Dark Minds

The Original Night Stalker is America's most cunning serial killer. He terrorized California with a wave of rapes and murders, leaving a trail of bizarre clues, before vanishing into the night. It's a race against time to catch this monster. Can he be found, before the urge to kill rises again?

Four young girls go missing in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Some turn up dead, some are never seen again. They all have blond hair and blue eyes. But are they connected in another way? Are they victims of the same serial killer?

This trip to the seaside town of Newport, Oregon is no holiday. The bodies of local girls have been turning up dumped in the forest. It looks like the work of a serial killer. But who is he? And what clues has he left behind?

The I-45 freeway between Houston and Galveston threads a dangerous land. Over 30 young girls have gone missing here, some have turned up dead, in a place called The Killing Field. It's paradise for serial killers. But one killer has been caught and more may follow. Time for Paradise to get shut down.

In the spring of 1992 a serial killer cut a swathe through the Mid West. Six victims across three states, shot execution style. The dead all worked in small stores just blocks from the I-70 freeway. Why target these victims? Why the I-70? Why did he start, and why did he stop?

Not all serial killers prowl lonely highways in the wilderness. In Florida there is one killer who hunts where we shop - in the everyday world of the suburban shopping mall.

The case reads like a Hollywood slasher flick. Four young couples at remote lover's lanes, attacked in their cars by a serial killer who may be posing as a cop. One thing's for sure. The truth in this case is way stranger than fiction.

The billboards that line Canada's Highway 16 tell a sad tale - "Girls, don't hitchhike on the Highway of Tears". More than 30 girls have gone missing or turned up dead on this highway and their murders are a mystery. Is it one killer? Is it multiple serial killers? When can the local girls feel safe again?