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#1 - 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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#2 - 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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#3 - John Wayne Gacy
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2011
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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - The Angel of Death - Brverly Allitt
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 8/9/2012
A psychological profile of former nurse Beverley Allitt, who is currently serving 13 life sentences for murdering four children and injuring nine others at Grantham Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991. Psychologists and criminology experts explore the possible motives for her crimes, examining her behaviour during childhood, when she was known to be an attention seeker. The apparently caring nurse Beverely Allitt had only just joined the staff of Children's Ward 4 of Grantham Hospital when a substantial rise in young patient deaths began occurring. At first, no one could explain why children, some as young as six months, were arriving on the ward with only minor health problems, but leaving only days later dead. A shocked and seemingly uncomprehending public would eventually be informed the culprit was actually the very person who was meant to be caring for the children. During her 59 day stint as a nurse, 23-year-old Beverly Allitt, nicknamed The Angel of Death, attacked thirteen children, killing four. From a very early age, Allitt was known to be an attention seeker. Was her desire to be the centre of attention really the reason why she attacked such innocent children or was something far more psychologically disturbing the cause for this evil?
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#8 - The Manson Family
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/2/2012
The psychology of Charles Manson, an American cult leader whose followers murdered seven people in their California homes over two nights in August 1969. Detectives, lawyers and psychiatrists analyse what prompted the crimes, and examine how Manson was able to persuade his acolytes to take the lives of innocent people
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#9 - The Serial Killing Saviour
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/16/2012
The psychology of Herbert William Mullin who murdered 13 people in southern California in the early 1970s but claimed his victims were sacrificed to save the lives of others. The programme explores how investigators brought an end to his crimes and experts discuss what might have driven him to kill. There is also an interview with Mullin himself. Last in the series., Serial Killing Saviour: Born to Kill. To Kill? Series profiling infamous serial killers. Was the heinous serial killer Herbert William Mullin driven by nature or nurture? Featuring a unique interview with the murderer himself.
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#10 - The Bind and Torture Killer
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 10/23/2012
Wichita, Kansas is in the Midwest, right in the Bible belt of America. This normally peaceful place was rocked to the core in 1974 when the city discovered they had a killer in their midst. A family of four were brutally slain in their home, and this was to prove the start of a vicious killing spree that terrorised the community for 30 years. Dennis Rader was a church deacon, Scout leader and a local family man. He was also a monster who murdered 10 people in cold blood. Through his own extraordinary testimony we uncover in intimate and chilling detail how this pillar of the community led a double life as a heinous sexual sadist and serial killer. Rader's childhood seemed completely normal, so what was it that drove him to such depths of depravity? Was Dennis Rader born to kill?
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#11 - The Black Panther
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/13/2013
Profile of the 1970s armed robber and kidnapper.
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#12 - The Killer Prophet
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2013
In California in 1970, a 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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#13 - Yosemite Park Slayer
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/3/2013
Featuring the killing of walkers in Yosemite National Park
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#14 - 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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#15 - The Butcher Brothers
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/10/2013
Featuring a crime spree in Richmond, Virginia in 1979.
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#16 - The Cross-Dressing Cannibal
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 9/17/2013
Profile of American serial killer H Clark.
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#17 - 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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#20 - Cary Stayner: The Yosemite Park Slayer
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/2/2014
Cary Stayner was arrested following the disappearance of a group of female hikers who went missing in Yosemite National Park in 1999.
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#21 - 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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#22 - 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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#23 - The Hitchhiker Slayer
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/2014
During 1976 and early 1977, female students at the University of California in Santa Barbara were terrorised by some lookalike murders, so-called because the victims closely resembled one another. Thor Christiansen struck while they were hitchhiking and desecrated their bodies after murdering them.
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#24 - The Drive-by Slayers
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 3/19/2014
Between May 2005 and August 2006, Dale and Jeff Hausner who were later were assisted by Samuel Dieteman, turned drive-by shootings into sport as they kept score as they picked off their victims at random.
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#25 - The Serial Killing Couple
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 7/5/2014
The show examines the crimes of sadistic couple Paula Bernardo and Karla Homolka who carried out a series of despicable acts against different young women, including Karla's own sister.
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The Worst Episodes of Born to Kill?
Every episode of Born to Kill? ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Network:Sky One
Worst Episodes Summary
"Richard Trenton Chase" is the worst rated episode of "Born to Kill?". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/13/2011. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Albert De Salvo".