The WORST episodes of Very Scary People

#1 - The Cross Country Killer: The Kill Kits (2)

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/10/2022

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - The Back To School Killer: Portrait of a Predator (2)

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/12/2022

#6 - The Firestarter Part 1: A Wall of Flames

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/6/2021

A string of horrifying fires plagues California in the Eighties and Nineties, one of them fatally trapping four people inside. Are these raging infernos accidental or is someone setting them deliberately? Years of meticulous investigation leads law enforcement to uncover a wave of terrifying fires set by a man some call the most prolific arsonist of the Twentieth century, who turns out to be none other than renowned fire investigator Captain John Orr. In a game of cat and mouse, colleagues discover dark secrets behind the man who thrived on the chaos of igniting the fires he was supposed to be fighting.

#7 - Sammy The Bull Gravano: They Made a Deal with the Devil (2)

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/19/2022

#8 - 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.

#9 - The Firestarter Part 2: Chasing a Pyromaniac

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/6/2021

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - Zodiac Killer: I Am the Zodiac, Part 1

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/14/2019

The Zodiac Killer terrorizes Northern California in the late 1960s; he taunts the public with cryptic clues, threats of violence and ciphers that are supposed to lead to his identity, but mostly go nowhere.

#13 - Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre, Part 2

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/21/2019

#14 - 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.

#15 - Aileen Wuornos: Monster Made, Part 1

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/7/2019

A look at the deal makers and hangers-on who attached themselves to Aileen Wuornos, who is known as America's first female serial killer.

#16 - 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.

#17 - The Amityville Horror: Murdered One By One, Part 1

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/16/2021

In November 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were found murdered inside their beautiful seaside home. The mother, father, and four of their children were shot in the back as they lay sleeping in their beds. The bodies were discovered by the only family member left alive – the oldest son Butch DeFeo. What really happened that night in Amityville? Who murdered the DeFeo family and why? What caused the strange events in the house near the sea? Parapsychologists and psychics descend on the house to investigate claims of levitating objects and demonic possession in an attempt to explain why, 50 years later, this house is still a source of nightmares.

#18 - The Amityville Horror: Evil in the House, Part 2

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/16/2021

#19 - The Time Square Killer (2)

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

#20 - 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.

#21 - Hillside Stranglers: She Walked Right into the Trap (2)

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2022

#22 - 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.

#23 - Charles Manson: The Devil's Work, Part 2

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2019

#24 - 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?

#25 - 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?