"THE SERIAL KILLERS" features 13 half-hour insightful and
disturbing interviews with some of America's most notorious murderers
Michael Bruce Ross (The "Roadside Killer") -- A convicted killer who destroyed at least six young women. Ross faces death by electrocution at Osborn Correctional Institute, Connecticut.
Arthur Shawcross (The "Monster of the Rivers") -- Released after serving a life sentence for a child murder, turned to killing prostitutes, leaving many in watery graves. He is now serving ten consecutive sentences of 25 years to life - 250 years in all.
Catherine May Wood & Gwendolyn Graham (The "Lethal Lovers") -- In two separate episodes, the lovers who conspired to murder at least five helpless patients, "out of boredom" and as part of a bizarre love pact.
Douglas Clark (The "Sunset Slayer") -- Clark is responsible for at least six homicides of California prostitutes. He would cruise Sunset Boulevard seeking out hookers who were willing to perform oral sex. Clark is sentenced to death by electrocution.
Harvey Louis Carignan ("Harv the Hammer") -- Described as, the world's worst serial killer, the immensely strong Carignan bludgeoned his female victims to death with a claw hammer. One woman survived a horrific attack and lived to testify. Carignan is now serving life in the Minnesota Correctional Facility.
Theodore Robert Bundy ("The Lady Killer") -- Executed in 1989, Bundy had killed at least 35 young women and escaped from custody twice. He was caught after murdering two co-eds and brutally attacking two others in a dormitory in Tallahassee, Florida.
William Heirens ("The Lipstick Killer") -- Known to have killed at least two women and a little girl whom he dismembered after abducting her from her bedroom in the dead of night. America's longest serving killer held at Vienna Correctional Facility, Illinois.
Kenneth Allen McDuff ("The Broomstick Killer") -- He killed three teenagers and was sentenced to death. However, due to a corruption scandal involving his attorney and the Parole Board Chairman James Cranberry, McDuff was soon freed to kill again and again; possibly 18 times before being arrested. He now awaits death at Huntsville.
Kenneth Bianchi ("The Hillside Strangler") -- Bianchi and his accomplice Angelo Buono left the naked bodies of their brutalized victims on hillsides around Los Angeles. As part of a plea bargain to escape the death penalty, Bianchi agreed to testify against Buono. Bianchi's defense plea of insanity was rejected and he is now serving a life sentence.
Henry Lee Lucas (The "Confession Killer") -- Arguably the world's most notorious serial killer who has admitted to at least 136 slayings but along with his accomplice, Ottis Tolle, is suspected of a total of 240. Housed in Huntsville, Texas, Lucas will be executed by lethal injection. This is his final media interview.
Ronald DeFeo, Jr. ("The Amityville Horror") -- This mass murderer slaughtered his family of six, shooting them as they slept. The last to meet her death was his eighteen-year-old sister, Dawn, who was shot at point blank range. DeFeo is serving six sentences of 25 years to life.
James A. Paul ("The Executioner") -- Using weapons stolen from the farm where he worked, Paul is responsible for at least three execution-style slayings committed over a few days. Paul is serving the first of three consecutive life sentences at Trenton State Prison, New Jersey.
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