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FBI Files
The FBI Files is an American docudrama that takes a look behind the scenes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's crime laboratory.
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Episodes
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Two Customs Inspectors, One Family, One Border Crossing: The 1984 Kidnapping of Richard Latham
On a Friday afternoon in January 1984, U.S. Customs Inspector Richard Latham looked under the back seat of a car at the Del Rio port of entry and found a bag…
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A British Major Stopped for Gas. Two Escaped Convicts Needed His Car.
A British Army major stops for gas in New Mexico and vanishes. His rental car is found submerged in an Indiana lake. The FBI has two escaped Alabama convicts…
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A Murder, a Wire, a Zurich Hotel Room: How the FBI Took Down the Chippendales Founder
In a hotel room in Zurich, a businessman asked an old associate whether the FBI had ever mentioned "the D," a code word for a murder. The associate was wearing…
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A Bomb in the Statue of Liberty. The FBI Had to Dismantle a Network.
In 1980, a bomb exploded inside the museum at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Five groups claimed responsibility. The FBI traced it to a Croatian…
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She Won $5,000 at Blackjack. A Maroon Beretta Was Waiting in the Driveway.
A 25-year-old mother wins $5,000 at a Mississippi casino and is abducted from a Memphis driveway hours later. The FBI finds a single wool fiber in a maroon…
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They Slept in a Culvert. The Manhunt Ended Where the Road Ran Out.
A nationwide manhunt for two killers ends in a concrete culvert near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September 1994. Lewis Gilbert and Eric Elliott had left a trail…
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He Lost His Hands, Escaped, and Fled.The Bomb-Maker Who Vanished to Cuba.
Four men having lunch at a historic Manhattan tavern in 1975 are killed by a bomb planted by the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group. The FBI identifies the…
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100 Officers, 3 Days, One Wyoming Rancher: How the Charles Moses Manhunt Ended
For three days in February 2000, more than 100 officers, airplanes, and military helicopters searched the frozen plains of western Nebraska. Schools closed. A…
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Real Cops, a Fake Raid, 3 Drownings: How the Miami River Cops Were Caught
In July 1985, three men drowned in the Miami River during what looked like a drug deal gone wrong. Then a night watchman said the men who stormed the boat yard…
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The Lawyer Who Taught Police About Money Laundering, Then Ordered His Wife's Murder
He taught police officers how to catch money launderers. A federal jury concluded he was laundering drug money himself, and that when his wife threatened to…
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They Slept in a Culvert. The Manhunt Ended Where the Road Ran Out.
A nationwide manhunt for two killers ends in a concrete culvert near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September 1994. Lewis Gilbert and Eric Elliott had left a trail…
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He Was Making a Night Deposit. Three Strangers Needed Him Dead.
In 1988, a 28-year-old record store manager was shot to death in his van outside an Ohio bank. The cash was still in the vehicle. Robbery was not the motive…
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The FBI Bugged a Doctor’s Office. It Recorded a Mob War.
In 1990s Philadelphia, two factions of the mob went to war over control of the city’s underworld. The FBI’s weapon was not a wiretap on a phone—it was a…
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He Joined the Search for a Missing Church Bookkeeper. He Had Killed Her.
A 65-year-old church bookkeeper vanishes from her Tennessee farm in 1992. Her husband is lured away by a fake property buyer. A ransom caller demands $100,000…
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No Body. No Weapon. No Crime Scene. One Computer File.
A Marine captain vanishes from Quantico in 1989. No body. No weapon. No crime scene. Then investigators find a computer file titled “murder” on her estranged…
FBI FilesHe Killed Three Coffee Shop Workers and Walked Out Without the Money
It was the Sunday night at the end of the July 4th weekend in 1997. After closing time, a gunman walked into a Starbucks coffee shop near Georgetown in…
FBI FilesWomen Called Him Charming. Four Were Found Dead in Six Weeks
On September 29th, 1995, firefighters in Van Nuys, California, found a burning pickup truck with the body of a mother of three inside. Six weeks later, after a…
FBI FilesHe Called Himself the Teen's Guardian. Then He Took Him Hunting.
On opening day of deer season in 1983, 18-year-old David Wilkey was shot to death in the woods of Bedford County, Virginia. Local authorities called it a…
FBI FilesThe Acupuncturist the FBI Hunted for 4 Years After the Brink's Murders
On October 20th, 1981, armed men ambushed a Brink's armored truck outside a New York mall, stealing $1.6 million and killing a guard. Within the hour, two…
FBI FilesHe Dared a Judge to Lock Him Up. Then He Vanished for 54 Days.
