The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade

Season 1

TV-14
The 1980's. A time of greed, glamour, and murder. Real life crimes are vividly re-enacted.

6 Episodes

  • The Yuppie Murder
    E1
    The Yuppie MurderThe Stuarts, are robbed and shot in Boston. Carol and her unborn child are killed. Charles survives to describe their black assailant, inflaming racial tensions, until a surprise witness comes forward with a story that blows open the case.
  • The Preppy Murder
    E2
    The Preppy MurderJennifer Levin is found strangled to death in Central Park. A prep school heartthrob, Robert Chambers, is arrested for the crime. The press seizes on his provocative claim that Jennifer’s death happened accidentally during “rough sex."
  • The Cheerleader Murder
    E3
    The Cheerleader MurderIn a wealthy California suburb, 15-year-old cheerleader Kirsten Costas is stabbed to death. A teenage girl is seen fleeing the scene. As months pass without an arrest, the police are stumped. But some in the community… think they know the murderer.
  • The Heartland Massacre
    E4
    The Heartland MassacreIn the heart of America’s devastating Farm Crisis, the largest mass murder in recent Missouri history stuns a small town. An entire family is wiped out. The unlikely suspect is a 14-year-old boy… but the real extent of the horror is even more shock
  • The Black Monday Murder
    E5
    The Black Monday MurderStockbroker Joe Pikul and his wife Diane are living the New York high life. When she discovers Joe’s been leading a double life, a conflict ensues. And within days of the stock market crash of Black Monday, their marriage comes to a violent end.
  • The Real Fatal Attraction
    E6
    The Real Fatal AttractionSingle mother of three Linda Culbertson lands a dream job as a legal secretary in a Kansas City law firm. She falls hard for her married boss, Donald Pierce. Their twisted passions draw bystanders into a shocking and vicious crime?

Cast of Season 1

  • Patrick GallagherHimself - Narrator

 

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