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For Tammy Brannen, Christmas was always a special time until her daughter was gone without warning in 1989.
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A Puerto Rican separatist group known as the FALN was suspected of setting off bombs in major U.S. cities.
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In 1985, a Lebanese terrorist and his four accomplices hijacked Royal Jordanian Flight 405 before taking off.
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In 1990s Philadelphia, a ruthless grab for power led to a full-scale mob war. Using informants and high-tech surveillance, the FBI infiltrated the most powerful mob family in the city and sought to bring down the organization.
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The FBI investigated the Dixie Mafia after the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of a circuit court judge.
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After an Arkansas state trooper is shot and killed, officers catch the murderer and alert the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when they find weapons and explosives in the man's vehicle.
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On July 4, 1987, seven inmates broke out of a high-security prison in New Mexico. The daring escape was orchestrated by convicted murderer William Wayne Gilbert, who was serving a life sentence.
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In 1992, a young mother was gunned down in front of her children and police were left baffled. The crime seemed unmotivated and random. But family members hinted that the victim, who had been married to a prominent attorney, harbored a dark secret.
The FBI Files
The FBI investigated the Dixie Mafia after the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of a circuit court judge.
The FBI Files
A bank vault was blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables was missing. Agents were able to track down one of the robbers' friends and attempted to use him as bait to reel in the crooks.
The FBI Files
The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. In one of the first cases of successful criminal investigative analysis, FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind and captured the serial killer.
The FBI Files
After a parole officer was found shot dead in his car, the FBI, DEA and NYPD struggled to contain the mounting violence from drug gangs that continued to escalate. Authorities sought to put two ruthless drug kingpins behind bars for the crime.
The FBI Files
In 1990, the body of a suspected drug courier was discovered burning in a Minnesota alleyway. The FBI teamed up with local police to uncover a dangerous crime ring run by a drug lord who used violence and intimidation to keep those around him quiet.
The FBI Files
Angered by the government's policy in the Middle East, Mir Qazi brutally gunned down two members of the CIA as they waited in their cars at a stoplight. The killer fled the country and was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
The FBI Files
A Puerto Rican separatist group known as the FALN was suspected of setting off bombs in major U.S. cities.
The FBI Files
In 1990, a California man's body was found dismembered. Six months later, the murder suspect was caught.
The FBI Files
On July 4, 1987, seven inmates broke out of a high-security prison in New Mexico. The daring escape was orchestrated by convicted murderer William Wayne Gilbert, who was serving a life sentence.
The FBI Files
In 1976, a car bombing in Washington DC's Embassy Row claimed the lives of a former Chilean ambassador.
The FBI Files
Powerful street gangs in Washington D.C. enforced their power with deadly violence. The gang leader had fled to Africa, a hunt that ended in the 1994 Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Headquarters shootout.
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When a wealthy young woman was abducted in front of her in-laws' home, the police had no shortage of suspects. The victim left behind a tumultuous marriage, an ex-husband and several spurned lovers.
The FBI Files
This special episode examines previous cases to learn about the investigative techniques used by the FBI.
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On a cold afternoon in 1989, Marine Captain Shirley Russell failed to report for duty at the base in Quantico, Virginia. FBI agents noticed her husband, a former Marine, was acting strangely. There was no body, no witness and no weapon.
The FBI Files
Angered by the government's policy in the Middle East, Mir Qazi brutally gunned down two members of the CIA as they waited in their cars at a stoplight. The killer fled the country and was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
The FBI Files
In June 1973, a young girl was abducted from a state park while camping with her family. A criminal profiler predicted that the kidnapper would contact the girl's family on the one-year anniversary of her abduction.
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In the late 1980s, the FBI matched wits with a cunning bank robber known as the Shootist. He had performed more than 50 robberies with military precision and was responsible for the longest string of unsolved bank robberies in FBI history.
The FBI Files
A mother discovered her young son was missing from school. Within hours, the boy's entire family was frantically searching for him. But when the few leads quickly turned cold, the FBI was called in to assist in the investigation.
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In Boston, FBI agents tracked down a gang of robbers who specialized in armored car takedowns. As the robberies grew increasingly more violent, authorities launched a complex sting to trap the deadly ring of thieves.
The FBI Files
Violence shattered a quiet Texas neighborhood in 1988 when a mother and child are kidnapped and murdered along with a bystander. In their search for drug trafficker and killer Genaro Ruiz Camacho, the FBI exposed a drug cartel that flourished.
The FBI Files
Posing as a fashion photographer, serial killer Christopher Wilder (aka "The Beauty Queen Killer") lured young women from shopping malls with promises of fame and fortune. Most ended up dead.
The FBI Files
A young woman went missing from her home on a bright spring morning. After several days of searching, agents suspected a paroled criminal who frequented her health club may have abducted her.
The FBI Files
In July 1997, three people were shot to death at a Georgetown coffee shop. Investigators could find no immediate suspect or no clear motive for the murders. Was this a hate crime, a robbery gone wrong or an act of cold-blooded vengeance?
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Chicago police and the FBI began to suspect that a law enforcement officer was responsible for the crimes.
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The FBI began an undercover operation to expose the Chicago Mafia's infiltration into the city's surrounding suburbs. The investigation resulted in the arrests of former police chief Michael J. Corbitt and Alan Masters for murder and racketeering.
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The FBI discovered that the criminals had a hidden agenda beyond their personal wealth.
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In 1992, a Washington, DC professor was shot and killed as she tried to get into her car, the latest incident in a series of violent carjackings. One week later, a man robbed a bank and security cameras captured the same vehicle as the getaway car.
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A loner and distrustful of authority, Claude Dallas lived off the land, poaching wildlife and selling the hides. When two game wardens confronted Dallas about his deeds, they were shot and killed.
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In 1987, Cuban prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Prison broke out homemade weapons and stole from prison staff.
The FBI Files
FBI investigations of alleged corruption in the early 1990s grew to include the 1994 murder of Kim Groves.
The FBI Files
After a career criminal committed a vehicular homicide in New Orleans, the FBI tracked him through his habits.
The FBI Files
In 1995, a South Carolina family was taken hostage as part of a bank robbery. Local police quickly identified two of the perpetrators but the criminal mastermind behind it all proved to be more elusive.
The FBI Files
Chicago police and the FBI began to suspect that a law enforcement officer was responsible for the crimes.
