8.1/1021 votesLoading...#1 - The Back To School Killer Part 1: A Fear in the Air
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2022
When college-aged women go missing, the investigation leads authorities to a local star athlete.
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8.1/1021 votesLoading...#2 - The Back To School Killer Part 2: A Fear in the Air
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/12/2022
When college-aged women go missing, the investigation leads authorities to a local star athlete.
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8.0/1047 votesLoading...#3 - BTK Part 1: Bind, Torture, Kill
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/19/2020
In January 1974, four members of a family are brutally tortured and murdered in Wichita, Kansas. The murders shock the safe midwestern city, but little do they know, it is just the beginning. He calls himself “B.T.K.” which stands for Bind, Torture, Kill and for decades this bloodthirsty serial killer terrifies Wichita as he murders again and again and again. Wichita residents live in fear that they will be his next victim. Who is B.T.K. and will police capture this crazed killer before he strikes again?
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8.0/1028 votesLoading...#4 - The Iceman Part 1: The Murder Business
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/2021
He was a family man, living in a New Jersey suburb with his wife and three kids. But unbeknownst to his neighbors, Richard Kuklinski held a dark secret: he was the "Iceman" – a cold-blooded killer who was part-time mob hitman for hire, and full-time psychopath. This intimidating, oversized killer managed to evade the police with ease for years. That is, until a few smart investigators started connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated murders and a mystery man known as "Big Rich."
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8.0/1026 votesLoading...#5 - The Iceman Part 2: Trapping a Serial Killer
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 5/30/2021
He was a family man, living in a New Jersey suburb with his wife and three kids. But unbeknownst to his neighbors, Richard Kuklinski held a dark secret: he was the "Iceman" – a cold-blooded killer who was part-time mob hitman for hire, and full-time psychopath. This intimidating, oversized killer managed to evade the police with ease for years. That is, until a few smart investigators started connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated murders and a mystery man known as "Big Rich."
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8.0/1026 votesLoading...#6 - The Ken and Barbie Killers Part 1: Dead Ringer
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/5/2022
From 1987 to 1992, young women were abducted and murdered north of the U.S.-Canadian border. A tip led cops to an unlikely suspect: a blond, blue-eyed accountant who lived with his wife in a pink house in the suburbs.
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7.9/1071 votesLoading...#7 - John Wayne Gacy: Evil Secret, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/17/2019
This is the shocking and gruesome mystery of John Wayne Gacy, a popular Chicago businessman and part-time clown who was leading a double life in the 1970s. By day he was a community leader and by night a predator of young men.
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7.9/1064 votesLoading...#8 - Zodiac Killer: I Am the Zodiac, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/14/2019
The Zodiac Killer terrorizes Northern California in the late 1960s; he taunts the public with cryptic clues, threats of violence and ciphers that are supposed to lead to his identity, but mostly go nowhere.
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7.9/1035 votesLoading...#9 - Son of Sam Part 1: The Duke of Death
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/12/2020
He is among the most infamous serial killers in American history. From 1976 to 1977, David Berkowitz terrorized New York City – under his creepy self-given moniker: the Son of Sam. Using a large caliber. 44 revolver, he unleashed eight horrific shootings across three different boroughs- wounding seven people and killing six. Despite an extraordinary investigation, and hundreds of NYPD officers working the case– Berkowitz’s crime spree lasted over a year. How did he get away with it? What clues did investigators miss? The detectives who worked the case tell the true tale of what it was like in New York City with a gun-toting murderer on the loose.
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7.9/1034 votesLoading...#10 - Son of Sam Part 2: I Am A Monster
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/12/2020
In 1977, the city of New York was being stalked by a seemingly faceless serial killer known as, “Son of Sam.” But after his final shooting took him to Brooklyn, a twist of fate and a little luck- led to his capture. The episode features interviews with detectives and psychologists about what he said after his arrest, why he did it… and how this quiet, soft spoken 24-year old post office employee from Yonkers turned in a serial killing monster.
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7.9/1046 votesLoading...#11 - BTK Part 2: The Taunting
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/19/2020
B.T.K. stands for Bind, Torture, Kill., the name the serial killer gave himself. After terrorizing Wichita, Kansas with multiple killings from 1974-1991 he goes quiet. But he resurfaces in 2004 and residents of the midwestern city are once again petrified. For months he plays a cat and mouse game with law enforcement and the media taunting them as he seeks the attention he craves. But then… he makes a mistake. And when “BTK” is finally apprehended it is chilling to discover that he has been hiding in plain sight for years.
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7.9/1036 votesLoading...#12 - The Co-ed Killer Part 2: Thinking Murder All Day Long
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/2/2020
n April 1973, 24-year-old Edmund Kemper had murdered 6 coeds in and around the city of Santa Cruz, California, shaking the community to its core. But Kemper reached a breaking point, and what the public would soon learn, was almost impossible to believe. Told through interview footage with Kemper himself, as well as people who were there, this episode takes viewers inside the mind of a serial killer, from a childhood wrought with abuse through an early life of violence. Kemper outlines his motives for the killing spree and describes the terrifying methods he used to slaughter young women, operating right under everyone’s noses. As Kemper explains in great detail, he spared no one from his madness, not even his own flesh and blood. With his willingness to tell his story so openly, Kemper would go on, years later, to assist the FBI in profiling serial killers, offering insight into how, and why, killers like himself commit such horrific acts.
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7.9/1027 votesLoading...#13 - The Golden State Killer Part 1: Hunting Human Beings
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/2/2021
The Golden State Killer invaded homes, tortured and terrorized families, committed fifty brutal rapes and thirteen vicious murders, and was on the loose for forty-four years. Cold case Investigators chased down thousands of leads without ever getting their man. But a new forensic tool breaks the case and exposes this remorseless predator – Joseph DeAngelo – his family, his background, and his life story; and finally, scores of victims get a measure of long-awaited justice.
