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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Birnies

    • March 18, 2009
    • Seven

    Look into the minds of Australia's most notorious serial-killing couple, David and Catherine Birnie. Psychologist Dr Leah Giarratano tells viewers what led these two violent, sexual predators to commit these shocking crimes.

  • S01E02 Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin

    • March 25, 2009
    • Seven

    Take a look inside the dangerous mind of Melbourne's most feared underworld executioner - Andrew "Benji" Veniamin - and gain unprecedented insight into his world through an exclusive interview with former gangland wife Roberta Williams, who held vigil over Veniamin's body after he was gunned down in Melbourne in 2004. Police believe Benji had killed seven men, some of them senior underworld figures, some of them his close friends, but the Victorian police never managed to bring a single murder charge against him.

  • S01E03 Will Matheson

    • April 1, 2009
    • Seven

    Take a look into the obsessed mind of violent killer, William Matheson who in 2003 brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend, Lyndsay Van Blanken. He strangled the pretty 18-year-old with cable ties before dumping her body in an abandoned storeroom. Clinical psychologist Dr Leah Giarratano tells us what led this loner to turn from obsessed ex boyfriend into a vicious killer.

  • S01E04 Camilleri and Beckett

    • April 19, 2009
    • Seven

    Take a look into the minds of one of Australia's most sadistic killing teams: the master and his apprentice, Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay Beckett. In 1997, fuelled by drugs and alcohol, the dangerous duo abducted teenagers; Nichole Collins and Lauren Barry from their camp site in Bega, NSW and took them on a hellish road trip before brutally murdering them. Clinical psychologist, Dr Leah Giarratano dissects their personalities and offers some insight into why they committed these horrific crimes.

  • S01E05 Neddy Smith

    • August 17, 2009
    • Seven

    Take a look into the mind of Australia's most notorious gangster, Arthur Neddy Smith, who rode a wave of criminal success organising armed robberies and dealing heroin that earned him millions of dollars. Was Neddy Smith simply a product of the poisonous environment?

  • S01E06 Bilal Skaf

    • August 24, 2009
    • Seven

    Delve into the mind of the teenager who led a gang of savage rapists on a rampage that shocked Australia. In 2000, 18-year-old Bilal Skaf orchestrated attacks that would shake public confidence in the justice system, ignite racial tension and leave behind scores of women whose lives are damaged forever. How did this fearsome criminal come to be?

  • S01E07 Peter Dupas

    • August 31, 2009
    • Seven

    Take a look into the mind of one of Australia's worst serial killers, Peter Dupas, who due to his unassuming, baby-faced guise got away with brutal sexual crimes against women throughout Melbourne for more than 30 years. He proved to be a modern day Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde.

  • S01E08 Katherine Knight

    • September 7, 2009
    • Seven

    Delve into the mind of Katherine Knight, a woman who committed a crime so barbaric it shocked the nation. She is Australia's first and only women to be jailed for the remainder of her life without parole. Could it be possible that Katherine Knight was sane when she committed this murder?

  • S01E09 Terry Clark

    • September 14, 2009
    • Seven

    Take a look into the sinister mind of drug king and killer Terry Clark. His story is one of a bad boy gone worse - as a boy he was cruel and manipulative and as a man he extended his repertoire to include torture and murder.

Season 2

Season 3

  • S03E01 Antonie Dixon

    • February 2, 2010
    • Seven

    Antonie Dixon was a convicted New Zealand thief and murderer. His most notorious crimes were committed in an 11-hour spree of violence in 2003 in which he completely or partially severed the hands or arms of two women with a Samurai sword, shot a man dead with a homemade sub-machine gun and kidnapped another man.

  • S03E02 Tracy Goodman

    • February 8, 2010
    • Seven

    Tracy Goodman was a serial burglar with drug issues, who habitually robbed the elderly. One of them was Marton pensioner Mona Morriss. When the 83-year-old caught Goodman rifling through her house, Mona confronted her. Goodman reacted the way she knew how - beating, then stabbing Mona Morriss to death.

  • S03E03 Daniel Moore

    • February 16, 2010
    • Seven

  • S03E04 Mark Lundy

    • February 24, 2010
    • Seven

  • S03E05 Bert Potter

    • March 2, 2010
    • Seven

  • S03E06 Travis Burns

    • March 9, 2010
    • Seven

Season 4

  • S04E01 Paul Joseph Dally

    • April 13, 2011
    • Seven

    Paul Joseph Dally kidnapped Karla Cardno, 13, in Lower Hutt on May 26, 1989. He raped and tortured her in his home, then drove her to the Pencarrow coast, near Eastbourne, bludgeoned her with a piece of driftwood and buried her in the sand.

  • S04E02 Gavin Hawthorne

    • April 20, 2011
    • Seven

    A man known as New Zealand's worst recidivist drink-driver.

  • S04E03 George Baker

    • April 27, 2011
    • Seven

    On 24 August 2006, 17-year-old Liam Ashley was murdered by 25-year-old George Charlie Baker in Mount Eden, Auckland. The crime occurred inside a prison van bound for Mt Eden Remand Centre.

  • S04E04 Joseph Reekers

    • May 4, 2011
    • Seven

    For the first time in New Zealand, a cold case murder has been solved by identifying a suspect through the DNA of a sibling. Joseph Martin Reekers became a "person of interest" in the unsolved death of Marie Jamieson, which occurred in February 2001.

  • S04E05 Shannon Flewellen

    • May 11, 2011
    • Seven

    In 2010 Shannon Brent Flewellen, a skinhead white supremacist, was convicted of Jae Hyeon Kim's murder and sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in jail. Fourth Reich gang member Hayden McKenzie was also convicted of the killing.

  • S04E06 Liam Reid

    • September 3, 2012
    • Seven

Season 5