Despite a volatile temper and a love of show business Sam Giancana rose to be the richest and most powerful mafia boss of his day. Boss of the infamous Chicago Outfit. They frowned on Giancana's headline grabbing relationship with singing star Phyllis McGuire, but he had a gift for making money.
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Vivica examines the case of double-murderer Cheyanne Jessie.
Cassandra Robinson's case turned into a murder investigation when her body was found hidden in a storage unit.
To William Howell there were good women, and bad. Bad women included the drug addicted prostitutes he picked up in his van. They ended up buried in shallow graves in a place he called his ‘Garden'. The extent of his sadistic crimes were revealed when he boasted of them to a cellmate.
Kenneth Countie was a vulnerable young man who craved a loving relationship. He thought he'd found that with Sheila LaBarre, a wealthy, charismatic older woman. But Kenny became the latest in a string of men LaBarre had used and abused. In thrall to his tormenter, he found there was no escape.
Kelly Cochran helped her husband Jason kill her lover Chris, after Jason invoked a wedding night pact that anyone who came between them must die. Detectives suspected foul play, but they could prove nothing. But Kelly never got over Chris's death, and a year later she murdered Jason too.
Shipman is estimated to have killed 275 people, but the actual figure will never be known. The 57-year-old GP was given 15 life sentences to run concurrently for the murders, and four years for forging a will, but hung himself in his cell after he was sentenced. He always denied his crimes.
Depicted by the tabloid press as "the most hated woman in Britain", the crimes committed by Hindley and her lover, Ian Brady, shocked the nation and became the benchmark by which other acts of evil came to be measured. Until she met Brady, Hindley had been, by all accounts, a perfectly normal girl, with strong religious feelings. She loved children and animals, and was much in demand as a babysitter. But when they became lovers, Hindley was prepared to do anything Brady asked…
Two black Americans, John Allen Muhammad, 42, a veteran of the Gulf War in 1991, and his stepson John Lee Malvo, 17, were convicted in 2004 of being the ‘Washington sniper', who had been terrorizing America over a period of three weeks.
A hotel clerk calls 9-1-1 complaining of severe facial trauma, but he has no recollection of what happened and dies soon after. Police are counting on Dr. G to aid them in this investigation.
A hiker stumbles across a man's dead body in the woods. The victim's brother is convinced he was murdered. Dr. G must get to the bottom of this case. Was foul play really involved?
Allen Dorfman was the mob's greatest middle man. As special consultant to one of the USA's largest pension funds, he controlled access to what became known as the Mafia Bank. The vast loans he approved built Las Vegas and lined the mob's pockets.
In 1981, Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, a powerful captain in the Bonanno crime family, was murdered for having allowed an undercover FBI agent to infiltrate the Mafia. He had unwittingly recruited Special Agent Joe Pistone into his crew.
A man calls the police after an attack phone data tracks the killer. A dog lover is found murdered at home.
A woman goes missing with a large sum of money. In the UK, the shocking murder of a woman sparks outrage.
A man and his accomplice go on a killing spree, leaving four dead. In the UK, a student is stabbed to death.
A case of blackmail threatens to topple the monarchy itself, but Sherlock and John discover there is more to it than meets the eye. They find themselves battling international terrorism, rogue CIA agents, and a secret conspiracy involving the British government. Has Sherlock finally met his match?
A strange clue in an empty room, a blood-soaked car, a priceless Old Master, a deranged bomber. With the clock ticking, the curtain rises on a battle of wits between Sherlock, John and the shadowy stranger who seems to know all the answers.
The search for an elderly woman who has recently gone missing from an old people's home, leads to the discovery of another murdered woman. Wallander searches the murdered woman's house, where there has clearly been a struggle but there is no sign of her daughter, Hanna, except for her blood.
Wallander is attending a police conference when he's asked to help with the case of a Swedish voluntary worker who's been missing for days. A combination of gut instinct and inspired police work lead Wallander to a deserted farmhouse where he finds traces of the woman and a severed finger.
Kirsten Ross, a young mother, has been abducted. Luther realizes that this is the work of Lucien Burgess, a collector and writer of the occult, who was suspected of the murder of another woman, Grace Allen, 10 years previously, though he was never charged.
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