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First Blood

Season 1
"First Blood" examines serial killers through their first known kills.
202210 episodesTV-14
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death
    June 24, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    In 1989, Richard Mallory is found shot dead off the side of a Florida highway, just the first of seven murdered men found in a similar setting. Their predator is Aileen Wuornos, a woman fleeing a troubled past and yearning for a connection.
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  2. S1 E2 - Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker
    July 1, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    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 for women.
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  3. S1 E3 - Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
    July 8, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    Danny's first murders were in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. Growing up with a violent father, Danny dreamed of having a loving family as an adult, but his darker fantasies drove him to destroy a family instead. After that, he couldn't stop.
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  4. S1 E4 - Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
    July 15, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s. Growing up yearning for a father figure, he found mentorship with his sadistic cousin and, later, Satanism, both eventually paving the way to his first brutal slaying.
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  5. S1 E5 - Ed Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer
    July 29, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    The articulate and boastful killer, known for his intelligence and charm, is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s.
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  6. S1 E6 - Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the Peeler
    August 5, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    Everyone knew Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loved her rabbits. No one expected what police uncovered when looking for a missing man.
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  7. S1 E7 - Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry
    August 12, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    Charming and smart, Henry tried to hide his dark side, fueled from years of abuse and twisted fantasy, until his first murder. Then bad Henry took over.
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  8. S1 E8 - Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler
    August 29, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing. Their families were desperate for help, but no one seemed to know what was happening to them, no one except the helpful resident of 12205 Imperial Avenue, Anthony Sowell.
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  9. S1 E9 - Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer
    August 29, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    Exploring what shaped serial killer Arthur Shawcross' trajectory from "Artie Oddball" to murderer.
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  10. S1 E10 - Ronald Dominique: The Bayou Strangler
    August 29, 2022
    43min
    TV-14
    Growing up gay and effeminate in the hyper masculine Bayou was tough on Ronald Dominique. But that's not why Ronald began to kill African American men.
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Content advisory
Violencefoul languagesexual content
Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Cast
Gary BrucatoKhadija MonkMark E. Safarik
Studio
A&E CRIME CENTRAL
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