Most Evil S2 Ep5 Cult Members

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths. 05 "Cult Followers" aired on September 9, 2007 and features:

Ron Luff, Jeffrey Lundgren, Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Jim Jones.

Serial Killers on the Loose

JULY 19, 2017 - 9 Current Serial Killers Still At Large

When you think of serial killers, well-known murderers of the past like John Wayne Gacy or Charles Manson come to mind. They’re even famous enough to find their way onto slick apparel in our shop. These nine current serial killers, however, have eluded identification and could be lurking near you.

The Long Island Killer

Jeff Davis 8 Killers

Daytona Beach Killer

The B1 Butcher

The Maryvale Shooter

The West Mesa Bone Collector

Brazil’s Rainbow Maniac

The Johannesburg Killer

Highway Serial Killings

An ever-elusive bunch, serial killers are perhaps the most unsettling phenomenon of modern life. While there are many serial killers out hunting today, it’s comforting to know that the killers featured in these six documentaries aren’t hiding out in your neighborhood.

Most Evil S2 Ep4 Unsolved Murders

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths. and on this episode : The Lipstick Killer (possibly William Heirens), Black Dahlia (possibly George Hill Hodel), James McVey killers

The Moors Murders Code

16th May 2017 - CODE OF THE KILLERS Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley’s twisted secret notes may reveal burial site of last missing victim’s body.

Hopes that lost remains of Kieth Bennett, 12, could be found with help of classified coded letters...

CODED letters between Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley may help find the last missing body of a victim.

The Sun on Sunday asked to view the notes written after the killers’ 1965 arrest under Freedom of Information laws — but were stopped by the Ministry of Justice.

Ian Brady has never revealed where he buried the body of Keith Bennett, 12.

Evil Myra Hindley would write in code to Brady.

Kieth Bennett's remains have never been found.

A spokesman said making them public could end hopes of one day finding the grave of Keith Bennett, 12.

He added: “The information in this file potentially still retains value in assisting police.

“Combined with new information, or reinterpreted, it could prove key in finally bringing this case to a conclusion.”

Leopold and Loeb The Perfect Crime Trial of the Century

The murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold that shocked the nation is best remembered decades later for the twelve-hour long plea of Clarence Darrow to save his clients from the gallows. His summation, rambling and disorganized as it was at times, stands as one of the most eloquent attacks on the death penalty ever delivered in an American courtroom. Mixing poetry and prose, science and emotion, a world-weary cynicism and a dedication to his cause, hatred of bloodlust and love of man, Darrow took his audience on an oratorical ride that would be unimaginable in a criminal trial today.... There would have been no arrests and no trial but for what the prosecutor called "the hand of God at work in this case." A pair of horn-rimmed tortoise shell glasses were discovered with the body of Bobby Franks. The glasses, belonging to Nathan Leopold, had slipped out of the jacket he removed as he struggled to hide the body. They had an unusual hinge and could be traced to a single Chicago optometrist, who had written only three such prescriptions, including the one to Leopold. When questioned about the glasses, Leopold said that he must have lost them on one of his frequent birding expeditions. He was asked by an investigator to demonstrate how the glasses might have fallen out of his pockets, but failed after a series of purposeful trips to dislodge the glasses from his coat. Questioning became more intense.

Leopold said that he spent the twenty-first of May picking up girls in his car with Loeb and driving out to Lincoln Park. Loeb, when questioned separately, confirmed Leopold's alibi. State's attorney Robert Crowe, heading the investigation, was skeptical. Among the items found in a search of the Leopold home was a letter written by Nathan strongly suggesting that he and Loeb had a homosexual relationship. Still, prosecutor's were on the verge of releasing the two suspects when two additional pieces of evidence surfaced. First, typewritten notes taken from a member of Leopold's law school study group were found to match the the type from the ransom note, despite the fact that an earlier search of the Leopold home turned up a typewriter with unmatching type. Then came a statement from the Leopold family chauffeur, made in the hope of establishing Nathan's innocence, that spelled his doom. He said he was certain that the Leopold car, the one the boys claimed they had spent the night driving around with girls, had not left the garage on the day of the murder.

