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THE GRIM SLEEPER - There he was sitting emotionless and quiet for the past six years in a Los Angeles courtroom, without ever uttering a word in his defense. Lonnie Franklin Jr. also didn’t have much of a reaction when he was sentenced to death for the murders of a teenage girl and nine women.
Better known by his moniker, Grim Sleeper, a name given to him by the L.A. Weekly in 2008, Lonnie Franklin Jr preyed on drug addicts and prostitutes in a crime spree dating back three decades in Los Angeles. One of the longest operating serial killers in history, the Grim Sleeper targeted poor black women from 1985 until 1988. The killings stopped abruptly and no one was apprehended by the police...Until he began again.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BIANCA CARRASCO - Before twenty-nine-year old Bianca Carrasco went missing in San Antonio on May 1, 2016, she was overwhelmed by the strain of her unhappy marriage. While Bianca’s family said she was trying hard to laugh through her tears, it was clear to see that things between the mother of three and her forty-year old husband, Joe Daniel, were becoming increasingly difficult.
“Things were not normal in her life when she went missing – there are a lot of things happening behind the scenes that are troubling,” said Jovanna Burney, Bianca’s older sister, during an interview with Dateline May 23, 2016. “The situation is difficult, because we are trying not to be judgmental."
What happened to Bianca Carrasco?
THE BLACKMAILER - Private investigator Jake Laporte finds himself in a detective novel of his own making when his latest client is targeted for a hit. What's scary is that her husband is a rich and powerful man who is embroiled in an affair with the hottest femme fatale in Hollywood, Sarah Marquez. Jake vows to protect his client but finds himself at odds with the FBI, the Mexican mafia and a surprise figure of his past all of whom want his client dead...even if it means going through Jake. Can he save her life and his own?
KILLER AUNT - Not every killer is a desperate man, a jealous husband or scheming ‘black widow’ woman. Not every murder is a robbery gone wrong, or a sexually driven crime.
Sometimes, killing takes place just because it can. And the perpetrator of this most savage of crimes can sometimes be the person we least expect.
Caroline Grills seemed liked the perfect aunt. But underneath the facade lurked a murderer in waiting.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JAMIE FRALEY - When a person goes missing, the first twelve to twenty-four hours are the most crucial time. If the person is to be found alive, then it is during that first day when the best chance of a happy outcome exists.
More data exists on the make-up of missing people than of ways to trace them. Forty per cent of those in the US are children, and a third of the total are African American citizens. That is a heavy over representation. Only one in under eight people in the US are from this ethnic group.
Jamie Fraley is neither a member of the African American community nor a child, although at the time she went missing, the diminutive 22-year-old blond could have passed for one. Sadly, when she disappeared, she also did not turn up on the first day – nor the first year. In fact, 2018 marks a decade since the young woman was lost.
THE HYPNOTIC - Evelyn Dawson is in therapy..She describes an experience of mental torture and brainwashing at the hands of a real life witch which prompts Dr. Heather Stone to do some investigating on her own. Believing that Evelyn is a victim of a cult, Dr. Stone's investigation leads her to the outer realms of the paranormal where her reasoning and clinical training do her little good as she confronts the forces of darkness.
FATAL ATTRACTIONS - "Fatal Attractions" is a look back at women who killed both their husbands and in some cases the wives of their lovers. Carolyn Warmus was the Glenn Close character come to life as she killed the wife of the man she obsessed over. Samantha Scott was a former Playboy model who was married six times with her fifth and sixth husbands feeling her violent wrath. Sheila Davalloo was a time bomb in waiting, masking a dark anger underneath a sunny facade. Sharon Kinne killed at will, her lovers and their wives. Her full body count is unknown and she remains a fugitive to this day. Annie Monahan predated Kinne, but she too was able to evade the law after killing three husbands.
