The WORST episodes of Born to Kill (2005)
Every episode of Born to Kill (2005) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Born to Kill (2005)!
Take an in-depth look at some of the world’s most prolific serial killers through the first hand accounts and testaments of the people who knew them best. Police detectives, journalists, childhood friends, room mates, attorneys and leading experts in criminal psychology will offer us an insight in to their unique relationships with the most evil of society.
#1 - Wesley Shermantine & Loren Herzog: The Thriller Killers
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/2013
The show profiles Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. In 1984, the friends took part in a drug-fueled killing spree that terrorised their rural Californian community for around fifteen years.
#3 - Myra Hindley: Serial Killing for Love?
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/2005
For many years, Myra Hindley was depicted by the tabloid press as "the most hated woman in Britain". The crimes committed by Hindley and her lover, Ian Brady, shocked the nation and became the benchmark by which other acts of evil came to be measured. Until she met Brady, Hindley had been, by all accounts, a perfectly normal girl, with strong religious feelings. She loved children and animals, and was much in demand as a babysitter. When they became lovers, Hindley was prepared to do anything Brady asked… Can people be persuaded to kill for love? Were they crimes of passion? Brady claimed that Hindley was a manipulative liar who was as committed to murder as he had been…
#4 - Robert Napper: Map to Murder
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/2014
British criminal Robert Napper, who was convicted of two murders, one manslaughter, two rapes and two attempted rapes. Napper is a paranoid schizophrenic who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and. also believed to be the 'Green Chain Rapist' who carried out at least 70 attacks across south-east London over a four-year period ending in 1994.
#5 - Levi Bellfield: Bus Stop Killer
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/2014
This episode reviews the case of Levi Bellfield who murdered three women, including Milly Dowler.
#6 - John Duffy & David Mulcahy: The Railway Killers
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/8/2015
This episode profiles rapists and serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who together attacked numerous women at railway stations in the south of England through the mid-1980s, killing three.
#7 - Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka: The Serial Killing Couple
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2013
The show examines the crimes of sadistic couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka who carried out a series of despicable acts against different young women, including Karla's own sister.
#8 - Douglas Clark & Carol Bundy: The Sunset Strip Killers
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/2013
During the summer of 1980, Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy carried out a series of shocking murders in Los Angeles, leaving a trail of blood in their wake.
#10 - John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/2011
He was known as the ‘Killer Clown’, and buried his young male victims under the crawl space of his suburban home. John Wayne Gacy was a monster in human form – a pillar of the community who viciously snuffed out the lives of more than thirty men. He’d prowl the streets at night, luring hitchhikers and runaways back to his home where he’d torture and kill them. Gacy was found guilty in 1980 and sentenced to death…
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#11 - Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/2012
By the age of ten, heavy metal fan Richard Ramirez was sleeping in cemeteries. He would go on to spread terror throughout Los Angeles, preying on ordinary citizens as they slept in their homes. The Satan loving, drug fuelled burglar would rape, murder, and mutilate, taking pleasure in making his victims pray to Satan before him. Men, women, children and the elderly all fell victim as the police raced to catch the killer who defied all known theories about serial murder. So, was the Richard Ramirez born to kill? Warped by drugs? Or, was the Night Stalker schooled in murder during his poor childhood in the tough Texan border town of El Paso?
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#12 - Ivan Milat: The Backpack Killer
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/2005
Australia's worst solo serial killer, Ivan Milat, is now serving life for the murders of seven hitchhiking backpackers between 1989 and 1992. Many questions remain unanswered and there is uncertainty about the full extent of Ivan Milat’s crimes. Did he murder for entertainment? Some say his motivation lay in his family background and upbringing. Ivan Milat grew up as one of 14 siblings, a close-knit family who didn’t mix with others. They were surrounded by guns amidst an ethos of lawlessness and unbreakable family loyalty. Did he kill alone? One of his siblings, Boris, broke the bonds of rigid family loyalty to speak out against the convicted killer. He said it was likely there were more of his victims that haven’t yet been found…
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#13 - Robert Reldan: The Charmer
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/2016
In the 1970s, two young women were abducted from the tranquil streets of Bergen County and brutally killed. No one suspected charming local resident Robert Reldan, but as this documentary reveals, after several mistrials, he was found guilty and committed to life imprisonment in 1986.
