America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

2009
4.4
11 reviews
TV-PG
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 The Case of Jack the Ripper
1/1/09
Season-only
Though his rein of terror took place in London, the coverage of Jack the Ripper's victims set the tone for the media's fascination with serial killers.
2 H.H.Holmes and Jane Toppan
1/1/09
Season-only
A notorious hotel owner and a vengeful nurse are profiled in this episode.
3 Albert Fish, the Vampire of Brooklyn
1/1/09
Season-only
A molester, murderer, and cannibal - Albert Fish was truly a real life monster.
4 The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer
1/1/09
Season-only
As the film industry begins to make more movies about serial killers, men like the Boston Strangler, Ed Gein, and the Lipstick Killer start to spill blood on the streets, and over the pages of the newspapers.
5 The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy
1/1/09
Season-only
The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing, with Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer representing the increase in serial murder in the United States.
6 John Wayne Gacy and the Highway Killers
1/1/09
Season-only
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.
7 The Hillside Stranglers and the Beltway Snipers
1/1/09
Season-only
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.
8 The Gainesville Ripper, the Unabomber and others
1/1/09
Season-only
One of the defining traits of serial killers - sociopathic behavior. This episode looks at the Gainesville Ripper, the Unibomber, and other serial killers operating in the 1980s.
9 The Green River Killer and BTK
1/1/09
Season-only
The only sure way to bring about the end of a serial killing spree is to identify and capture a serial killer.
10 The Night Stalker and Jeffrey Dahmer
1/1/09
Season-only
The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?"

About this show

America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil will strip the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation as history's most brutal serial killers are exposed.
Wars have terrorized entire populations for thousands of years. The American West was home to ruthless killers who were idolized in fiction and folklore. Evil evolved to a hideous new form with the genocidal dictators of the 20th Century such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung who ordered the execution of tens of millions. But in the middle of the 20th Century a new and chilling phenomenon emerged in the post-war Western society: The Serial Killer. As if fashioned from our nightmares, they terrified and fascinated us. Lurking behind masks of bland normality, the serial killer often evaded capture for years, decades or eternity.These are America's serial killers.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
11 reviews
K T
July 29, 2022
Low quality production. Went through each serial killer too quickly. Better off watching the free stuff on YouTube
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Dday “God's Child” Crawford
October 11, 2021
Anything learned is definitly a blessing. Thanx Father
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