Hosted and produced by Robert Stack, this critically-acclaimed PBS series chronicles the historical rise of international organized crime and its leadership.
The official definition of a serial killer is someone who kills three or more people. But do they have more in common than just a statistic? The series looks deeply into contemporary serial killers, to the most meticulous killer of modern times, Sacramento's Dorothea Puente, the owner of the 'House of Horrors'. Then there are the educated killers, like Dr Harold Shipman, who is thought to have killed nearly 300 people who were his patients and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who held a PhD in Mathematics. At the other end of the scale, Los Angeles serial killer Lonnie Franklin was organised but not smart, his reign of murder led to the deaths of so many disadvantaged women.
When Samson Brion, an undercover cop, arrives in his native village in the depths of Brittany, fifteen years after having abruptly left it, most of the inhabitants see this return in a very bad light. Notably Lila Sept-Vents, an impetuous native entrepreneur, who is trying to save her online dating agency from bankruptcy. When a series of suspicious deaths strikes this quiet village, and Lila discovers that all the victims were clients of her agency, having a cop under her roof could prove invaluable.
Follows the Andrea Yates case, exploring how a rogue street preacher's fire-and-brimstone teachings allegedly brought the vulnerable Texas mother under his control, leading to the drowning of her five children in 2001.
An investigation into the iconic real-life crimes in the age of film noir, from the Double Indemnity murder to the Honeymoon Killers and the mob hit on the boss of Murder Incorporated.
Killed Without A Trace explores the cases where police and prosecutors try to prove a murder has happened without the most vital piece of evidence - a body.
In 2003, two young men emerge from the forests of British Columbia claiming to have been raised entirely off the grid. As a small town tries to help them, a mystery unfolds, testing how far people will go to believe the unbelievable.
Host Julia Zemiro and an expert team of criminologists and comedians dive beneath the surface of crime to discover the science and psychology behind it all.
Crime-mystery series that zeroes in on a critical, lost gap of time during the day of a homicide. Once that gap's pieced back together, it breaks the case wide open.
Blood Runs Cold tells astonishing stories of individuals who went to unimaginable lengths to uncover the truth and to bring justice for heinous crimes that have long since gone cold. These are cases of murder and disappearance that took years, if not decades, to solve.