Serial Killers

Colin Ireland

Colin Ireland is a British serial killer known as the ‘Gay Slayer’ due to the fact that his only victims were gay men.

Archibald Hall a.k.a. Roy Fontaine

Karol Kot

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.

Monster of Florence

Bits of breast were sent in the post by a monster that could carve out the genitals of his victims, but wouldn’t, or couldn’t, kil

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

The Wineville Chicken Murders

Gordon Stewart Northcott was hanged for the murder of four young boys on his chicken ranch.

Steve Wright - The Suffolk Strangler

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

Rosemary West

Rose West: Wife, mother, serial killer.

Robert Pickton

The Canadian pig farmer turned serial killer, preyed on prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside lurin

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.

Peter Manuel

Psychopath Peter Manuel is Scotland's most notorious serial killer, murdering at least eight people in Glasgow in the 1950s.

Peter Kurten: The Vampire of Dusseldorf

When the press discovered that investigators believed that the attacker might be drinking the blood of his victims, he was immorta

Patrick MacKay

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

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.

Levi Bellfield

No witnesses, no forensics and no motive, just how would police bring a serial killer to justice?

Kenneth Bianchi

Follow in the footsteps of the LAPD as they discover that a trail of 10 strangled bodies in the Los Angeles hillsides was not the

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 Haigh

Three murderers who went to any lengths to satisfy their greed.

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

Joanne Dennehy

How did Joanne Dennehy become one of the only women in the UK to receive a whole life prison sentence?

Jeffrey Dahmer

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

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.

The Crossbow Cannibal

How much was Stephen Griffiths influenced by former and fictional serial killers to become the Crossbow Cannibal killer?

Fritz Honka

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

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.

Edmund Kemper: The Co-ed Killer

Any one of ten traits can indicate someone is a serial killer. Edmund Kemper has them all.

Donald Neilson: The Black Panther

Discover the horrendous crimes of the Black Panther - a man who murdered three British postmasters and kidnapped a 17-year-old gir

Donald ‘Pee Wee’ Gaskins

He killed to prove himself bigger than his nickname.