The BEST episodes of Very Scary People season 5

#1 - The Black Widow (2)

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/2023

#2 - The Trailside Killer (2)

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2023

#3 - The Happy Face Killer (2)

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/21/2023

#4 - The Twin (2)

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/30/2023

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - The Happy Face Killer (1)

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/21/2023

When 23-year-old Taunja Bennett left home on January 21, 1990, her family thought they would see her in a few hours. That didn't happen. Then her sister watches a news report with a police sketch of a woman found dead in the Columbia River Gorge...and knew it was Taunja. That was the start of multiple female bodies found mostly in the Pacific Northwest and California which police never connect to each other. Then someone starts sending macabre letters signed with a happy face, which was the beginning of the end of the Happy Face Killer's reign of terror.

#8 - The Slave Master (2)

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/2023

#9 - 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.

#10 - The Black Widow (1)

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/14/2023

Her name was Judy Buenoano - and on the surface, it seemed like she lived a charmed life. Judy was a nurse, a small business owner, a wife - and mother. But dig a little deeper and that façade of success fades away to reveal a trail of tragedy. In the course of 10 years, Judy survived two2 house fires, a mysterious canoe accident - and lost a husband, boyfriend, and child. Was it just incredibly bad luck or something far more sinister?

#11 - 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?

#12 - The Time Square Killer (2)

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2023