Seasons & episodes
1 season · 40 episodes
Episode 01
Talhotblond: A Catfish Tale
An online love triangle explodes into deception and murder when a middle-aged factory worker poses as a young Marine to seduce a teenage girl.
Episode 02
Chippendales : Club Owner's Paranoia Spirals Into Murder
The world’s most iconic male strip show becomes a battleground of ego, greed, and murder when its visionary founder spirals from fame into paranoia—unleashing a deadly plot that shocks the entertainment industry.
Episode 03
Diamond Wheezers : Aging Thieves Plan One FInal Heist
A 76-year-old career criminal leads a crew of pensioner thieves in Britain’s biggest-ever burglary—an “Ocean’s Eleven with bad knees” that nets £14 million in loot.
Episode 04
The Church Lady Murder : Imaginary Love Triangle Ends in Tragedy
When a lonely church volunteer in small-town Pennsylvania becomes obsessed with her new pastor, her festering jealousy toward a kindhearted fellow parishioner twists into delusion.
Episode 05
The Fortune Teller's Fortune : Psychic's Scam Rakes in Millions
Plenty of scam artists have pretended to be psychics. Not many of them secretly employ their daughters to sweep a client off their feet with their own purported psychic gifts. But then again, not every con artist has $15 million at stake.
Episode 06
Chloe Ayling : Kidnapping Victim or Fame Hungry Model?
When a young model vanishes in Italy, the story seems disturbingly familiar—until her sudden reappearance raises more questions than answers. As investigators dig deeper, a case that looked open-and-shut twists into something far stranger.
Episode 07
The Cheerleader Murder : A 1980's High School Clique Turns Deadly
Desperate to fit in, a teenage girl targets the most popular student at her school. The way she sees it, they can either be friends – or enemies.
Episode 08
Dalia Dippolito : A Black Widdow , a Murder Plot , and a Web of Lies
A seemingly heartbroken newlywed becomes the face of a shocking murder-for-hire plot—caught on tape before the crime can even happen. But as the trial unfolds, the real mystery isn’t what she planned, it’s how far reality can bend when everyone knows the cameras are watching.
Episode 09
Buried Alive : The FBI's "Most Bizarre" Kidnapping Ever
One FBI agent called it the most bizarre kidnapping case ever investigated by the Bureau: In 1968, an escaped convict and his new girlfriend bury their hostage alive in an underground chamber.
Episode 10
Teresita Basa : The Victim Who Solved Her Own Murder
A Chicago respiratory therapist is brutally murdered in her apartment. Did her ghost solve her own case?
Episode 11
The Stalker on Silent Mode : Killer Sends Threathening Texts For Years
Dave thought he'd met his dream girl in Cari, but after she mysteriously breaks up with him and vanishes, Dave endures years of cruel text messages and emails.
Episode 12
The Dog Lady , The Killer She Loved , and Their Prison Break
How do you smuggle a convicted killer out of a maximum-security prison? Apparently, you just need a cardboard box, some packing tape, and a dog trainer nobody suspects.
Episode 13
The Devil Made Me Do It : Demonic Possession and Murder in a Small Town
A small Connecticut town witnesses its first murder ever. The culprit is an unlikely, quiet teenager who swears he was not in control of his own body. His supporters, however, think they know exactly what drove the young man to kill his victim: a case of demonic possession.
Episode 14
Billionaire Boys Club : Wannabe Heir Makes a Killing in LA
In 1980s Los Angeles, a charismatic prep-school hustler builds the Billionaire Boys Club—part investment syndicate, part illusion—until a high-stakes con, a missing mogul, and a pair of brutal murders expose how greed, privilege, and cocaine turned a fantasy of wealth into a deadly spiral.
Episode 15
The Torso in the Basement: The Case Of Dr. Crippen
A boisterous entertainer and wannabe opera singer disappears from her London home. Before detectives find human remains in the basement, her mild-mannered husband flees across the Atlantic with his lover, in disguise.