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7.8/1050 votesLoading...#14 - Aileen Wuornos: Monster Made, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/7/2019
A look at the deal makers and hangers-on who attached themselves to Aileen Wuornos, who is known as America's first female serial killer.
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7.8/1053 votesLoading...#15 - Zodiac Killer: I Am the Zodiac, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2019
The Zodiac Killer terrorizes Northern California in the late 1960s; he taunts the public with cryptic clues, threats of violence and ciphers that are supposed to lead to his identity, but mostly go nowhere.
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7.8/1025 votesLoading...#16 - The Dating Game Killer Part 1: Smooth Talker
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/23/2021
In 1968, an 8-year-old girl is abducted and raped. The Los Angeles police were just moments from catching her attacker, but he eludes them and escapes to New York where he kills a young woman. This is the beginning of a monstrous killing spree of young girls and women. When police discover who is behind these horrific murders, they are shocked to find it's a handsome, charming photographer. With a string of murders already behind him, incredibly, Rodney Alcala is chosen to appear on the national game show, "The Dating Game." What happens next makes Rodney Alcala one of the most horrific serial killers in US history.
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7.8/1022 votesLoading...#17 - The Firestarter Part 2: Chasing a Pyromaniac
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 6/6/2021
A string of horrifying fires plagues California in the Eighties and Nineties, one of them fatally trapping four people inside. Are these raging infernos accidental or is someone setting them deliberately? Years of meticulous investigation leads law enforcement to uncover a wave of terrifying fires set by a man some call the most prolific arsonist of the Twentieth century, who turns out to be none other than renowned fire investigator Captain John Orr. In a game of cat and mouse, colleagues discover dark secrets behind the man who thrived on the chaos of igniting the fires he was supposed to be fighting.
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7.8/1025 votesLoading...#18 - The Ken and Barbie Killers Part 2: I Kidnapped A Girl
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2022
From 1987 to 1992, young women were abducted and murdered north of the U.S.-Canadian border. A tip led cops to an unlikely suspect: a blond, blue-eyed accountant who lived with his wife in a pink house in the suburbs.
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7.8/1022 votesLoading...#19 - Sammy The Bull Gravano Part 1
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 6/19/2022
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano was the right-hand man to mafia kingpin, John Gotti. He carried out multiple murders. After his arrest, he broke the sacred oath of silence and cut a deal with the government, testifying against his former boss.
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7.8/1021 votesLoading...#20 - The Cross Country Killer Part 2: The Kill Kits
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 7/10/2022
Samantha Koenig was closing shop in Anchorage, Alaska, when a man known in the community as a business owner and caring father, approaches. After kidnapping Samantha, an intense manhunt took authorities on a cross country investigation.
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7.8/1014 votesLoading...#21 - The Twin: Part Two
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 4/30/2023
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7.8/1016 votesLoading...#22 - The Times Square Killer: Part 1
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 5/7/2023
Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946) is a convicted serial killer and rapist who murdered at least eighteen young women and girls in New York and New Jersey between 1967 and 1980. He was nicknamed as: The New York Ripper, The Torso Killer and The Times Square Killer. Cottingham was arrested on May 22, 1980 and convicted of numerous murders. He was sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison. In 2009, decades after his first five murder convictions, Cottingham told a journalist that he had committed at least 80 to 100 "perfect murders" of women in various regions of the United States.
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7.7/1035 votesLoading...#23 - The Night Stalker Part 2: I Will Be Avenged
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/26/2020
Through the record-breaking heat of the spring and summer of 1985 in California, a savage killer was on the loose. The Night Stalker had been linked to at least 15 murders from children to the elderly, male and female, wealthy and poor. Then police get a break – a tip from a teenage boy leads to the identity of the Night Stalker. Twenty-four hours later a mob of angry citizens track him down and capture him. But the man who terrified the nation for more than a year isn’t finished yet. His trial is a new, bizarre chapter that has some wondering if the Night Stalker will escape justice.
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7.7/1029 votesLoading...#24 - The Amityville Horror Part 1: Murdered One By One
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/16/2021
In November 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were found murdered inside their beautiful seaside home. The mother, father, and four of their children were shot in the back as they lay sleeping in their beds. The bodies were discovered by the only family member left alive – the oldest son Butch DeFeo. What really happened that night in Amityville? Who murdered the DeFeo family and why? What caused the strange events in the house near the sea? Parapsychologists and psychics descend on the house to investigate claims of levitating objects and demonic possession in an attempt to explain why, 50 years later, this house is still a source of nightmares.
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7.7/1024 votesLoading...#25 - The Dating Game Killer Part 2: The Bite Mark
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2021
In 1968, an 8-year-old girl is abducted and raped. The Los Angeles police were just moments from catching her attacker, but he eludes them and escapes to New York where he kills a young woman. This is the beginning of a monstrous killing spree of young girls and women. When police discover who is behind these horrific murders, they are shocked to find it's a handsome, charming photographer. With a string of murders already behind him, incredibly, Rodney Alcala is chosen to appear on the national game show, "The Dating Game." What happens next makes Rodney Alcala one of the most horrific serial killers in US history.
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The Best Episodes of Very Scary People
Every episode of Very Scary People ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Very Scary People!
A chronicle of the twisted lives of some of the most frightening, diabolical characters in recent history. Each two-hour episode traces the heinous, criminal acts...
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Back To School Killer Part 1: A Fear in the Air" is the best rated episode of "Very Scary People". It scored 8.1/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/12/2022. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Back To School Killer Part 2: A Fear in the Air".