Confessions of a Serial Killer

Robert Black is the worst child killer in modern British history. Convicted of the abduction and murder of four school girls, he is widely expected of having murdered up to ten more in a ten year campaign of terror that murdered the meaning of childhood for a generation

In 1996, Colin Ireland murdered 5 gay men in a 2-week killing spree. Dubbed the gay slayer, his acts of cruelty towards his victims perhaps masked his own sense of self loathing and confusion over his sexuality.

For many criminal psychologists, Ted Bundy stands out as the epitome of a serial murderer: charming and urbane he was the ultimate lady killer.

Nilsen murdered 15 young men, whose bodies he sort to preserve as companions before dismembering their remains for disposal down the toilet.

Few serial killers have divided opinion quite like Aileen Wuornos. And few executions of a murderer have elicited such sympathy.

In 2016 a double murder shocked the sleepy village of Spalding, England. Two star crossed 14-year- old young lovers (Edwards and Markham), conspired to murder Edwards mother and sister. This case of folie a deux is the youngest recorded incident of Matricide in UK criminal history.

In 2017 Nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 8 of her elderly charges with overdoses of insulin.

Two British serial murders who killed a generation apart but with the same common goals - they killed to achieve an infamy that had eluded them in everyday life.

Pickton was a pig farer who lived on a sprawling squalid estate. The ramshackle collection of barns and slaughter houses were the perfect cover for a madman who killed 49 women before feeding them to his hogs.

Ridgway remains one of the most prolific murderers in US history who evaded capture for decades and integrated murder into his every day life, even killing prostitutes with his young son waiting in the back of the car.