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Murderers and Their Mothers

TV Show · Crime · Documentary

In this series each episode explores a different killer's disturbing childhood and their unnatural maternal relationships. Presented by crime journalist Donal MacIntyre, with in depth analysis from leading psychologists, criminologists and first hand witnesses, Murderers And Their Mothers investigates the most infamous serial killers, asking whether these murderers were born or made.

2016 · 46m

Starring Donal MacIntyre

EPISODE 1

Daniel Bartlam: The Coronation Street Killer

At just 14 years old Daniel Bartlam savagely killed his mother with a claw hammer and then sought to cover his tracks by setting fire to her body. Daniel's deep resentment of his mother following his parents' divorce rapidly led to dark and menacing behavior, and she was desperate to keep the problems behind closed doors, but did her love for him seal her fate?

45m
EPISODE 2

Fred & Rose West – The Killer Couple

Fred and Rosemary West raped, tortured, murdered and dismembered twelve young women including two of their daughters in one of the most shocking cases of serial killing Britain has ever seen. But why did the Wests embark on their path of depravity? Were they born to kill, or did their mothers make them into monsters thanks to childhoods full of incest and abuse?

44m
EPISODE 3

Jed Allen: The Wolverine Killer

The case of Jed Allen, a young man who on the surface had a happy, stable life. Yet in May 2015 he would kill his mother, step-father and six year old half-sister in a brutal knife attack. MacIntyre and criminologist Dr Elizabeth Yardley explore Jed's dysfunctional childhood years with his mother to discover the trigger that led him to commit family annihilation.

45m
EPISODE 4

Harold Shipman: The Angel of Death

Dr Harold Shipman, was Britain's most prolific serial killer with at least 215 known victims. Was Shipman simply addicted to murder, playing God by killing many of his elderly female patients with overdoses of morphine, or did his upbringing and the circumstances of his mother's death turn him into a mass murderer?

44m
EPISODE 5

Joachim Knychala: Frankenstein of Bytom

Joachim Knychala, the Polish serial killer who earned the ghoulish nickname 'Frankenstein,' attacked his victims with an axe, butchering and desecrating their bodies after death. MacIntyre and criminologist Dr Elizabeth Yardley explore Knychala's twisted relationship with his mother and grandmother to discover whether they were the cause of his murderous misogyny.

45m
EPISODE 6

Dennis Nilsen: The Kindly Killer

One of Britain's most infamous killers, Dennis Nilsen murdered 15 young men, some as young as 14, in London during the late seventies and early eighties. Nilsen held on to the corpses of his victims for weeks on end, talking to them on his return home from work and sleeping beside them. But what led this seemingly normal civil servant to start killing for company?

45m

Donal MacIntyre

Presenter