A Crime to Remember

A look back at famous cases from the past.

Cast:Marc A. Hermann , Michelle McNamara , John Mirabella , James Zeiss , Joni E. Johnston , Kurt Grube , Steve Machita , Francis Reilly , Robert Nicolay , Tom Waclawik , Jonathan Katzoff , Damir Mrkulic , Vincent Yacovelli , Matthew Gochman , Steven Weiss , Emily Fleischer , Misha Calvert , Kevin Janusz

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Go Ask Alice

Tue, Nov 12, 2013

Queens, NY, 1965. Two children disappear in the night, taken from their bedroom. Hours later they turn up dead, strangled. The police have no clues but an instant dislike for the parents: Eddie (20's) and Alice Crimmins (26). They are separated and fighting over custody of the kids. She seems more concerned about her make-up and appearance than her dead kids; he seems to be obsessed with her many love affairs. Cops think one of them did it, but it will take twelve years to unravel the truth.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Career Girl Murders

Tue, Nov 19, 2013

New York, NY, 1963. When two young women - just out of college, starting their first jobs in The Big City - wind up dead in their Upper East Side apartment, raped, mutilated, the victims of a terrible, heinous attack, the City is thrown into chaos. If these girls aren't safe, who is? The NYPD is under such pressure to solve the high-profile case it makes a tragic mis-step in the investigation of the case the newspapers dub "The Career Girls Murders."

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Judge, Jury, Executioner

Tue, Nov 26, 2013

West Palm Beach, FL, 1955. Judge Curtis Chillingworth (58) and his wife (50's) say their goodbyes to friends at swank dinner party, step into their car and drive away. They are never seen again. When police start investigating they unravel a tale of corruption, moonshine and numbers-running that leaves Florida in shock.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Time Bomb

Tue, Dec 3, 2013

Denver, CO, November 1, 1955. United Airlines Flight 629, a DC-6B bound for Portland and Seattle, exploded in flames only 11 minutes after taking off from Denver. The subsequent crash in a farm field near Longmont, Colorado, killed everyone on board. It wasn't very long into the crash investigation when chemical residue, consistent with the explosion of dynamite, was found on debris from the rear baggage compartment. The crash investigation then turned into a criminal probe of the second act of sabotage of a commercial airline, in United States history.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ A New Kind of Monster

Tue, Dec 10, 2013

Michigan, 1967. A young co-ed from Eastern Michigan State University goes missing. Her body is found months later, rotting in a field. A year later, another co-ed, disappears and is found stabbed to death. A few months after that, a young law student is found shot and strangled in an Ypsilanti cemetery. The young women of Southeastern Michigan are terrified and the police commence a massive hunt for the monster they call The Co-Ed Killer.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Who Killed Mr. Woodward?

Tue, Dec 17, 2013

A 1955 shooting involving a pair of New York socialites is recalled.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ 38 Witnesses

Tue, Nov 11, 2014

Kew Gardens, Queens, 1964: Kitty Genovese is raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment building as her neighbors watch and do nothing, introducing America to the "bystander effect." But is this really the whole story...?

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Shot Doctor

Tue, Nov 18, 2014

Live Oak, FL, 1952: The revered Dr. Leroy Adams has been shot in his office. In a time of segregation and secrets, figuring out who is responsible may not be as easy as simply identifying the killer.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Candyland

Tue, Nov 25, 2014

Key Biscayne, FL, 1964: Candy Mossler (40s) finds her multi-millionaire husband, Jacques (69), stabbed to death in their apartment. Detectives are swept into a twisted tale of incest, secret homosexual liaisons, and money, money, money...

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The 28th Floor

Tue, Dec 2, 2014

A rain of bullets descends on students and faculty at the University of Texas. Policemen and civilians alike come together to save the wounded and put an end to the violence. But when the smoke clears, there remain more questions than answers: who could have done this evil, hideous thing, and why?

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Pied Piper

Tue, Dec 9, 2014

It is August 1965 when Gretchen and Wendy Fritz disappear after going to a drive-in, in Tucson, Arizona. Police discover that the killer may have actually been closer than they ever dreamed.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Accident on Banyan St.

Tue, Dec 16, 2014

San Bernardino, CA, 1964: When Lucille and Cork Miller's car crashes, Cork burns to death inside. Half the evidence suggests it was an accident, but could Lucille have wanted her husband out of the picture?

