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- 1992– TV-PG9.7 (20)TV EpisodeIn 1980 Shannon Mohr believes that she has found the man of her dreams, right to the point where he murders her. Soon afterward he disappears and the truth about him starts to become all too clear. American Justice examines the investigation and the seven year hunt for Dave Davis.
- In the early to mid 1980's Leonard Lake and Charles Ng are believed to have raped, tortured, and murdered over a dozen women at Lake's remote cabin in Calaveras County, California. Investigators found a torture chamber, videotapes of Lake and Ng torturing a couple of victims, and over 40 pounds of charred bones at the cabin. Lake committed suicide before he could be charged for the crimes. Charles Ng, a native of Hong Kong and former U.S Marine, eluded prosecution for 13 years, but is now serving his sentence on death row. American Justice looks at the heinous nature of the crimes committed by Lake and Ng and how Ng was able to avoid prosecution for so long.
- On October 15th, 1988 Peggy Carr of Alturas, FL dies of Thallium poisoning. Tests show that her two sons also showed signs of Thallium poisoning. Immediately detectives suspect Peggy's husband Pye Carr of the horrible crime. But soon investigators start to shift their focus on to George Trepal, a neighbor with a genius level IQ and a self taught chemist. American Justice looks at the events leading to the murder conviction of George Trepal.
- Linda Jones is convicted of orchestrating the murder of Jack Jones, her husband of 30 years after she discovers that he is having an affair with an 18 year old girl. American Justice interviews Linda Jones from prison about the crime and examines the entire case.
- Author and columnist Michael Peterson is accused of murdering his wife Kathleen at their home in Durham, NC. American Justice looks at the investigation that reveals another woman in his past also died under similar suspicious circumstances.
- On November 29th, 1992 Sara Tokars is shot to death in front of her two young children by a man who had accosted them at their home in Marietta, GA. After her death her husband Fred Tokars, who was a defense attorney, started to exhibit strange behavior which led investigators to take a closer look at his possible involvement. American Justice takes a close look at the case that led to investigators accusing Fred Tokars of murder for hire, and then his subsequent conviction of the murder of his wife.
- In 1995, Linda Sobek, a beautiful, vivacious Los Angeles model and ex-NFL cheerleader, goes missing after a photo shoot. A police investigation leads to photographer Charles Rathbun, who keeps changing his story about their last encounter.
- While Mike and Jill are out celebrating their wedding anniversary a gunman comes into the restaurant they are dining in and starts shooting. Jill is seriously injured and loses her baby. Mike apprehends the gunman, but they soon learn that he has a brain tumor and that they may not be able to prosecute him because of it. Officers Webster and Gillis investigate the possibility that the shooting was planned and wasn't because the shooter had a brain tumor.
- David Graham and Diane Zamora were two teenagers who were intensely devoted to each other during high school and had both joined the U.S Naval Academy in Annapolis. While at the academy, Diane confides in roommates that her and David had murdered Adrianne Jones while they were in high school in Mansfield, TX. They had murdered Jones because David Graham had cheated on Zamora by having a one-time sexual encounter with Jones, and Zamora wanted to kill her in order purify their relationship. American Justice profiles this case of murder and jealousy that also became a made-for-television movie.
- On September 28, 1973 Barbara Gibbon is brutally murdered in her Falls Village, Connecticut home. Immediately police focus on her 18 year old son Peter Reilly, and after 25 hours of interrogation Peter confesses to the crime. He was sentenced to 6 to 16 years for the murder of his mother, but with the help of an outraged community and playwright Arthur Miller, Reilly is granted a new trial and his conviction is overturned. American Justice examines this controversial case and interviews Peter Reilly who is now seeking DNA testing to clear his name.
- 1992– TV-PG8.6 (12)TV EpisodeThe tragic and disturbing death of 6 year old Lisa Steinberg is profiled by American Justice. The horrific abuse that was suffered by Lisa Steinberg and her adoptive mother Hedda Nussbaum at the hands of Joel Steinberg became a media focal point in 1987.
- On July 14th, 1993 eight kids in their teens to early twenty's get together for the evening in Hollywood, Florida (a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale)to hang out. Several of the teenagers gang up on 20 year old Bobby Kent, who was with their group, and stab him repeatedly. Kent dies from his wounds, and despite the efforts of the youths to cover up the incident, the truth comes out and they are all charged with 1st degree murder. In their defense they claimed that Bobby Kent was a "vicious bully and this was his payback".
- Terry Webster's cousin Jimmy returns from Vietnam and has trouble finding a job and to adjusting to life back home in general. Despite the support and help from Terry, Jimmy is finding the temptation to join a couple of war buddies in their robbery operation hard to resist.