He dared a judge to give him the harshest sentence possible, promising he'd escape within months. On May 12th, 1992, Danny Ray Horning walked out of an Arizona…
FBI FilesHe Won a Police Medal in 1993. In 1994, He Had a Witness Killed.
In 1993, New Orleans police officer Len Davis was awarded the department's Medal of Merit. A year later, he was running a protection racket for drug dealers…
FBI FilesThe Judge Was Murdered Over Money He Never Stole
A circuit judge and his wife, shot dead in their own home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The reason: money the judge never stole. In 1987, Judge Vincent Sherry…
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8 Million Flyers. 4,000 Volunteers. One Girl Who Vanished Without a Trace
On the night of October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom during a sleepover while her mother slept in the next room. It…
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Out of Jail on August 15. Four People Dead by Labor Day.
In a quiet Ohio community, an elderly woman vanishes without a trace. Hours later, a teenage boy disappears. The police know the cases are linked—but they…
FBI FilesThe Robbery That Rewrote How America Decides the Death Penalty
A former security professional. A sniper rifle. A single shot outside an Arizona mall that killed an armored van driver and set off a manhunt ending in a…
FBI FilesThe Gas Station Mogul Who Rigged Pumps and Ordered Murders
He started out washing cars for a living. Within a decade, Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa controlled more than fifty gas stations across New York City — a business…
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He Wrote a 26-Step "Recipe for Murder" — Then His Wife Vanished
She was a Marine Corps captain, days from finalizing her divorce and already approved for promotion. He was a disgraced former officer with nothing left to…
FBI FilesThe Ex-Cop Who Planned a Murder Like a Sniper Operation
He had once worked in security himself, trained to understand exactly how armored car routes operated, and exactly when a driver would be most vulnerable. On…
FBI FilesThe Baker Everyone Trusted Was Hunting Women With an Airplane
Cindy Paulson’s Escape Exposes Robert Hansen in Anchorage She was seventeen years old, handcuffed, barefoot, and running for her life. She had been kidnapped…
FBI FilesHe Was One of Delaware's Most Powerful Lawyers. A Cooler That Wouldn't Sink Ended Everything
He was one of Delaware's most powerful lawyers, with ties to the governor's own office. When his secret relationship with the governor's young secretary turned…
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He Hunted Strangers With a Sniper Rifle to Start a Race War
Liberty Park Sniper: The Hunt for Joseph Paul Franklin | The FBI Files It was a warm summer evening in Salt Lake City. Ted Fields, 20, and David Martin, 18…
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Jack Unterweger Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the FBI
Jack Unterweger: Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the FBI | The FBI Files He was celebrated as a literary genius, a reformed man who had turned his life…
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CIA Headquarters Shooting Inside the International Manhunt for Mir Amal Kanzi
It was a crisp winter morning in Langley, Virginia. Cars were lined up at a stoplight, waiting to turn into the main entrance of CIA headquarters. Inside those…
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Glenn Rogers From Van Nuys Truck Fire to Room 119
A burned pickup truck in a Van Nuys hospital parking lot. A woman’s body inside, strangled before the flames ever touched her. A single earring. A lottery win…
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Joseph Paul Franklin Liberty Park Sniper Manhunt
He was a ghost. A drifter. A man with no fixed address and no fingerprints on file. He moved across the country like a shadow, robbing banks to fund his…
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John Gotti’s Biggest Mistake Gave the FBI Exactly What They Needed | Full Episode
He was the most powerful mob boss in America. The head of the Gambino crime family. A man who walked the streets of New York like a king, wearing $2,000 suits…
FBI FilesThe Cowboy Fantasy That Turned Into a Killing Spree
He wore cowboy boots and carried a hunting knife on his belt, calling himself by names lifted straight from western paperback novels. Behind the costume, FBI…
FBI FilesFive Minutes That Became the Bloodiest Day in FBI History
Eight FBI agents went out that morning expecting a routine arrest. Five minutes later, two were dead, five more were wounded, and one agent — already shot…
FBI FilesThe Shootout That Changed How Every FBI Agent Carries a Gun
