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Revisiting some of the most dangerous killers in modern history to see which psychopathic traits they exhibited.
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Revisiting some of the most dangerous killers in modern history to see which psychopathic traits they exhibited.
A small SD card contains horrifying images and videos of a woman's murder; when someone gives it to Anchorage police, detectives come face-to-face with a sexual psychopath who has a shocking tale to tell.
An emotional 911 call comes in from a young man claiming he just found his mother and dog murdered in their home; once his interview with detectives begins, they uncover a parasitic psychopath who will do anything to get away with the crime.
Police charge a son and his wife with the murder of his father until a tip comes from a woman claiming her ex-husband and his friend admitted to the brutal killing; detectives interview the new suspects and uncover a pair of cold-blooded psychopaths.
Between 1991 and 2001, several violent sexual assaults occur along I-85 between Wyoming and Utah; the cases remain cold until almost two decades later, when advancements in DNA technology lead detectives straight to a psychopathic sexual predator.
A gruesome discovery in a Florida landfill reveals two young psychopathic parents with parasitic tendencies and a disturbing plan for a double murder.
Police find a woman shot to death in a car, and the prime suspect is her dangerous psychopathic boyfriend.
When officers arrive at a suburban home regarding a felonious assault, they find a bloodied and lifeless woman in her minivan. Detectives later interview her estranged husband, revealing a rage-filled psychopath with a revenge fantasy inspired by a movie.
When detectives find an elderly woman dead after someone stuffs her in her own closet, they know they are not dealing with a normal killer. Instead, they discover the culprit is a troubled teenager with a fantasy to rape and kill.
When a psychopathic husband kills his young wife and leaves her decapitated head in a bathtub, detectives question him about the crime; when he offers little in the interview, they realize they are confronting a malingering psychopath with control issues.
Weeks after Christmas, police find a wife and her three young children decomposing in their beds, while her husband is alive yet despondent; what appears to be a mass suicide later proves to be a murder orchestrated by a psychopathic family annihilator.
When a mother, covered in blood and holding a barely breathing newborn, arrives at the hospital, medical staff uncover a faked birth. When investigators interview the woman, they soon realize they are dealing with a violent, infant-stealing psychopath.
When a grandmother vanishes, her grandson spins a twisted narrative about her demise and the disturbing location of her body inside a freezer; it doesn't take long for detectives to uncover the killer responsible, a parasitic psychopath.
A killer brutally murders an elderly couple, and detectives quickly focus on their 17-year-old grandson who lives with them; when they finally capture him, they uncover a charismatic young psychopath with a hunger for fast food and revenge.
When a young woman vanishes, it doesn't take long for detectives to zero in on her estranged husband; when questioned, he appears eerily calm and casual, but what they soon reveal is an impulsive and rage-driven psychopath who cannot tolerate rejection.
When motorists discover the bodies of a man and woman along I-85, detectives uncover a psychopath with a penchant for guns and violent fantasies.
After a mother of three mysteriously vanishes following a night out on the town, investigators uncover a sexual psychopath's nightmarish desires; days later, they discover her body in her own septic tank, revealing how callous the murderer is.
When a 15-year-old Florida girl runs away with her troubled boyfriend, someone brutally murders a 66-year-old disabled man miles away in his home; upon their apprehension, police discover the young couple are, in fact, thrill-seeking murderers.
When a disturbed brother slaughters three generations of a family, he quickly confesses and continues by confessing to a ten-year-old cold case; detectives uncover a narcissistic psychopath with parasitic tendencies whose one goal is to return to prison.
Detectives find a woman partially clothed and strangled to death in a wooded ditch in Florida; with no leads or suspects, her case goes cold; a surprise confession almost ten years later exposes a deviant sexual psychopath with a murderous fantasy.
Experts look at a subset of psychopaths who are motivated by their heightened sexual urges and fantasies; this subset of offenders doesn't just enact physical violence but sexual violence toward their victims and is known as the sexual psychopath.
