Confessions of a Killer

Convicted of the abduction and murder of four school girls, Robert Black is widely expected of having murdered up to ten more in a ten year campaign of terror.

1996: Colin Ireland aka "The Gay Slayer", murdered 5 gay men in a 2-week killing spree. His cruelty perhaps masked his own sense of self loathing and confusion over his sexuality.

For many criminal psychologists, Ted Bundy stands out as the epitome of a serial murderer: charming and urbane he was the ultimate lady killer.

Few serial killers have divided opinion quite like Aileen Wuornos. And few executions of a murderer have elicited such sympathy.

In 2016 a double murder shocked the sleepy village of Spalding, England. Two star crossed 14-year-old lovers (Edwards and Markham), conspired to murder Edwards mother and sister.

In 2017 Nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 8 of her elderly charges with overdoses of insulin.

Two British serial murders who killed a generation apart but with the same common goals – they killed to achieve an infamy that had eluded them in everyday life.

A ramshackle collection of barns and slaughter houses were the perfect cover for a madman pig farmer, who killed 49 women before feeding them to his hogs.

One of the most prolific murderers in US history evaded capture for decades and made murder a part of his daily regime, even killing with his young son in the backseat of his car.