Bodies of young men are turning up on the southern California freeways. When given a tip off police arrest 33 year-old sex offender William Bonin. He’s caught in the act, as he rapes a 15 year old boy in the back of his van - the ‘Death Wagon’.
In Long Island, New York, police pull over a truck with a dodgy license plate. As they give the vehicle the once-over they find a rotting corpse of a young woman. What the driver, Joel Rifkin, then reveals in custody, stuns his interrogators.
The bodies of 2 young women are found in the countryside around Ipswich, England. 3 more follow just days later. A man is in custody, but to put the Suffolk Strangler behind bars, the full force of forensic science will be needed.
When cops pull over a car weaving across a California highway, they find more than they bargained for. A dead body in the passenger seat and a list of victims in the trunk is enough to send the Scorecard Killer, Randy Kraft, to death row.
In Bradford, England, a security guard sees a woman murdered before his eyes on CCTV. The attacker, Stephen Griffiths, appears to be performing for the camera. As police explore his disturbing past, they discover it's not his first kill.
St Louis, Massachusetts. Women are being murdered but investigators have few leads. A letter to the local paper directs police to victim number 17, and eventually to Maury Travis' door. What they find there, makes their blood run cold.
In Miami, cult member Robert Rozier murders and mutilates his victims, but one fateful mistake will bring him to justice.
A sadistic trucker travels the highways hunting for victims whom he tortures before killing, then an illegally parked vehicle leads to his downfall.
While a drug war rages in 1986 Miami, self-styled vigilante Manuel Pardo goes on a 92-day killing spree to clean up the city's streets.
In a quiet coastal community a brutal murderer stalks and kills at random. The police investigation will uncover a hidden world of sadomasochism, double identities and the most terrifying killer of all - a pitiless psychopath hiding in plain sight.
When police discover the body of a vagrant, they dismiss it as just another 'Skid Row' killing. But when they find a second corpse, then a third, they quickly realise they are dealing with a machete wielding maniac... who won't stop until he's caught.
From the criminal underbelly of a rural town, a sadistic psychopath leaves a trail of destruction. As police discover a wave of vicious murders, investigators rush to track down the culprit. But this killer doesn't fit any profile they've ever seen.
Police are stunned when they attend the scene of a multiple murder at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind. Five victims; all strangled within the space of twenty-four hours. So begins a manhunt to catch violent Serial Killer, Daniel Lee Siebert.
A rural Louisiana community is stunned when police begin to discover the corpses of young, seemingly fit and healthy men. Serial killer, Ronald Dominique stalks the bayous and canals around the town of Houma and it's down to investigators to catch him.