Loeb confessed first, then Leopold. Their confessions differed only on the point of who did the actual killing, with each pointing the finger at the other. Leopold later pleaded with Loeb to admit to killing Franks but, according to Leopold, Loeb said, "Mompsie feels less terrible than she might, thinking you did it and I'm not going to take that shred of comfort away from her."

The Loeb and Leopold families hired Clarence Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach to represent the two boys. Nathan said his first impression of Darrow was one of "horror", unimpressed as he was by Darrow's unruly hair, rumpled jacket, egg-splattered shirt, suspenders, and askew tie. His opinion of Darrow would soon change. He later described his attorney as a great, simple, unaffected man, with a "deep-seated, all-embracing kindliness." In his book Life Plus Ninety-Nine Years, Leopold wrote that if asked to name the two men who "came closest to preaching the pure essence of love" he would say Jesus and Clarence Darrow.

It was Darrow's decision to change the boys' initial pleas to the charges of murder and kidnapping from "not guilty" (suggesting a traditional insanity defense) to "guilty." The decision was made primarily to prevent the state from getting two opportunities to get a death sentence. With "not guilty" pleas, the state had planned to try the boys first on one of the two charges, both of which carried the death penalty in Illinois, and if it failed to win a hanging on the first charge, try again on the second. The guilty plea also meant that the sentencing decision would be made by a judge, not by a jury. Darrow's decision to plead the boys guilty undoubtedly was based in part on his belief that the judge who would hear their case, John R. Caverly, was a "kindly and discerning" man. With the public seemingly unanimous in calling for death, Darrow did not want to face a jury. In his summation Darrow noted, "where responsibility is divided by twelve, it is easy to say ‘away with him'; but, your honor, if these boys are to hang, you must do it--...it must be by your cool, premeditated act, without a chance to shift responsibility."

The defense hoped to build its case against death around the testimony of four psychiatrists, called "alienists" at the time. The best talent psychiatric talent 1924 had to offer was sought out by both sides to examine the defendants.

Joel Rifkin Biography

A LOOK BACK: NECROPHILIAC SERIAL KILLER JOEL RIFKIN ARRESTED, CONFESSED TO KILLING 17 VICTIMS...

MINEOLA, LONG ISLAND — On June 28, 1993, Joel Rifkin, the unemployed landscaper who had killed 17 women and was driving around with one of their corpses in the back of his truck, was arrested.

State troopers, after noticing Rifkin’s vehicle didn’t have a license plate, pursued him on the Southern State Parkway in his 1984 Mazda pickup in what witnesses described as a “slow speed chase.” It ended when Rifkin crashed into a utility pole in Mineola, Long Island. When officers pulled back a blue vinyl tarp, they were horrified to find a body.

Rifkin immediately confessed to police that he killed the woman — and 16 others. Eventually, Rifkin would be described as the most prolific serial killer in the history of New York.

The woman found in his truck was Tiffany Bresciani, a prostitute who was also the girlfriend of punk band Reagan Youth‘s singer Dave “Insurgent” Rubenstein. Both Bresciani and Rubenstein struggled with heroin addiction, and Bresciani had been working the streets of the Lower East Side to support their habits. Soon after Bresciani was discovered to have been murdered by Rifkin, Rubenstein committed suicide.

Rifkin’s MO was picking up prostitutes for sex, and then killing his victims by suffocating or strangling them.

Rifkin was able to give the troopers detailed information on the victims. He discussed how he favored white, Latina, and Asian women, and how he got rid of the bodies by putting them in oil drums and dumping them in the Hudson and Harlem rivers. He also recalled dumping one woman’s body in a creek, and another in a town dump in Westchester.

When the cops were able to search Rifkin’s room at his mother’s house, they found numerous trophies such as underwear, jewelry, makeup, and wallets that could be connected to unsolved murders. In the garage they found a chain saw and other tools coated with human blood and flesh.

Rifkin came from a prominent family: He was the adopted son of the late, respected East Meadow school board vice president, Bernard Rifkin.

However he struggled academically, and was described a a shy child who believed that he was a disappointment to his very intelligent father. He was also bullied by his classmates and excluded from events due to his appearance and poor social skills, which led to him isolating himself even more. He reportedly immersed himself in reading about serial killers and watching films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, in which he could watch women being strangled.

Once in college, he gained some independence when his parents gifted him a car. He used it to troll Manhattan for prostitutes.

