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City Confidential
City Confidential explores crimes that have impacted cities and towns across America. The iconic, noir-style series goes beyond the headlines to showcase the emotional and unexpected stories that catapulted unique communities, both large and small, into the public eye. Each episode tells the story of one crime, the ensuing investigation, and the ripple effect it had on a community. Speaking with family, friends, detectives, journalists, and others close to the case, the series weaves together…
Episodes
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San Sabas Deadly Harvest
A historic Texan town is stunned when a popular caretaker is found dead and a beloved, wealthy resident goes missing. But with support from a concerned…
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Murder on Mirror Lake
The quiet Sarasota neighborhood of Mirror Lake wakes up to a nightmare when a neighbor is found strangled to death. Detectives believe it's the result of a…
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Boston's Little Girl Lost
When an infant's body washes up on the shores of Deer Island, Massachusetts, residents rally to find out who she is, and what happened to her. Their…
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Los Angeles: Silenced Partner
Two former California cops go into business in the City of Angels' sleazy adult entertainment industry. But their partnership ends in a murder and a plot twist…
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Lynchburg: The Heiress and Her Lover
The gruesome murders of prominent Lynchburg couple Derek and Nancy Haysom in their own home, leads investigators on a path fraught with international flight…
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Memphis: Buning Betrayal
Bitter divorce proceedings between Pilots Holly and Mike Mullins came to a sudden end when Holly’s dead body was found in a burned-out van. Progressive…
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Milwaukee: The Legend of Bambi Bembenek
In 1981, Christine Schultz was murdered in her own home with her two children watching. Despite the eye-witnesses insisting the perpetrator was a middle aged…
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Paducah: Cruel Summer
A Kentucky river town is shocked when the owner of a popular local restaurant is bludgeoned to death with an antique pancake syrup bottle and her husband is…
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Kansas City: The Final Curtain
The brutal murder of Stephen Harvey, one of Kansas City's most promising young jazz musicians, and the subsequent acquittal of his suspected killer, outrages…
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Houston: Cheers and Fears
The bizarre story of Wanda Holloway who attempted to hire an assassin to kill Verna Heath, so her daughter could climb the cheerleading ladder. Progressive…
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Ozark Deadly Medicine
In 1992 Ozark Arkansas loses one of it's most prominent citizens when Dr. Rebecca Johnson goes missing after a shady deal with a confidence man. Progressive…
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Horror in Amityville
In 1974, the entire DeFeo family was brutally murdered in their home as they slept. The only living DeFeo, Ronald Jr., was convicted of the crime that turned…
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Youngstown: Mob Hits and Misses
In 1996, vocally anti-mafia county prosecutor, Paul Gains, was shot in his home by an intruder. The botched hit led police to investigate Lenny Strollo, mob…
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Denver: Campaign for Cover Up
In 1984, the police received a 911 call from Sueann Ocrant saying her husband, Lawrence, had shot himself. Ruled a suicide the case was largely forgotten about…
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Huntsville: Twins on Trial
Dr. Jack Wilson is found dead in his Huntsville, Alabama home and the city is shocked to hear a Vietnam veteran's claim that either the deceased's wife or her…
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Presenting: The First 48 podcast from A&E and Crime House
Based on the hit true crime series on A&E, this weekly podcast drops you into the critical window after a murder, when witnesses disappear, evidence degrades…
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Deadly Games in Little Washington
Chris Pritchard, tried to live out his obsession with the fantasy role-play game Dungeons and Dragons when he stabbed his stepfather to death. See Privacy…
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San Antonio: Maximum Justice
In 1979, Judge Jon Wood was murdered by a single shot from a high-powered weapon. Jimmy Chagra, a well-known drug lord, was the one responsible for setting the…
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Hilo: Betrayal on the Big Island
In 1992, Yvonne Martin’s body was found on the side of the road while her husband Kenneth Mathison, a policeman, told a story of hitting her accidentally. The…
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Malibu: The Murder of Good Time Charlie
Charlie Minor, a high-powered record promoter, is found dead after Suzette McClure confronts him with another woman in his bed. Progressive: Multitask right…
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Green Bay: Terror in Titletown
In 1998, Sandy Maloney was found dead on her couch from an apparent accidental fire. The investigation would reveal that she died from strangulation and her…
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Detroit: A Coed's Secret Life
Graduate student Tina BIggar goes missing and when her loved ones look for her they find that her research into a sex work had crossed into participation and…
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Chattanooga: Dangerous Trespassing
In 1988 three hikers on a journey up Signal Mountain are found murdered and authorities suspect a man notorious for threatening trespassers with his shotgun…
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Paradise Valley: Showdown in the High Desert
Poacher Claude Dallas becomes infamous in Paradise Valley after killing two game wardens, evading authorities and escaping from prison. Progressive: Multitask…
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Greensboro: Clash with the Klan
88 Seconds of violence between the Communist Workers Party and the KKK in Greensboro NC, leaves five dead and a trail of corruption leading directly back to…
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Orlando: Faith and Felonies
Conservative televangelist George Crossley is caught in a murder-for-hire plot after his affair with a parishioner is exposed by her husband and his biggest…
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Tyler: Fallen Rose
In 1988, Bette Lucas took a fatal fall while she was walking up the stairs with her son, Steve. The police focused on Steven when they found out about Bette's…
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Santa Monica: A Woman Scorned
In 1997, an affair between officers Linda Brown and Kevin Cummings in the Santa Monica Police Department ended in gunfire. The resulting fallout lead to…
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Ruthton: Tragedy in the Heartland
