Not long after the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles opened in 1924, a guest committed suicide in one of its rooms, beginning a decades-long string of murders, suicides or otherwise unexplained...
Heart of Darkness (2019) is a television mystery series on Investigation Discovery that focuses on relationships, friendships, and family bonds that have ultimately turned tragic. It features re-enactments of true crime stories, interviews with those involved or close to the case, and actual footage of events surrounding the story when applicable.
Sherri Papini, who faked her own kidnapping, breaks her silence, revisiting the lies, secrets, and shocking fallout of a hoax that captivated the nation.
Dr. Thomas Hicks illegally sold more than 200 babies from the back door of his Georgia clinic in the 1950s and 1960s. Investigator Jane Blasio works alongside Lisa Joyner and Chris Jacobs to uncover the truth about these black market babies.
Behind the discovery of every Jane Doe lies two stories: the detectives puzzling out her identity and how she died, and her family struggling to find her. In each episode, we give a voice to the nameless and a final resting place to a missing loved one.
Mom vlogger Ruby Franke and rogue therapist Jodi Hildebrandt preach discipline — and yet behind closed doors, their teachings fuel a cult-like system of control, isolation and abuse. When a child escapes, the truth unravels and echoes beyond prison walls.
Unique stories of women who turn society’s assumptions about the “fairer sex” upside down, spinning webs of deceit to capture their unsuspecting victims.
Active agents, informants, undercover operatives, and victims disclose the ingenious tactics and difficult judgment calls that make the FBI the world’s most elite crime-fighting agency.
Horrifying memories can play back in an endless loop for people who have lost a loved one to murder; these painful recollections may also contain critical clues that can help detectives piece together the final hours of a victim's life.
VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu chronicles the science, culture, and economics of the emerging “green” economy. Each episode explores the impact of marijuana legalization across the United States and internationally, examining how people on all sides of this issue are reacting to the growing popularity and acceptance of this remarkable plant.
It's amazing the things that you can inherit from your family gene pool: blue eyes, a beautiful smile, a winning personality. But what about your family's less desirable traits? A grandfather's talent for swindling, an aunt's knack for aggravated assault or even a father's flair for murder.... can you actually inherit evil from your family tree? Evil Kin begs this question as well as whether psychopathic behavior is pre-programmed. From siblings who conspire to kill their parents, to three brothers who grow up independently to become a serial killer, a rapist and a mercenary, Evil Kin follows true-crime mysteries surrounding bone-chilling cases that prove blood is always thicker than water.
Follows former CIA agent, Bob Baer and former LAPD police lieutenant, Adam Bercovici, on their independent global investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald, and the murder of JFK, asking the questions: did he have accomplices, and if so, who helped him assassinate the President?
Over the past four and a half decades, the so-called D.B. Cooper skyjacking case has captivated countless armchair detectives - not to mention teams of FBI investigators - hoping to finally crack the nation's only unsolved act of air piracy. Now a California man, who has assembled a team of investigators, thinks he may have finally solved case, which will be detailed in the two-part History Channel special D.B. Cooper: Case Closed? that airs on Sunday and Monday.
At the scene of every crime is a story of a time, the place, and its people. This six-part series steps back in time to examine the most gruesome and compelling murder mysteries of the past 200 years, viewed through the lens of the eras and cities in which they took place. Through cinematic reenactments, we follow the determined investigators and complex perpetrators while revealing how each case made its own mark on history.
This television show uses reenactments and interviews with survivors to tell the true life stories of men and women who died because of their love for another. There is a new murder every episode.
HOUSE OF HORRORS: KIDNAPPED tells the gripping stories of people who were kidnapped and lived to tell. Each episode reveals one survivor’s terrifying experience from the moment of abduction to the hours, days, or months of captivity to the escape and recovery, as told through their eyes.