City Confidential

Season 1

TV-14
City Confidential features real life stories in a wide variety of American cities. While many of these stories deal with murder, some also deal with attempted murder, and public officials caught in compromising situations, among other things. The cities featured vary widely in size, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas.

20 Episodes

  • Deadly Odds in Biloxi
    E1
    Deadly Odds in BiloxiJudge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret are gunned down in their Biloxi home in 1987. The investigation leads police to a prison scam, an inmate named Kirksey Nix, and Sherry's best friend Pete Halat.
  • The Chicago Horse Mafia
    E2
    The Chicago Horse MafiaThe deaths of a string of champion racehorses may be linked to the death of candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach.
  • Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake City
    E3
    Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake CitySteven Christensen and Gary Sheets are sent mail bombs which kill Christensen and Sheets' wife in 1985. A third bomb wounds Mark Hoffman, who turns out to be a top document forger who owed Christensen and Sheets money for forged Mormon church documents and tried to get rid of his debts by killing them.
  • Midnight in Miami
    E4
    Midnight in MiamiStan and Joyce Cohen were living the high life in chic, trendy Coconut Grove--until multi-millionaire Stan was shot to death with his own gun as he slept in his mansion. Did Joyce, a beautiful socialite with expensive tastes, hire three hit men to murder her husband? Did Stan pay the ultimate price for her greed?
  • Secrets and Superstition in Salem
    E5
    Secrets and Superstition in SalemWhen a lobsterman discovers the ankle of a partially decomposed body in his trap, a local "witch" helps solve the crime.
  • Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island
    E6
    Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer IslandA woman's naked body is found outside a Seattle nightclub, posed demurely with a pinecone in her hand.
  • Nashville: Murder in Music City
    E7
    Nashville: Murder in Music CityNashville performer and "Hee Haw" star David "Stringbean" Akeman had a strange habit. The banjo picker and joke teller kept $3,000 in cash in his overall's bib pocket, and ten times that hidden at home--cash for a rainy day. For Akeman and his wife, that rainy day never came. Murdered in 1973, their killers never found either stash.
  • Las Vegas: Deadly Jackpot
    E8
    Las Vegas: Deadly JackpotIn 1989, Larry Volk was shot in the head by David Lemons, a man hired by Soni Beckham and John Sipes. Beckham and Sipes plotted to kill Volk because of his cooperation with the Gaming Control Board in which he agreed to confess that he "fixed" machines so they wouldn't pay jackpots.
  • Little Rock: The Politics of Murder
    E9
    Little Rock: The Politics of MurderIn 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers.
  • New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy"
    E10
    New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy"In 1994, Kim Groves was gunned down in her front yard after Len Davis, a police officer who did side-work in dealing cocaine, ordered her death because she knew too much.
  • Dallas: Arsenic and Old Money
    E11
    Dallas: Arsenic and Old MoneyNancy Lyon was rushed to the hospital in 1991 by her husband after she is experiencing symptoms of a severe stomach flu and dies that night. Her true cause of death, arsenic, is discovered, and an investigation reveals an unhappy marriage with one of the premier couples of the wealthy Dallas suburb of Park Cities.
  • Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun
    E12
    Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the SunJeff and Kathy Willets ran a brothel out of their own home, which attracted some of the best of Ft.Lauderdale. One of her clients, Doug Danziger, was a local man that crusaded for morality in Ft. Lauderdale. After the cops raided the Willets' business in 1991, they found out that one of her clients was Danziger which led to a media frenzy.
  • Hermosa Beach: Missing in Paradise
    E13
    Hermosa Beach: Missing in ParadiseIn 1995, Charles Rathburn, a freelance photographer, invited Linda Sobek, an aspiring model, on a photo shoot. Sobek never returned and the camera was turned on Rathburn after it was discovered that he was the one who killed her.
  • Bermuda: Death on the Rock
    E14
    Bermuda: Death on the RockChronicling the 1996 rape and murder in Bermuda of teenage tourist Rebecca Middleton, a crime for which her suspected killer was set free. Included: her family's efforts to appeal the case; how the incident has affected Bermuda's reputation for safety.
  • San Francisco: Betrayal by the Sea
    E15
    San Francisco: Betrayal by the SeaThe case of pornographic-film producer Jim Mitchell, who was convicted in 1991 for the shooting death of brother Artie, who was also his business partner. The documentary includes a look at Mitchell's high-powered defense.
  • Gibsonton: The Last Side Show
    E16
    Gibsonton: The Last Side ShowGrady Stiles, a circus act named "Lobster Boy",was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in 1992. The police found out that his ex-wife Mary Theresa Herzog, her son Glenn Newman, Jr., and his friend Chris Wyant all plotted to kill Stiles for his alcoholism and abusive ways.
  • Fairbanks: Mining for Murder
    E17
    Fairbanks: Mining for MurderA political activist mysteriously disappears after befriending a man and former convict who shared his distaste for government control. Could this man have been the killer, or could his outspoken nature have created another enemy?
  • Soho: The Art of Murder
    E18
    Soho: The Art of MurderIn 1985, artist Ana Mendieta fell from a building while she and her husband fellow artist, Carl Andre, were fighting. Andre was arrested for the murder after it is discovered she had a desperate fear of heights and a bellman heard her pleading for her life.
  • Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?
    E19
    Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?A look at the case of the murder of Martha Moxley and the case that resounds today.
  • Skidmore: Frontier Justice
    E20
    Skidmore: Frontier JusticeKen McElroy, who terrorized Skidmore, Missori, is finally killed by vigiante farmers who are fed up with his criminal ways.

 

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