Signs of a Psychopath

Psychopaths live among us. They can be friends, family members, coworkers, or even lovers. Trying as they may to impersonate normal humans, there are always signs that reveal their true nature: calculating, narcissistic -- and sometimes, murderous.

Police first arrest a man for discharging a firearm and soon discover dead bodies inside his apartment.

An early morning fire inside an apartment complex reveals the dead bodies of a young woman and an infant boy.

Investigators unveil the execution of a loving family, done by a callous psychopathic killer.

Detectives reveal an unrepentant psychopath capable of executing the love of his life.

A vehicle plows down a 75-year-old military veteran on a country road in an apparent hit-and-run. When a young man confesses to the crime, detectives quickly learn they've encountered a psychopath with an intense desire to thrill kill.

When a young mother goes missing, her husband joins the search while police discover her dismembered body in a stack of bins.

Pensacola Police are called to the Corner Store when a killer guns down a young man in a brazen public execution in the parking lot. Police track down their suspect and find a cold-blooded psychopath without remorse.

For over three decades, Albuquerque police struggle to solve three violent cold cases. After years of searching, the cases break wide open when officers pick up a man on a probation violation. and he soon reveals himself to be a homicidal psychopath.

Authorities grow concerned when a 25-year-old woman reports her 50-year-old father and 6-year-old daughter missing. Police discover their dead bodies and uncover the shocking truth she is a psychotic killer.

Police engage in a massive manhunt to find a killer on a murder spree of revenge, taking the lives of his girlfriend, cousin, and a man he considers a father figure. Once captured, he proclaims that he simply wants to be "heard."

A young man's confession to participating in a plot to murder another teenager stuns police of Ocala, Florida. As detectives dig in, they uncover a sadistic plot involving a manipulative ex-girlfriend with the desire to kill.

Police catch a break on three St. Louis cold case murders when emerging DNA technology makes a match: a 73-year-old frail man whose harmless facade is hiding a vicious individual.

Terror rocks an Ohio town when a mother, her two kids, and a close friend vanish. Fearing foul play, investigators track down the prime suspect and uncover a house of horrors. Detectives find themselves dealing with a psychopath with a bizarre obsession.

After a couple's murder, police find a fantasy killing by two psychopaths.

A vindictive psychopathic wife murders her husband.

A psychopathic son wanting control murders his middle-aged parents.

Hikers in Portland discover the badly decomposed body of a raped and strangled young girl. A month later, another woman turns up brutally murdered in same fashion. The prime suspect is a homeless drifter harboring dark sexual fantasies.

After his wife vanishes from Jackson, Missouri., a psychopath plays cat and mouse with detectives.

A man finds his family slaughtered in their West Virginia home. The oldest son, 16-year-old Gavin Smith, is missing, he turns up hiding at his girlfriend's.

A 19-year-old woman vanishes, and the suspect is a former high school classmate with whom she had been communicating days earlier. The family is weary, for the suspect has a notorious past filled with sexual deviancy and homicidal urges toward women.

Weeks after an 18-year-old man's friend reports him missing, his clothing turns up burned in a trash can behind a suburban home. When witnesses lead investigators to a young man with a history of violence, they soon learn he had not worked alone.

On a quiet winter night, a mother finds her 22-year-old son horrifically dismembered in her basement. The lone suspect is the victim's ex-girlfriend, who is at her home in an emotionless state with blood on her hands.

In rural Missouri, police receive a chilling call from a 50-year-old man who claims to have shot three individuals inside his home. Detectives discover that this impulsive massacre had a purpose, and that the culprit is a psychopath obsessed with control.

A 911 operator receives a frightening call from a man who claims that he stabbed and killed two people. Police rapidly learn that not only is the call legitimate, but the caller is a violent and unpredictable psychotic.

A teen plays out his sadistic fantasies of murder on an unassuming drifter.

Eleven operators receive a terrifying call from a youngster who claims he stabbed his parents to death. Unsure if the call is a Halloween joke, police rush to the area, only to learn that it is not a fake and that the caller is a budding psychopath.

A frantic graduate student calls 911 to say she just shot her boyfriend in self-defense. Police soon discover that her story doesn't add up and realize they are face-to-face with a remorseless, calculating psychopath.

A killer shoots a young woman dead in her boyfriend's Orlando apartment. Hours later, he turns up in a hospital bed 500 miles away with a gunshot wound and a bizarre story that unravels to reveal he's a lying, callous psychopath.

A man calls 911 with his dying breath, and first responders arrive to find him brutally murdered, stabbed 59 times. When detectives question his best friend, they uncover a tangled, sick story of deception and jealousy that explodes in psychopathic rage.