Episode 16
Killer on the Run : The Many Lies of Audrey Marie Hilley
When two members of the same family contract a mysterious illness, evidence points toward one lethal commonality: the manipulative matriarch, Audrey Marie Hilley. But once she’s caught, she escapes, evading capture for years by turning her life into a soap opera.
Episode 17
Million-Dollar Jackpots : How Uncle Jerry Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game
When McDonald’s ran its beloved 1990s Monopoly sweepstakes, Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson had one job: Protect the game pieces. Instead, he used his position as Head of Security to rig the game. For years. To the tune of over $24 million in cash and prizes.
Episode 18
The Trunk Murderess Whose Gruesome Crime Captivated a Nation
26-year-old "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd killed her two best friends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she stuffed both of them into trunks and loaded them on a train to Los Angeles. What the press assumed was a simple case of jealousy only got messier with each new version of the story Winnie told.
Episode 19
The Convict Who Faked His Death for Love
A brilliant con man turns his life into a high-stakes romantic heist, embezzling fortunes and pulling off mind-bending jailbreaks—all to keep the man he loves in the lifestyle he thinks he deserves.
Episode 20
Heaven's Gate: Rehearsing for the Apocalypse
A charismatic leader convinces his devoted followers that salvation awaits aboard an alien spacecraft trailing a comet—leading the Heaven’s Gate cult to a tragic, otherworldly mass suicide that exposed the dangerous power of blind faith and cosmic delusion.
Episode 21
The Molly Watson Case: Bride-to-Be Murdered Right Before Her Wedding
Molly Watson had waited seven long years for her happily-ever-after wedding with her boyfriend, Jim. Then, less than 48 hours before they were supposed to walk down the aisle, Molly was murdered. And Jim either had the wildest, unluckiest story ever... or he'd fabricated a strange and demented series of lies.
Episode 22
The Oesterreich Murder: Secrets in the Attic
When a lonely Milwaukee housewife lives a double life, her secret world spirals into a decade of deception — culminating in a deadly confrontation, a staged burglary, and one of the strangest true-crime scandals in American history.
Episode 23
Murder on the Galapagos? Island Utopia Spirals into Death and Disapperances
A 19th-century island experiment founded by two nature-loving Germans goes from Gilligan's Island to Lord of the Flies when an entitled and eccentric heiress moves in.
Episode 24
The Missing Candy Heiress and the Chicago Horse Mafia
In 1977, candy heiress Helen Brach – one of the richest women in America – vanishes. Detectives consider the many people who might have wanted to get their hands on her money. Ultimately, the primary suspect that emerges is… the Chicago horse mafia.
Episode 25
The Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road: Anatomy of a Darknet Killer
A libertarian idealist known only as “The Dread Pirate Roberts” builds the Silk Road—an anonymous online black market that explodes into a billion-dollar empire—until the digital kingpin is unmasked, revealing how one man’s dream of radical freedom spiraled into crime, paranoia, and downfall.
Episode 26
Hellish Nell, the Last Witch of Scotland
To some, Helen Duncan is a powerful medium who bridges the realms of the living and the dead. To others, she's a dangerous con artist blending deception and stolen top-secret information to prey on the grieving and the gullible.
Episode 27
Gareth Williams: The Spy in the Bag
When a brilliant intelligence officer from MI6 is discovered dead inside a padlocked duffel bag in his London flat, investigators face an impossible crime scene—no signs of forced entry, no fingerprints, and theories ranging from suicide to espionage—as the shadow of secrecy around his work at GCHQ breeds one of the most perplexing mysteries in British intelligence history.
Episode 28
Hunter Moore: The Undoing of the Internet's Most Hated Man
A notorious internet troll builds a revenge-porn empire that terrorizes thousands—until a determined mother launches a relentless campaign to bring him down and dismantle the most toxic community on the web.
