4.5/1063 votesLoading...#1 - If Things Were Different
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2024
Ezdeth Highley reflects on her murder conviction, her transition while being incarcerated and what she's learned during her ongoing 60-year sentence.
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5.9/10130 votesLoading...#2 - Someone Else
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 8/30/2022
On death row for murder, Deryl Madison reflects on his struggles with mental illness and finds support from an anti-capital punishment advocate.
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6.1/10156 votesLoading...#3 - A Question of Loyalty
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/2022
Subjected to abuse throughout her life, Victoria Smith confessed to killing her husband. But someone close to the case has doubts about her admission.
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6.1/1069 votesLoading...#4 - Redemption
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2024
By helping his fellow inmates, Jamel Hatcher feels he's turned his life around — but not everyone believes his rehabilitation is genuine.
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6.2/10122 votesLoading...#5 - History Repeating
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/30/2022
Daniel Paulsrud says his fatal shooting of partner Leslie was an accident. But accounts from her family — and his handwritten notes — raise doubts.
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6.3/10127 votesLoading...#6 - Blackout
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/30/2022
James Walker claims he has no recollection of the 2001 murder he confessed to committing. An investigation into his traumatic past offers more context.
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6.4/10174 votesLoading...#7 - Honorable Intentions
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/2019
In December 1996, Mark Sam Arthur discovered his friend’s mother – Carmen Fonseca – badly beaten, at the hands of her husband. Whilst comforting the abused woman, Mark says he resolved to avenge her should he ever get the chance.
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6.4/1097 votesLoading...#8 - Serving Time
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 12/21/2022
Years after leaving the military, Toby Gregory claims his service and PTSD caused him to murder his wife, Inez. But Inez's family believes otherwise.
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6.5/10313 votesLoading...#9 - In Her Hands
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/2019
Why did 32-year-old Lindsay Haugen strangle and kill her 25-year-old lover Robert Mast in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Billings, Montana, on the 15th of September 2015? Revenge? Financial gain? Vicious compulsion? Mercy? Curiosity…? Well, it all depends on who you ask.
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6.5/10177 votesLoading...#10 - A Silent Order
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/2019
For two murders he had carried out on New Year’s Day in 1996, Hutchinson received the ultimate punishment.
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6.5/10112 votesLoading...#11 - A Mother's Love
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 12/21/2022
In prison for killing her husband, a woman details her past abuse and her turbulent marriage. Her mother also reflects on their strained relationship.
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6.5/1098 votesLoading...#12 - A Father's Shadow
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/21/2022
Enraged over his rebellious daughter's choice in men, an extremist father enlists his son in a terrifying plot of intimidation and murder.
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6.5/1091 votesLoading...#13 - Friendly Fire
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/21/2022
After fatally shooting a coworker, Thomas "TJ" Schiffens maintains his innocence. But details surrounding the crime suggest TJ had a motive.
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6.6/10213 votesLoading...#14 - 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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6.7/10122 votesLoading...#15 - 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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6.8/10222 votesLoading...#16 - 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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6.8/10188 votesLoading...#17 - 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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6.8/10119 votesLoading...#18 - 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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6.8/10119 votesLoading...#19 - 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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6.9/10243 votesLoading...#20 - 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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7.0/10275 votesLoading...#21 - 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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7.0/10263 votesLoading...#22 - 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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7.0/10240 votesLoading...#23 - 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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7.0/1057 votesLoading...#24 - 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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7.1/10189 votesLoading...#25 - 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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The Worst Episodes of I Am a Killer
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Death row inmates convicted of capital murder give a firsthand account of their crimes in this documentary series.
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Worst Episodes Summary
"If Things Were Different" is the worst rated episode of "I Am a Killer". It scored 4.5/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/16/2024. This episode scored 1.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Someone Else".