dvd sets of true crime shows

Next up is a work in progress: Crime Stories. So far, I have 8 discs with 4 episodes each for 32 episodes currently, however this set is expanding. Crime Stories is produced in Canada and features mostly a mix of Canadian and American stories, with ones from other countries such as Australia popping up now and then. This show also focuses on cases from several decades ago, although newer ones appear occasionally. A wonderfully produced show with many cases not seen on any other true crime show. Here are episode descriptions for the set so far: 

Crime Stories Episode Guide

Disc 1

1. The Homicidal Drifter – Michael McGray goes on a killing spree in Canada.

2. The Casebook Rapist – In Canada, a college student is raped and murdered when someone breaks into her apartment.

3. The Tattoo Man: Peter John Peters – A man goes on a crime spree in Canada.

4. The Conservative Killer – Canadian politician Colin Thatcher is suspected in several attacks on his ex-wife JoAnn, the last one having resulted in her murder.

Disc 2

1. The Railcar Killer – A large manhunt ensues when authorities learn that Mexican immigrant Rafael Ramirez has embarked on a horrific murder spree across the U.S. and travels by railcar to various locations to commit the murders.

2. The Backpack Killer – In Australia, a serial killer targets youths backpacking across the country.

3. The Night Stalker – Richard Ramirez goes on a crime spree in California in the mid-80’s.

4. The Candyman – Dean Corll horrifically rapes, tortures and murders dozens of teenage boys in Houston, Texas in the early 70’s.

Disc 3

1. The Blacktown Boys – Examining the 1986 kidnapping, gang-rape and murder of nurse and former beauty queen Anita Cobbey near Sydney, Australia. Anita had been walking home one night from a train station when she was kidnapped. The series of crimes captivated the entire continent and led to public outrage. Eventually, 5 men would be rounded up and put on trial.

2. The Love Slave Murders – With the assistance of his young wife Charlene, Gerald Gallego sexually assaults and murders many young women and girls, mostly in Sacramento, California, in the late 70’s and 1980.

3. The Slave Master – Authorities in Kansas learn a man there is luring women from across the country with promises of a well-paying job, but turning them into sex slaves. Many of the women disappear or turn up dead.

4. The Happy Face Killer – Authorities are shocked when an older woman claims that she and her boyfriend were responsible for the rape and murder of a young woman, and become even more shocked when a man claims the couple is innocent and that he committed the murder, as well as the murders of 7 other people.

Disc 4

1. The BTK Strangler – The BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) Strangler kills many residents in Wichita, Kansas in the 70’s, then goes mostly silent until the mid-2000’s, when he resurfaces.

2. Teenage Terrors – In Calgary, Alberta, Canada, residents are shocked when three seemingly good-natured 15 year-olds from the Asian community stand accused of murdering security guard Evan Chu, a popular figure in the community.

3. The Menthol Murderer – In usually low-crime rural Indiana, residents are shocked and horrified when 10 year old Katie Collman is sexually assaulted and murdered.

4. The Woodchipper Wife Killer – Examining the disappearance of Danish-born flight attendant Helle Crafts, who vanished from her home in Newtown, CT in November, 1986 during a snowstorm. Soon, it becomes apparent that she was killed by her husband Richard and her remains fed through a woodchipper.

Disc 5

1. The Missing Mom – Tara Grant disappears from Michigan and her husband becomes a suspect.

2. The .22 Caliber Killer – Former police officer Ronald Glenn West commits numerous murders and rapes in the early 70’s, then returns to his criminal ways in the 90’s.

3. The Killer Handyman – William Fyfe murders numerous Quebec women in their homes in the late 90’s by posing as a handyman, then later confesses to a string of earlier murders.

4. The Pictou Sadist – When Douglas Worth is released from prison in Canada, it surprises virtually nobody that he returns to his criminal ways.

Disc 6

1. The Wells Grey Gunman - The shocking and senseless murders of a family of 6 in a British Columbia park in 1982 is examined.

2. The Bedroom Strangler – In the 70’s, Russell Johnson murders many women in the London, Ontario area (sometimes scaling several floors in order to do so), and meticulously cleans the crimes scenes to the point where the victims loved ones and even police initially do not realize crimes have taken place.

3. The Elusive Rapist – Examining the 1968 murder of Gail Miller of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. David Milgaard, who was 16 at the time of the murder, served over two decades in prison for the crime, but was released and attention shifted to serial rapist Larry Fisher.

4. The Butcher Of St. Eustache – Former meat butcher Serge Archambault murders three women in Quebec and had plans to murder more.

Disc 7

1. The Boogeyman – The rape and murder of 6 year old Corrine “Punky” Gustavson in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1992 becomes a high profile case due to the horrible nature of the crimes and age of the victim. Police look at many suspects, but years pass with no resolution. The U.S. assists in the case and eventually Clifford Sleigh is linked through DNA and sent to prison.

2. The Murderous Mastermind – In 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the owner of a travel agency is found shot to death in his office on a quiet Sunday morning. Police investigate several suspects, but a hidden key found in the office leads to a mysterious locker in a bus depot that will eventually lead to the shocking identity of the killer.

3. The Roaming Rapist – Gary Alan Walker goes on a horrific crime spree in Oklahoma in 1984 that leaves 5 people dead.

4. The Elderly Executioners – In 1989 in Missouri, elderly citizens Faye & Ray Copeland shockingly murder 5 young men who were drifters they hired as farm hands, and bury their remains in barns.





Disc 8

1. The Homicidal Handyman – In Sacramento, California in the mid-80’s, handyman Morris Solomon kills numerous crack-addicted prostitutes.

2. The Boarding House Killer – In Sacramento, California, a shocking series of crimes takes place in the 80’s as Dorothy Puente, a seemingly kindly old lady who ran a boarding house for the sick and elderly, is found to have murdered numerous residents and cashed their benefits checks.

3. The Human Hunter – In Anchorage, Alaska throughout the 70’s and early 80’s, Robert C. Hansen kills numerous women.

4. The Killing Cousins – David Gore and his cousin Fred Waterfield go on a rape and murder spree in Vero Beach, FL in the early 80’s.