City Confidential
City Confidential examines crimes and the impact of ensuing investigations on the American towns and cities in which they occurred.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
