35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget — Season 1, Episode 10: Torture that Torments
Documentary, Crime • 45 min • 1 season, 13 episodes • ★ 6.5/10
Episode synopsis
The Bittaker and Norris case that lawyer Stephen Kay prosecuted in 1981 was the worst murder case he ever handled owing to the brutality against the five teenage victims. The sadistic pair, who abducted young women from the street and tortured in their van, used pliers, a sledgehammer and ice picks to slowly murder their victims - while recording their screams. During one London winter, a small studio flat belonging to Anthony Hardy, a sexually dysfunctional sadist, turned into a slaughter house. Hardy was obsessed with controlling women, starting with his wife who he...
About 35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget
The official definition of a serial killer is someone who kills three or more people. But do they have more in common than just a statistic? The series looks deeply into contemporary serial killers, to the most meticulous killer of modern times, Sacramento's Dorothea Puente, the owner of the 'House of Horrors'. Then there are the educated killers, like Dr Harold Shipman, who is thought to have killed nearly 300 people who were his patients and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who held a PhD in Mathematics. At the other end of the scale, Los Angeles serial killer Lonnie Franklin was organised but not smart, his reign of murder led to the deaths of so many disadvantaged women.