BBC - Great Crimes and Trials Series 3 Set 2 (1995) Part 1 Heidnick and Dahmer Killers for Company/

Stabbings, shootings, genocide, torture, abduction, robbery, serial killing and mass suicide are just a few of the horrific crimes explored in Great Crimes and Trials. True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage. Cases which have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and detection. Serial killers, gangsters, assassins and war criminals - Great Crimes and Trials sheds light on crimes that shocked the world, bringing back memories of some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century. The murders of John Lennon and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, the unsolved Zodiac murders and the treasonous crimes of Lord Haw-Haw are all covered here in exacting detail, alongside other shocking stories of murder and mayhem. From the violent mob rule of the thirties to the fairly recent phenomenon of the serial killer, the motives, behavior patterns and killing techniques of some of the world's most evil felons are explored. Their detection, capture and trials are examined to give a complete picture of how crine and justice have evolved through the twentieth century. Narrated by Robert Powell, Great Crimes and Trials combines new and archive interviews to reconstruct each story, analysing the individual and his motive, explaining how the crime was committed and showing breakthroughs in investigations alongside details of the trial. With its researchers gaining unprecedented access to picture libraries and over 250,000 hours of archive footage, these are the definitive accounts of these appalling murders.

Part 1 Heidnick and Dahmer Killers for Company

The Philadelphia murderer who ensnared his female victims one by one. He locked them into a dark cellar where there was no escape from his manic desires or his brutality. In November 1986, Gary Heidnik kidnapped six women and kept them captive in his basement. There he raped, tortured, starved and electrocuted his victims, killing two, then fed their bodies to his remaining captives. On March 23, 1987, Philadelphia police officers responded to an astonishing 9-1-1 call from Josefina Rivera. Claiming to have been abducted, raped, beaten, tortured, and held captive in a basement for nearly four months, she had managed to convince her captor to be allowed to see her family. She used the opportunity to escape and led the police to her abductor waiting at the gas station Gary Heidnik. What they uncovered in Heidnik's basement was a prison that had claimed the lives of two women, with another three women held captive. Heidnik was convicted in court of two counts of first-degree murder, five of kidnapping, six of rape, four of aggravated assault, and one count of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse. He consequently made many suicide attempts in prison. On July 6, 1999, Heidnik was executed by lethal injection. In 1991, in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, two police officers are flagged down by a handcuffed man, Tracy Edwards. He, too, claimed to have escaped from a would-be abductor, leading the police back to his house. It was thus almost by accident that police had finally caught one of the most infamous serial killers of all time, for the man's name was Jeffrey Dahmer.

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