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The Worst Episodes of Born to Kill?

Every episode of Born to Kill? ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Born to Kill?!

Worst episode
S4E2 The Killer Prophet
6.528 votes
Best episode
S4E6 The Cross-Dressing Cannibal
8.037 votes
Top season
Season 3
7.8avg
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1d 17h
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Born to Kill? Season 4 Episode 2 - The Killer Prophet
    6.5/10(28 votes)

    S4:E2

    In California in 1970, a doctor and his young family were executed and dumped in the swimming pool of their hilltop home. The killer believed that he was on a mission from God.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Born to Kill? Season 1 Episode 2 - Harold Shipman
    6.8/10(48 votes)

    S1:E2

    The world’s most prolific killer, Shipman is estimated to have killed 275 people, but the actual figure will never be known. The 57-year-old GP was given 15 life sentences to run concurrently for the murders, and four years for forging a will, but hung himself in his cell after he was sentenced. He always denied his crimes. When the police began investigating Dr Harold Shipman in September 1998 they struggled to understand him. How could a GP who was trusted and respected by more than 3,000 patients also be a killer who struck time after time with no obvious motive? The coroner speculated that ‘the only valid possible explanation for it is that he simply enjoyed viewing the process of dying and enjoyed the feeling of control over life and death, literally over life and death …’

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Born to Kill? Season 4 Episode 3 - Yosemite Park Slayer
    6.9/10(34 votes)

    S4:E3

    Featuring the killing of walkers in Yosemite National Park

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 3 - Gerald and Charlene Gallego
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    S6:E3

    Chilling documentary series examining brutal serial killers. Despicable duo Gerald and Charlene Gallego joined forces to rape and murder several teenagers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 10 - David Gore and Fred Waterfield
    6.9/10(25 votes)

    S6:E10

    Grisly documentary series examining notorious serial killers. This edition explores the chilling case of killer cousins David Gore and Fred Waterfield.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Born to Kill? Season 7 Episode 4 - Charles Albright 'The Eyeball Killer'
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    S7:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 5 - Tony Costa (Cape Cod Casanova)
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    S6:E5

    Grisly documentary series examining brutal serial killers. Tony Costa murdered four women in 1969, before penning a chilling, unpublished novel detailing his crimes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Born to Kill? Season 5 Episode 9 - The Serial Killing Couple
    7.0/10(24 votes)

    S5:E9

    The show examines the crimes of sadistic couple Paula Bernardo and Karla Homolka who carried out a series of despicable acts against different young women, including Karla's own sister.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Born to Kill? Season 4 Episode 1 - The Black Panther
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    S4:E1

    Profile of the 1970s armed robber and kidnapper.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 7 - Cleophus Prince Jr. (Prince of Darkness)
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    S6:E7

    Chilling documentary series examining serial killers. This edition explores the case of ex-marine Cleophus Prince Jr., who raped and murdered six women in 1990.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 2 - John Duffy and David Mulcahy
    7.1/10(23 votes)

    S6:E2

    Profiling rapists and serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who together attacked numerous women at railway stations in the south of England through the mid-1980s, killing three.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 6 - Richard Cottingham
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    S6:E6

    Shocking documentary series examining brutal killers. Ruthless Richard Cottingham murdered at least six people and dismembered his victims' bodies.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Born to Kill? Season 1 Episode 1 - Fred West
    7.2/10(62 votes)

    S1:E1

    Over a period of about twenty years Fred and Rose West abducted, tortured, raped and murdered an unknown number of girls, many of whom lay buried in the garden until the police dug them up. What motivated West to commit such terrible crimes? Was he born evil or did his upbringing make him this way? Did he do it for sexual kicks? Or, as some allege, did he supply the sacrificial victims to a black magic coven?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Born to Kill? Season 2 Episode 1 - Aileen Wuornos
    7.2/10(50 votes)

