In 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at the mansion of legendary record producer Phil Spector. He called it an "accidental suicide." It took two trials, but eventually the final jury found him guilty of second degree murder. It's the fall of the once-powerful rock mogul who created the wall of sound. The strange story of Spector's deadly night with the Roger Corman starlet includes never-before-seen outtakes from interviews and police footage.
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano sent his boss John Gotti to prison. See this hit-man up close as he breaks the code of Omerta. It's a far more threatening tale than the Hollywood take.
Robert Hanssen was an FBI agent who sold secrets to the U.S.S.R., the K.G.B. and Russia for more than two decades in exchange for cash and diamonds. The documentary uses FBI records and interviews to tell a real-life spy thriller.
At the crooked Enron, home of the first Wall Street scandal, the “smartest men in the room” are exposed as dishonest hustlers.
Sandy Murphy was a gambler from LA who went broke gambling in Ted Binion’s Vegas hotel. But after meeting, they fell in love – until Ted mysteriously turned up dead and Sandy was charged with his murder.
It started as a custody fight - Beth Carpenter wanted her deceased sister’s child, but her brother in law resisted. According to police, Beth hired two men to kill her brother in law.
Robert Durst was the scion of a multi-millionaire real estate family, but was always a bit of an eccentric. He is suspected of killing three people – his first wife in New York, a Los Angeles woman and finally a 70-year-old neighbor in Texas.
This chilling special tells how Timothy McVeigh was executed for killing hundreds of people, mostly children, in an Oklahoma bombing. He called it a protest but the government witnesses call it “cold blooded murder”.
Chris Paciello helped create the excitement of South Beach and attracted stars to his clubs. That was until the FBI swooped into his life and arrested him. This special reveals Paciello’s past as a mob enforcer.
The Texas Seven was a group of prisoners who escaped on December 13, 2000. They were apprehended a month later as a direct result of the television show America’s Most Wanted. George Rivas was sentenced to death after being extradited to Texas.
Bill Hanhardt rose to the top of the Chicago police force, but he was also connected to a mob-run jewel theft ring which managed to steal millions of dollars in gems.
Ira Einhorn, a 60′s hippie, murdered his girlfriend and fled the country, but was eventually captured in Paris. This documentary reveals the strange story of the man known as “the Unicorn”.
Andrew Cunanan found his way onto the FBI’s Most Wanted list by killing at least five people including the famous fashion designer Gianni Versace outside of the designer’s glamorous Miami estate.
Martin Frankel conspired to steal diamonds, cars, and investors’ money while running a fake hedge fund out of a Greenwich mansion. When the cops arrived, he fled to Europe but was caught, tried and jailed.
They were the first national “predator teacher” couple, Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau. But their love survived scandal, prison and publicity.
Michael Skakel killed a Greenwich, Connecticut teenager. His trials drew national attention. His Uncle was Bobby Kennedy. This special explores the possibility of a Kennedy and Skakel family cover up.
Rocancourt is an attractive French conman who fleeced the rich and famous, convinced people to finance fake movies, was arrested for jewel theft, and married a Playboy model. His schemes cost his victims upwards of $40 million.
Los Angeles serial killers Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono were cousins who killed women for thrills. Using prison footage, this documentary goes inside the evil minds of Bianchi and Buono as they sit in prison for life.
John Paul II - shot, live on television. The Russians denied involvement, but this special explores if the shooting was a cold war Kremlin plot.
Mohammad Atta was the pilot who flew the first plane into the World Trade Towers and led the conspirators on their mission. This special is based on the work of three investigative teams that retraced the lives of the 9/11 terrorists.
After the first five dead women were found in the Green River in Washington State, the press named the then-unknown serial killer “The Green River Killer.” When police finally hunted Ridgway down, they were able to obtain 49 separate murder convictions.
Richard Sharpe is a disgraced Harvard graduate who killed his wife when she found out he was leading a double life as a cross-dresser. This documentary shows the effects of his behavior on the usually calm, correct life on an Ivy League campus.
On the night of November 16, 1999, Cherica Adams, the girlfriend of NFL star Rae Carruth, was shot four times in a drive-by shooting. Adams was seven months pregnant with Carruth’s baby at the time. This documentary investigates Carruth’s involvement with this grizzly murder.
