America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

Name: America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil
Released: 2009-01-27
Rating: 6

2009 · Documentary, Crime · 1 Season · 10 Episodes · 6.0

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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Episodes

Season 1

E11. The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper45m · 2009-01-27Episode 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.E22. Killers Without Conscience45m · 2009-02-03This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).E33. The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You45m · 2009-02-10A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.E44. Serial Killing Begins Again45m · 2009-02-17The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer E55. Men Who Like to Kill45m · 2009-02-24Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy E66. Homosexual Serial Killers45m · 2009-03-03Some 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.E77. Buddy Serial Killing45m · 2009-03-10The 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.E88. The Many Faces of Serial Killers45m · 2009-03-17One 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.E99. To Catch a Serial Killer45m · 2009-03-24Featuring: The Green River Killer and BTK E1010. Why Serial Killers Kill45m · 2009-03-31The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?" Featuring: The Night Stalker and Jeffry Dahmer

Cast

Tom Kimball

Narrator

Kirk Gill

Self - True Crime Writer

Jack Levin

Self - Criminologist, Northeastern University, Boston

Frederic Reamer

Self - Rhode Island College

Tom Kimball

Self - Narrator

America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

Episodes

Cast

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