What Ignites Killing Sprees? Stories That Sparked A Chain Of Tragic Violence

What triggers the unimaginable? Discover the events behind the crimes.
Examining the chain of events that led some of the most infamous killing sprees in criminal history.
Episode 1: Columbine
Explore the tragic events of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, where two students killed 15 people, igniting national debates on gun control, bullying, and mental health.
Episode 2: Steve Wright
A chilling look at Steve Wright, the "Suffolk Strangler," who brutally murdered five women working as sex workers in Ipswich during a terrifying spree in 2006.
Episode 3: Anders Breivik
Uncover the horrifying actions of Anders Breivik, the far-right Norwegian terrorist who claimed 77 lives on July 22, 2011, in one of the deadliest mass killings in Europe’s modern history.
Episode 4: Raoul Moat
Examine the story of Raoul Moat, a gunman whose violent rampage in July 2010 led to one of Britain’s largest manhunts and a nation gripped in fear.
From: Killing Spree | S1 E1-4 (Marathon)
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[@Nille0212]

I remember Colombine very well. I was a freshman in college. I was sitting in my English 1302 class and we suddenly were dismissed from class and classes were canceled for the day. I lived at home (why pay for a dorm when campus was 30 minutes away from home?) and by the time I got home, the young man was escaping from the library window live on television. I went and got my sister from school and she was shook. We ate dinner and were in shock about what happened. Rumors started swirling about a copycat crime at her school the next day. She was a freshman in high school. She didn’t know if it was real or not. My mom wasn’t having it and made her go to school despite the real fear she had. So she acted like she was going to school that morning. I just went and picked her up from the bus stop and took her to breakfast while we waited for mom to leave the house. Then we went back home and got back in the bed. I wrote her a note to go back to school the next school day and that was that. There was a bomb threat called in that day she missed. I was glad she wasn’t there because I know she REALLY would have been traumatized by that. We felt safe going to school until April 20, 1999. That day changed the whole country. My condolences are still with the families and friends of those who lost their lives that day. 💔💔💔

[@karendegenerous8044]

Thank you for you and your sister's experience, I think anybody with the most empathy in the world would still never know what it's like to feel how you did how your classmates did and families, and how are you still feeling now.

[@davechristian7543]

freshman wats that 'all showed and fresh pmsl 🤪

[@Nille0212]

@ she was in 9th grade. Her first year of high school, which we call our freshman year in America. It applies to college/university level studies when getting an associates or bachelor’s degree as well. The second year, is your sophomore year. The third, junior and the last year of high school/college is your senior year. I’m assuming you don’t know that since your user name implies you’re from Australia.

[@Starfox.1993]

This is what happens when kids get bullied in school. If you bully someone, you are unhinging their sanity. I have been a victim of being bullied my entire life in every school year. I have been bullied by kids, teachers, principals, cops, managers, and friends. But I never let them break me in to what these shooters have done.

[@jiveassturkey8849]

Evil begets evil

[@streamer_services]

Now these are so common place they barely make the news....what a crazy world.

[@MrGrace]

Not a world, COUNTRY. It only happens here in the good ol US of Aholes.

[@UltraRambo]

And i think that it will only get worse,i think that something big will happen in near future,there's so many guns and so many psychos

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

💔

[@CordayDatzTuff]

@@erpthompsonqueen9130cause killers say they do stuff for fame also so good why give em that

[@vickiekennedy2984]

Yeah guess whose making it crazy? 🙄 yeah ‼️🌎💊😐

[@dancingdingo]

I graduated from high school in '93 in a a small town in North Carolina where nearly everyone lived in the countryside. In the student carpark you'd see trucks with rifles hanging on a gun rack all around. Lots of the students and staff were passionate about hunting especially for deer. The school even had a shooting club. Nothing like these shootings ever crossed anyone's mind. Those were the olden days.

[@CowboyRc743]

Yup, same here in Wyoming.

[@SJ-ni6iy]

I’m from West Virginia, same here

[@torchtitan7108]

This is a silly sentiment, school shootings started happening as soon as guns we’re largely accessible

[@Steveo3332]

​@@SJ-ni6iyme to I live in Grafton West Virginia home of mother's Day

[@cyndipeterson346]

Being bullied is usually the motive. So why ask what caused this?

[@skierprincessakify]

I graduated in ‘99 in Alaska, the rules even in my school changed immediately for the last month of school. No one was allowed to carry a backpack to class, you could no longer wear a black trench coat……I remember thinking how rare this was and felt very safe in school. I never thought this incident would become a popular trend that kids would continue to copy. I’m so thankful to not be in school anymore, even though I know this can happen anywhere.

