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| Serial Killer | Title | Release Year | Ep. count | Summary | Trailer | Service/Channel |
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| Barraza, Juana | The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders | 2023 | 1 | Between 1998 and 2005, a wave of murders targeting elderly women hit Mexico City, triggering the hunt for and capture of a most unlikely suspect. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Berkowitz, David | The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness | 2021 | 4 | Documentary about journalist Maury Terry's lifelong conviction that the Son of Sam murders were linked to a satanic cult. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Bianchi, Kenneth | The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise | 2022 | 4 | Takes a deep dive into Kenneth Bianchi's psychological analysis tapes and features audio recordings from the months following his arrest, leading up to his conviction. |
Trailer | Peacock |
| Bundy, Ted | Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes | 2019 | 4 | A look inside the mind of serial killer Ted Bundy, featuring interviews with him on death row. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Bundy, Ted | Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer | 2020 | 5 | Longtime girlfriend of Ted Bundy, Elizabeth Kendall tells the infamous story from her side in Falling For A Killer. In doing so, she centers the female perspective that's often overlooked in documentaries about the notorious serial killer and honors the memory of his victims. |
Trailer | Prime Video |
| Cottingham, Richard | Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer | 2021 | 3 | In 1970s NYC, the "Torso Killer" preys on women to fulfill his grotesque fantasies while eluding police. A docuseries dive into crime's darkest places. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Cottingham, Richard | The Torso Killer Confessions | 2023 | 2 | Delves into the decades long journey of Detective Robert Anzilotti as he works to bring justice to cold case victims linked to serial killer Richard Cottingham. |
A&E | |
| Cullen, Charles | Capturing the Killer Nurse | 2022 | 1 | This documentary reveals how investigators proved ICU nurse Charles Cullen was killing patients — and how close he came to getting away with murder. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Dahmer, Jeffrey | Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes | 2022 | 3 | Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| DeAngelo, Joseph | I'll Be Gone in the Dark | 2020 | 7 | Based on the 2018 book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, written by Michelle McNamara. |
Trailer | HBO |
| Dominique, Ronald | Bayou Blue | 2011 | 1 | Bayou Blue explores the story of Ronald Dominique, a serial killer who acted from 1997 to 2006. He raped and killed 23 men in Southeastern Louisiana, but catching him became complicated when the victims' families stayed quiet and Hurricane Katrina hit. |
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| Durst, Robert | The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst | 2015 | 6 | Real estate scion and millionaire Robert Durst was accused of killing several people (including his wife), but never convicted. |
Trailer | HBO |
| Fish, Albert | Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation | 2007 | 1 | sum |
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| Franklin, Lonnie | Tales of the Grim Sleeper | 2017 | 1 | Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years. |
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| Gacy, John Wayne | John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise | 2021 | 6 | The chilling story of one of the world's most notorious serial killers told through the words of Gacy himself, those who were forever changed by his unspeakable deeds and those who believe that the full truth remains concealed to this day. |
Trailer | Peacock |
| Gacy, John Wayne | The Clown and the Candyman | 2021 | 2 | TV documenatry that reveals the network of pedophiles that connected two deranged serial killers, Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy. |
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| Gacy, John Wayne | Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes | 2022 | 3 | sum |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Galán, Alfredo | The Playing Card Killer | 2023 | 3 | A playing card left at a murder scene connects a string of killings in this docuseries tracking a notorious serial killer who terrorized Spain in 2003. |
Netflix | |
| Gein, Ed | Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein | 2023 | 4 | Follows grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, better known as "The Ghoul of Plainfield" and "The Mad Butcher", from whose crimes such iconic films as "Psycho", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Silence of the Lambs" have emerged.[1] |
MGM+ | |
| Gilyard, Lorenzo | Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan | 2018 | 1 | A show where Piers Morgan revisits the crimes of three convicted serial killers and learns more about their motives through intense prison interviews. |
Netflix | |
| Henriquez, Alejandro | Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan | 2018 | 1 | A show where Piers Morgan revisits the crimes of three convicted serial killers and learns more about their motives through intense prison interviews. |
Netflix | |
| "The Hillside Stranglers" | The Hillside Strangler | 2021 | 3 | Follows the story of Kenneth Bianchi, a man who left bodies on display throughout the Hollywood Hillside and was called "The Hillside Strangler". |
Discovery+ | |
| Holmes, H. H. | H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer | 2004 | 1 | Many serial killers committed their heinous crimes from the 1970s through the 2000s, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist before then. Deemed "America's first serial killer," H.H. Holmes may have killed more than 200 people in the late 19th century. |
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| "Jack the Ripper" | Unmasking Jack the Ripper | 2005 | 1 | This documentary both attempts to put a face to the murderer and to fill the viewer in on every single detail about the Jack the Ripper killings. It is meticulously detailed and filled with decent reenactments. Although it may be just a documentary made for television that does very little for the documentary form, it is the details within the film that makes it such a compelling (and unsettling) watch. |
