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The Best Episodes of Born to Kill?

Born To Kill is a British true crime television series, made by Twofour Productions. Each episode is an in-depth look at the childhood, and formative...

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  1. 8.0/10(25 votes)

    #1 - Dennis Nilsen

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    When the discovery of human flesh blocking the drains of an address in London led to the arrest of 37 year old civil servant Dennis Nilsen, police were staggered when he calmly told them he had killed at least 15 young men. At the time, Nilsen would go down in history as Britain's most prolific serial killer, and as police interviewed the matter-of-fact Scot, they uncovered the extraordinary story of a man obsessed with death since childhood. The lonely job centre executive would strangle his victims and keep their corpses for company, sitting them in chairs, talking to them and watching television together, before butchering burning or boiling the body-parts. Was Dennis Nilsen obsession with death fused during his childhood? Or, was his instinct to kill hard-wired from birth?

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  2. 8.0/10(32 votes)

    #2 - The Cross-Dressing Cannibal

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    Profile of American serial killer H Clark.

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  3. 7.9/10(33 votes)

    #3 - Edmund Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer

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    When body parts began washing up on the beaches of a peaceful Californian seaside town, police realised someone was hunting, abducting, murdering and dismembering female co-eds. What they didn't realise was; the killer was in their midst - drinking with them at their favourite local bar. Cops considered the 6'9' inch Edmund Kemper a gentle giant, little did they know that as a teenager he'd murdered his grandparents, he'd fooled psychiatrists into releasing him from secure hospital after just 5 years, and while he was socialising with police officers he was living out his bizarre sexual fantasies with the corpses of young co-eds. Edmund Kemper would kill and dismember 6 young college girls before turning on his mother and her best friend. Was his mind was twisted by his upbringing in a broken home and volatile relationship with a domineering mother? Or was the Co-ed Butcher born to kill?

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  4. 7.8/10(27 votes)

    #4 - Charles Starkweather

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    In 1958 the real ‘Natural Born Killers’, Charles Starkweather and his teenage girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate, embarked on an 8-day killing spree that left 10 people dead and many more fearing for their lives. The duo was captured in January 1958 and Starkweather was executed on the electric chair little over a year later…

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  5. 7.8/10(20 votes)

    #5 - Bill Suff 'The Riverside Killer'

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  6. 7.7/10(20 votes)

    #6 - Patrick Mackay: The Devil's Disciple

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    S5:E2

    Once dubbed 'the most dangerous man in Britain', Patrick Mackay was responsible for a string of bizarre murders during the 1970s. Was Patrick Mackay born to kill?

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  8. 7.7/10(25 votes)

    #7 - The Sunset Strip Killers

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    S5:E12

    During the summer of 1980, Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy carried out a series of shocking murders in Los Angeles, leaving a trail of blood in their wake

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  9. 7.6/10(23 votes)

    #8 - Albert De Salvo

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    He was one of the infamous serial killers in modern American history. Better known as the Boston Strangler, De Salvo’s reign of terror claimed at least 13 victims. A violent sexual deviant, he confessed to all the murders – yet some doubt his authenticity.

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  10. 7.6/10(28 votes)

    #9 - Gary Ridgway: The Green River Killer

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    In 1982, when the bodies of 3 women were discovered beneath the surface of Seattle's Green River, no-one realised that it was the beginning of an extraordinary killing spree that would baffle police for 19 years. The 'Green River Killer' would become the most prolific serial killer in US history, claiming the lives of more than four dozen victims, but it would take until 2001 before DNA testing solved the mystery of his identity. To his friends and family, Gary Ridgway was a mild mannered truck painter and a loving husband, but for 19 years he had prowled Seattle's red light areas, picking up young women, strangling them during intercourse, dumping their bodies in the woods, and sometimes returning to have sex with the corpses. Featuring video of his startling confessions - the cops that pursued him, the attorneys who prosecuted and defended him, leading experts, school-friends, and the wife who spent 16 loving years with her dream man, attempt to unravel what had created this monster. Had he been warped by his unusual relationship with mother? Or was the Green River Killer a product of nature - born to kill?

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  11. 7.6/10(21 votes)

    #10 - The Briley Brothers: Butcher Brothers

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    S5:E5

    In 1979, a violent crime spree rocked the town of Richmond, Virginia. The discovery of a triple murder led police to a local gang of brothers.

