Born To Kill? (2005) (166 views, 7 replies)

"Criminal experts explore the formative years of serial killers to attempt to find out if they were born killers or are a creation of their environment."

I know it's an old TV series but I was hoping to get the episodes for both Seasons 1 and 2.

Season 1 episodes
S1 E1 · Fred West
Oct 13, 2005
A profile of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, looking for insights into his horrific behaviour and why Fred West, owner of 25 Cromwell Street turned to murder.

S1 E2 · Dr. Harold Shipman
Oct 20, 2005
Clues to serial killer doctor Harold Shipman's crimes could be found in his background. After being convicted of the murders of 15 elderly patients, it is believe the true number of victims could be as high as 275.

S1 E3 · Dahmer
Oct 27, 2005
Jeffrey Dahmer carries out the rape and murder of 17 men and boys, earning the nickname `the Milwaukee Cannibal' due to his reputation for eating parts of his victims.

S1 E4 · Myra Hindley
Nov 3, 2005
... An insight into Britain's most infamous female serial killer, Myra Hindley. Did something cause her to commit her crimes, or was she born to kill?

S1 E5 · The Washington Snipers
Nov 10, 2005
Criminal experts explore the personal life of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, two shooters who terrorised the American capital with random fatal shootings over a three week period.

S1 E6 · Ivan Milat
Nov 17, 2005
A group of criminal experts explore the youth and mind of Australia's worst solo serial killer, who murdered numerous backpackers between Sydney and Canberra during the 1990s.
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Season 2 episodes

S2 E1 · Ted Bundy
Feb 20, 2011
A group of criminal experts explore the crimes of Ted Bundy who is believed to have sexually assaulted and murdered up to 100 young women.

S2 E2 · John Wayne Gacy
Feb 27, 2011
Criminal experts, journalists, and members of the police force explore the crimes of John Wayne Gacy, who murdered more than 30 young men while masquerading as an upstanding member of his local community.

S2 E3 · Richard Trenton Chase
Mar 6, 2011
Dubbed the `Vampire of Sacremento', Richard Chase murdered six people in the late 70s, engaging in necrophilia with his victims, and then bathing in their blood or eating their internal organs.

S2 E4 · Charles Starkweather
Mar 6, 2011
Gripping documentary examining the vicious crimes of Charles Starkweather, an American spree killer who murdered 11 people in the late 50s during a deadly road trip with his young lover.

S2 E5 · Albert De Salvo
Mar 6, 2011
A gripping study of the crimes of the Boston strangler. One of the most famous serial killers in history, he admitted to 13 murders, although many still believe his confession was false.
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S2 E6 · Aileen Wuornos
Mar 6, 2011
Examining the `Highway Hooker', a female serial killer and prostitute sentenced to death by lethal injection for the killing of six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990.
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Season 3 episodes

S3 E1 · Pee Wee Gaskins
Jan 29, 2012
Donald `Pee Wee' Gaskins stood at 5 feet and 4 inches tall, a fact which led to him being a target for physical and sexual abuse. He claimed to have killed up to 90 people, and his most spectacular murder was a remote-control bombing of a fellow prisoner. What created this psychopath and sexual sadist?

S3 E2 · Episode 2
Feb 5, 2012
A look at the life and terrible crimes of Gary Ridgway. One of the US's most prolific serial killers, he had cops baffled for 20 years and killed so many women he lost count of his victims.

S3 E3 · Edmund Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer
Feb 12, 2012
Disturbing killer Edmund Kemper began by murdering his grandparents, before going on to kill and dismember six college girls, his mother and her friend.

S3 E4 · Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
Feb 19, 2012
Criminal experts explore the crimes of Satanic serial killer Richard Ramirez, who terrorised Los Angles and San Francisco for a whole year and killed 13 people.
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S3 E5 · The Kindly Killer: Dennis Nilsen
Feb 26, 2012
When Dennis Nilsen is arrested for murder in London, he calmly tells police he has killed at least 15 young men.

S3 E6 · David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam
Feb 26, 2012
The self-styled Son of Sam terrorised New York from July 1976 until August 1977, shooting women and couples in parked cars under instruction, he maintained, from the Devil possessing a neighbourhood dog.

