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Very Scary People Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
John Wayne Gacy: Evil Secret Part 1
42 mins
Provides in chronological order the early childhood life of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, his relationship with his parents, and sister while living with an abusive alcoholic father, to his successful contracting company as a well known and respected public figure where he would either cruise the streets at night picking up young men, or hire young men for better than expected wages, bring them back to his home where he would ply them with alcohol and/or drugs, then trick them into handcuffs before he raped and murdered dozens of young men, and buried them all beneath his basement cellar.
Episode 2
John Wayne Gacy: Evil Secret Part 2
Sun, Mar 17, 201942 mins
This is the shocking and gruesome mystery of John Wayne Gacy, a popular Chicago businessman and part-time clown who was leading a double life in the 1970s. By day, Gacy was a community leader and helpful neighbor. But by night, he transformed into a monster who chose young male teens as his prey. How did this seemingly cheerful man become the most prolific serial killer of his day without anybody noticing and how was he ultimately caught?
Episode 3
Charles Manson: The Devil's Work Part 1
Sun, Mar 24, 201942 mins
Charles Manson was born a bad kid, became a teenage thief and a violent predator, and by the end, spent far more than half his life behind bars. He had the ability to charm and the power of persuasion, but he chose to use those talents for sinister purposes. This episode details the horror of the vicious attacks and explains how Manson was able to convince his hippie followers to brutally murder innocent strangers.
Episode 4
Charles Manson: The Devil's Work Part 2
Sun, Mar 24, 201942 mins
Charles Manson was born a bad kid, became a teenage thief and a violent predator, and by the end, spent far more than half his life behind bars. He had the ability to charm and the power of persuasion, but he chose to use those talents for sinister purposes. This episode details the horror of the vicious attacks and explains how Manson was able to convince his hippie followers to brutally murder innocent strangers.
Episode 5
NorCal Rapist: Phantom Predator Part 1
Sun, Mar 31, 201942 mins
Roy Charles Waller, serial rapist worked at the University of California. He alluded police for decades and when captured to face some of his victims in court, it was revealed the use of a family DNA match through GED match was his demise.
Episode 6
NorCal Rapist: Phantom Predator Part 2
Sun, Mar 31, 201942 mins
In Northern California, a masked predator meticulously plans his sexual assaults by studying the habits and routines of his female prey; after 27 years on the loose, police close in on the man they believe to be the NorCal Rapist.
Episode 7
Aileen Wuornos: Monster Made - Part 1
Sun, Apr 7, 201942 mins
Aileen Wuornos was that rare "female serial killer" responsible for the murder of seven (7) men in Florida between 1989-1990 by shooting them all at point-blank range. Wuornos had an unorthodox upbringing being raised by her grandparents after her mother abandoned her at an early age, and her father had left her mother before she was born. She was raped and impregnated at age 14 and her new born child was immediately taken away and given up for adoption to an unknown family. Aileen Wournos had multiple run-ins with the law and served prison time before even commencing her murder spree. She stole the cars of her murder victims and then traveled with her female lover Tyria Moore, a hotel maid, who she met at a Daytona Beach gay bar to continue with her murder spree under the pretense she was a prostitute. Her criminal defense was she only murdered the men after she herself was being threatened by her Johns. In court proceedings she eventually recanted her earlier testimony after it was proven that some of the men she murdered were not her Johns, but innocent victims meeting their demise by being at the wrong place and time when they met up with serial killer Aileen Wuornos. After being found guilty in the murder of six (6) of the seven (7) murder victims (Peter Siems body was never found) Aileen Wuornos's execution took place on October 9, 2002.
Episode 8
Aileen Wuornos: Monster Made Part 2
Sun, Apr 7, 201942 mins
In 1990, Florida police were on a frantic search for a killer. Seven men were dead, their bodies scattered along state highways. Terrorized motorists heard of the bullet-ridden victims of the Interstate Killer - but the investigative trail was cold and there was no end in sight. The killer behind the spree was Aileen Wuornos-a complex, misunderstood misfit who hitchhiked near truck stops, selected her victims at random, and lured them to secluded locations. It took good old-fashioned police work, a little luck, and a lover's betrayal, to finally bring Wuornos' killing spree to an end. This episode features rare interviews with victims' family members, and Wuornos' best friend.
Episode 9
Zodiac Killer: I Am the Zodiac Part 1
Sun, Apr 14, 201942 mins
The "Zodiac Killer" which is the pseudonym self proclaimed and his killings were first reported in the late 1960's and his accredited murder spree continued into the 1970's and then abruptly stopped. Some of his victims who were fortunate to survive his attack(s) were able to glean a partial description of their attacker and the newspaper published the police sketch of their potential serial killer. He operated in northern California and he made it very clear to the police and the newspapers that he wanted credit for his murder spree. He taunted the police by sending cryptic letters to both the police and news papers that required someone to solve his puzzle letters that were his cyphers. There were at least three (3) separate men that victims and/or witnesses who survived the Zodiac Killer's attacks claimed were the attacker but more than 60 years later the perpetrator's identity remains a mystery. Books and movies have been released about the Zodiac Killer and after his last letter was sent and received in the mid 1960's he abruptly stopped his murder spree. Maybe he has been arrested and is in jail, and the police and FBI are unable to make the connection....or maybe he is deceased? Maybe one day his mystery will be resolved and his name publicized.
Episode 10
Zodiac Killer: I Am the Zodiac Part 2
Sun, Apr 14, 201942 mins
He terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s, killing young couples at secluded lover's lanes. Not satisfied with just the murders, he also taunted the public with cryptic clues, threats of increased violence and most famously, ciphers that were supposed to lead police to his identity, but mostly went nowhere. Detectives, reporters, and even civilians, have worked for decades to solve the case - but so far, no one has succeeded. Can new DNA techniques that were used to catch the Golden State Killer finally unmask this murderer, who is both infamous and completely unknown?
Episode 11
Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre Part 1
Sun, Apr 21, 201942 mins
More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978. The man responsible, Jim Jones, has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to suicide. But the truth is more complicated, more horrifying, and more tragic than that. This episode dives deep into the life of Jones, from his lonely childhood to his spectacular rise as a charismatic minister sought out by politicians and film stars, and finally, to an almost unimaginable end: the mass murder of those who once called him "father."
Episode 12
Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre Part 2
Sun, Apr 21, 201942 mins
More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978. The man responsible, Jim Jones, has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to suicide. But the truth is more complicated, more horrifying, and more tragic than that. This episode dives deep into the life of Jones, from his lonely childhood to his spectacular rise as a charismatic minister sought out by politicians and film stars, and finally, to an almost unimaginable end: the mass murder of those who once called him "father."
