Sinopsis
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Episodios
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Werner Pinzner: The Contract Killer With A Surprise
18/04/2026 Duración: 09minWerner Pinzner seemed to be down on his luck from the beginning, as after he dropped out of school, he floated from job to job, ultimately being sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in an armed robbery that resulted in the death of the store manager. While behind bars, he was able to establish connections with multiple members of Germany’s seedy red-light district, as he desired to live the lifestyle of a pimp. Even while he was on day release from prison, he became a contract killer, eliminating anyone for the right price, as this was something he continued to do after he was officially released. When German police finally cracked down on organized crime, Werner was quickly named as a suspect in multiple murders,but he was ready to talk. On July 29, 1986, he was set to be interviewed at the Hamburg police headquarters, but the cops didn’t know that there was a surprise in store for them.
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Andrea Arrigoni: Private Investigator By Day, Serial Killer By Night
15/04/2026 Duración: 05minOn February 20, 2005, Andrea Arrigoni, a private investigator, had traveled to Verona, Italy after a dinner with his parents. He called and told them he was going to his office, but he took a detour, heading to a well-known red light district in search of a prostitute. He picked up 30 year old Galina Shafranek, but they got into a violent altercation that witnesses reported to the police. By the time officers arrived, Andrea had already shot Galina twice in the neck. When they approached his vehicle, he fired his weapon at them and a shootout ensued. The two responding officers were killed and so was Andrea. After this deadly incident, police raided Andrea’s apartment, and they found bullets to link him to another murder, but the most confusing part is why someone with so much going for him would resort to such violence.
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Olga Hepnarova: She Didn't Stop
11/04/2026 Duración: 06minOlga Hepnarova was an average child growing up in Czechoslovakia, but out of nowhere, she developed psychiatric problems that plagued her for the rest of her life. She had attempted suicide by age 13, and had survived frequent beatings and other abuse at the mental hospital she was staying at. As she grew up, her life didn’t improve much, as she bounced from job to job. Once she found work as a truck driver, she eventually cut off her family and isolated herself. After trying to unsuccessfully burn down her family farm, Olga quickly came up with another, more heinous way to get attention. On July 10, 1973 in Prague,Olga, in her newly rented Praga RN, spent about 30 minutes circling a tram stop, waiting for a good amount of people to gather up. Once about 25 people were there, she drove to the end of the block, turned around and gunned it, and she didn’t stop.
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Wolfgang Schmidt: The Pink Giant
03/04/2026 Duración: 08minIf you looked up the word strange in the dictionary, you would probably see a picture of Wolfgang Schmidt. Out of retaliation for a strained relationship with his mother, a 7 year old Wolfgang went into her dresser and put on her bra and panties, then he would urinate and defecate in the underwear on purpose, as this apparently gave him sexual pleasure. He routinely did this until his mom noticed his thieving ways. She shamed him and locked her dresser drawers, but Wolfgang would then steal women’s clothes from landfills and dumpsters for the sole purpose of soiling them for sexual arousal. Even more alarming, Wolfgang eventually became a policeman as an adult, but he was fired after celebrating Hitler’s birthday. He often drifted from job to job, drunkenly roaming the streets in women’s clothing. But soon, Wolfgang’s obsession with women’s underwear evolved, as simply taking from clotheslines or landfills wasn’t enough to satisfy him, so he decided to take his unusual behaviors a step further, and 6 people,
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William Unek: Not Once, But Twice
08/03/2026 Duración: 09minWilliam Adrogo had a history of mental illness that caused delusions that made him snap into violent episodes. In February 1954, he invited his family to a banquet at his house, celebrating a indigenous festival for the Alur tribe. In his twisted mind, he believed that they had put witchcraft on his marriage, so after the celebration was over, he silently killed all 22 of his guests with a machete. He escaped on a boat and authorities couldn’t track him down. William ended up in northern Uganda, giving authorities a false name and quickly fitting in because he could understand the dialect of the locals. The police force in Tanganyika was unaware of his previous crimes and hired him as a constable. A few months later, for seemingly no reason, he upped the ante, and this would become one of the deadliest crimes of the 20th century.