Eight FBI agents. Two armed men. Less than five minutes. On a quiet residential street in Miami in April 1986, a routine vehicle stop turned into one of the…
FBI FilesHunting Darren D. ONeill_ Robin Smith Mount Rainier and a Survivor
A vanished bride-to-be. A red Torino. A drifter with a teardrop tattoo. This is the manhunt that gripped the Pacific Northwest—and the FBI agent who refused to…
FBI FilesHe Thought They Were Coming for Him — They Weren't
Two Boston police officers walked into an alley to check on a domestic dispute that had nothing to do with the man they encountered there. Ted Otsuki, a…
FBI FilesThe Bookstore Owner Who Robbed Banks in a Fake Beard
By day, he ran a used bookstore and impressed customers with his knowledge of the classics. By night, he put on a fake beard, picked up an assault rifle, and…
FBI FilesThe Bearded Bandit and His Bank Heists
A fake beard. A baseball cap. A police scanner in his hand. Between 1990 and 1991, one man walked into bank after bank across suburban Chicago, announced a…
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Crimes That Pushed The FBI To Their Limit
An elderly woman battling cancer, vanished without a trace. An 86-year-old man and his wife, killed in their own home. A security guard, shot without warning…
FBI FilesMiami River Cops: Inside the Largest Police Corruption Case The FBI Files
July 28, 1985. The Miami River. A marine salvager pulls three bodies from the murky water—men dressed in designer clothes, guns still tucked into their…
FBI FilesBrother Against Brother in the Thomas Capano Case
Thomas Capano had everything. Wealth. Power. A prestigious law career. A beautiful family. He was a former prosecutor, a political insider, a man who moved…
FBI FilesThe Most Violent Bank Robbery Of The Century The FBI Files
It was 3:40 p.m. on May 9, 1980, when five heavily armed men stormed into a Security Pacific Bank branch in Norco, California. But this was not a typical bank…
FBI FilesDangerous Takedown FULL EPISODE The FBI Files
A sledgehammer smashing through a front door in the dead of night. A Camden, New Jersey home invaded by two violent men. A shootout in a park that left a…
FBI FilesThe Rise and Fall of Harlems Deadliest Drug Gangs
Harlem has always been a battleground. But in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the war was not fought with politics or poetry—it was fought with heroin, crack, and…
FBI FilesHe Killed a Cop Over a Mistake — Then Ran for Almost a Year
Two Boston police officers were simply responding to a routine domestic disturbance call. They weren't looking for Ted Otsuki. But Otsuki, a parolee with a…
FBI FilesThe Photographer Who Became America's Most Wanted Killer
He was a successful businessman. A race car driver. A photographer who charmed young women with promises of modeling contracts. Nothing about Christopher…
FBI FilesThe Cartel Thought They Were Untouchable — Until One Mistake
It was 3 a.m. in St. Paul, Minnesota, when witnesses found the body of twenty-six-year-old Duon Walker burning in a dark alley. He had been shot three times in…
FBI FilesHe Killed Without Remorse — And Almost Got Away With It
A body burning in a dark alley. A suspected drug courier from California, hundreds of miles from home. And a killer so ruthless that his own partners in crime…
FBI FilesThe Celebrated Author Who Was Secretly a Serial Killer
He was celebrated as a literary genius, a reformed man who had turned his life around behind bars. He walked red carpets, gave interviews, and rubbed shoulders…
FBI FilesThe Hunt for Americas Most Violent Ideological Killers The FBI Files
They were not motivated by money. Not by jealousy. Not by passion. They were motivated by something far more dangerous: an idea. A belief so powerful, so…
FBI Files90s Gangs vs The FBI TRIPLE EPISODE The FBI Files
The 1990s. A decade of prosperity, of hope, of cultural revolution. But beneath the surface of the American Dream, a war was raging. Street gangs exploded…
FBI FilesDeadly Obsession FULL EPISODE The FBI Files
Love. Devotion. Passion. These are the emotions we celebrate, the feelings we chase, the bonds that give life meaning. But when love curdles into obsession…
FBI FilesCases That Were Cold... Until a Tip Came In The FBI Files
For years, they sat in filing cabinets. Forgotten. Abandoned. Written off as unsolvable. Detectives retired, families grieved, and the files gathered dust…
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The FBIs Most Dangerous Undercover Operations
The FBI has a saying: the most dangerous place in the world is inside the mind of a criminal. But for a select few, the most dangerous place is inside the mind…
FBI FilesFlorida Cases QUAD EPISODE The FBI Files
Florida. Where the sun shines, the secrets run deep. And the FBI has files on all of them. This is a quadruple episode of The FBI Files, diving into four of…