Signs of a Psychopath

When a beloved elderly couple disappears on a Sunday afternoon, one person knows their battered bodies lie dead at the bottom of a well. That man is the couple’s son, who lives off of his parents’ charity yet takes sadistic pleasure in murdering them.

A crash on a North Dakota highway leaves one passenger dead but the driver unscathed. When investigators see that the victim has stab wounds, they know there was foul play. Detectives interrogate the driver and quickly realize he's a violent psychopath.

A woman's boyfriend discovers his girlfriend and her mother brutally murdered in their beds at night. He places a desperate call to 911, pleading for help. The tables turn when detectives uncover his dark desire to seek revenge on the woman he loves.

Behind a church lies a dismembered body burned beyond recognition. Investigators identify the victim by fingerprints and receive a tip the suspect is female. A police interview reveals her as the most remorseless psychopathic killer they’ve ever seen.

When a priest from Florida goes missing, police focus on a troubled ex-convict whom he was helping to support. Through multiple interrogations, a psychopathic killer reveals details of a twisted vengeance that escalates to a chilling murder.

A mother who calls 911 to report her 32-year-old delinquent son is threatening her turns up dead in her home. He becomes the only suspect, and when he turns himself in, his pragmatic retelling of the slaying isn’t just cold-hearted -- it’s psychopathic.

After his conviction for the brutal slaying of his wife, a Florida inmate lays claim to another unsolved murder 17 years prior, revealing that he’s a manipulative psychopath with a history of violence and an unquenchable thirst for revenge.

Searchers for a missing woman find her brutally beaten body in a dilapidated house near her home. The case goes cold until a local teen steps forward to reveal that he's not only the killer but also a manipulative psychopath with a thirst for violence.

A man confesses that he “accidentally” killed his best friend while cleaning his gun. During his interrogation, he stuns police by revealing that he’s behind a long trail of bloodshed and is a serial killer who seems to consider himself an angel of mercy.

Omaha police officers chase down a stolen vehicle driving recklessly. When they arrest the driver, he shocks detectives by giving an unsolicited confession to a gruesome murder of a local woman -- the first of many chilling revelations.

The signs of psychopathy lurk in all of us -- grandiosity, sadism, superficial charm, manipulation, lack of empathy, or having a parasitic lifestyle. Go inside the mind of psychopaths to discover when these pervasive traits deviate into violence.

When women kill, it can be extremely shocking. However, female psychopaths may not be as rare as people imagine. Experts examine some unique characteristics of female psychopathic killers and explore their horrific crimes.

A man calls 911 with his dying breath, and first Responders arrive to find him brutally murdered, stabbed 59 times. When detectives question his best friend, they uncover a tangled, sick story of deception and jealousy that explodes in psychopathic rage.

A killer shoots a young woman dead in her boyfriend's Orlando apartment. Hours later, he turns up in a hospital bed 500 miles away with a gunshot wound and a bizarre story that unravels to reveal he's a lying, callous psychopath.

A gunman shoots a man dead as he runs along a country road. First responders find a witness standing next to the body with a strange story to tell, and detectives will unravel the lies of a callous psychopath who takes out his frustrations in bloodshed.

A woman finds her elderly brother dead in his bedroom with his throat slashed. Uncovering the truth poses a challenge for detectives -- the individual responsible for killing him is a manipulative psychopath who craftily deflects blame.

Investigators search a farm for a missing man and find human leg bone on the property. The owner, Susan Monica, admits that her pigs ate her tenant alive, and he’s not the only victim. A ruthless psychopath, Monica despises humans but loves her pigs.

A racially motivated serial killer on death row, who targeted civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and pornography publisher Larry Flynt, confesses to additional unsolved murders with the help of a shrewd female prosecutor.

Police find a 17-year-old female’s dead body in a ditch with two gunshot wounds. The investigation centers on two friends of the victim claiming her death was an accident, but detectives uncover it was a thrill kill carried out by evil psychopaths.

A New Hampshire town reels after police arrest four teenagers for robbing and murdering a 42-year-old mother and maiming her 11-year-old daughter. Detectives uncover two suspects who are not ordinary criminals but sadistic psychopaths.

A missing persons report leads police to a career criminal and his girlfriend. They uncover a twisted world of illicit schemes, macabre fantasies, and a puppet master manipulating young women down a dark path of sex, drugs and exploitation.