[@jeanineleigh]

Same i remember being so glad i was graduating! However as a parent it all came back 😢

[@sarahbear7551]

I was in first grade and this was the start of yearly shooter drills 😖

[@stevechristie2569]

​@@sarahbear7551Sarah are you 30 and single?

[@kylemcgill2966]

Might not be the biggest but still the most interesting. The odds of these two to meet and go through with it is insane.

[@kefou931]

Not insane… they seemed very sane and eerily aware and calculated with there ‘mission’ wasn’t a one convincing another from artificial/manipulative reasons.

[@janethayes3494]

2 psychopaths

[@karnagekandyYT]

@@kefou931he didn’t say they were insane, he said the odds of this happening the way it did and it happening was insane

[@jf8050]

I thought they wanted to get revenge on "jocks". It sounds like they targeted the students who never bothered anyone.

[@donnyscallz]

I think they specifically mentioned jocks in some of their writings but they were not a singular target. They were filled with hate in general.

[@brittanyreed4377]

They had a hit list but they didn’t go in targeting anyone in particular, they wanted to kill the school as a whole..they felt the whole school, other students and teachers were to blame for the bullying they went through because nothing was done about it. Not saying that justifies it but they were killing at random because they wanted to destroy the whole school and anyone in it

[@hildeschmid8400]

I'll always remember the Columbine shootings. We were in a hotel room in Paris, France and turned on the TV. There in front of us, was the live coverage. So sad. May all the victims Rest in Peace.

[@AntiMasonic93]

I'm class of 1999 from high school. There was non stop media coverage on the Columbine Massacre back then.

[@Chill-mm4pn]

What's crazy is that there were more tragedies like these in the 90s but we didn't have social media to broadcast such things to the world.

[@Willie-go6dc]

You from Gen Z right? Name 1 school shootings between 1990 and 1999 besides columbine HS. ALL The school shootings and shooters started happening from 2000 - Now.

[@Willie-go6dc]

Sick of hearing people in this new society claiming that it was always crazy back in the day it just that there wasn’t any social media🙄 NO, the kids from this soft generation are extremely emotional and have severe mental illness that’s precisely why theres crazy school shootings happening ALL the time now. Were you even alive in 1999? How you think we All found out about columbine HS? Newsflash: We found out about Columbine and about a lot of things that was happening in the US through “The Newspaper 🗞️”

[@Midnighthowlervrcowo]

​@Willie-go6dc pearl high school shooting happen before columbine killed 3 injured 7 heath high school shooting happen before columbine killed 3 injured 5 and Westside middle school happen before columbine killed 5 injured 10 all in the 1990s and i can name a lot more to but these are just some of the bigger ones I remember

[@Swede1523]

@@Willie-go6dc Thurston school shooting, Westside middle School shooting, Lindhurst high school shooting, University of Iowa shooting, should i continue?

[@grandmastermario3695]

In today's society it really isn't that deadly took 2 to kill 15, yet theres been times where 1 person has killed like 50 or even more.

[@lovelyswimmer1]

The guys who did this give me the absolute creeps.

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

Imagine the shooters parents. Living with those thoughts must be a torture of the highest level.

[@dodgehellcat1875]

Be nice to people

[@Catt76o]

How about control yourself, imagine shooting up a school because you were bullied? Absolute cornball snowflake

[@paulcooper-n2v]

Exactly.

[@bxnkroll]

I was a student after then and it was worse than now by a ton too

[@Punicia]

Doesn’t change the fact that two guys with a god complex couldn’t handle their emotions and inadequacies

[@JonathanHatfield-u7]

Being English from Yorkshire i cannot remember hearing about these murdered ladies Godbless Them❤🕊

[@TheZXKUQYB]

Funny thing, if you look at Columbine report. Over ~120 students claimed there was more than 2 shooters. Older kid in white t shirt + jeans.

[@Eddie1967-u7r]

well...in all of the confusion and chaotic disorder..it's not surprising that people thought that....they were traumatized and scared and hearing so many shots seemingly echoing throughout the area...and while hiding some students only saw shadows..so I can understand how they thought more than two were involved.

[@TheZXKUQYB]

@Eddie1967-u7r There is one woman even wrote a book about it. How it happened doesn't match the evidence. One girl wrote notes on it as she hide. Clearly there were others because their descriptions. Many had testimony that matched the others. 2 or more got away scott free

[@ricardoman8018]

Ever since this happened after this we have had more school shootings ever since and it breaks my heart that these innocent lives are taken for no reason

[@MaddiLew]

It's because media gave these two the recognition they wanted. They wanted to set all this off. Media gave the message to any other disturbed, mentally ill, bitter, and lonely person that this is a way to be remembered

[@ricardoman8018]

@MaddiLew that also leads to horrible crimes and death

[@christophermccarty1867]

Why can’t the principal get the shooters names correct?

