The BEST episodes of Very Scary People
Every episode of Very Scary People ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Very Scary People!
Host Donnie Wahlberg chronicles the twisted lives of diabolical criminals, such as Charles Manson, Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, the Rev. Jim Jones, and others.
#1 - The Ken and Barbie Killers: I Kidnapped a Girl (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2022
After finding the prime suspect in a spree of rapes and murders, the Ontario authorities uncover disturbing videotapes that reveal who else was involved in his crimes. When the public learns the sordid details, shockwaves are sent throughout the world.
#2 - The Twin (1)
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/30/2023
When a 19-year-old college co-ed is snatched off the grounds of her Indiana University campus, all police find is a pile of her discarded and bloody clothing. A few months later, the decomposed body of a missing 15-year-old girl is found callously dumped in an Indiana cornfield. Then came alarming reports of terrified young girls narrowly escaping a creepy man trying to lure them into his van. Who is to blame for these vicious attacks, and why? Suddenly, investigators close in on a promising suspect... Larry Hall is brought in for questioning and admits to everything, case closed. But within days, Hall recants his confession saying the details of his signed statement were all just a bunch of made-up dreams. Is he a false confessor or a serial killer? And if he was truly guilty, did Larry's Identical twin brother, Gary, have a hand in it?
#3 - The Slave Master (1)
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2023
Beginning in the mid 80's, women in the Kansas City vicinity began vanishing. They had nothing in common, except, an odd connection to a man named John Robinson. He seemed to be a perfect father, husband, and businessman. But in reality, Robinson was a sinister serial killer, who nicknamed himself the, "Slavemaster." With a penchant for BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sado-Masochism), he evaded arrest for nearly two decades by using elaborate cover ups and his sinister silver tongue. Robinson, among the first killers to use the internet as a stalking ground for victims, unfortunately claimed eight victims before an intense police sting operation could bring him down.
#4 - The Trailside Killer (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2023
From 1979-1981, the popular hiking trails of Northern California became the setting of a terrifying mystery. A man known as the Trailside Killer was raping and killing women in a place they had always felt safe. The cold-blooded attacks stunned the community and frustrated law enforcement. They had few clues as to the killer's identity, until one victim managed to get away and identified a middle-aged man living an ordinary life with his parents.
#5 - John Gotti: There Were Fatal Consequences (2)
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/17/2022
In 1985, John Gotti makes a big move when he organizes the murder of the Gambino boss Paul Castellano and takes the throne as the new godfather. Everyone from law enforcement to other goodfellas considered Gotti dangerous, unpredictable and unstoppable.
#6 - The Cross Country Killer: The Kill Kits (2)
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/10/2022
After his capture in a nationwide manhunt, Israel Keyes plays cat and mouse with detectives, revealing some details about his crimes and his missing victims. In the end, Keyes had one last surprise for investigators.
#7 - Hillside Stranglers: She Walked Right into the Trap (2)
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2022
As the Los Angeles hillside killings escalate, police receive reports of two suspicious men flashing police badges and asking women to pull over. Suddenly, detectives realize that they're facing not a single serial killer, but a pair working in tandem.
#8 - Sammy The Bull Gravano: They Made a Deal with the Devil (2)
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/19/2022
As the highest-ranking mobster ever to defect, Sammy Gravano describes the shocking murders of close friends and business partners as well as the secret world of La Cosa Nostra. Despite the bounty on his head, Gravano then returns to the criminal world.
#9 - The Back To School Killer: Portrait of a Predator (2)
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/12/2022
In a shocking story, investigators discover that Jesse Matthew Jr. kidnapped and killed at least two women, while a third cheats death to become the key witness that brings a murderer to justice.
#10 - The Time Square Killer (1)
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/7/2023
In 1979, the NYFD received a report of smoke pouring out of a room in a hotel in New York's Times Square. When firefighters entered, they thought they saw a pair of mannequins on the beds. It was only when the haze cleared that they realized that the person who set the blaze had beheaded two sex workers. The city's tabloids dubbed the perpetrator the "Times Square Killer." But the catchy label was not entirely accurate. For years, the murderer had been targeting women close to his home in the New Jersey suburbs. For a long time, though, police in both states were unaware that they had a serial killer on their hands. Indeed, the Times Square Killer's strongest asset was his ability to blend in, commuting back and forth from the suburbs to his job at a prestigious insurance firm. This is the tale of a perplexing double life, a case that seemed unsolvable and a reign of terror that impacted both the leafy lanes of New Jersey and New York's red-light district.