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The Murdaugh Family
03/03/2026 Duración: 20minThe Murdaugh family is a prominent American legal family in the Low Country region of South Carolina. From 1920 to 2006, three members of the family consecutively served as solicitors in charge of prosecuting all criminal cases in the state's 14th circuit district, leading locals to call the five-county district, "Murdaugh Country." The family also founded a nationally recognized civil litigation law firm in Hampton, South Carolina that specializes in personal injury litigation. Despite all of this success, the legacy of this family is marked with legal issues, including corruption, insurance fraud, drug charges, and five murders in the last six years.
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The Epic Downfall of Gary Glitter
02/03/2026 Duración: 19minGary Glitter was one of the biggest rock stars of his era, with hits "Rock and Roll (Parts 1 & 2)" and "Rock and Roll Christmas". But despite all of this success, he was convicted in 1999 for child pornography and his career derailed from that point forward.
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Ed Gein: The Origin of Leatherface
26/02/2026 Duración: 15minEdward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan, in 1954, and hardware store owner Bernice Worden, in 1957.
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H.H Holmes: The White City Devil
26/02/2026 Duración: 16minHerman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Until his execution in 1896, he chose a career of crime including insurance fraud, swindling, check forging, three to four bigamous illegal marriages, horse theft and murder.Despite his confession of 27 murders (including some people who were verifiably still alive) while awaiting execution, Holmes was convicted and sentenced to death for only one murder: accomplice and business partner Benjamin Pitezel. It is believed he killed three of the Pitezel children and three mistresses, the child of one of his mistresses and the sister of another. Holmes was executed on May 7, 1896.
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Kenneth Regan & William Horncy: The Chohan Family Murders
26/02/2026 Duración: 11minOn 13 February 2003, business owner and married father of two Amarjit Chohan disappeared without a trace in Hounslow, West London. Two days later, on 15 February his wife 25-year-old Nancy Chohan, her mother 51-year-old Charanjit Kaur and his two young children, 18-month-old Davinder and 2-month-old Ravinder, also vanished. Rumor suggested Mr Chohan had got himself involved in some shady business deals and had fled back to India with his family to escape repercussions. However, when a company employee presented letters that appeared to be signed by Amarjit Chohan stating he was handing over full control of his company, the disappearance of the Chohan family began to look more suspicious.When Mrs Chohan’s brother flew in from New Zealand to convince London police his sister and her family would not simply disappear, a full investigation was launched. What transpired was a sickening plan by two men to get their hands on a successful business to act as a front for laundering their drug money. A plan which involv
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Eric & Lyle Menendez: Blood Brothers
26/02/2026 Duración: 19minJoseph Lyle Menéndez and Erik Galen Menéndez are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menéndez.During the trial, the brothers stated that they committed the murders out of fear that their father would kill them after they threatened to expose him for years of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, while the prosecution argued that they did it to inherit their father's multimillion-dollar estate. They were first tried separately, with one jury for each brother. Both juries deadlocked, which resulted in a mistrial. For the second trial, they were tried together by a single jury, which found them guilty; as a result, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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Trevor Hardy: The Beast of Manchester
26/02/2026 Duración: 11minTrevor Joseph Hardy , also known as the Beast of Manchester, was a convicted English serial killer who murdered three teenage girls in Manchester between December 1974 and March 1976. In 1977, he was found guilty on three charges of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment, remaining in prison until his death 35 years later.
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Dale Cregan: The One-Eyed Gangster
26/02/2026 Duración: 10minPCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes didn't stand a chance as they responded to what they thought was a routine report of a burglary. The pair stepped out of their police van and walked up to the front door of a three-bed maisonette, into a slaughter that was so gratuitous the shock still reverberates today.Inside was one-eyed fugitive Dale Cregan - wanted for murdering two gangland rivals. Before the officers had even knocked, the merciless killer burst through the door, shouted 'police' and unleashed a hail of bullets on the two unarmed officers, probationers who had only just joined GMP. He tossed a hand grenade on their dying bodies and then calmly handed himself in at the nearest police station.
