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Corrupt Crimes investigates recent crime stories in complete detail, with expert analysis and dramatic storytelling. Cases include crimes of passion, espionage, treason, insider trading, government corruption, murder and conspiracies.
2015
A marriage, plagued by resentment and affairs, hits it's tipping point and ends in a gruesome murder. Plus, a surgically precise and digitally orchestrated heist known as Unlimited Operation drains banks of nearly $45 Million globally.
Joran Van Der Sloot, the primary suspect in the unsolved murder of American woman Natalee Holloway is convicted of murdering a Peruvian woman. Plus, an angry soccer player fatally assaults a referee over a penalty call.
Dale Cregan, one-eyed drug dealer and cold-blooded murderer whose calling card is a grenade. Plus, one of the top New York mob families' steal more than 5 million dollars worth of cash and jewels from the Lufthansa airlines vault.
A man is found dead. Ten years later his fiancée is convicted for the murder, but the verdict is overturned. Why? Plus, football brought him fame; conspiring to murder the woman carrying his unborn child brought him infamy.
A murder at 13,000 feet. A classic who dunnit love triangle between a schoolteacher, a married mother of two and a hot skydiving instructor. Plus, Wolfgang Beltracchi's paintings are world famous- but one problem - turns out they are fakes.
A shy teen makes headlines for 5 weeks of non-stop hiccups. Four years later, she makes headlines again, for murder. Plus, a behind the scenes look at the downfall of "Fixer" to Hollywood's elite, Anthony Pellicano.
A middle-aged Denver couple hires a homeless housekeeper. He shows his thanks by bludgeoning the couple to death. Plus, in a jealous rage, an American Astronaut, goes on a 900-mile road trip to seek retribution from her ex-lover's new lady.
Former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redmond kills his wife during a family vacation. Plus, a small southern California city nearly goes bankrupt as the victim of a citywide corruption scandal.
One morning a troubled Royal Canadian Mountie Officer hits the tipping point and snaps killing one of his own. Plus, the son of a Las Vegas judge robs 1.5 million from the Bellagio Casino, dressed in full biker gear.
Vicente Fuentes rules his cartel with a bloody grip, responsible for mass murders and billions in drug trafficking. Plus, one of the most popular and longest serving U.S. mayors is accused of running a corrupt criminal enterprise.
Up and coming actress Alexandra Ducsay is murdered in her own home. For years this cold case goes unsolved until a key piece of evidence resurfaces years later.
A website posts explicit photos of people, without their permission, and demands payment to remove them. This extortion is called "Revenge Porn". Plus, "El Chapo" runs one of the world's largest drug trafficking organizations in the world.
A German impostor and killer on the run- Christian Gerhartreiter - masquerades across the US under a guise - as an heir to the fabled Rockefeller fortune. He thinks getting away with murder is his final con, but he's wrong.
FBI agent Robert Hanssen's treachery has been called the worst breach of U.S. intelligence in the history of the FBI. Plus, WorldCom executives fix the company's accounting numbers for their own personal game.
The Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart division is home to dozens of corrupt officers. The officers are committing heinous crimes, possibly even murder. One officer is at the center of it all and his arrest has a domino effect.
In October 1997, an armored car driver for Loomis Fargo and Company leads a team in a brazen heist stealing $17.3 million from the Loomis vault.
The youngest Mayor of Detroit and biggest hope for the dying city, ends up single handedly destroying it. Plus, when a dark secret is revealed about the outspoken wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister the public is stunned.
A small town judge goes down a dark path of revenge and murder, leaving an entire town in fear. Plus, with the help of his internationally honored father, the world had high hopes for Jesse Jackson Jr. until his legacy crashed amid scandal.
The Preppy Murder made international headlines and exposed the excessive living of NY's upper crust kids. Plus, Melissa King is the benefits manager for the "Sandhogs" Union. Over the course of 7 years, she steals over $40 million dollars.
2016
Ex-Los Angeles policeman, Christopher Dorner, declares war against law enforcement officers in California and goes on a cop killing spree. After an extensive manhunt Dorner is cornered near a ski resort in which Dorner refuses to surrender.
In March 2015, young co-pilot Andreas Lubitz crashes a German airliner into the remote French Alps and kills all 150 passengers aboard the flight. The flight's data recorder shows that Lubitz crashes the plane intentionally.
Texas teen Ethan Couch kills four people while drinking and driving in Ft. Worth Texas. The 16-year-old is sentenced only to probation. His attorneys argue that his affluent life is the cause of his reckless actions.
University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely goes on a binge that leads to a deadly encounter with his ex-girlfriend. His attorneys claim that her death is an accident - but a 63-minute police interrogation tape proves otherwise.
In Madrid, Spain, 191 people are killed and more than 1,800 injured in a mass murder that becomes the deadliest Islamic attack in Western Europe to date.
Collin Ferguson walks onto a Long Island Rail Road train in Queens and fires methodically at passengers over several minutes before he's disarmed and disabled by passengers.
Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya is a world-renowned writer and human rights activist. On Vladimir Putin's birthday, Politkovskaya is shot dead in the elevator of her apartment block in central Moscow.
On a warm October night, three bomb blasts tear through the tourist district of Kuta on the peaceful island of Bali. The attack kills 202 people and seriously injures 209 more.
Luca Rocco Magnotta has a pathological need for attention. When he fails to get famous by more traditional means he turns to the internet to make a name for himself.
Diana Whipple is a beloved lacrosse coach whose life ends suddenly when she is brutally mauled to death just outside her San Francisco apartment.
Wealthy young newlyweds take a honeymoon to South Africa. But within days of their arrival the trip goes horribly wrong. Their taxicab is high jacked and the honeymoon ends in murder.
When Patty Hearst, the daughter of a well-known media mogul is taken hostage by the SLA, America will be introduced to a bizarre psychological phenomenon known as 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
A Minnesota man kills two teenagers after they break into his home. He claims he was defending his property and feared for his life. Chilling audio captures the sounds of Smith shooting the intruders.
4 Men looking for work on the internet wind up on the business end of a gun. Who are these faceless killers luring victims to their death on social media?
A killer turns Phoenix Arizona into an urban hunting ground. As the bodies pile up both humans and animals turn up dead.
In America's first mass slaying, a sniper randomly guns down students and pedestrians from atop the University of Texas clock tower. Police have no plan in place for such an event; the police are out-gunned and over their heads.
Young, female students have disappeared with alarming frequency from the college town of Santa Cruz, California. Then mutilated body parts show up as almost a human jigsaw puzzle.
Samuel Herr and Julie Kibuishi are a young couple living in Orange County, California. On May 22, 2010, Julie's partially clothed body is discovered in Herr's apartment, and Herr, apparently, is on the run.
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Cornell Womack
Narrator (voice)
Tom Ohmer
Self - Subject Matter Expert
Steve Moore
Self - FBI Special Agent (Ret.)
Mike Cavalluzzi
Self - Criminal Defense Attorney