In March 1989, he made his first kill. After inviting a woman — later identified through DNA as Heidi Balch — back to his family home, Rifkin had sex with her, and then suffocated her. He then removed her teeth and, using an X-Acto knife, dismembered her body into six parts which he distributed in different areas throughout Long Island, New York City, and New Jersey.

After his detailed descriptions of his crimes, Rifkin’s guilt was never in doubt, but at trial, his lawyer claimed that he was legally insane. But the prosecution’s expert witness described the 34-year-old as a sadist and necrophiliac who even as a child was fascinated by strangulation.

Jurors voted unanimously on their first ballot that he was guilty of murder, agreeing that he did not meet the legal definition for insanity because he knew what he was doing when he strangled his victims, and knew it was wrong. Prosecutors claimed that Rifkin knew that he was a serial killer, and had studied books on police procedures so that he could attempt to outsmart police.

Rifkin was found guilty of nine counts of second degree murder in 1994 and sentenced to 203 years to life in prison. He is currently behind bars at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.

He has also been named as a suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders, attributed to “LISK,” or the Long Island Serial Killer. In an April 2011 prison interview with Newsday, Rifkin denied having anything to do with the Gilgo murders. But experts and victims’ rights advocates, however, say Rifkin’s statements have no value.

Most Evil S2 E2 Stalkers

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths. This episode contains names of : Richard Farley, Robert John Bardo, Mark David Chapman, Gerald Atkins.

Most Evil S2 E1 Jealousy

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths.

Samuel Collins, Clara Harris, Andrew Cunanan, Agustin Garcia, Ira Einhorn, Jean Harris, Brynn Hartman

Peter Manuel Scotland's most evil Murderer

28 DEC 2016

Scotland's worst serial killer Peter Manuel and his reign of terror.

In 1958, Peter Manuel was found guilty of seven murders and was hanged on the gallows at Barlinnie Prison - this is a timeline of his evil life.

The murderer of at least nine people, he is Scotland's worst serial killer.

In 1958, Peter Manuel was found guilty of seven murders and was hanged on the gallows at Barlinnie Prison.

He confessed to an eighth, although not convicted, and he was not tried for a ninth, because it occurred in England, in another jurisdiction.

Here, we take a look at the life of the evil killer and his reign of terror.

Early years

• Manuel was born on March 13, 1927 to Scottish parents in New York City.

• Manuel's migrated back to Scotland in 1932 and moved to Birkenshaw, North Lanarkshire.

• By 1937, Manuel was known to local thief as a petty thief.

• In 1943, Manuel, now 16, committed a string of sexual attacks. He was sentenced to nine years in Peterhead Prison.

• In 1955, aged 28, Manuel successfully conducted his own defence on a rape charge at Airdrie Sheriff Court.

Murder spree

• On January 2, 1956, Manuel stalked and killed 17-year-old Anne Kneilands, raping her and bludgeoning her to death on East Kilbride golf course.

He was later found not guilty of murdering Anne. The case had been dropped due to a lack of evidence.

• On September 17, 1956, Marion Watt, her sister Margaret Brown and 17-year-old Vivienne Watt, were all shot dead in their Burnside home. Manuel was out on bail for a nearby burglary at a colliery but investigators preferred Marion's husband William, who was away on a fishing holiday in Ardrishaig.

They wanted to believe that he had driven 90 miles during the night, faked a burglary, murdered his family and driven back. And they went to extraordinary lengths to stand it up, producing two 'witnesses' whose stories were so shaky they would fall apart at the most cursory examination.

Despite the fact that the level of petrol in Watt's car had not gone down, that there was no evidence of him filling up on his alleged murder mission, police searched the route for any hidden stash. There was none.

After two months, without producing any substantive piece of evidence, Watt was released

• Just over a year later, on December 8, 1957 Manuel almost certainly shot and killed taxi driver Sydney Dunn while searching for work in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Dunn's body was found on moorland in Northumberland but by then Manuel had returned to Glasgow.

He was never tried for this murder as it was in a different jurisdiction – or perhaps the Crown believed that with the stack of other murders they had him anyway – although a button from his jacket was found in Dunn's taxi.

• Isabelle Cooke, 17, was the next victim on December 28, 1957. She disappeared from her home in Carrick Drive, Mount Vernon (the same street Tam McGraw would later live in) on her way to a dance at Uddingston Grammar School.