- In 1992, Houston Deputy Sheriff Kent McGowen's longstanding dispute with Texan resident Susan White ended with a death and a prison sentence. American Justice examines the case.
- Investigators link a parolee to the rapes and murders of two young women in San Luis Obispo, California, and his sentencing sparks a debate about psychological methods and life sentences versus public safety and the death penalty.
- On the eve of Thanksgiving, DiNozzo and Bishop experience a weather delay at the D.C airport when Gibbs informs them of an elevated terror threat specific to area airports. An impostor posing as an air marshal leads them to the real threat.
- American Justice examines the case of Patricia Allanson. In 1974 Allanson goaded her husband into killing his parents. Then after he was sentenced to prison she set her sights on his grandparents by poisoning them, all in an effort to gain a half million dollar inheritance. After serving a short prison term she returned to her evil scheming ways by stealing and poisoning an elderly couple that she was caring for, but this time she enlisted the help of her daughter.
- A man was given a phony subpoena to appear in court so that he could be framed for the assassination of a judge who had been nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court. Barnaby takes up the case after the man proclaims his innocence-and gives him $5,000..
- A young widow hires Barnaby to investigate the "accidental" death of her husband of only four weeks. While investigating the case another young man who was once a suitor to the same woman winds up dead under mysterious circumstances, leaving Barnaby to believe neither death was accidental.
- After the Priest of the Catholic church in his neighborhood is murdered, the Monsignor requests that Lt. Ryker heads up the investigation. After another murder and another attack on nun, Ryker and the rookies are stumped for a motive. Then they receive the autopsy reports on the victims that gives them the break they need.
- One night in April 1991 Thomas Cummins and his two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry are hanging out on the Chain of Rocks bridge in St. Louis, MO. While on the bridge, Cummins claimed that they were approached and attacked by four young men and that Julie and Robin were raped and all three are forced to jump off the bridge. After surviving the fall, Thomas Cummins is initially suspected of his cousins murders, but American Justice looks at the investigation that eventually led to the arrest and conviction of the four men who were really responsible for the crime.
- 1992– TV-PG8.2 (18)TV EpisodeAmerican Justice chronicles the case of Winnacunnet High School media coordinator Pamela Smart. Smart, who was 22 years old, had an affair with a 15 year old student at the same school and seduced him into murdering her husband. The case against Smart, her lover, and his three friends from the same Hew Hampshire school who had helped him commit the murder grabbed the attention of millions of Americans as the story unfolded.
- An estranged sister and her boyfriend try to cash in by claiming to be the mother of her sister's daughter that she had given up for adoption 22 years ago- and who just happened to inherit millions of dollars. Barnaby investigates further when things don't add up.
- An insurance company hires Barnaby to investigate the death of the owner of a motor corporation who drove his motorcycle off a cliff during testing. After Jones hears rumors of an affair, and then learns of another mysterious motorcyclist in the area that day, he suspects it was no accident.
- Willie draws "juvenile detail" and struggles to deal with the emotional and psychological aspects of the detail. He takes it hard when a teenager dies after being beaten by other teen boys, and when he is not sure if his efforts to try to resuscitate a 6 year old girl who was trapped in an old refrigerator were in time to save her or not. But at the end of the day Willie helps to bring a new life into the world and he is able to put things back into focus.
- A look at convicted Texas killer Kenneth Allen McDuff, who was sentenced to death for murdering three people, later paroled, then sent back to death row and executed for killing again.
- 1993– 50m8.2 (6)TV EpisodeAmerican Justice chronicles the history of the American Mafia. The Mafia is profiled from it's origin on the island of Sicily to those same Sicilian's immigrating to New Orleans, and from there the Mafia's move to Chicago and it's infamous leader Alphonse Capone.
- 1992– TV-PG8.1 (28)TV EpisodeThe case of homicidal divorcee Betty Broderick is chronicled. Included: her marriage to Dan Broderick, their divorce, the murder of Dan and his second wife, and the two ensuing trials.
- One of Barnaby's friends, a small town sheriff, catches his beautiful wife cheating on him and murders two men who are illicitly involved with her. In order to try to get away with the killings, he makes it look like the work of another killer who's on the loose.
- Barnaby investigates a woman who has set out to exact vengeance on the two men she blames for her fathers suicide. After killing the first one she is double crossed by the second one and her boyfriend in order to gain control of her assets.
- C.R. Grover has 4 days to locate a missing heiress before a trust in which she is to inherit will revert back to her father. His mission is complicated by family members who are out to kill the heiress to gain control of the family fortune.
- 1993–199445mTV-148.0 (173)TV EpisodeEvery bounty hunter in the land is tracking Brisco after he is wrongly accused of murder. On the run, Brisco himself is hot on the trail of John Bly and enlists the help of Crystal Hawks, a beautiful bounty hunter who is looking to cash in.