Police first arrest a man for discharging a firearm and soon discover dead bodies inside his apartment; detectives try to make sense of the bloody crime scene and a psychopath willing to murder those closest to him.
An early morning fire inside an apartment complex soon reveals something worse, the dead bodies of a young woman and an infant boy; detectives find a psychopath who appears polite and gentle, then later as a pawn of imagined demons.
After the shooting deaths of father, mother, and two adolescent boys in their suburban Baltimore home, investigators realize it's not a robbery gone wrong but rather the execution of a loving family, done by a callous psychopathic killer.
A killer guns down a 46-year-old woman, and detectives discover that a fleeing Sheriff's Deputy is the assailant; less than 48 hours later, they arrest him and reveal an unrepentant psychopath capable of executing the love of his life in cold blood.
When a young mother goes missing, her husband joins the search; police discover her dismembered body in a stack of bins; detectives find her husband to be a typical suburban dad, but learn a murderous psychopath lurks within.
A vehicle plows down a 75-year-old military veteran on a country road in an apparent hit-and-run; when a young man confesses to the crime, detectives quickly learn they've encountered a psychopath with an intense desire to thrill kill.
Police search for a killer who guns down a man in a parking lot.
A psychopathic killer confesses decades after the murders of three women.
Authorities grow concerned when a 25-year-old woman reports her 50-year-old father and 6-year-old daughter are missing; police discover their dead bodies and uncover the truth: she is a psychotic killer.
Police engage in a massive manhunt to find a killer on a murder spree of revenge, taking the lives of his girlfriend, cousin, and a man he considers a father figure; once captured, he proclaims that he simply wants to be heard.
When being interviewed by police, psychopaths often use manipulation to thwart the investigation; experts explore the anatomy of the key manipulative tactics of psychopaths and how they try to utilize them for their own sinister gain.
After the murder of a successful executive one night in Connecticut, her case goes cold; four years later, a troubled man appears, ready to confess; investigators uncover this was no ordinary murder and that he's an impulsive psychopath.
A teenage girl goes missing just before Christmas; detectives obtain a secret recording that uncovers an evil plot by a psychopath willing to do whatever it takes to satisfy their wicked needs and evil desires.
A husband becomes the prime suspect when his wife goes missing as police discovers his checkered past; lacking a body or evidence of foul play, detectives hope to gain a confession from a man they realize might be a cold-blooded psychopath.
A young man's confession to participating in a plot to murder another teenager stuns police in a small Florida town; detectives uncover a plot involving a manipulative ex-girlfriend and a young psychopath with the desire to kill.
Police catch a break on three cold case murders when emerging DNA technology makes a stunning match, a 73-year-old man who's been in prison since 1993; detectives interrogate the frail man whose harmless façade is hiding a murderous psychopath.
Terror rocks an Ohio town when a mother, her two kids and a close friend vanish; investigators track down the prime suspect and uncover a house of horrors; detectives find themselves dealing with a psychopath with a bizarre obsession.
A teenage couple goes on the run after an attack on the boy's sister; a search leads officers to the girl's grandparents' home, where they find the bodies of the elderly couple and uncover a fantasy killing concocted by the psychopathic lovers.
When a loving husband turns up murdered in his Loveland, Ohio home, the prime suspect is his troubled wife, who claims to have little recollection; detectives uncover her story is nothing but the manipulation of a vindictive person.
After the murder of a rural Virginia couple and the disappearance of their adult son, detectives wonder who could have acted with such rage; when the son resurfaces, investigators come face to face with a true psychopath.
The idea that a child may possess the same wicked traits found in the most sadistic killers is every parent's worst nightmare; experts examine the early warning signs in psychopathic killers apprehended as teens and young adults.
Six months pregnant Martine Bernard's family reports her missing; days later, her father vanishes as well; when officers interview Martine's husband, Cassandritz Blanc, they find a calculating psychopath willing to do anything to cover his tracks.
