To say that Axel Rudakubana was a violent kid would be a massive understatement. Even as a preteen, he frequently watched graphic videos of people getting killed and was obsessed with genocide. While in high school, he called a child helpline, admitting that he wanted to kill a kid that was bullying him, as he was expelled after admitting to bringing a knife to school 10 different times. Somehow, he was able to get the materials to make poison, as well as downloading a training manual from Al-Qa...
Jan 26, 2025•8 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Tony Amati was someone who was considered to be highly intelligent, even exhibiting symptoms of OCD. After he graduated high school with Honors in 1994,it seemed like his whole personality changed. This supposedly normal guy had turned evil, recruiting his friends to help him rob a gun store. After they made off with a massive haul, Tony and his friends would then go around Las Vegas, shooting people, simply for the fun of it. After blood evidence linked him to one of the murders,he became the p...
Jan 22, 2025•7 min•Season 5Ep. 8
The Briley brothers, Linwood, James and Anthony were growing up in Richmond, Virginia. Although the neighbors knew them as helpful, providing assistance with car repairs and lawn maintenance, the brothers would change once their parents separated. Their dad apparently kept his door padlocked overnight to protect himself from the three boys. In January of 1971, Linwood, only 16, aimed his rifle out of the window and shot his neighbor for no reason, killing her. However, his lawyer convinced the j...
Jan 07, 2025•10 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Gwen Graham arrived at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1986. She then met Cathy Wood, her supervisor on the floor. The two developed a close relationship, as they eventually fell in love with each other. But their bond took a deadly turn, as they decided to kill the patients they looked after to strengthen their love bond. Cathy would be the lookout while Gwen smothered defenseless victims to death, as the two would make a game out of it. Nobody was on to them until 19...
Jan 01, 2025•7 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Guy Georges was rejected early on, as he was given away by his mother because of the attitude towards mixed race kids in their hometown. He was made a ward of the state, before he was adopted by a family who had 7 biological children along with 13 foster children. At 14, Guy started stealing food from stores and carrying a knife around. He then attempted to strangle his mentally disabled sister, before attempting to strangle his other sister with an iron bar. His foster mother was fed up and sen...
Dec 25, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 5
John Ewell was someone who felt like he was a victim of the justice system. He had two previous robbery convictions, which were now counted under the new “three-strikes” law in California in 1994. He was then caught trying to deposit a $28,000 check into his account, and was charged with check forgery, which would potentially count as a third strike, with a possible sentence of 25 years to life in prison. John pled guilty for a reduced seven year sentence. While John was in prison, his wife beca...
Dec 21, 2024•8 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Joseph Paul Franklin knew nothing but abuse from an early age, as his father was an abusive alcoholic and his mother barely fed him and rarely cared about him and his siblings. As a high schooler, he sought acceptance, so he read up on evangelical Christianity, then this soon evolved into memberships in the local Nazi and KKK chapters. The height of his value shift was when he read Mein Kampf, as this prejudiced text influenced him to start a race war, ensuring that the whites were on top. But i...
Dec 12, 2024•8 min•Season 5Ep. 3
On the morning of June 23, 1990 in Bellevue, Washington, a McDonald’s employee was taking out the trash when he found something horrifying, so he ran inside and called 911. Police came to the scene and discovered the nude body of a young woman, but she had no visible gunshot or stab wounds. She had been posed in a strange way, as there was a large coffee cup lid covering her right eye. One foot was crossed over the other and her hands were folded over her stomach and they were holding a pine con...
Dec 06, 2024•7 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Stephen Akinmurele was a young man with severe mental issues. After his parents split up he lived with his mother, who often had his grandmother over. Stephen’s grandmother was a strict disciplinarian and he grew to resent her. This seething hatred would stretch to encompass all elderly people in general. His hatred would develop into murderous intentions and it all came to a head on October 30, 1998 when he killed Eric Boardman and his wife Joan, who were both in their 70s. After he was caught ...
Nov 22, 2024•6 min•Season 5Ep. 1
On September 19, 1970, Areti and Dimitros Koularmanis and their three children traveled from Toronto to New York City for a family reunion. They were staying with his parents in their ground-floor apartment in Jamaica, Queens. At 4:30 the next morning, an intruder broke into the apartment and grabbed Areti, plunging his knife into her throat. She staggered out of the room, waking her husband before she collapsed on the floor. Areti died from her injuries and her killer escaped without getting ca...
