A Crime to Remember

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 (20s) 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.

West Palm Beach, FL, 1955. Judge Curtis Chillingworth (58) and his wife (50s) 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.

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.

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...?

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...

Tucson, AZ, 1965: When Gretchen Fritz and her sister Wendy leave for a movie and never come home, police must infiltrate the tight-knit world of Speedway teens to discover the disturbing truth behind the girls’ disappearance.

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.

Gaffney, SC, 1968: When a local reporter receives a mysterious phone call from a murderer who threatens to kill again, Gaffney police must race against the clock to try to save the town’s teen girls.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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. Detectives must peel away the layers of her picture-perfect life to reveal the painful secrets of this housewife.

Bronx, NY, 1941: When tea for two becomes a murder of one, investigators from all across New York City must act upon the testimony of a few brave women to bring the killer to justice.

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 Manson-style murder.

The story behind author Truman Capotes classic non-fiction novel, "In Cold Blood," which details the Clutter family murders in 1959 and the nationwide manhunt that followed for the killers.

In what became known as "The Crime of The Century," a boy from one of Chicagos wealthiest families is kidnapped and found murdered. The ensuing investigation zeroes in on the wealthy, thrill-seeking college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.

A detective struggles to exonerate his black friend from rape allegations pinned on him by the LAPDs all-white brass; he must navigate entrenched racism, lead a stake-out and employ the magic of Hollywood to ensnare the real predator.

On one terrible morning, 10-year-old Leona OLoughlin doesnt show up for school while her detective father, Leo, falls violently ill. Investigators consider the chilling possibility that someone might be trying to eliminate the entire family.