An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.
Henri Landru targets lonely, vulnerable women left behind by the war and seduces them with promises of marriage; he then lures them to houses outside Paris, where they vanish.
An investigation into Herbert Rowse Armstrong, known to history as "The Hay Poisoner," received a conviction in 1922 of murdering his wife with arsenic.
Putting on the front of a kindly baby farmer, someone who takes in the children of unwed mothers for a fee, Amelia Dyer became the most prolific killer in British history.
Cleveland, Ohio became a notorious city in the 1930s, struggling under the Great Depression, crime and corruption even before a serial killer prowled its streets.
In 1878, a widow is killed in her own home, and the killer is her own servant; the young servant does not only kill and dismember her employer, she also steals her clothes, her property and her identity.
Revealing how Mary Pearcey began an affair with her victim's husband, how she inserted herself into the family's life and how she lured her rival to her death.
Peter Manuel was a Scottish serial killer who killed at least eight people between 1956 and 1958 in the Greater Glasgow area.
Nineteenth-century serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, aka the Black Widow, travels around northeast England and murders men for their life insurance.
The case of Dr. Ruxton, a physician who lived a quiet life in Lancaster, England, until he beat, strangled and stabbed his wife and housemaid to death in 1935.
During the 1940s, John George Haigh was thoroughly investigated by London Police for the deaths of six people whose bodies were found destroyed with acid.
The murders of two teenagers along the banks of the River Thames lead to one of Britain's most massive manhunts, and ultimately to the capture of Alfred Whiteway.
In 1955, London nightclub manager Ruth Ellis confesses to the murder of her abusive lover, then becomes the last woman to be executed in Britain.
Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were convicted for murdering her husband in a case that shocked society and fascinated Alfred Hitchcock.
London was rocked by the Blitz from the planes flying above during the WWII and a serial killer was loose on the streets below.
As Europe recovered from the damage of WWII, soldiers made their way home from the front line; one man brought back all the savagery and brutality of the fighting and killed two women.
John Christie kills at least eight women during the 1940s and 1950s, including his wife, while attempting to frame his neighbour.
In 1849, a man suddenly disappeared in Bermondsey, discovering that he had been brutally murdered.
In 1910, the infamous Dr. Crippen killed his wife and buried her in the basement.
Evil George Smith married and murdered several wives in the 1910's.