Nov 07, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Joshua Anderson was a kid with an erratic personality, so he had no issues with using violence to get even. It all started early as at 16, he was accused of shooting someone. But somehow the warrant was recalled after a month. A year later, Josh was arrested on kidnapping and battery charges. He agreed to a plea bargain so he was released after three months. A month after that, he was charged with shooting another person, but the case was dropped due to a lack of witnesses coming forward. Josh h...
Nov 04, 2024•5 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Frank Matthews was destined for a life of crime at an early age. By the time he was 14, he had dropped out of school and was leading a gang of teenagers that stole chickens from local farms. He then moved to Philadelphia where he was involved in the illegal gambling rackets, making important connections that would serve him later in life. By 1965, Frank was in Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, working as a barber, loan shark and enforcer for the Black Mafia. He attempted to partner with the Gambino and Bona...
Oct 24, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Stephen Morin was a man who was adept at flying under the radar. His drug addiction took over his life and he soon became a man outside the law. He had a few arrests for theft and drug possession. But he upped the ante by kidnapping a 14 year old girl, raping and torturing her before releasing her. For this crime, he was put on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. But Stephen was one step ahead of the authorities, as he frequently used different aliases to mask his identity. Under these multiple identiti...
Oct 17, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Buck Ruxton was a successful Indian-born doctor who had a medical practice in Lancashire at 2 Dalton Square. He was known to provide his services for free on several occasions when patients couldn’t afford them. By 1933, he had a wife, Isabella, three children and a housekeeper, Mary Jane Rogerson. But by the next year, cracks in their marriage started to show, as Buck frequently accused Isabella of infidelity and it would lead to many arguments between them. On September 29, 1935, a woman named...
Oct 05, 2024•15 min•Season 4Ep. 16
From May to September 2003, four young boys went missing in the Bahamas. These crimes, especially in a relatively safe nation like the Bahamas, sent shockwaves around the globe. Amidst all the chaos, the Bahamian government tried to assure tourists that the Bahamas was still a safe country to visit. However for five months, the police did dead end after dead end with the investigation. That all changed on October 26th when a man walked into the police department with a confession to make....
Sep 30, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Sharon Causse was a widow who was extremely lonely, so she went on a dating website. She matched with a man named Thomas Randolph, a widower who had already been married five times before. The two hit it off quickly, probably faster than Sharon’s friends might’ve liked. Within a short time, the two got married while on a cruise. But on May 8, 2008, everything changed. When they arrived at their Las Vegas home after a date, Sharon walked in before Thomas did. Then moments later, neighbors reporte...
Sep 15, 2024•9 min•Season 4Ep. 14
On January 20, 1983, someone called the police, telling them about a Cadillac Coupe Deville that was abandoned. It had been sitting in front of the Varuna Boat Club in Brooklyn for ten days. The police shook the car and initially determined that the truck was empty so they had it towed to the police department. When it got to the station, the trunk was opened and a man was found partially frozen behind a chandelier. He had numerous bullet wounds and had his hand in front of his face in a defensi...
Sep 02, 2024•20 min•Season 4Ep. 13
On March 19, 1960 in Kansas City, Missouri, Sharon Kinne heard a gunshot in her house and ran to the bedroom, only to find her husband James dead. Sharon told police that their two year old daughter, who had been allowed to play with James’s guns, had accidentally shot him. Police were unable to dispute this theory, so no charges were pressed. A month later, she got involved with Walter Jones, a car salesman that was still married. Sharon was the last person to meet with his wife Patricia, befor...
Aug 21, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Jorge Negromonte was a man who already had a violent temper. He killed a girl as a teenager and almost killed his own mother, using the money he stole from her to buy himself a house. He even threatened to kill all the guests at his wedding, forcing him and his wife Isabel to go into isolation. In 2002, the 40 year old Jorge met 16 year old Bruna at the gym. They would fall in love as Isabel accepted her into the fold, forming a love triangle between them. Overtime, Jorge came up with the idea o...
Aug 14, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Lucha libre was and still is a popular form of entertainment in Mexico. Juana Barraza dreamed of being a luchadore and started wrestling in the indie circuit, calling herself the “Lady Of Silence”. But her fake persona in the ring gave way to another side of her that was way more dangerous. As dozens of elderly women were found strangled to death in their homes over the years in Mexico City, the public became outraged at the police’s lack of progress on the case. But,a lucky break in 2006 led th...
