S6 Ep30: Too Rich to Save: How the Heir to an Oil Fortune Lost His Ear
When 16-year-old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped from a Roman street in 1973, his captors thought they’d chosen the perfect target: the gr...
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Crimes of the Centuries
Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earned the distinction. In each e...
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20 of 292 episodesS6 Ep29: The Serial Killer Every Cop Knew
Through the 1970s and ’80s, women were being raped and murdered in northwest Fort Lauderdale, and police kept hearing the same name: Eddie L...
S6 Ep28: Dirty Secrets at Dublin Castle
In 1907, Ireland’s Crown Jewels vanished from Dublin Castle just days before a royal visit. The hunt for them led into the private lives of...
S6: ENCORE: Massacre at Taliesin
For years, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright had made headlines for his personal life. After all, he'd left his wife and six children for a...
S6 Ep27: Catch the Devil: The Murder of Shelly Boggio
Fourteen-year-old Shelly Boggio was found stabbed and drowned off a Florida beach in 1985. Two men were convicted of her murder — but the ca...
S6 Ep26: Johnny Gosch: The Paperboy Who Never Came Home
On September 5, 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch left his West Des Moines home to deliver newspapers. He never made it back. What followed was...
S6 Ep25: The True Story Behind ‘American Hustle’
A con man with a gift for talking fast and a knack for never getting caught made himself invaluable to the FBI in the late 1970s — and the F...
S6 Ep24: Charles Harrelson and the Assassination of "Maximum John"
In 1979, a federal judge in San Antonio was known for one thing above all else: He did not show mercy. John H. Wood Jr. had earned his nickn...
S6: ENCORE: Fatty Arbuckle: Scandal in Hollywood
The roaring '20s of last century were fueled in part by a new industry: filmmaking in Hollywood. Directors were rolling in dough, as were th...
S6: Norman Thorne: Cold-Blooded Killer or 'Martyr to Spilsburyism'?
A young woman named Elsie Cameron vanished after delivering an ultimatum to her fiancé, chicken farmer Norman Thorne. Weeks later, investiga...
S6 Ep23: Dr. Crippen and the Coal Cellar
Weeks after a woman's mysterious disappearance, a ship's captain noticed something off about two of his passengers — a quiet, bespectacled m...
S6 Ep22: Serial Killer Joseph Paul Franklin's Three-Year Race War
For three years in the late 1970s and into 1980 — before shared databases and DNA evidence — one man moved freely across 11 states trying to...
S6: The Botched Execution of Tony Carruthers: Future COTC?
Three people vanished from a Memphis home in February 1994. A week later, they turned up in a local cemetery, buried in a grave dug for some...
S6 Ep21: The Murder of Leslie Preer
Investigators were certain they knew who killed Leslie Preer. Their main suspect had motive, a suspicious alibi, and a failed polygraph. Inv...
S6 Ep20: The Wrong Kind of American
Twenty-two-year-old Fred Korematsu was parked on a San Francisco hillside with his girlfriend, listening to music on the car radio, when the...
S6 Ep19: "Goodnight, Sweet Wife:" Murder in Mission Hill
On the night of Oct. 23, 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 from a car phone in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, his voice strained with panic...
S6 Ep18: The Girl Scout Murders on Cookie Trail Road
Dozens of Girl Scouts arrived at Camp Scott in the Oklahoma woods in June of 1977 expecting songs, crafts and campfires. By morning, three o...
S6: ENCORE: The Forgotten Serial Killer of the Victorian Era
In Victorian England, a serial killer preyed on sex workers and other vulnerable women, targeting the people society was least likely to mou...
S6: TRUTH DEFERRED S1E1: Love Lost & Justice Unraveling
In 1884 Cincinnati, a string of brutal murders and a verdict that outraged the public set off a chain of events that would end in one of the...
S6: ENCORE: The Manhattan Well Murder
When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn't immediately worry. Bu...