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Four Days in November (1964)
… This rarely seen, Oscar-nominated 1964 documentary, is still one of the most-definitive accounts of the days leading up to and the aftermaths of the JFK assassination….
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Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)
…tells the horrific true story of a sadomasochistic cannibal and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Elderly but still deadly, Albert Fish distorted biblical tales by taking the stories of pain, punishment, atonement, and suffering literally as he preyed on victims to torture and sacrifice…
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The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012)
… blends dramatizations of Jeffrey Dahmer’s day to day life with archival news footage and exclusive interviews w/ the lead detective on the case; the state coroner at the time and one of Dahmer’s neighbours to tell the harrowing tale of one of America’s most notorious serial killers…
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Life with Murder (2010)
… In January 1998, 18-year-old Jennifer Jenkins was found shot to death in her family home in Chatham, Ontario… The bloody crime shocked the community when police arrested Jennifer’s 20-year-old brother Mason Jenkins in connection with the slaying…
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The Elizabeth Smart Story (2010)
… when 14 year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom in June of 2002, a nation feared that the little girl would never be found alive again… MSNBC’s ‘The Elizabeth Smart Story’ recounts the details of that case and it’s very fortunate conclusion through the chilling words of Elizabeth Smart herself…
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The Kidnap of Stephanie Slater (2008)
… terrific episode of “Crimes that Shook Britain” that explores the 1992 case of Stephanie Slater who was kidnapped and locked inside a coffin for 8 days… her attacker Michael Sams had already killed before and if Stephanie’s employers didn’t give in to his demands and release thousands of pounds, he would kill again…
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The Erie Massacre (2007)
… On December 3, 1997, Frank Dosso, Diane Patisso, George Patisso, and George Gonsalves were found shot execution-style at the Erie Manufacturing plant in Bartow, Florida… Although there was no clear physical evidence at the scene to link anyone to the crime, relatives of the victims immediately suspected Nelson Serrano, another partner in the business…
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The Internet Stalker (2009)
… Matthew Pyke and his girlfriend Joanna ran an internet forum site together. One of the users known only as David from Germany or Eagle_the_Lightening became obsessed with Joanna and started making regular unannounced visits to their home. No one could have predicted that David’s jealousy would escalate into murder….
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David Snow: The House Hermit (2005)
In 1992, a young Vancouver woman was tied to a tree and sexually assaulted for nine straight days just yards away from one of the busiest highways in Canada… Before long, police in two provinces were searching for a psycho loner named David Snow who’s passion for antiques was so intense that it would send…
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The Confessions (2010)
Eight men charged. Five confessions. But only one DNA match. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn’t commit? … PBS’s ‘FRONTLINE’ goes inside the incredible saga of the ‘Norfolk Four’ — a case that cracks open the justice system to reveal almost everything that goes wrong when innocent people get…
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UFOs and the White House (2006)
… every US president has had some involvement with the subject of UFOs, in one form or another since World War II. – History Channel’s ‘UFOs and the White House’ explores that relationship between the subject of UFOs and ‘the highest office in the land’ a little more closely…
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Deadly Desires (2006)
… in this episode of “Most Evil”… Dr. Michael Stone, the creator of a psychological scale that measures the degree of pure evil in certain notorious criminals, profiles the horrific crimes and psychological motives of : Jerry Brudos, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Parker Ray and Westley Allan Dodd …
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To Catch A Serial Killer (2012)
… fascinating documentary by CNN on suspected serial killer Larry Hall and how an Indiana district attorney devised a plan that offered ‘early release’ to a convicted drug dealer if he were able to infiltrate the trust of Larry Hall in prison and gain a confession to the cases of the missing women…
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Raising Adam Lanza (2013)
In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever.. fascinating documentary looks for answers to the central – and so far elusive – question: Who was Adam Lanza?..
