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Phoenix: Shady Deals in Sun City

Crime

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Jun 18, 2000

When a printer refuses to go along with his partner's plans to do business with the mob, the printer is murdered in a contract killing and investigators charge the partner's wife.

Full Episodes

Season 2, 16 episodes

Newberry: Small Town Justice,

On the night of June 12th of 1994, Newberry police officers found the body of Vickie Lander Beckham dead in her car on a local back road.

46m Jan 16, 2000

Wilmington: Dangerous Affairs,

On June 27, 1996, a prominent Wilmington businessman sat at a posh restaurant with his mistress, Anne Marie Fahey, a member of the governor's staff. The next morning, Fahey vanished.

46m Jan 30, 2000

Scottsboro: Foul Play in the Bible Belt,

On the surface, Scottsboro, Alabama seems like your typical rural southern town. But in 1991, Mrs. Glen Smummerford laid dying with poison coarsing through her veins and a single note next to her.

45m Feb 20, 2000

Virginia City: Showdown at the Mustang Ranch,

In the heart of Nevada's silver country lies America's most infamous ranch--a ranch without cows or cowboys that was closed by Uncle Sam in 1999.

45m Mar 12, 2000

Ingleside: Dirty Deals, Buried Secrets,

Scandal comes to a quiet, blue-collar Texan town when its shady mayor is accused of murdering a prominent businessman.

45m Apr 9, 2000

Key West: Pirates in Paradise,

The sad story of Mel Fisher, the chicken farmer who became a celebrated treasure hunter before he ran afoul of the law.

45m Apr 23, 2000

St. Augustine: The Socialite and the Politician,

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in America. It is a town whose civic pride is matched only by its penchant for easy living.

46m May 7, 2000

Carlsbad: Danger in the Desert,

The saga of popular politician and pharmacist Johnny Volpato, who was accused of shooting his wife to death, then wounding himself to make it appear that someone else had killed her.

45m Jun 11, 2000

Phoenix: Shady Deals in Sun City,

When a printer refuses to go along with his partner's plans to do business with the mob, the printer is murdered in a contract killing and investigators charge the partner's wife.

45m Jun 18, 2000

Greenwood: The Devil and the Delta Blues,

The story of the mysterious 1938 death of Robert Johnson, the great blues guitarist who was found howling like a mad dog and foaming at the mouth in his boarding house.

45m Aug 20, 2000

Ruthton: Tragedy in the Heartland,

In 1983, two bankers were murdered on a secluded Minnesota farm. Their deaths and the lives of their troubled killers shocked the small town of Ruthton and became a disputed national symbol for the farm crisis of the early 1980s.

46m Sep 10, 2000

Rock Springs: Deadly Draw in the Wild West,

Lawman Ed Cantrell, known as "the fastest draw in the West", kills one of his drug agents, Michael Rosa, in an Old West-style shootout in 1978. In court, the jury heard two completely different stories.

45m Sep 24, 2000

Atlantic City: The Mayor and the Mob,

Atlantic City. The Las Vegas of the Eastern seaboard. Home of the Miss America Pageant. It's a town of good times and easy money. A town where corruption is big business and the battle against the mob is a daily struggle.

45m Oct 15, 2000

Boston: Betrayal in Beantown,

Boston, MA. The lazy Charles River curves through this old town of universities, banks and insurance companies. One of the oldest cities in the country, Boston has always prided itself on its sophistication and its tolerance.

46m Dec 18, 2000

Gatlinburg: Smoky Mountain Nightmare,

Tattoo Eddie, nicknamed for his 134 tattoos, Kimberly Kay Pelley, a homeless country girl, and two friends murder two innocent people in a robbery at the Rocky Top Village Inn in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in 1986.

46m Jan 1, 2001

Bigfork: Silent Night, Deadly Night,

A Montana town is stunned when building contractor Larry Streeter is murdered by Teddy Ernst, a popular wheelchair-racing champ.

46m Jan 15, 2001