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Oscar Pistorius: What Really Happened? (2013)
… BBC3 documentary that investigates what may have happened in the apartment of South African Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius that resulted in the tragic death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day….
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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.
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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….
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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…
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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….
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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….
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O.J. Simpson (2010)
The Las Vegas kidnapping case that put former football great O.J. Simpson in jail was one of many highly publicized Simpson cases with a singular theme – rage… Crime Writer Aphrodite Jones uncovers new information about the fall of an icon. …
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The Long Island Railroad Massacre (2012)
On December 7, 1993, a Jamaican man (Colin Ferguson) opened fire on a Long Island commuter train killing 6 and injuring 19 more in an incident coined the “Long Island Railroad Massacre”… Investigation Discovery’s ‘Killer Trials: Judgement Day’ crime series examines the case of Colin Ferguson and the strange court proceedings that followed …
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Capturing Saddam (2006)
… the terrific ‘Zero Hour’ documentary series takes a fascinating look back at the final hours leading to the capture of Iraqi dictator, Sadam Hussein as told by the men that tracked him down and eventually captured him…
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Terror in Tokyo (2004)
…on March 20, 1995, the most serious violent attack in Japan since the end of World War II occurred… The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of the religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo that took the lives of 13 and injured thousands…
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Massacre at Columbine High (2004)
… minute-by-minute account of the Columbine High School massacre that horrified the world… featuring chilling video footage of Klebold and Harris, ‘Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High’ offers a real insight into the twisted minds that devised a devastating plan too horrific to believe and then carried it out with cruel and fanatic precision….
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Brother’s Keeper (1992)
Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, “Brother’s Keeper” is a brilliant documentary that tells the story of an alleged murder in Munnsville, New York … that divided the town when one of the local ‘Ward’ brothers lay dead and another was accused of the crime…