The FBI Files
In the late 1980s, an illegal drug operation known as the K Street Crew opened its doors in Washington, DC.
The FBI Files
A young woman went missing from her home on a bright spring morning. After several days of searching, agents suspected a paroled criminal who frequented her health club may have abducted her.
The FBI Files
In the 1970s, a Croatian terrorist group committed acts against non-supportive Croatians in the United States.
The FBI Files
In February 1988, a record store clerk in Ohio was fatally shot in his van. After discovering thousands of dollars in the vehicle, police knew that robbery was not the motive.
The FBI Files
Chicago police and the FBI began to suspect that a law enforcement officer was responsible for the crimes.
The FBI Files
On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage and took six people's lives.
The FBI Files
When authorities in a small Washington town began investigating the disappearance of a young woman, they had no idea it would turn into a nationwide hunt for a sadistic sexual predator. The FBI was called in to help track down Darren Dee O'Neall.
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In 1990, a 14-year-old girl ran away from her Texas home and disappeared; six months later, her body was found hundreds of miles away in an Illinois barn. Agents tracked down a trucker who they believed was responsible for over 50 murders.
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In 1984, a couple swept through six states like a plague. They targeted adults and young girls for kidnap and murder. The gruesome crime spree left eight people dead, so the FBI launched a manhunt for killers Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown.
The FBI Files
In the early 1990s, a gang based in the U.S. Virgin Islands smuggled large amounts of cocaine into mainland America. Police and federal agents targeted the violent group, but its leader remained a mystery.
The FBI Files
In October 1987, a Boston police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call was fatally wounded.
The FBI Files
In the 1980s, the FBI investigated wide-scale corruption among the detectives of the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department. Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and murder-for-hire were among the department's known illicit activities.
The FBI Files
The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. In one of the first cases of successful criminal investigative analysis, FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind and captured the serial killer.
The FBI Files
When a wealthy young woman was abducted in front of her in-laws' home, the police had no shortage of suspects. The victim left behind a tumultuous marriage, an ex-husband and several spurned lovers.
The FBI Files
No suspect had emerged after the rapes and murders of ten women near Tampa, Florida in 1984. The killer was a ruthless and terrifying predator, the newest member of an infamous group known as "serial killers."
The FBI Files
In 1980, a maid discovered that a copy machine, placed in a busy Las Vegas casino, was actually a bomb.
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A sniper murdered two Black men as they jogged with two white women. The FBI placed their suspect on their Ten Most Wanted list and began an intense manhunt. What followed was the arrest, trial and conviction of a white supremacist serial killer.
The FBI Files
The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. In one of the first cases of successful criminal investigative analysis, FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind and captured the serial killer.
The FBI Files
A young mother and her two daughters were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Anchorage.
The FBI Files
A bank vault was blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables was missing. Agents were able to track down one of the robbers' friends and attempted to use him as bait to reel in the crooks.
The FBI Files
A bank vault was blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables was missing. Agents were able to track down one of the robbers' friends and attempted to use him as bait to reel in the crooks.
The FBI Files
In 1982, a California highway patrol officer pulled a young woman over for speeding. He bullied her into sex and then killed her. He then used a decade of police experience to try to cover up his crime and convince investigators of his innocence.
The FBI Files
In December 1994, Joann Katrinak and her 4-month-old son mysteriously disappeared from their home. A new DNA technique ended the mystery, in one of the first cases of DNA being successfully used in a criminal investigation in the United States.
The FBI Files
In 1984, a couple swept through six states like a plague. They targeted adults and young girls for kidnap and murder. The gruesome crime spree left eight people dead, so the FBI launched a manhunt for killers Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown.
The FBI Files
In 1994, a rash of home invasions plagued the Detroit area. Each time, masked men disguised as police officers broke in with assault rifles and stole money and jewelry. But when one homeowner shot back, the identity of the intruders was revealed.
The FBI Files
By December 1985, John Gotti had assumed his place as the new don of the Gambino crime family in New York.
The FBI Files
In the early 1990s, a gang based in the U.S. Virgin Islands smuggled large amounts of cocaine into mainland America. Police and federal agents targeted the violent group, but its leader remained a mystery.
The FBI Files
In the upscale town of Lodi, California, a 12-year-old girl was taken from her home. When the kidnapper's car was discovered in a field near the town, the FBI and local police teamed up with hundreds of volunteers in their search for the girl.
The FBI Files
When a wealthy young woman was abducted in front of her in-laws' home, the police had no shortage of suspects. The victim left behind a tumultuous marriage, an ex-husband and several spurned lovers.
The FBI Files
A Puerto Rican separatist group known as the FALN was suspected of setting off bombs in major U.S. cities.
The FBI Files
In the early 1990s, a gang based in the U.S. Virgin Islands smuggled large amounts of cocaine into mainland America. Police and federal agents targeted the violent group, but its leader remained a mystery.
The FBI Files
In 1990, a California man's body was found dismembered. Six months later, the murder suspect was caught.
The FBI Files
In 1964, civil rights workers who set out to educate Southern Black people about the right to vote disappeared in Mississippi. After they were found lynched, the FBI gained the trust of an informant who led to the conviction of local KKK members.
The FBI Files
A series of shootings terrorized the small town in Georgia, leaving two people dead and two others wounded.
The FBI Files
A cross-country crime spree over a Labor Day weekend terrorized the nation. In a small Ohio community, an elderly woman and teenage boy disappeared within hours of one another. The police suspected the cases were linked.
The FBI Files
Violence shattered a quiet Texas neighborhood in 1988 when a mother and child are kidnapped and murdered along with a bystander. In their search for drug trafficker and killer Genaro Ruiz Camacho, the FBI exposed a drug cartel that flourished.
The FBI Files
In 1984, a couple swept through six states like a plague. They targeted adults and young girls for kidnap and murder. The gruesome crime spree left eight people dead, so the FBI launched a manhunt for killers Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown.
The FBI Files
After a parole officer was found shot dead in his car, the FBI, DEA and NYPD struggled to contain the mounting violence from drug gangs that continued to escalate. Authorities sought to put two ruthless drug kingpins behind bars for the crime.
The FBI Files
In the summer of 1998, a wealthy woman disappeared from her home in Jackson, Mississippi. The only clue was a mysterious ransom note listing twelve names but no specific instructions. The FBI struggled to find answers in the cryptic message.
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A series of brutal bank robberies and murders led to an exhaustive eight-month investigation by the FBI.
