Murder Queens

Three tales from Sacramento's lurid past. The Vampire of Sacramento, The Batgirl and Palm Sundae.

The hunt for one of the most prolific serial killer begins.

The last time Hannetjie Stadler heard her daughter's voice was a voicemail as she called for help during a brutal murderous attack. In 2005 the popular tourist town of Knysna was shattered when two young women were murdered in a nightclub over a period of two months.

A true crime drama about Paul John Knowles, an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 18 people in 1974, although he claimed at least 35.

The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.

On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Carolyn McCarthy, a woman whose husband is killed and her 26 year old son is severely wounded in the massacre. The result is she is forced out of her comfortable suburban existence and she becomes an out-spoken crusader against assault weapons. The film shifts from her perspective to the mind of the killer and finally to the media frenzy that surrounds both.

A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.

A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.

After her husband goes to work abroad, Helen Arandia and her daughter must handle her jealous neighbour, who plans to do something to her. Based on a crime report that occurred in 1994, this is the most brutal massacre in Lipa's history since the massacres in 1945.

Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.

A look back at the murders of Barbara and Gordon Erickstad, who were brutally killed in their North Dakota home by their son, 18-year-old Brian Erickstad, and his friend, 27-year-old Robert Lawrence in September 1998.

A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.

When an unidentified hiker is found deceased in the Florida wilderness, authorities release a sketch. Multiple hikers call in claiming to have met the man. There's only one problem – he never told them his name. It would take two years, thousands of devoted internet sleuths, and a miracle of science to identify him, and that's when the trouble really starts.

Plot TBA. Based on true crime.

Robert Elmer Kleasen (1934-2003) was an American who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1975 for the murder of two young men near Austin, Texas.

Mondo Sacramento 2 features 6 true tales from Sacramento's seedy underground. Mondo Sacramento 2 is a film that is part true crime reenactment/Mondo film/Docudrama, all filmed in Sacramento at many of the actual locations. Lynn Lowry stars as Dorothea Puente- The boarding house killer. The other 5 stories feature the Gallego couple killings, the Karen G. story, The attempted assassination of President Ford, along with 2 more strange tales. Mondo Sacramento 2 is the sequel to Mondo Sacramento. All Crazy and all based on true stories.

Based on the true events leading up to the murder of multimillionaire Ted Ammon found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate while in the midst of a combative divorce and custody battle from his mentally unstable wife, Generosa Rand.

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.

Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.