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Season 1

  • S01E01 London Blitz Killer

    • April 25, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    A body in a bombed-out chapel reveals the true story of life during wartime, when not everyone kept calm and carried on. Some used the cover of the blitz and the blackout to carry out murderous deeds.

  • S01E02 Chicago's White City Devil

    • May 2, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    A serial killer thrives on the dark side of America's desire to build it bigger and better.

  • S01E03 Edinburgh Body Snatchers

    • May 9, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    In a divided city at the centre of the scientific Enlightenment, the elite turn a blind eye to poverty, injustice, and murder in the name of progress. During this time people were murdered and their bodies sold to science.

  • S01E04 Berlin's Nazi Ripper

    • May 16, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    How the terror and paranoia that marked Nazi rule let a serial killer get away with murder.

  • S01E05 Britain's Killer Nanny

    • May 23, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    A ruthless con artist capitalizes on the rigid moral and social codes of Victorian England.

  • S01E06 Rio's Playboy Killers

    • May 30, 2021
    • Smithsonian Channel

    July 23rd, 1977. Claudia Rodrigues, the well-off sister of a popular actress, attends a party in a trendy neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. What happens next will spark a national scandal and become Brazil's crime of the century. Witness this high-profile case as it unfolds, featuring the playboy son of a watch company tycoon, the Jogo do Bicho mafia, lots of cocaine, and a successful local detective known as the "Brazilian Barretta," who must battle Rio's powerful and corrupt forces in order to bring Claudia's killers to justice.