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The Los Macheteros terrorist organization sought to end U.S. rule of Puerto Rico through violence. When the group claimed responsibility for an attack on 18 unarmed servicemen traveling near San Juan, the FBI is called in to investigate the killers.
The FBI Files
In 1982, a California highway patrol officer pulled a young woman over for speeding. He bullied her into sex and then killed her. He then used a decade of police experience to try to cover up his crime and convince investigators of his innocence.
The FBI Files
Drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods for years in the early 1990s. After a 10-year-old boy became a crossfire victim, NYPD detectives and the FBI designed an elite task forced called C-11 to dismantle the gang.
The FBI Files
In 1990, a California man's body was found dismembered. Six months later, the murder suspect was caught.
The FBI Files
After two brothers abduct and murder bank president Dan Short, FBI agents slowly piece together tiny shreds of evidence. Eventually, they're able to convict the Agofsky brothers for the 1989 Noel, Missouri bank robbery.
The FBI Files
In 1990s Philadelphia, a ruthless grab for power led to a full-scale mob war. Using informants and high-tech surveillance, the FBI infiltrated the most powerful mob family in the city and sought to bring down the organization.
The FBI Files
Amid the cocaine wars of 1980s Miami, a multi-agency tactical squad suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts. The squad uncovered a ring of police who were making millions by ripping off smuggled cocaine.
The FBI Files
In 1984, a couple swept through six states like a plague. They targeted adults and young girls for kidnap and murder. The gruesome crime spree left eight people dead, so the FBI launched a manhunt for killers Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown.
The FBI Files
In 1996, a series of bank robberies in Texas baffled authorities. But when similar thefts occurred the next year in California, FBI agents linked the crimes and established a modus operandi.
The FBI Files
In rural Texas, a millionaire's teenage daughter was kidnapped on her way to school. Local authorities and the FBI conducted a massive search for the girl while her father attempted to deliver the ransom cash to a drop the kidnappers kept changing.
The FBI Files
Masked bandits pulled off a daring bank robbery in the middle of the day. Without any evidence, FBI agents had to force their own luck in the four-year manhunt for the so-called "Hollywood" bank robber in Seattle, Washington.
The FBI Files
A teenage immigrant came to the United States to realize her dream of being a doctor but she found herself an innocent victim of drug trafficking. Agents discovered a trail of drugs, hit men and murder as they attempted to solve her kidnapping.
The FBI Files
Amid the cocaine wars of 1980s Miami, a multi-agency tactical squad suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts. The squad uncovered a ring of police who were making millions by ripping off smuggled cocaine.
The FBI Files
In Arizona, a shipment of money vanished without a trace, along with the two men hired to guard it. Agents didn't know if the guards were willing participants or victims of an ambush. Suspicions grew that the crime was an inside job.
The FBI Files
A cross-country crime spree over a Labor Day weekend terrorized the nation. In a small Ohio community, an elderly woman and teenage boy disappeared within hours of one another. The police suspected the cases were linked.
The FBI Files
A pair of convicted felons escaped the custody of a local deputy and fled across the country in a wave of abductions and car thefts. When a foreign military officer disappeared along the trail, the FBI believed the pair were growing more violent.
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A special task force was formed in the early 1990s to combat the flow of Colombia cocaine into New York. As part of an elaborate sting operation, one detective went undercover and infiltrated a drug gang connected to Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.
The FBI Files
On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage and took six people's lives.
The FBI Files
In 1984, the son of a successful real estate developer was kidnapped in Miami. After the father received a $3 million ransom demand from a self-proclaimed terrorist, the FBI became involved and agents began to suspect a pair of Colombian nationals.
The FBI Files
In the late 1980s, the FBI matched wits with a cunning bank robber known as the Shootist. He had performed more than 50 robberies with military precision and was responsible for the longest string of unsolved bank robberies in FBI history.
The FBI Files
In July 1996, two men entered a pawnshop in Birmingham, Alabama and callously murdered the employees.
The FBI Files
When notorious bank robber Byron Chubbuck escaped from New Mexico State Penitentiary in 2000, he almost immediately began stealing again. The FBI teamed up with U.S. Marshals to capture a resourceful criminal who proved he would never stop fighting.
The FBI Files
Posing as a fashion photographer, serial killer Christopher Wilder (aka "The Beauty Queen Killer") lured young women from shopping malls with promises of fame and fortune. Most ended up dead.
The FBI Files
In 1997, two men used a sledgehammer to break into a Camden, New Jersey home. Police tracked the suspects to a nearby park but the criminals were able to escape after a nearly fatal shootout.
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An escapee from Castro's Cuba was the mastermind behind a secret terrorist organization called Omega 7.
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New Jersey millionaire Frank Black flew to West Palm Beach, Florida to close a major business deal but never returned home. When the FBI was called in, agents learned of a mystery woman whom Black met while on his trip.
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In 1997, Jamie McMahan and Christopher Kauffman went on a crime spree of robbery, kidnapping and murder.
The FBI Files
In October 1987, a Boston police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call was fatally wounded.
The FBI Files
In July 1997, three people were shot to death at a Georgetown coffee shop. Investigators could find no immediate suspect or no clear motive for the murders. Was this a hate crime, a robbery gone wrong or an act of cold-blooded vengeance?
The FBI Files
In 2000, the FBI was overwhelmed with investigations in Seattle which had the third-highest number of bank robberies in the nation. Agents focused on a series of heists in which two heavily armed men seemed to know where the banks stored their money.
The FBI Files
In 1996, a series of bank robberies in Texas baffled authorities. But when similar thefts occurred the next year in California, FBI agents linked the crimes and established a modus operandi.
The FBI Files
In New York, an armored car robbery left one guard dead and another critically wounded. The FBI suspected domestic terrorists with a history of violent crime. Their investigation led them to the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground.
The FBI Files
By December 1985, John Gotti had assumed his place as the new don of the Gambino crime family in New York.
The FBI Files
In December 1994, Joann Katrinak and her 4-month-old son mysteriously disappeared from their home. A new DNA technique ended the mystery, in one of the first cases of DNA being successfully used in a criminal investigation in the United States.
The FBI Files
In New York, an armored car robbery left one guard dead and another critically wounded. The FBI suspected domestic terrorists with a history of violent crime. Their investigation led them to the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground.