TILLIE KLIMEK - Ottilie “Tillie” Klimek—born Ottilie Gburek—was a Polish American serial killer who was active in Chicago during the early 1900s. She allegedly murdered between six and 20 individuals by poisoning them with arsenic. Additional victims included her other husbands, a boyfriend, relatives and various neighbors with the help of her cousin Nellie Koulik. She would be known as the first occult serial killer as she would have "premonitions" about her victim's death and make her vision come true.
GAINESVILLE RIPPER - They called him the Gainesville Ripper and he was allegedly the inspiration behind the horror film "Scream." In 1990, Danny Rolling murdered four University of Florida students and a Santa Fe Community College student in their apartments with a United States Marine Corps military-style KBAR knife by stabbing, slicing, mutilating, raping, and even decapitating some of his victims. He had also been linked to and found guilty of killing a family of three in his home town in 1989: a crime for which another person was initially arrested. Rolling was later apprehended in conjunction with a botched grocery store robbery and later pled guilty to all of the grisly murders during jury selection in 1994. After an unsuccessful appeal of his death sentence he was ultimately executed via lethal injection on 25 October 2006.
COLD BLOODED CHARMER - On September 13, 2016, a call came through Ashland, Ohio’s 911 system from a distressed woman, who claimed to be held captive in a home.“I’ve been abducted,” she whispered to the dispatcher. “Please hurry.”
The police who arrived at the scene not only rescued the woman who had placed the call, but also discovered two dead bodies – left there by Shawn Michael Grate, a 40-year-old man who had a reputation for being a “cold-blooded charmer.” Grate also brought police to a third body, located in a wooded area by a ravine in neighboring Richland County. And, as the investigation continued, police uncovered connections to two more murders
SUNSET STRIP KILLER - Carol Bundy teamed up with Doug Clark and would become known as "The Sunset Strip Killers" as they committed a series of murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980. Targeting teenage runaways and prostitutes, Carol helped lure these unsuspecting young women back to her apartment where she would help torture and murder them.
THEY KILLED MOM - A look back at two teenage girls who committed the ultimate act of betrayal, they killed their own mothers.
CUTTING GHOSTS - Shannan is a young woman who just wants to be normal. Problem is that she has been cursed with visions, images of people she doesn't know and the harm that comes to them.
WHEN GIRLS NEXT DOOR KILL - Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier met in a juvenile detention center and had known each other for only a few hours when they decide to kill someone together.
DEADLY BETRAYAL - In June 1998, the residents of Wollongong, a small town on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, were left reeling from a brutal murder.
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HUSBAND KILLER WENDI ANDRIANO - A dying husband needs a devoted wife. But when love runs out, marriage becomes a burden.
On October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano snapped. She had played the part of devoted wife to her terminally ill husband, Joe Andriano, for years, but when the love left their marriage, so did Wendi’s patience for her husband’s eventual demise. Wendi had a plan to help nudge nature along, and when her plan b expired, she took matters directly into her own hands...
SCORECARD KILLER - California in the 1970s. Serial Killer central. Over a hundred bodies turned up, murdered, mutilated, assaulted in less than a decade. And at least two thirds of them were the result of just one man – compulsive killer Randy Kraft.
It is believed that there were at least three serial killers operating in the south western state at that time, possibly more, but Kraft was by far the most prolific.
On the night of May 14th, 1983 Sgt Michael Howard was on late night patrol. He and his partner were cruising the highway when they noticed a Toyota Celica driving erratically. It was trying to stay in its lane, but failing badly.
Sgt Howard put on the patrol car’s red and blue flashing lights, but the Celica did not pull over. It continued on its way for several more minutes before finally easing to one side, so close to the barrier that the passenger door could not be opened. Howard got out of the patrol car and approached the stopped vehicle, and as he did so the driver’s side door opened, and out stepped a moustachioed man in his thirties.
