72 Hours: True Crime
A single mother in Saskatchewan visits a hospital in the midst of a panic attack.
A single mother in Saskatchewan visits a hospital in the midst of a panic attack.
Posing as a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty, he duped a string of women in the UK and US.
On November 20, 2008, Frédéric Mas was entrusted with a case that marked him... a big hit. The famous jeweler Cartier was the victim of a clever theft.
Estelle Vaucher-Grondin, a gendarmerie investigator, explores leads that may allow her to find the financier of the Rwandan genocide.
A Dire Deception (LAURENCE MAILLE CASE): On November 28, 2007, Laurence Maille disappeared. It was her partner, John Zablevski, who alerted the Vimy police in Pas-de-Calais. He explained that the young woman had left in the morning for a walk with their dog and never returned. An unprecedented search was immediately launched to try to find her. Beautiful, intelligent and generous, Laurence Maille had everything to be happy about and for 18 months, had found the perfect love in her partner.
Shot In the While Sleeping (Richard Alessandri Case): On the night of July 16, 2000, the life of Edwige Alessandri changed forever. This mother, married to a supermarket boss, made a frantic emergency call in the town of Carpentras. She recounted that shortly after midnight, some men burst into her room and shot her husband while he slept. Who could have despised Richard Alessandri enough to kill him in cold blood in his own bed? Was he the victim of a robbery gone wrong, as claimed by his wife?
Tensions run high as Indonesian and Australia police work together in cracking the case, to nab the terrorists. But the search for a breakthrough sees a string of disappointments.
The seeds of terror are sown long before the 2002 Bali attack. First, a "dress rehearsal" in Indonesia helps with getting the bombs just right. And then, a twist of fate in Singapore unlocks the door to Bali.
In 1878, a widow is killed in her own home, and the killer is her own servant the young servant does not only kill and dismember her employer, she also steals her clothes, her property and her identity.
Hyams posed as a leading scientist and millionaire art buyer before fleeing to California where he posed as a leading academic.
Fake celebrity clairvoyant Williams preyed on the elderly by performing fake readings, including one where he directed his client to a forged will.
Infamous mobster Al Capone lived a life of crime, and yet he has become part of popular culture and inspired numerous art forms. Notably, Capone's clubs and speakeasies nurtured Chicago's burgeoning jazz scene, and he allegedly penned original music whilst incarcerated at Alcatraz Prison.
Jack the Ripper terrorised the residents of White Chapel, London, in 1888. His bloody murders have attracted attention and captured inquisitive minds for generations since, even as the subject of children's nursery rhymes.
A withered corpse is found half-buried in a field beside a theme park.
A cab driver is found brutally murdered Baptist deacon and his granddaughter and her boyfriend are found murdered.
Hyams posed as a leading scientist and millionaire art buyer before fleeing to California where he posed as a leading academic.
The undercover program is under attack in the 1990s by drug-addicted former agents while modern-day undercover cops tackle the growing wave of organised crime.
On August 4, 1997, the body of Christian Jambert, a retired gendarme, was discovered in his house in Auxerre. A 22 long rifle was placed on his legs.
On June 1, 2011, firefighters intervened to put out a fire in a joke shop in Louvroil in the North. They discovered the charred body of Jean Moritz at the back of the premises.
One of South African most-loved reggae artists, Lucky Dube, was murdered in a botched hijacking.