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1) The First 48
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The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
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Whitehall 1212 was a radio show named after the then famous telephone number of Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force. It was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson and based on real cases solved by The Yard. A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband... but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe! 2019.
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Murder is forever volume 3
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A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.
Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has...
Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has...
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Many famous cases have been reexamined in recent years using the great advances made in forensic science. Cold cases have been reopened. Supposedly solved crimes have been analyzed anew. Explore how cutting-edge investigative techniques are being applied to help unravel criminal enigmas all over the world.
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"In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity--but it was an unimaginable tragedy...
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"The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds. When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president,...
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The Dope Years: The Story of Latasha Harlins is a 19 minute documentary that explores and retells the life of Latasha and how her death is directly connected to the Los Angeles climate of the 1990s. Through reimagined scenes from Latasha’s life, the audience gains insight into who she was as a person and the impact she made on her community. The Dope Years explores perspectives of those who were children at the time and identifies the issues that...
10) Mr. Untouchable
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A dramatic account of the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a poor black kid from the streets of Harlem who became the biggest heroin dealer in the United States. Eventually jailed, Nicky lost control of his empire. Rather than giving up the reins, he committed one final audacious act, which brought down the entire organization and led to the arrests of over 100 of his closest allies. Was he the ultimate coward, or was this the ultimate act of revenge?...
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"A propulsive true-crime story that exposes the deep cracks in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large. Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody wants: a reliable confidant, a handywoman of all trades, and an infectious creative with an adventurous spirit. Most importantly, she was tough as nails. So when her friend, Lynn, needed help escaping her abusive husband, Ronald...
13) The Legal Death
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. Two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were sentenced to death, the only crime they were guilty of was of being anarchists. The whole world stood up, the people crowded into the town squares, not just the lives of two men were at stake but also the beliefs which they represented. Millions of voices in many languages were raised in protest. They sought justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, but nothing could save...
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"Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating-and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation-if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home,...
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"It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to the murders of three Los Angeles women. Surprised she...
18) Bei Bei
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An award winning dramatic narrative tells the true story of Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant in Indianapolis, and her lawyer, Linda Pence, battling charges of first-degree murder and attempted feticide. The crime? Attempting suicide while pregnant. This behind-the-scenes legal documentary weaves an intimate personal story with the dramatic intensity of a high stakes criminal case, raising questions about reproductive justice, personhood laws, immigrants’...
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In July 2012 three intruders broke into the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, known as America’s “Fort Knox of Uranium”. Y-12 stores enough highly enriched uranium to make some 10,000 nuclear bombs. The break-in, described by The New York Times, as the most serious security breach in the history of the U.S. atomic complex, sent shock waves throughout the federal government and the world, when it turned out the intruders...
20) Call Her Ganda
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When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case; an activist attorney, a transgender journalist, and Jennifer’s mother, galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Documentary at the **GLAAD Media Awards**. "*As...
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