Becoming Evil: Cult of Personality

Name: Becoming Evil: Cult of Personality
Released: 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · Crime

The decision to kill from passion or pre-meditation has often defined the world: past, present and future.

2010 · 47m

Director Ron Meyer

EPISODE 1

The Monster Within and Among Us: The Case of Jack the Ripper

The idea of a monster as a killer stalking people began in 1888, in one of London's poorest neighborhoods, Whitechapel, with the fiend known only to history as Jack the Ripper.
EPISODE 2

Killers Without Conscience: H.H.Holmes and Jane Toppan

The phenomenon of serial killing moved to America late in the 19th century with two of the country's most brutal killers: Chicago's Dr. Death, H.H. Holmes, and a Boston nurse, Jane Toppan.
EPISODE 3

The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You: Albert Fish, the Vampire of Brooklyn

Learn about the demented life of Albert Fish, who earned his ghoulish nickname "the Vampire of Brooklyn" by preying on America's most innocent: children.
EPISODE 4

Serial Killing Begins Again - the Boston Strangler, Ed Gein, and the Lipstick Killer

Serial killing took a holiday during the Depression and WWII, but following the war, it once again terrorized America with despicable killers given lurid names by the media, like the Lipstick Killer and the Boston.
EPISODE 5

Men Who Like To Kill: The Zodiac, the Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy

In the '60s and '70s, Son of Sam, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy became grisly reminders of just how dangerous America's streets had become.
EPISODE 6

Homosexual Serial Killers: John Wayne Gacy and the Highway Killers

Serial killing's homoerotic aspect is revealed though the grisly exploits of the clown killer, John Wayne Gacy; Atlanta's child killer, Wayne Williams; and the highway killers, William Bonin and Randy Kraft.