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The Caylee Anthony Case (2012)
The tragic story of 2 year old Caylee Anthony shocked, terrified and stunned a nation when the little girl’s mother Casey would be arrested for, charged with and in a dramatic made-for-TV trial, be exonerated of the murder …
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After Newtown: The Path to Violence (2013)
‘After Newtown’ is an interesting PBS documentary series that examines American gun culture, the frightening rise of school shootings, mental illness and the different approaches used by local communities to detect and combat future violent attacks …
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Westall 1966 – A Suburban UFO Mystery (2009)
Forty-four years after hundreds of students, teachers and local residents who witnessed a UFO fly over an Australian suburb were silenced by authorities, amateur detective Shane Ryan is going back to find an answer to the mystery…
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Ted Bundy: The Mind of a Killer (1995)
‘A&E Biography’ pretty much invented the ‘serial killer documentary’ genre… One of their earlier episodes and still one of the most popular is this examination into the life of notorious American serial killer Ted Bundy…
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JonBenet Ramsey: The Innocent (2011)
The still unsolved murder of six year-old JonBenét Patricia Ramsey, the American child beauty pageant queen who was found murdered in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996 is revisited 11 years later by crime writer Aphrodite Jones …
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The Beast of Ukraine (2007)
Anatoly Onoprienko, a.k.a ‘The Beast of Ukraine’ is the most prolific serial killer in the history of the Ukraine… a cold-hearted, ruthless killer, Onoprienko confessed to the murders of 52 people over a 6-year period…
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Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)
Brilliantly disturbing documentary by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney that exposes the systematic ‘cover-up’ of child sexual-abuse cases within the Catholic Church…
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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1997)
Narrated by Paul Sorvino, ‘The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre’ documents in great detail one of the most infamous days in American history when on Valentine’s day in 1929, the streets of Chicago ran with blood as the gangs of Al Capone and Bugs Moran battled to the death…
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Fatal Compulsion (1998)
‘The New Detectives’ is a documentary crime series that chronicles notorious murders committed in North America and the forensics used to convict the murderers of their crimes … this episode focuses on the horrific crimes of serial killers: Ted Bundy, Aileen Wournos, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, a.k.a the ‘Ken & Barbie Killers’…
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David and Catherine Birnie (2010)
Australian documentary crime series that delves into some of Australia’s most infamous ‘Crime Families’ … this episode focuses on David and Catherine Birnie who abducted, raped and murdered four women in their home in the 1980s… These crimes were referred to in the press as the ‘Moorhouse murders’…
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The Granny Killer (2005)
Over a fourteen month period in the late 1980’s, John Wayne Glover attacked and killed six elderly women in Sydney’s North Shore (Australia) for which he was dubbed the “The Granny Killer”…
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The Phoenix Strangler (2006)
… Sipho Thwala is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1999 for the murders of 16 women… He was sentenced to 506 years in prison. Thwala was known by the moniker “The Phoenix Strangler”….
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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…
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Monsters Among Us (2011)
… Joseph Edward Duncan III is an American convicted serial killer and sex offender who is currently serving multiple concurrent death sentences and life sentences in conjunction with the 2005 kidnapping and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho….
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The Vampire of Sacramento (2011)
… Richard Trenton Chase, a.k.a ‘The Vampire of Sacramento’ because he drank his victims’ blood and cannibalized their remains was an American schizophrenic serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in Sacramento, California in the 1970’s…
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The Serpent (2004)
Charles Sobhraj, is a serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed “the Bikini Killer” and “the Serpent,” due to his skill at deception and evasion, Sobhraj allegedly committed at least 12 murders…
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The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke (2008)
… Eric Edgar Cooke nicknamed ‘The Night Caller’ was an Australian serial killer who from 1958 to 1963 terrorized the city of Perth, Western Australia by committing 22 violent crimes, eight of which resulted in deaths….
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Name, Rank, Serial Killer (2011)
…CBS’s ’48 Hours’ investigative documentary series takes a look at the case of Canadian serial killer Col. Russel Williams who’s sadistic sexual perversions led to countless ‘breaking and entering’ charges as well as the horrific deaths of two young women …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Joel Rifkin (2004)
… a routine traffic stop in 1993 would eventually unleash the horrific details to the many crimes of the worse serial killer in the history of the State of New York… Fascinating A&E Biography on American serial killer Joel Rifkin, who in his own, cold, casual words details the murders of 17 N.Y City prostitutes…
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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…
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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…
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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…..
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The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo (2004)
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed The Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper, and The Rostov Ripper, who committed the murder of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990