In November 2010, Andrew Rowe, his wife Rose, and their daughter Chantelle were found murdered in their home in Kapunda, South Australia. Jason Alexander Downie was arrested and convicted for the crime, which shocked the local community.
The Hillside Stranglers, later identified as one or two serial killers, terrorized Los Angeles from October 1977 to February 1978. The nickname originated from multiple victims' bodies being found in the city's surrounding hills.
In the late 1970s, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., known as The Hillside Stranglers, murdered ten young women and dumped their naked bodies along embankments.
A California couple's disappearance led to the discovery of an execution scene with 15 shell casings and a modified answering machine message. Investigators linked the crime to synagogue fires and a clinic bombing, using forensic evidence like chicken feathers and newspaper scraps to track an extremist duo amid a multi-city manhunt.
Glyn Dix murdered his landlady and later killed his wife after an argument. Derrick Bird died by suicide following a Cumbria shooting that killed 12 and injured 11. Rival drug gang leaders Paul Massey and Mark Fellows clashed in a fatal shooting. Mark Martin, the 'Sneinton Strangler,' killed three homeless women with accomplices, seeking notoriety.
The Horrifying Way the Manson Family Documented Their Darkest Crimes follows Charles Manson's grandson, Jason Freeman, as he seeks to claim his grandfather's remains and confront the legacy of the Manson Family murders. The documentary explores Freeman's legal battle over Manson's estate, the trade in murderabilia, and interviews with former cult member Diane Lake reflecting on Manson's manipulation and the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
The Horror Crimes of Twisted Child Killer Robert Black profiles Robert Black, the Scottish serial child murderer whose abductions and killings of young girls across the United Kingdom sparked one of the largest cross-jurisdictional investigations in British criminal history. The documentary examines his crimes, the investigation that led to his...
On August 19, 1987, Michael Ryan killed 16 people, including a police officer and his mother, during a spree shooting in Hungerford, England. The attack remains one of the deadliest crimes in British history.
During World War II, blackouts in Nazi Germany and Britain, implemented to protect civilians from enemy bombing, inadvertently allowed serial killers to exploit the darkness for committing crimes.
A scorned ex-wife hires a hitman to protect a family fortune, while a couple's murder mystery becomes reality. A TV anchor is murdered, and a personality is convicted of fraud. Real-life murder cases are examined in psychological detail.
On July 6, 2006, Alan Newton was exonerated of rape, robbery, and assault charges after DNA testing requested in 1994 was denied due to presumed lost evidence. In 2005, the district attorney’s office located a rape kit following an exhaustive search prompted by the Innocence Project’s intervention.
Harold Frederick Shipman, known as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner and serial killer with an estimated 250 victims, regarded as one of the most prolific in modern history.