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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Polly Klaas: Kidnapped

20 October 1998
FBI agents investigate the nationally publicized kidnapping of a 12 year old girl from her own home. Despite a massive effort, detailed in this program, evidence at the crime scene is simply insufficient to point to a suspect. It took a fortuitous discovery two months later to lead police to the culprit.

Season 1, Episode 2: Above the Law

3 November 1998
State Trooper George Gwaltney was a serial rapist forgiving traffic violations in exchange for sex. But in a break from his normal modus operandi he murdered Robin Fisher after raping her. As a police officer he was able to monitor the investigation and destroy evidence before police could get their hands on it. While these actions convinced local police of Gwaltney's guilt there was not enough evidence to convict him. The FBI then stepped in with a massive investigation that examined every bit of evidence in detail right down to the chemistry of the lead in the bullet that killed Ms. Bishop.

Season 1, Episode 3: Human Prey

10 November 1998
Hunters become a killer's human prey.

Season 1, Episode 4: Death in Alaska

17 November 1998
Anchorage police and FBI agents build an irrefutable forensic case against pedophile Kirby Anthony who brutally raped and murdered Nancy Newman and her two children in a homicidal rage. The preponderance of evidence proves to be a challenge in itself sorting out which items are relevant to the crime and which are incidental.

Season 1, Episode 5: Deadly Paradise

1 December 1998
For two couples on vacation, an island paradise turns to hell when one couple murders the other. Eleven years after Muff Graham and Buck Walker's murder, a drifter sailing the high seas to escape a drug charge is convicted of the crime.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Crazy Don

8 December 1998
Over many years the FBI investigates and finally penetrates the five New York crime families. Special attention is given to Vincent Gigante who feigned mental illness to avoid prosecution and then incarceration.

Season 1, Episode 7: Killing Spree

29 December 1998
South Florida Police investigating a serial killing spree in 1984 gather a wealth of trace evidence that clearly links the victims and is a virtual fingerprint of the killer. But the evidence doesn't point to a suspect until a match identifies another, extremely observant victim that the killer did not murder.

Season 1, Episode 8: Melissa Brannen: Missing

19 January 1999
Trace evidence convinces police and FBI agents that pedophile Caleb Hughes abducted and murdered missing five year old Melissa Brannen. But unless they can find her remains they cannot make a case for murder.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Unabomber

26 January 1999
Antisocial misfit Ted Kazinsky maimed and murdered people with mail bombs for two decades. Not until his infamous manifesto was published in the newspaper did his brother suspect he was the Unabomber and turn him in.

Season 1, Episode 10: Murdering Cowboy

2 February 1999
FBI agents hunt self styled mountain man Claude Dallas in the wilds of Idaho. A man who felt rules did not apply to him frequently ran afoul of the law without great consequence. But when he killed two game wardens the FBI launched a full scale man hunt. Then again when he escaped from prison.

Season 1, Episode 11: The World Trade Center Bombing

9 February 1999
The FBI investigates the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center. Discovery of the vehicle identification number of the truck quickly leads investigators to Mohammad Salameh who rented the truck. Investigations of Salameh leads to Nidal Ayyad. Ayyad's records provide evidence of a larger conspiracy including plans for further attacks. The international man hunt for the remaining conspirators resulted in convictions of all the terrorists in less than three years.

Season 1, Episode 12: John Gotti: Convicted

16 February 1999
This program follows the team of FBI agents charged with investigating the Gambino family. Their focus turns to John Gotti after the murder of his boss, the head of the family, Paul Castellano. Years of surveillance and information from informants finally enables the FBI to obtain recordings of Gotti talking candidly about his criminal enterprise and the murders he had ordered.

