Examines some of America's most notorious serial killers through the prism of their first known kills to reveal what drove them to the moment when violent fantasy and curiosity became a reality.

First Blood

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Reality • 2022 • 13

African-American women in the Mt Pleasant neighbourhood of Cleveland were vanishing. Their families cried for help, but no one knew what was happening. No one except Anthony Sowell.

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Before he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen was working at his father's bakery in a small town in Iowa, slowly developing an animosity towards women.

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Known for the murders of University of Florida students, Danny Rolling's first killings were in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He longed for a loving family, but he destroyed one instead.

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Aileen Wuornos is a woman fleeing a troubled past and yearning for a connection. Instead of finding love, she develops a simmering rage in her heart that finally explodes.

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This articulate and boastful killer is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz in the early 1970s, but his desire to kill started when he was a young child fantasising about murder.