Crime Stories

Crime Stories

About the show

This investigative series takes the viewers behind the scenes with those who record crime investigations up close - on film, on paper, and on tape. Along with police officers, the family and friends of the victims, defense lawyers and prosecutors share their recollections of the crimes and their consequences.  These first-hand accounts, coupled with dramatic re-enactments, news footage, clippings and photographs paint a comprehensive picture of the grim truth. 

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Upcoming episodes

Mar 12th
1000p

Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Killer

In the early 1990s, the tourist hotspot of new south wales, australia became a place of fear when backpackers started going missing. Over the course of a year, the bodies of seven missing backpackers were found in belanglo state forest, 150 km from sydney. After an intense police investigation, local construction worker ivan milat was found guilty of these crimes.
Mar 13th
1000p

The Btk Strangler

In 1974, a man identifying himself as the btk (bind, torture, kill) strangler started a killing spree in kansas spanning the next two decades. He managed to kill ten people while eluding an intense manhunt by police. After a 13-year lull, he reemerged in 2004 through a disturbing letter to the media, that ultimately lead to his capture a year later.
Mar 16th
1000p

The Teenage Terrors -

Six days into 2004, an unidentified man is found stabbed to death just outside of the booming oil city of calgary, alberta. Just when the police appear to have no leads, a witness comes forward after seeing an article about the murder. The victim is identified as evan chu,* a local dj and security guard who has a penchant for helping wayward youth. School rumors and wiretaps lead police to three guilty teenagers.
Mar 18th
1000p

The Menthol Murderer

A week-long search for a missing 10-yr-old indiana girl ends sadly with her body being discovered in a nearby stream. The ensuing investigation puts police through the wringer as they are misled by false confessions and stories of secret meth labs. Dna evidence eventually pins the crime on anthony stockelman and the community is finally able to achieve justice.
Mar 19th
1000p

The Woodchipper Wife-Killer

In november 1986, a snowstorm rips through connecticut, leaving wife and mother helle crafts missing. Her husband, airline pilot richard crafts, evades suspicion for weeks by claiming that helle had left the country to visit her sick mother. Groundbreaking forensic work and an eyewitness to a gruesome scene involving an industrial-sized woodchipper, results in a conviction that shocks a community.
Mar 20th
1000p

Edward Delen Warren the Wilderness Murders

Us coastguardsman ricky dale hemphill and companion charla toma set out for a picnic along a river near brookings, oregon in the fall of 1979. A day later ricky is found murdered and charla is missing. A tip from a local hunter leads police to edward delen warren, a former convict in the area trying to set up a religious retreat. What police uncover is a bizarre plot that will soon spiral out of control.
Mar 23rd
1000p

The Slave Master

Several women went missing from the kansas city area in the1980s and 1990s, three shortly after traveling to missouri to meet a man they had met online. Police came to believe one man was behind the disappearances. Their surveillance of conman john edward robinson led them to the gruesome discovery of the women's fate.
Mar 24th
1000p

The Happy Face Killer

A common-law couple was found guilty of the 1990 rape and murder of taunja bennett near portland, oregon. However, a letter signed with a happy face sent to a portland newspaper claimed responsibility for the murder of taunja and others. The happy face letter remained a mystery until keith jesperson was arrested on an unrelated murder charge. Investigators unraveled the truth, convicted jesperson of taunja’s murder, and freed the wrongfully convicted couple.
Mar 25th
1000p

The Missing Mom

Stephen grant reported his wife, tara lynn grant, missing five days after he said she left their house in an unidentified black car. In michigan, the macomb county sheriff’s office focused on the mystery sedan, but attention soon turned to stephen himself, and a search of the family’s home revealed tara lynn’s dismembered body parts. Police tracked grant to a state park in northern michigan and arrested him in time to save him from freezing to death.
Mar 26th
1000p

The Abducted Atheists

American atheist madalyn murray o'hair and her family vanished in august 1995, leaving behind an ominous note claiming a family emergency. When the irs started looking for some of the organization’s missing money, they instead found a former employee with the motive to commit murder. Fellow atheist david waters was convicted and the complex case was finally put to rest.