• 2009
Beyond the Darklands

Summary What turns a person into a monster? In this new, insightful documentary series, one of Australia's leading clinical psychologists, Leah Giarratano, explores the dark side of human behaviour as she delves into the minds of some of Australia's most notorious criminals. Interviews with those who knew them - family members, schoolmates and colleagues among them - reveal the lives and psychology of those who have committed shocking crimes. View more details

  • 2009

Beyond the Darklands

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Stars : Leah Giarratano Golda Newland Neville Collard John Kinninmont

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 17, 2009

Countries of origin : Australia

Official sites : Seven Network

Language : English

Production companies : Seven Network

Summary What turns a person into a monster? In this new, insightful documentary series, one of Australia's leading clinical psychologists, Leah Giarratano, explores the dark side of human behaviour as she delves into the minds of some of Australia's most notorious criminals. Interviews with those who knew them - family members, schoolmates and colleagues among them - reveal the lives and psychology of those who have committed shocking crimes. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 17, 2009

Countries of origin : Australia

Official sites : Seven Network

Language : English

Production companies : Seven Network

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Episode 1 • Mar 17, 2009
David and Catherine Birnie
Look into the minds of Australia's most notorious serial-killing couple, David and Catherine Birnie. Psychologist Dr Leah Giarratano tells viewers what led these two violent, sexual predators to commit these shocking crimes.
Episode 2 • Mar 24, 2009
Andrew "Benji" Veniamin
Take a look inside the dangerous mind of Melbourne's most feared underworld executioner - Andrew "Benji" Veniamin - and gain unprecedented insight into his world through an exclusive interview with former gangland wife Roberta Williams, who held vigil over Veniamin's body after he was gunned down in Melbourne in 2004. Police believe Benji had killed seven men, some of them senior underworld figures, some of them his close friends, but the Victorian police never managed to bring a single murder charge against him.
Episode 3 • Mar 31, 2009
William Matheson
Take a look into the obsessed mind of violent killer, William Matheson who in 2003 brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend, Lyndsay Van Blanken. He strangled the pretty 18-year-old with cable ties before dumping her body in an abandoned storeroom. Clinical psychologist Dr Leah Giarratano tells us what led this loner to turn from obsessed ex boyfriend into a vicious killer.
Episode 4 • Apr 18, 2009
Camilleri and Beckett
Take a look into the minds of one of Australia's most sadistic killing teams: the master and his apprentice, Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay Beckett. In 1997, fuelled by drugs and alcohol, the dangerous duo abducted teenagers; Nichole Collins and Lauren Barry from their camp site in Bega, NSW and took them on a hellish road trip before brutally murdering them. Clinical psychologist, Dr Leah Giarratano dissects their personalities and offers some insight into why they committed these horrific crimes.
Episode 5 • Aug 16, 2009
Neddy Smith
Take a look into the mind of Australia's most notorious gangster, Arthur Neddy Smith, who rode a wave of criminal success organizing armed robberies and dealing heroin that earned him millions of dollars. Was Neddy Smith simply a product of the poisonous environment?
Episode 6 • Apr 25, 2009
Bilal Skaf
Episode 7 • Aug 30, 2009
Peter Dupas
Episode 8 • Sep 06, 2009
Katherine Knight
Episode 9 • Sep 13, 2009
Terry Clark
Take a look into the sinister mind of drug king and killer Terry Clark. His story is one of a bad boy gone worse - as a boy he was cruel and manipulative and as a man he extended his repertoire to include torture and murder.
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