#14 - Cleophus Prince Jr: Prince of Darkness
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/2014
This episode explores the case of ex-marine Cleophus Prince Jr, who raped and murdered six women in 1990.
#15 - Richard Cottingham: Red Light Regular
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/2014
Ruthless Richard Cottingham murdered at least six people and dismembered his victims' bodies.
#17 - Aileen Wuornos: Monster
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/6/2011
Made famous for Charlize Theron’s portrayal of her in the film Monster, Aileen Wuornos was executed in 2002 for the murder of seven men. A down-on-her luck lesbian prostitute, she lured her clients to remote wooded areas, and more often than not, shot them at point blank range. Tried and convicted in a Florida court, Aileen received 6 death sentences and spent a total of 12 years on death row…
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#18 - John Linley Frazier: The Killer Prophet
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/27/2013
In 1970, a California doctor and his young family were executed and dumped in the swimming pool of their hilltop home. The killer believed that he was on a mission from God.
#19 - Dale Hausner & Sam Dieteman: The Drive-by Slayers
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/2013
Between May 2005 and August 2006, Dale and Jeff Hausner who were later were assisted by Samuel Dieteman, turned drive-by shootings into sport as they kept score as they picked off their victims at random.
#20 - Albert DeSalvo: The Boston Strangler
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/27/2011
He was one of the infamous serial killers in modern American history. Better known as the Boston Strangler, De Salvo’s reign of terror claimed at least 13 victims. A violent sexual deviant, he confessed to all the murders – yet some doubt his authenticity.
#21 - Jeffrey Dahmer: The Cannibal
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/2005
Jeffrey Dahmer was a homosexual sexual deviant who raped, murdered and ate parts of 17 victims. Like other killers such as John Wayne Gacy, he managed to elude capture while continuing to carry out his crimes. Like every other sociopath serial killer in history he believed himself to be completely justified in his actions. Why does a Jeffrey Dahmer happen? How does a man become a serial killer, necrophiliac, cannibal and psychopath? Many of the theories would have you believe that the answers can always be found in childhood abuse, bad parenting, head trauma, foetal alcoholism and drug addiction. Perhaps in some cases these are contributing factors, but not for Jeffrey Dahmer…
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#22 - Dennis Nilsen: The British Jeffrey Dahmer
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/27/2012
When the discovery of human flesh blocking the drains of an address in London led to the arrest of 37 year old civil servant Dennis Nilsen, police were staggered when he calmly told them he had killed at least 15 young men. At the time, Nilsen would go down in history as Britain's most prolific serial killer, and as police interviewed the matter-of-fact Scot, they uncovered the extraordinary story of a man obsessed with death since childhood. The lonely job centre executive would strangle his victims and keep their corpses for company, sitting them in chairs, talking to them and watching television together, before butchering burning or boiling the body-parts. Was Dennis Nilsen obsession with death fused during his childhood? Or, was his instinct to kill hard-wired from birth?
#23 - Cary Stayner: The Yosemite Park Slayer
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/3/2013
Cary Stayner was arrested following the disappearance of a group of female hikers who went missing in Yosemite National Park in 1999.
#24 - Donald Gaskins Jr.: The Hitchhiker Killer
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/31/2012
Hearse driving redneck Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins may only have stood 5'4" tall, but he would earn himself the nickname of the meanest man in America and become South Carolina's biggest mass murderer when police discovered his boasts of having his own private graveyard were real. Cops would eventually discover the bodies of 13 men women and children, but in prison Gaskins would claim to have killed more than a hundred - raping, torturing and then sinking their bodies in the swamps. And Gaskins would add to his tally in prison, pulling off the extraordinary murder of a death row inmate - blowing him up by remote control. But what created this feared psychopath and sexual sadist? Was it nature or nurture? The men that knew and pursued him, leading experts, and the loving daughter he confessed to examine whether Pee Wee Gaskins was born to kill?
#25 - Fred Waterfield & David Gore: Killer Cousins
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/12/2015
This episode explores the chilling case of killer cousins David Gore and Fred Waterfield.