Mindhunter Season 2: Which serial killers will make an appearance?

The second season of the Netflix crime series Mindhunter is set to return sometime this year and they’re bringing a whole new list of serial killers to dissect

Anything touched by David Fincher is guaranteed to be psychologically deranged and be shaded in a blue color palate. Inspired by the nonfiction crime book, “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit” by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, the Netflix series Mindhunter, produced by Fincher, details the beginnings of the Behavioral Science Unit in the FBI and its attempts to understand the motivations behind serial killers.

Special agent Holden Ford, based on criminal profiler John E. Douglas, believes that serial killers are actually victims in their own right. He believes they’re driven by a combination of both nature and nurture, and that anyone under a certain number of circumstances can be driven to kill. Comic book fans are probably thinking of an iconic line from “The Killing Joke” where the Joker tells Batman that everyone is just one bad day away from going insane.

Mindhunter follows Ford and two colleagues as he interviews convicted killers in order to try and understand them, and hopefully prevent similar crimes in the future. Besides for being a well-written series, Mindhunter stands out for offering something most media outlets are too scared to do; humanize criminals and study them at the same time.

This allows audiences to experience the fear such people accurately create without outside influences. Instead of being told someone like Ed Kemper is dangerous, Mindhunter shows us by simply having a one-on-one conversation with him, creating a whole new level of intensity. Ed Kemper “Co-ed Killer”, Montie Rissell, Jerry Brudos, Richard Speck and Dennis Rader were the serial killers shown in Mindhunter Season 1.

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Now, Mindhunter Season 2 is on its way. Filming has just wrapped, which means we might get to see the series return in a few months. The news was made via an Instagram post by Mindhunter cinematographer Erik Messerschmitt. If history repeats itself, the second season will drop around the same time as Mindhunter Season 1, which was in October. Hopefully, it’ll be sooner.

Mindhunter Season 2 will include eight episodes instead of 10 and will continue exploring the minds of serial killers as Ford and Tench continue their interviews with some of the most infamous people in American history. So far, the killers confirmed to appear are Wayne Williams, Charles Manson, Tex Watson, Elmer Henley, William Hance, and some rumored others.

Manson will be played by Damon Herriman, who is weirdly playing the same character in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He either really looks like Manson or has some deadly charisma.

The dreaded Son of Sam may be arriving as well. Rumored casting calls have reportedly included David Berkowitz, “Son of Sam”, on the list. There were also set photos that matched the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, the prison where Berkowitz was held until his relocation to Sullivan Correctional Facility in 1990.

One killer that for certain will appear on Mindhunter is Wayne Williams, who was involved in the unsolved Atlanta Child Murders. In an interview with Billboard, series composer Jason Hill said Season 2 will explore the series of child murders that took place in Atlanta, GA in the 1970’s to early 1980’s.

"“Next year we’re looking at the Atlanta child murders,” Hill said. “So we’ll have a lot more African-American music, which will be nice. The music will evolve. It’s intended to support what’s happening with the show and for the show to evolve radically between seasons.”"

Additional rumors started up when a released set photo showed a prison bus marked “Texas Department of Corrections,” which is where fellow serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole were incarcerated until their deaths. But this might be in regard to Elmer Wayne Henley, who also used the Texas Department of Corrections as his post-arrest home.

Here are the serial killers who will, and might, appear in Mindhunter Season 2. Look closely and you’ll notice a pattern. Mindhunter Season 1 dealt with the killer’s relationships with their mothers, but by the looks of it Mindhunter Season 2 is changing directions.