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Category: Crime / Murder

  • Kill At Will: America On Trial (2012)

    Kill At Will: America On Trial (2012)

    … ‘Panorama’ takes a look at America’s disturbing gun-culture by focusing on 3 recent cases: Trayvon Martin’s profiled murder at the hands of self-appointed neighborhood vigilante George Zimmerman; Texas grandfather Joe Horn’s shooting of two burglars robbing his neighbors house; and the Aurora Theater mass-shootings…

  • Final 24: Tupac Shakur (2012)

    Final 24: Tupac Shakur (2012)

    … ‘Final 24’ is a terrific documentary series that uses archival footage, dramatic reenactments and interviews with family and friends, to relate the final 24 hours in the life of a famed personality… this episode focuses on the final moments of the still unsolved murder of Hip Hop icon, Tupac Shakur…

  • I Escaped a Cult (2012)

    I Escaped a Cult (2012)

    … National Geographic’s ‘I Escaped a Cult’ takes a grim look into the Church of Latter Day Saints led by convicted pedophile Warren Jeffs and church elders and the various horrific crimes that are perpetuated on the children of cult members and how 3 of those children eventually escaped the clutches of the church to…

  • The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

    The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

    … Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his…

  • Roads to Memphis (2010)

    Roads to Memphis (2010)

    … brilliant PBS documentary that chronicles the disparate yet paralleled journeys of Martin Luther King, Jr. (the charismatic US Civil Rights leader) and James Earl Ray (the unknown career criminal) and how they converged on that tragic April day in 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee…

  • The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1993)

    The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1993)

    … fascinating documentary detailing the climate of fear and suspicion that surrounded and led to the assassination of famed 60’s Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. particularly within the US government ‘intelligence’ agencies…

  • The Real Amityville Horror (2005)

    The Real Amityville Horror (2005)

    …Ronald DeFeo, Jr. is an American mass murderer that was tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters… The case is notable for being the real life inspiration behind the book and film versions of The Amityville Horror…..

  • The Craigslist Killer: Seven Days of Rage (2009)

    The Craigslist Killer: Seven Days of Rage (2009)

    … examines the case of Philip Markoff, the American medical student, a.k.a ‘The Craigslist Killer’ who in 2009 went on a week-long horrific crime spree that took the life of Julisma Brisman….

  • Top 10 Deadliest Women (2011)

    Top 10 Deadliest Women (2011)

    FBI Profiler Candice DeLong counts down the ’10 Deadliest Women’ featured on the show in seasons 2–4 as determined by viewer votes on investigationdiscovery.com…. they include Myra Hindley, Caril Fugate, Lisa Montgomery, Christa Pike, Sarah Makin, Betty Lou Beets, Rosemary West, Griselda Blanco, and Gertrude Baniszewski…

  • Tabloid (2010)

    Tabloid (2010)

    Terrifically odd and highly entertaining Errol Morris documentary that tells the story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who in the ’70s was accused of kidnapping and raping Kirk Anderson, an American Mormon missionary…

  • The Manson Murders (2008)

    The Manson Murders (2008)

    Forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone has devised a 22 level ‘Scale of Evil’ that gauges the pure evilness of certain notorious criminals.. In this episode he takes on the notorious and complex case of Charles Manson who convinced others to do the killing for him…

  • Stalker (2007)

    Stalker (2007)

    Jealous lovers, obsessed acquaintances, delusional admirers.. ‘Killer stalkers’ hunt the object of their affection like a predator hunting it’s prey… This episode of ‘Most Evil’ examines the cases of notorious stalkers: Richard Farley, Robert John Bardo, Mark David Chapman, and Gerald Atkins…

  • Charles Starkweather (2008)

    Charles Starkweather (2008)

    During a two-month road trip in 1958, with his 13 year old girlfriend Carl Ann by his side, the 19 year old Charles Starkweather murdered 11 people in Nebraska & Wyoming… He is considered as one of the worst ‘spree killers’ in American criminal history…

  • The O.J. Verdict (2005)

    The O.J. Verdict (2005)

    On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million people stopped what they were doing to witness the televised verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial. For more than a year, the O.J. saga transfixed the nation and dominated the public imagination. Ten years later, FRONTLINE revisits the “perfect storm” that was the O.J. Simpson trial….

  • Deliver Us from Evil (2006)

    Deliver Us from Evil (2006)

    Disturbing documentary about Father Oliver O’Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children…

  • Killer Kids: Occult Killers (2012)

    Killer Kids: Occult Killers (2012)

    Occult-motivated killings are discussed in this episode of this documentary series… Pagan beliefs, satanic rock, horror films and Satanism are included as motives for murders to gain favor with Satan! Occult-related crimes committed by young people are examined in the United States, Canada and France.

  • Charles Manson Then and Now (1992)

    Charles Manson Then and Now (1992)

    Tracing America’s morbid fascination with the infamous sociopath, Charles Manson, jailed in 1970 after members of his cult “family” went on a murder spree, this latterday documentary provides a modest update on Manson’s prison existence and other matters. Some interview footage with the culprit justifies a viewing for interested parties….

  • West of Memphis (2012)

    West of Memphis (2012)

    With unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense team, never-before-seen or heard personal accounts from those involved, acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson examines the tragic case of the ‘West Memphis Three’ trying to come to terms with how the American legal system could of failed them so badly…

  • The Mary Bell Case (1998)

    The Mary Bell Case (1998)

    … in December 1968, Mary Flora Bell was convicted of the manslaughter of two boys, Martin Brown (aged four) and Brian Howe (aged three)… Bell was 10 years old when she killed Brown and 11 when she killed Howe, making her one of Britain’s most notorious and youngest child killers….

  • Phil Spector (2010)

    Phil Spector (2010)

    An actress turns up dead at the home of Phil Spector and the music legend is charged with murder. Crime writer Aphrodite Jones uncovers videotape that Spector hoped would clear his name, but instead is a damning self-portrait….