35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget — Season 1, Episode 11: Coming as the Devil
Documentary, Crime • 45 min • 1 season, 13 episodes • ★ 6.5/10
Episode synopsis
In a three month spree, 5 women were slain and mutilated on the impoverished streets of London. An inexperienced police force were hunting for the world's first serial killer. Just as news of 'Jack the Ripper' travelled the world, so did investigators' prime suspect: conman Frederick Deeming who had already slaughtered two of his wives and four children. Those invited into the Manson Family cult were easy-pickings for its leader, Charles Manson. The Family, inspired by Manson, murdered nine people. Manson claimed to have been wrongly convicted, arguing he had played ...
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.