First Blood

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, a woman fleeing from her troubled past.

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 the ultimate control over 17 victims.

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 fantasies drove him to destroy a family instead.

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.

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.

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.

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 a warped mission to kill.

Someone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, N.C., and the police seem unable to stop it; what the police don't realize is that the cases all have a commonality, which is a connection with Henry Louis Wallace.

Exploring what shaped serial killer Arthur Shawcross' trajectory from "Artie Oddball" to murderer.

Growing up gay and effeminate in the hypermasculine bayou was tough on Ronald Dominique; an inability to connect and a sexual assault in jail may have cemented his decision to kill his first victim, tragically the beginning of years of murder.