City Confidential explores crimes that have impacted cities and towns across America. The iconic, noir-style series goes beyond the headlines to showcase the emotional and unexpected stories that catapulted unique communities, both large and small, into the public eye.
Each episode 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 weaves together firsthand accounts and interview footage to explore the crime and its outcome.
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City Confidential explores crimes that have impacted cities and towns across America. The iconic, noir-style series goes beyond the headlines to showcase the emotional and unexpected stories that catapulted unique communities, both large and small, into the public eye.
Each episode 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 weaves together firsthand accounts and interview footage to explore the crime and its outcome.
In 1995, Charles Rathburn, a freelance photographer, invited Linda Sobek, an aspiring model, on a photo shoot. Sobek never returned and the camera was turned on Rathburn after it was discovered that he was the one who killed her.
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Jeff and Kathy Willets ran a brothel out of their own home, which attracted some of the best of Ft.Lauderdale. One of her clients, Doug Danziger, was a local man that crusaded for morality in Ft. Lauderdale. After the cops raided the Willets' business in 1991, they found out that one of her clients was Danziger which led to a media frenzy.
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In 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers. The investigation led to may Lee Orsini, a woman who wanted Bill as more than a lawyer, and the two men delivering the "flowers".
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Nancy Lyon was rushed to the hospital in 1991 by her husband after she is experiencing symptoms of a severe stomach flu and dies that night. Her true cause of death, arsenic, is discovered, and an investigation reveals an unhappy marriage with one of the premier couples of the wealthy Dallas suburb of Park Cities.
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In 1989, Larry Volk was shot in the head by David Lemons, a man hired by Soni Beckham and John Sipes. Beckham and Sipes plotted to kill Volk because of his cooperation with the Gaming Control Board in which he agreed to confess that he "fixed" machines so they wouldn't pay jackpots.
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In 1981, Rolf Nesland mysteriously disappeared. His wife Ruth said he went to Norway, but there weren't any records of his arrival which led police to Ruth and the Nesland's turbulent relationship.
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In 1990, George Walterfield Russell, a charming regular on the club scene, is revealed to be a psychopath after Mary Ann Pohlreich, Andrea Levine, and another woman are found dead and their bodies posed in similar positions.
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Steven Christensen and Gary Sheets are sent mail bombs which kill Christensen and Sheets' wife in 1985. A third bomb wounds Mark Hoffman, who turns out to be a top document forger who owed Christensen and Sheets money for forged Mormon church documents and tried to get rid of his debts by killing them.
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In 1994, Kim Groves was gunned down in front of her home. Notorious for its crime, New Orleans had just found another victim. But, in a city where murders are an everyday occurance, the 32-year-old mother's death would prove to be anything but ordinary.
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The folks of Lexington, Kentucky love two things: horses and University of Kentucky sports. But in 1994, it wasn't March Madness or the Triple Crown that had this college town on the edge of its seat. It was the triple threat of football, frat boys, and murder. Townspeople were stunned when football player Trent DiGuiro was killed by a sniper with a high-powered rifle. But the biggest shock was still to come--it turns out the shooter may have been fellow player Shane Ragland, settling a frat-boy score.
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Milford, Utah is a tough town where possession is nine-tenths of the law and a gun makes up the rest. That's why handyman Tony Hamilton didn't take too kindly to the county seizing the Mormon ranch where he lived for back taxes. And to make matters worse, all of the residents, who practiced polygamy, were evicted. Hamilton stayed, confronted the law, and ended up being charged with the attempted murder of a sheriff's deputy.
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Life in the town of Duchesne, about 100 miles from Salt Lake City, is as hard as sun-baked rock and weather-beaten leather. Everyone must struggle to survive, except John Pinder, the ne'er-do-well son of a millionaire. Pinder enjoyed ostrich farming, had a pet lion named Simba, and dabbled in dynamite and drugs. But it wasn't until the bodies of two of Pinder's ranch hands were blown to bits that folks discovered just how dangerous Pinder could be.
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In 1991 scandal rocks Panama City Florida when Dr. Bill Sybers, a respected doctor and the city’s medical examiner, is accused of poisoning his wife.
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The people of a quaint Pennsylvania town filled with summer homes and summer camps are horrified when the local homecoming queen is killed in a car accident with her drunken boyfriend at the wheel. But the town is even more shocked when the girl's brother grabs a gun and goes looking for revenge.
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In 1995, a billionaire art patron was implicated in a murder in Boise, ID. When townsfolk look closer, they discovered a twisted tale involving a Russian ballet dancer and rumors of KGB involvement.
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In the 1990s, Spring Valley’s Haitian community is rocked when a well-respected civic leader is murdered. It takes police nearly two decades to sift through the rumors and solve a mystery filled with lies and dark secrets.
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While running for re-election in 2002, Sheriff Sam Catron is assassinated at a fish fry. The killer is quickly apprehended only to unveil a conspiracy that turns this small town on its head.
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Singer Island, Florida is heaven on earth, but it quickly becomes a living hell when a beloved local couple goes missing. Family, friends and the FBI step in to help, and what they find is a twisted case of jealousy, greed and betrayal.
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Wealthy Miami boat builder Don Aronow is murdered, shot while sitting in his Mercedes coupe on famed "Thunderboat Row" in 1987.
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The unusual case of David Brown who manipulates his daughter, Cinnamon Brown, to kill his then wife in Orange County, California.
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City Confidential explores crimes that have impacted cities and towns across America. The iconic, noir-style series goes beyond the headlines to showcase the emotional and unexpected stories that catapulted unique communities, both large and small, into the public eye.
Each episode 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 weaves together firsthand accounts and interview footage to explore the crime and its outcome.