Mike Tyson went from a criminal thug, to heavyweight Champion of the World. But his fame and fortune led to broken marriages, and prison. Today, he’s on the comeback trail.
Andrea Yates drowned her five children and shocked a nation with her senseless crime.
Three tourists disappeared from Yosemite National Park in California – bodies of two were found in a burned-out car, the third on a hilltop. Evidence lead police to a Cedar Lodge handyman, Cary Stayner, who was eventually convicted of four murders.
Robert Blake worked his way up from child star on ‘Our Gang’, and a killer in ‘In Cold Blood’, to his best-known role as TV’s ‘Beretta’. He experienced child abuse, alcoholism, and depression, and eventually, Robert Blake was accused of killing his wife.
San Francisco police were shocked at the sight of a dead woman who was killed by a dog. The dog’s owners, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, were arrested and jailed in a trial which came to reveal a terrifying attack-dog breeding ring.
This special explores the night Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs’ empire nearly came crashing down in a rain of bullets.
Michael Jackson thrilled millions with song and dance – but may have had issues when it came to young boys. This special tracks it all, including the denials, the important players in his life and his incredible music.
This documentary follows the escape route bin Laden took from Tora Bora to Pakistan. The guides are two reporters who are actual eyewitnesses to his escape and the last American reporter to speak with bin Laden. A much praised investigative documentary.
A trio of killers gunned down Gail Fulton, a Detroit-based librarian, in a parking lot. Donna Trapani, a nurse from Pensacola, hired the three because she had been jilted by Gail’s husband.
Margaret Rudin, the “black widow” killer, has buried several husbands all of whom died “mysteriously.” Interviewed inside a Las Vegas prison, Rudin maintains her innocence and claims the DA has unjustly charged her.
Officer Rafael Perez waged a campaign of terror that ranged from planting evidence to covering up police shootings. After serving time in prison, Perez immediately found himself at the center of a controversy over the deaths of Tupac Shakur & Biggie Smalls.
Eric Rudolph bombed an abortion clinic. While in hiding, Rudolph’s mother went on television to appeal for his surrender, but eventually the FBI captured the bomber.
This documentary rides the rails looking for Robert “Robbie” Silveria and a wild bunch of killers feared for jumping trains and assaulting a generation that secretly rode America’s railroads.
This is the story of infamous mafia boss, John Gotti and his crew. The film includes court wiretaps and undercover footage. Meet the “Dapper Don” as he really was – a smiling killer.
Capturing the man who brought cocaine to the world, this documentary follows Escobar on his journey as the Colombian Godfather.
Rushed to a London hospital, Jimi Hendrix is D.O.A. But many of his friends dispute the medical examiners account of what caused his death – a drug overdose.
This documentary explores what really occurred on the fateful day of JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963. It contains fascinating interviews with experts, eyewitnesses and doctors who witnessed the event and its aftermath.
The story of one of the 9/11 masterminds. This documentary tracks the terrorist from NY to Pakistan with mystery following him at every turn.
Shot in Liverpool, London and New York, this documentary intercuts between an Attica prison confession by Mark David Chapman and the final interview with Beatles legend John Lennon just hours before his death.
They seemed to have it all. But money and loving parents wasn’t enough for the Menendez brothers who decided to kill their mother and father in cold blood. True crime writer Dominic Dunne takes us through the steps leading up to the brutal killings.
Although many people believed that O.J. Simpson deserved to go to jail for the murder of his wife, he was finally convicted of a crime and sent to prison – for the theft of sports collectibles in Las Vegas.
Rabbi Fred Neulander denied his role in a plot to kill his wife for the love of a beautiful woman from Philadelphia. Quiet suburban Cherry Hill, New Jersey has never been the same.
Tom Green’s family consisted of 5 wives and 31 children. When it was discovered that he consummated the marriage to one of his wives when she was 14 he was charged with the rape of a child.
The story of the FBI raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas which killed 75 people, including 25 children.
Using rare and exclusive interviews this documentary goes back to the fifties – the Rat Pack, Marilyn Monroe, and a wild open town that rivals Vegas for mob conspiracies.