Aug 12, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Clayton Fountain was born a military kid, as he and his siblings moved around every couple years. While his father was in the military and his mother was at work, Clayton, the oldest child, would be a surrogate for his younger siblings. When he got of age, he joined the US Marines like his father, but things didn’t go as smoothly. At 19 years old, he shot and killed his staff sergeant for writing him up. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the United States Penitentiary in Marion, ...
Aug 07, 2024•7 min•Season 4Ep. 9
James Clifford Carson was just a lowly weed dealer when he began a relationship with Susan Barnes, a divorcee with two sons. He quickly fell underneath her spell, as he was known as a follower. Using her trust fund, Susan and James went on drug-fueled voyages around the world, practicing radical Islam, although James was born a Jew. Susan had fully embraced the hippie culture, but her frequent drug use coupled with her mental issues caused her to go into psychosis. James, who was more than willi...
Jul 29, 2024•7 min•Season 4Ep. 14
According to his coworkers in the Miami-Dade police department, David Middleton was a nice guy who took pride in his job. However, he used the power of the badge to fulfill his sexual desires. In 1990, he pulled up to a 16 year old girl on the street, giving her the false excuse that she was out past curfew. He then handcuffed her and told her he was taking her to a juvenile institution. But instead he took her to a secluded area and raped her. After he dropped her off, she alerted the police wh...
Jul 25, 2024•12 min•Season 4Ep. 7
To say that Ken Williams had a rough childhood would be an extreme understatement. Both of his parents were mentally challenged, and his mother smoked crack while she was pregnant with him. His father frequently abused the family as well. Often left on his own, he joined the Gangster Disciples at 8 years old and after he was molested, he started to rape other children in retaliation. After being moved in and out of foster homes and juvenile detention, he went on a crime spree that would eventual...
Jul 20, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were a match made in hell. When the two met at Millwards Merchandising in 1961, they both learned that they shared a love of Nazi memorabilia. They would watch films of Nazi atrocities and read library books from German scholars during the time. Myra even bleached her hair blonde to emulate the ideal of Aryan perfection. Two years after they met, they began to plan the “perfect murder” By June 1963, the two moved together and a month later, they had their first victim....
Jul 15, 2024•16 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Sharon Carr was the nice girl in school, initially described as polite and helpful by teachers. But something changed in her. Sharon began to show more aggression, also becoming more disruptive and attention-seeking. It had gotten so bad that one of her teachers called social services, resulting in Sharon being put in foster care for a short time. She would often fantasize about death and violence while she wasn’t in school. On June 7 1992, at only 12 years old, she finally saw her opportunity t...
Jul 05, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Charles Bronson was never far away from trouble. Even as a teenager, he had a lengthy rap sheet for robbery, assault and vandalism. He was once fired from Tesco for attacking his manager. He even stole a truck before crashing it into someone's car. The driver wasn’t seriously injured, so he narrowly avoided serious jail time. In 1974, at the age of 22, he was arrested for armed robbery and given a seven year sentence. Bronson only enjoyed a few months of freedom over the next forty years, as he ...
Jul 02, 2024•18 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Lizzie Halliday was known for her extremely violent temper, leading to her being at odds with her own family. Her adult life was very tumultuous, as she married six times. Two of her husbands suddenly died and two had mysteriously disappeared. She left a trail of murder and chaos everywhere she went. Lizzie wreaked havoc in the eastern United States in the late 19th century, as the New York Times called her “the worst woman on Earth”.
Jun 23, 2024•7 min•Season 4Ep. 2
In 1986, London police had a strange case on their hands. Several elderly people were found dead in their homes over a four month period, and several of them were sodomized and sexually abused, along with their belongings missing. The police were on high alert as a psychopath was breaking into elderly people’s homes, killing them, then robbing the place afterwards.
Jun 17, 2024•22 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Armin Miewes had been obsessed with cannibalism from a young age. After his father left the family when he was young, he became fascinated with the story of Hansel and Gretel and had thoughts of eating his classmates at 12 years old. He continued to have this obsession into adulthood, but when his mother died in 1999, he was completely free to dive into these desires. Being a computer technician, he went online and found forums of people with similar interests. Using the alter ego “Franky”, he p...
Jun 07, 2024•8 min•Season 3Ep. 20
