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'Becoming Evil: Serial Killers'
(2-DVD + Digital / NR / 2019 / Mill Creek Entertainment)

Overview: True crime. Americans have become fascinated with the media genre in which actual crimes of real people are explored in depth.

A genre which exploded at the beginning of the 21st century. A genre that focuses on murder. The more hideous and bizarre, the better with the biggest sub category of true crime being the story of the serial killer.

DVD Verdict: At the heart of these stories, told within a stunning, highly intriguing and very eye-opening 7-part investigative documentary series, lay perplexing questions.

Who are they? Why do they kill? Prior to the true crime explosion, psychologists and criminal investigators thought they had the serial killer figured out. But it turns out the answers are much more complex and troubling.

Hence, 'Becoming Evil: Serial Killers' is a shocking, new investigative documentary series that profiles some of history's most notorious mass murderers.

Ep. 1 - Mind of the Serial Killer
Ep. 2 - Victims and the Media
Ep. 3 - America's Most Notorious Serial Killers: The First Wave
Ep. 4 - The Second Wave: America's Most Notorious Serial Killers
Ep. 5 - Lady Serial Killers
Ep. 6 - International Serial Killers
Ep. 7 - 21st Century Serial Killers

Within the confines of this 7-part documentary series we find interviews with experts and in-depth portraits of some of America's most infamous killers, including John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, James DeAngelo, Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrew Cunanan, Ted Bundy and many others.

During the engrossing six and a half hours we learn that the sensationalized images of serial killers presented in the news and entertainment media suggest that they either have a debilitating mental illness such as psychosis or they are brilliant; but demented geniuses like Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter in the iconic film The Silence of the Lambs.

Neither of these two stereotypes is quite accurate. Instead, serial killers are much more likely to exhibit antisocial personality disorders such as sociopathy or more likely psychopathy, which are not considered to be mental illnesses by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

Ergo, an examination of psychopathy and sociopathy, and a discussion of the powerful connection between antisocial personality disorders, particularly psychopathy, and serial homicide is presented here also.

We also learn that very few serial killers suffer from any mental illness to such a debilitating extent that they are considered to be insane by the criminal justice system.

Indeed, to be classified as legally insane, an individual must be unable to comprehend that an action is against the law at the exact moment the action is undertaken.

In other words, a serial killer must be unaware that murder is legally wrong while committing the act of murder in order to be legally insane.

This legal categorization of insanity is so stringent and narrow that very few serial killers are actually included in it.

Watching 'Becoming Evil: Serial Killers' we also note that psychopathic serial killers such as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Dennis Rader (BTK) are entirely aware of the illegality of murder while they are in the process of killing their victims.

Their understanding of right and wrong does nothing to impede their crimes, however, because psychopaths such as Bundy, Gacy and Rader have an overwhelming desire and compulsion to kill that causes them to ignore the criminal law with impunity.

Much more is revealed in these fascinating episodes and so if you have even the slightest bent toward knowing what goes on inside the mind of someone who could perpetrate such crimes, this is the ultimate documentary for you. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.78:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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