Serial Killers

Between 1972 and 1974, the city of Cluj in Romania lived in fear. Women were attacked in the streets and in their own homes, struck without warning by a man the press would later call the Man with the Hammer. His name was Romulus Vereș, and the brutality and randomness of his attacks left the city terrified. When he was finally caught, he claimed he wasn’t responsible at all. According to him, satanic forces had stolen his appearance and committed the murders in his name.

Parents in early 1980s Florida saw Christine Falling as a safe pair of hands. She was young, quiet and willing to help. But children in her care kept dying, their deaths explained away as illness or misfortune. In truth, five infants and one elderly man were smothered or choked. As Christine later admitted: “No one could hear them scream.”

This is the chilling story of Cary Stayner, a man whose descent into darkness shocked a nation. Years after his brother Steven’s harrowing ordeal and celebrated return, Cary committed a series of brutal murders near Yosemite National Park — taking the lives of four innocent women and deepening the wounds of a family already scarred by tragedy.

This is the disturbing story of Amarjeet Sada, who at just 8 years old became the world’s youngest known serial killer after murdering three infants — including his sister and cousin — in Bihar, India.