Manuel stalked, raped and strangled her and buried her in a nearby field. He would later lead officers to the spot to dig, telling them, “This is the place. In fact I think I'm standing on her.”

• Parents Peter and Doris Smart and 11-year-old Michael were all shot dead in their family home on January 1, 1958.

For the next five days, Manuel stayed in the house, opening and shutting curtains, driving the car around the area, spending some of the holiday money, brand new banknotes, which the Smarts had put away.

He even gives a lift to a police officer and, although the cop does not know it at the time, can't resist taunting him. Three days before Hogmanay, Isabelle Cooke had disappeared from her home in Mount Vernon and Manuel can't stop himself pointing out that the police are looking in the wrong place. And of course Manuel knew, because he had killed Isabelle and buried her.

Arrest, trial and execution

• January 6, 1958 - It was the new banknotes stolen in the Smart killings which were finally to be his undoing – that and a tip-off – by spending them freely, particularly in pubs in Glasgow's east end.

Police traced the notes to the Smart murders, and after they arrested his father Manuel confessed to eight killings, but not the Watt murders - although he was subsequently to confess even to these.

• At Manuel's trial, now pleading not guilty to all charges, he sacked his counsel and conducted his own defence and, although the judge conceded he was skilled at it, the evidence was so overwhelming that it took the jury less than three hours to convict him.

• On July 22, 1958, Manuel was hanged on the gallows at Barlinnie Prison. His last words are reported to have been, "Turn up the radio and I'll go quietly".

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng The Prossecutors

“ I want to be able to use a woman whenever and however I want. And when I'm tired or bored or not interested, I simply want to put her away, lock her up in [her cell], get her out of my sight, out of my life. ”

— Lake in one of his video tapes

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a pair of serial killers, rapists, and abductors believed to be responsible for as many as 25 murders.

"No gun, no fun. No kill, no thrill. Daddy dies, Mommy cries, Baby fries."

-Ng's work-time chant

Lake and Ng targeted women, but were not hesitant to abduct entire families. After killing the men and children to get them out of the way, they would hold the women captive in a custom-built room in a bunker at Lake's ranch, tie them up and torture and rape them, videotaping each other while doing so. Sometimes they also lured men to the compound with promises of work and robbed them, after which Lake stole their identities. After killing the victims by either strangling or shooting them, they would often bury them in shallow graves on the property, though there is evidence that some were also dismembered and burned and their remains shattered.

Known Victims

Unspecified dates from 1983 to 1985:

The Dubs family

Harvey Dubs (father)

Deborah Dubs (mother)

Sean Dubs (son)

The Bond family

Lonnie Bond (father)

Brenda O'Connor (mother)

Lonnie Bond, Jr. (son)

Kathleen Allen, 18

Michael Carroll

Robin Scott Stapley

Randy Johnson

Unspecified dates in 1983:

Charles Gunnar

Donald Lake (Lake's younger brother; disappeared and was presumed to have been killed by Lake and Ng)

November 1984: Paul Cosner, 39 (possibly; the charges were dropped)

Note: The massive amount of burned, shattered bone fragments suggests that Lake and Ng killed several more victims besides the ones found buried; investigators suggested that the total victim count may be as high as 25.

The Collector, the book that inspired Lake to abduct and imprison women, also appears to have served as inspiration for some other killers. Robert Berdella, a.k.a. The Kansas City Butcher, who abducted young men and tortured them, photographing the process, claimed to have been inspired by the movie adaptation. Christopher Wilder, a.k.a. The Beauty Queen Killer, who abducted and raped at least ten girls aged 10-12, eight of whom died, during the course of a month-long spree before killing himself, had a copy of The Collector in his possession at the time of his death and was reputed to have memorized the whole book.

Though Lake and Ng have only been mentioned by name once in the show, specifically in Zoe's Reprise (when Rossi reads aloud from the foreword of his book, Deviance: The Secret Desires of Sadistic Serial Killers, along with Dahmer, DeBardeleben, and Berdella), the duo appear to have served as basis for Francis Goehring and Henry Frost in the episode Identity. Like Lake and Ng, the pair abducted women, kept them enslaved at a private compound which the dominant partner had obtained from his ex-wife, raped them and tortured them, videotaping the acts, and then killed them and disposed of them on the property. Additionally, the home videos where Goehring voices his narcissistic beliefs and his plans to enslave women are very similar to tapes made by Lake and Ng where Lake talks about his plan to do so. Also, like Lake, Goehring committed suicide before he could be arrested for his murders.

