The WORST episodes of It Takes a Killer

Every episode of It Takes a Killer ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of It Takes a Killer!

Investigation of the crimes from the perspective of the killers, trying to get inside their minds and determine their motives. Leading homicide investigators and experts from such agencies as the FBI and Scotland Yard take a look at the evidence pulled from crime scenes and profile the killer’s behavior to try to piece together the details of each murder, explaining when, why and how each criminal committed the crime. For the wannabe detectives watching the show, the experts also reveal how the crime was solved — which often requires authorities to think like a killer.

Last Updated: 11/9/2024Network: OxygenStatus: Ended
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6.00
4 votes

#1 - The Clear Lake Murders

Season 1 - Episode 74 - Aired 11/6/2017

Four young adults are gunned down inside an affluent home in a suburb of Houston, Texas. Police investigate the quadruple homicide for three years, chasing down hundreds of leads, before arriving at a coldblooded killer with a convoluted motive.

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6.59
22 votes

#2 - If The Walls Could Talk

Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 5/26/2017

A homicide investigation ensues after a surgeon's wife goes missing, and remains unsolved after 15 years.

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6.67
3 votes

#3 - Killer Rabbi

Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 7/3/2017

When a rabbi's wife is savagely murdered inside the family's suburban New Jersey home, it looks like a robbery gone wrong. After years of chasing down leads, police catch a break on a sadistic murder plot.

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6.68
19 votes

#4 - The Bad Son

Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 6/26/2017

A gunman attempts to take out an entire family one by one as they enter their house. It takes law enforcement nearly two years to crack the code behind the murders only to find out they were masterminded by someone too close for comfort.

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6.73
30 votes

#5 - The Fast Food Killer

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/28/2016

Armed robberies resulting in the killings of fast-food workers are investigated.

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6.75
20 votes

#6 - Killer Cabbie

Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 4/21/2017

A serial killer lays siege to Jacksonville, Florida, strangling young African-American women to death then callously discarding of their bodies.

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6.81
36 votes

#7 - Oscar Pistorius

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/30/2016

An Olympic hero shoots his girlfriend at his home in the middle of the night. Has he mistaken her for an intruder or is it all part of a precisely calculated plot to get away with murder?

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6.84
25 votes

#8 - A Treacherous Triangle

Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 8/14/2016

Two prominent doctors, two towns apart, entangled in a passionate rivalry for the same woman's affections. When one loses, he exacts the ultimate revenge, hiring a friend to take out the opposition.

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6.85
41 votes

#9 - A Stalker Strikes

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/16/2016

When a law school student is strangled to death in her bed, detectives discover that someone had been secretly watching her for months. Not only did he videotape her through her second story window, but she knew him extremely well.

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6.88
26 votes

#10 - Murderous Miranda

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 2/10/2017

An unemployed teen mom and her new husband concoct a plan to kill an innocent man they meet on Craigslist. The end result sends shockwaves through a small town. What's even more shocking is that this may not be the wife's first homicide.

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6.89
19 votes

#11 - Bonded In Murder

Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 6/9/2017

A street preacher and his teenage protégé run an Internet scam to rob unsuspecting men, steal their identities, then dump their dead bodies in the woods. The scheme works multiple times until one of the marks escapes.

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6.90
20 votes

#12 - Cold Storage Killer

Season 1 - Episode 99 - Aired 5/7/2018

Police follow the trail of a young Southern California woman who vanishes without a trace for years until a random encounter turns them onto a chilling discovery and an even colder criminal.

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6.93
28 votes

#13 - Of Muscles and Murder aka A Fugitive And A Killer

Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 12/2/2016

When one bodybuilder wants what another bodybuilder has, the end result is a murder-for-hire. The mastermind resurfaces for nearly a decade late, half a world away only to kill a police officer before law enforcement brings him to justice.

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6.94
16 votes

#14 - Targeted Teacher

Season 1 - Episode 101 - Aired 5/21/2018

The murder of a respected college professor sends shockwaves through suburban Richmond, Virginia; cops investigate the homicide nonstop until evidence reveals a cold-blooded killer's premeditated plot.

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6.94
17 votes

#15 - A Killer Hand

Season 1 - Episode 104 - Aired 6/11/2018

When cops investigate the slaying of a casino worker in Las Vegas, they uncover a murder conspiracy that was months in the making.

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6.95
58 votes

#16 - Phil Spector

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/21/2016

When an aspiring actress is found dead in the home of a legendary music producer, he claims it was suicide. But as detectives piece together the pattern of blood splatter and the position of the weapon, they zero in on their suspect.

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6.96
23 votes

#17 - New Orleans Massacre

Season 1 - Episode 95 - Aired 4/9/2018

A merciless triple homicide in New Orleans, Louisiana leaves law enforcement with puzzling clues, but as they piece together the mystery, they quickly realize there is more to the murders than a robbery gone wrong.

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6.97
31 votes

#18 - The Slavemaster

Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 2/17/2017

A father, husband and businessman by day transforms into a sadomasochistic by night. This veteran con-man lures unsuspecting women with a web of lies and empty promises only to trap them in a world of sex slavery and murder.

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6.97
32 votes

#19 - Enforcer Of Death

Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 5/12/2017

A British landlord offers free rent to a female "enforcer" if she'll take care of his troublesome tenants. The only problem is she ends up murdering a tenant and the landlord himself.

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star
7.00
16 votes

#20 - Missing In Minnesota

Season 1 - Episode 103 - Aired 6/4/2018

The clock is ticking as police in northern Minnesota rush to rescue a kidnapped college student; it takes NASA technology for law enforcement to uncover the identity of the abductor, who turns out to be a serial predator.

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7.00
25 votes

#21 - The Keyes To Murder

Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 5/19/2017

A self-taught serial killer crisscrosses the country at random, murdering victims with tools he calls “kill kits.” Law enforcement is clueless to the madman’s actions until he breaks his own rule and targets a victim close to home.

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7.00
34 votes

#22 - A Son Snaps

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/18/2016

After years of abuse, a high school valedictorian snaps, viciously stabbing his mother and leaving her for dead in the family's garage. He almost gets away with her savage murder, except for a couple small inconsistencies in his alibi.

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7.00
54 votes

#23 - The Casanova Killer

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/2/2016

When four women are killed at different times in different states after going home from a bar with a handsome young man dressed like a cowboy, detectives don't realize the murders are linked together.

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7.04
24 votes

#24 - In Search of a Kill

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 1/6/2017

A drug abuser out on a joy ride kidnaps then kills an innocent coed in Oregon. Investigators spend months attempting to solve what they believe is a missing person's until the perpetrator strikes again.

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7.06
18 votes

#25 - Lone Star Killer

Season 1 - Episode 102 - Aired 5/28/2018

A church-going mother with no known enemies suddenly disappears from Northeastern Texas; as cops investigate, they uncover a serial predator from the shadows and rush to stop him before he kills again.

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