35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget — Season 1, Episode 3: Death's Door
Documentary, Crime • 45 min • 1 season, 13 episodes • ★ 6.5/10
Episode synopsis
Fostering an image as a kindly medical professional, Dr Shipman had for years cunningly disguised his addiction to drugs and killing his patients. Dorothea Puente appeared to be a mild care home manager. So when police detective John Cabrera knocked on her door it was for information and not the haul of bodies he would eventually find.
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.