Lake and Ng are also similar to Gary and Ervin Robles. Both were serial killing teams, family annihilators, and robbers, whose teams consisted of a Caucasian male and another male that was of a different race and had at least one member who was abused by parental figures (Ng was abused by his father; Gary and Ervin were abused by their foster parents). In addition, one of the members of both teams assumed the identities of one of their victims before being arrested.

Ng's background of being abused by his father and being sent to boarding school by him seems to have been some inspiration for that aspect of Hollis Walker's background.

Mary Jane LeFlore Case Cold Justice

After nearly 30 years, an arrest is made in a Hunstville cold case.

June 30, 2017 - After more than two decades, dozens of investigators and the intervention of experts at a true crime television show, police believe they've found the killer of a Texas woman whose murder has remained unsolved. 

On Thursday, the Huntsville Police Department arrested Larry LeFlore for the 1991 murder of his wife, Mary Jane LeFlore. Everyone from family members to former Harris County prosecutor Kelly Siegler kept the cold case alive, culminating into an arrest.

"We kept looking at it over the years when Mary Jane LeFlore first disappeared. It's been a long slog," said Walker County District Attorney David Weeks. "We kept working the case. To be honest, Larry LeFlore was a person of interest early on. We had some information but we just felt we weren't there yet." 

Interview with a Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross

April 04, 2017 - Profile of Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross,

Follow the Deadly Path of the Genesee River Killer...

CONFESSIONS

Shawcross was brought in for questioning a second time. After several hours of interrogation, he still denied having anything to do with the murdered women. It was not until the detectives threatened to bring his wife and his girlfriend Clara in together for questioning and that they could be implicated in the murders, did he begin to waver.

His first admission that he was involved in the murders was when he told police that Clara had nothing to do with it. Once his involvement was established, the details began to flow.

The detectives gave Shawcross a list of 16 women missing or murdered, and he immediately denied having anything to do with five of them. He then confessed to murdering the others.

With each victim that he confessed to the killing, he included what the victim had done to deserve what they got. One victim tried to steal his wallet, another wouldn't be quiet, another made fun of him, and yet another had nearly bitten off his penis. 

He also blamed many of the victims for reminding him of his domineering and abusive mother, so much so that once he began to hit them, he couldn't stop.

When it came time to discuss June Stott, Shawcross appeared to become melancholy. Apparently, Stott was a friend and had been a guest in his home. He explained to the detectives that the reason he mutilated her body after killing her was a kind favor he extended to her so that she would decompose faster.

REACHING THROUGH THE PRISON BARS

A common trait of serial killers is the desire to show they are still in control and can reach through the prison walls and still do damage to those outside. 

When it came to Arthur Shawcross, this certainly appeared to be the case, because, throughout the years when interviewed, his answers to the questions seemed to change depending on who was doing the interviewing.

Female interviewers were often subjected to his long descriptions of how much he enjoyed eating the body parts and organs that he had cut out from his victims. Male interviewers often had to listen to his conquests in Vietnam. If he thought he sensed sympathy from the interviewer, he would add more details about how his mother would insert sticks into his anus or offer up specific details into exactly how his aunt took sexual advantage of him when he was just a child.

However, Shawcross was transparent, so much so that the interviewers, detectives, and doctors that listened to him, doubted much of what he said when he would describe his childhood abuse and his enjoyment of cutting up women and eating body parts.

THE TRIAL

Shawcross pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. During his trial, his lawyer tried to prove that Shawcross was a victim of multiple personality disorder stemming from his years of being abused as a child. Post-traumatic stress disorder from his year in Vietnam was also anted up as a reason why he went insane and murdered women.

The big problem with this defense was that there was no one who backed up his stories. His family completely denied his accusations of abuse.

The Army provided proof that Shawcross was never stationed near a jungle and that he never fought in combat, never burned down huts, was never caught behind a firebomb and never went on jungle patrol as he claimed.

