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America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

Season 1
America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil will strip the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation as history's most brutal serial killers are exposed.
IMDb 6.3200910 episodes
X-Ray13+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - The Case of Jack the Ripper
    January 26, 2009
    47min
    13+
    Though his rein of terror took place in London, the coverage of Jack the Ripper's victims set the tone for the media's fascination with serial killers.
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  2. S1 E2 - H.H.Holmes and Jane Toppan
    February 2, 2009
    47min
    13+
    A notorious hotel owner and a vengeful nurse are profiled in this episode.
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  3. S1 E3 - Albert Fish, the Vampire of Brooklyn
    February 9, 2009
    46min
    13+
    A molester, murderer, and cannibal - Albert Fish was truly a real life monster.
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  4. S1 E4 - The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer
    March 23, 2009
    44min
    13+
    As the film industry begins to make more movies about serial killers, men like the Boston Strangler, Ed Gein, and the Lipstick Killer start to spill blood on the streets, and over the pages of the newspapers.
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  5. S1 E5 - The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy
    February 23, 2009
    50min
    13+
    The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing, with Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer representing the increase in serial murder in the United States.
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  6. S1 E6 - John Wayne Gacy and the Highway Killers
    March 2, 2009
    44min
    13+
    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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  7. S1 E7 - The Hillside Stranglers and the Beltway Snipers
    March 9, 2009
    47min
    13+
    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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  8. S1 E8 - The Gainesville Ripper, the Unabomber and others
    January 26, 2009
    45min
    13+
    One of the defining traits of serial killers - sociopathic behavior. This episode looks at the Gainesville Ripper, the Unibomber, and other serial killers operating in the 1980s.
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  9. S1 E9 - The Green River Killer and BTK
    March 23, 2009
    44min
    13+
    The only sure way to bring about the end of a serial killing spree is to identify and capture a serial killer.
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  10. S1 E10 - The Night Stalker and Jeffrey Dahmer
    March 30, 2009
    47min
    13+
    The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?"
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Ron Meyer
Producers
Ron Meyer
Starring
Tom KimballKirk GillJack Levin
Studio
Mill Creek Entertainment
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