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Bill Kurtis hosts this documentary series that profiles criminal cases involving high profile murders, serial killers, and organized crime. Each episode culminating with the justice dispensed by the American legal system in each case.

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26 Episodes

  • Blueprint for a Murder
    E1
    Blueprint for a MurderExamining how the 1993 murders of a Maryland boy, his mother and nurse sparked a lawsuit against the publishers of "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors," an instruction book used by the killer. The lawsuit has also inspired intense debates about the First Amendment rights of the publisher.
  • Roy Fontaine: Deadly Butler
    E2
    Roy Fontaine: Deadly ButlerExamining the crimes of convicted murderer Roy Fontaine, and the trail of death he left behind in the late '70s as he posed as a sophisticated butler in households throughout Britain.
  • A Parent's Nightmare
    E3
    A Parent's NightmareExamining the 1988 disappearance and murder of 7-year-old Jaclyn Dowaliby. The case became a cause celebre when her parents, David and Cynthia, became suspects. David was convicted, but the verdict was overturned in 1991 and the case remains unsolved.
  • Dr. John Bodkin Adams
    E4
    Dr. John Bodkin AdamsThe case of John Bodkin Adams (1899-1983), a British physician suspected of killing patients after they wrote wills naming him as their beneficiary. Adams was tried for murder in 1957, but was acquitted for lack of evidence.
  • Death Row Radical: Mumia Abu-Jamal
    E5
    Death Row Radical: Mumia Abu-JamalThe case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a radio journalist and former member of the Black Panthers who was convicted in 1982 of the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.
  • Gainesville Murderer
    E6
    Gainesville MurdererChronicling the hunt for the killer of five college students at the University of Florida in Gainesville. After one suspect was cleared, the police captured Danny Rolling, who was convicted of the August 1990 murders in 1994.
  • Getting Away with Murder
    E7
    Getting Away with MurderAmerican Justice examines the 1988 murder of Brenda Sue Schaefer by her boyfriend Mel Ignatow in Louisville, KY. Ignatow was acquitted of her murder despite a damning testimony from a former girlfriend. He was later sentenced to prison for perjury in the case and admitted in court that he had in fact killed Schaefer. Despite this revelation he could not be retired for murder because it would have been Double Jeopardy.
  • Murder In A College Town
    E8
    Murder In A College TownA mother seeks to uncover the truth behind her son's strange disappearance and his involvement in criminal activities.
  • The Life and Death of Teena Brandon
    E9
    The Life and Death of Teena BrandonThe life of Teena Brandon, a drifter who lived as a man, is the basis for the movie "Boys Don't Cry."
  • Dancing, Drugs and Murder
    E10
    Dancing, Drugs and MurderThe case of Michael Alig, the infamous Manhattan party promoter who in 1997 was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Angel Melendez, one of Alig's “club kids.” The documentary recalls how Alig kept the body in his apartment for a week, then dismembered it and threw it into the Hudson River.
  • The Trial of Louise Woodward
    E11
    The Trial of Louise WoodwardThe 1997 trial of 19 year old British au pair Louise Woodward is the focus of American Justice. Woodward was accused of a form of child abuse known as "shaken baby syndrome" in the death of 8 month old Matthew Eappen in Boston. Initially convicted of second-degree murder, that verdict was later set aside in favor of involuntary manslaughter and she was released with time served.
  • Deadly Magnolia
    E12
    Deadly MagnoliaAfter serving time for several murder attempts, a woman is free on parole.
  • Oil, Money and Murder
    E13
    Oil, Money and MurderThe case of Cullen Davis, a wealthy Texan acquitted of two murders after an alleged 1976 shooting spree. He was later found innocent on a separate murder-for-hire charge. Included are comments from Davis, his former wife, Priscilla, and his defense attorney, Richard Haynes.
  • The Killer Within
    E14
    The Killer WithinThe case of Kathy Bonney, a Virginia woman murdered at the hands of her father, Tom Bonney. Bonney was found guilty in 1988, but his conviction was overturned in 1992 on appeal, pending a competency hearing.
  • Donald Hume
    E15
    Donald HumeThe case of Donald Hume, notorious British double murderer. After serving a sentence for being an accessory in a 1949 killing, Hume committed a murder in Switzerland that earned him a life sentence.
  • Kill Thy Neighbor
    E16
    Kill Thy NeighborRecalling the case of a Florida man convicted in 1991 of the poisoning death of a neighbor, with whom he'd been feuding. George Trepal, an amateur chemist, had injected the family's soft drinks with a lethal substance.
  • The Wife Who Knew Too Much
    E17
    The Wife Who Knew Too MuchRecalling the 1992 murder of Sara Tokars, a young mother whose husband, Fred, hired a hit man to kill her, allegedly to prevent her from testifying against him regarding a money-laundering scheme.
  • When a Child Kills
    E18
    When a Child Kills“When a Child Kills.” A report on Nathaniel Abraham, who at age 13 became the youngest American to be tried as an adult for first-degree murder, a crime he committed at age 11. Included: an interview with Abraham's mother.
  • Free to Murder Again
    E19
    Free to Murder AgainA look at convicted Texas killer Kenneth Allen McDuff, who was sentenced to death for murdering three people, later paroled, then sent back to death row and executed for killing again.
  • The California Killing Field
    E20
    The California Killing FieldThe prosecution of California serial killer Charles Ng is recalled. Ng avoided prosecution through legal loopholes for over a dozen years, but was later convicted of murdering 11 people.
  • DeFeo and Benson: Inheritance Killers
    E21
    DeFeo and Benson: Inheritance KillersTwo cases in which money was the motive for the murders of family members: the DeFeo case in Amityville, N.Y., and the Benson case in Florida.
  • Murder on a Reservation
    E22
    Murder on a ReservationThe case of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving two consecutive life sentences for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents on the Oglala Lakota Indian reservation in Pine Ridge, S.D.
  • Dangerous Medicine
    E23
    Dangerous MedicineThe case of Dr. Bruce Rowan, who killed his wife in 1998 but was found innocent by reason of insanity.
  • Dr. Buck Ruxton
    E24
    Dr. Buck RuxtonAn examination of a 1935 murder case in Scotland involving Dr. Buck Ruxton, who killed and dismembered his wife and maid and was executed for the crime.
  • A Family Secret: The Death of Lisa Steinberg
    E25
    A Family Secret: The Death of Lisa SteinbergA look at the 1987 case of Lisa Steinberg, a 6-year-old who died as a result of abuse from her adoptive father, Joel Steinberg, who is serving a prison sentence for the crime.
  • Why O.J. Simpson Lost (the Civil Trial)
    E26
    Why O.J. Simpson Lost (the Civil Trial)An account of how and why OJ Simpson lost the civil ligation.

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