In 1983, two bankers, Toby Thulin and Rudy Bluthe, were murdered on a secluded Minnesota farm. Their deaths, and the lives of their troubled killers, Jim and…
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Gatlinburg: Smoky Mountain Nightmare
In the summer of 1986, Troy Valentine and Melissa Hill, two locals, were found stabbed to death in the hotel they worked in. The investigation led police to…
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Greenwood: The Devil and The Delta Blues
Robert Johnson was the king of the blues, and in 1938 he returned to Greenwood for a last gig before heading to the big time in New York. But he was…
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Key West: Pirates in Paradise
Mel Fisher was Key West's resident hero since his discovery of a sunken treasure ship from 1622. However, in 1998, an investigation was sparked into Fisher's…
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Ingleside: Dirty Deals, Buried Secrets
In 1996, Mark Brueggen's body was found in a shallow grave. Brueggen's business partner Mark Crawford, the town's most prominent citizen and business man, was…
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Atlantic City: The Mayor and the Mob
In the early 80's Michael Matthews worked with a mob boss, Nicodemo Scarfo, to win the mayoral election which led to a ring of corruption that forever changed…
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Virginia City: Showdown at the Mustang Ranch
In the heart of Nevada's silver country lies America's most infamous ranch, a ranch without cows or cowboys that was closed by Uncle Sam in 1999. Progressive…
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Fairbanks: Mining For Murder
Alaskan political activist Joe Vogler mysteriously disappears after befriending a man and former convict who shared his distaste for government control…
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San Francisco: Betrayal By The Sea
During an evening in 1991, Artie Mitchell was shot with a high-powered rifle by his brother Jim. The Mitchells were the kings of the porn empire in San…
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Wilmington: Dangerous Affairs
In 1996, a prominent attorney, Tom Capano, is convicted of murdering Anne Marie Fahey, a governor’s aide with whom he was having an affair. The tawdry case…
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Scottsboro: Foul Play in the Bible Belt
In 1992 head preacher at the Church of Jesus with Signs Following, Glenn Summerford, was convicted of trying to murder his wife by forcing her hand into a cage…
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Newberry: Small Town Justice
The story of murder and narcotics that shook up a small South Carolina town when the son of a retired bishop murdered his wife, the daughter of a state…
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Soho: The Art Of Murder
In 1985, artist Ana Mendieta fell from a building while she and her husband fellow artist, Carl Andre, were fighting. Andre was arrested for the murder after…
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Gibsonton: The Last Side Show
Grady Stiles, a circus act named "Lobster Boy", was found dead from three gunshot wound to the head in 1992. The investigation would reveal a history of abuse…
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Bermuda: Death On The Rock
In 1996, Rebecca Middleton is found stabbed 16 times with her throat cut. The police find out that two young men, Kirk Mundy and Justis Smith, were the last to…
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Hermosa Beach: Missing in Paradise
In 1995, Charles Rathburn, a freelance photographer, invited Linda Sobek, an aspiring model, on a photo shoot. Sobek never returned and the camera was turned…
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Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun
Jeff and Kathy Willets ran a brothel out of their own home, which attracted some of the best of Ft.Lauderdale. One of her clients, Doug Danziger, was a local…
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Little Rock: The Politics of Murder
In 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers. The investigation led to may Lee…
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Dallas: Arsenic and Old Money
Nancy Lyon was rushed to the hospital in 1991 by her husband after she is experiencing symptoms of a severe stomach flu and dies that night. Her true cause of…
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Las Vegas: Deadly Jackpot
In 1989, Larry Volk was shot in the head by David Lemons, a man hired by Soni Beckham and John Sipes. Beckham and Sipes plotted to kill Volk because of his…
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Lopez Island: Foul Play on the Friendly Isle
In 1981, Rolf Nesland mysteriously disappeared. His wife Ruth said he went to Norway, but there weren't any records of his arrival which led police to Ruth and…
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Seattle: Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island
In 1990, George Walterfield Russell, a charming regular on the club scene, is revealed to be a psychopath after Mary Ann Pohlreich, Andrea Levine, and another…
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Salt Lake City: Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake City
Steven Christensen and Gary Sheets are sent mail bombs which kill Christensen and Sheets' wife in 1985. A third bomb wounds Mark Hoffman, who turns out to be a…
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New Orleans: Betrayal In The Big Easy
In 1994, Kim Groves was gunned down in front of her home. Notorious for its crime, New Orleans had just found another victim. But, in a city where murders are…
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Lexington, KY: A Parting Shot
The folks of Lexington, Kentucky love two things: horses and University of Kentucky sports. But in 1994, it wasn't March Madness or the Triple Crown that had…
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Milford, UT: Death and Taxes
Milford, Utah is a tough town where possession is nine-tenths of the law and a gun makes up the rest. That's why handyman Tony Hamilton didn't take too kindly…
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Duchesne, UT: Blown Away
Life in the town of Duchesne, about 100 miles from Salt Lake City, is as hard as sun-baked rock and weather-beaten leather. Everyone must struggle to survive…
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Panama City, FL: Autopsy of a Marriage
In 1991 scandal rocks Panama City Florida when Dr. Bill Sybers, a respected doctor and the city’s medical examiner, is accused of poisoning his wife. See…
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Honesdale, PA: Highway to Hell
The people of a quaint Pennsylvania town filled with summer homes and summer camps are horrified when the local homecoming queen is killed in a car accident…
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Boise, ID: Last Dance
In 1995, a billionaire art patron was implicated in a murder in Boise, ID. When townsfolk look closer, they discovered a twisted tale involving a Russian…
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Homicide in Little Haiti
In the 1990s, Spring Valley’s Haitian community is rocked when a well-respected civic leader is murdered. It takes police nearly two decades to sift through…