A 33-year-old oil rig worker calls 911 to report his girlfriend missing; he seems to be helping in the time-critical hunt to find her; a failed polygraph test leads detectives to suspect this seemingly caring boyfriend is a psychopath.
Hikers in Portland discover the badly decomposed body of a raped and strangled young girl; A month later, another woman turns up brutally murdered in same fashion; the prime suspect is a homeless drifter harboring dark sexual fantasies.
After meeting with her divorce attorney and estranged husband, a devoted mother of three vanishes into air; as friends and family desperately try to locate her, the husband instead plays a psychopathic game of cat and mouse with investigators.
A man finds his family slaughtered in their West Virginia home; the oldest son, 16-year-old Gavin Smith, is missing; he turns up hiding at his girlfriend's.
A 19-year-old woman vanishes, and the suspect is a former high school classmate with whom she had been communicating days earlier. The family is weary, for the suspect has a notorious past filled with sexual deviancy and homicidal urges toward women.
Weeks after an 18-year-old is reported missing by a friend, his clothes are found burned in a trash can behind a suburban house; witnesses lead investigators to a young man with a violent past; they quickly discover he had an accomplice.
On a quiet winter night, a mother finds her 22-year-old son horrifically dismembered in her basement. The lone suspect is the victim's ex-girlfriend, who is at her home in an emotionless state, with blood on her hands.
Experts delve into chilling cases of "family annihilators" - psychopaths who view spouses, children, siblings, and parents not as beloved people but simply as potential victims.
A mother awakes to find her two sons with their throats cut; their aunt's boyfriend confesses to his mother, and she wears a wire to capture her son; as he admits his guilt, it's clear how a psychopathic rage led to violence.
A road rage incident turns deadly as an elderly man is beaten to death by a teenager who claims he was acting in self-defense; detectives not only find holes in his story but uncover that he is a remorseless and manipulative psychopath.
A concerned mother reports her 24-year-old son missing, as he fell under the spell of a 47-year-old widowed woman; detectives soon realize she's a sexual psychopath who has claimed the lives of more than one admirer.
In rural Missouri, police receive a haunting call from a 50-year-old man claiming he shot three people inside his home. Detectives uncover that this impulsive massacre has a motive and that the killer is a psychopath obsessed with control.
A 911 operator receives a distressing call from a man repeatedly claiming that he just stabbed and killed two people. Police quickly discover that not only is the call genuine but that the caller is a violent and unpredictable psychopath.
A teenager is arrested after his mother finds the body parts of a missing drifter in his bedroom; while in custody, police uncover that the suspect is a psychopath who idolizes serial killers.
Operators receive a call from a teenager claiming he stabbed his parents to death; unsure if the call is a Halloween prank, police race to the scene and discover it is no hoax and that the caller is a psychopath.
A graduate student calls 911 to say she just shot her boyfriend, a 29-year-old attorney, in self-defense; police soon discover that her story doesn't add up and realize they are face-to-face with a psychopath.
Experts examine unique characteristics of female psychopathic killers, whether they are as rare as people imagine, and their crimes.
Missing persons report leads police to a career criminal and his girlfriend; they uncover a twisted world of illicit schemes, macabre fantasies, and a puppet master manipulating young women down a dark path of sex, drugs and exploitation.
A New Hampshire town reels after police arrest four teenagers for robbing and murdering a 42-year-old mother and maiming her 11-year-old daughter; detectives uncover two suspects with the characteristics of sadistic psychopaths.
Police find a 17-year-old female's dead body in a ditch with two gunshot wounds; the investigation centers on two friends of the victim claiming her death was an accident, but detectives uncover it was a thrill kill carried out by evil psychopaths.
A killer shoots a young woman dead in her boyfriend's Orlando, Fla., apartment; hours later, he turns up in a hospital bed 500 miles away with a gunshot wound and a bizarre story that unravels to reveal he's a lying, callous psychopath.
