The BEST episodes of I Am a Killer
Every episode of I Am a Killer ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of I Am a Killer!
Death row inmates, convicted of capital murder, give a firsthand account of their crimes in this documentary series.
#1 - Living with the Consequences
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2018
Teenage drug abuser Joshua Nelson murders a friend in cold blood to steal his car, but other shocking motivations for the crime emerge at the trial.
#2 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/2018
Sentenced for a triple murder linked by police to Satanism, Miguel Angel Martinez becomes the youngest person ever on death row in Texas.
#3 - The Mockingbird
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2018
Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.
#4 - Hunted
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/2018
Robert Shafer and a friend target a same-sex couple in a robbery, but their crime spins out of control into kidnapping and double murder.
#5 - An Ordinary Boy
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/2019
At the age of 17 years old, Leo Little kidnapped, robbed and murdered Jehovah’s Witness minister Christopher Chavez.
#6 - Killer in the Eyes of the Law
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2018
Kenneth Foster's death sentence is commuted just hours before his execution, but he asserts that his punishment under an unusual Texas law is unfair.
#7 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/31/2018
Convicted murderer Wayne Doty admits his guilt but requests that his execution be carried out by electric chair, a method no longer used in Florida.
#9 - Honorable Intentions
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/24/2019
In December 1996, Mark Sam Arthur discovered his friend’s mother – Carmen Fonseca – badly beaten, at the hands of her husband. Whilst comforting the abused woman, Mark says he resolved to avenge her should he ever get the chance.
#10 - Owning It
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/2019
Charles Armentrout attempted to murder his father, and successfully murdered his grandmother.
#11 - A Silent Order
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2019
For two murders he had carried out on New Year’s Day in 1996, Hutchinson received the ultimate punishment.
#14 - In Her Hands
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/2019
Why did 32-year-old Lindsay Haugen strangle and kill her 25-year-old lover Robert Mast in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Billings, Montana, on the 15th of September 2015? Revenge? Financial gain? Vicious compulsion? Mercy? Curiosity…?
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#15 - Pyro Joe
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2019
After slashing the throat of 72-year-old Ruth Predmore when he went to rob her home to pay for his sister’s medical bills, Joseph Murphy spent 24 years on death row before finally having his sentence commuted by the then Governor of Ohio, John Kasich a week ahead of his scheduled execution.
#16 - Family Affair
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/2018
High on a drug that fuels his paranoia, Deandra Buchanan fatally shoots his aunt, stepfather and girlfriend - a crime he claims he can't recall.
#17 - A Bad Day
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/2022
David Cameron Keith recalls the day he took a young hostage before heading to an airport and killing the pilot who volunteered to take the child's place.
#20 - Trapped
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/2019
On October 13th 1984, after 15 years in an unhappy marriage Linda was planning to demand a divorce and according to Linda Couch that night a fight broke out and a gun discharged accidently, shooting Walter in the back of the head, killing him.
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#22 - Defense of Another
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/8/2025
Serving 20 years in prison for a bar brawl gone awry, Walter Triplett maintains that racial profiling played the biggest factor in his conviction.
#23 - Overkill
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/19/2019
In 1996, David Barnett murdered his adoptive grandparents, stabbing them over 20 times with five different knives. His motivation for doing so remained a mystery until it was discovered that David Barnett claimed to have been subjected to years of physical and sexual abuse, not by his grandparents but by their son, his adoptive father, John Barnett.
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#24 - Lives Lost
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2024
Higinio Gonzalez killed a store clerk during an armed robbery at the age of 16. He swears it was an accident, but one county attorney isn't so sure.
#25 - A Common Purpose
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/2025
When threatening messages escalate into an assault that leaves one teen dead and another severely injured, Kimberly Dunkin reflects on her involvement.