Notorious Figures

Archibald Hall a.k.a. Roy Fontaine

Dale Cregan

Cregan was responsible for the worst police killing in a generation.

Jack Roland Murphy: Murph the Surf

Discover how 22 gems were stolen from New York City's Museum of Natural History in October 1964 and how, within 48 hours, inf

Albert Johnson Walker

He fled Canada for the UK and proceeded to lie, steal and murder his way through British society.

Michel Fourniret: Ogres of the Ardennes

Fourniret liked to go for drives with his wife by his side and with their baby son safely in the back of their van.

Angus Sinclair

It took four decades and a law change to catch possibly Scotland’s worst serial killer...

Anthony Hardy: The Camden Ripper

Anthony Hardy starts 2003 with allegations of assaults and rapes against him; he ends the year as a triple murderer who faces endi

Ted Bundy

The charming monster who confessed to killing 36 women during a four-year reign of terror in the US.

Steve Wright - The Suffolk Strangler

Steve Wright, dubbed the Suffolk Strangler by the media, murdered five women in Ipswich in 2006.

Sam Giancana

The ultimate Godfather, his position in the history of organised crime spans the rise and fall of the Mafia from a national syndic

Sally Anne Bowman

The brutal murder of a young girl

Rosemary West

Rose West: Wife, mother, serial killer.

Ronnie and Reggie Kray

Charting the remarkable rise and ultimate demise of London’s infamous gangland mobsters, the Kray twins.

Richard Speck

An investigation into whether alcoholic ex-marine Richard Speck really did rape and murder eight nurses after a drunken night out

Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker

During a two year rampage, a sadistic serial killer broke into Californian homes - raping, mutilating and torturing his victims.

Peter Tobin

After he raped and killed, Peter Tobin sometimes sought sanctuary in religious groups.

Patrick MacKay

Patrick Mackay is a psychopathic killer who is thought to have murdered at least 11 people, including a priest.

Pablo Escobar

Notoriously violent, powerful and ruthless, Pablo Escobar ruled the Colombian cocaine trade for two decades, until his death in a

Myra Hindley

An insight into Britain's most infamous female serial killer.

Moses Sithole: South Africa's Worst Serial Killer

South Africa's worst serial killer was found guilty in 1997 of 38 murders and 40 rapes.

Mickey Cohen

If ever there was a true gangster thug straight out of a Hollywood B-movie, it would be Meyer “Mickey” Cohen.

Michael Ross

Black Watch sergeant and war hero, Michael Ross, kept a dark secret for 14 years.

John Francis Duffy

During the late 1980s, the police mounted one of the biggest manhunts in British criminal history in search of 'the Railway R

John Taylor: Killer in the Woods

John Taylor was a man who was outwardly viewed as a ‘regular guy’ but who inwardly harboured a darkness that led to murder.

John Dillinger

John Dillinger has gone down in history as a new-age ‘Robin Hood’, a gangster with charm and style who was more idolised by the pu

John Christie

It seems bizarre that a man obsessed with cleanliness should be found with four dead bodies hidden in his flat and another two in

Jeffrey Dahmer

What drove Jeffrey Dahmer, who did not come from an impoverished, abusive or violent background, to become a serial killer who ind

James Hanratty: The A6 Murder

James Hanratty was hanged for shooting two lovers on a deserted road.

Jack Unterweger: Poet of Death

Austrian Jack Unterweger was jailed for murder but became a literary sensation while in prison.

Ivan Milat

The concluding episode in this investigative series profiles Ivan Milat, the murderer of numerous backpackers in Australia in the

Ian Brady

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley tortured then murdered five children in the mid-60s, burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor.

Fritz Honka

Fritz followed in the footsteps of his father later in life, losing himself to alcohol.

Harold Shipman

This deadly doctor was responsible for the worst murder spree in British history, killing upwards of 260 people.

Beast of Bastille: Guy Georges

Guy Georges was a French rapist and serial killer who preyed on attractive, young, energetic women, whom he assaulted, tortured, r

Gary Ridgway

Everyone from Boy Scouts to the serial killer Ted Bundy tried to find The Green River Killer.

Fred West

A profile of one of the world's most notorious serial killers, looking for insights into his horrific behaviour.