What could make someone take another person's life? What motivates a serial killer? For the first time, this powerful documentary series exposes the horrific yet fascinating crimes through the eyes of the men who must solve them and bring the criminals responsible to justice.

In each case the detectives reveal, the only way to solve these crimes is to get inside the killer's mind.

• Milat 27 July 1996: Australian Ivan Milat was sentenced to life for the murder of seven backpackers in the remote New South Wales bush. Known as the ‘backpacker murders’ this case was to take three years to solve.
• Angel of Death: Aileen Wuornos was America's first female serial killer – a prostitute and lesbian who hated men. She lured her victims with the promise of sex and then in cold blood gunned them down. After police obtained a shocking confession, Wuornos was sentenced to death for the murders of seven men.
• Additional feature: Confessions of A Serial Killer Hillside Strangler: The so-called ‘Hillside Strangler’ was the longest trial in American history. In all, ten women were murdered and their bodies dumped in the Hollywood Hills – the victims of a sadistic duo who raped, tortured and killed. Six years after the first murder Angelo Buono and his Uncle Kenneth Bianchi were sent down for life.
• Additional feature: Murder Mystery And Me: The Joanne Lees interview. An extraordinary story – Joanne Lees had refused to speak about the events of that night with Peter Falconio, or what happened afterwards – until now.
• Additional feature: Colin Pitchfork – Village Murders.

3 DVDs • Running time: 295 mins