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- A look back at famous cases from the past.
- This is the true story of crime author Joe McGinniss's journey to write "Fatal Vision", a best-selling book about Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret doctor who's accused of slaying his pregnant wife and two daughters in the early 1970s.
- Emotional, in-depth examinations of death row cases expose flaws in the US justice system. Season 1 investigates a housewife convicted for stabbing her sons, and an athlete convicted for shooting a father, as attorneys race for new trials.
- Anyone can tell you the facts of a crime, but you'll never know the whole story until you hear it from someone who lived through it.
- Join David Rees as he shows you how to really do simple things in life
- The story of the rocky road that Walt Disney took to get his interpretation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to the silver screen.
- The incredible true story of how a rag-tag group of girdle and bra makers from Playtex Bras and Girdles went head-to-head with the largest engineering firms in the early 1960s to win the contract to build the spacesuit that landed an American on the moon.
- Moore works with Seattle's Snohomish County Sheriff's Office and takes on her first-ever cold case as a genetic genealogist - the double homicide of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg. The young couple disappeared in 1987 after taking a ferry from Vancouver to Seattle and were later found miles apart, gagged, bound and brutally murdered. With a smattering of clues, but no real leads, the case was cold for 30 years. The episode includes interviews with Jay's parents, Gordon and Leona Cook; Tanya's brother, John Van Cuylenborg; Snohomish County law enforcement retired Sheriff Rick Bart and Detective Jim Scharf; and radio reporter Hanna Scott.
- Cece Moore helps crack a 1998 cold case involving the murder of Sherri and Megan Scherer, a mother and daughter from New Madrid, Mo.
- Moore's work on the 1996 rape and murder of an 18-year-old in Idaho leads police to the potential killer and helps exonerate the wrongly accused man who spent 20 years in prison for the crime.
- Uncovering the identity of the person who killed an 8-year-old girl, taunting police in Fort Wayne, Ind., for decades after with notes and threats.
- CeCe Moore works her first active case, the rape of a 79-year-old woman that happened just three weeks prior; CeCe sees the first jury trial conviction from a case on which she worked.
- Queens, NY, 1965. Two children disappear in the night, taken from their bedroom. Hours later they turn up dead, strangled. The police have no clues but an instant dislike for the parents: Eddie (20's) and Alice Crimmins (26). They are separated and fighting over custody of the kids. She seems more concerned about her make-up and appearance than her dead kids; he seems to be obsessed with her many love affairs. Cops think one of them did it, but it will take twelve years to unravel the truth.
- Michigan, 1967. A young co-ed from Eastern Michigan State University goes missing. Her body is found months later, rotting in a field. A year later, another co-ed, disappears and is found stabbed to death. A few months after that, a young law student is found shot and strangled in an Ypsilanti cemetery. The young women of Southeastern Michigan are terrified and the police commence a massive hunt for the monster they call The Co-Ed Killer.
- Denver, CO, November 1, 1955. United Airlines Flight 629, a DC-6B bound for Portland and Seattle, exploded in flames only 11 minutes after taking off from Denver. The subsequent crash in a farm field near Longmont, Colorado, killed everyone on board. It wasn't very long into the crash investigation when chemical residue, consistent with the explosion of dynamite, was found on debris from the rear baggage compartment. The crash investigation then turned into a criminal probe of the second act of sabotage of a commercial airline, in United States history.
- New York, NY, 1963. When two young women - just out of college, starting their first jobs in The Big City - wind up dead in their Upper East Side apartment, raped, mutilated, the victims of a terrible, heinous attack, the City is thrown into chaos. If these girls aren't safe, who is? The NYPD is under such pressure to solve the high-profile case it makes a tragic mis-step in the investigation of the case the newspapers dub "The Career Girls Murders."
- A 1955 shooting involving a pair of New York socialites is recalled.
- West Palm Beach, FL, 1955. Judge Curtis Chillingworth (58) and his wife (50's) say their goodbyes to friends at swank dinner party, step into their car and drive away. They are never seen again. When police start investigating they unravel a tale of corruption, moonshine and numbers-running that leaves Florida in shock.
- Flies are annoying, are carriers of disease and seem to be a step ahead when you try to swat them. David Rees is determined to become a fly master, learning the best tools, swatting motion and the best way to get inside his enemy's head - literally.
- Prepare to have your doors of perception pried open by the steadily increasing leverage of a Halligan tool. David Rees teaches you all the ways to open a door with the help of a robotics professor, a firefighter, and a competitive lock picker.
- Setting out to improve the toast he grew up eating, David meets with scientists, renowned chefs, and the editor of the Toaster Collectors Association Newsletter and attempts to create the perfect slice of toast for friend and comedian Paul F. Tompkins.
- David Rees, the guy who salvaged the art of hand-sharpening pencils, is on a quest to master a new array of oft-ignored skills - like how to dig a hole. David goes deep inside a Rocky Mountain mine to become a test subject in the lab of "Dr. Shovel."
- It is August 1965 when Gretchen and Wendy Fritz disappear after going to a drive-in, in Tucson, Arizona. Police discover that the killer may have actually been closer than they ever dreamed.