The policeman immediately realised this was going to be no routine case of driving under the influence because the suspect was displaying some very strange behaviour. But had Howard known then what he came to understand later, he would not have been surprised by the oddities with which he was now confronted. Because the man lurching before him was Randy Stephen Kraft. And he was acting under that part of his personality which came to the fore when compulsion became his driving force. A compulsion to kill.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF PATRICIA ADKINS -
‘Kiss, Kiss – love you sis,’ the goodbye that Patti Adkins shared with her sisters. How could they know that, at the end of June 2001, they would hear it from their younger sibling for the final time?
‘You don’t think that the worst is going to happen. You don’t think it will be the last time you speak to your little sister,’ Jeanine Laurie recalled the shock of hearing of Patti’s disappearance. Within just a few hours of receiving the appalling news, Jeanine had no doubt in her own mind that Patti knew her attacker.
‘There’s something wrong here. It just makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.’ Detective Jeff Stiers was involved in Patti’s case. As he and his colleagues dug deeper, it became apparent that Patti’s life was more complicated than it might seem from a distance.
Investigators searched her accounts, found her papers and determined that she had not run off. Friends and relatives could have told them this. They knew that nothing would drag Patti away from her daughter. Seven year old Michaley and her mom shared a bond as strong as any between mother and child.
What happened to Patti Adkins?
BLACK WIDOW BETTY NEUMAR - There’s usually a certain characteristic or gender we think of when we hear the word “serial-killer,” but in the case of Betty Neumar, everything changed. Most times, serial-killers are either caught or found dead before they reach senior status, but in this case, the opposite is true.
Investigators spoke of Betty’s world becoming “a nation-wide web of coincidences.” Because of this figurative web, the media dubbed her the Black Widow. In all her 79 years on this planet, she had been married five times, and each of her relationships had ended with an unexpected death of her husband.
To the outside world, family members who are unconvinced of Betty’s involvement in the murders and deaths of her husbands call her a “Bee – a friendly woman who operated beauty shops, attended church, and raised money for charity.” Other family members saw a different side of Betty; an uglier side of fist fights at family gatherings, use of vulgar language and demeaning relatives, her two-faced personality where she would put on a show for the public eye, and her notoriety for being an exceedingly greedy woman whose only ambitions in live revolved around having and spending as much money as possible.
WHO KILLED GEORGETTE BAUERDORF - Georgette was a party girl and heiress, destined to inherit a wealthy oil company...She settled in Los Angeles looking for fun and to make new friends. Some – perhaps many – of the men passing through Los Angeles were suffering. Their futures were uncertain. A more mature and street wise girl might have put up barriers, looked out for warning signs. Georgette was not that kind of girl. Friends say that she took precautions regarding her safety, but we know she was as happy to dance with and give lifts to strangers just she would with long-time friends...she had an innocent view of the world...That innocence may well have been a factor in the crime that left her raped and strangled to death, which took place in the early hours of one Fall morning.
THE NOOSE - Kurt and Katie are young lovers away from home. They stop at a gas station where Katie can use the restroom. Kurt waits and waits...until he realizes that his girlfriend is missing. Police are called and Katie is declared a missing person with foul play suspected....Kurt grieves for a year until he develops a rapport with Katie's best friend Erin. The physical attraction is there but Kurt begins to feel that something is off about Erin. Kurt then receives an online message from someone that has seen Katie. The details are too descriptive for it to be a prank. Then other occurrence take place...Gifts that he has given Katie in the past begin showing up around the house and in his mail. What exactly is going on? Is Katie still alive?
VAMPIRE MOMENTS - Christina is trying to come to terms with a childhood memory of her single mother being attacked and killed by a vampire. Dr. Lowe tries in vain to convince her that her mother's death was the work of a serial killer and that her dreams are just manifestations of coping...Christina eventually makes progress until she receives word that her mother's killer has escaped...and is now coming after her.