As to his claiming to have killed and devoured two Vietnam women, two psychiatrists that interviewed him agreed that Shawcross changed the story so often that it became unbelievable.

EXTRA Y CHROMOSOME

It was discovered that Shawcross had an extra Y chromosome which some have suggested (although there is no proof) makes the person more violent.

A cyst found on Shawcross' right temporal lobe was said to have caused him to have behavioral seizures where he would display animalistic behavior, such as eating the body parts of his victims.

In the end, it came down to what the jury believed, and they weren't fooled for a moment. After deliberating for just one-half hour, they found him sane and guilty.

Shawcross was sentenced to 250 years in prison and received an additional life sentence after pleading guilty to the murder of Elizabeth Gibson in Wayne County.

DEATH

On November 10, 2008, Shawcross died of cardiac arrest after being transferred from the Sullivan Correction Facility to an Albany, New York hospital. He was 63 years old.

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H H Holmes

H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer is a 2004 biographical documentary film directed by John Borowski. The film relates the true life story of American serial killer H. H. Holmes. Produced over a four-year period, the film highlights locations such as Holmes' childhood home in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and the courtroom in Philadelphia where the "trial of the century" was held.

The film focuses on Dr. Holmes' entire life (1861–1896). It consists of reenactments, expert interviews, and period photography. The film is narrated by Tony Jay.

Most Evil S1 Ep 8 Up Close

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths.

From the denials of a convicted child molester to the frank admission of a killer claiming 70 lives, a human voice emerges from the chaos and violence. To prevent violent crime, it is necessary to understand it, and this hour bring it into sharp focus.
Featuring : Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, Cathy Wood, Cindy Hendy, Westley Allan Dodd, Tommy Lynn Sells, Leonard Lake.

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files

Jeff (also called The Jeffrey Dahmer Files) is an independent documentary film about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmerduring the summer of his arrest. The film was directed by Chris James Thompson and stars Andrew Swant as Dahmer in fictionalized re-enactment segments which are interwoven with interviews of the medical examiner assigned to the case (Jeffrey Jentzen), the lead detective (Pat Kennedy), and Dahmer's next door neighbor (Pamela Bass).

The film premiered at the 2012 SXSW film festival where it received positive reviews and obtained sales representation from Josh Braun at Submarine Entertainment. The film also played at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, the Independent Film Festival of Boston, and the Maryland Film Festival in Baltimore.

The documentary was picked up by IFC Films who re-titled it The Jeffrey Dahmer Files. Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, said: “Chris James Thompson has made one of the creepiest documentaries of the year that lingers in the mind long after the film has ended. He’s approached the well-known subject of Jeffrey Dahmer in a new and inventive way that managed to completely unnerve us." The film was released theatrically and on Video On Demand through IFC on February 15, 2013, followed by a DVD release. The film was later released through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Google Play. ^[1][2]

Jeff was shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Super 16 mm film over the course of three years. It was executive produced by Chris Smith (director of American Movie), Barry Poltermann, and Jack Turner.

David Berkowitz Biography

 August 8, 2017 - Son of Sam speaks out: "There was a battle going on inside me"

David Berkowitz terrorized New York City by killing six people and wounding seven others in seemingly random shootings from 1976 to 1977. Now, four decades after he was arrested, Berkowitz speaks out about what led him to kill, his life before he turned into a murderer, and life in prison today in "Son of Sam │The Killer Speaks"  a CBS News special to be broadcast Friday, August 11, 2017, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

"I see that people will never understand where I come from, no matter how much I try to explain it," Berkowitz tells CBS News correspondent Maurice DuBois in his first major TV interview in a decade and his only interview about the 40th anniversary of his arrest. "They wouldn't understand what it was like to walk in darkness."

Using firsthand accounts from shooting victims, police and reporters, "Son of Sam │The Killer Speaks" relives the fear that paralyzed many New Yorkers as word spread that someone was committing random shootings -- all done with a high-power .44 caliber weapon. The killer hit strangers, often couples in parked cars, and the women usually had long, dark brown hair. The shooter was dubbed the ".44 Caliber Killer" by New York newspapers. For a while, as the victim count rose, the only substantial clues police had were two letters: one sent to Detective Joe Borelli, the head of the task force looking for the killer and the other to newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, then at the New York Daily News.

