Infamous Murders examines cannibalism, the ultimate human taboo, by looking at 3 murderers who ate the flesh of their victims.

Jeffrey Dahmer was a loner who killed up to 17 young men in Milwaukee. Andrei Chikatilo was Russia's worst serial killer, killing his victims over a 13-year period. Ed Gein, the third study, killed only 2 women, but dug up and mutilated the corpses of 15 more.

In the 1980's and early 90's, Jeffrey Dahmer lured young men back to his apartment before killing them and dismembering the bodies. He cooked body parts and ate them. It was not until one of his intended victims escaped and flagged down a police car that

Dahmer was suspected. He was jailed for 15 consecutive life terms, but murdered by a fellow inmate.

During the same period, around Rostov, the largest city in Southern Russia, 54-year-old railway worker Andrei Chikatilo murdered 53 people, often violating and cannibalizing the bodies after death.

When he was finally caught he was brought to court, confined in a steel cage for his own safety. He was sentenced to death for his remorseless depravity.

In the 1950's gentle giant Ed Gein murdered two local women for no apparent reason. When the police visited his home they discovered scenes of indescribable squalor.

 Amongst the rotting garbage and other detritus they found the bodies of the two local women and 15 other bodies that Gein had dug up from the churchyard. He admitted to eating the degrading flesh.

Gein was committed to a mental institution, where he died. Psychiatrists argued that Gein was driven by his obsession with his dead mother, and Alfred Hitchcock later directed a famous film, Psycho, based on Gein's story.