8.1/1056 votesLoading...#1 - Lives Lost
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2024
Higinio Gonzalez killed a store clerk during an armed robbery at the age of 16. He swears it was an accident, but one county attorney isn't so sure.
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8.0/10297 votesLoading...#2 - Crossing the Line
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/2019
Cavona Flenoy was convicted of the murder of a Sudanese student, with prosecutors arguing that she had lured him in with a promise of sex before shooting him and stealing his wallet and car.
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7.7/10287 votesLoading...#3 - An Ordinary Boy
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/2019
At the age of 17 years old, Leo Little kidnapped, robbed and murdered Jehovah’s Witness minister Christopher Chavez.
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7.6/1039 votesLoading...#4 - Loved to Death
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2024
Convicted for killing his grandmother, Rex Groves insists he no longer holds murderous thoughts towards his family. But their trust isn't easily won.
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7.5/10332 votesLoading...#5 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/2018
Sentenced for a triple murder linked by police to Satanism, Miguel Angel Martinez becomes the youngest person ever on death row in Texas.
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7.3/10354 votesLoading...#6 - Killer in the Eyes of the Law
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2018
Kenneth Foster's death sentence is commuted just hours before his execution, but he asserts that his punishment under an unusual Texas law is unfair.
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7.3/10244 votesLoading...#7 - Living with the Consequences
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2018
Teenage drug abuser Joshua Nelson murders a friend in cold blood to steal his car, but other shocking motivations for the crime emerge at his trial.
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7.2/10470 votesLoading...#8 - Means to an End
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/29/2018
After years in solitary confinement, James Robertson admits to murdering his new cellmate as an escape to the better conditions on death row.
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7.2/10210 votesLoading...#9 - Trapped
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/2019
On October 13th 1984, after 15 years in an unhappy marriage Linda was planning to demand a divorce and according to Linda Couch that night a fight broke out and a gun discharged accidently, shooting Walter in the back of the head, killing him.
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7.2/10183 votesLoading...#10 - Owning It
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/2019
Charles Armentrout attempted to murder his father, and successfully murdered his grandmother.
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7.1/10188 votesLoading...#11 - The Mockingbird
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2018
Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.
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7.1/10176 votesLoading...#12 - Something Hideous
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/2019
In 1984, alongside two female accomplices, Toby Lynn Williams robbed and kidnapped at gunpoint his former employer, Johnny Moore, his wife, Deborah, and six-month-old baby.
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7.1/10117 votesLoading...#13 - The Bogeyman
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/21/2022
Sentenced to life without parole for Jason Johnson's horrific murder, Gary Black says he has no regrets, while Jason's family finds purpose in tragedy.
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7.0/10274 votesLoading...#14 - Intended Evil
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/26/2018
After shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new lover, Charles Thompson is charged with manslaughter -- until his ex dies due to a hospital error.
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7.0/10261 votesLoading...#15 - Family Affair
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/2018
High on a drug that fuels his paranoia, Deandra Buchanan fatally shoots his aunt, stepfather and girlfriend -- a crime he claims he can't recall.
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7.0/10239 votesLoading...#16 - Hunted
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/2018
Robert Shafer and a friend target a same-sex couple in a robbery, but their crime spins out of control into kidnapping and double murder.
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7.0/1055 votesLoading...#17 - Lost Innocence
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2024
Young love takes a dark turn when Ashley Morrison's plan to run away with her boyfriend, Christian Sims, results in the murder of his grandmother.
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6.9/10242 votesLoading...#18 - Declared Competent
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/3/2018
No one -- including David Lewis himself -- disputes that he committed murder. But Lewis's mental fitness remains in doubt despite his death sentence.
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6.9/1031 votesLoading...#19 - A Brutal Outcome
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2024
Makueeyapee Whitford claims the murder he committed was an act of self-defense against a rival tribe, but eyewitness testimonies tell a different story.
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6.8/10221 votesLoading...#20 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/31/2018
Convicted murderer Wayne Doty admits his guilt but requests that his execution be carried out by electric chair, a method no longer used in Florida.
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6.8/10186 votesLoading...#21 - Overkill
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/19/2019
In 1996, David Barnett murdered his adoptive grandparents, stabbing them over 20 times with five different knives. His motivation for doing so remained a mystery until it was discovered that David Barnett claimed to have been subjected to years of physical and sexual abuse, not by his grandparents but by their son, his adoptive father, John Barnett.
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6.8/10116 votesLoading...#22 - Rolling the Dice
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/30/2022
Accept a plea deal or go to trial? Three men receive radically different prison sentences for their roles in the fatal shooting of a cab driver.
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6.8/10116 votesLoading...#23 - A Bad Day
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/2022
David Cameron Keith recalls the day he took a young hostage before heading to an airport and killing the pilot who volunteered to take the child's place.
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6.7/10120 votesLoading...#24 - Family Matters
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 12/21/2022
A murderer recounts the crime that ended one life and ruined his own. Those affected, including a police officer and the victim's family, also speak.
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- 6.6/10212 votesLoading...
#25 - Pyro Joe
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/2019
After slashing the throat of 72-year-old Ruth Predmore when he went to rob her home to pay for his sister’s medical bills, Joseph Murphy spent 24 years on death row before finally having his sentence commuted by the then Governor of Ohio, John Kasich a week ahead of his scheduled execution.
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The Best Episodes of I Am a Killer
Every episode of I Am a Killer ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of I Am a Killer!
Death row inmates convicted of capital murder give a firsthand account of their crimes in this documentary series.
Genres:DocumentaryCrime
Best Episodes Summary
"Lives Lost" is the best rated episode of "I Am a Killer". It scored 8.1/10 based on 56 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/16/2024. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Crossing the Line".