The FBI Files
After two brothers abduct and murder bank president Dan Short, FBI agents slowly piece together tiny shreds of evidence. Eventually, they're able to convict the Agofsky brothers for the 1989 Noel, Missouri bank robbery.
The FBI Files
In rural Texas, a millionaire's teenage daughter was kidnapped on her way to school. Local authorities and the FBI conducted a massive search for the girl while her father attempted to deliver the ransom cash to a drop the kidnappers kept changing.
The FBI Files
In October 1987, a Boston police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call was fatally wounded.
The FBI Files
In 1985, a Lebanese terrorist and his four accomplices hijacked Royal Jordanian Flight 405 before taking off.
The FBI Files
In October 1993, a robber surprised unsuspecting customers by dropping through the roof of a California bank.
The FBI Files
The body of an unidentified young woman turned up on a highway in a small Pennsylvania town. Agents persisted, eventually identifying the body and finding the killer.
The FBI Files
Chicago police and the FBI began to suspect that a law enforcement officer was responsible for the crimes.
The FBI Files
In the 1980s, Florida's cocaine imports were among the highest in the nation and regional territories were enforced with intimidation and murder. One dealer would stop at nothing to keep FBI agents from building a case against him.
The FBI Files
After a young woman went missing, police suspected that her well-connected, married ex-lover was responsible.
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On October 1, 1993, a stranger abducted 12-year-old Polly Klaas during a slumber party in her home. FBI agents collected fibers from her bedroom and discovered, through the use of laser light sources, a palm print on Polly's bed.
The FBI Files
In the upscale town of Lodi, California, a 12-year-old girl was taken from her home. When the kidnapper's car was discovered in a field near the town, the FBI and local police teamed up with hundreds of volunteers in their search for the girl.
The FBI Files
A class field trip ended with an 11-year-old girl missing. When the parents failed to locate their daughter in their quiet Illinois town, the FBI joined the investigation, working with friends and family in an urgent search to find the missing girl.
The FBI Files
A class field trip ended with an 11-year-old girl missing. When the parents failed to locate their daughter in their quiet Illinois town, the FBI joined the investigation, working with friends and family in an urgent search to find the missing girl.
The FBI Files
In Arizona, a shipment of money vanished without a trace, along with the two men hired to guard it. Agents didn't know if the guards were willing participants or victims of an ambush. Suspicions grew that the crime was an inside job.
The FBI Files
No suspect had emerged after the rapes and murders of ten women near Tampa, Florida in 1984. The killer was a ruthless and terrifying predator, the newest member of an infamous group known as "serial killers."
The FBI Files
A young mother and her two daughters were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Anchorage.
The FBI Files
In January 1984, a U.S. Customs officer disappeared from his post near the Del Rio, Texas border crossing, prompting local police to search for four Latin American suspects. The following day, the official was found dead.
The FBI Files
On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage and took six people's lives.
The FBI Files
On October 1, 1993, a stranger abducted 12-year-old Polly Klaas during a slumber party in her home. FBI agents collected fibers from her bedroom and discovered, through the use of laser light sources, a palm print on Polly's bed.
The FBI Files
In rural Texas, a millionaire's teenage daughter was kidnapped on her way to school. Local authorities and the FBI conducted a massive search for the girl while her father attempted to deliver the ransom cash to a drop the kidnappers kept changing.
The FBI Files
In 1996, a group of political extremists robbed a bank in Washington using homemade bombs and military precision to escape. The FBI learned that the robbers might be preparing for a small-scale war with law enforcement.
The FBI Files
A Milwaukee teen was kidnapped by four gunmen who demanded $30,000 from his family for his safe return.
The FBI Files
The decapitation of an African-American male led the Miami-Dade police and the FBI along a trail of murder.
The FBI Files
In 1996, a group of political extremists robbed a bank in Washington using homemade bombs and military precision to escape. The FBI learned that the robbers might be preparing for a small-scale war with law enforcement.
The FBI Files
In the 1970s, a Croatian terrorist group committed acts against non-supportive Croatians in the United States.
The FBI Files
For two couples on vacation, an island paradise turned to hell when one couple murders the other. Eleven years after the murder, a drifter sailing the high seas to escape a drug charge was convicted of the crime.
The FBI Files
The FBI investigated the Dixie Mafia after the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of a circuit court judge.
The FBI Files
In December 1981, a New Jersey state trooper was shot to death on the side of Interstate 80. Fingerprints on the suspect's vehicle pointed to a fugitive wanted on bank robbery charges.
The FBI Files
The bodies of several women began turning up around Vienna, Austria. The FBI and Austrian Federal Police investigated suspected serial killer Jack Unterweger, who became an international outlaw, hopping from country to country to evade capture.
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FBI investigations of alleged corruption in the early 1990s grew to include the 1994 murder of Kim Groves.
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Vince Gigante, the reputed boss of the Genovese crime family, wandered the streets of New York wearing only pajamas and a bathrobe, but the FBI was convinced he was anything but crazy.
The FBI Files
On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage and took six people's lives.
The FBI Files
This special episode examines previous cases to learn about the investigative techniques used by the FBI.
The FBI Files
In 1995, a South Carolina family was taken hostage as part of a bank robbery. Local police quickly identified two of the perpetrators but the criminal mastermind behind it all proved to be more elusive.
The FBI Files
The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. In one of the first cases of successful criminal investigative analysis, FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind and captured the serial killer.
The FBI Files
After a career criminal committed a vehicular homicide in New Orleans, the FBI tracked him through his habits.
The FBI Files
In 1994, a van driver was murdered and the vehicle and its cargo of nearly a million dollars went missing.
The FBI Files
In the early 1980s, a pair of serial bank robbers took hostages and emptied bank vaults across the Midwest.
The FBI Files
In February 1988, a record store clerk in Ohio was fatally shot in his van. After discovering thousands of dollars in the vehicle, police knew that robbery was not the motive.
The FBI Files
In 2000, the FBI was overwhelmed with investigations in Seattle which had the third-highest number of bank robberies in the nation. Agents focused on a series of heists in which two heavily armed men seemed to know where the banks stored their money.
The FBI Files
A Milwaukee teen was kidnapped by four gunmen who demanded $30,000 from his family for his safe return.
The FBI Files
A drug dealer engaged in a shootout with Nebraska state troopers and evaded capture after a high-speed chase.
The FBI Files
In 1985, South Carolina serial killer Larry Gene Bell was a predator, abducting girls and young women.