[@sobored761]

The way people treat others is how these things keep happening

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

Thank you. Watching from Alaska. 🤔 💔

[@Ro6entX]

Weird to think that Columbine happened 25 years ago. I was barely out of high school myself when it happened and those two would have been freshmen or maybe sophmores, myself a senior had we gone to same school.

[@raphaellavictoria01]

I was graduating high school the exact same year, but here in Canada, I remember hearing much more about the Dawson school shooting, around the same time, maybe a year after. I hardly heard anything about Columbine here in Canada, back then. I was bullied in high school, and in the last year, for the last few months before graduation, I was reduced to having lunch inside a bathroom stall, the only way to get peace. Anyway, it never would have occurred to me to kill people, not even those, back then. There is something to be said for how young these garbage individuals were. I do believe they were psychopaths, or narcissistic to the extreme. No degree of depression will EVER make someone do this.

[@AndrewL-em9vu]

Still want those tapes released... Like a grail of lost media

[@DrueTube]

Columbine footage is out there, I've seen it. It's wild how one of them picks up a phone with the cops on the line, puts it in his pocket and continues on until the end. You can hear everything 😕

[@AndrewL-em9vu]

@DrueTube where

[@DrueTube]

@@AndrewL-em9vu It was a very long time ago, likely on KZbin prior to demonetization. You will have to dig on the web.

[@braysfinds7479]

I understand you're reasoning, but I completely disagree. Looking back, the FBI keeping those tapes confidential was probably for the best. Think of how many more edgelords those tapes could've inspired? As if those two needed any more people idolizing them.

[@MikeJones-m6r]

@braysfinds7479 They keep them secret to preserve the narrative.

[@jasmine0354]

Unspeakable tragedies ! Prayers for all the victims and their families

[@cypriandraku]

Well, if you're rejected and bullied all your life because no one takes the time to diagnose you, and help you, then your chances to offend in general are increasing. Shoving people to the margins of society leads naturally to antisocial behaviour. Add on top mental issues, feeling of nothingness, worthelssness and the easy access to firearm, and you don't have you ask why, but when

[@Chickenburger-SB39]

How many times are you gonna reupload this video bro

[@jamieforrest6575]

They weren't consumed by hatred, not thiers at least, it takes experience of life to be thus consumed. They simply had guns and a wish to kill.

[@davidofergals6947]

Bully people and they snap. Shocker.

[@toubielo8788]

Still sad today. Just terrible.

[@alexandrianicolemoses7869]

This happened in 1999? JEEZ!!!!!!! I was 9 at the time and living in Ohio.

[@Stacey-f1k]

These are all so sad!! I’m from Connecticut, Sandy Hook breaks my heart still too!!

[@box0choco593]

Sandy Hook is so gut wrenchingly tragic

[@fireflowerfilms2010]

It’s a tragedy these things happen.

[@katsoriano9262]

Can’t believe columbine was 25 years ago. I was 16 when it happened so about the same age as most of the victims. So sad to think they’d all be in their late 30’s early 40’s now and what they could have been. RIP ❤

[@dennisdean7366]

I was in middle school when it happened.

[@Chill-mm4pn]

Same, I was like 13 at the time.

[@REZZ5811]

I lived 6 blocks away from Colombian when it happened ill never forget that day

[@despawnn]

00:00 Ep 1 Columbine 43:55 Ep 2 Steve Wright 1:28:22 Ep 3 Anders Breivik Ep 4 Raoul Moat is not included

[@olddays-tw9xe]

thank you legend didn''t realize it's multiple episode video

[@MrHorsey420]

Everyone always forgets Westside in Jonesboro Arkansas was even before columbine. Only difference was the country boys had rifles up in the woods sniping out after one pushed the fire alarm

[@Ivanculina1]

It is Complex Thing to Talk About

[@Natedawg38]

I remember watching columbine on the news, just bonkers.

[@dougmitcham6865]

I hate thAt things like that happen

[@JonathanHatfield-u7]

Those poor children murdered by brevik a terrible terrible day in Norway

[@AEJones-dl9nn]

It’s hilarious how many documentarians have made these guys more famous than they could’ve ever imagined

[@x5HYx9UYx]

I lived across the street from columbine when this happened. These dudes thought they were in the matrix.

[@jetodessa5484]

Something odd about that principal... I don't know it is, but i dont trust him.

