Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler

July 23, 2022

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First Blood - S1 - E5

African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing; Anthony Sowell found the control he was so desperate for when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim -- a woman only hoping to connect with a friendly face.

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First Blood: Season 1 - 10 Episode s

1x1 - Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death
June 25, 2022
In 1989, Richard Mallory is found shot dead in the brush off the side of a Florida highway, just the first of seven murdered men found in a similar setting. Their predator is Aileen Wuornos, a woman fleeing a troubled past and yearning for a connection. Instead of finding of love, The Damsel of Death develops a simmering rage in her heart, that finally explodes when she picks up her first victim.
1x2 - Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker
July 2, 2022
Before he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Robert Hansen was a successful businessman with a family in Anchorage, but his intense feelings would build into a dark desire to exert the ultimate control over 17 victims.
1x3 - Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper
July 9, 2022
Known primarily for the murders of University of Florida students, a man's first murders were in his hometown of Shreveport, La.; the man dreamed of having a loving family as an adult, but his dark fantasies drove him to destroy a family instead.
1x4 - Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker
July 16, 2022
One of the most well-known serial killers, Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, where anyone could be a target of the sadistic murderer.
1x5 - Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler
July 23, 2022
African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing; Anthony Sowell found the control he was so desperate for when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim -- a woman only hoping to connect with a friendly face.
1x6 - Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer
July 30, 2022
The articulate and boastful killer is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz, where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s.
1x7 - Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the Peeler
August 6, 2022
In rural Epping, N.H., everyone knows Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loves her rabbits; her turbulent childhood in Alabama, a coma-induced vision, and the death of her wealthy husband all send Sheila on a warped mission to kill.
1x8 - Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry
August 13, 2022
Someone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, North Carolina and the police seem unable to stop it. What the police don't realise is that the cases all have a commonality: a connection with Henry Louis Wallace.
1x9 - Arthur Shawcross
August 20, 2022
The Genesee River Killer Serial killer Arthur Shawcross tells a lot of stories about his life before he began to kill. Abuse, bestiality, cannibalism...but is any of it true? And if not, what shaped his trajectory from "Artie Oddball" to murderer? He might have been known for killing women along Rochester's Genesee River, but his first murder was years earlier and the culmination of years of dark fantasies.
1x10 - Ronald Dominique
August 27, 2022
The Bayou Strangler Growing up gay and effeminate in the hyper-masculine Bayou was tough on Ronald Dominique. But that's not why Ronald began to kill African American men. An inability to connect and a jail sexual assault would cement his decision to ultimately kill his first victim, tragically the beginning of years of senseless murder.

First Blood: All seasons

S1: Season 1
10 Episode s

1x1 - Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death

1x2 - Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker

1x3 - Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper

1x4 - Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker

1x5 - Anthony Sowell: The Cleveland Strangler

1x6 - Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer

1x7 - Sheila LaBarre: Sheila the Peeler

1x8 - Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry

1x9 - Arthur Shawcross

1x10 - Ronald Dominique

S1: Season 1