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Signs of a Psychopath
Signs of a Psychopath

Signs of a Psychopath

—Revisiting some of the most dangerous killers in modern history to see which psychopathic traits they exhibited.
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    I Guess I'm a Maniac
    I Don't Belong Out Here
    Violence Is What I'm Fixed On
  • I Guess I'm a Maniac

    Detectives find a woman partially clothed and strangled to death in a wooded ditch in Florida; with no leads or suspects, her case goes cold; a surprise confession almost ten years later exposes a deviant sexual psychopath with a murderous fantasy.
    Upcoming
  • I Don't Belong Out Here

    When a disturbed brother slaughters three generations of a family, he quickly confesses and continues by confessing to a 10-year-old cold case. Detectives uncover a narcissistic psychopath with parasitic tendencies whose one goal is to return to prison.
    Upcoming
  • Violence Is What I'm Fixed On

    Revisiting some of the most dangerous killers in modern history to see which psychopathic traits they exhibited.
    Upcoming

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Season 18 of 8 Episodes

  • A 50-year-old woman is found dead in her home, and all that's left behind is a piece of paper that has "chase me" written on it; when detectives uncover the killer, they discover they have come face-to-face with a remorseless psychopath.

  • Residents of a quaint village are terrified when a local innkeeper and two others are found brutally murdered; detectives must follow the depraved killer into the woods at night.

  • An unapologetic 14-year-old boy confesses to the murder of his best friend; twelve years later, he is back in court with a chance at a reduced sentence.

  • A charming 20-year-old wants to help authorities with a murder investigation; he claims to have met one of the three victims and says he has no knowledge of the crime, but detectives suspect otherwise.

  • Police question a man in the disappearance of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her young son; they discover he has a terrifying capacity for violence.

  • A girl disappears after school and her last known steps are caught on surveillance cameras; these cameras lead investigators to two dark minds that carefully plotted one of the most sinister, depraved crimes imaginable.

  • A Colorado woman is missing, and her roommate may be a rare female psychopath and a skilled manipulator.

  • A death row inmate grants an interview just weeks prior to his execution; bodies of a man's family members are discovered in the ashes of a house fire, and he is the main suspect in the murders.

Record to Watch Later

3 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    The Sexual Psychopath
    There's Eyes in the Closet
    Guess I'm a Bad Dad
  • The Sexual Psychopath

    Experts look at a subset of psychopaths who are motivated by their heightened sexual urges and fantasies; this subset of offenders doesn't just enact physical violence but sexual violence toward their victims and is known as the sexual psychopath.
    Upcoming
  • There's Eyes in the Closet

    An early morning fire inside an apartment complex soon reveals something worse, the dead bodies of a young woman and an infant boy; detectives find a psychopath who appears polite and gentle, then later as a pawn of imagined demons.
    Upcoming
  • Guess I'm a Bad Dad

    Police first arrest a man for discharging a firearm and soon discover dead bodies inside his apartment; detectives try to make sense of the bloody crime scene and a psychopath willing to murder those closest to him.
    Upcoming
Signs of a Psychopath

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Revisiting some of the most dangerous killers in modern history to see which psychopathic traits they exhibited.

Starring

N.G. Berrill, Samantha Turret, Andrew Colford

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