S3 E7 · Dennis Nilsen
Mar 4, 2012
A look at British killer Dennis Nilsen who was known to dress and watch TV with his victims' corpses. Having crammed human remains into his drains, his crimes were discovered by Dyno-Rod.
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Season 4 episodes

S4 E1 · Beverley Allitt
Aug 9, 2012
Experts in the field of criminology and psychology explore the crimes of English nurse Beverley Allitt, who murdered and abused children in her care.

S4 E2 · Colin Ireland
Aug 21, 2012
In 1993, loner and lifelong under-achiever, Colin Ireland declared a startling New Year's resolution to a shocked newspaper journalist. He was going to become a serial killer. Over the next six months Ireland lured five gay men to their deaths. As the media whipped up a frenzy of fear proclaiming that a `Gay Slayer' is loose on the streets of London, Ireland continued to taunt the detectives trying to catch him.

S4 E3 · The Manson Family
Oct 2, 2012
What made Charles Manson the man he was? Why did so many young people fall under his spell? And how was he able to so easily convince them to slaughter innocent people without conscience? This programme asks the detectives, attorneys and psychiatrists that tried to unravel the mystery, plus former members of the cult, were Manson and his `family' born to kill?
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S4 E4 · The Hollywood Hillside Strangler
Oct 9, 2012
Hollywood has always had a dark side, but Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono were perhaps its darkest. Serial killers usually work alone but Bianchi and Buono would defy all the rules. They kidnapped, raped, tortured and snuffed out the lives of 12 innocent young girls. What had led to this extraordinary collaboration in killing?

S4 E5 · The Serial Killing Saviour
Oct 16, 2012
Voted most likely to succeed in high school, Herbert Mullin kills 13 people by the age of 25 and claims that the killings prevented earthquakes in his home state of California.

S4 E6 · BTK: Dennis Rader
Mar 14, 2013
In 1974, the peaceful Mid-West folk of Wichita, Kansas, were rocked to the core by a killer in their midst. Dennis Rader was a church deacon, a scout leader and a local family man. He was also a...
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Season 5 episodes

S5 E1 · The Black Panther Murders
Aug 13, 2013
In the mid-1970s, the north of England was terrorised by a vicious criminal known as the Black Panther. Among hundreds of burglaries and armed robberies, several sub-postmasters were shot dead. Then in January 1975, he abducted, ransomed and killed schoolgirl Lesley Whittle. When the Black Panther was eventually unmasked, his identity was revealed as Donald Neilson, a self-employed jobbing builder and family man who was obsessed with reliving his army life.

S5 E2 · The Devil's Disciple
Aug 20, 2013
Documentary profile of Patrick Mackay, once dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain. In the mid 1970s, London and the south east was gripped by a series of bizarre murders. The last was the most horrific of all - a Catholic priest found floating in a bath of his own blood, bludgeoned to death with an axe. With insights into his childhood and from those who encountered him, experts attempt to unravel if Patrick Mackay was born to kill.
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S5 E3 · The Killer Prophet
Aug 27, 2013
In California in 1970, a doctor and his young family were executed and dumped in the swimming pool of their hilltop home. The killer was a reclusive 24-year-old who believed that he was on a mission from God.

S5 E4 · Cary Stayner
Sep 3, 2013
In 1999, Carole Sund, her 15-year-old daughter Juli and Juli's friend Silvina Pelosso disappeared from Yosemite National Park, California.

S5 E5 · The Butcher Brothers
Sep 10, 2013
In 1979, a violent and unpredictable crime spree rocked the town of Richmond, Virginia. Men, women and children were butchered in their homes and on the streets, and the perpetrators were a gang for whom violence ran in the family.

S5 E6 · Episode 6
Sep 17, 2013
When investigators in Maryland identified cross-dressing eccentric Hadden Clark as the killer of six-year-old Michelle Dorr and Harvard graduate Laura Houghteling, he not only confessed but claimed that he was also responsible for many other deaths.
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Season 6 episodes

S6 E1 · Episode 1
Feb 26, 2014
In 1984, Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog embarked upon a drug-fuelled killing spree that would span 15 years, dumping their victims in the remote rural Californian countryside and down old pioneer wells where they had spent their childhood.

S6 E2 · The Hitchhiker Slayer
Mar 12, 2014
In late 1976 and early 1977, female students at the University of California were terrorised by a grim series of lookalike murders. Acting out a sick fantasy, Thor Christiansen struck while they were hitchhiking.