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Thierry Paulin: The Monster of Montmarte
26/02/2026 Duración: 07minThierry Paulin, known as The Monster of Montmartre, was a French spree killer active in the 1980s who along with his lover Jean Thierry Mathurin, robbed and murdered 21 elderly women. He died from complications related to AIDS before his trial.
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Mary Bell: The UK's Youngest Serial Killer
26/02/2026 Duración: 22minMary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is an English woman who, as a juvenile, killed two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1968.[4] Bell committed her first killing when she was 10 years old. In both instances, Bell informed her victim he had a sore throat, which she would massage before proceeding to strangle him.Bell was convicted of manslaughter in relation to both killings in December 1968, in a trial held at Newcastle Assizes when she was 11 years old, and in which her actions were judged to have been committed under diminished responsibility. Her accomplice in at least one of the killings, 13-year-old Norma Joyce Bell (no relation), was acquitted of all charges. She is Britain's youngest female killer and was diagnosed with a psychopathic personality disorder prior to her trial.Bell was released from custody in 1980, at the age of 23. A lifelong court order granted her anonymity, which has since been extended to protect the identity of her daughter and granddau
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Judy Buenoano: When Greed Goes Too Far
26/02/2026 Duración: 13minJudias or "Judy" Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear and Judias Morris) was an American serial killer executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son, Michael Buenoano, and of the 1983 attempted murder of her boyfriend, John Gentry. Buenoano is also acknowledged to have been responsible for the 1978 death of another boyfriend, Bobby Joe Morris, in Colorado; however, by the time authorities tied Buenoano to Morris, she had already been sentenced to death in Florida.
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The Hidden Life of Charlie Brandt
26/02/2026 Duración: 10minCarl Eric "Charlie" Brandt was an American serial killer who murdered at least four female victims; one in Indiana and three others in Florida. Growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brandt shot his parents in their family home on the night of January 3, 1971, when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother and wounding his father. He spent one year at a psychiatric hospital before being released and was never criminally charged. 33 years later, on September 13, 2004, Brandt stabbed his wife and niece to death and then hanged himself in his niece's garage. This incident, Brandt's efficiency in killing his wife and niece, and his hidden obsession with human anatomy led investigators to look into the possibility that he had committed other murders since moving to Florida in 1973. The 1989 murder of a homeless woman near Brandt's home was solved as a result of the investigation, as Brandt was found to have been the perpetrator. The police suspect him in three other Florida murders, but his true num
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Kenneth McDuff: Paroled From Death Row
26/02/2026 Duración: 13minKenneth Allen McDuff was an American serial killer. He was convicted in 1966 of murdering 16-year-old Edna Sullivan, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Robert Brand, and Brand's cousin, 15-year-old Mark Dunnam, who was visiting from California. They were all strangers whom McDuff abducted after noticing Sullivan. McDuff repeatedly raped her before breaking her neck with a broomstick.McDuff was given three death sentences that were reduced to life imprisonment consequently to the 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Furman v. Georgia. He was paroled in 1989 and went on to kill again. He was executed in 1998, and is suspected to have been responsible for many other killings.
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Sister Godfrida: The Killer Nun
26/02/2026 Duración: 06minEarly in 1977, nurses employed at the public hospital in Wetteren, Belgium, began comparing notes on curious events in the 38-bed geriatric ward. The death rate had increased dramatically in recent months, with twenty-one patients lost in the span of a year. Other cases revealed signs of mistreatment, including catheters ripped from the bladders of elderly patients.The nurses started keeping a log and eventually, all fingers pointed to 44-year-old Sister Godfrida, a Josephite nun who was the Mother Superior of the geriatric ward. Born Cecile Bombeek, the product of a rigid Catholic home, Sister Godfrida adopted her religious name after joining the Apostolic Order of St. Joseph. In 1976, the aftermath of brain surgery left her addicted to morphine. And she would go to great lengths to feed this addiction.
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Stephen Griffiths: The Crossbow Cannibal
26/02/2026 Duración: 08minStephen Griffiths was a strange kid who became obsessed with death and murder from an early age. These obsessions led him to become infatuated with serial killers, and it wasn't long before he became one himself.