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Show: Fatal Attraction
Relationships turn deadly About Fatal Attraction No one imagines that their relationship could go so wrong that it ends in murder. In Fatal Attraction, that’s exactly what happens. This true crime show focuses on murders related to relationship ills like cheating, jealousy, unrequited love, and love triangles, situations where one of the people involved turns…
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Documentary: Don’t Pick Up the Phone
The story of a calculated hoax and manipulation related to strip searches across the US Something strange was happening at fast food places. A strange sort of crime, one that its perpetrator deviously constructed. In small towns across the US between 1994 and 2004, at McDonald’s and Taco Bell and other fast food restaurants, a…
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Show: Fatal Affairs
Love triangles turn deadly About Fatal Affairs Someone in a couple is having an affair. Not unusual, but in these forbidden stories, three’s a crowd turns to murder. Fatal Affairs focuses on the three people in a love triangle as the main players in homicides. The mystery in its episodes is not just who the…
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Documentary: Anatomy of Lies
The story of Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch It started with a cancer diagnosis. A purported tragedy that was really a lie. Then came more lies, which multiplied and seemed to take on a life of their own, branching out like a gnarled and diseased tree that fed on whatever was around it. You may…
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Show: Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death
First-person stories from murder victims’ loved ones and others About Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death highlights the impact of a murder on the lives of three or four people involved in a case, including victims’ loved ones, detectives, and sometimes a family member or friend of the killer.…
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Show: Shadow of Doubt
Doubt clouds these murder cases About Shadow of Doubt Shadow of Doubt looks at homicide cases where there is some kind of doubt or question about a suspect, conviction, or other part of a murder investigation, such as cases involving false confessions, questions about the true shooter in a murder involving multiple perpetrators, and whether…
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Show: Murder Among Friends
Friends become frenemies, with deadly consequences About Murder Among Friends Sometimes friends aren’t friends at all and the last person to discover this sad fact is the victim of a murder. So is the premise of Murder Among Friends, which introduces viewers to a group of friends involved in the homicide of one of their…
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Show: Forensic Files
Forensic investigations take center stage in murder and other cases About Forensic Files A classic in the true crime genre, Forensic Files focuses on forensic investigations in crimes like homicide, sexual assault, bombings, and non-criminal deaths and medical mysteries. The show premiered in 1996, during a time when various forensic techniques emerged, particularly the explosion…
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