Becoming Evil: Serial Killers of the Old West (2021)

The coldest killers in outlaw history

American serial killers are hardly a phenomenon confined to the 20th and 21st centuries. The Old West was a well-known time of lawlessness. A time when serial killers stalked the mountains, prairies and deserts of North America. A time when men like, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, and the Kentucky cannibal left a trail of victims strewn across the landscape. The ruthlessness of their murders will shock in this feature-length documentary goes back into history to uncover the origins of evil during the Old West.

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