The FBI Files
In 1976, a car bombing in Washington DC's Embassy Row claimed the lives of a former Chilean ambassador.
The FBI Files
Drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods for years in the early 1990s. After a 10-year-old boy became a crossfire victim, NYPD detectives and the FBI designed an elite task forced called C-11 to dismantle the gang.
The FBI Files
In 1995, a South Carolina family was taken hostage as part of a bank robbery. Local police quickly identified two of the perpetrators but the criminal mastermind behind it all proved to be more elusive.
The FBI Files
On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage and took six people's lives.
The FBI Files
No suspect had emerged after the rapes and murders of ten women near Tampa, Florida in 1984. The killer was a ruthless and terrifying predator, the newest member of an infamous group known as "serial killers."
The FBI Files
For two couples on vacation, an island paradise turned to hell when one couple murders the other. Eleven years after the murder, a drifter sailing the high seas to escape a drug charge was convicted of the crime.
The FBI Files
In February 1988, a record store clerk in Ohio was fatally shot in his van. After discovering thousands of dollars in the vehicle, police knew that robbery was not the motive.
The FBI Files
When an 80-year-old woman is found barely conscious next to the body of her murdered son in an abandoned van, the FBI was brought in and linked the crime to a teenager and middle-aged man.
The FBI Files
In the late 1980s, an illegal drug operation known as the K Street Crew opened its doors in Washington, DC.
The FBI Files
After an Arkansas state trooper is shot and killed, officers catch the murderer and alert the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when they find weapons and explosives in the man's vehicle.
The FBI Files
In the late 1980s, an illegal drug operation known as the K Street Crew opened its doors in Washington, DC.
The FBI Files
Drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods for years in the early 1990s. After a 10-year-old boy became a crossfire victim, NYPD detectives and the FBI designed an elite task forced called C-11 to dismantle the gang.
The FBI Files
When notorious bank robber Byron Chubbuck escaped from New Mexico State Penitentiary in 2000, he almost immediately began stealing again. The FBI teamed up with U.S. Marshals to capture a resourceful criminal who proved he would never stop fighting.
The FBI Files
In the early 1980s, a pair of serial bank robbers took hostages and emptied bank vaults across the Midwest.
The FBI Files
In January 1984, a U.S. Customs officer disappeared from his post near the Del Rio, Texas border crossing, prompting local police to search for four Latin American suspects. The following day, the official was found dead.
The FBI Files
When notorious bank robber Byron Chubbuck escaped from New Mexico State Penitentiary in 2000, he almost immediately began stealing again. The FBI teamed up with U.S. Marshals to capture a resourceful criminal who proved he would never stop fighting.
The FBI Files
In 1994, a van driver was murdered and the vehicle and its cargo of nearly a million dollars went missing.
The FBI Files
In 1976, a car bombing in Washington DC's Embassy Row claimed the lives of a former Chilean ambassador.
The FBI Files
Amid the cocaine wars of 1980s Miami, a multi-agency tactical squad suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts. The squad uncovered a ring of police who were making millions by ripping off smuggled cocaine.
The FBI Files
No suspect had emerged after the rapes and murders of ten women near Tampa, Florida in 1984. The killer was a ruthless and terrifying predator, the newest member of an infamous group known as "serial killers."
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The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. In one of the first cases of successful criminal investigative analysis, FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind and captured the serial killer.
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In July 1997, three people were shot to death at a Georgetown coffee shop. Investigators could find no immediate suspect or no clear motive for the murders. Was this a hate crime, a robbery gone wrong or an act of cold-blooded vengeance?
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A bank vault was blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables was missing. Agents were able to track down one of the robbers' friends and attempted to use him as bait to reel in the crooks.
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The decapitation of an African-American male led the Miami-Dade police and the FBI along a trail of murder.
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In 1993, an elderly man was found suffocated in his home with his checkbook, credit cards and vehicle stolen.
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In 2000, the FBI was overwhelmed with investigations in Seattle which had the third-highest number of bank robberies in the nation. Agents focused on a series of heists in which two heavily armed men seemed to know where the banks stored their money.
The FBI Files
Two robbers with assault rifles ambushed an armored car, killing both guards and seizing thousands of dollars.
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A special task force was formed in the early 1990s to combat the flow of Colombia cocaine into New York. As part of an elaborate sting operation, one detective went undercover and infiltrated a drug gang connected to Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.
The FBI Files
He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years, but Ted Kaczynski wasn't known as the Unabomber until his brother tipped off the FBI. Kaczynski's manifesto, published in major newspapers, set off a flurry of activity for the FBI.
The FBI Files
A series of brutal bank robberies and murders led to an exhaustive eight-month investigation by the FBI.
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In 1993, a mother, her 8-year-old son and a live-in nurse were brutally murdered by an assassin. The murder-for-hire plot was meticulously planned and executed.
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On October 1, 1993, a stranger abducted 12-year-old Polly Klaas during a slumber party in her home. FBI agents collected fibers from her bedroom and discovered, through the use of laser light sources, a palm print on Polly's bed.
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A special task force was formed in the early 1990s to combat the flow of Colombia cocaine into New York. As part of an elaborate sting operation, one detective went undercover and infiltrated a drug gang connected to Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.
The FBI Files
In 1989, a quiet community in Ohio was shattered when a sniper gunned down an outdoorsman without reason.
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In July 1997, three people were shot to death at a Georgetown coffee shop. Investigators could find no immediate suspect or no clear motive for the murders. Was this a hate crime, a robbery gone wrong or an act of cold-blooded vengeance?
The FBI Files
After a career criminal committed a vehicular homicide in New Orleans, the FBI tracked him through his habits.
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A teenager was shot to death on a hunting ground in Virginia. His death was initially considered an accident but investigators soon suspected foul play. Years later, a man contacted the FBI with a complex story of conspiracy and murder-for-hire.
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FBI investigations of alleged corruption in the early 1990s grew to include the 1994 murder of Kim Groves.
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The FBI investigated the Dixie Mafia after the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of a circuit court judge.
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The body of an unidentified young woman turned up on a highway in a small Pennsylvania town. Agents persisted, eventually identifying the body and finding the killer.
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When a wealthy young woman was abducted in front of her in-laws' home, the police had no shortage of suspects. The victim left behind a tumultuous marriage, an ex-husband and several spurned lovers.