"I should have been dead," says Robert Violante, who was shot on July 31, 1977 while sitting in a parked car with Stacy Moskowitz, who later died from her injuries.

"Effectively, it was him winning over us each time he got away with it," says former NYPD Detective Bill Clark.

Before he was captured, Berkowitz lived alone in Yonkers, where he admitted to feeling "isolated." "I didn't see it at the time," Berkowitz says. "I was just very lost and confused. There was a battle going on inside me."

The shootings, he tells DuBois, were "a break from reality, thought I was doing something to appease the devil. I'm sorry for it."

Berkowitz also wants to distance himself from the "Son of Sam" moniker he was tagged with during the killing spree. "As far as I'm concerned, that was not me," Berkowitz says. "That was not me. Even the name, I hate that name, I despise the name."

Which name, Dubois asks. "That moniker, Son of Sam," Berkowitz says. "That was not -- that was a demon."

DuBois sat down with Berkowitz at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, where he opened up about what led to him to pull the trigger. Berkowitz is serving 25 years-to-life for each of the six murders.

In an extensive interview, Berkowitz talks with DuBois about the impact finding out he was adopted had on him, about his outreach inside and outside of prison walls, and how the world has changed around him. For instance, in the time since he was incarcerated, cellphones and the Internet have proliferated.  "That's all space-age stuff to me," Berkowitz says. "I'm from the dark ages. You know, when I left, tokens on the subway, you know, yeah?"

And, because he's been there so long, Berkowitz says many of his fellow inmates don't know who he is.  "Some guys, they're not even familiar with the case," Berkowitz tells DuBois. "I'm just another face in the crowd."

Berkowitz, a born-again Christian, reveals how he feels about the pain he caused the families of those he killed and his victims and whether or not he takes responsibility for what happened.

DuBois asks Berkowitz, now 64, what he would tell his 23-year-old self if he had the chance to go back and do so. "Ugh, turn around before it's too late because destruction is coming," Berkowitz says.

The Crossbow Cannibal Crimes that shook Britain

22 JAN 2012 - "Crossbow Cannibal" Stephen Griffiths slashes wrists after being handed razor blade by inmate.

It is the sixth time he has tried to kill himself at Wakefield ­Prison.

“Crossbow ­Cannibal” Stephen ­Griffiths has tried to kill himself in jail for a SIXTH time... and he did it with a razor handed to him by a fellow inmate.

The serial killer, 42, who is on permanent suicide watch, slashed his wrists in his cell in the middle of the night.

Prison officers saw what ­Griffiths was ­doing and rushed in, grabbing the razor and pinning him down to stop him.

The killer was examined by a doctor who said his wrist wound should be ­treated with ­stitches.

But Griffiths, serving life for murdering three women, refused so nurses wrapped his arms in bandages to stop the bleeding.

It is the sixth time he has tried to kill himself at Wakefield ­Prison, which is known as ­Monster ­Mansion because it holds so many ­murderers and rapists.

Prison chiefs have launched an inquiry into how the heavily-monitored prisoner was able to get the weapon into his cell.

A source said: “It appears that Griffiths was given a razor blade by one of the other prisoners so that he could do this to himself.

“It’s not great that he managed to get hold of a blade and try to kill himself while on suicide watch so an investigation has been launched. It was only the quick action of the officers that saved him.” Former criminology student ­Griffiths is being held on the prison’s health-care wing.

This was the first time he was able to get hold of a blade. He has previously tried to kill himself with ­batteries, plastic bags and shards of broken glass. He also went on hunger strike for ten months last year.

Griffiths, who gave his name at a court hearing as “The ­Crossbow Cannibal”, was jailed for life in December 2010. He had ­admitted killing ­Suzanne Blamires, 36, Shelley Armitage, 31, and Susan ­Rushworth, 43, after luring them to his flat on the edge of the red light district in Bradford, West ­Yorkshire.

His crimes were discovered after a caretaker saw footage of Miss Blamires’ murder as he reviewed CCTV footage from the block of flats where Griffiths lived. It showed him firing a crossbow bolt at his victim, then holding the bow above his head in a triumphant gesture before ­raising a can of drink to the camera. He claimed he had eaten parts of his victims’ bodies.

The Ministry of Justice said yesterday it did not comment on individual prisoners.

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