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S6E15 S6 Ep15: Twilight Zone Part 2: 'We Decided to Break the Law'
After three people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, it took four years to get five defendants into a courtroom and another 10 months before anyone knew how it would end. What unfolded in…
S6E14 S6 Ep14: Twilight Zone Part 1: Vic Morrow's Last Role
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, cameras were rolling at a California filming location when a helicopter crashed into a river, killing actor Vic Morrow and two young children, Renee Chen…
S6E13 S6 Ep13: Wesley Elkins: The 11-Year-Old Killer
On a hot July morning in 1889, two adults were found murdered in their beds on a small Iowa farm, shot and bludgeoned to death while they slept. The only witness was an 11-year-old boy who said a…
S6 S6: Murdaugh Country: Future Crimes of the Centuries?
You've heard the name. You've read the headlines. But the Alex Murdaugh story is bigger than one man's spectacular fall — bigger, even, than two people's horrific deaths. It's about the century of…
S6E12 S6 Ep12: Above Suspicion: The FBI Informant Who Disappeared
A young mother from a tiny Kentucky hollow vanished without a trace in 1989, leaving behind her clothes, her makeup and her two children. She'd been working as an informant for FBI Agent Mark Putnam,…
The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat
Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that defy easy explanation.…
S6E11 S6 Ep11: The Butcher of Rostov
In 1978, a nine-year-old girl in a red coat went looking for a kind man she'd met at a train station. She never came home. Over the next 12 years, at least 52 more would follow. But in the Soviet…
S6E10 S6 Ep10: The Fire That Condemned Cameron Todd Willingham
In 1991, investigators of a house fire in Corsicana, Texas, concluded the fatal blaze was arson, pointing to burn patterns they said proved someone had deliberately turned the house into a death…
S6 S6: The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie: Future Crimes of the Centuries?
On the night of January 31st, 2026, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was dropped off at her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, Arizona. By morning, the mother of one of America's most famous TV…
S6E9 S6 Ep9: The Torso in the Marsh
In 1949, a headless, legless torso surfaced in the Essex marshes, setting off one of Britain’s most sensational postwar murder investigations. The victim was Stanley Setty, a black-market car dealer.…
S6E8 S6 Ep8: The Covenant Conspiracy
In 1945, a reverend, a realtor, a science teacher, and a white woman in a low-cut dress conspired to help a St. Louis couple buy a house. The couple had steady jobs, a down payment, and six children…
S6E7 S6 Ep7: Reckless Disregard: The Carrollton Bus Crash
In May 1988, a church bus returning to Kentucky was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver. Within seconds, it became an inferno. As families searched for answers, an unsettling truth emerged: The…
S6E6 S6 Ep6: The Murder That Sparked the Zoot Suit Riots
In August 1942, 22-year-old Jose Diaz was found dying near a Los Angeles reservoir called Sleepy Lagoon. He'd been beaten and stabbed the night before he was set to report to the U.S. Army. His death…
ENCORE: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke
Singing his way through the 1950s and early 1960s, appealing to audiences across a segregated music industry, churning out hits of dreamy quality like “You Send Me” and inspirational fortitude like…
S6E5 S6 Ep5: LIVE Episode: Cincinnati's "Seamstress Slayer"
In November 1958, duck hunters at Cowan Lake State Park stumbled upon a burned body so badly damaged it was nearly unrecognizable. It belonged to Louise Bergen, a 32-year-old Cincinnati mother whose…
S6E4 S6 Ep4: Stolen Valor: The Woman Who Wasn't There
In the years after September 11, 2001, one survivor’s story rose above nearly all others. She said she had escaped from the South Tower, lost the man she loved on the 99th floor, and lived with…
S6E3 S6 Ep3: The Shepherd's Bush Massacre
In August 1966, three unarmed London police officers pulled over a suspicious car on Braybrook Street in Shepherd's Bush in West London. Within minutes, all three were dead—shot in cold blood by…
S6E2 S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release
In 1976, a woman survived a brutal kidnapping and stabbing in a San Diego parking lot. The man accused of the attack was Edgar Smith—once a cause célèbre, hailed as a wrongfully convicted…
S6E1 S6 Ep1: Brief Against Death: The Murder of Victoria Zielinski
In 1957, Edgar Smith was sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage girl in New Jersey. From his prison cell, he began writing letters, essays and arguments build a case not in court, but on the…
S5E46 S5 Ep46: The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Niece
In 1931, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in the Führer's Munich apartment. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But the evidence didn’t settle easily—and neither did the…
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