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May 26 The Meanest Man in America: The Mind of Donald Gaskins
He was a small man with a monstrous reputation, a serial killer who christened himself "the meanest man in America" and boasted of a private graveyard for his victims. Convicted of nine murders but claiming a toll of over 100, Donald Gaskins represented a unique depths of human cruelty. This documentary brings together leading psychologists and criminology experts to analyze the making of a psychopath. Through archival footage, interviews, and chilling excerpts from his own confessions, the film dissects Gaskins' personality—from his traumatic childhood to his reign of terror across South Carolina—attempting to understand how a human being could embrace evil so completely and what his case reveals about the outer limits of criminal violence.

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45 min
May 25 Deadly Parcel: Postwoman Serial Killer
exploring the events leading up to former US Postal Service worker Jennifer San Marco's vengeful 2006 attack on former colleagues and an old neighbour, in which she shot and killed seven people before taking her own life in Goleta, California.

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46 min
May 24 Inside Broadmoor Part 2: The Realities of Life Inside a Notorious Institution
Broadmoor is a brave documentary that goes behind the formidable walls at a time when a controversial new approach seeks to release inmates back into society after no longer than nine years. With unprecedented access to staff and their patients, Broadmoor exposes the myths surrounding mental health and reveals the realities of life inside a notorious institution. Since its foundation 150 years ago, Broadmoor Hospital has fascinated the public and the media, but there are many misconceptions about what it does and the patients it is responsible for. Now for the first time it has opened its doors to a TV camera crew, giving unprecedented insight into its patients and the work that is carried out to treat and rehabilitate them.

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47 min
May 23 Inside Broadmoor Part 1: Britain's Most Notorious Psychiatric Hospital
For over 146 years Broadmoor hospital has gained a reputation as the last stop for some of the UK’s most dangerous criminals. It was thought of as the place where mentally unstable offenders would be incarcerated for the rest of their lives – until a recent and radical change. Since its foundation 150 years ago, Broadmoor Hospital has fascinated the public and the media, but there are many misconceptions about what it does and the patients it is responsible for. Now for the first time, it has opened its doors to a TV camera crew, giving unprecedented insight into its patients and the work that is carried out to treat and rehabilitate them.

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45 min
May 22 Award-winning Documentary | The Fake Van Gogh Paintings?
Was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction a fake? This award-winning documentary explores the authenticity of the Sunflowers painting by Vincent van Gogh, bought in the late 1980s for a then record sum by a Japanese insurance company. In 2002, the painting went on public exhibition alongside an undisputedly genuine version of Sunflowers, raising once again the questions so vividly posed in this film.

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50 min
May 21 The LAPD Officer Who Killed Cops | Killing Spree
charting the case of Christopher Dorner who shot several police officers in California in 2013. When he lost his job with the police department, his resentment for the forces continued to grow.

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46 min
May 20 Charismatic Cult Leader Charles Manson: Born To Kill
Known as an icon of evil, Charles Manson founded a hippie cult group known as ‘The Family’ whom he would go on to manipulate into brutally killing others on his behalf during the late 1960’s.

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46 min
May 19 Kids, Knives & Broken Lives: The Knife Crime Epidemic in the UK
The press and TV news reports are full of politicians, youth workers, police and journalists pontificating about the epidemic of gun and knife crime on Britain’s streets, but where are the voices of the young people themselves?

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49 min
May 18 Herbert Mullin: The Serial Killed Once Voted “Most Likely To Succeed” | Bork To Kill?
Voted 'most likely to succeed' at school, Herbert Mullin was later convicted of the murders of thirteen people in 1973.

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45 min
May 17 2011 Norway Massacre: Anders Breivick’s Deranged Killing Spree
In 2011, terrorist Anders Breivick embarked on a killing spree, setting off a car bomb in front of the Norwegian Prime Minister's Office, which killed 8 and later in the day made his way to an island where a youth summer camp was under way. He killed 77 people and injured 319. He was dressed as a police officer and began shooting people at random. He shot countless numbers of youths and ended up killing 69 people using a mini 14 semi automatic assault rifle and a glock semi automatic pistol.

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45 min

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True Crime is a compelling podcast dedicated to unraveling the mysteries, motives, and mayhem behind the world’s most fascinating and chilling real-life cases. With a deep dive into crimes that have…