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S2 E9 St. Augustine: The Socialite and the Politician

Crime

TV-14

46m

May 7, 2000

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.

Season 2, 16 Episodes

City Confidential - Newberry: Small Town Justice

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.

City Confidential - Wilmington: Dangerous Affairs

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.

City Confidential - Scottsboro: Foul Play in the Bible Belt

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.

City Confidential - Virginia City: Showdown at the Mustang Ranch

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.

City Confidential - Ingleside: Dirty Deals, Buried Secrets

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.

City Confidential - Key West: Pirates in Paradise

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.

City Confidential - St. Augustine: The Socialite and the Politician

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.

City Confidential - Carlsbad: Danger in the Desert

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.

City Confidential - Phoenix: Shady Deals in Sun City

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.

City Confidential - Greenwood: The Devil and the Delta Blues

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.

City Confidential - Ruthton: Tragedy in the Heartland

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.

City Confidential - Rock Springs: Deadly Draw in the Wild West

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.

City Confidential - Atlantic City: The Mayor and the Mob

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.

City Confidential - Boston: Betrayal in Beantown

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.

City Confidential - Gatlinburg: Smoky Mountain Nightmare

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.

City Confidential - Bigfork: Silent Night, Deadly Night

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.

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City Confidential

Crime

TV-14

2 Seasons

46m

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

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