Episode 29
Barefoot Bandit: The Teen Felon Who Became a Folk Hero
A teenage runaway becomes a folk hero and a nationwide fugitive as he steals planes, boats, and cars—often barefoot—turning a two-year crime spree into one of the most unlikely manhunts in modern American history.
Episode 30
Abby Catt: Born to Rob
After their mother’s death and years living under a controlling father, two Texas teens are pulled into their dad’s string of bank robberies—turning a broken family into an outlaw crew and forcing a daughter to choose between loyalty, survival, and the truth she was raised to ignore.
Episode 31
Stanley Alpert, the Kidnapping Victim Who Outsmarted his Captors
Kidnapped on his 38th birthday by criminals who think every federal prosecutor is secretly wealthy, a calm-under-pressure lawyer survives a chaotic 25-hour ordeal—part hostage crisis, part absurd comedy—by befriending his captors.
Episode 32
The Greek Robin Hood Who Kidnapped Billionaires and Escaped Prison in a Helicopter
In the craggy peaks of Greece, a modern outlaw proves that you can rob a bank, kidnap a billionaire, and still be the most beloved man in the mountains. This is the story of Vassilis Paleokostas: the 'Robin Hood' who treats his hostages like guests and uses a helicopter as his preferred get-out-of-jail-free card.
Episode 33
The Young Hippies Who Hijacked a Plane
In 1972, two young hippies hijack a commercial airplane in a wild attempt to free a famous political activist from jail, setting off one of the strangest, most idealistic crimes of a radical era.
Episode 34
The Gucci Murder
When the glamorous wife of the Gucci heir faces losing her fortune and status, she trades champagne for vengeance—proving that in the world of high fashion, nothing is more cutthroat than a woman with everything at stake and nothing left to lose.
Episode 35
Crownless: Heist at the Louvre
In broad daylight at the world’s most prestigious museum, a disguised team of thieves breached Musée du Louvre in just seven minutes, made off with eight priceless pieces of the French Crown Jewels, and exposed how even the most iconic institution can be undone by audacity and a single overlooked window.
Episode 36
Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson?
Branded "the female Charles Manson" for a double murder she claims she didn't commit, a young woman executes a daring prison escape to reclaim her life—only to find that while she can outrun the law, she can’t outrun the reputation built to bring her down.
Episode 37
Chicago's Shocking Sausage Vat Murder
The wife of the “sausage king of Chicago” disappears without a trace…until police search a suspicious vat in the basement of his factory, fueling rumors of exactly how he got rid of her.
Episode 38
Secret Agent Scam: The Lies, Lives, and Wives of Will Jordan
For nearly twenty years, a charming con man poses as a globe-trotting CIA operative, seducing women and draining their savings in the name of “classified missions”—until one wife uncovers his lies and helps bring down the man she thought she would share her life with.
Episode 39
Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...Or Did She?
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks… The popular schoolyard rhyme has withstood the test of time, despite it getting a few details wrong. Over 130 years later, we still don’t really know who killed Andrew and Abby Borden. Lizzie was acquitted, and yet most people assume she was guilty. Is it possible Lizzie was truly innocent? And if she didn’t swing the hatchet that day – who did?
Episode 40
The Pillow Pyro Who Terrorized Southern California
In the 1980s and ’90s, a serial arsonist known as the “Pillow Pyro” terrorizes California—taunting investigators and igniting fires near their annual conferences—until one detective uncovers an unthinkable truth...The culprit is one of their own.
Episode 41
The Vampire Clan Murders
A teenager who thinks he's a 100-year-old vampire leads a cult of kids to murder a girls' parents in Florida.
Episode 42
The Bobbitts: What The Viral '90s Story Left Out
In the early hours of the morning, Lorena Bobbitt takes a kitchen knife to her sleeping husband’s penis. Instead of waiting to hear the real story, the world turned the tragedy into the butt of every joke.
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