First Blood
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Documentary • CrimeSeason 110 Episodes
Ronald Dominique: The Bayou StranglerS1 E10Growing up gay and effeminate in the hyper masculine bayou was tough on Ronald Dominique; an inability to connect and a sexual assault in jail may have cemented his decision to kill his first victim, tragically the beginning of years of murder.
Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River KillerS1 E9Exploring what shaped serial killer Arthur Shawcross' trajectory from "Artie Oddball" to murderer; he might have been known for killing women along Rochester's Genesee River, but his first murder was years earlier.
Henry Louis Wallace: Bad HenryS1 E8Someone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, N.C., and the police seem unable to stop it; what the police don't realize is that the cases all have a commonality, which is a connection with Henry Louis Wallace.
Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the PeelerS1 E7In rural Epping, N.H., everyone knows Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loves her rabbits; her turbulent childhood in Alabama, a coma-induced vision, and the death of her wealthy husband all send Sheila on a warped mission to kill.
Ed Kemper: The Co-ed KillerS1 E6The articulate and boastful killer is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz, where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s.
Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland StranglerS1 E5African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing; Anthony Sowell found the control he was so desperate for when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim -- a woman only hoping to connect with a friendly face.
Richard Ramirez: The NightstalkerS1 E4One of the most well-known serial killers, Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, where anyone could be a target of the sadistic murderer.
Danny Rolling: The Gainesville RipperS1 E3Known primarily for the murders of University of Florida students, a man's first murders were in his hometown of Shreveport, La.; the man dreamed of having a loving family as an adult, but his dark fantasies drove him to destroy a family instead.
Robert Hansen: The Butcher BakerS1 E2Before he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen was a successful businessman with a family in Anchorage, but his intense feelings would build into a dark desire to exert the ultimate control over 17 victims.
Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of DeathS1 E1In 1989, Richard Mallory is found shot dead in the brush off the side of a Florida highway, just the first of seven murdered men found in a similar setting; their predator is Aileen Wuornos, a woman fleeing from her troubled past.
Synopsis
Examining some of America's most notorious serial killers through the prism of their first known kills to reveal what drove them to the moment when violent fantasy and curiosity became a devastating reality.Genres
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