- David Rees wants you to put aside your childish ways when it comes to how to tie your shoes. Most of us knot our laces the way we learned when we were kids, but David consults with experts to find out what kind of laces and knots we should be using.
- 2014– 21mTV-PG8.8 (6)TV EpisodeIn his mission to learn how to throw a paper airplane perfectly, David consults an origami master, learns the secrets of flight from NASA scientists and engineers, and teams up with the man who built the world's greatest paper airplane.
- David masters the art of tree climbing in order to fulfill a childhood desire that still haunts him.
- David masters the art of tree climbing in order to fulfill a childhood desire that still haunts him.
- Join David as he masters the art of striking a match and learns fire's most fundamental secrets. With the help of scientists, he comes to understand fire in a way that our ancestors could never have dreamed of.
- It's a second chance for David to make first impressions as he sets out to master the humble handshake. Can arm wrestlers, hand specialists, and the man with the best handshake in town help David "shake" his bad habits and greet the world with confidence?
- Key Biscayne, FL, 1964: Candy Mossler (40s) finds her multi-millionaire husband, Jacques (69), stabbed to death in their apartment. Detectives are swept into a twisted tale of incest, secret homosexual liaisons, and money, money, money...
- Live Oak, FL, 1952: The revered Dr. Leroy Adams has been shot in his office. In a time of segregation and secrets, figuring out who is responsible may not be as easy as simply identifying the killer.
- Kew Gardens, Queens, 1964: Kitty Genovese is raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment building as her neighbors watch and do nothing, introducing America to the "bystander effect." But is this really the whole story...?
- Kansas City, MO, 1953: Bobby Greenlease has been kidnapped. When the largest ransom payout in history fails to bring Bobby back, St. Louis's shadiest characters must track down the culprits.
- A rain of bullets descends on students and faculty at the University of Texas. Policemen and civilians alike come together to save the wounded and put an end to the violence. But when the smoke clears, there remain more questions than answers: who could have done this evil, hideous thing, and why?
- Alta Loma, CA, 1964: When Lucille and Cork Miller's car crashes, Cork burns to death inside. Half the evidence suggests it was an accident, but could Lucille have wanted her husband out of the picture?
- Berkeley, CA, 1955: Little Stephanie Bryan has disappeared without a trace, and police will have to use every tool at their disposal, from newspaper reporters to bloodhounds, to solve the mystery of Stephanie's fate.
- Recalls the Lee Roy Martin Case. In 1968, he called a SC reporter and claimed credit for the murders of several young woman whose bodies had been dumped. He also threatened to kill again.
- Chicago, IL, 1966: The crime of the century begins when a man knocks on the door of a dormitory of nursing students and murders all...but one, who will live to help police attempt to bring him to justice.
- New York, NY, 1973: When a twenty-eight year old schoolteacher for deaf children is murdered in NYC, detectives immerse themselves in the swinging world of 1970s nightlife, where clubgoers and activists rub shoulders with wide-eyed career girls.
- Bay Village, OH, 1954: When Marilyn Sheppard is found beaten to death in her bedroom, it will take more than thirty years to piece together the truth of what happened the night she died.
- Macon, GA, 1960: When wealthy Mary Burge is found strangled in her bed, detectives encounter a world of hooded Klan members and blue blood Yankees where the truth truly is stranger than fiction.
- Los Angeles, CA, 1934: Eric Madison is found dead in a boarding house at the back of the Warner Brother's lot. But in an age where propriety is paramount, will the punishment fit the crime?
- New York, NY, 1937: Easter Sunday turns deadly when a pin-up model and two others are discovered brutally murdered. Religion, art, and madness come together in this twisted tale of love and obsession.
- Odessa, TX, 1961: Teenager Betty Williams isn't home. She's not at school. Police are sure she is a runaway, until they uncover a shocking high school rumor that will change this small town forever.
- To learn proper dog petting techniques, David sets out on a mission to find out everything he can about the genetic history, cognitive function, and incredibly keen senses of man's best friend. Before actually petting a dog, he'll have to get over his fear of them with the help of Amy Sedaris and astronaut Chris Hadfield.
- Impossible as it may sound, David Rees has never truly been punched. After learning everything he can about punches: how to throw them, evade them, and the consequences of getting hit with one, it's time for David to take his first real punch. Enter former Middleweight Champion Bernard Hopkins to help deliver the first blow.
- After the mysterious disappearance of her teenage brother, a determined South Carolina mother, LaCresha Stanton sets out on a relentless, grassroots investigation to extricate the truth from his tight-lipped circle of supposed friends.
- In 1986, CHERYL PIERSON'S (16), father is shot and killed on his driveway, leaving Cheryl and her siblings orphans. In pursuit of his murderer, detectives uncover an unholy family secret and an unlikely assassin.
- 3-year-old Riley Fox is kidnapped and found dead. When Riley's father confesses, defense attorney Kathleen Zellner knows there is more to this confession than meets the eye, and embarks to set the record straight.