S6 E3 · Dale Hausner and Sam Dietman
Mar 19, 2014
Between May 2005 and August 2006, Dale and Jeff Hausner, later joined by Samuel Dieteman, turned drive-by shootings into sport, keeping score as they picked off their victims at random and terrorised the residents of Phoenix, Arizona. This film delves into their backgrounds and talks to those who knew the terrible trio in an effort to find out what turned them into killers.

S6 E4 · Doug Clark and Carol Bundy
... Mar 24, 2014
In the summer of 1980, Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy trawled Sunset Strip in Los Angeles looking for prey. Acting out their darkest desires, they left a trail of bloodshed in their wake. What motivated this string of sickening murders?

S6 E5 · The Yorkshire Ripper
Jul 31, 2014
Between 1975 and 1981, the Yorkshire Ripper murdered 13 females and brutally attacked at least seven more in the north of England. When Peter Sutcliffe was eventually captured, his family were stunned.

S6 E6 · Paul Bernado & Karla Homolka
Oct 5, 2014
A young couple from Canada were serial killers capable of severe cruelty. They targeted young women, including a relative of one of the perpetrators, in a series of crimes that would horrify the...
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Season 7 episodes

S7 E1 · Charlene and Gerald Gallego
Jun 24, 2015
A team of criminal experts attempt to profile one of the most horrific and infamous serial killer couples in American history, Charlene and Gerald Gallego.

S7 E2 · Tony Costa: Cape Cod Casanova
Jul 1, 2015
A team of criminal experts profile Tony Costa, who murdered at least four women between 1968 and 1969, and attempted to clear his name with an unpublished novel.

S7 E3 · Richard Cottingham
Jul 8, 2015
A team of criminal experts profile the serial killer known as the Torso Killer, who murdered and dismembered at least six people in New York between 1967 and 1980.

S7 E4 · Cleophus Prince JR `The Clairemont Killer'
Jul 15, 2015
Experts profile serial killer Cleophus Prince Jr., an ex-marine who raped and murdered six women in San Diego County during 1990.

S7 E5 · Robert Napper
Jul 22, 2015
A team of criminal experts profile murderer and rapist Robert Napper, who wreaked terror on South London from 1992 to 1993.
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S7 E6 · Levi Bellfield
Jul 29, 2015
A team of criminal experts profile rapist and serial killer Levi Bellfield who kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered three young women at random.

S7 E7 · John Duffy and David Mulcahy
Aug 5, 2015
A team of criminal experts and psychologists profile childhood friends and serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy who targeted lone women at railway stations in the south-east of England.

S7 E8 · Sean Vincent Gillis
Aug 12, 2015
A team of experts examine the chilling case of Sean Gillis, who stalked, raped and brutally murdered eight women in Louisiana between 1994 and 2003.

S7 E9 · Timothy Spencer
Aug 19, 2015
A team of criminal experts attempt to profile Timothy Wilson-Spencer, who strangled five people in the 1980s and had the first case solved via DNA evidence.

S7 E10 · Fred Waterfield and David Gore
Aug 26, 2015
In the early 1980s, cousins David Alan Gore and Fred Waterfield were on the prowl for pleasure in Vero Beach, Florida, and were responsible for the sexual abuse and murder of six young women.
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Season 8 episodes

S8 E1 · Allan Legere
Aug 3, 2016
A team of criminal experts attempt to profile Canadian career criminal Allan Legere, who wreaked terror upon residents of the Miramichi River valley of New Brunswick in 1989.

S8 E2 · Bill Suff
Aug 10, 2016
Over a six-year period in Riverside County, California, Bill Suff took the lives of at least 12 women while working in the county sheriff's department.

S8 E3 · Charles Albright
Aug 17, 2016
Charles Albright is considered responsible for the brutal murders of three women in Dallas' red light district. Obsessed with taxidermy from a young age, he had a peculiar habit of removing the eyes of his victims.

S8 E4 · Episode 4
Aug 24, 2016
A team of criminal experts attempt to profile Welsh killer and cinema entrepreneur Peter Moore, who brutally murdered four men in 1995.

S8 E5 · Episode 5
Aug 31, 2016
In the 1970s, charming New Jersey resident Robert Reldan abducted and brutally murdered two young women, escaping suspicion for a long time.
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S8 E6 · Trevor Hardy
Sep 7, 2016
Already a criminal in his teens, Manchester murderer Trevor Hardy became increasingly violent later in life and was eventually convicted of the torture and murder of three teenage girls.
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