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A teenage immigrant came to the United States to realize her dream of being a doctor but she found herself an innocent victim of drug trafficking. Agents discovered a trail of drugs, hit men and murder as they attempted to solve her kidnapping.
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A sniper murdered two Black men as they jogged with two white women. The FBI placed their suspect on their Ten Most Wanted list and began an intense manhunt. What followed was the arrest, trial and conviction of a white supremacist serial killer.
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When authorities in a small Washington town began investigating the disappearance of a young woman, they had no idea it would turn into a nationwide hunt for a sadistic sexual predator. The FBI was called in to help track down Darren Dee O'Neall.
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In 1964, civil rights workers who set out to educate Southern Black people about the right to vote disappeared in Mississippi. After they were found lynched, the FBI gained the trust of an informant who led to the conviction of local KKK members.
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In 1996, a group of political extremists robbed a bank in Washington using homemade bombs and military precision to escape. The FBI learned that the robbers might be preparing for a small-scale war with law enforcement.
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In 1996, a series of bank robberies in Texas baffled authorities. But when similar thefts occurred the next year in California, FBI agents linked the crimes and established a modus operandi.
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In December 1981, a New Jersey state trooper was shot to death on the side of Interstate 80. Fingerprints on the suspect's vehicle pointed to a fugitive wanted on bank robbery charges.
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A mother discovered her young son was missing from school. Within hours, the boy's entire family was frantically searching for him. But when the few leads quickly turned cold, the FBI was called in to assist in the investigation.
The FBI Files
Amid the cocaine wars of 1980s Miami, a multi-agency tactical squad suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts. The squad uncovered a ring of police who were making millions by ripping off smuggled cocaine.
The FBI Files
In 1987, a television producer was gunned down in his New York office. Four years later and thousands of miles away, a man told Los Angeles police he had been hired to murder two Chippendale's dancers.
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When a wealthy young woman was abducted in front of her in-laws' home, the police had no shortage of suspects. The victim left behind a tumultuous marriage, an ex-husband and several spurned lovers.
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In 1987, a television producer was gunned down in his New York office. Four years later and thousands of miles away, a man told Los Angeles police he had been hired to murder two Chippendale's dancers.
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In 1997, Jamie McMahan and Christopher Kauffman went on a crime spree of robbery, kidnapping and murder.
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A Puerto Rican separatist group known as the FALN was suspected of setting off bombs in major U.S. cities.
The FBI Files
A teenager was shot to death on a hunting ground in Virginia. His death was initially considered an accident but investigators soon suspected foul play. Years later, a man contacted the FBI with a complex story of conspiracy and murder-for-hire.
The FBI Files
A bank vault was blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables was missing. Agents were able to track down one of the robbers' friends and attempted to use him as bait to reel in the crooks.
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In 1992, a Washington, DC professor was shot and killed as she tried to get into her car, the latest incident in a series of violent carjackings. One week later, a man robbed a bank and security cameras captured the same vehicle as the getaway car.
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In 1984, a couple swept through six states like a plague. They targeted adults and young girls for kidnap and murder. The gruesome crime spree left eight people dead, so the FBI launched a manhunt for killers Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown.
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In 1988, a criminal confessed that two community members hired him to murder a South Carolina farmer.
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After a parole officer was found shot dead in his car, the FBI, DEA and NYPD struggled to contain the mounting violence from drug gangs that continued to escalate. Authorities sought to put two ruthless drug kingpins behind bars for the crime.
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He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years, but Ted Kaczynski wasn't known as the Unabomber until his brother tipped off the FBI. Kaczynski's manifesto, published in major newspapers, set off a flurry of activity for the FBI.
The FBI Files
In June 1973, a young girl was abducted from a state park while camping with her family. A criminal profiler predicted that the kidnapper would contact the girl's family on the one-year anniversary of her abduction.
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In 1989, a quiet community in Ohio was shattered when a sniper gunned down an outdoorsman without reason.
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New Jersey millionaire Frank Black flew to West Palm Beach, Florida to close a major business deal but never returned home. When the FBI was called in, agents learned of a mystery woman whom Black met while on his trip.
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In the mid-1980s, as drug profits grew, gangs ruled the streets of Chicago. Led by mastermind Jeff Fort, the dangerous, power-hungry El Rukn street gang attempted to conspire with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism for money.
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Angered by the government's policy in the Middle East, Mir Qazi brutally gunned down two members of the CIA as they waited in their cars at a stoplight. The killer fled the country and was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
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In the late 1980s, an illegal drug operation known as the K Street Crew opened its doors in Washington, DC.
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In July 1997, three people were shot to death at a Georgetown coffee shop. Investigators could find no immediate suspect or no clear motive for the murders. Was this a hate crime, a robbery gone wrong or an act of cold-blooded vengeance?
The FBI Files
The decapitation of an African-American male led the Miami-Dade police and the FBI along a trail of murder.
The FBI Files
New Jersey millionaire Frank Black flew to West Palm Beach, Florida to close a major business deal but never returned home. When the FBI was called in, agents learned of a mystery woman whom Black met while on his trip.
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In the spring of 1997, a killer preyed on senior citizens in the quiet town of River Parish, Louisiana.
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A drug dealer engaged in a shootout with Nebraska state troopers and evaded capture after a high-speed chase.
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In 1995, a mother of three was murdered and her corpse burned in Los Angeles, California. Agents hunted down a charismatic man named Glen Rogers who used charm and generosity to target women for his brutal attacks.
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A Milwaukee teen was kidnapped by four gunmen who demanded $30,000 from his family for his safe return.
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In 2000, the FBI was overwhelmed with investigations in Seattle which had the third-highest number of bank robberies in the nation. Agents focused on a series of heists in which two heavily armed men seemed to know where the banks stored their money.
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In 1987, Cuban prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Prison broke out homemade weapons and stole from prison staff.
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Six Black men had been brutally murdered; two had their hearts cut out. The only thing connecting the victims was their ethnicity and the fact that each had been shot with .22 caliber bullets.
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In October 1987, a Boston police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call was fatally wounded.
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In 1995, a mother of three was murdered and her corpse burned in Los Angeles, California. Agents hunted down a charismatic man named Glen Rogers who used charm and generosity to target women for his brutal attacks.
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A Milwaukee teen was kidnapped by four gunmen who demanded $30,000 from his family for his safe return.
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In August 1992, a man returned to his Memphis home and discovered that his wife was missing. The husband, his friends, family and neighbors began to receive ransom calls.
