6.9/1050 votesLoading...#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
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6.9/1023 votesLoading...#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.
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7.0/1046 votesLoading...#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
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7.2/1024 votesLoading...#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.
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7.2/1021 votesLoading...#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.
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7.3/1029 votesLoading...#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.
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7.4/1043 votesLoading...#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.
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7.4/1048 votesLoading...#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.
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7.4/1037 votesLoading...#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?
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7.4/1024 votesLoading...#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.
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7.4/1015 votesLoading...#11 - The Black Widow: Part 1
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 5/14/2023
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7.4/1015 votesLoading...#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.
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7.4/1014 votesLoading...#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.
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7.5/1035 votesLoading...#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?
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7.5/1033 votesLoading...#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.
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7.5/1031 votesLoading...#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.
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7.5/1028 votesLoading...#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.
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7.5/1017 votesLoading...#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.
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7.6/1059 votesLoading...#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.
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7.6/1053 votesLoading...#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.
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7.6/1042 votesLoading...#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.
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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.
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7.6/1038 votesLoading...#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?
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7.6/1037 votesLoading...#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.
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7.6/1019 votesLoading...#25 - John Gotti Part 1: It Was Kill or Be Killed
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 7/17/2022
John Gotti's expensive suits and swagger earned him the nickname Dapper Don. But, in reality, he was a man to be feared. A ruthless, dangerous mafia gangster who ordered hits on his enemies, his friends, and anyone who crossed him.
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The Worst Episodes of Very Scary People
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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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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".