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- The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When he was finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.
- Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
- A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.
- A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.
- Real FBI cases are recounted through reenactments and interviews with law enforcement and forensic scientists.
- Chronicles the life of the late Pat Tillman, who walked away from a multimillion-dollar contract with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals in 2002 to join the Army but died from friendly fire in Afghanistan.
- Shortly before his death in 1547, the injured King Henry VIII is forced to take refuge a manor house closed for the season. While there, he must confront both his mortality and the ghosts of his past.
- Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump leads an investigation into the 1996 murder of influential rap artist Tupac Shakur.
- In late 1955 and early 1956, the citizens of Boise, Idaho believed there was a menace in their midst. On Halloween, investigators arrested three men on charges of having sex with teenage boys. The investigators claimed the arrests were just the tip of the iceberg-they said hundreds of boys were being abused as part of a child sex ring. There was no such ring, but the result was a widespread investigation which some people consider a witch hunt. By the time the investigation ended, 16 men were charged. Countless other lives were also touched.In some cases, men implicated fled the area. At least one actually left the country. The investigation attracted attention in newspapers across the nation, including Time Magazine. The "Morals Drive" left scars which remain to this day.
- FBI agents and local police track a gang of robbers who specialize in armored car take-downs. As the robberies grow more violent, agents launch a complex sting to trap a deadly ring of thieves and shut down their dangerous operation.
- In the wake of six brutal murders, the FBI seeks out the man responsible.
- The investigation into the rape and murder of 23-year old Robin Bishop on a Californian highway in January 1982. Highway patrolman George Michael Gwaltney is the prime suspect, but the prosecution's case is heavily reliant on circumstantial evidence.
- Cuban detainees in Atlanta revolt in response to their impending deportation.
- When a boy goes missing from school the day before Thanksgiving, the FBI sets off on a thousand-mile search.
- Brothers' greed causes them to abandon all respect for human life.
- A copy machine, placed in a busy Las Vegas casino, is actually a bomb.
- The 1988 murder of NYPD Officer Edward Byrne, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) investigation of drug kingpins Howard "Pappy" Mason and Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols.
- Armed robbers set their sights on a series of major Las Vegas casinos.
- A kidnapper calls the victim's family.
- The FBI must work to find the truth behind a woman's disappearance - without a trace of evidence.
- In 1995, a mother of three was murdered and her corpse burned in Los Angeles, California. Weeks later, a young woman was killed in Mississippi and another was killed in Florida. Agents hunted down a charismatic man named Glen Rogers who used charm and generosity to target women for his brutal attacks. He would eventually become known as "The Cross-Country Killer."
- In the 1980s, Florida's cocaine imports were among the highest in the nation and regional territories were enforced with intimidation and murder. One dealer would stop at nothing to keep FBI agents from building a case against him and began targeting the government itself.
- When authorities in a small Washington town began investigating the disappearance of a young woman, they had no idea it would turn into a nationwide hunt for a sadistic sexual predator. The FBI was called in to help track down Darren Dee O'Neall, only to discover that other unsuspecting women across the Pacific Northwest had fallen victim to his charms.
- A trail of violent bank robberies lead the FBI to suspect involvement from an unlikely source.
- On a cold afternoon in March 1989, Marine Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell failed to report for duty at the base in Quantico, Virginia. Friends and colleagues were certain she had not gone AWOL. FBI agents noticed her husband, former Marine Robert Peter Russell, was acting strangely. A blood-like stain in the couple's home disappeared before it was properly examined. There was no body, no witnesses, and no weapon.
- In December 1994, Joann Katrinak and her 4-month-old son, Alex, mysteriously disappeared from their home. A new DNA technique ended the mystery, in one of the first cases of DNA being successfully used in a criminal investigation in the United States.
- A series of brutal bank robberies and murders led to an exhaustive eight-month investigation by the FBI. What followed was the 1986 FBI Miami shootout, one of the deadliest firefights in FBI history.
- On June 19, 1985, convicted bank robber Terry Conner and his partner-in-crime, Joseph Dougherty, escaped on their way to Dougherty's trial. In September, the fugitives used Conner's old m.o. to make the biggest bank robbery in Wisconsin history.
