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People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer: Season 1

6 episodes Premiered May 5, 2024
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Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Surviving Dating Game Killer

May 5, 2024

In 1965, Rodney Alcala attacks a teenage girl - only to brutalize and rape her three years later. She feels guilty when she discovers he assaulted another girl soon after - but the

S1·E2 Core

Surviving The Railroad Killer

May 12, 2024

A new romance between two college students derails when a sadist attacks them during a nighttime walk by the railroad tracks. Only one of them lives and she turns out to be the sol

S1·E3 Core

Surviving the Casanova Killer

May 19, 2024

A single mom, Barbara Mabee Abel, comes home to find a man holding her disabled sister hostage. He then tries to kidnap her young son, but she begs him to take her instead. She is

S1·E4 Core

Surviving the Bishop's Basement

May 26, 2024

Gary Heidnick, who runs a church out of his house and calls himself "The Bishop," abducts a woman and holds her captive. Soon, he imprisons six women in his basement and tortures t

S1·E5 Mytharc

Surviving the Handsome Devil

Jun 2, 2024

In the suburbs of Chicago, a handsome man with searing blue eyes turns out to be a bloodthirsty monster hiding in plain sight and attacking young women at will. However, it takes d

S1·E6 Mytharc

Surviving the Cook Brothers

Jun 9, 2024

1981, two men rape and shoot a young mother, forcing her fiancé to watch it all. After nearly dying, Cheryl Bartlett Fann, learns her attackers are a pair of serial killers who are

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