21st Century Serial Killer
2018–2019 · Really · 60 min · 1 season
S01E07 · Donna Perry
Thu, 10 Jan, 9:00 am
The documentary looks at the crimes of Donna Perry, a transgender serial killer who blamed her murders on Douglas Perry, the man she used to be.
About
21st Century Serial Killer forensically researches the lives of the killers who can't stop killing, revealing how the grim opportunities, provided by the 21st century, played a part in a number of murders.
Criminologists, psychologists, journalists and detectives join family members of the victims to present an emotionally charged narrative.
From the world's first transgender killer to an image and celebrity obsessed homicidal teenager; from the scientific advances in forensic investigation to the first-time social media-led hunt for a missing victim, each episode features a storyline that could only have happened in the 21st century.
Featuring access to some of the real-life video and audio of the killers, alongside stylised reconstructions and interviews with those intimately involved, each story reveals the psychopathic behaviour in the beginnings of a serial killer's murderous journey. This is the series that brings science and the 21st century, to true crime.
Episodes
- E01
Jesse Matthew
Thu, 15 Nov· 60 minThis episode deals with Jesse Matthew, guilty of the murders of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham.
- E02
Stephen Port
Thu, 22 Nov· 60 minThis episode looks at Stephen Port, who preyed on young men and spent hours searching web porn. The predator took the lives of four much-loved men.
- E03
William Howell
Thu, 29 Nov· 60 minDelving into the crimes of William Devin Howell, who murdered opioid-addicted prostitutes in Connecticut and managed to keep the killings secret for 14 years.
- E04
James Fairweather
Thu, 6 Dec· 60 minA profile of murderer James Fairweather, who stabbed two people to death in Essex in the space of three months in 2014.
- E05
Mark Martin
Thu, 13 Dec· 60 minThe crimes of Mark Martin, who idolised serial killers before becoming one himself. Martin killed three homeless women in Nottingham between December 2004 and January 2005.
- E06
Shawn Grate
Thu, 20 Dec· 60 minA profile of Shawn Grate, who was given the death penalty in June 2018 after being convicted of two murders in Ashland County, Ohio.
- E07
Donna Perry
Thu, 10 Jan· 60 minThe documentary looks at the crimes of Donna Perry, a transgender serial killer who blamed her murders on Douglas Perry, the man she used to be.