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On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage. Six people died and more than a thousand were injured in the bomb blast that tore a 5-story crater in the building. During the investigation, the twisted fender of a rental van was extracted from the rubble. The FBI was able to determine from where the van was rented and by whom. Undercover agents then made their arrests within six days of the bombing.
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In the late 1980s, the FBI matches wits with a cunning bank robber -- a lone gunman responsible for the longest string of unsolved bank robberies in FBI history. The robber's planning is meticulous. He executes his crimes with military precision. It will take the combined skills of local police and dozens of agents to catch a criminal mastermind they call, "The Shootist."
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In the summer of 1999, Texas was terrorized by a brutal serial killer who traveled by train. The FBI assembled a task force to gather information about the dangerous drifter and create a profile that would help locate him. As they learned that the killer had traveled extensively through the United States and Mexico, the murders became more frequent, and authorities had to cast a dragnet over an entire continent in an effort to catch him.
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When a California man was found dismembered in 1990, police suspected a local burglar, but they couldn't find him. Six months later, he was caught robbing an Arizona bank and sentenced to life. But prison couldn't hold him for long, and within a year he escaped. The FBI would lead a multi-agency manhunt for a killer on a desperate run through the tourist regions of the west.
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In rural Texas, 13-year-old is kidnapped on her way to school. Frantic to find her safely, her millionaire father calls local authorities and the FBI. As police officers and agents conduct aerial surveillance, the father drives hundreds of miles through the night to deliver the ransom cash to a drop that the kidnappers keep changing. In a final effort to save the young girl, investigators must engage in a dangerous firefight with five desperate criminals.
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A Labor Day weekend turned into a nightmare of murder as a cross-country crime spree terrorized the nation. In a small Ohio community, an elderly woman and a teenage boy disappeared within hours of each other. Police believed the cases were linked, but didn't know how. They contacted the FBI for help. A trail of stolen vehicles and murder victims across seven states led agents on a hunt for two suspected killers. Their only hope of stopping them was to anticipate the killers' next move.
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In 1987, Seven inmates break out of a high security prison in New Mexico. The escapees, all violent criminals, are a threat to anyone who crosses their path. State and local police and the FBI know they must capture these men before they rob, rape and kill…again.
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By April of 1995 in Washington, D.C., two officers had been shot and one had been murdered. Each had been sitting in their patrol cars when a man sneaked up and opened fire. The FBI was brought in to help catch the cop killer. Agents identified the man who was most likely the killer, but he was nowhere to be found. Months of surveillance operations around the country finally yielded a break; they found their suspect in Baltimore, MD.
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In the early 1990's drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods. When a 10-year-old boy fell victim in the crossfire, NYPD detectives and FBI agents clamped down on the problem. They formed a task force called C-11, designed to dismantle the gangs. In an environment of violence and fear it would be difficult to identify, arrest and convict those involved in the secretive and deadly world of big money drugs.
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He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years. Two men died and more than a dozen were injured, but Ted Kaczynski wasn't known as the Unabomber until his brother tipped off the FBI. Kaczynski's “Unabomber Manifesto,” published in major newspapers, set off a flurry of activity for the FBI: writing analysis and comparisons, DNA gleaned from a single postage stamp and finally, Kaczynski's arrest at his tiny cabin.
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In 1984, south Miami became the home for a sadistic serial killer. Posing as a fashion photographer, Christopher Wilder lured young women from shopping malls with promises of fame and fortune. Most ended up dead. As the FBI closed in around him, Wilder took off on a cross-country murderous rampage. The FBI added Wilder to their Most Wanted Fugitives program. The chase was on, and Wilder ultimately lost.
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In Memphis, Tennessee, a horrible crime terrified local residents. When a wealthy young mother was abducted in front of her in-laws' home, the police had no shortage of suspects. The twenty-five year old victim left behind a tumultuous marriage, an ex-husband, and several spurned boyfriends. All were on the FBI's short list. To find the woman and her abductor, investigators would have to first determine the motive.
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On Mississippi's Gulf Coast, a judge and his politician wife were brutally murdered in their home. The killer left few clues and the investigation led nowhere. But the FBI was patiently waiting in the wings. Once it was determined that federal laws had been violated, they pounced on the investigation. They uncovered a corrupt local government and a group of violent criminal conspirators known as the Dixie Mafia, responsible for fraud, money laundering and murder.
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In 1997, FBI agents began investigating New York gas station mogul Gurmeet Dhinsa for gas pump rigging. They soon realized that Dhinsa was more than a crooked businessman, he enforced his mob-like operation with brutal violence, kidnapping and killing errant employees and any family members who questioned their deaths. FBI agents worked their way into Dhinsa's violent world.
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In June of 2000, two gunmen rob a Seattle, WA bank, and flee on foot as officers chase them. One of the gunmen is killed in a firefight with police, the other escapes after assaulting a family and using their home to hide. The family helps FBI agents identify the man, who is suspected of several other robberies. Seattle SWAT teams, working with the FBI, search the home of the assailant's mother, and find ammunition matching that used at the bank robbery.
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Residents of the small town of Noel, Missouri were shocked when one of their banks was robbed. When the bank president was nowhere to be found, the residents were outraged. The FBI discovered that things are not always as they appear. Minute clues led the agents to the body of the bank president. With no suspects, the FBI relied on dogged determination and modern forensics. Agents slowly pieced together tiny shreds of evidence.