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  12. 7.6/10(16 votes)

    #11 - Hadden Clark: The Cross-Dressing Cannibal

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    When eccentric Hadden Clark was arrested for the murder of a young girl in Maryland, he claimed he was also responsible for other murders. Was Hadden Clark Born to Kill?

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  13. 7.6/10(16 votes)

    #12 - David Carpenter

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    Spine-chilling documentary series examining serial killers. After being convicted of attempted murder and kidnapping, David Carpenter went on to kill five women.

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  14. 7.5/10(20 votes)

    #13 - Bobby Joe Long

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    Grisly documentary series examining serial killers. This edition examines the chilling case of Bobby Joe Long who raped 50 people and murdered nine.

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  15. 7.4/10(22 votes)

    #14 - John Wayne Gacy

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    He was known as the ‘Killer Clown’, and buried his young male victims under the crawl space of his suburban home. John Wayne Gacy was a monster in human form – a pillar of the community who viciously snuffed out the lives of more than thirty men. He’d prowl the streets at night, luring hitchhikers and runaways back to his home where he’d torture and kill them. Gacy was found guilty in 1980 and sentenced to death…

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  16. 7.4/10(21 votes)

    #15 - The Devil's Disciple

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    Patrick Mackay is a British serial killer who confessed to murdering eleven people in the mid 1970s and considered by police to be a suspect in at least a dozen other killings over the previous two years.

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  17. 7.4/10(22 votes)

    #16 - Donald Nielson: The Black Panther

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    In the mid-1970s, Donald Nielson aka the Black Panther committed a string of burglaries, armed robberies and murders in north-east England.

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  18. 7.4/10(16 votes)

    #17 - The Yorkshire Ripper

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    S5:E11

    Following the story of the serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe, who between 1975 and 1981 murdered 13 females and became known as The Yorkshire Ripper. But how did he get away with the crimes for so many years and was it nature or nurture that turned this chilled out hard-working man into a serial killer.

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  19. 7.4/10(21 votes)

    #18 - Peter Moore 'The Man in Black'

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  20. 7.4/10(14 votes)

    #19 - Trevor Hardy 'The Beast of Manchester'

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  21. 7.3/10(39 votes)

    #20 - Richard Trenton Chase

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    Known as the Vampire of Sacramento, Richard Trenton Chase was a deranged monster who slaughtered men, women and children in a bloody rampage that shook the Californian State Capital…

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  22. 7.3/10(26 votes)

    #21 - Ted Bundy

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    Ted Bundy orchestrated a campaign of terror that stretched across the United States. Between 1974 and 1978 he lured a series of pretty, dark haired women to gruesome deaths. Described as handsome and charming, Ted didn’t fit the bill of a conventional murderer. Until the end, Bundy remained arrogant and defiant, choosing to conduct his own defence in the trial. Bundy was sent to the electric chair in 1989, whilst hundreds of people cheered his death outside the prison…

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  23. 7.3/10(22 votes)

    #22 - David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam

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    The Son of Sam would become the most notorious killer in New York's history. Shooting women or couples parked in lover's lanes, the mystery killer spread terror through the streets of the metropolis, leading young women to cut and dye their hair for fear of becoming the killer's next victim. Writing to the police and press, the Son of Sam would claim to relish his 'work' and that he was programmed to kill. A massive manhunt would lead police to David Berkowitz - a lonely young man, adopted at birth, who claimed he was commanded to do the devil's work by a neighbour's barking dog. So was the Son of Sam driven by demons? Wreaking a bitter revenge fuelled by mental illness? Or was he programmed from birth to be a serial murderer?

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  24. 7.3/10(22 votes)

    #23 - The Black Panther

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    Profile of the 1970s armed robber and kidnapper.

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  25. 7.3/10(24 votes)

    #24 - John Linley Frazier: The Killer Prophet

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    In 1970, a California doctor and his young family were executed and dumped in the swimming pool of their hilltop home. The killer believed that he was on a mission from God.

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  26. 7.3/10(18 votes)

    #25 - Levi Bellfield

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    Spine-chilling documentary series examining brutal serial killers. This edition reviews the case of Levi Bellfield who murdered three women, including Milly Dowler.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dennis Nilsen" is the best rated episode of "Born to Kill?". It scored 8/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/27/2012. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Cross-Dressing Cannibal".