TK
Tom Kimball
Narrator
TV SERIES
America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil
DocumentaryCrime
This true crime docuseries strips the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation to expose history's most brutal serial killers.
Top cast
KG
Kirk Gill
Self - True Crime Writer
JL
Jack Levin
Self - Criminologist, Northeastern University, Boston
FR
Frederic Reamer
Self - Rhode Island College
TK
Tom Kimball
Self - Narrator
Creative team
Ron Meyer (Director) • Ron Meyer (Writer) • Mark Reeder (Writer)
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Episodes
10 Episodes
011. The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper
Episode One discusses 'The Monster Within And Among Us', and discusses Jack The Ripper (even though he's not American), since he is pretty much the first recognized serial killer. Since a lack of real footage is obvious, this episode uses footage from an old black and white move, loosely based on Jack The Ripper.
022. Killers Without Conscience
This is the 1800s and talks of H. H. Holmes (Doctor Death), and Jane Toppan (The Angel of Death).
033. The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You
A look into the demented sadistic masochistic Albert Fish (The Vampire of Brooklyn), child killer and cannibal.
044. Serial Killing Begins Again
The 1960s and 70s represented the dawn of a new era in serial killing. Featuring: The Boston Strangler, Ed Gein and the Lipstick Killer
055. Men Who Like to Kill
Featuring The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy
066. Homosexual Serial Killers
Some serial killers kill out of desire. But it's thought that some kill out of a rejection of their own desire - which is explored through a look at John Wayne Gacy and the Highway Killers.
077. Buddy Serial Killing
The sensationalist nature of the Hillside Strangers and Beltway Snipers cases helps to further solidify the serial killer's unofficial home in popular culture and on the nightly news.
088. The Many Faces of Serial Killers
One of the defining traits of serial killers - sociopathic behavior. This episode looks at the Gainesville Ripper, the Unabomber, and other serial killers operating in the 1980s.
099. To Catch a Serial Killer
Featuring: The Green River Killer and BTK
1010. Why Serial Killers Kill
The biggest mystery of all in respect to the serial killer is "why?" Featuring: The Night Stalker and Jeffry Dahmer