In this chilling exploration of contract killers, Raven Thorne examines the psychology and methods of history's most notorious professional assassins. The episode focuses on figures like Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski and Charles Harrelson, analyzing their unique ability to compartmentalize emotions while committing over 200 murders. Through interviews with forensic psychiatrists and FBI profilers, Thorne reveals how these killers maintain double lives—family men by day, methodical assassins by night—and the complex psychology that allows them to approach murder as simply "business." The episode explores how childhood trauma, inherent personality traits, and distorted moral frameworks enable hitmen to kill without remorse while maintaining selective emotional connections to family. Thorne delves into their methodical approaches, diverse killing techniques, and the self-justifications they create to normalize their actions. The episode concludes by examining how these killers process their eventual capture—not with the desperation of the innocent or the relief of the guilty, but with the detached acceptance of a professional risk.

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