    S2:E1

    Made famous for Charlize Theron’s portrayal of her in the film Monster, Aileen Wuornos was executed in 2002 for the murder of seven men. A down-on-her luck lesbian prostitute, she lured her clients to remote wooded areas, and more often than not, shot them at point blank range. Tried and convicted in a Florida court, Aileen received 6 death sentences and spent a total of 12 years on death row…

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Born to Kill? Season 3 Episode 6 - David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    S3:E6

    The Son of Sam would become the most notorious killer in New York's history. Shooting women or couples parked in lover's lanes, the mystery killer spread terror through the streets of the metropolis, leading young women to cut and dye their hair for fear of becoming the killer's next victim. Writing to the police and press, the Son of Sam would claim to relish his 'work' and that he was programmed to kill. A massive manhunt would lead police to David Berkowitz - a lonely young man, adopted at birth, who claimed he was commanded to do the devil's work by a neighbour's barking dog. So was the Son of Sam driven by demons? Wreaking a bitter revenge fuelled by mental illness? Or was he programmed from birth to be a serial murderer?

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Born to Kill? Season 4 Episode 5 - The Butcher Brothers
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    S4:E5

    Featuring a crime spree in Richmond, Virginia in 1979.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 9 - Timothy Wilson Spencer (Twisted Tourniquet)
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    S6:E9

    The horrific case of Timothy Wilson-Spencer, who strangled five people in the 1980s. The case was historic as it was the first case solved with DNA evidence.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Born to Kill? Season 5 Episode 7 - The Hitchhiker Slayer
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    S5:E7

    During 1976 and early 1977, female students at the University of California in Santa Barbara were terrorised by some lookalike murders, so-called because the victims closely resembled one another. Thor Christiansen struck while they were hitchhiking and desecrated their bodies after murdering them.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Born to Kill? Season 5 Episode 8 - The Drive-by Slayers
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    S5:E8

    Between May 2005 and August 2006, Dale and Jeff Hausner who were later were assisted by Samuel Dieteman, turned drive-by shootings into sport as they kept score as they picked off their victims at random.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Born to Kill? Season 5 Episode 4 - Cary Stayner: The Yosemite Park Slayer
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    S5:E4

    Cary Stayner was arrested following the disappearance of a group of female hikers who went missing in Yosemite National Park in 1999.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Born to Kill? Season 5 Episode 10 - The Thriller Killers
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    S5:E10

    The show profiles Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. In 1984, tthe friends took part in a drug-fuelled killing spree that terrorised their rural Californian community for around fifteen years.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 1 - Robert Napper
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    S6:E1

    British criminal Robert Napper, who was convicted of two murders, one manslaughter, two rapes and two attempted rapes. Napper is a paranoid schizophrenic who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and. also believed to be the 'Green Chain Rapist' who carried out at least 70 attacks across south-east London over a four-year period ending in 1994.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Born to Kill? Season 3 Episode 4 - Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
    7.3/10(37 votes)

    S3:E4

    By the age of ten, heavy metal fan Richard Ramirez was sleeping in cemeteries. He would go on to spread terror throughout Los Angeles, preying on ordinary citizens as they slept in their homes. The Satan loving, drug fuelled burglar would rape, murder, and mutilate, taking pleasure in making his victims pray to Satan before him. Men, women, children and the elderly all fell victim as the police raced to catch the killer who defied all known theories about serial murder. So, was the Richard Ramirez born to kill? Warped by drugs? Or, was the Night Stalker schooled in murder during his poor childhood in the tough Texan border town of El Paso?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Born to Kill? Season 5 Episode 3 - John Linley Frazier: The Killer Prophet
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    S5:E3

    In 1970, a California doctor and his young family were executed and dumped in the swimming pool of their hilltop home. The killer believed that he was on a mission from God.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Born to Kill? Season 6 Episode 8 - Sean Vincent Gillis (Dead End in Baton Rouge)
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    S6:E8

    Grisly documentary series examining serial killers. This edition examines the chilling case of Sean Gillis who stalked, raped and brutally murdered eight women.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Killer Prophet" is the worst rated episode of Born to Kill?. It scored 6.5/10 from 28 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on August 27, 2013. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Harold Shipman".

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