1998

S4.E1 ∙ The Roaming Rapist

Thu, Jan 25, 2007

For three weeks in May of 1984, a brutal killer had a nation on edge. A bloody spree of rapes, kidnappings, and murders resulted in the deaths of six Oklahoma residents, including a local radio personality and an elderly widower. Gary Alan Walker, an emotionally disturbed ex-convict, was eventually captured and executed for these crimes.

7.6 /10

S4.E2 ∙ The Elderly Executioners

Sun, Feb 11, 2007

Multiple murders in rural communities are always a shocking occurrence, but never more so than in Livingston County, Missouri in the late 1980's. Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly farmer and his wife, would become America's oldest couple on death row when a simple livestock scam escalated into murder.

6.6 /10

S4.E3 ∙ The Homicidal Handyman

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

In Sacramento in the mid 1980's, a ruthless killer was making his way through the fringe community of Oak Park. Behind him, he left a trail of victims, stuffed in closets, hidden under debris and even buried alive. Handyman Morris Solomon was eventually captured and sentenced to death for these crimes.

7.4 /10

S4.E4 ∙ The Boarding House Killer

Thu, Jan 18, 2007

Dorothea Puente spent much of the 1980's providing shelter for the elderly and infirm in her Sacramento boardinghouse. It wasn't until the first body was found in her backyard that authorities realized Dorothea was not the sweet old woman she first appeared to be.

7.6 /10

S4.E5 ∙ The Human Hunter

Thu, Jan 11, 2007

Like many Alaskans, bakery owner Robert C. Hansen was known for his hunting abilities. In the early 1980's, however, his taste for hunting took a sinister turn. A growing list of missing persons and the discovery of two dead bodies led the police to begin the search for a killer who raped his victims before turning them loose and hunting them down like animals

7.9 /10

S4.E6 ∙ The Railcar Killer

Thu, Jan 04, 2007

One of the most intensive manhunts in the history of Texas took place over the summer of 1999 when brutal serial killer Angel Resendez Ramirez was on the loose. Riding the rails eastward and driving the vehicles of his victims back west, Resendez terrorized railroad communities all across America before finally surrendering to police.

8.2 /10