A man calls 911 with his dying breath, and first responders arrive to find him brutally murdered and stabbed 59 times; when detectives question his best friend, they uncover a tangled story of deception and jealousy that ends in psychopathic rage.
A gunman shoots a man dead as he runs along a country road, and first responders find a witness standing next to the body with a strange story to tell; detectives unravel the lies of a callous psychopath who takes out his frustrations in bloodshed.
Investigators search a farm for a missing man and find a human leg bone on the property; the owner, Susan Monica, admits that her pigs ate her tenant alive, and he's not the only victim; Monica despises humans but loves her pigs.
A racially motivated serial killer on death row who targeted civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and pornography publisher Larry Flynt confesses to additional unsolved murders with the help of a shrewd female prosecutor.
A woman finds her elderly brother dead in his bedroom with his throat slashed; uncovering the truth poses a challenge for detectives, as the individual responsible for killing him is a manipulative psychopath who craftily deflects blame.
A look inside the mind of psychopaths to discover when common pervasive traits deviate into violence, such as grandiosity, sadism, superficial charm, manipulation, lack of empathy and having a parasitic lifestyle.
When a priest from Florida goes missing, police focus on a troubled ex-convict whom he helped support; through multiple interrogations, a psychopathic killer reveals details of a twisted vengeance that escalates to a chilling murder.
When Omaha, Neb., police officers arrest the driver of a stolen van, he shocks detectives by giving an unsolicited confession to a gruesome murder, and it is only the first of many chilling revelations.
When a beloved elderly couple disappears on a Sunday afternoon, one person knows their battered bodies lie dead at the bottom of a well; that man is the couple's son, who lives off his parents' charity yet takes pleasure in murdering them.
Behind a church lies a dismembered body burned beyond recognition; investigators identify the victim and receive a tip the suspect is female; a police interview reveals her as the most remorseless psychopathic killer they've ever seen.
A man confesses to accidentally killing his best friend while cleaning his gun; during his interrogation, he stuns police by revealing that he's behind a long trail of bloodshed and is a serial killer who seems to consider himself an angel of mercy.
After his conviction for the brutal slaying of his wife, a Florida inmate lays claim to another unsolved murder 17 years prior, revealing that he's a manipulative psychopath with a history of violence and an unquenchable thirst for revenge.
Searchers for a missing woman find her brutally beaten body in a dilapidated house near her home; the case goes cold until a local teen steps forward to reveal that he's the killer.
A crash on a North Dakota highway leaves one passenger dead but the driver unscathed; when investigators see that the victim has stab wounds, they know there was foul play; detectives interrogate the driver.
A mother who calls 911 to report her 32-year-old son is threatening her turns up dead in her home; he becomes the only suspect, and when he turns himself in, his pragmatic retelling of the slaying isn't just cold-hearted, it's psychopathic.
A young woman calls 911 because her boyfriend is missing and there is a pool of blood in their apartment; evidence leads investigators to the couple's roommate, a manipulative psychopath hell-bent on revenge, along with his loyal best friend.
Police respond to the site of a fiery car crash alongside a Michigan highway, where they discover the badly burned body of a young woman; investigators quickly realize this is no accident but a cold-blooded murder plot.
A woman dies in a brutal stabbing at home; police quickly locate the prime suspect, her ex-boyfriend Antoine Bynum; in his interrogation, he appears to have a psychotic episode until detectives discover it's merely the ruse of a deranged psychopath.
Burlington Police get a call that a man has killed his girlfriend; they arrive at the home to find the man calm while his girlfriend's body lies nearby; he explains that he has other victims, revealing a history of psychopathic sexual deviancy.
A failed actor returns home, ready to take out his rage on the weakest members of society; after killing four people, a chance encounter with police leads to his downfall; the interrogation room becomes the stage for this killer's final performance.
