America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil

A 10-part journey into darkness

6.0(2)|2009-01-27|1 seasons, 10 episodes

DocumentaryCrime

Overview

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.

Episodes

Season 1(10)

S1E1 · 2009-01-27 · 45m

The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper

Episode 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.

S1E2 · 2009-02-03 · 45m

Killers Without Conscience

This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).

S1E3 · 2009-02-10 · 45m

The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You

A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.

S1E4 · 2009-02-17 · 45m

Serial Killing Begins Again

The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer

S1E5 · 2009-02-24 · 45m

Men Who Like to Kill

Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy

S1E6 · 2009-03-03 · 45m

Homosexual Serial Killers

Some 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.

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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