Name: Murderers and Their Mothers
Uploaded: 2022-03-14T12:00:33.000Z
Description: Do the warped and damaged relationships of murderers and their mothers lie at the root of many of the world's most notorious killers? Journalist Donal MacIntyre examines cases of murder in which the culprits' childhoods and maternal influences set them on the path towards their unspeakable crimes.

Do the warped and damaged relationships of murderers and their mothers lie at the root of many of the world's most notorious killers? Journalist Donal MacIntyre examines cases of murder in which the culprits' childhoods and maternal influences set them on the path towards their unspeakable crimes.

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At just 14 years old, Daniel Bartlam savagely killed his mother with a claw hammer and then sought to cover his tracks by setting fire to her body. Daniel's deep resentment of his mother following his parents' divorce rapidly led to dark and menacing behavior, and she was desperate to keep the problems behind closed doors, but did her love for him seal her fate?

Daniel Bartlam: The Coronation Street Killer

Fred and Rosemary West raped, tortured, murdered and dismembered twelve young women, including two of their daughters, in one of the most shocking cases of serial killing Britain has ever seen. But why did the Wests embark on their path of depravity? Were they born to kill, or did their mothers make them into monsters thanks to childhoods full of incest and abuse?

Fred and Rosemary West: Killer Couple

The case of Jed Allen, a young man who on the surface had a happy, stable life. Yet in May 2015 he would kill his mother, step-father and six year old half-sister in a brutal knife attack. MacIntyre and criminologist Dr Elizabeth Yardley explore Jed's dysfunctional childhood years with his mother to discover the trigger that led him to commit family annihilation.

Jed Allen: The Wolverine Killer

Dr Harold Shipman was Britain's most prolific serial killer with at least 215 known victims. Was Shipman simply addicted to murder, playing God by killing many of his elderly female patients with overdoses of morphine, or did his upbringing and the circumstances of his mother's death turn him into a mass murderer?

Harold Shipman: The Angel of Death

One of Britain's most infamous killers, Dennis Nilsen murdered 15 young men, some as young as 14,in London during the late seventies and early eighties. Nilsen held on to the corpses of his victims for weeks on end, talking to them on his return home from work and sleeping beside them. But what led this seemingly normal civil servant to start killing for company?

Murderers and Their Mothers

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