MAKING A SERIAL KILLER

What makes a Serial Killer tick? For each of the multiple-murderers featured, Making a Serial Killer reveals the red flags that were missed.

America's youngest serial killer thought owning a loud dog was enough to kill one of his victims. One woman claimed she had the right to kill men because of what she had suffered when younger. 

Reasons given for murder by each killer is forensically dissected in a series with gripping detective stories, heart-breaking first-person reports and interview footage from interrogation rooms as detectives themselves try to understand the actions of the serial killers they sit opposite.

We witness the world's first trans-gender serial killer, we witness the probable next victim of a multiple killer released and hear the chilling voice of Connecticut's worst serial killer as he blames his victims for their death.

Making a Serial Killer, the series which tries to understand what makes someone kill, kill and kill again.

SEASON 1

DON MILLER

The serial killer who did a deal - he admitted to killing 4 women and revealed where he had buried them...but only if he got an earlier parole date. One day, he’ll be free. That day could be soon.

JESSE MATTHEW

Mystery surrounds the number of victims the ‘back-to-school-killer’ claimed as he stalked campuses for women to rape and kill.

TODD KOHLHEPP

With a woman chained as a sex-slave inside a metal container, her boyfriend already murdered, was a serial killer about to claim another life?

DONNA PERRY

How could the woman whose DNA had been found on a murder victim be a serial killer ‘rapist?’ Because the woman was once a man.

BRUCE MCARTHUR

For years the church-going family man was free to hook-up with and then kill gay men, His camouflage of respectability shielded him. Having chained a man to a bed, was Bruce McArthur about to claim a 9th victim?

WILLIE INMON

Bothered by too many questions from his local cops, Willie Inmon drove to a different Police precinct to make a complaint...only to reveal he was a three-times killer.

SHEILA LABARRE

Sexy and ready to use her charms, Sheila LaBarre enticed two men to her farmyard lair before killing them...with unidentified bones in a burn pit, cops now needed to know - who else she had killed.

WILLIAM DEVIN HOWELL

Off a road once called Gasoline Alley, a landscape gardener trawled for vulnerable women, killing 7 and burying them in ‘his garden’; a waste area behind a shopping mall.

ANTHONY SHORE

Every parent’s nightmare - the bogeyman who randomly snatches girls and kills them. Camouflaged as a telegraph repair man, Anthony Shore could pick his victims from a vantage point like no other.

RONALD DOMINIQUE

Hurricane Katrina claimed a lot of lives - but some of the bodies of men which turned up in southern Louisiana were actually killed by a short, fat man nobody suspected of being a serial killer.

SEASON 2

WILLIAM REECE

Evading capture for decades, William Reece has become synonymous with the notorious Texas Killing Fields, a place where bodies were dumped, and family’s worst fears realized.

STEWART WELDON

Stewart Rudolph Weldon's rampage in Springfield, Massachusetts, stunned America as the bound bodies of his victims were discovered hidden around his home, leaving the community grappling with the aftermath of his brutal crimes.

JASON SCOTT

Jason Thomas Scott, deemed a wannabe criminal mastermind by detectives, gradually escalates from voyeurism to theft, ultimately culminating in serial murder. When two mothers and their teenage daughters are murdered in a suburb of Maryland, investigators realise they’re dealing with a serial killer.

RICHARD BEASLEY

Richard Beasley, the ‘Craigslist Killer’, preys on job seekers with false promises of a new beginning, leading them to journey across America to meet him – only to be killed, buried in shallow graves, their identities and belongings stolen.

CODY LEGEBOKOFF

Aged 20, Cody Legebokoff becomes one of Canada’s youngest ever serial killers. Fuelled by a cocaine addiction, he targets vulnerable women and girls along the notorious Highway of Tears.

MATTHEW HOFFMAN

In suburban Ohio, a family vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a home smeared with blood. Upon investigation, authorities track their suspect, Matthew Hoffman, to a home filled with heaps of dead leaves — alongside a kidnapped girl found alive in the basement.

HOWELL DONALDSON III

A would-be basketball star's failed aspirations lead Howell Emanuel Donaldson III to murder. Random killings that plunge Tampa, Florida into fear and disbelief.

WILLIAM DAVIS

Detectives scramble to unravel the mystery behind a series of deaths in a Tyler, Texas hospital's intensive care unit, relying on surveillance footage to prevent further tragedy.

GARY HILTON

Gary Michael Hilton, an outdoorsman turned National Forest Serial Killer, preyed on hikers across the remote Appalachian Mountains, leaving a trail of brutal murders. The bravery and will to survive of his final target ultimately led to his arrest.

TODD LEE

Derrick Todd Lee, a charmer who became a lethal predator, targeting women in their homes across southeast Louisiana, leaving untold violence in his wake.

DURATION

Seasons 1 & 2: 20 x one hour

BROADCASTER

FilmRise

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2021 & 2024

PRODUCED BY

FirstLook TV

COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION

USA

Executive Producers

Will Hanrahan, Gillian Carter

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