Motive to Murder
Motive to Murder takes a psychological look into some of the real-life murder cases that have made headlines around the world: from crimes of passion and serial killers, to opportunistic slayings and mass shootings.
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Cast:Judy Ho , Tom Ohmer , Lea Mende , Adam Burnette , James R. Fitzgerald , Daniel Irmas , Jim Clemente , Michael Wayne Brown , Kaye L. Morris , Cheryl Dorsey , Laura Crane , Jason Tillery , Amber Crews , Nicolle Gironda , Shirley Dalmas , Martin Ballantyne , BrÃet Kristiansen , Chris Barry
S1.E1 ∙ Deadly Affairs
When a distinguished Navy doctor and his wife are founded stabbed inside their San Diego home, police launch a hunt for a brutal killer. The attack leaves the doctor dead, and his wife clinging to life.
S1.E2 ∙ Psycho Shooter
In 2011, a lone gunman sets off on a killing spree at an Arizona shopping center. His target a prominent Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. After killing six and wounding thirteen, police capture a disturbed, twenty-two-year-old suspect.
S1.E3 ∙ Killers by Blood
When a beloved grandfather goes missing in rural Utah, investigators begin a multi-state search for him. What starts as a simple missing persons case becomes a complex crime of kidnapping and a shocking murder.
S1.E4 ∙ Texas Teen Love Triangle
A beautiful high school girl goes missing in the middle of the night without a trace. When her body is found, the entire community of Mansfield, Texas is in shock. Rumors buzz around the high school that a killer is walking the halls.
S1.E5 ∙ Pickaxe Murders
Houston, Texas is rocked by a grisly crime scene- a man whose head is practically hammered off his body and a semi-nude woman riddled with pick ax wounds.
S1.E6 ∙ Fast Food Massacre
A Wendy's restaurant in Queens, New York is hit by a pair of robbers just before closing time. The robbery escalates as the pair slaughter five employees, while leaving another two for dead.
S1.E7 ∙ Speed Freak Killers
A drug-fueled, killing spree terrorizes a small California town. Police believe they are dealing with a serial killer who lives quietly among them. They are shocked to discover not one but two childhood friends.
S1.E8 ∙ Mysogynist Murderer
In a small Australian town, residents start finding bodies of dead women in rural locations. The killer leaves behind strange marks on the victims that seem to be made with a homemade knife.
S1.E9 ∙ Southside Slayer
Los Angeles is a dangerous city in 1986 with over a 1,000 homicides reported and many going unsolved. Police find the bodies of more than 50 African-American women dumped into the trash.
S1.E10 ∙ South African Strangler
A police reservist stumbles across a mass grave of women just outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. The investigation leads to the leader of a child advocacy group who lures dozens of women with the promise of a job helping kids.
S1.E11 ∙ Camden Ripper
A homeless man finds bloody, body parts in a North London dumpster. Police soon find more and realize they have a killer in the neighborhood. The investigation stalls until a suspect's door is left slightly ajar revealing weapons.
S1.E12 ∙ Cosa Nostra Killer
For decades, Italy is in fear from a Mafia hit man known as "Ice Eyes." He is an emotionless killer and the authorities can do nothing to stop him. However, claiming 80 murders he is betrayed while planning the mob's most daring hit ever.
S1.E13 ∙ Bound to Die
Nineteen year-old Elizabeth Marriott goes missing. The investigation leads to Kat McDonough who claims that Marriott died during rough sex but she admitted to authorities that she offered Marriott to her dominant boyfriend, Seth Mazzaglia.
S1.E14 ∙ Doctor Death
An English doctor who makes house calls has the bedside manner of a saint for his elderly female patients, but when the family of a deceased patient contests the will-the truth is exhumed.
S1.E15 ∙ Texas Tower Sniper
In America's first mass slaying, a sniper randomly guns down students and pedestrians from atop the University of Texas clock tower. Police have no plan in place for such an event; the police are out-gunned and over their heads.
