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TV series

Signs of a Psychopath

2020TV-1411 seasons7.8 / 10

This harrowing half-hour archive series revisits some of the most brutal killers in modern history, reviewing news footage and the words of the killers themselves to see which terrifying traits each killer exhibited. What are the signs...of evil?

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Signs of a Psychopath premiered August 23, 2020. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.

Synopsis

This harrowing half-hour archive series revisits some of the most brutal killers in modern history, reviewing news footage and the words of the killers themselves to see which terrifying traits each killer exhibited. What are the signs...of evil?

Season 8 episodes

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Episode 1

I Love Something So I Kill It

21m7.5 / 10

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.

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Episode 2

I Slept With a Knife

22m7.0 / 10

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.

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Episode 3

Unorthodox and Weird

42m

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.

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Episode 4

His Parents Didn't Like Me

21m7.0 / 10

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.

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Episode 5

You’re Never Going To Get it Out of Me

21m7.0 / 10

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

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Episode 6

My Pretty White Shoelaces

21m6.0 / 10

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.

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Episode 7

You're Not Leaving

21m7.0 / 10

A 33-year-old oil rig worker calls 911 to report his girlfriend missing. He seems to be helping in the time-critical hunt to find her. A failed polygraph test leads detectives to suspect this seemingly caring boyfriend is a psychopath.

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Episode 8

She Said She Didn't Care

21m7.0 / 10

Six months pregnant Martine Bernard's family reports her missing, days later, her father vanishes as well. When officers interview Martine's husband, Cassandritz Blanc, they find a calculating psychopath willing to do anything to cover his tracks.

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Episode 9

I'm Not a Weirdo

21m7.0 / 10

When a 64-year-old grandmother does not return home from her morning walk, local police uncover that the man responsible for her disappearance is not only a pathological liar but a sexually deviant psychopath carrying out a twisted fantasy.

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Episode 10

Birth of a Psychopath

42m6.0 / 10

Every parent's worst nightmare is the possibility that their child has the same evil traits as the most heinous murderers.

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Episode information updated Sep 2, 2026

More about Signs of a Psychopath

Cast

N.G. BerrillPsychologist
Samantha TurretReporter

Credits

Written by
Alissa Collins

Production details

Status
Returning Series
Series type
Documentary
Episodes
103
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • Investigation DiscoveryUnited States
  • Red Marble MediaUnited States

Themes

criminologypersonality disordertrue crime