The essential episodes of I Am a Killer
Watch these 15 in order and you've got I Am a Killer — each pick states its reason.
- 01
After years in solitary confinement, James Robertson admits to murdering his new cellmate as an escape to the better conditions on death row.
- 02
Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.
- 03
No one -- including David Lewis himself -- disputes that he committed murder. But Lewis's mental fitness remains in doubt despite his death sentence.
- 04
Teenage drug abuser Joshua Nelson murders a friend in cold blood to steal his car, but other shocking motivations for the crime emerge at his trial.
- 05
One of the small number of women who commit murder, Lindsay Haugen claims that she strangled her depressed boyfriend in 2015 as an act of mercy.
- 06
After 24 years on death row, Joseph Murphy saw his sentence commuted a week before his execution due to the extreme abuse he suffered as a child.
- 07
Kansas native Cavona Flenoy agreed to a date with a liquor store clerk, but the evening took a deadly turn when he tried to assault her.
- 08
After an unsuccessful attempt to kill his father, drug user Charles "Billy" Armentrout later murdered his grandmother and was sent to prison for life.
- 09
At a New Year's Eve party in 1996, Brandon Hutchison killed two brothers, a crime he admits — but there are conflicting versions of the story.
- 10
Toby Williams murdered Deborah Moore and shot her husband, John, in a cruel 1984 robbery for which he has been on death row for nearly 35 years.
- 11
Subjected to abuse throughout her life, Victoria Smith confessed to killing her husband. But someone close to the case has doubts about her admission.
- 12
On death row for murder, Deryl Madison reflects on his struggles with mental illness and finds support from an anti-capital punishment advocate.
- 13
Sentenced to life without parole for Jason Johnson's horrific murder, Gary Black says he has no regrets, while Jason's family finds purpose in tragedy.
- 14
Young love takes a dark turn when Ashley Morrison's plan to run away with her boyfriend, Christian Sims, results in the murder of his grandmother.
- 15
A botched drug deal is only the beginning when Candie Dominguez assists her boyfriend, Daniel Lopez, in his gruesome killing of her cousin.
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