S1.E16 ∙ Co-Ed Killer
Young, female students have disappeared with alarming frequency from the college town of Santa Cruz, California. Then mutilated body parts show up as almost a human jigsaw puzzle.
S1.E17 ∙ Hawaiian Horror
When a killer burst into a Honolulu conference room at a button-down, no nonsense office, he leaves behind seven dead - and the biggest mass slaying in Hawaiian history.
S1.E18 ∙ The Killer Nurse
At hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, patients are mysteriously dying. The rumor is that a serial killer is at work. After the Reverend Gall unexpectedly dies in 2003, tests reveal that he has five times the dose of medication.
S1.E19 ∙ Snuff Film Killers
A fisherman in Bates City, Missouri, discovers the nude body of a woman - 41-year-old Marsha Spicer. Police learn she was an acquaintance of ex-con Richard Davis. For years, Davis had a fantasy to make a snuff film.
S1.E20 ∙ Christmas Eve Massacre
A man wearing a Santa suit makes a surprise visit to a Pardo family Christmas Eve party in Covina, California, in 2008. The man is carrying a gift-wrapped flamethrower in one hand and in the other, a handgun.
S1.E21 ∙ The Fiendish Friend
Samuel Herr and Julie Kibuishi are a young couple living in California. On May 22, 2010, Julie's partially clothed body is discovered in Herr's apartment, and Herr, apparently, is on the run.
S1.E22 ∙ The Makeover Murder
The former beauty queen Michele MacNeill married a prominent surgeon Martin MacNeill in Utah. On April 11, 2011, her husband and six-year-old daughter find her dead in the bathtub and suspicious circumstances arise.
S1.E23 ∙ Bus Stop Killer
Jessica Keen, an honor student and cheerleader, gets in an argument with her boyfriend. Jessica strolls to a nearby bus stop. This is the last time anyone sees her alive. Police focus their investigation on her ex-boyfriend.
S1.E24 ∙ House of Horrors
In Gloucester, England, Rosemary Letts meets 27-year old Frederick West, married father of two daughters, on her 15th birthday. They move in together, and soon, one of his daughters, and then his wife, disappear.
S1.E25 ∙ Lying in Wait
A man kills 16-year old Colette Aram in Nottinghamshire, England and goes to a local pub to wipe his own cuts with a napkin. Twenty-five years pass until police matches the blood on the napkin from the pub to a relative of the killer.
S1.E26 ∙ Dangerous Obsession
Joanna Clare Yeates is a 25-year old landscape architect from Hampshire, England, who goes missing. Eight days later, someone finds her strangled body along the roadside.
S1.E27 ∙ Corrupt Crimes
Someone is strangling elderly women throughout Mexico City. There's no apparent connection among the victims, and no apparent motive. After a police investigation goes nowhere, the killer is caught red-handed.
S1.E28 ∙ Panic at Canyon Lake
The upscale, gated-community of Canyon Lake, California seems like the safest place on earth. Yet, someone is mysteriously murdering old ladies. Detectives uncover a trail of credit card fraud that leads them to a surprise killer.
S1.E29 ∙ Evil Stranger
When a young woman disappears from the streets of Southampton, England, police launch a massive manhunt. But the killer is one step ahead and flees to India. The victim's parents pursue this killer to get justice for their daughter.
S1.E30 ∙ Deadly Curves
Individuals seeking a curvaceous physique visit one self-proclaimed doctor who specializes in buttock enhancements. Shockingly, this medical unprofessional injects into tire-sealant into her patients- with homicidal consequences.
S1.E31 ∙ Stranger at the Station
When a popular young student mysteriously goes missing her boyfriend tells police the last time he sees her is at Oxford station with a mysterious stranger. The police sketch bears a remarkable resemblance to someone close to her.
