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  • What Makes a Killer? (2025– )
  • TV Series | 45 min | Documentary
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What Makes a Killer? (2025– )
TV Series | 45 min | Documentary

This gripping true crime documentary series delves deep into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring what drives ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of violence. Through chilling case studies and expert psychological ...See moreThis gripping true crime documentary series delves deep into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring what drives ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of violence. Through chilling case studies and expert psychological analysis, it examines some of history's most infamous killers - from Fred and Rose West's domestic horrors to Ted Bundy's deceptive charm, Charles Manson's cult of control, and Jeffrey Dahmer's macabre obsessions. Psychologists and psychiatrists uncover the roots of their behaviour, revealing the making of a psychopath, the sexual compulsions behind necrophilia, and the manipulative charisma that fuels cult leadership. More than a retelling of crimes, the series seeks to understand the psychological forces that shape them - asking the haunting question: are monsters born, or made? See less
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Producer
Jordan Hill (producer)
Editors
Afsheen Hussein (editor) | Remone Jones (editor) | Danielle Winter (senior editor)
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Updated Oct 27, 2025

Release date (First episode)
Oct 27, 2025 (United Kingdom)

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