Season 1, Episode 13: The True Story of Mississippi Burning

23 February 1999
The FBI investigates the nationally known case of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia Mississippi amid the tension of the civil right movement.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: A Model Killer

28 September 1999
After the abduction of Beth Kenyon, which Miami Police treat as a routine missing person case, her family hires a private detective agency. The detectives find convincing evidence of another missing woman and both are associated with a mysterious man. Beth's family then contacted the FBI. Soon the FBI was tracking sadist, rapist and murderer Christopher Wilder as he fled authorities on a cross country killing spree.

Season 2, Episode 2: Hired Gun

12 October 1999
The FBI investigates Lawrence Horn and co-conspirators who murdered Horn's wife, son and son's nurse for a million dollar lawsuit settlement. The investigation was challenging because James Edward Perry, who Horn hired to perform the murders, had followed instruction in a book about how to be a hit man to minimize evidence linking him to the crime.

Season 2, Episode 3: Cat and Mouse

5 October 1999
Larry Gene Bell abducted, raped and murdered two young girls in South Carolina then taunted the family of one of the victims with phone calls as he obsessed about her sister. The FBI was able to identify Bell though a psychological profile and the impression of a phone number written on a page from the same pad he forced the girl to write a letter to her parents.

Season 2, Episode 4: Cracking the Cartel

19 October 1999
The FBI hunts drug dealer Geno Camacho after he and his gang kidnaps the family of an associate, Sam Wright, and murders a neighbor. Starting with Wright the FBI apprehends the gang members one by one, each leading to another until Camacho is finally tracked to Mexico where he is hiding in a town controlled by a violent drug cartel. Mexican authorities decline to arrest Camacho so the FBI entices him back to the Untied States with a million dollar drug deal.

Season 2, Episode 5: A Stranger in Town

2 November 1999
Despite being an out of state runaway, Dawn Marie Birnbaum was treated with reverence by the Pennsylvania town where she was found murdered by the side of a road. Since no id was found with her body, identifying her, much less her murdered, should have been impossible. But persistence and several strokes of luck lead Pennsylvania State police and the FBI to her killer, James Robert Cruz Jr., a trucker who frequently traveled between Ohio and Pennsylvania. Authorities noted that as many as 600 other women and been found murdered in a similar fashion in Ohio during the decade before Cruz was arrested.

Season 2, Episode 6: Hunter's Game

2000
Robert Hansen's aggression toward women led to run ins with the legal system most of his life. But when he moved to Anchorage his behavior turned deadly as he became a serial rapist and killer who tortured and literally hunted his victims in the wilds of Alaska. But his public behavior and job in a bakery frequented by many police officers made him seem an unlikely suspect until the FBI applied behavioral profiling.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Dixie Mafia

7 December 1999
A decade long investigation of the contract killing of a married couple in Biloxi Mississippi, who happen to be a circuit court judge and a mayoral candidate, turns to a local criminal organization known as the Dixie Mafia. But as many of the culprits are convicted and jailed on other charges the murders remain unsolved and the mastermind, Peter Halat, is elected mayor. The threat of additional charges against one of the convicts pressures him to disclose the truth about the murders implicating Halat and his hit man.

Season 2, Episode 8: Shattered Shield

14 December 1999
The FBI cracks down on police corruption related to drug trafficking in New Orleans. The investigation relied on a key informant and undercover agent.

Season 2, Episode 9: Blood Brothers

28 December 1999
The disappearance of a bank president following the robbery of his bank looks like a case of embezzlement to the residents of Noel, Missouri. But when the banker is found murdered the FBI identifies two brothers as the culprits.

Season 2, Episode 10: Crime Spree

11 January 2000
The FBI was so anxious to capture serial killers Alton Coleman and Debra Brown that they earned the unique distinction of becoming the eleventh member of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. They engaged in a brutal seven week killing spree, mostly of young girls and women, in six mid-western states in 1984.

Season 2, Episode 11: Family Secrets

February 2000

Season 2, Episode 12: Master Plan

30 May 2000
An FBI police corruption investigation and a local murder investigation merge when it is discovered the murder was committed by a mobster under FBI scrutiny. The extensive sting operation nets 55 criminals including a former police chief and a lieutenant in the Cook County Police force but the investigation is cut short when the Washington Post discloses the operation.

