Killer Instinct (2011)

Former FBI profiler Mark Safarik revisits some of his most-challenging and complex cases in this true-crime series. In the series opener, Safarik traces how he helped collar a savage serial killer.

Mommy Dearest meets Psycho. In a small town in the Pacific Northwest, a mother and her son are out for deadly revenge. They cover their tracks to fool detectives. But Mark isn't fooled. He works with local investigators to expose their deadly plot in court.

n a twisted game of cat-and-mouse, Mark matches wits with a smart and confident wife killer. In order to crack the case (with no body, no crime scene and no murder weapon) Mark must help convince a murderous mastermind to confess.

Two young men vanish from a New Hampshire farm. The last person to see them alive is an eccentric and beguiling local woman who was dating both men. Little do police suspect that she lured these men and possibly others to her farm, tortured them, and then killed them. When she's finally caught and the defense claims she's insane, Mark tries to prove otherwise. To him this deadly woman is something else entirely, and among the rarest types of offenders, a female serial killer.

A teenage girl is found shot to death along the banks of the Sacramento River. Detectives think they know who killed her. They have an eyewitness.But as Mark will soon discover, the truth isn't always as it appears.To solve this crime, Mark will have to dig below the surface.

A wealthy California family is found executed in their home. Detectives zero in on a bizarre murder plot involving the surviving son. As Mark discovers, it takes both hard-nosed detective work and cunning to bring the killer to justice.

A mother of triplets is strangled to death. Murder investigators suspect an innocent man. They turn to Mark for his analysis of the crime scene -- and nab an offender that no one expected. Now Mark will sit down -- one on one -- with the killer he helped put behind bars.

Mark is on the hunt for a sadistic serial killer who's preying on young college girls. Two women have already been abducted, and now Mark will help ID the killer before he strikes again

An elderly couple is brutally murdered -- beaten and stabbed in their own home. Detectives have no idea who the killer could be. Mark uncovers clues at the crime scene that lead them to a shocking answer.

An entire family is gunned down in their sleep -- mother, grandmother, and three young children. The victims' husband/father is out of the state at the time of the hit. Detectives say he's lucky. Mark thinks he might be a little too lucky...

A beautiful and promising young woman is mysteriously shot to death in a California parking lot, and the only witness was 100-yards away and didn't see anything. The investigation stalls. Mark works with local investigators to catch a wily killer, someone who has been close by all along.

The three-man detective squad in Port Hueneme, California struggles with three violent homicides in the span of two months. Are the crimes connected? Is a serial killer roaming the streets of the pretty seaside town? When the cases go cold, Mark Safarik helps local investigators find the answer, and solve the crimes.

On a quiet Saturday morning in Fresno, a man is discovered in his living room -- fatally shot twice through the chest. At first police are baffled. But when the evidence points to an unthinkable suspect -- it becomes clear that this case may tear the city in two.