S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer

S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer

Sex workers began disappearing in the Rochester, New York, area at an alarming rate in the late 1980s. When their strangled and mutilated bodies were later discovered, it was clear they were being targeted by a sick killer with a distinct MO. It turned out that the man behind the killings, Arthur Shawcross, had already killed before.

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S6 Ep27: Catch the Devil: The Murder of Shelly Boggio

S6 Ep27: Catch the Devil: The Murder of Shelly Boggio

Fourteen-year-old Shelly Boggio was found stabbed and drowned off a Florida beach in 1985. Two men were convicted of her murder — but the case against one of them depended heavily on the word of Paul ...

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S6 Ep26: Johnny Gosch: The Paperboy Who Never Came Home

S6 Ep26: Johnny Gosch: The Paperboy Who Never Came Home

On September 5, 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch left his West Des Moines home to deliver newspapers. He never made it back. What followed was a police chief with his own violent history, an FBI that wa...

14 Syys 57min

S6 Ep25: Abscam: The True Story Behind ‘American Hustle’

S6 Ep25: Abscam: The True Story Behind ‘American Hustle’

A con man with a gift for talking fast and a knack for never getting caught made himself invaluable to the FBI in the late 1970s — and the FBI made him the centerpiece of the biggest political corrupt...

7 Syys 56min

S6 Ep24: Charles Harrelson and the Assassination of "Maximum John"

S6 Ep24: Charles Harrelson and the Assassination of "Maximum John"

In 1979, a federal judge in San Antonio was known for one thing above all else: He did not show mercy. John H. Wood Jr. had earned his nickname the hard way, one maximum sentence at a time. Just befor...

31 Elo 1h 1min

S6: ENCORE: Fatty Arbuckle: Scandal in Hollywood

S6: ENCORE: Fatty Arbuckle: Scandal in Hollywood

The roaring '20s of last century were fueled in part by a new industry: filmmaking in Hollywood. Directors were rolling in dough, as were the silver screen's first stars. But in 1921, the future of ci...

27 Elo 49min

S6: Norman Thorne: Cold-Blooded Killer or 'Martyr to Spilsburyism'?

S6: Norman Thorne: Cold-Blooded Killer or 'Martyr to Spilsburyism'?

A young woman named Elsie Cameron vanished after delivering an ultimatum to her fiancé, chicken farmer Norman Thorne. Weeks later, investigators dug up his property and found her dismembered remains b...

24 Elo 34min

S6 Ep23: Dr. Crippen and the Coal Cellar

S6 Ep23: Dr. Crippen and the Coal Cellar

Weeks after a woman's mysterious disappearance, a ship's captain noticed something off about two of his passengers — a quiet, bespectacled man and his teenage "son." He couldn't shake the feeling he'd...

17 Elo 53min

S6 Ep22: Serial Killer Joseph Paul Franklin's Three-Year Race War

S6 Ep22: Serial Killer Joseph Paul Franklin's Three-Year Race War

For three years in the late 1970s and into 1980 — before shared databases and DNA evidence — one man moved freely across 11 states trying to start a race war. He changed his name to honor a Nazi propa...

10 Elo 54min

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