First Blood

In 1989, Richard Mallory is found shot dead off the side of a Florida highway, just the first of seven murdered men found in a similar setting. Their predator is Aileen Wuornos, a woman fleeing a troubled past and yearning for a connection.

Before he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen was working at his father's bakery in a small town in Iowa, slowly developing an animosity for women.

Danny's first murders were in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. Growing up with a violent father, Danny dreamed of having a loving family as an adult, but his darker fantasies drove him to destroy a family instead. After that, he couldn't stop.

Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s. Growing up yearning for a father figure, he found mentorship with his sadistic cousin and, later, Satanism, both eventually paving the way to his first brutal slaying.

The articulate and boastful killer, known for his intelligence and charm, is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s.

Everyone knew Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loved her rabbits. No one expected what police uncovered when looking for a missing man.

Charming and smart, Henry tried to hide his dark side, fueled from years of abuse and twisted fantasy, until his first murder. Then bad Henry took over.

African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing. Their families were desperate for help, but no one seemed to know what was happening to them, no one except the helpful resident of 12205 Imperial Avenue, Anthony Sowell.

Exploring what shaped serial killer Arthur Shawcross' trajectory from "Artie Oddball" to murderer.

Growing up gay and effeminate in the hyper masculine Bayou was tough on Ronald Dominique. But that's not why Ronald began to kill African American men.