Season 1 (1993)

The Lindbergh Kidnapping
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November 2, 1993 • 30m

It was a crime that shattered America. A case so improbable that nobody ever dreamed it could happen. Despite a ransom being paid,...Read more

Lucky Luciano
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November 9, 1993 • 30m

He started out as a violent street thug, but soon became a ruthless leader, who rose to the top of the Mafia. He always kept one s...Read more

Al Capone
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November 16, 1993 • 30m

On St Valentine’s Day 1929, the brutal massacre of six gangsters in a Chicago warehouse signalled the emergence of Al ‘Scarface’ C...Read more

Son of Sam
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November 23, 1993 • 30m

His name struck fear into the hearts of New Yorkers and brought terror to the streets. He unleashed all his hatred on the one grou...Read more

The Hillside Stranglers
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November 30, 1993 • 30m

Within weeks, the hillsides around Los Angeles became the scene of a terrible carnage - more than ten strangled corpses. The polic...Read more

John Dillinger - Public Enemy No. 1
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December 7, 1993 • 30m

In the world of gangsters, he was notorious, ruthless, a man destined to become a legend. He turned to crime out of boredom and so...Read more

The Manson Family Murders
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December 14, 1993 • 30m

Charles Manson was the ultimate hippie leader with a difference. Together with his cult followers he pioneered a new revolution - ...Read more

The Jonestown Massacre
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December 21, 1993 • 30m

It was a crime that defied the imagination. In November 1978, deep in the jungles of Guyana the Rev Jim Jones gathered nearly 1,00...Read more

The Green Beret Killings
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December 28, 1993 • 30m

American army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald seemed to have everything going for him, good looks, charm, a commission in the Green Beret...Read more

The Case of Dr. Sam Sheppard
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January 4, 1994 • 30m

He was young, handsome and successful - the ideal of American manhood. But when his wife was found battered to death, for him the ...Read more

Neville Heath
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January 11, 1994 • 30m

In June 1946 after six years of war a girl was found whipped and murdered in a cheap London hotel. The hunt was soon on for a suav...Read more

Ted Bundy
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January 18, 1994 • 30m

Women began to disappear in the Seattle area in the first half of 1974. Almost on a monthly basis after that other women mysteriou...Read more

Gary Gilmore
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January 25, 1994 • 30m

He was the double murderer who insisted on being executed. The question always remained: how badly did he want to die, and why? It...Read more

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
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February 1, 1994 • 30m

He was a man determined to demonstrate his German purity. In 1934 he became a member of the SS. He killed not only Jews en masse, ...Read more

John Gacy
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February 8, 1994 • 30m

Seven bodies were found in the crawl space under his home. Eight more were quickly uncovered in other parts of the house, some in ...Read more

The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family
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February 15, 1994 • 30m

As civil war raged across Russia in 1918, the deposed Tsar and his family were imprisoned. On 16th July they were massacred and bu...Read more

The Case of Dr Crippen
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February 22, 1994 • 30m

When an unassuming US doctor living in London in 1910 fell in love with his secretary, he was tied to a wife who he hated. His sol...Read more

The Great Train Robbery
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March 1, 1994 • 30m

In 1963 a mail train was ambushed in England. In one of the largest robberies ever, the gang got away with more than £2.5 million ...Read more

The Boston Strangler
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March 8, 1994 • 30m

For three years Albert DeSalvo stalked the streets of Boston, leaving behind him a hideous trail of human destruction. It was a cr...Read more

Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer
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March 15, 1994 • 30m

In 1949 John George Haigh escorted Mrs Olivia Durand-Deacon down to his factory in Crawley, where he shot her in the head and then...Read more

John Christie of Rillington Place
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March 22, 1994 • 30m

He had an obsession with disinfecting his flat. When he moved out, four bodies were discovered there and two more in the garden. W...Read more

The Black Panther
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March 29, 1994 • 30m

When the kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl was linked to the brutal murder of three British subpostmasters the police knew they wer...Read more

Murph the Surf
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April 5, 1994 • 30m

In late October 1964, thieves stole 22 gems from New York City’s Museum of Natural History. Three of the stones were so famous the...Read more

The Hammersmith Murders
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April 11, 1994 • 30m

Despite a massive police operation, he seemed to anticipate their every move. He loved to taunt and mock the detectives and killed...Read more

The McKay Kidnapping
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April 18, 1994 • 30m

It was the first in Britain for centuries. In a cruel and callous kidnapping a woman became the innocent victim of mistaken identi...Read more

The Yorkshire Ripper
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April 25, 1994 • 30m

The reign of terror that followed the first murder of a Leeds prostitute in 1975, cut a trail of fear across northern England. The...Read more