SERIAL KILLER PETER SUTCLIFFE - The Yorkshire Ripper was- is- perhaps the most famous British serial killer, aside from his Victorian namesake. His crimes gripped the nation over a five year period, starting in 1975. But behind the media image created for him was a man called Peter Sutcliffe, a normal man from the accounts of all who knew him. He first worked as a gravedigger, before moving on to regular jobs as a salesman, a factory worker, and finally an HGV driver. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Sutcliffe’s story is one of inept policing, media frenzy and unrelenting brutality- and insanity. When initially apprehended, Sutcliffe claimed that he had been ordered to murder prostitutes by no less an authority than God himself. Because of his string of crimes, Sutcliffe has been imprisoned for almost the entirety of his adult life. He has no chance of ever being released.
BLOODTHIRSTY - Two vampire tales...Teenage Vampire - Sammy has been picked on her whole life. But a strange young man moves in next door and befriends her. He witnesses her daily humiliations and soon her enemies start disappearing...suspicious that he is the cause behind the murders, she begins following him around at night and discovers that he's a vampire.
EVIL WITCHES - A look back at two serial killers who blamed their dabblings in the occult for their behavior, Suzan Carson and Marlene Olive.
GIRL KILLERS - Three harrowing tales of three teenage girls who left behind a trail of murder; Alyssa Bustamante, Tylar Witt and Meinda Loveless
FRANKENSTEIN'S SOLDIER (HORROR)- Nick is a former Marine who became a serial killer during his tenure in Afghanistan.
MY SERIAL KILLER LOVER (HORROR)- Liz fantasizes about Axel, a local serial killer whose crimes she has read about for years.
THE ORLANDO SHOOTER - Omar Mateen, a young American man walked into a gay nightclub named Pulse in Orlando, where he opened fire on the crowd.
KELLY COCHRAN.KILLER. - Kelly Marie Cochran is undoubtedly a name that will be marked by history. On May 16, 2018, she was sentenced to 65 years in prison for the murder of her husband, Jason Thad Cochran, age 27, just one year after her life sentence for the murder of Christopher Karl Regan. Now the center of the Investigation Discovery documentary “Dead North,” Kelly Cochran, age 34, has been accused of crimes beyond those sustaining her two sentences, including cannibalism and several other murders. According to Kelly’s brother, Colton Gaboyan, Kelly might be responsible for the death of nine other victims across the states of Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, and Minnesota. With the potential body count of eleven, Investigation Discovery has pointed out that Kelly may be “one of the most prolific female serial killers…of modern American crime.” While Kelly is free to confess to these crimes without fear of incurring further charges, she has yet to respond to the accusations of cannibalism or to provide information on her other victims (though she has repeatedly claimed that there are indeed others). Now with the dismissal of primary investigator and Iron River Police Chief, Laura Frizzo, who had continued investigations into the possibility of Kelly’s additional casualties, the case has run cold.
SEEING GHOSTS - Josephine can't stop drinking. She also can't stay out of the clutches of the law. The judge orders her for a stay stay at the Hanover House, a long abandoned building rumored to have been haunted but has now been transformed into a halfway house for recovering addicts. Josephine then discovers that her new home was once home to one of America's most prolific serial killers...whose ghost is believed to be roaming the halls of Hanover.
JOE THE CANNIBAL - Joe Metheny was a serial killer active in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1990s. He claimed that he had killed up to ten victims. However, he was convicted of only two cases of murder and one case of kidnapping. He mostly preyed on young white prostitutes who like himself, struggled with drug addiction. The most bizarre thing about him was the fact that he made burgers out of the flesh of some of his victims. He then sold these burgers to unsuspecting customers at a barbecue stand he opened by the side of the road. Because of this, he was given the nickname “The Cannibal”.
This is his story.
CONTRACT KILLER TERESA LEWIS - Teresa Lewis used a combination of sex and money to manipulate two men into killing both her husband and stepson in order to gain gain $250,000 in a life insurance scheme...After her husband and stepson were hit with multiple shotgun blasts in their beds, Teresa stood and waited in the kitchen of the family. As her husband was dying, she took his wallet, split the money inside it with the gunmen, and then waited 45 minutes to call for help.
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