Plot Synopsis

SERIAL PSYCHE is a one-hour docuseries that delves deep into the minds of cold-blooded murderers to unravel their twisted mentalities. Each 60-minute episode focuses on a different type of killer, including: sexual sadists, calculating killers, and more.

In the series opener, "Sexual Sadists," these killers are psychopaths addicted to the thrill of inflicting pain before killing their victims. This episode contrasts the twisted psyches of two of history's most heartless serial murderers in David Parker Ray and Dennis Rader. Ray was known as the "Toy Box Killer" due to his use of an RV trailer on his property where he performed unspeakable horrors. While Ray operated under the radar for decades not all psychopathic sexual sadists enjoy lurking in the shadows and some crave the media spotlight like Dennis Rader who gave himself the gruesome moniker "Blind Torture Kill" (BTK). Rader was a church-going family man respected in his Wichita Kansas community but he also brutally murdered at least 10 people and the hunt to find him lasted more than 30 years. Sharing first-hand accounts of the David Parker Ray case is retired New Mexico State Police Captain Rich Libicer along with crime experts Dr. Michael H. Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato among others.

Then, in "Cold and Calculating Killers," some killers are motivated by sheer hatred for human kind, while others seek revenge for an abusive childhood or who simply kill for their own personal sick thrill. This episode examines Israel Keyes, Anatoly Onoprienko and Dennis Nilsen. Keyes became known as the "Meticulous Serial Killer" for his methodic efforts to conceal his crimes spanning 14 years. Onoprienko became known as the "Beast of Ukraine" after his shocking admission to killing 52 people over a span of 20 years while Nilsen terrorized the United Kingdom in the late 1970s killing several young men. All three were noted by authorities for displaying no observable psychosis and lived parallel normal lives.