Season 2, Episode 13: Firefight

12 March 2000

Season 2, Episode 14: Killer Abroad

2000

Season 2, Episode 15: Moving Target

9 April 2000

Season 2, Episode 16: Deadly Mission

2 April 2000

Season 2, Episode 17: Cop Killer

2 May 2000

Season 2, Episode 18: .22 Caliber Killer

9 May 2000

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Driven to Kill

12 September 2000

Season 3, Episode 2: Deadly Obsession

19 September 2000

Season 3, Episode 3: First and Kennedy Street Crew

17 October 2000

Season 3, Episode 4: Terror in Disguise

2000

Season 3, Episode 5: Deadly Trail

28 November 2000

Season 3, Episode 6: The Predator

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Season 3, Episode 7: Dishonored

2001

Season 3, Episode 8: Millionaire Murder

16 January 2001

Season 3, Episode 9: Deadly Business

20 February 2001
Follow the investigation of a New York gas station mogul that uncovered a mob operation of brutality, kidnapping and retaliation killings, leading FBI agents to infiltrate the crime ring. Intervention came too late for one cooperating witness.

Season 3, Episode 10: Temple of Fear

6 March 2001

Season 3, Episode 11: Silent Strike

3 April 2001

Season 3, Episode 12: Deadly Stranger

24 April 2001

Season 3, Episode 13: Backstage Murder

1 May 2001

Season 3, Episode 14: Under Fire

8 May 2001

Season 3, Episode 15: Manhunt

17 July 2001

Season 3, Episode 16: Hunter's Target

14 August 2001

Season 3, Episode 17: No Remorse

21 August 2001

Season 3, Episode 18: The C-11 Squad

18 September 2001
In the early 1990s drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods. When a 10-year-old boy fell victim in the cross-fire, NYPD detectives and FBI agents clamped down on the problem. They formed a task force called C-11, designed to dismantle the gangs. In an environment of violence and fear it would be difficult to identify, arrest and convict those involved in the secretive and deadly world of big money drugs.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: The Search for Lisa Renee

2 October 2001

Season 4, Episode 2: Hidden Agenda

2001

Season 4, Episode 3: Small Town Terror

30 October 2001
Two people are missing in a small community near Port Washington, Ohio. Then an elderly couple is found murdered in their basement, only a mile from the first disappearance. Can the FBI find these small town killers before they strike again?

Season 4, Episode 4: A Family Torn

30 October 2001

Season 4, Episode 5: Vanished

4 December 2001

Season 4, Episode 6: Deadly Heist

27 November 2001

Season 4, Episode 7: Unlawful Flight

15 January 2002
Deputy Leland Chandler of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Dept. transported three prisoners to a court hearing in Fort Payne, Alabama; the prisoners were shackled only at the ankles. Their flight from justice involved a harrowing carjacking at gun point.

Season 4, Episode 8: Deadly Secrets

29 January 2002

Season 4, Episode 9: Death in the Delta

12 February 2002

Season 4, Episode 10: Lost Boys

26 February 2002

Season 4, Episode 11: Deadly Threat

12 March 2002

Season 4, Episode 12: Evil Intent

2001
After Anita Wooldridge was found missing from her home in Indiana, detectives suspect she was abducted by a man from her fitness center. When authorities discover this man to be convicted rapist, they travel to Wisconsin, hoping to find Anita still alive.

Season 4, Episode 13: The Coffee Shop Murders

2001

Season 4, Episode 14: Without Remorse

2002

Season 4, Episode 15: Global Pursuit

2002

Season 4, Episode 16: Betrayed

18 April 2002

Season 4, Episode 17: When Seconds Count

2002
In the summer of 1994, a young girl was snatched from her home by an unknown assailant. The FBI knew from experience to act fast, search wide and enlist volunteers. As hours passed, no clues were found.

