The most intelligent serial murderers can be the most dangerous. Edmund Kemper, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, and Randy Kraft all showed genius-level IQs, and their extraordinary intellect allowed them to kill for years-sometimes decades-without getting caught. Where do the lines of evil and intelligence intersect? Armed with new scientific discoveries on early brain development, Dr. Stone analyzes Kemper, Kaczynski, and Kraft to find out what made these killers use their cunning for crime.
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Rating: 7.26/10 based on 27 votes cast.
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Watched Masterminds last night and could not stop thinking about how much patience a good heist plan takes. That same kind of step-by-step focus is exactly why I like puzzle games in my downtime. Lately I have been hooked on Arrow Puzzle ( https://arrow-puzzle.org/ ) – simple one-tap levels that turn into surprisingly tricky logic problems. If this documentary got you in a strategy mood, it pairs well with a coffee and a puzzle break.
Watched Masterminds last night and it really stuck with me — what a pick. It fits the mood of a documentary streak I have been on lately, usually winding down each evening with a ride before the next film (I write about that side of things at https://summerrider.online). Hope you keep posting more classics like this one.
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Great documentary pick. The way it shows the people behind the huge fraud case keeps you hooked from start to finish. Stories like this always make you think about how easy it is to trust the wrong crowd. Thanks for sharing it here, I will check more titles on this site soon.
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There is nothing on Randy Kraft in here…. misleading description. Lost a lot of precious time in my research.
Drawn out, pointlessly, at times, very cheesy and melodramatic whilst skirting about more interesting or important details about the murderers to focus on shoddy pseudo science and dramatization.
Good if you want a tit-bit, shallow leveled discussion of murderers but wouldn’t recommend for any intellectual look at these people. Very pop-murder kinda show.
Rating: 2/5 (in my opinion)
The real psychopathic monsters… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xIO731MAO4 Enron The Smartest Guys In The Room
Rather incomplete and trite exploration. Discovery has created an easy selling, but rather vacuous interlude of horror. I was hoping to find real ideas, conclusions or some state of the art psychology. It’s media for the ADD generation. I especially did not like the repetition after the “commercial breaks”. A big waste of time.
Concur with you whole heartily. Not enough insight at all.
I looooooove this! Thanks for free download I’ve listened a billion times
You want to see some real evil psychopathic monsters, check out Wall St.
Their crimes and the ruination of the US go largely unpunished.
It’s a nice little doc, although I fail to see the point of the “Evil ‘O Meter”.
theres another series about women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU3Csk5cbT8&feature=related
This is some crazy evil motherfuckers
also kaczynski was NOT a serial killer. kaczynski has a legitimate critique of civilization. this is a real philosophical trend with real concerns, that touches on anti-imperialism, anti-globalization, anti-exploitation, environmentalism, etc. some pretty leftist stuff to be sure, but not so uncommon. ‘terrorist,’ fine. but his concern was ultimately political/philosophical, not sexual or sadistic. alot of people these days spout off ideas you can read in the so-called ‘unabomber manifesto’ (really titled ‘Industrial Society and Its Future’), he was just saying them 10 years before anybody else.
if these guys are so smart maybe they figured something out that we don’t know?
i wish i could talk to these guys 1v1.. getting into they’re psyche would be astonishing for psychology.
You can always send them a letter asking questions. You would even be doing them a favour. There’s not much else to do in prison than work out, watch TV and read and write.
These guys should be put in jail!