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Cabin in the Woods

Tue, Dec 23, 2014

Berkeley, CA, 1955: Little Stephanie Bryan has disappeared without a trace, and police will have to use every tool at their disposal, from newspaper reporters to bloodhounds, to solve the mystery of Stephanie's fate.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Baby Come Home

Tue, Dec 30, 2014

Kansas City, MO, 1953: Bobby Greenlease has been kidnapped. When the largest ransom payout in history fails to bring Bobby back, St. Louis's shadiest characters must track down the culprits.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Lock Up Your Daughters

Tue, Nov 10, 2015

Recalls the Lee Roy Martin Case. In 1968, he called a SC reporter and claimed credit for the murders of several young woman whose bodies had been dumped. He also threatened to kill again.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Last Night Stand

Tue, Nov 17, 2015

New York, NY, 1973: When a twenty-eight year old schoolteacher for deaf children is murdered in NYC, detectives immerse themselves in the swinging world of 1970s nightlife, where clubgoers and activists rub shoulders with wide-eyed career girls.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ And Then There Was One

Tue, Nov 24, 2015

Chicago, IL, 1966: The crime of the century begins when a man knocks on the door of a dormitory of nursing students and murders all...but one, who will live to help police attempt to bring him to justice.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Such a Pretty Face

Tue, Dec 1, 2015

New York, NY, 1937: Easter Sunday turns deadly when a pin-up model and two others are discovered brutally murdered. Religion, art, and madness come together in this twisted tale of love and obsession.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Comedy of Terrors

Tue, Dec 8, 2015

Macon, GA, 1960: When wealthy Mary Burge is found strangled in her bed, detectives encounter a world of hooded Klan members and blue blood Yankees where the truth truly is stranger than fiction.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Wrong Man

Tue, Dec 15, 2015

Bay Village, OH, 1954: When Marilyn Sheppard is found beaten to death in her bedroom, it will take more than thirty years to piece together the truth of what happened the night she died.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Damsel on Death Row

Tue, Dec 22, 2015

Los Angeles, CA, 1934: Eric Madison is found dead in a boarding house at the back of the Warner Brother's lot. But in an age where propriety is paramount, will the punishment fit the crime?

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Bye Bye Betty

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

Odessa, TX, 1961: Teenager Betty Williams isn't home. She's not at school. Police are sure she is a runaway, until they uncover a shocking high school rumor that will change this small town forever.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Teenage Wasteland

Tue, Dec 6, 2016

Lincoln, NE, 1958: When two love-struck, sex-crazed teenagers embark on a killing spree in Lincoln, Nebraska, it will fall to one local sheriff to put the brakes on this nightmare of a joy ride.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Luck Be a Lady

Tue, Dec 13, 2016

Kansas City, MO, 1960: When Patricia Jones' bullet-ridden body turns up by the side of lovers' lane, Detective Browning forges ahead on a catch me if you can trail from Missouri to Mexico, taunted by the sly smiles of his provocative arch nemesis.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Devil's Advocate

Tue, Dec 20, 2016

St. Paul, MN, 1963: Carol Thompson, church-going wife and devoted mother of four, is found in a bloody heap on her neighbor's doorstep. Now detectives must peel away the layers of her picture-perfect life to reveal the painful secrets the 1960s housewife.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Paradise Lost

Tue, Dec 27, 2016

In 1931, the young wife of a navy lieutenant is found beaten by the side of the road in Honolulu, leading to a retaliatory act that results in one of the most sensational murder trials in Hawaii's history.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Gentleman Killer

Tue, Jan 3, 2017

In Bronx, NY, 1941, tea for two ends in murder and investigators must count on many brave women coming forward to give testimony of their terrifying encounters in order to bring the killer to justice.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Guess Who?

Tue, Jan 10, 2017

Los Angeles, CA, 1922: When a husband is found dead and his wife discovered locked in a closet, detectives find themselves lost in a world of seduction and obsession where the ghosts are all too real.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Killer Prophet

Tue, Jan 24, 2017

Santa Cruz, CA, 1970: When an entire family is discovered shot and drowned in their own swimming pool, investigators must traipse through psychedelic hippie communes to solve this Mason-style murder.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ The Newlydeads

Tue, Jan 31, 2017

Los Angeles, CA, 1968: Cheryl Perveler is found in her yellow sports car bleeding out from a gunshot wound to the head. When investigators dig into Cheryl's life, the plot that they uncover will defy even the most outlandish expectations.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Once Upon a Crime

Sat, Feb 10, 2018

The real story behind Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood. It's Sunday morning and the Clutter family is expected at church. Susan Kidwell enters the back door, looking for her friend Nancy. The absolute horror she discovers instead will become one of the most infamous crimes scenes in American history. Soon the house is crawling with police, investigating the bodies of all four members of the Clutter family - each of them hog-tied and executed at point-blank range with a shotgun. The small town of Holcomb and the American public at large reel from the implications of the crime-that no small town, no family, no matter how respectable or how upstanding, is ever completely safe. As tireless detectives mount a nationwide search for the perpetrators, they face what might be the most chilling prospect imaginable-that there was no substantial motive in the murders, that the Clutters died needlessly, killed in cold blood.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ The Bad Old Days

