8.0/1025 votesLoading...#1 - Dennis Nilsen
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/27/2012
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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- 8.0/1032 votesLoading...
#2 - The Cross-Dressing Cannibal
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 9/17/2013
Profile of American serial killer H Clark.
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- 7.8/1024 votesLoading...
#3 - Charles Starkweather
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/20/2011
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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- 7.8/1026 votesLoading...
#4 - Gary Ridgway: The Green River Killer
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2012
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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- 7.8/1032 votesLoading...
#5 - Edmund Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/13/2012
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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- 7.8/1020 votesLoading...
#6 - Bill Suff 'The Riverside Killer'
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 4/6/2016
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- 7.7/1020 votesLoading...
#7 - Patrick Mackay: The Devil's Disciple
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/2014
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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- 7.7/1025 votesLoading...
#8 - The Sunset Strip Killers
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2014
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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- 7.6/1023 votesLoading...
#9 - Albert De Salvo
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/27/2011
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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- 7.6/1021 votesLoading...
#10 - The Briley Brothers: Butcher Brothers
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 4/2/2014
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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- 7.6/1016 votesLoading...
#11 - Hadden Clark: The Cross-Dressing Cannibal
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/2014
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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- 7.6/1016 votesLoading...
#12 - David Carpenter
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 8/12/2015
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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- 7.5/1018 votesLoading...
#13 - Pee Wee Gaskins
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/31/2012
Hearse driving redneck Donald Pee Wee Gaskins may only have stood 5'4" tall, but he would earn himself the nickname of the meanest man in America and become South Carolina's biggest mass murderer when police discovered his boasts of having his own private graveyard were real. Cops would eventually discover the bodies of 13 men women and children, but in prison Gaskins would claim to have killed more than a hundred - raping, torturing and then sinking their bodies in the swamps. And Gaskins would add to his tally in prison, pulling off the extraordinary murder of a death row inmate - blowing him up by remote control. But what created this feared psychopath and sexual sadist? Was it nature or nurture? The men that knew and pursued him, leading experts, and the loving daughter he confessed to examine whether Pee Wee Gaskins was born to kill?
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- 7.5/1020 votesLoading...
#14 - Bobby Joe Long
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 8/19/2015
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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- 7.4/1020 votesLoading...
#15 - The Devil's Disciple
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/8/2013
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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- 7.4/1022 votesLoading...
#16 - Donald Nielson: The Black Panther
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2014
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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- 7.4/1016 votesLoading...
#17 - The Yorkshire Ripper
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 7/31/2014
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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- 7.4/1017 votesLoading...
#18 - Levi Bellfield
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 6/24/2015
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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- 7.4/1014 votesLoading...
#19 - Trevor Hardy 'The Beast of Manchester'
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 3/30/2016
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- 7.3/1022 votesLoading...
#20 - The Black Panther
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/13/2013
Profile of the 1970s armed robber and kidnapper.
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- 7.3/1024 votesLoading...
#21 - John Linley Frazier: The Killer Prophet
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 3/26/2014
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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- 7.3/1022 votesLoading...
#22 - Sean Vincent Gillis (Dead End in Baton Rouge)
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/2015
Grisly documentary series examining serial killers. This edition examines the chilling case of Sean Gillis who stalked, raped and brutally murdered eight women.
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- 7.2/1038 votesLoading...
#23 - Richard Trenton Chase
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/13/2011
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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- 7.2/1030 votesLoading...
#24 - Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/2012
By the age of ten, heavy metal fan Richard Ramirez was sleeping in cemeteries. He would go on to spread terror throughout Los Angeles, preying on ordinary citizens as they slept in their homes. The Satan loving, drug fuelled burglar would rape, murder, and mutilate, taking pleasure in making his victims pray to Satan before him. Men, women, children and the elderly all fell victim as the police raced to catch the killer who defied all known theories about serial murder. So, was the Richard Ramirez born to kill? Warped by drugs? Or, was the Night Stalker schooled in murder during his poor childhood in the tough Texan border town of El Paso?
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- 7.2/1021 votesLoading...
#25 - David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/5/2012
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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The Best Episodes of Born to Kill?
Every episode of Born to Kill? ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Sky One
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".