Born to Kill (2005)
Season 5
Born To Kill is a British true crime television series, made by Twofour Productions. Each episode is an in-depth look at the childhood, and formative years of serial killers., in an attempt to find out whether the individuals were born killers, or created by the environments they found themselves in.
12 Episodes
- Patrick Mackay: The Devil's Disciple
E2Patrick Mackay: The Devil's DiscipleFrom the age of ten, Patrick David Mackay, a.k.a. the Psychopath, was seen as a dangerous future killer of women. Though institutions could diagnose him correctly, none were set up to know what to do with him and released him. Under the dubious honor of being pronounced the most dangerous man in Britain (targeting those he saw as weak), only three of his eleven kills could be proved, landing him finally behind bars for life. - John Linley Frazier: The Killer Prophet
E3John Linley Frazier: The Killer ProphetIn 1970, in the midst of the hippie era, schizophrenic John Linley Frazier - hearing instructions from "God" - slew a Santa Cruz, California, family group of five (father, mother, two sons and a secretary) for environmental travesties. His twisted act and motive would earn him the moniker "Killer Prophet." - Cary Stayner: The Yosemite Park Slayer
E4Cary Stayner: The Yosemite Park SlayerCary Anthony Stayner - older brother of famous child abductee Steven Stayner (kept for seven years by pedophile Kenneth Parnell) - killed three tourists and a park worker in 1999. Considered a high-functioning autistic, he clung to a violent, childhood sexual fantasy for twenty years before finally acting on it. Living in the shadow of a missing sibling didn't help to derail that impulse. - The Hitchhiker SlayerE7
The Hitchhiker SlayerDuring 1976 and early 1977, female students at the University of California in Santa Barbara were terrorised by some lookalike murders, so-called because the victims closely resembled one another. Thor Christiansen struck while they were hitchhiking and desecrated their bodies after murdering them. - The Yorkshire RipperE11
The Yorkshire RipperFollowing the story of the serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe, who between 1975 and 1981 murdered 13 females and became known as The Yorkshire Ripper. But how did he get away with the crimes for so many years and was it nature or nurture that turned this chilled out hard-working man into a serial killer.