Season 4, Episode 18: Held for Ransom

2002

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Price of Greed

2002

Season 5, Episode 2: Caught in the Act

5 February 2003

Season 5, Episode 3: In Pursuit

2002

Season 5, Episode 4: High Stakes

2002
After abducting and assaulting a girl at a bus stop, Maghfoor Mansoor was on the run from police and the FBI. From Vegas to Atlantic City, Mansoor left a trail of theft and violence until he was cornered in a hotel lobby.

Season 5, Episode 5: Home Invaders

10 December 2002
On June 19, 1985, convicted bank robber Terry Conner and his partner-in-crime, Joseph Dougherty, escaped on their way to Dougherty's trial. In September, the fugitives used Conner's old m.o. to make the biggest bank robbery in Wisconsin history.

Season 5, Episode 6: Tracks of a Killer

2002
An FBI task force conducts an international manhunt to find a Mexican serial killer.

Season 5, Episode 7: Lawless

2002

Season 5, Episode 8: Cruel Revenge

15 April 2003

Season 5, Episode 9: Held Hostage

2002
Three Black men take Amy Shaw's family hostage at her parents SC home. Jeburk forces Amy to return to the bank were she worked in GA and break into the vault.

Season 5, Episode 10: The Initiation

17 June 2003
Three men murder a innocent man as part of an initiation into a Cleveland Ohio biker gang.

Season 5, Episode 11: Dark Woods

27 May 2003
A kidnapper calls the victim's family.

Season 5, Episode 12: Domestic Terror

2002
Domestic terrorism is an especially vivid threat to Americans; the FBI has created specialized teams to root out and dismantle terrorist operations, and put away those criminals whose secretive, leaderless cells are well armed and very dangerous.

Season 5, Episode 13: Fatal Friendship

2003

Season 5, Episode 14: Death Pact

17 June 2004

Season 5, Episode 15: Broken Trust

12 August 2003
Brothers' greed causes them to abandon all respect for human life.

Season 5, Episode 16: Criminal Enterprise

4 November 2003
An anonymous tip links the kidnapping of a jeweler with a bank robbery two months earlier.

Season 5, Episode 17: Fateful Crossing

11 November 2003

Season 5, Episode 18: Deadly Influence

2 December 2003
A marine salvager found the bodies of three drug dealers floating in a river. FBI agents suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts.

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Without Mercy

30 March 2004

Season 6, Episode 2: Dead Run

2003

Season 6, Episode 3: Brutal Abduction

17 January 2004

Season 6, Episode 4: Radical Agenda

2004

Season 6, Episode 5: The Killing Zone

17 August 2004
In the late 1980s, an illegal drug operation opened its doors in Washington, DC. Vincent Hill ran his drug organization with an iron fist that included intimidation and murder. Life in SW Washington became more violent for everyone, gang member or not.

Season 6, Episode 6: Deadly Takeover

2003
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 robberies in which two heavily armed men seemed to know where the banks stored their money.

Season 6, Episode 7: The Perfect Heist

7 May 2004

Season 6, Episode 8: Brotherhood of Hate

2004
093. Brotherhood of Hate After an Arkansas State Trooper is shot and killed officers catch the shooter, after a car chase and shootout. ATF is alerted when officers find weapons and explosives in the man's vehicle. Testing of the weapons leads them to three men who are all members of The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), a racist, anti-Semitic paramilitary group residing in a fortified compound with stockpiles of weapons in Arkansas. The FBI and ATF surround the compound, but the members resist them for several days. Finally, the standoff is ended and agents get their men.