[@mistekful]

Same he's off he doesn't seem genuine

[@cristianm7155]

Timestamp ?

[@SlytherinSaiyan]

13:41 I really don't want to think he was the only brother there who attended that school in Denver?

[@machinesandthings9641]

She actually believes that a snowball broke a car window?

[@triggerhappy8872]

Just the same old repetitive interviews

[@myroselle6987]

Same “victims” with always the same stories and agenda.

[@olddays-tw9xe]

@@myroselle6987 what are you imlying

[@TheSkelker]

These dudes win having docs made on them...😢

[@mystickManney]

Maybe if you stop selling guns in sweet shop corner shops food shops its the government's thought

[@MikeJones-m6r]

Nope.

[@mystickManney]

@MikeJones-m6r nope ur mum

[@Swede1523]

And if we stop selling cars nobody would die in crashes either, come to think of it maybe we should just ban everything thats slightly dangerous.

[@sammywilliam8156]

the brother shouldn't blame himself he did nothing wrong he's not the monsters he is a victim and I hope if he's reading this she's very proud of you and you are you her brother don't blame yourself she wouldn't want that live foe her love for her fight for her let your way be hers and bring her memory to light as a brother myself id give up anything to defend my found family

[@JamieLamb-ft6io]

😢😢😢

[@PrincessKeys9256]

The crime seen photos of the boys in the library was gnarly asf it made my stomach do a flip

[@davechristian7543]

and hes got a video game in his cell as we speak pmsl

[@stevenvgs]

It's really a disappointment that the media decided to blame their influence and actions on the video game Doom rather than covering the actual problem itself and the real reasons behind the perpetrator's actions. Playing Doom heavily doesn't make someone a killer, obviously it takes way more than that to drive someone over the edge like that, such as this case. But the media is the media and they will blame one thing and not look into the actual reasons of said topic. They did the same thing with Dungeons and Dragons.

[@90randomgames]

I was 8, almost 9. I live in Australia and I'm hoping someone can answer a question I've always had. There is no disrespect meant, I promise. Given i have always been in Australia and seen my first gun/used one in 1998, can I ask how students may have thought these 2 "humans" were loading toy weapons ? Was it age, the stated "prank week" or because Americans see a lot more guns than i could ever imagine? I've held 1. Seen 5. The bigger amount were in a safe and getting the required police inspection (i was 15). So it's something I could never figure out and I know in the current climate, they'd never be assumed to be fake or toys (rightfully so). Now I've said that, even at my small age, ill never forget how fast mum turned the TV over when it broke. Even then I was just stunned.

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

What's the point in going on about your age, where you live etc 🙄🙄🙄

[@thejiggitygiggity90]

Before that, they're used to be toy guns for kids in Ireland. I always wondered, why they got rid of toy guns for kids post 99'

[@dmc41987]

I was twelve at the time when Columbine happened, I saw it on TV I was scared at what I was seeing. This still saddens me to this day, Rest In Peace to all those who were taken on that terrible day.

[@angloaust1575]

Theatre can encourage such acts the obsession with murder Shakspeare hitchcock christie Novels midsomer series columbo etc The who dunnit craze!

[@charlieward5476]

It’s no coincidence that the further we walk away from God especially in the schools, the more common these become. It isn’t guns or mental health, it’s us turning our backs on God

[@MaddiLew]

Not necessarily. It was mass media in the 90s giving these two murderers the infamy they wanted, thus creating a new era of domestic terrorism. These shooters view mass murder as a means of self-expression. That might be a sign of a bigger problem. Maybe the school institution as it is, is just not applicable to this new era. We aren't factory workers anymore, and automation will take menial jobs. What ties this to the shooters is that they viewed all the people around them as zombies, and that's disturbing. They thought they were so smart and saw being another cog in the machine as beneath them, so they committed mas murder as a way to feel above everyone else. Sad

[@poppy83.]

lol it’s really not

[@tabularasa9104]

Only one sentence is true Justice.......there should be no plea deals not ever!!!! No sitting in prison for life on taxpayer expense!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@EBizz85]

Life in prison is worse then the death penalty

[@DiegoWebber-f1i]

@@EBizz85the death penalty is far more expensive on tax payers than prison for life.

[@shawnthompson2303]

Short drop. *Sudden stop.*

[@_xcx.]

i’m sorry, but the thumbnail looks strikingly like jake short

[@megandmalaki]

who?

[@_xcx.]

@ google exists

[@culture101]

Marilyn Manson got famous out of this

[@MileHighGski]

1:46 lolll that’s so spot on and hilarious. “Overwhelmingly white.” Surprisingly to this day I believe, it is still that way. lol

[@Hammerhead547]

Yet the vast majority of "mass shootings" are targeted gang related acts of violence committed in the ghetto.

