Plot Synopsis

Featuring emotional interviews with tragic family members and keen insight from the detectives who cracked the case, EVIL, I uses fictionalized first-person narration from the killer's perspective -- and in the killer's voice -- to re-tell real homicide investigations of the most horrific serial murderers. Each 30-minute episode highlights a different criminal, while using a carefully chosen narrator with a voice that matches the real killer's vocal characteristics, as heard in court recordings, interviews, and other audio samples. While revealing the motivations, personality, and crimes of the killer, the narrator will talk to viewers while plotting his attack; he'll wax philosophic about how he came to be the killing kind; he'll sneer at law enforcement while evading capture; or, he'll panic and run. All the while, his dark world and skewed point of view are grounded by the clarity of cold, hard facts presented by interviews with law enforcement and justice officials. The following criminals are featured: Arthur Shawcross, a serial killer of several prostitutes left dead on the banks of the Genesee River, who had a habit of visiting his victims' shallow graves days after they were killed; Gary Heidnik, who kidnapped and tortured six women in his basement in Philadelphia, where prostitute Josefina Rivera was able to escape -- after being missing for months -- to tell the police about her ordeal; and many other serial killers.