Season 6, Episode 9: Killer Instinct

2004

Season 6, Episode 10: Atlanta Prison Riots

3 August 2004
Cuban detainees in Atlanta revolt in response to their impending deportation.

Season 6, Episode 11: No Place to Hide

12 June 2004

Season 6, Episode 12: A Bitter End

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Season 6, Episode 13: Dangerous Gamble

31 August 2004

Season 6, Episode 14: Dangerous Takedown

2004

Season 6, Episode 15: Inside the Bureau

2004

Season 6, Episode 16: Radical Resistance

20 November 2004
Croatians seek to secure Croatia's sovereignty via terrorism.

Season 6, Episode 17: Forced Entry

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In 1994, a rash of home invasion robberies plagued the Detroit area. Each time, masked men dressed as police officers broke in with assault rifles and stole money and jewelry. When one homeowner shot back, the identity of the intruders was revealed.

Season 6, Episode 18: Operation Goldenrod

5 February 2005

Season 6, Episode 19: Dangerous Pursuit

1 January 2005
The crime spree of Paul John Knowles in 1974, which included serial rape, multiple murders, and robbery.

Season 6, Episode 20: Deadly Dentist

17 February 2002
In Saint Louis, a serial killer strikes and vanishes, leaving little evidence in his wake. Blending into the community, he confounds authorities for more than three decades. To catch him, police must find his weakness and reveal the true face of a murderer.

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Season 7

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Season 7, Episode 1: Voice of Terror

18 December 2004

Season 7, Episode 2: Dangerous Cause

9 April 2005

Season 7, Episode 3: The Great Philadelphia Mob War

19 July 2005

Season 7, Episode 4: The Shootist

26 July 2005
In the late 1980s, the FBI matches wits with a cunning bank robber -- a lone gunman responsible for the longest string of unsolved bank robberies in FBI history.

Season 7, Episode 5: Rebellion in Paradise

1 September 2005

Season 7, Episode 6: Terror for Sale

30 August 2005

Season 7, Episode 7: Death of a Diplomat

24 January 2005
A car bomb kills former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier.

Season 7, Episode 8: Deadly Payout

25 August 2005
A copy machine, placed in a busy Las Vegas casino, is actually a bomb.

Season 7, Episode 9: Operation Seaload

10 July 2005

Season 7, Episode 10: Crackdown

22 September 2005

Season 7, Episode 11: Brothers Betrayed

8 September 2005
The FBI investigates wide scale corruption among the detectives of the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Dept during the 1980's. Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and murder for hire were among the department's known illicit activities. One Detective (Victor Sousse), breaks the blue wall of silence and goes undercover to help the FBI close the lid on the corrupt cops' activities barely escaping with his life.

Season 7, Episode 12: Stolen Identity

1 October 2005

Season 7, Episode 13: Robin the Hood

17 February 2006
"This money's going to feed a lot of poor Mexican children!" announces Byron Chubbuck, before fleeing, the Wells Fargo Bank in Albuquerque, NM on August 10, 1999. Days before Christmas 2000, Chubbuck escapes from a prison only to go on a robbing

Season 7, Episode 14: Independence Day Breakout

24 February 2006

Season 7, Episode 15: Ivy League Murders

3 March 2006
Dartmouth Professors Susanne and Half Zantop are mysteriously found murdered in their quaint New Hampshire home. Colleagues confirm that the couple was very well liked. With no trace of forced entry the FBI Behavioral Science Unit investigates the crime.

Season 7, Episode 16: Sniper at Home

10 March 2006

Season 7, Episode 17: Bad Company

December 2005
FBI agents and local police track a gang of robbers who specialize in armored car take-downs. As the robberies grow more violent, agents launch a complex sting to trap a deadly ring of thieves and shut down their dangerous operation.

Season 7, Episode 18: Final Takedown

24 March 2006

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Unknown Season

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Beltway Sniper

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Deadly Stanger

24 August 2001

James Springette

19 June 2007

Policias Y Ladrones

26 February 2006

The Unperfect Crime

14 October 2000

Episode dated 18 March 2003

18 March 2003

Episode dated 26 October 2005

26 October 2005