#11 - John Gotti: It Was Kill or Be Killed (1)
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/17/2022
John Gotti's expensive suits and swagger earn him the nickname Dapper Don; in reality, he is a man to be feared, a ruthless, dangerous Mafia gangster who orders hits on his enemies, his friends, and anyone who crosses him.
#12 - The Cross Country Killer: He Could Make People Disappear (1)
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/10/2022
While closing shop in Anchorage, Alaska, Samantha Koenig is approached by a man known in the community as a business owner and caring father who kidnaps her, triggering a manhunt.
#13 - Hillside Stranglers: A Pair of Serial Killers? (1)
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/26/2022
In the fall of 1977, bodies of young women begin piling up in Los Angeles; almost all of the victims are nude, discarded on hillsides, and show signs of torture; it is nearly a year before two murders 1,200 miles away uncover the Hillside Stranglers.
#14 - Sammy The Bull Gravano: He Makes Money and He Murders People (1)
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/19/2022
Sammy the Bull Gravano was the right-hand man to mafia kingpin, John Gotti and carried out multiple murders; after his arrest, he breaks the sacred oath of silence and cuts a deal with the government, testifying against his former boss.
#15 - The Back To School Killer: A Fear in the Air (1)
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2022
When college-aged women in Charlottesville, Va. go missing, the search for answers leads authorities to local star athlete Jesse Matthew Jr.; in a shocking story, two women are killed, but another survives to bring the murderer to justice.
#16 - The Ken and Barbie Killers: Dead Ringer (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/5/2022
From 1987 to 1992, rapes, abductions and murders of young women occur north of the U.S.-Canadian border; a tip leads cops to an unlikely suspect: a blond, blue-eyed accountant who lives with his wife in a pink house in the suburbs.
#17 - The Firestarter Part 2: Chasing a Pyromaniac
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/6/2021
In a race against time, investigators hunt for an arsonist setting devastating fires across California. To their complete shock, the man responsible turns out to be none other than a renowned fire investigator.
#18 - The Happy Face Killer (2)
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/21/2023
The murder of Taunja Bennett is the first of many bodies found in the Pacific Northwest, California, and beyond. Police never link the deaths until someone starts sending macabre letters signed with a happy face. Is this the end -- or just the beginning?
#19 - The Angel of Death
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/2/2025
In 1994 a violent serial killer hunts elderly women in a gated California community. A family member of the murderer realizes that the culprit is close to home, as the police hurry to stop her before she can kill again.
#20 - The Real Hannibal
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/26/2025
Scott Lee Kimball is a con man who fooled the FBI as an informant, he is a convicted serial killer, from Colorado, who murdered at least 4 people and suspected him in as many as 21 other unsolved killings.
#21 - Thomas the Terrible
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/19/2025
Yathomas Riley is an undefeated rising star in the pro boxing world, but he's also prone to fits of rage and violence outside the ring; this allegedly caused him to shoot two women he claimed to love.
#22 - The Man Eater
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/12/2025
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong starts her life as a bright young woman with a promising future. However, her true colors soon show as she goes down a sinister path of manipulation, bank robbery and multiple gruesome murders.
#23 - The Courthouse Killers
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/5/2025
David Matusiewicz, Christine Belford and their four kids live the American dream. But when David’s parents move in, his family’s need for control over the children leads to allegations of abuse, a 19-month kidnapping, and ultimately, a brutal murder.
#24 - The Black Hand of Death
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/29/2024
In the early 90s, drug kingpin Clarence Preacher Heatley rules New York City; he rakes in millions during the crack epidemic, murdering anyone who gets in his way; after a 12-year-old boy is killed, the Feds try to take him down.
#25 - The Sun Gym Sadists
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/22/2024
In mid-90s Miami, a crew of bodybuilders known as the Sun Gym Gang preys on the rich to rob them blind; as their greed grows, they turn to murder, resulting in one of the goriest crime scenes in Florida history.