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In 1991, the Safe Streets Task Force, a joint FBI / Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department organization, begins conducting an investigation into the violent activities of a local gang called the K Street Crew. Gang members are suspected of involvement in several area homicides. The FBI approaches several witnesses, hoping to convince them to testify against the gang members. Seven potential witnesses are murdered during the course of the investigation.
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He wandered the streets of New York City wearing only pajamas and a bathrobe, but the FBI was convinced that Vince Gigante, the reputed boss of the Genovese crime family, was anything but crazy. The FBI used undercover surveillance, secret audio tapes, six mobsters turned government informants and the testimony of twelve FBI agents to help convict Gigante of murder and conspiracy-to-murder, including a plot to kill rival mob boss John Gotti.
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In Washington D.C, a car bomb takes the life of a former ambassador and his secretary. The FBI is on the case and begins sifting through layers of a wide-ranging conspiracy. The scope of the investigation broadens when it becomes apparent that a foreign government, ruled by a ruthless dictator, ordered the attack. Agents and prosecutors must engage in a political tug-of-war to uncover the identities of the assassins.
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In the late 80's, Florida's cocaine imports were among the highest in the nation. Regional territories were enforced with intimidation and murder. Desperate to stop the violence, local authorities turned to the FBI for help. One dealer bowed to no one. He would stop at nothing to keep detectives and agents from building a case against him. When his organization began targeting the government itself, a city went on high alert.
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In August 1992, a man returned to his Memphis home and discovered that his wife was missing. The husband, as well as his friends, family and neighbors began to receive ransom calls. FBI agents noticed that one neighbor seemed to have the best rapport with the kidnapper. They began to question his level of involvement, but had to proceed carefully, knowing that he could be their only link to the missing woman.
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A young mother and her infant son mysteriously disappeared from their home. The woman's husband was the only suspect, but he was eventually cleared. There was no solid evidence that a crime had even been committed. Six months later, a local farmer found the remains of the missing woman and her child. Both had been murdered. Agents and local police had only one tiny piece of evidence, an unidentified hair found in the murdered woman's car. The hair was too small for analysis.
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An Arkansas State Trooper is shot and killed after pulling over a van for a traffic violation. Officers apprehend the shooter, after a car chase and shootout. ATF is alerted when officers find weapons and explosives in the man's vehicle. Further testing of the weapons reveals one was used in a murder several months earlier. ATF traces some of the firearms to purchases made by another man from and arms dealer. They also match silencer marks from the weapons to a third man previously arrested for stealing a flatbed truck.
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In 1980, the FBI began a massive undercover operation, code named Safebet, that was designed to expose the Chicago Mafia's infiltration into the city's surrounding suburbs. Undercover agents quickly discovered that the mob had its tentacles spread into every facet of the law enforcement community. They unwittingly uncovered the murder of a wealthy socialite perpetrated by a jealous and greedy mob lawyer and covered up by the local police chief.
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A New Jersey State Trooper is shot to death on the side of Interstate 80 near the Pennsylvania border. Witnesses to the shooting identify the shooter's car. Police issue an APB, and locate the vehicle hours later. Fingerprinting of the vehicle points to a fugitive wanted on bank robbery charges. Authorities who inspect the fugitive's home find some incriminating evidence including a box of bullets linked to the Trooper's murder.
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In 1999, Police investigate two brutal murders in two small towns located hundreds of miles apart. The crimes seem random and unrelated, until investigators discover a terrifying link. Local police and the FBI must untangle a web of liesto stop a dangerous gang that will kill a man for his Identity.
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In Lincoln County, Nebraska, a fugitive drug dealer engaged in a shootout with state troopers, wounding two of them, and eluded capture after a high-speed chase. Authorities immediately set up a statewide manhunt, connecting the fugitive to a murder in western Nebraska. A chance sighting led FBI agents to a second confrontation with the killer, who was more determined than ever to escape the law.
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In Anchorage, Alaska, a young mother and her two daughters were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered. There was only one piece of forensic evidence: a washrag carrying pubic lice that the killer used to clean himself after the crime. Employing an unusual and original method, an FBI expert combed through all the hairs and fibers in the apartment. He was not only able to determine how long each hair had been there, but which hairs came from the killer and how the crime proceeded.
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He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years. Two men died and more than a dozen were injured, but Ted Kaczynski wasn't known as the Unabomber until his brother tipped off the FBI. Kaczynski's “Unabomber Manifesto,” published in major newspapers, set off a flurry of activity for the FBI: writing analysis and comparisons, DNA gleaned from a single postage stamp and finally, Kaczynski's arrest at his tiny cabin.
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In September 1997, a team of masked gunmen robbed an armored car facility in Los Angeles, and made off with $18.9 million, the largest takeover heist in U.S. history. An employee believed she recognized the voice of one of the robbers, and FBI agents began conducting surveillance on a former employee of the facility. With only one piece of physical evidence, a fragment of a vehicle taillight, authorities hoped to connect him to the crime, and locate his accomplices.
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In the mid-1990's, a gang of professional bank robbers raided cities across seven states. Disguises and speed protected their identity from cameras and the police as they stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, always leaving a bomb to terrorize their victims. The stakes were raised when the FBI discovered the robbers had an agenda beyond their personal wealth. To stop these extremists and their growing operation, the FBI needed to capture their leaders.
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A serial killer's rampage was discovered when the bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves that dotted the Alaskan wilderness. The killer taunted his victims, hunting them like animals before shooting them down. He was at home in the rugged terrain. But the hunt for him began 3000 miles away, where FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind.