I Am a Killer

Seasons

2018

7.3

Follows incarcerated killers, who tell the story of how they ended up there.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Means to an End

After years in solitary confinement, James Robertson admits to murdering his new cellmate as an escape to the better conditions on death row.

S1 • E2

Killer in the Eyes of the Law

Kenneth Foster's death sentence is commuted just hours before his execution, but he asserts that his punishment under an unusual Texas law is unfair.

S1 • E3

The Mockingbird

Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.

S1 • E4

Sympathy for the Devil

Sentenced for a triple murder linked by police to Satanism, Miguel Angel Martinez becomes the youngest person ever on death row in Texas.

S1 • E5

Intended Evil

After shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new lover, Charles Thompson is charged with manslaughter - until his ex dies due to a hospital error.

S1 • E6

Declared Competent

David Lewis unreservedly admits to killing a 74 year old woman while burglarizing her house but his defense team maintains that he is mentally incompetent to make voluntary confessions.

S1 • E7

Family Affair

Deandra Buchanan is awarded death sentence for fatally shooting his girlfriend, auntie and stepfather in a single incident but he insists he was intoxicated with a strange drug during the crime.

S1 • E8

Hunted

Robert Shafer kills two gay men after kidnapping them and boldly confesses to the crime. While he is unable to explain why he committed the double murder, his family members try to explain the possible motivations.