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In October 1987, a Boston police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call was fatally wounded.
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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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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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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 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.
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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.
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A young mother and her two daughters were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Anchorage.
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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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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.
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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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A series of shootings terrorized the small town in Georgia, leaving two people dead and two others wounded.
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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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The decapitation of an African-American male led the Miami-Dade police and the FBI along a trail of murder.
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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.
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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 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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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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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 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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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 July 1996, two men entered a pawnshop in Birmingham, Alabama and callously murdered the employees.
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The FBI discovered that the criminals had a hidden agenda beyond their personal wealth.
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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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An escapee from Castro's Cuba was the mastermind behind a secret terrorist organization called Omega 7.
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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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In 1980, a maid discovered that a copy machine, placed in a busy Las Vegas casino, was actually a bomb.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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In 1997, the FBI and the NYPD began a joint investigation into gas station mogul Gurmeet Dhinsa for gas pump rigging. However, they soon realized Dhinsa ruled his mob-like operation with brutal force, kidnapping and killing wayward employees.
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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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In 1985, a Lebanese terrorist and his four accomplices hijacked Royal Jordanian Flight 405 before taking off.
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On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage and took six people's lives.
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In 1994, a van driver was murdered and the vehicle and its cargo of nearly a million dollars went missing.
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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 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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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.
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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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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.
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In the early 1980s, a pair of serial bank robbers took hostages and emptied bank vaults across the Midwest.
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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 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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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Two robbers with assault rifles ambushed an armored car, killing both guards and seizing thousands of dollars.