Plot Synopsis

Using archival photos, old video, and first-person interviews with investigators, law enforcement, and friends and family of the victims, THE KILLER SPEAKS also presents new interview footage of the killers themselves, as they discuss their childhoods, backgrounds, and murders, including what they did, how they did it, and why. Each 60-minute episode chronicles one killer, including: 23-year-old Levi King, who executed two innocent neighbors in 2005 when he finally found a release for his life-long inner rage by breaking into a farmhouse where a family was asleep, looking to kill again; Maksim Gelman, who went on a brutal killing spree in New York City in 2011 that left four people dead and four wounded, which began when he killed his stepfather by stabbing him 55 times, and ended 28 hours later in a bloody confrontation with the NYPD; and many more criminals who tell their stories. On Thursday, March 8, 2012, A&E aired THE FIRST 48: THE KILLER SPEAKS, a one-hour special, at 10pm ET/PT.
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THE KILLER SPEAKS returned for its second season on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT on A&E. In the Season 2 premiere, detectives in Great Falls, MT, investigate the murder of a 51-year-old former corrections officer, Rose Torres, whose naked body was dumped in an alley after being stabbed. Gene Meredith was convicted of the crime in May 2008 and later lost his Supreme Court appeal in February 2010.