S1.E32 ∙ Machete Murders
In 1971, someone hacks to death twenty-five men and buries them in shallow graves in a California orchard. The following investigation shocks the nation, sparks charges of racial bias, and introduces America to a new term: serial killer.
S1.E33 ∙ Vulture Feeder Fiend
During their investigation into serial killer Ed Kemper, detectives become painfully aware that there is another serial killer on the loose. Someone is dismembering bodies and bashing in brains.
S1.E34 ∙ Knight of Swords
In Santa Cruz, California, police believe they have another Manson family-type serial killer on their hands when they come across a series of ritualistic killings of a self-proclaimed hero who kills to prevent the apocalypse.
S1.E35 ∙ Dixie Mafia
Legendary lawman Buford Pusser cuts his teeth battling the Dixie Mafia, a rogue's gallery of thieves, crooked gamblers, and killers operating in the American South.
S1.E36 ∙ Gambled on Murder
In London, prim and proper Carole Waugh is leading a double life. Through her tawdry escort work, she meets a gambler and a swindler. The con goes on after Carol suddenly goes missing.
S1.E37 ∙ Semper Free
Yvonne Baldelli and Marine Corps veteran Brian Brimager fall in love and move to a Caribbean island. But paradise turns into a nightmare when Yvonne e-mails that she's left Brian for another man and they're moving to Costa Rica.
S1.E38 ∙ Kiss of Death
The most vulnerable patients in an Ohio hospital are dying at an alarming rate. Someone close to these patients decides who lives and who dies after receiving signs from a demonic spirit guide.
S1.E39 ∙ Ashes to Ashes
When a trashcan is found holding the decomposed body of a woman, an international investigation follows to find her killer. Police suspect a top chef of cooking up a recipe for disaster.
S1.E40 ∙ Collar Bomb Killer
A pizza deliveryman enters a bank wearing a bomb around his neck, claiming he's being forced to rob the bank. After the bomb goes off, investigators look into one of the strangest robberies ever.
S1.E41 ∙ Day of Retribution
There's a killing spree in Santa Barbara. When the dust settles, it appears the killer snaps when he doesn't win the $120-million lottery, dashing his plans to get a girlfriend and lose his virginity.
S1.E42 ∙ Double Crossed
On a lonely California highway, a prominent doctor and his wife are shot point blank in their car. An investigation reveals that the doctor gets a referral from his mistress for a hit man to kill his wife.
S1.E43 ∙ Folsom Wolves
A series of random killings in Redlands, California leaves police with no clues. But then the manager of a fast food restaurant finds the ID of one victim in the trash. And with it, another ID which leads to a suspect.
S1.E44 ∙ Bad Fortune
When a popular fortune teller and her daughter turn up dead covered in white paint, the case baffles police. Eventually, detectives cobble together a bizarre case. The motive? Revenge for a prediction that doesn't pan out.
S1.E45 ∙ The Christmas That Wasn't
It will test the skill of investigators to solve the Christmas Eve killings of a couple murdered 27-years ago. A jailhouse informant and tenacious police work make sure one killer receives 103 years in prison.
S1.E46 ∙ Cabin Fervor
Stephen Epperly takes Gina Hall to a cabin in the woods of Virginia to an intimate late night party. No one ever sees Gina again. What happens to her remains a mystery to this day.
S1.E47 ∙ Sinister Minister
When a parishioner commits suicide in his pastor's officer, it opens up a Pandora's Box of adultery, deceit, and murder. Does a well-respected man of God find a simple way out of his vows, "till death do us part"?
S1.E48 ∙ S&M and Murder
A sex slave in Norfolk, England, says she will do anything it takes to prove her obedience to a sadistic, psychopathic master. When he tests her by handing over a list of people for her to murder, will she comply?
S1.E49 ∙ Evil Eyes
One morning in 1990, someone in a Dallas, Texas suburb finds the body of a prostitute, her eyes surgically removed. Two similar murders later, the FBI zeros in on a killer.
