"Mark of a Serial Killer" examines the disturbing behaviors of serial killers. Step into the minds of some of the worst serial killers to date as they taunt law enforcement. Some of these killers get a perverse gratification by habitually stealing mementos from murder scenes, including things like shoes, jewelry, keys, and even body parts. All of these stolen things are meant to taunt the investigators while the killers build up their notoriety. The killers often leave trademark clues behind as a way to mark something that was theirs, but the investigators often use these as clues to find them.
A serial killer taunted Wichita, Kansas for decades with brazen letters taking credit for his horrific kills. At the introduction of the computer era, the killer gets sloppy and accidentally leaves a digital clue behind in his final taunt to police.
Watch Now:AmazonWhen the Hillside Stranglers are caught police realize they still have another serial killer running rampant in Los Angeles; he tortures and toys with his model victims while keeping pieces of their jewelry as he snaps their last photo ever.
Watch Now:AmazonIn New Jersey four bodies are found dismembered, bagged, and thrown in roadside garbage cans; the "Last Call Killer" hunted his victims openly in piano bars but no one suspected he could be hiding in plain sight, working as a local nurse.
Watch Now:AmazonA killer hijacks the highways of Sacramento as several women are found strangled with their clothing cut into precise but odd patterns; a survivor leads police to a sports car driving deviant posing as a good samaritan to poach potential victims.
Watch Now:AmazonTexas authorities have a killer riding the rails and leaving a literal trail of bread crumbs after eating at victims' tables; when more murders are linked, the FBI names a Most Wanted suspect and a national manhunt for The Railroad Killer ensues.
A cold-blooded killer conceals his victims' bodies with trash, discarding them like garbage in the back alleyways of Los Angeles.
The I-5 corridor in California is taken over by a brazen bandit who terrorizes the highway with a blitz of assaults and murders. The only clue to the identity of the killer is a specific athletic tape used to bind his victims.
Watch Now:AmazonIn 1990, a serial killer terrorizes the University of Florida's campus, killing five students in under four days; the Gainesville Ripper leaves behind a crime scene where all the victims have been stabbed but the females have been posed like dolls.
Watch Now:AmazonDallas police discover three women murdered with their eyes surgically removed; police believe they have a deranged doctor on the loose until two rookie cops find themselves on the trail of a man with a talent for taxidermy and a hatred for women.
Watch Now:AmazonA rash of young men goes missing around Chicago during the 1970s; when bodies start washing up in the river, a pattern emerges; a small piece of evidence leads police to the home of a model citizen, where his furnace puts the suspect in the hot seat.
Numerous women are found dead by the side of the road with a unique ligature that looks like a dog collar and leash; detectives are stumped until a 17-year-old girl manages an escape from a vicious kidnapper, leading police to a serial killer.
Watch Now:AmazonBrooklyn shop keepers are afraid of closing time as a killer shoots his victims while locking up their stores. Police release surveillance footage to the press and ask the public for help to find a duffle bag wielding murderer before he strikes again.
In the summer of 1976, the NYPD are chasing a man shooting at couples in parked cars with a gigantic, .44 caliber handgun. He taunts the city with terrifying letters until police get a lead about a suspect who has shot a neighbor’s dog.
Watch Now:AmazonIn the 1990s, New York is on edge as a killer leaves coded clues at crime scenes and declares his compulsion to choose victims by their birth signs. Police race against time before he can achieve twelve killings to complete the Zodiac.
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