America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

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America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

“A 10-part journey into darkness”

6.0 / 10 · 2 votes

2009

1 season

10 episodes

DocumentaryCrime

This true crime docuseries strips the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation to expose history's most brutal serial killers.

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Cast

Tom Kimball

Kirk Gill

Jack Levin

Frederic Reamer

Seasons

A 10-Part Journey into Darkness

Ep 1
1.The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper
27-01-200945 min
Episode One discusses 'The Monster Within And Among Us', and discusses Jack The Ripper (even though he's not American), since he is pretty much the first recognized serial killer....
Ep 2
2.Killers Without Conscience
03-02-200945 min
This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).
Ep 3
3.The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You
10-02-200945 min
A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.
Ep 4
4.Serial Killing Begins Again
17-02-200945 min
The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer
Ep 5
5.Men Who Like to Kill
24-02-200945 min
Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy
Ep 6
6.Homosexual Serial Killers
03-03-200945 min
Some serial killers kill out of desire. But it's thought that some kill out of a rejection of their own desire - which is explored through a look at John Wayne Gacy and the Highway...
Ep 7
7.Buddy Serial Killing
10-03-200945 min
The sensationalist nature of the Hillside Strangers and Beltway Snipers cases helps to further solidify the serial killer's unofficial home in popular culture and on the nightly ne...
Ep 8
8.The Many Faces of Serial Killers
17-03-200945 min
One of the defining traits of serial killers - sociopathic behavior. This episode looks at the Gainesville Ripper, the Unabomber, and other serial killers operating in the 1980s.
Ep 9
9.To Catch a Serial Killer
24-03-200945 min
Featuring: The Green River Killer and BTK
Ep 10
10.Why Serial Killers Kill
31-03-200945 min
The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?" Featuring: The Night Stalker and Jeffry Dahmer

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