A longtime nurse confesses to helping end the lives of numerous elderly patients at multiple nursing homes; detectives discover this is no angel of mercy; behind her unsuspecting persona lies a ruthless psychopath.
First responders arrive at a home in Ontario, where a mother leads officers to the dead bodies of her two children; an investigation yields a twisted truth: this tragedy isn't an accident but a carefully crafted killing by a vengeful psychopath.
The Tourniquet Killer terrorizes young girls across Houston, Texas, and when advances in DNA finally lead to his arrest, this psychopath eagerly confesses to multiple murders; weeks before his execution, he grants one interview in the spotlight.
A man crashes into the back of a woman's vehicle; officers respond to the scene only to find her car abandoned; witnesses point to the other driver, and detectives are horrified to discover a sadistic psychopath who admits to murder.
An officer responds to a 911 call placed by a robber on the lam who feels compelled to turn himself in; when the officer arrives at the scene, the criminal confesses to much more than breaking and entering.
When a graduate student suddenly goes missing, the family he's staying with immediately contacts police; days later, a horrific discovery forces investigators to face a rare kind of monster.
Police respond to a 911 call to find a father dead in his home with more than 15 gunshot wounds.
The naked and mutilated body of a mother turns up at the bottom of a ravine in Baton Rouge, La.; when tire tracks lead investigators to a suspect, they encounter an undetected serial killer who confesses to butchering eight women over a decade.
A young woman makes a frantic 911 call about a brutal home invasion, which results in the shooting of her mother and father; as police interview her, they uncover a secret double life and an elaborate web of lies spun by a maniacal psychopath.
A lone gunman shoots a young man and woman on their way home from the gym where they work; while interrogating a suspect, detectives learn that this is no random attack but the twisted plan of a deranged psychopathic stalker.
While being questioned in the abduction of an Anchorage barista, a young local businessman starts negotiating with investigators to reveal details of a depraved secret life as one of America's most meticulous and psychopathic serial killers.
After coming home to find her parents on the floor bleeding, a woman's younger brother claims their father shot their mother before turning the gun on himself.
A college student disappears at the start of his freshman year without a trace, leaving his family and his girlfriend reeling; when authorities look to his best friend for answers, they uncover a love triangle gone wrong.
A woman's body is found strangled and partially nude off the side of a Connecticut country road; investigators apprehend a suspect in her murder, only to discover he's a prolific serial killer, responsible for the rape and the murder of eight women.
A troubled 29-year-old son is kicked out of his parents' house after spending the family fortune on a webcam model; his mother, father and brother are found murdered, the young man insists he's innocent.
A former escort hires a hit man to kill her husband; she thinks she's committed the perfect crime when officers notify her that he is dead; little does she know that the police have been watching and recording her every move.
A death row inmate grants an interview just weeks prior to his execution; bodies of a man's family members are discovered in the ashes of a house fire, and he is the main suspect in the murders.
A Colorado woman is missing, and her roommate may be a rare female psychopath and a skilled manipulator.
A girl disappears after school and her last known steps are caught on surveillance cameras; these cameras lead investigators to two dark minds that carefully plotted one of the most sinister, depraved crimes imaginable.
Police question a man in the disappearance of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her young son; they discover he has a terrifying capacity for violence.
A charming 20-year-old wants to help authorities with a murder investigation; he claims to have met one of the three victims and says he has no knowledge of the crime, but detectives suspect otherwise.
An unapologetic 14-year-old boy confesses to the murder of his best friend; twelve years later, he is back in court with a chance at a reduced sentence.
Residents of a quaint village are terrified when a local innkeeper and two others are found brutally murdered; detectives must follow the depraved killer into the woods at night.
A 50-year-old woman is found dead in her home, and all that's left behind is a piece of paper that has "chase me" written on it; when detectives uncover the killer, they discover they have come face-to-face with a remorseless psychopath.