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The Worst Episodes of Very Scary People

Every episode of Very Scary People ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:HLN

Worst Episodes Summary

"Charles Manson: The Devil's Work, Part 1" is the worst rated episode of "Very Scary People". It scored 6.9/10 based on 50 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/24/2019. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Hillside Stranglers Part 2: She Walked Into the Trap".

  • Charles Manson: The Devil's Work, Part 1
    6.9/1050 votes
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    #1 - Charles Manson: The Devil's Work, Part 1

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/24/2019

    Charles Manson is a violent predator who has powers of persuasion that make it possible for him to convince his hippie followers to brutally murder innocent strangers

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hillside Stranglers  Part 2: She Walked Into the Trap
    6.9/1023 votes
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    #2 - The Hillside Stranglers Part 2: She Walked Into the Trap

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2022

    In the fall of 1977, bodies of young women begin piling up in LA. Almost all of the victims are nude, discarded on hillsides showing signs of torture. It is nearly a year before two murders 1200 miles away uncover the Hillside Stranglers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Charles Manson: The Devil's Work, Part 2
    7.0/1046 votes
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    #3 - Charles Manson: The Devil's Work, Part 2

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2019

    Charles Manson is a violent predator who has powers of persuasion that make it possible for him to convince his hippie followers to brutally murder innocent strangers

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Butcher Baker Part 2: The Girls Who Got Away
    7.2/1024 votes
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    #4 - The Butcher Baker Part 2: The Girls Who Got Away

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/9/2021

    The Butcher Baker was one of the most prolific serial killers in Alaska's history. For more than a decade, he kidnapped young women and brought them into the wilderness where he stalked them like prey. He got away with his crimes for years, living a double life as a soft-spoken baker and church-going family man by day, and prowling the streets and strip clubs at night, looking for more victims. But when one woman escaped and lived to tell her harrowing story, police made a shocking discovery inside Robert Hansen's home, which would expose the baker as the monster he truly was.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hillside Stranglers Part 1: A Pair of Serial Killers
    7.2/1021 votes
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    #5 - The Hillside Stranglers Part 1: A Pair of Serial Killers

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/26/2022

    In the fall of 1977, bodies of young women begin piling up in LA. Almost all of the victims are nude, discarded on hillsides showing signs of torture. It is nearly a year before two murders 1200 miles away uncover the Hillside Stranglers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Butcher Baker Part 1: Terror in the Wilderness
    7.3/1029 votes
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    #6 - The Butcher Baker Part 1: Terror in the Wilderness

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/9/2021

    The Butcher Baker was one of the most prolific serial killers in Alaska's history. For more than a decade, he kidnapped young women and brought them into the wilderness where he stalked them like prey. He got away with his crimes for years, living a double life as a soft-spoken baker and church-going family man by day, and prowling the streets and strip clubs at night, looking for more victims. But when one woman escaped and lived to tell her harrowing story, police made a shocking discovery inside Robert Hansen's home, which would expose the baker as the monster he truly was.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Aileen Wuornos: Monster Made, Part 2
    7.4/1043 votes
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    #7 - Aileen Wuornos: Monster Made, Part 2

    Season 1 Episode 8 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre, Part 1
    7.4/1048 votes
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    #8 - Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre, Part 1

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/21/2019

    More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978; Jim Jones has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to suicide, but the truth is more complicated and tragic than that.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Robert Durst Part 1: World’s Worst Fugitive
    7.4/1037 votes
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    #9 - Robert Durst Part 1: World’s Worst Fugitive

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/9/2020

    This is the unbelievable story of Robert Durst, the millionaire heir to a vast real estate fortune who has been linked to the deaths of his wife, his best friend, and his neighbor. For decades, Durst has been living under a cloud of suspicion. His first wife went missing in 1982, but the case went cold when there were no leads — and no body. Then, 18 years later, just as the investigation into her disappearance was re-opened, Durst’s best friend and confidante, Susan Berman, was shot dead inside her home. At the same time, Durst was hiding in Galveston, Texas disguised as a deaf mute woman. But when his neighbor’s dismembered body turns up in Galveston Bay, Durst’s story begins to unravel. He is quickly arrested, but he’s not in custody for long. After posting bail, he goes on the run. Where is Robert Durst?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • he Golden State Killer Part 2: Hiding in Plain Sight
    7.4/1024 votes
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    #10 - he Golden State Killer Part 2: Hiding in Plain Sight

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/2/2021

    he 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Black Widow: Part 1
    7.4/1016 votes
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    #11 - The Black Widow: Part 1

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 5/14/2023

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Happy Face Killer: Part 1
    7.4/1016 votes
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    #12 - The Happy Face Killer: Part 1

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 5/21/2023

    Keith Hunter Jesperson (born April 6, 1955) is a Canadian-American serial killer who murdered at least eight women in the United States during the early 1990s. He was known as the "Happy Face Killer" because he drew "smiley faces" on his numerous letters to the media and authorities. Many of his victims were sex workers and transients who had no personal connection to him. Strangulation was Jesperson's preferred method of murdering, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child. He was eventually arrested and convicted. He is serving multiple life sentences in prison, with no possibility of parole.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Happy Face Killer: Part 2
    7.4/1015 votes
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    #13 - The Happy Face Killer: Part 2

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 5/21/2023

    Keith Hunter Jesperson (born April 6, 1955) is a Canadian-American serial killer who murdered at least eight women in the United States during the early 1990s. He was known as the "Happy Face Killer" because he drew "smiley faces" on his numerous letters to the media and authorities. Many of his victims were sex workers and transients who had no personal connection to him. Strangulation was Jesperson's preferred method of murdering, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child. He was eventually arrested and convicted. He is serving multiple life sentences in prison, with no possibility of parole.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Robert Durst Part 2: Nobody Tells The Whole Truth
    7.5/1035 votes
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    #14 - Robert Durst Part 2: Nobody Tells The Whole Truth

