Signs of a Psychopath - Season 5

2020: A Des Moines, Iowa mother, Paula Thompson, calls 911 to report her delinquent son, Christopher Thompson. Five days later she turns up dead in her home. (imdb.com)

In 2012, John Bridges killed Lee Clay in North Dakota, staging a car crash. Bridges was convicted of Clay's murder and received life+20 years. Previously at 16, he had killed Danny Taylor in Illinois. (imdb.com)

May, Texas: This installment details the videotaped confession of Ryan Riggs in November 2017. He had raped and murdered mentally-challenged Rhonda Chantay Blankinship on May 13, 2016. When he told the detectives, "It wanted to kill somebody," he explained that "It" stood for "Satan." Ryan Riggs was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. (imdb.com)

Nicholas "Nick" Nigro finds his girlfriend and her mother murdered in their beds at night. He calls 911 for help, but police, through careful questioning, uncover the true story behind the horrendous murders. (imdb.com)

Aurora, Colorado: On September 10, 2003, Richard Paul White shocks police detectives by revealing that he is behind a long trail of bloodshed and is a serial killer who seems to consider himself an angel of mercy. [...] (imdb.com)

This installment details the murders of James Barnes of Florida. In December 1997, he murdered his wife, Linda Barnes, in Melbourne, Florida. This confession is on audiotape. James Barnes only agreed to confess if Linda's ex-husband, Tony Verzi, was present. In January 1998, James Barnes was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife. The murder of Linda Barnes was not his first murder. [...] (imdb.com)

Paraplegic Terry Neely is tortured and killed by Angela Simpson. She dismembers his body and burns it. Investigators arrest Simpson after a tip, finding her a remorseless psychopath. She pleads guilty and receives life imprisonment. (imdb.com)

This installment outlines the Sunday, January 28, 2007 husband-and-wife murders of an elderly couple, Gilbert Overlin and Naomi Overlin of Mitchellville, Iowa. Police find their bodies at the bottom of a a well at their residence and look for their son, Russell Overlin, age 52. Russell is found 400 miles from the crime scene in Miami, Oklahoma on February 8, 2007. (imdb.com)

Omaha police officers chase down a stolen vehicle driving recklessly. When they arrest the driver, he shocks detectives by giving an unsolicited confession to a gruesome murder of a local woman, the first of many chilling revelations. (imdb.com)

When a Catholic priest, Reverend Father Rene Wayne Robert, age 71, of Saint Augustine, Florida goes missing, police focus on a troubled ex-convict, career criminal Steve James Murray, age 28, who had been recently released from a Jacksonville, Florida jail. Father Robert had ministered to Murray and had helped to support him. (imdb.com)

This installment discusses going inside the minds of psychopaths to see if it is possible to discover when their pervasive traits deviate into violence. (imdb.com)