.