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 8/9/2020

    Six weeks after jumping bail in Galveston, Texas, Robert Durst is caught on a store security camera in Pennsylvania shoplifting a sandwich and is quickly sent back to Galveston to stand trial for the murder of his neighbor, Morris Black. He would tell a jury he killed Black accidentally in self-defense, and he’d be acquitted of murder. But his story doesn’t end there. Durst decides to give a revealing look into his life in the six-part series “the Jinx” where in the final episode he is overheard in the bathroom muttering to himself, “killed them all, of course.” Before the episode airs, Durst is arrested for the murder of his best friend, Susan Berman. Now as he stands trial in Los Angeles, will his own words come back to haunt him?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dr Death Part 1: A License To Kill
    7.5/1033 votes
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    #15 - Dr Death Part 1: A License To Kill

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 8/16/2020

    Michael Swango – High school valedictorian; Distinguished Marine; Trusted Doctor… Serial Killer. For nearly two decades, this physician-turned-murderer left a trail of death and mayhem across two continents. Hear from the local and federal authorities who brought his reign of terror to an end, while facing down one of the most crafty and cunning medical serial killers in US history. Interviews include survivors from Michael Swango’s poisoning sprees, his former colleagues, families of his victims, federal and local investigators, and a Zimbabwe journalist who helped uncover a series of murders in a rural African hospital.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dr Death Part 2: You're Next
    7.5/1031 votes
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    #16 - Dr Death Part 2: You're Next

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 8/16/2020

    Dr. Michael Swango took an oath to “do no harm”… But he did just the opposite. Suspicious illnesses and deaths followed this once-trusted physician-turned-killer from hospital to hospital for nearly two decades and across two continents. His prey – unsuspecting coworkers and helpless patients. What would make a well-respected doctor become one of the most prolific serial killers in the U.S.? Interviews include survivors, Swango’s former colleagues, families of his victims, federal and local investigators, and a Zimbabwe journalist who helped uncover a series of murders in a rural African hospital.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Amityville Horror Part 2: Evil in the House
    7.5/1028 votes
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    #17 - The Amityville Horror Part 2: Evil in the House

    Season 3 Episode 6 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Slave Master: Part One
    7.5/1018 votes
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    #18 - The Slave Master: Part One

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2023

    In the mid 1980s, Kansas City women start to vanish; they all share one thing in common, an odd connection to the same man who calls himself "The Slave Master"; police must be just as wily if they want to bring down this serial killing sadist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • John Wayne Gacy: Evil Secret, Part 2
    7.6/1059 votes
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    #19 - John Wayne Gacy: Evil Secret, Part 2

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/17/2019

    In Chicago, community leader and part-time clown John Wayne Gacy leads a double life, transforming into a monster who preys on male teenagers and becomes the most prolific serial killer of his day.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • NorCal Rapist: Phantom Predator, Part 1
    7.6/1053 votes
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    #20 - NorCal Rapist: Phantom Predator, Part 1

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/31/2019

    In Northern California, a masked predator meticulously plans his sexual assaults by studying the habits and routines of his female prey; after 27 years on the loose, police close in on the man they believe to be the NorCal Rapist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • NorCal Rapist: Phantom Predator, Part 2
    7.6/1042 votes
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    #21 - NorCal Rapist: Phantom Predator, Part 2

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/31/2019

    In Northern California, a masked predator meticulously plans his sexual assaults by studying the habits and routines of his female prey; after 27 years on the loose, police close in on the man they believe to be the NorCal Rapist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre, Part 2
    7.6/1042 votes
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    #22 - Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre, Part 2

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/21/2019

    More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978; Jim Jones has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to suicide, but the truth is more complicated and tragic than that.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Night Stalker Part 1: Summer of Terror
    7.6/1038 votes
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    #23 - The Night Stalker Part 1: Summer of Terror

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/26/2020

    The summer of 1985 was one of the hottest Los Angeles had seen in a century. But terrified residents weren’t sleeping with the windows open, they weren’t sleeping at all. A killer was on the loose. And though the 1980s were considered the decade of the serial killer – one man stood out. He was the Night Stalker – his crimes were random, vicious and committed in the name of Satan. His victims ranged from toddlers to the elderly. And as the city was paralyzed with fear, he went unchecked while police struggled to stop him. Then the L.A.P.D. get a tip, a teenage boy spotted a suspicious car leaving a crime scene. Would it be enough to bring the Night Stalker to justice?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Co-ed Killer Part 1: The Murder Capital of the World
    7.6/1037 votes
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    #24 - The Co-ed Killer Part 1: The Murder Capital of the World

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/2/2020

    Santa Cruz, California was a mecca for the hippie generation in the early 1970’s, a beachside paradise where a university had recently opened. But this era of peace and love is shattered when female students began to go missing and their body parts start showing up around town. Police had no leads on who was committing these horrific crimes, but they soon realize that all the victims had something in common- they were last seen hitchhiking. A frantic public, desperate for answers, live in terror, waiting for the man they dubbed “The Coed Killer” to strike again. But no one could have expected that the person responsible, a local man, Edmund Kemper, was living among them, hiding in plain sight. He was a man with a dark history and a tortured childhood, a man who had killed years before and had now set his twisted sights on young women.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Firestarter Part 1: A Wall of Flames
    7.6/1025 votes
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    #25 - The Firestarter Part 1: A Wall of Flames

    Season 3 Episode 11 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A