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Monte Rissell

One particularly nerve-wracking interview on the show in season one is with Monte Rissell (played by EastEnders actor Sam Strike) in Richmond, VA, mostly because the inmate is so young. Between 1976 and 1977, an 18-year-old Rissell raped and murdered five women, strangling the first victim, Aura Gabor, with her own bra. He was able to go on such a sustained killing spree because he at first seemed to have a rock-solid alibi — he was institutionalised at the time of the murders. Later it would come out that Rissell was breaking out of the institution for short periods of time unchecked, which is when he was committing his crimes.