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 Sep 57min
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 Sep 56min
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 Aug 1h 1min
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 Aug 49min
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 Aug 34min
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 Aug 53min
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 Aug 54min
S6: The Botched Execution of Tony Carruthers: Future COTC?
Three people vanished from a Memphis home in February 1994. A week later, they turned up in a local cemetery, buried in a grave dug for someone else's funeral — held the day after they disappeared, wi...
7 Aug 46min