- After a security guard is murdered during the theft of a valuable emerald collection Barnaby and J.R. are hired to investigate. What they unearth is a madam, her low-life boyfriend, and a call girl carrying out her part in a scheme to rip-off unsuspecting men of their valuables.
- A retired police officer gets in the way of the Rookies investigation of an aggravated assault.
- Ted Ammon, a well to do financier and investment banker is found murdered at his mansion in The Hamptons, New York. The prime suspects are his soon to be ex-wife Generosa and her boyfriend Daniel Pelosi. American Justice takes a look at numerous details in this case.
- Between 1990 and 1995 a long haul truck driver named Keith Jesperson was known to have killed eight women in five states, strangling prostitutes that he would pick up while on the road. He became known as "The Happy Face Killer" because he would draw a smiley face on his letters to the media and police.
- On this segment of American Justice host Bill Kurtis narrates an hour long look at the Mafia in it's "hay day" and some of it's most lucrative adventures. From the Prohibition Era up to World War II the Mafia enjoyed the excesses of legalized alcohol, casino's, prostitution, control of the dock's in New York, and racetrack betting. Among those profiled are Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Bugsy Siegel.
- 1992– TV-PG7.9 (26)TV EpisodeAmerican Justice profiles the 1975 murder of 15 year old Martha Moxley in the rich and well to do gated community of Greenwich Village, CT. Moxely was brutally beaten to death with a golf club on the eve of Halloween in 1975. Initially investigators determined that one of the main suspects was Thomas Skakel, brother of Michael. The Skakel family were neighbors to the Moxley's and part of the powerful Kennedy clan, and it was highly speculated that it was this wealth and power that was able to protect the Skakel boys from the investigation. Former Los Angeles detective Mark Fuhrmann privately investigated the case and named Michael Skakel as the murderer. Then he wrote a book about the incompetency of the investigation and why it took until 2002 to finally find Michael Skakel guilty of the crime.
- A grieving daughter refuses to believe that her mother committed suicide and hires Barnaby to investigate. Together, Barnaby and J.R. unearth evidence that leads them to believe her death was linked to the estate of a recently deceased man who was worth millions.
- Jarod assumes the identity of a deceased hit-man in order to save the target's life and bring down the man who hired him.
- The 1997 trial of 19 year old British au pair Louise Woodward is the focus of American Justice. Woodward was accused of a form of child abuse known as "shaken baby syndrome" in the death of 8 month old Matthew Eappen in Boston. Initially convicted of second-degree murder, that verdict was later set aside in favor of involuntary manslaughter and she was released with time served.
- An imprisoned dying man makes a deal with a murderer to take the rap for the man's crimes, just as long as he will financially take care of his wife after he's gone. But when the deal goes sour, Barnaby is hired to see to it that justice is served.
- A worried wife hires Barnaby to find out what has happened to her missing husband. In the course of their investigation Barnaby and J.R. believe that he was involved in a series of heists with his old college buddies, and that he may be dead.
- Barnaby and J.R. investigate a case where a material witness was murdered by the loan sharking gangster he was going to testify against. During the investigation they learn Lt. Biddle is romantically involved with the gangster's girlfriend.
- The death of a woman's sister is ruled a suicide, but the woman doesn't buy it and hires Barnaby to look into it. What he discovers is a man who preys upon lonely single women for information so he can steal from their businesses that they work for, and he may have had something to do with the woman's death.
- Officers Owens and Danko track down the man who raped Owens's sister. But the tables are turned on Officer Owens when the rapist claims police brutality during his arrest. Meanwhile Kim Owens struggles to cope with her feelings and her faith after the attack.
- American Justice goes back in time to the Prohibition Era. From January 16th, 1920 with the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution banning the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the United States to it's repeal on December 5th, 1933. The Prohibition Era led to a high demand for illegal alcohol and spawned the beginnings of organized crime in America. But it also brought about great changes to the American Justice system to counter these new criminals.
- 1992– TV-PG7.7 (18)TV EpisodeThe case of Susan Smith who murdered her two young boys is examined. In 1994 the 23 year old mother from South Carolina claimed that she had been the victim of a carjacking and the perpetrator had taken off with her two young boys still in the car. It is later discovered that there was no carjacking and that she had in fact rolled her car into a lake while her children were still strapped in the car.
- A mentally challenged young man stumbles upon a murder being committed and tries to help the victim, but he's too late and the real assailant flees the scene before any other witnesses show up. The local sheriff wants to charge him for the murder, and it's up to Barnaby to prove that he has the wrong man.
- Barnaby Jones investigates the disappearance of a man he believes was involved in the theft of one million dollars in precious jewels. It isn't long before Barnaby suspects the man met with foul play and that the wife and defense lawyer of the man are involved.