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When a body is found trussed up in the River Odra in western Poland, the police are baffled. The man has been starved and tortured, before being thrown alive into the river. It has all the hallmarks of a punishment beating. The murder…
For two years the baby-faced killer Karol Kot terrorised the Polish city of Krakow. Unlike many serial killers he appeared to have no fixed modus operandi when targeting his victims, which made tracking him down difficult. He began his…
For over 20 years, sex killer Joachim Kroll had been strangling women across northern Germany. He claimed an internal force drove him, picking women walking alone in the countryside. Many were strangled with their own clothes. Then he…
Fritz Honka quietly lived in Hamburg's red light district of St Pauli, picking up elderly prostitutes for the price of a glass of schnapps and a bed for the night. He began to lose his temper when the women declined his sexual…
Between 1975 and 1983, brutal sex killer Pawel Tuchlin terrorised the region around Gdansk, Poland. Known as 'The Scorpion' for the swift deadliness of his attacks, he targeted women walking alone. Tuchlin struck without warning, felling…
Anatoly Onoprienko, 'The Terminator', earned his nickname from an unprecedented spree of mass killings in Ukraine. In just 4 months he slaughtered 43 people, entering households and murdering whole families at a time. Children and even…
The unfortunate truth of modern policing is that despite all the DNA tests, criminal profiles and surveillance technology it's still extremely difficult to catch a killer. Random killers, who murder as a passion, can elude even the most highly trained and well equipped of police forces. Luckily, they tend to give themselves away. Killers is a documentary…
Suffolk, England, 2006 - the corpses of two young prostitutes are discovered in a river outside the town of Ipswich. A manhunt begins, but under the noses of the police and the eyes of the press, three more women are killed in rapid…
Bradford, Northern England, 2009 - drug addicted prostitutes start to vanish from the streets of the city. Their families contact the police who put out a missing persons report but they do not reappear. It's not unusual for street…
The story of Joel Rifkin, a self-employed landscape gardener from East Meadow, Long Island, who murdered and dismembered 17 prostitutes during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In the summer of 2001 the bodies of several prostitutes are found, unceremoniously dumped at the sides of St Louis' highways. For over a year, police and FBI are mystified as to who is behind the murders. But then in May 2002, someone…
William Bonin was the first man in California to be executed by lethal injection. His death in 1996 followed a conviction for the murder of 21 boys aged between 12 and 19 in just one frenzied year. He is estimated to have killed as many…
When police see a car weaving between lanes on a Californian highway late one night, they pull the car over. In the driver's seat is Randy Kraft. In the passenger seat is a dead body. In the boot is a list of names, and under the seat is…
Not all serial killers are the same. Some kill for pleasure, others for reward. Cult killer Robert Rozier stalks Miami. He and his associates murder and mutilate on their master’s orders. But one fateful mistake will bring Rozier to…
Miami 1986. While a drug war rages, crazed killer Manuel Pardo believes he is on a mission to clean up the streets. Guilty or innocent, no one is safe. The city’s underworld is under siege, but one mistake will bring the killer out of the…
When police discover the body of a vagrant, they dismiss it as just another ‘Skid Row’ killing. But when they find a second corpse, then a third, they quickly realise they are dealing with a machete wielding maniac… who won’t stop until…
A sadistic trucker roams the highways in his mobile torture chamber, hunting for victims. Once they’re under his control, he brutalises and then kills them. But an illegally parked vehicle will prove his downfall…
In a quiet coastal community a brutal murderer stalks and kills at random. The police investigation will uncover a hidden world of sadomasochism, double identities and the most terrifying killer of all - a pitiless psychopath hiding in…
From the criminal underbelly of a rural town, a sadistic psychopath leaves a trail of destruction. As police discover a wave of vicious murders, investigators rush to track down the culprit. But this killer doesn’t fit any profile they’ve…
Police are stunned when they attend the scene of a multiple murder at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind. Five victims; all strangled within the space of twenty-four hours. So begins a manhunt to catch violent Serial Killer,…
A rural Louisiana community is stunned when police begin to discover the corpses of young, seemingly fit and healthy men. Serial killer, Ronald Dominique stalks the bayous and canals around the town of Houma and it’s down to…