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| "Jack the Stripper" | Dark Son: The Hunt for a Serial Killer | 2019 | 1 | A documentary following an investigation to solve the 'Jack the Stripper' murders, the biggest unsolved serial murder case in British criminal history. |
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| Jha, Chandrakant | Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi | 2022 | 3 | Documentary series on Chandrakant Jha's life and his killings. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Kolander, Raja | Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer | 2022 | 3 | Documentary series on Raja Kolander's life and his killings. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Lucas, Henry Lee | The Confession Killer | 2019 | 5 | Serialized documentary focusing on the far-reaching fallout of the Henry Lee Lucas investigation. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| McArthur, Bruce | Santa Claus: The Serial Killer | 2022 | 6 | Journalist Mobeen Azhar travels to Toronto, Canada to explore the case of serial killer Bruce McArthur - a gardener and shopping mall Santa who murdered eight men in and around the Gay Village area of the city. |
Trailer | BBC Three |
| Ndlovu, Nomia Rosemary | Rosemary's Hitlist | 2023 | 4 | Rosemary's Hitlist is a true-crime documentary series about cop-turned-serial-killer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, who was sentenced in 2021 to six concurrent life terms for the murders of her live-in-lover and five of her family members. |
Trailer | Showmax |
| Nilsen, Dennis | Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | 2021 | 1 | Documentary featuring first-person interviews, archival footage, newly shot reenactments and original photography related to the case. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Pickton, Robert | The Pig Farm | 2011 | 1 | |||
| Rader, Dennis | I Survived B.T.K.: BTK And The Otero Family Murders[note 1] | 2010 | 1 | This documentary centers on a survivor: Charlie Otero. He was the oldest surviving member of the first family serial killer BTK murdered on January 15, 1974. As a teenager, Otero discovered the bodies of his family members after he came home from school. |
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| Rader, Dennis | BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer | 2022 | 4 | Features conversations with serial killer Dennis Rader from a Kansas maximum security prison, to examine his crimes and psyche. |
A&E | |
| Ramirez, Richard | Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer | 2021 | 4 | Documentary featuring first-person interviews, archival footage, newly shot reenactments and original photography related to the case. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| Riebe, Mark | Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan | 2018 | 1 | A show where Piers Morgan revisits the crimes of three convicted serial killers and learns more about their motives through intense prison interviews. |
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| Rogers, Richard | Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York | 2023 | 4 | As the AIDS crisis intensifies in the early 1990s, homophobia and hate crimes increase, and a serial killer preys on gay men in New York City by infiltrating the queer nightlife to identify his victims. |
Trailer | HBO |
| Sowell, Anthony | Unseen | 2016 | 1 | In 2009, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of a known sex offender. With access to the surviving victims, Unseen looks into how the murders of those women went unnoticed for so long. |
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| Sutcliffe, Peter | The Ripper | 2020 | 4 | Documentary which recounts the police investigation into the murders with interviews from living victims, family members of victims and police officers involved in the investigation. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| "The Texas Killing Fields" | Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields | 2021 | 1 | An overgrown field and a stretch of highway connect a series of grisly murders spanning several decades as grieving families search for answers. |
Trailer | Netflix |
| "Toolbox Killers" | The Devil and the Death Penalty | 2012 | 1 | This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by revisiting the crimes, arrest, trial and appeals of Lawrence Bittaker, a convicted serial killer who has been on death row at San Quentin since 1981. |
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| "Toolbox Killers" | The Toolbox Killer | 2021 | 1 | Documentary about two American serial killers and rapists who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed five teenage girls in Southern California over a period of five months in 1979. |
Trailer | Peacock |
| Wuornos, Aileen | Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer | 1992 | 1 | Nick Broomfield's first documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos. 1992, Florida, USA. Aileen Wuornos is claimed to be the world's first female serial killer. |
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| Wuornos, Aileen | Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer | 2003 | 1 | Nick Broomfield's second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row. |
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| Yoo Young-chul | The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea | 2021 | 3 | Documentary that follows a serial killer who came to light as a psychopath to the Korean public in 2004. |
Netflix | |
| "Zodiac Killer" | This Is the Zodiac Speaking | 2008 | 1 | This documentary examines the crimes of the Zodiac killer through the eyes of the individuals who worked on the investigation. New experts look through the intriguing writings to the press. |
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| "Zodiac Killer" | The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer | 2017 | 5 | LAPD homicide detective Sal LaBarbera and a team of master codebreakers use their unrivaled expertise to bring the most mysterious serial killer in American history into the light. |
Trailer | History Channel |
Multi-Subject TV Shows[]
- Most Evil on IMDb (2006 — 2015) (Most Evil at Wikipedia)
- The Killer in My Family on IMDb (2019 — 2024)
- The Murderer and Me on IMDb (2021)
- Catching Killers on IMDb (2021 — ) (Catching Killers at Wikipedia)
- Overlooked Serial Killer[2]
Notes[]
- ↑ Also known as: Feast of the Assumption: The Otero Family Murders.
References[]
- ↑ Rick Porter (June 6, 2023). MGM+ Lands Docuseries on Killer Who Inspired ‘Psycho,’ ‘Silence of the Lambs’. The Hollywood Reporter.
- ↑ Nick Vivarelli (Oct 12, 2023). Sky Italia Launches ‘Overlooked Serial Killer’ Docuseries Following Hit Podcast About Case Connecting Italy and U.K. (EXCLUSIVE). Variety.