Crime Central

Emma Percival was in the back of Terry Sullivan's taxi when they were flagged down by Derrick Bird; Bird pointed a gun at them and began a shooting spree of 12 victims.

Close Encounters With Evil

Derrick Bird

Morgan Rowan encounters dangerously charming Rodney Alcala when she is a teenager; she survives an attack by the man who would kill at least nine women.

Rodney Alcala

David Crampton's infant son Paul almost dies three times while in a hospital ward; no one knows that nurse Beverley Allitt is responsible -- she killed four babies.

Beverley Allitt

Sharon Wood was unaware that shoe fetish killer Jerome Brudos was stalking her; Sharon survived an attack at gunpoint, but Brudos would kill the next day.

Jerome Brudos

David McVicker was unaware he'd climbed into the van of murderer William Bonin when he hitchhiked home at 14 years old; David survived but was left scarred.

William Bonin

Jane Carson Sadler was in bed with her young son when she went to investigate a noise in her California home; Joseph James D'Angelo, the notorious Golden State Killer, was lying in wait; Jane was brutally raped but survived.

Surviving a Serial Killer

Joseph DeAngelo

In 1979, US army medic, Billy Joe Capshaw, was stationed in Germany; he had no idea that his roommate was a notorious serial killer named Jeffrey Dahmer; Billy was raped and beaten by Dahmer but he somehow managed to live to tell the tale.

Jeffrey Dahmer

When Ryan Edwards welcomed a new neighbor to the community, he had no idea that serial killer Stephen Port would go on to murder four young men.

Stephen Port

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S2 E6 | Beverley Allitt

E8 | Derrick Bird

E7 | Rodney Alcala

E6 | Beverley Allitt

E5 | Jerome Brudos

E4 | William Bonin

E3 | Joseph DeAngelo

E2 | Jeffrey Dahmer

E1 | Stephen Port