Sat, Feb 17, 2018

Panic and terror grip Chicago after the brutal and ritualistic killings of two women and a ten year old girl. A message-scrawled on the wall of one of the crime scenes in red lipstick- fans the flames of the town's anxiety: "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more..." Amidst the public furor, both the police and the local newspapers are desperate to give the people what they demand: someone to blame. If that happens to be the actual murderer, wonderful. If not...so be it.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Hearts of Darkness

Sat, Feb 24, 2018

"Dear Sir..." begins an elegantly written, meticulously detailed ransom note. And with the note's arrival the fears of Jacob and Dora Franks are confirmed. Their beloved ten-year- old son, Bobby, has been kidnapped. Among the wealthiest families in Chicago, the Franks are able to enlist the help of the top investigative minds in the city. But the investigation takes a tragic turn when, to the Franks' horror, Bobby's body is found in a city park, stripped naked and burned with acid. The detectives struggle to find any leads, with their only piece of physical evidence being a pair of eyeglasses found near the body. Eventually, the investigation leads them towards a baffling pair of suspects-wealthy, well-educated, excitement-seeking college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb - the original Amerian thrill- killers.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Coffin for Christmas

Sat, Mar 3, 2018

In December 1968, real estate heiress Barbara Jane Mackle is kidnapped and buried alive in a purpose-built plywood box with a life-support system.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Beast With A Badge

Sat, Mar 17, 2018

On quiet back roads, just out of earshot from the noise and the glitter of 1950s Los Angeles, love-addled teenage couples park their cars at night to be alone. But these steamy lovers' lanes are suddenly transformed into nightmarish hunting grounds when a lone predator, posing as a cop, begins to terrorize the teenagers and assault the young women in the cars. The LAPD is only able to get a vague description of the suspect- an African-American male. A former LAPD officer named Todd Roark, recently fired from the force, is fingered as the suspect and the case appears to be closed when Roark is arrested. But Detective Danny Galindo-a Mexican-American cop in a nearly all-white department-isn't convinced. The assaults continue, and Galindo races to find the man responsible and clear Roark's name. To do so, he'll navigate the oddball world of Hollywood special effects and face the entrenched racism of his colleagues at the LAPD.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Black Sheep

Sat, Mar 24, 2018

On the sprawling Mark Family farm, a peaceful morning quiet is shattered by a woman's tortured scream. Dorothy Mark has walked into a nightmare: the family farmhouse is strewn with the bloody corpses of her son Lesley, his wife Jorjean and their two children. The victims have been horrifically executed, their assailant leaving few traces for the police to track. As the community reels from the devastating loss, detectives begin to suspect that only someone very close to the family-or within it-could have committed the murders. They delve into the fraught history between the four brothers and their parents, and discover a legacy of mental illness, greed and all-consuming jealousy.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ A Woman's Place

Sat, Mar 31, 2018

Pearl O'Loughlin notices something unusual during her morning routine-her step-daughter Leona has left for school without eating her breakfast. The day wears on and Pearl's worst fears are confirmed-Leona never made it to school at all, and is missing without a trace. Soon, Pearl's bad day spirals into deeper horror when her husband Leo, a Denver detective, is hospitalized. A poisoning plot is revealed and suspicions turn on Pearl herself. Investigators peer into the fraught dynamics of the O'Loughlin family as they attempt to understand who could have wished to do Leo harm, and what happened to his daughter. They face the chilling possibility that someone might be trying to eliminate the entire family - maybe even from within the walls of the O'Loughlin home.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Mother's Little Helper

Sat, Apr 7, 2018

Morning sunlight filters through shelves of tightly packed carburetors, air filters and brake kits as Dan Schindler enters the grungy storefront of Bradshaw Auto Parts on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. He's looking for a replacement part for a friend's truck - but instead finds something that will haunt him for the rest of his life: the twisted, blood-soaked body of the store's 76 year old owner, Franklin Bradshaw. The sprawling murder investigation that ensues takes detectives from Salt Lake City to rural Texas and the high society world of Manhattan. In so doing, they discover a vast, secret web of money and power lurking behind Franklin's modest, blue-collar appearance. To find his killer, they dig into the strained history of the Bradshaw family - and uncover a hotbed of deceit, manipulation and all-consuming greed.