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A cross-country crime spree over a Labor Day weekend terrorized the nation. In a small Ohio community, an elderly woman and teenage boy disappeared within hours of one another. The police suspected the cases were linked.
The FBI Files
Powerful street gangs in Washington D.C. enforced their power with deadly violence. The gang leader had fled to Africa, a hunt that ended in the 1994 Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Headquarters shootout.
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The body of an unidentified young woman turned up on a highway in a small Pennsylvania town. Agents persisted, eventually identifying the body and finding the killer.
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In September 1997, a team of masked gunmen robbed an armored car facility in Los Angeles and made off with nearly $19 million, the largest cash heist in U.S. history. FBI agents began conducting surveillance on a former employee of the facility.
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By December 1985, John Gotti had assumed his place as the new don of the Gambino crime family in New York.
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A class field trip ended with an 11-year-old girl missing. When the parents failed to locate their daughter in their quiet Illinois town, the FBI joined the investigation, working with friends and family in an urgent search to find the missing girl.
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In June 1973, a young girl was abducted from a state park while camping with her family. A criminal profiler predicted that the kidnapper would contact the girl's family on the one-year anniversary of her abduction.
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In 1987, Cuban prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Prison broke out homemade weapons and stole from prison staff.
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In the upscale town of Lodi, California, a 12-year-old girl was taken from her home. When the kidnapper's car was discovered in a field near the town, the FBI and local police teamed up with hundreds of volunteers in their search for the girl.
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In 1990, a 14-year-old girl ran away from her Texas home and disappeared; six months later, her body was found hundreds of miles away in an Illinois barn. Agents tracked down a trucker who they believed was responsible for over 50 murders.
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After two brothers abduct and murder bank president Dan Short, FBI agents slowly piece together tiny shreds of evidence. Eventually, they're able to convict the Agofsky brothers for the 1989 Noel, Missouri bank robbery.
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He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years, but Ted Kaczynski wasn't known as the Unabomber until his brother tipped off the FBI. Kaczynski's manifesto, published in major newspapers, set off a flurry of activity for the FBI.
The FBI Files
Dartmouth Professors Susanne and Half Zantop are found brutally murdered in their quaint New Hampshire home.
The FBI Files
A special task force was formed in the early 1990s to combat the flow of Colombia cocaine into New York. As part of an elaborate sting operation, one detective went undercover and infiltrated a drug gang connected to Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.
The FBI Files
In 1996, a series of bank robberies in Texas baffled authorities. But when similar thefts occurred the next year in California, FBI agents linked the crimes and established a modus operandi.
The FBI Files
A sniper murdered two Black men as they jogged with two white women. The FBI placed their suspect on their Ten Most Wanted list and began an intense manhunt. What followed was the arrest, trial and conviction of a white supremacist serial killer.
The FBI Files
In 1992, a Washington, DC professor was shot and killed as she tried to get into her car, the latest incident in a series of violent carjackings. One week later, a man robbed a bank and security cameras captured the same vehicle as the getaway car.
The FBI Files
In 1997, Jamie McMahan and Christopher Kauffman went on a crime spree of robbery, kidnapping and murder.
The FBI Files
A class field trip ended with an 11-year-old girl missing. When the parents failed to locate their daughter in their quiet Illinois town, the FBI joined the investigation, working with friends and family in an urgent search to find the missing girl.
The FBI Files
An escapee from Castro's Cuba was the mastermind behind a secret terrorist organization called Omega 7.
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In September 1997, a team of masked gunmen robbed an armored car facility in Los Angeles and made off with nearly $19 million, the largest cash heist in U.S. history. FBI agents began conducting surveillance on a former employee of the facility.
The FBI Files
A series of shootings terrorized the small town in Georgia, leaving two people dead and two others wounded.
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In 1992, a young mother was gunned down in front of her children and police were left baffled. The crime seemed unmotivated and random. But family members hinted that the victim, who had been married to a prominent attorney, harbored a dark secret.
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Posing as a fashion photographer, serial killer Christopher Wilder (aka "The Beauty Queen Killer") lured young women from shopping malls with promises of fame and fortune. Most ended up dead.
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A young mother and her two daughters were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Anchorage.
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He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years, but Ted Kaczynski wasn't known as the Unabomber until his brother tipped off the FBI. Kaczynski's manifesto, published in major newspapers, set off a flurry of activity for the FBI.
The FBI Files
In 1993, a mother, her 8-year-old son and a live-in nurse were brutally murdered by an assassin. The murder-for-hire plot was meticulously planned and executed.
The FBI Files
In Richmond, Virginia, two masked men who were robbing a bank escaped after opening fire on officers responding to the call. Agents found one bank teller dead, another wounded; the bank's security guard had been shot four times yet was still alive.
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After an Arkansas state trooper is shot and killed, officers catch the murderer and alert the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when they find weapons and explosives in the man's vehicle.
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In the summer of 1999, a brutal serial killer who traveled by train terrorized Texas. The FBI assembled a special task force to profile the violent drifter and help locate him.
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In 1990, the body of a suspected drug courier was discovered burning in a Minnesota alleyway. The FBI teamed up with local police to uncover a dangerous crime ring run by a drug lord who used violence and intimidation to keep those around him quiet.
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Masked bandits pulled off a daring bank robbery in the middle of the day. Without any evidence, FBI agents had to force their own luck in the four-year manhunt for the so-called "Hollywood" bank robber in Seattle, Washington.
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An escapee from Castro's Cuba was the mastermind behind a secret terrorist organization called Omega 7.
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In 1980, a maid discovered that a copy machine, placed in a busy Las Vegas casino, was actually a bomb.
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In Arizona, a shipment of money vanished without a trace, along with the two men hired to guard it. Agents didn't know if the guards were willing participants or victims of an ambush. Suspicions grew that the crime was an inside job.
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A young woman went missing from her home on a bright spring morning. After several days of searching, agents suspected a paroled criminal who frequented her health club may have abducted her.
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In the 1980s, the FBI investigated wide-scale corruption among the detectives of the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department. Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and murder-for-hire were among the department's known illicit activities.
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The bodies of several women began turning up around Vienna, Austria. The FBI and Austrian Federal Police investigated suspected serial killer Jack Unterweger, who became an international outlaw, hopping from country to country to evade capture.
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In rural Texas, a millionaire's teenage daughter was kidnapped on her way to school. Local authorities and the FBI conducted a massive search for the girl while her father attempted to deliver the ransom cash to a drop the kidnappers kept changing.