- Robert Hansen's aggression toward women led to run ins with the legal system most of his life. But when he moved to Anchorage his behavior turned deadly as he became a serial rapist and killer who tortured and literally hunted his victims in the wilds of Alaska. But his public behavior and job in a bakery frequented by many police officers made him seem an unlikely suspect until the FBI applied behavioral profiling.
- A teenager was shot to death on a hunting ground in rural Virginia. His death was initially considered a tragic accident but investigators soon suspected foul play. Years later, a man contacted the FBI with a complex story of conspiracy and murder-for-hire.
- On July 4, 1987, seven inmates broke out of a high-security prison in New Mexico. The daring escape was orchestrated by convicted murdered William Wayne Gilbert, who was serving a life sentence. In a dangerous manhunt and race against time, authorities and scientists used the Bureau's crime laboratory to catch these dangerous criminals.
- The bodies of several women began turning up around the city of Vienna, Austria. Viennese police turned to the FBI for help. The FBI and Austrian Federal Police investigated suspected serial killer Jack Unterweger, who became an international outlaw, hopping from country to country to evade capture and to kill again.
- In the late 1980s, an illegal drug operation opened its doors in Washington, DC. Vincent Hill ran his drug organization with an iron fist that included intimidation and murder. Life in SW Washington became more violent for everyone, gang member or not.
- A killer's prison escape leads the FBI on a manhunt throughout the West.
- Trace evidence convinces police and FBI agents that pedophile Caleb Hughes abducted and murdered missing five year old Melissa Brannen. But unless they can find her remains they cannot make a case for murder.
- A special task force was formed in the early 1990s to combat the flow of Colombia cocaine into New York ports. As part of an elaborate sting operation, one detective went undercover and infiltrated a drug gang connected to Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.
- FBI agents investigate the nationally publicized kidnapping of a 12 year old girl from her own home. Despite a massive effort, detailed in this program, evidence at the crime scene is simply insufficient to point to a suspect. It took a fortuitous discovery two months later to lead police to the culprit.
- Croatians seek to secure Croatia's sovereignty via terrorism.
- The Los Macheteros terrorist organization sought to end U.S. rule of Puerto Rico through extreme violence, vowing to fight to the death. When the group claimed responsibility for an attack on 18 unarmed servicemen traveling near San Juan, the FBI is called in to investigate the ruthless killers.
- In 1994, an armored van driver was murdered and the vehicle and its cargo of nearly a million dollars went missing. Authorities were led to a bounty hunter, a former prison guard and a former cop.
- Masked bandits pulled off a daring bank robbery in the middle of the day. Without any evidence, FBI agents had to force their own luck in the four-year manhunt for the so-called "Hollywood" bank robber in Seattle, Washington.
- A Philadelphia mob war leaves a trail of blood.
- A bank vault was blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables was missing. Agents were able to track down one of the robbers' friends and attempted to use him as bait to reel in the crooks.
- An FBI task force conducts an international manhunt to find a Mexican serial killer.
- In Richmond, Virginia, two masked men who were robbing a bank escaped after opening fire on officers responding to the call. When the FBI arrived, agents found one bank teller dead, another wounded; the bank's security guard had been shot four times, yet was still alive.
- In the summer of 1994, a young girl was snatched from her home by an unknown assailant. The FBI knew from experience to act fast, search wide and enlist volunteers. As hours passed, no clues were found.
- "This money's going to feed a lot of poor Mexican children!" announces Byron Chubbuck, before fleeing, the Wells Fargo Bank in Albuquerque, NM on August 10, 1999. Days before Christmas 2000, Chubbuck escapes from a prison only to go on a robbing
- A Nyack, New York robbery leaves a murder in its wake. The FBI's investigation leads them to terrorists from the United States.
- Dartmouth Professors Susanne and Half Zantop are mysteriously found murdered in their quaint New Hampshire home. Colleagues confirm that the couple was very well liked. With no trace of forced entry the FBI Behavioral Science Unit investigates the crime.
- For two couples on vacation, an island paradise turns to hell when one couple murders the other. Eleven years after the murder, a drifter sailing the high seas to escape a drug charge is convicted of the crime.