[@shawnthompson2303]

What starts shooting sprees? Unrestricted access to firearms.

[@Swede1523]

Unrestricted? The shooters bought the guns illegally.

[@LittlelauraMJ]

I’m a Colorado native. I was in elementary school when this happened. Columbine was a different school district (it’s around 20ish min from where I grew up) but it had gotten to our school later in the afternoon. I was so little. I couldn’t grasp the concept of what happened or how much it would change everything.

[@jaguaresed]

Crazy kids, and still more crazys doing same thing thru the years

[@skierprincessakify]

They are evil, not crazy, they know exactly what they are doing. They are also incredibly narcissistic.

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

FFS uploader, apart from uploading the same show every other month, could you possibly put a few more longer ads. The non stop ads are randomly being interrupted by a video about school shooting, won't be returning to this channel again 🤬🤬🤬 👎👎👎

[@HyBr1dRaNg3r]

1:50 ugh I hate it when ppl pronounce homogeneous that way😳

[@megandmalaki]

idek what that means

[@altnap]

They repost this documentary every other month lmfaoo

[@Shallowdarkpit]

Still remember getting in trouble for b.b's i had in my hoodie from plunking the morning b4 going to school. They fell out when i was tying my shoe, and a student ratted me out. Wasn't really in trouble but they took them from me. Effing b.b's. This was i think 2008.

[@revalesq]

"Part of me probably still is" hit me direct in the feelers. 😢

[@thatalternativemayday]

this crashout was lowkey unreasonable 🌚

[@MichaelDominguez25]

What these dudes was terrible but they were driven to it

[@AndrewWerner-p1l]

😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪

[@slidvonjunzt7608]

An impressive bass or at least barritone from Mr Fleming there.. i half expected to see that classic blurred faee anonymous witness from every documentary in the 90s.. Oh yeah and f guns.. Peace to all

[@ethanhitchcock5431]

PSYOPS

[@withoutartitwouldallfallap3628]

I remember seeing the school photographer stayed at my work and saw that class picture but not them acting like they were looking like they were shooting in the picture.

[@NancyGerke]

What is in the frying 🍳🥓

[@explorecriminalminds]

Peek a boo 😂

[@thehorrorgirl5425]

How and why you find that funny is tragic. Either you're too numb to unthinkable murders or you're a narcissistic person who lacks empathy.

[@MrGrace]

Wasn't funny but okay

[@TheMrfoxguy]

Not funny troll

[@crankymcgee]

@@thehorrorgirl5425 You are giving him the attention he wanted, dumbass.

[@gracehart4735]

Its sad u think that's funny when people got killed bc of these idiots..

[@computerprogram1]

Pharmies

[@Robert-lo6uf]

In 1962 Prayer was removed from public schools in the United States due to Supreme Court rulings that violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. These rulings prohibit state-sponsored prayer and religious activities in public schools. What if Christian influence and the teachings of Christ was still allowed in public schools??? I believe this would never had happened! Just saying. Proverbs 1:24-33

[@Fatherfintanstack111]

Never mind the multitude of atrocities perpetrated by the religious

[@Robert-lo6uf]

Your 💯 correct. The religious! Not true followers of Jesus Christ.

[@Fatherfintanstack111]

@@Robert-lo6uf so Christianity is not a religion?

[@Robert-lo6uf]

@@Fatherfintanstack111 no I don’t have religion. I have a relationship with Jesus Christ.🙏 ◄ Galatians 2:20 ► I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me🙏

[@Fatherfintanstack111]

@Robert-lo6uf well you and I are going to have to agree to disagree

[@jamesfarmer3759]

Ssri

[@TobyMcguire-l9r]

Badass

[@MrBeaver1981]

bob 123

[@deathofaraver]

We need Netanyahu here boys.

[@Sweet_Cheesus]

The FBI, that should answer the question this "documentary" asks 😂

[@christophermccarty1867]

Daniel was a nerd

[@cypriandraku]

Well, if you're rejected and bullied all your life because no one takes the time to diagnose you, and help you, then your chances to offend in general are increasing. Shoving people to the margins of society leads naturally to antisocial behaviour. Add on top mental issues, feeling of nothingness, worthelssness and the easy access to firearm, and you don't have you ask why, but when

[@UltraRambo]

True

[@adrienchl4265]

Bingo. This is what people and society at large refuse to admit. It's easier to blame guns, parenting and the school system.

[@johnmoffat3080]

Na you don't take it as far as killing ffs