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When an 80-year-old woman is found barely conscious next to the body of her murdered son in an abandoned van, the FBI was brought in and linked the crime to a teenager and middle-aged man.
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A Puerto Rican separatist group known as the FALN was suspected of setting off bombs in major U.S. cities.
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In 1990s Philadelphia, a ruthless grab for power led to a full-scale mob war. Using informants and high-tech surveillance, the FBI infiltrated the most powerful mob family in the city and sought to bring down the organization.
The FBI Files
A Puerto Rican separatist group known as the FALN was suspected of setting off bombs in major U.S. cities.
The FBI Files
In the late 1980s, an illegal drug operation known as the K Street Crew opened its doors in Washington, DC.
The FBI Files
Masked bandits pulled off a daring bank robbery in the middle of the day. Without any evidence, FBI agents had to force their own luck in the four-year manhunt for the so-called "Hollywood" bank robber in Seattle, Washington.
The FBI Files
In September 1997, a team of masked gunmen robbed an armored car facility in Los Angeles and made off with nearly $19 million, the largest cash heist in U.S. history. FBI agents began conducting surveillance on a former employee of the facility.
The FBI Files
In June 1973, a young girl was abducted from a state park while camping with her family. A criminal profiler predicted that the kidnapper would contact the girl's family on the one-year anniversary of her abduction.
The FBI Files
A series of brutal bank robberies and murders led to an exhaustive eight-month investigation by the FBI.
The FBI Files
In 1997, Jamie McMahan and Christopher Kauffman went on a crime spree of robbery, kidnapping and murder.
The FBI Files
A pair of convicted felons escaped the custody of a local deputy and fled across the country in a wave of abductions and car thefts. When a foreign military officer disappeared along the trail, the FBI believed the pair were growing more violent.
The FBI Files
A special task force was formed in the early 1990s to combat the flow of Colombia cocaine into New York. As part of an elaborate sting operation, one detective went undercover and infiltrated a drug gang connected to Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.
The FBI Files
After a career criminal committed a vehicular homicide in New Orleans, the FBI tracked him through his habits.
The FBI Files
A special task force was formed in the early 1990s to combat the flow of Colombia cocaine into New York. As part of an elaborate sting operation, one detective went undercover and infiltrated a drug gang connected to Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.
The FBI Files
Powerful street gangs in Washington D.C. enforced their power with deadly violence. The gang leader had fled to Africa, a hunt that ended in the 1994 Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Headquarters shootout.
The FBI Files
A cross-country crime spree over a Labor Day weekend terrorized the nation. In a small Ohio community, an elderly woman and teenage boy disappeared within hours of one another. The police suspected the cases were linked.
The FBI Files
In the 1980s, the FBI investigated wide-scale corruption among the detectives of the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department. Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and murder-for-hire were among the department's known illicit activities.
The FBI Files
FBI investigations of alleged corruption in the early 1990s grew to include the 1994 murder of Kim Groves.
The FBI Files
A mother discovered her young son was missing from school. Within hours, the boy's entire family was frantically searching for him. But when the few leads quickly turned cold, the FBI was called in to assist in the investigation.
The FBI Files
In 1988, a criminal confessed that two community members hired him to murder a South Carolina farmer.
The FBI Files
The decapitation of an African-American male led the Miami-Dade police and the FBI along a trail of murder.
The FBI Files
In the 1970s, a Croatian terrorist group committed acts against non-supportive Croatians in the United States.
The FBI Files
A drug dealer engaged in a shootout with Nebraska state troopers and evaded capture after a high-speed chase.
The FBI Files
A bank vault was blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables was missing. Agents were able to track down one of the robbers' friends and attempted to use him as bait to reel in the crooks.
The FBI Files
A mother discovered her young son was missing from school. Within hours, the boy's entire family was frantically searching for him. But when the few leads quickly turned cold, the FBI was called in to assist in the investigation.
The FBI Files
The FBI discovered that the criminals had a hidden agenda beyond their personal wealth.
The FBI Files
In August 1992, a man returned to his Memphis home and discovered that his wife was missing. The husband, his friends, family and neighbors began to receive ransom calls.
The FBI Files
The FBI investigated the Dixie Mafia after the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of a circuit court judge.
The FBI Files
In 1997, Jamie McMahan and Christopher Kauffman went on a crime spree of robbery, kidnapping and murder.
The FBI Files
A teenager was shot to death on a hunting ground in Virginia. His death was initially considered an accident but investigators soon suspected foul play. Years later, a man contacted the FBI with a complex story of conspiracy and murder-for-hire.
The FBI Files
On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage and took six people's lives.
The FBI Files
Amid the cocaine wars of 1980s Miami, a multi-agency tactical squad suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts. The squad uncovered a ring of police who were making millions by ripping off smuggled cocaine.
The FBI Files
For Tammy Brannen, Christmas was always a special time until her daughter was gone without warning in 1989.
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In 1985, a Lebanese terrorist and his four accomplices hijacked Royal Jordanian Flight 405 before taking off.
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In 1987, Cuban prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Prison broke out homemade weapons and stole from prison staff.
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In 1982, a California highway patrol officer pulled a young woman over for speeding. He bullied her into sex and then killed her. He then used a decade of police experience to try to cover up his crime and convince investigators of his innocence.
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This special episode examines previous cases to learn about the investigative techniques used by the FBI.
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In 1995, a mother of three was murdered and her corpse burned in Los Angeles, California. Agents hunted down a charismatic man named Glen Rogers who used charm and generosity to target women for his brutal attacks.
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In the late 1980s, the FBI matched wits with a cunning bank robber known as the Shootist. He had performed more than 50 robberies with military precision and was responsible for the longest string of unsolved bank robberies in FBI history.
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After a young woman went missing, police suspected that her well-connected, married ex-lover was responsible.
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When notorious bank robber Byron Chubbuck escaped from New Mexico State Penitentiary in 2000, he almost immediately began stealing again. The FBI teamed up with U.S. Marshals to capture a resourceful criminal who proved he would never stop fighting.
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In 1988, a criminal confessed that two community members hired him to murder a South Carolina farmer.
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A teenage immigrant came to the United States to realize her dream of being a doctor but she found herself an innocent victim of drug trafficking. Agents discovered a trail of drugs, hit men and murder as they attempted to solve her kidnapping.