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City Confidential

One crime can turn a city upside down.

1998 7.8

Tells the story of one crime, the ensuing investigation, and the ripple effect it had on a community. Speaking with family, friends, detectives, journalists, and others close to the case, the series mixes firsthand accounts and archival footage to explore the crime and its outcome.

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  1. 1

    Deadly Odds in Biloxi

    1998-11-07

    The shocking murders of attorney Vince Sherry and his politically-active wife Margaret make the already-hot summer of 1987 sizzle in Biloxi, Mississippi.

  2. 2

    The Chicago Horse Mafia

    The deaths of a string of champion racehorses may be linked to the death of candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach.

  3. 3

    Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake City

    Police investigate the bomb that blew apart the car of Mark Hoffmann, a highly respected and religious Mormon.

  4. 4

    Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island

    A woman's naked body is found outside a Seattle nightclub, posed demurely with a pinecone in her hand.

  5. 5

    Secrets and Superstition in Salem

    When a lobsterman discovers the ankle of a partially decomposed body in his trap, a local "witch" helps solve the crime.

  6. 6

    Midnight in Miami

    Stan and Joyce Cohen were living the high life in chic, trendy Coconut Grove--until multi-millionaire Stan was shot to death with his own gun as he slept in his mansion. Did Joyce, a beautiful socialite with expensive tastes, hire three hit men to murder her husband? Did Stan pay the ultimate price for her greed?

  7. 7

    New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy"

    In 1994, Kim Groves was gunned down in her front yard after Len Davis, a police officer who did side-work in dealing cocaine, ordered her death because she knew too much.

  8. 8

    Nashville: Murder in Music City

    Nashville performer and "Hee Haw" star David "Stringbean" Akeman had a strange habit. The banjo picker and joke teller kept $3,000 in cash in his overall's bib pocket, and ten times that hidden at home--cash for a rainy day. For Akeman and his wife, that rainy day never came. Murdered in 1973, their killers never found either stash.

  9. 9

    Little Rock: The Politics of Murder

    In 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers.

  10. 10

    Las Vegas: Deadly Jackpot

  11. 11

    Dallas: Arsenic and Old Money

  12. 12

    Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun

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