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Very Bad Men

Predators, swindlers and masters of fraud are everywhere. This incredible true crime series exposes some of the most notorious criminals on record as told by key members of the police, family, friends and the victims themselves.
201320 episodes
TV-14
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Natural Born Killer
    August 30, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A daughter moves to a small town in Oregon to be closer to her mother and partner, only to lose them to a brutal killer. As the investigation intensifies, a state-wide manhunt finally brings down this natural born killer.
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  2. S1 E2 - Baseline Killer
    August 30, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A brazen serial rapist and killer terrorize the women of Phoenix, Arizona over a few short months. He eludes capture, his assaults growing bolder, but does not count on sophisticated police technology to foil his plans.
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  3. S1 E3 - B.T.K
    September 6, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A teenage boy comes home to find his family has been slaughtered. The mysterious murderer taunts police for decades, leaving clues and even photographs he has taken from his own crime scenes. Can they catch the man who has eluded police for so long?
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  4. S1 E4 - Psycho Sailor
    September 6, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A sister and mother are found dead in the Rouge River in Dearborn Heights, MI. As police amp up their search for the killer, he strikes again, this time in Detroit. A task force is formed, but will they realize the killer is right under their nose?
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  5. S1 E5 - Haunted
    September 13, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    Sam Christie has been plagued by a horrible secret since he was a boy. After seeing ghosts of the past and suffering terrible nightmares, he starts realizing the truth. He witnessed a brutal torture and murder of a young woman. But who did the killing?
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  6. S1 E6 - The Steel Town Slayer
    September 13, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A woman makes a horrifying discovery of human remains in the driveway of a suburban Hamilton, ON, home. When the homeowner is arrested, he refuses to talk, but what police uncover will expose a dark history of violence and murder.
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  7. S1 E7 - Corridor Killer
    September 20, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A serial rapist uses the cover of gangland violence to cover his killing spree in South Central, LA, during the 1980s. When a homeless woman survives his latest assault, police finally have the key to ending 15 years of terror.
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  8. S1 E8 - The Toy Box Torturer
    September 27, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    In 1999, women are disappearing from the streets of Albuquerque. When 21-year-old Cynthia Jaramillo escapes her captors and tells police her story, they realize this is work of a sadistic sexual torturer who has been preying on women for decades.
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  9. S1 E9 - Like a Hurricane
    October 4, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    On the day of a hurricane, a charmer with a dark side rolls into a rural Alabama town looking for work. No one knows about his dangerous past, until a mysterious house fire claims a life and reveals the horrific truth about the man with Southern Charm.
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  10. S1 E10 - A Wolf Among the Sheep
    October 11, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    In Elkhart, Indiana, a popular teenage girl vanishes into thin air. But when her naked body is discovered a week later, police must find her killer before he strikes again and tears the quiet community apart.
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  11. S1 E11 - Hunting Humans
    October 18, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    When a series of murders plagues a rural community in Northern California, police fear that a serial killer is at large. But nothing prepares investigators for when they realize they are searching for hunters who have grown tired of their animal prey.
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  12. S1 E12 - Trained To Kill
    October 25, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A Seattle doctor is attacked in his driveway, and the masked assailants vanish into the night. What police uncover is a rogue ex-cop with a penchant for violence, who may be responsible for the vicious murder of a local realtor nine years earlier.
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  13. S1 E13 - The Bayou Strangler
    November 1, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    A predator lurks in the hot summer of 2005, preying on the vulnerable young men of Louisiana's streets. The sexually sadistic serial killer lures his victims with a cunning rouse, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.
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  14. S1 E14 - A Deadly Burning Passion
    November 8, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    In 2003, Washington, DC, a serial arsonist is getting sexual gratification by setting fires across the city. As the death toll rises, fire investigators race to catch the notorious firebug before he can kill again.
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  15. S1 E15 - Captured Alive
    November 15, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    When a Whitt, Texas, home is destroyed by fire in 2011, police are unaware that the arson investigation will soon lead them on a statewide hunt for a sexual predator.
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  16. S1 E16 - A Killer In Disguise
    November 29, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    In March 1994, Orange County, California is being targeted by a gunman, who is a master of disguises. The city is riddled with fear as each attack grows increasingly more violent, and police must stop the shooter before it's too late.
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  17. S1 E17 - To Kill and Kill Again
    December 6, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    In March 1995, a nurse notices the number of deaths at her Indiana hospital has quadrupled over two years. Soon, a male nurse with a sweet bedside manner becomes the center of an intense police investigation that could spell the answer to over 150 deaths.
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  18. S1 E18 - Last Call Killer
    December 20, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    In the early 1990’s, gay men are being murdered in skyrocketing numbers, their bodies dismembered and found in garbage bags. The murders go unsolved until seven years later when new evidence points to a surprising suspect with a dark past.
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  19. S1 E19 - Hell on Wheels
    December 27, 2012
    22min
    TV-14
    When two Pasadena, Texas teenagers go missing in 1990, everyone assumes that the young lovers are runaways. But after cryptic phone call leads to a grisly murder scene, police and FBI must find the sadistic murderer before he can kill again.
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  20. S1 E20 - 911 to Murder
    January 3, 2013
    22min
    TV-14
    In 1976, an ex-con is released to begin a new life as an emergency medical technician. Meanwhile women are being killed in the same neighborhood where the ex-convict works. Police hunt this very bad man for over 30 years before he faces justice.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Starring
Michelle AbdillRobert AcremantRoxanne Ellis
Studio
discovery plus Ties That Bind
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