Killer Kids (2011)
Synopsis
Killer Kids provides an in-depth profile of the lives of kids who kill. What can possibly motivate kids to commit criminal acts and even murder? From hate crimes to gang initiations, murders of family members to occult ceremonies, each case in the series exposes different motives and methods of murders by children.
Network
Bio.
Episodes
Occult Killers
In Canada, a 7 year old boy is murdered and partially eaten by a 14-year old. Elyse Pahler, a fifteen-year-old California girl who snuck out of her parent’s home to meet three male acquaintances from school. The boys-teenagers who had a heavy metal band-killed Elyse as a sacrifice to Lucifer so their band would take off.
Psychopath Killers
Canadian serial killer Peter Woodcock, a teenager who murdered three young children in 1956 and 1957. Woodcock was placed in psychiatric care. While institutionalized, he murdered a fellow psychiatric patient in 1991.
Sexual Killers
Young sex offenders who kill.
Hate Killers
Sophie Lancaster was a twenty-year-old English woman who was beaten to death in 2007 for dressing in the Goth style. Sophie and her boyfriend, Rob, were attacked while out walking together. One of the responding emergency professionals was unable to tell whether the victims were male or female due to the extent of their injuries.
Family Killers
On April 23, 2006, Canadian police find the bodies of the Richardson family; a young teen convinces her boyfriend to murder her overly strict grandmother; in France, Pierre Folliot murders his parents and his brother but his sister survives.
School Killers
Eight days after the Columbine massacre, Canadian Todd Smith opens fire at his high school, killing one student and wounding another. In 1995, French teen Leila Zafar murders her friend in her school restroom after an argument. In 1997, American youth Luke Woodham murders his mother before going to Pearl High School to murder his ex-girlfriend, her friend and wounding 7 others.
Group Killers
In 1993, two British young friends abducted two-year-old James Bulger, took him to a railway track and brutally murdered him. In Canada, a young boy arranges for his two friends to murder his mother and grandmother while hanging out with a girl to establish an alibi. While running away from their California homes, two teen girls murder an elderly woman for her car.
Baby Killers
Matthew Reid was a 3-year-old foster child from Canada who had been with the same foster family since the age of 10-months. The family took in an additional foster child about whom they knew little. This new girl, a young teenager, suffocated Matthew on her first night in the home. The girl was found to have mental disabilities. Though she was known to have violent tendencies, the new foster parents were not told of the problems.
Details
Original Title
Killer Kids
Status
Ended
Seasons
4
Episodes
52
Production
44 Blue Productions