The WORST episodes of Very Scary People
Every episode of Very Scary People ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 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.
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#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.
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#3 - 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.
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#5 - 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.
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#6 - 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.
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#7 - 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.
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#8 - 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.
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#9 - 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.
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#10 - 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.
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#13 - 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.
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#17 - 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?
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#19 - 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.
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#20 - 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.
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#21 - 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?
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#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.
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#24 - 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.
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#25 - The Time Square Killer (2)
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2023
New York City firefighters discover the headless bodies of two sex workers, leading the tabloids to dub the perpetrator the "Times Square Killer." Now, investigators must find a way to hunt down a psychopath adept at blending into his surroundings.
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