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- StarsConrad Roy Jr.Lynn RoyJesse BarronTeen Michelle Carter's actions shocked a nation - but what really happened behind closed doors? This HBO special showcases the prosecution's point of view and alternately the defense's. Which side do you fall on?
- DirectorHiromu NakamuraStarsKatsuya KobayashiMiki KomoriMasanori MachidaA high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured.
- StarsJacqueline BynonSkip HollandsworthDan FurstenfeldReveals the network of pedophiles that connected two deranged serial killers, Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy.
- StarsRosemary WestFred WestCharlie StaytThis documentary reveals the inner workings of the couple accused of Britain's most shocking murderous sex crimes. Step into Fred and Rose West's disturbing and macabre world.
- DirectorAdam KaletaNathaniel LippiettStarsFred WestRosemary WestJayne HamerSir Trevor revisits the Cromwell Streets Murders, one of the most disturbing and chilling cases in British history.
- DirectorRick BitzelbergerStarsChristopher StapletonRobert SiskoSean ThomasA film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
- StarsGary BrucatoKhadija MonkMark E. Safarik"First Blood" examines some of America's most notorious serial killers through the prism of their first known kills to reveal what drove them to the moment when violent fantasy and curiosity became a devastating reality.
- StarsJoanne FroggattMaxine PeakeSean HarrisA vivid drama which documents the notorious Moors murderers; Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
- DirectorJonathan JonesStarsPaul McGannMyra HindleyIan BradyIan Brady and Myra Hindley's horrific child killing spree shocked the nation and they have been front page news ever since. Ian Brady fantasized about committing the perfect murder.
- DirectorStephen KempStarsAddison TimlinZane HoltzZelda WilliamsIn 1977, a girl is kidnapped and kept in a coffin-sized box. When her captors let her out, it's only to abuse her horribly. Will she ever escape?
- DirectorSean TurrellStarsChris HatcherStephanie HerreraCameron HookerIn the first hour of the two-part back-to-back special, Colleen Stan: The Girl in the Box, kidnapping survivor Colleen Stan tells the story of her seven-year ordeal. Abducted by a sadistic predator and his wife, she was brainwashed, tortured, and largely confined to a coffin-size box. Taking us back to where it all happened, Colleen Stan bravely documents her terrifying captivity. From the very spot where she was first picked up, Colleen provides a riveting first-hand account. She explains how a slavery contract prevented her from running, and how mind control prevented her from going to police even once she was free. In the second hour learn how Colleen embraces freedom, but no matter how much she wants to move on, the past won't go away. When she eventually took the stand at her abductor's trial, she found herself portrayed as a willing participant. Evil may cast a long shadow, but faith and family ultimately allowed Colleen to reclaim her identity and find her mission. There was another kidnapping victim-one who died and was never found-and now Colleen is determined to find justice for her, too.
- DirectorChi-Kin YeungStarsCherry Chiu-Chiu ChanHugo NgAngela Ying-Ying TongThree triad gangsters kidnap and brutally torture a woman for one month until she died. Then they dismember and cook the body, hide the skull inside the head of a giant-sized Hello Kitty doll.
- DirectorBenny Chi-Shun ChanStarsYiu-Cheung LaiEmily KwanAmanda LeeA group of men brutally torture and murder a prostitute, who was caught stealing from them.
- StarsPamela AshtonTony CrookesStan GrantKatherine Mary Knight lived in the small town of Aberdeen, NSW. In the early hours of March 1st 2000, Knight attacked her de facto husband John Price by stabbing him repeatedly. One day earlier, John had gone to court and taken out an Apprehended Violence Order against her. Knight's experience as an abattoir worker and her obsession with knives may have aided in how she then mutilated the body. After skinning John's body she then decapitated him and cooked parts of his body to serve to his relatives. After noticing John missing from work, his employer notified police and one of the most horrific crime scenes in Australian history was to be uncovered. She was the first Australian female to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and her papers were marked 'never to be released'.
- DirectorJoel BenderStarsLaura PreponMisha CollinsPatrick BauchauBased on real events, Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla Homolka, kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
- 2005– 46m7.6 (23)TV EpisodeDirectorNeil EdwardsStarsChristopher SladePaul BernardoTim DansonAuthors, attorneys, psychologists and a former detective recall the perfect "Barbie and Ken" couple who secretly scoured Toronto for underage virgins to victimize.
- Troubled teen Alyssa Bustamante was a self-styled 'bad girl' who boasted of loving knives, and said she wanted to know how it felt to kill. When she gave in to this curiosity and murdered her nine year old neighbour Elizabeth Olten, it devastated their rural farming community.
- DirectorShane Ryan-ReidStarsKatie NonameDemi BaumannTeona DolnikovaInspired by true events. A nine year old girl disappears and is later found murdered. The movie exploits the events leading up to the death of the girl, why did it happen? What lies beneath? Was the parenting of the young perpetrators to blame or was it their need to be seen. Are they even an invention of the imagination and not real?
- DirectorStephen KayStarsRobert ForsterMichael MicheleMaury ChaykinAfter 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas home in on the serial killer known as BTK.
- DirectorJeffrey HirschfieldStarsTamlynn BrysonAlyssa DiMarcoNick DolanFor 31 years Dennis Rader aka BTK killer was able to live a double life. This documentary chronicle's comprehensive interviews with law enforcement, victim's family members, reporters and his daughter Kerri Rawson.
- DirectorJohnny BurkeStarsEd KemperMonty LundeLuita SpanglerFollows the story and reality of Edmund Kemper, who appears to be a gentle giant who offers rides to young female hitchhikers, but is actually a perverted monster with a tormented childhood and dark sexual fantasies.
- DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsCharlize TheronChristina RicciBruce DernBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
- DirectorNick BroomfieldStarsAileen WuornosNick BroomfieldArlene Pralle1992, Florida, USA. Aileen Wuornos is claimed to be the world's first female serial killer.