A gunman shoots a man dead as he runs along a country road. First responders find a witness standing next to the body with a strange story to tell, and detectives will unravel the lies of a callous psychopath who takes out his frustrations in bloodshed.

« Previous Ep. Next Ep. » Investigators search a farm for a missing man and find human leg bone on the property. The owner, Susan Monica, admits that her pigs ate her tenant alive, and he's not the only victim. A ruthless psychopath, Monica despises humans but loves her pigs.

A racially motivated serial killer on death row, who targeted civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and pornography publisher Larry Flynt, confesses to additional unsolved murders with the help of a shrewd female prosecutor.

A woman finds her elderly brother dead in his bedroom with his throat slashed. Uncovering the truth poses a challenge for detectives, as the individual responsible for killing him is a manipulative psychopath who craftily deflects blame.

Behind a church lies a dismembered body burned beyond recognition; investigators identify the victim and receive a tip the suspect is a female; a police interview reveals her as the most remorseless psychopathic killer they’ve ever seen.

A man finds his girlfriend and her mother murdered in their beds at night; he calls 911 for help, but police discover his urge to seek revenge.

A man confesses to accidentally killing his best friend while cleaning his gun; during his interrogation, he stuns police by revealing that he’s behind a long trail of bloodshed and is a serial killer who seems to consider himself an angel of mercy.

After his conviction for the brutal slaying of his wife, a Florida inmate lays claim to another unsolved murder 17 years prior, revealing that he's a manipulative psychopath with a history of violence and an unquenchable thirst for revenge.

Searchers for a missing woman find her brutally beaten body in a dilapidated house near her home. The case goes cold until a local teen steps forward to reveal that he's not only the killer but also a manipulative psychopath with a thirst for violence.

A crash on a North Dakota highway leaves one passenger dead but the driver unscathed; when investigators see that the victim has stab wounds, they know there was foul play; detectives interrogate the driver.

A mother who calls 911 to report her 32-year-old son is threatening her turns up dead in her home; he becomes the only suspect, and when he turns himself in, his pragmatic retelling of the slaying isn't just cold hearted, it's psychopathic.

A woman dies in a brutal stabbing at home. Police quickly locate the prime suspect: Antoine Bynum. In his interrogation, he appears to have a psychotic episode until detectives discover it's merely the ruse of a deranged psychopath.

Burlington Police get a call that a man killed his girlfriend. At the scene they find the man calm while his girlfriend's body lies nearby. He explains that he has other victims, revealing a history of psychopathic sexual deviancy.

A failed actor take out his rage on the weakest members of society; after killing four people, a chance encounter with police leads to his downfall; the interrogation room becomes the stage for this killer's final performance.

A longtime nurse confesses to helping end the lives of numerous elderly patients at multiple nursing homes; detectives discover this is no angel of mercy; behind her unsuspecting persona lies a ruthless psychopath.

First responders arrive at a home in Ontario where a mother leads officers to the bodies of her two children. An investigation yields the truth: this awful tragedy isn't an accident but a carefully crafted killing by a vengeful psychopath.

The "Tourniquet Killer" terrorizes young girls across Houston, Texas. When advances in DNA finally lead to his arrest, this psychopath eagerly confesses to multiple murders.

The naked and mutilated body of a mother turns up at the bottom of a ravine in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When tire tracks lead investigators to a suspect, they encounter an undetected serial killer who confesses to butchering eight women over a decade.

A home invasion leads to the revelation of a shocking double life.

A heartless gunman shoots a young couple with devastating consequences.

An obsession with a web-cam model leads to the annihilation of a family.

An arrogant woman believes she's committed the perfect crime. She is wrong.

When police question a man in his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her young son's disappearance, they discover he has a terrifying capacity for violence. Later, a seemingly innocuous man searching for a missing girl could be a real-life monster.

A charming 20-year-old wants to help authorities with a murder investigation. He claims to have met one of the three victims and says he has no knowledge of the crime, but detectives suspect otherwise. Could this intellectual be hiding a dark side?

An unapologetic 14-year-old boy confesses to the murder of his best friend. Twelve years later, he's back in court with chance at a reduced sentence. Has this 26-year-old really changed? Or is he the same meticulous, cold-blooded killer he always was?

Residents of a quaint village are terrified when a local innkeeper and two others are found brutally murdered. Detectives in Maine must follow the depraved killer into the woods at night as he leads them to where he killed and buried a fourth victim.

A 50-year-old woman is found dead in her home. All that's left behind is a note that reads, "Chase me." But when detectives uncover the killer, they quickly discover they have come face to face with a remorseless psychopath.