53 minSeason 1 • Episode 5
LatestDealing with a psychopath takes its toll on Jillian's psyche and family; dozens of states close cases, laying bare the havoc Little wrought and triggering a long-overdue public reckoning.
The timely story of the unprecedented relationship between acclaimed New York Times best-selling author and memoirist Jillian Lauren and the most prolific serial killer in American history, Samuel Little, and her race against time to identify his victims before it's too late. As she slips deeper into his sordid world, Jillian realizes that she may become, psychologically, Little's last victim.
Direction
Berlinger's meta-true-crime mastery.
Writing
Lauren's confessionals cut deeper than killer interviews.
Creator
Joe Berlinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Little confessed to 93 murders; this series helped confirm over 60, making it active forensic history, not just retrospective.
Berlinger previously directed 'Conversations with a Killer'—this inverts that formula by making the journalist's complicity the true subject.
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