America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil(2009)

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"A 10-part journey into darkness"

Overview

This true crime docuseries strips the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation to expose history's most brutal serial killers.

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Ep 1

The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper

Episode One discusses 'The Monster Within And Among Us', and discusses Jack The Ripper (even though he's not American), since he is pretty much the first recognized serial killer. Since a lack of real footage is obvious, this episode uses footage from an old black and white move, loosely based on Jack The Ripper.

27/01/200945 min

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Ep 2

Killers Without Conscience

This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).

03/02/200945 min

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Ep 3

The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You

A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.

10/02/200945 min

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Ep 4

Serial Killing Begins Again

The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer

17/02/200945 min

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Ep 5

Men Who Like to Kill

Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy

24/02/200945 min

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Ep 6

Homosexual Serial Killers

Some serial killers kill out of desire. But it's thought that some kill out of a rejection of their own desire - which is explored through a look at John Wayne Gacy and the Highway Killers.

03/03/200945 min

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Ep 7

Buddy Serial Killing

The sensationalist nature of the Hillside Strangers and Beltway Snipers cases helps to further solidify the serial killer's unofficial home in popular culture and on the nightly news.

10/03/200945 min

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Ep 8

The Many Faces of Serial Killers

One of the defining traits of serial killers - sociopathic behavior. This episode looks at the Gainesville Ripper, the Unabomber, and other serial killers operating in the 1980s.

17/03/200945 min

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Ep 9