America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

2009
1 Season
6.0
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.

Episodes

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E1Jan 27, 200945m

The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper

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. Since a lack of real footage is obvious, this episode uses footage from an old black and white move, loosely based on Jack The Ripper.

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E2Feb 3, 200945m

Killers Without Conscience

This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).

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E3Feb 10, 200945m

The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You

A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.

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E4Feb 17, 200945m

Serial Killing Begins Again

The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer

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E5Feb 24, 200945m

Men Who Like to Kill

Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy

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E6Mar 3, 200945m

Homosexual Serial Killers

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 Killers.

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E7Mar 10, 200945m

Buddy Serial Killing

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 news.

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E8Mar 17, 200945m

The Many Faces of Serial Killers

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.

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E9Mar 24, 200945m

To Catch a Serial Killer

Featuring: The Green River Killer and BTK

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E10Mar 31, 200945m

Why Serial Killers Kill

The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?" Featuring: The Night Stalker and Jeffry Dahmer

Top Cast

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Tom Kimball

Narrator

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Kirk Gill

Self - True Crime Writer

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Jack Levin

Self - Criminologist, Northeastern University, Boston

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Frederic Reamer

Self - Rhode Island College

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Tom Kimball

Self - Narrator