S01E01 Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death
In 1989, Richard Mallory is found shot dead in the brush off the side of a Florida highway, just the first of seven murdered men found in a similar setting. Their predator is Aileen Wuornos,...
First Blood
S01E05: Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler
African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing; Anthony Sowell found the control he was so desperate for when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim -- a woman only hoping to connect with a friendly face.
Overview
“First Blood" examines some of America’s most notorious serial killers through the prism of their first known kills to reveal what drove them to the moment when violent fantasy and curiosity became a devastating reality.
Episodes
S01E02 Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker
Before he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen was a successful businessman with a family in Anchorage, but his intense feelings would build into a dark desire to exert...
S01E03 Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
Known primarily for the murders of University of Florida students, a man's first murders were in his hometown of Shreveport, La.; the man dreamed of having a loving family as an adult, but his dark...
S01E04 Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
One of the most well-known serial killers, Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, where anyone could be a target of the sadistic murderer.
S01E05 Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler
African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing; Anthony Sowell found the control he was so desperate for when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim -- a woman only hoping to...
S01E06 Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer
The articulate and boastful killer is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz, where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s.
S01E07 Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the Peeler
In rural Epping, N.H., everyone knows Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loves her rabbits; her turbulent childhood in Alabama, a coma-induced vision, and the death of her wealthy husband all send Sheila on...
S01E08 Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry
Someone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, North Carolina and the police seem unable to stop it. What the police don't realise is that the cases all have a commonality: a connection with...
S01E09 Arthur Shawcross
The Genesee River Killer Serial killer Arthur Shawcross tells a lot of stories about his life before he began to kill. Abuse, bestiality, cannibalism...but is any of it true? And if not, what shaped his...
S01E10 Ronald Dominique
The Bayou Strangler Growing up gay and effeminate in the hyper-masculine Bayou was tough on Ronald Dominique. But that's not why Ronald began to kill African American men. An inability to connect and a jail...
