Close Encounters with Evil

When Ryan Edwards welcomed a new neighbor to the community, he had no idea that he was inviting a serial killer into his life. Stephen Port murdered four young men in the flat just across from his unknowing neighbor.

14-year-old David McVicker was returning home to Huntington Beach, California when he was offered a ride by William Bonin, the notorious "Freeway Killer." Bonin was eventually convicted of 14 murders of young men.

Sharon Wood was searching for her car when a man emerged from the shadows pointing a gun directly at her. Sharon fought for her life, surviving an attack from serial killer Jerome Brudos, otherwise known as the "Shoe Fetish Killer."

When 5-month-old Paul Crampton suffered a sudden hypoglycemic attack it triggered a chain of events that lead to nurse Beverly Allitt's arrest and conviction for the murder of four young children and the assault of many others.

In September, 1968, second grader Tali Shapiro was walking to school along Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard when a car pulled up alongside her. The driver, 25-year-old Rodney Alcala, asked her if she wanted a ride.

Taxi driver Terry Kennedy was dropping off a fare when he got a call warning him that a shooting had taken place nearby. Soon after, he was waved down by fellow cabbie Derrick Bird who aimed a shotgun straight at Terry and his passenger and fired.