Name: Murderers and Their Mothers
Released: 2016-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Donal MacIntyre

Available on Prime Video, Tubi, Sling TV

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.

Crime · 2016 · 47 min

Starring Donal MacIntyre

EPISODE 1

Daniel Bartlam – the Coronation Street Killer

At 14 Daniel Bartlam savagely killed his mother with a claw hammer and then sought to cover his tracks by setting fire to her body.His parent’s divorce led to menacing behavior, and the mom was desperate to keep it a secret, to her own dreadful fate.

45 min · May 15, 2016
EPISODE 2

Fred & Rose West – The Killer Couple

Fred and Rosemary West raped, tortured, murdered and dismembered twelve women. 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?

44 min · May 22, 2016
EPISODE 3

Jed Allen – The Wolverine Killer

Jed Allen, presumably had a stable life, but in May 2015 he killed his mother, step-father and six year old sister. MacIntyre and Dr. Yardley explore Jed's dysfunctional childhood with his mother to discover the trigger that led him to commit murder.

45 min · May 29, 2016
EPISODE 4

Harold Shipman – The Angel of Death

Dr Harold Shipman was UK's most prolific serial killer with at least 215 known victims. Was Shipman simply addicted to murder, or did his upbringing and the circumstances of his mother's death turn him into a mass murderer?

44 min · Jun 5, 2016
EPISODE 5

Joachim Knychala - Frankenstein

Joachim Knychala, aka ‘Frankenstein', butchered and desecrated his victim’s bodies with an axe. MacIntyre and Dr. Yardley explore Knychala's twisted relationship with his mother to see whether they were the cause of his murderous misogyny.

45 min · Jun 12, 2016
EPISODE 6

Dennis Nilsen - The Kindly Killer

Dennis Nilsen murdered 15 young men from the 70s - 80s. 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. What led this bizarre killing?

45 min · Jun 19, 2016