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Tag: Crime / Murder

  • Oscar Pistorius: What Really Happened? (2013)

    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….

  • Life with Murder (2010)

    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…

  • The Elizabeth Smart Story (2010)

    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…

  • The Kidnap of Stephanie Slater (2008)

    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…

  • The Erie Massacre (2007)

    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…

  • The Internet Stalker (2009)

    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….

  • David Snow: The House Hermit (2005)

    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…

  • The Confessions (2010)

    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…

  • Raising Adam Lanza (2013)

    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?..

  • The Caylee Anthony Case (2012)

    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 …

  • After Newtown: The Path to Violence (2013)

    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 …

  • JonBenet Ramsey: The Innocent (2011)

    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 …

  • Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)

    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…

  • The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1997)

    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…

  • 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…