Detectives in major cities around the country race against the clock to solve homicides and use forensic evidence and witness interviews to help identify suspects.

The First 48

A behind-the-scenes look into some of the most wild, unruly and dramatic moments caught on tape in courtrooms across the country; witnesses, judges and victims share their perspectives of the emotional outbursts and chaotic moments.

Court Cam

Detectives utilize new technology and social media in an effort to crack long-unsolved crimes.

Cold Case Files

"The First 48" takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations as it follows homicide detectives in the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.

After the First 48

Law enforcers stick with cases for many years.

Sgt. Sean "Sticks" Larkin of the Tulsa Police Department Gang Unit brings viewers a complete look into law enforcement officers' POVs during some of their crazy chases, standoffs and interactions.

Live PD Presents: PD Cam

Civilian volunteers go under cover in county jails to help law enforcement obtain evidence of questionable or illegal activities occurring within the facilities.

60 Days In

Commotion fills the professional life and personal life of a bounty hunter.

Dog the Bounty Hunter

Telling the stories of dramatic murders and other serious crimes through the interrogation of the accused, intercut with interviews with key players along with relevant news footage and archival material, including trial footage.

Interrogation Raw

Looking back at some of the most unforgettable moments of the show.

The First 48 Presents Critical Minutes

Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service workers encounter unnerving cases on the night shift.

Nightwatch

"Interrogation Cam" takes place inside the interrogation rooms of law enforcement agencies; each episode features real crime stories and spotlights the techniques used by investigators to uncover unbelievable revelations in the pursuit of justice.

Interrogation Cam

Journalist Lise Olsen and retired police officer Fred Paige re-examine the murders of 11 teenage girls in the 1970s after the discovery of a written confession linking the crimes to convicted murderer Edward Harold Bell.

The Eleven

A 27-year-old American is convicted of raping and murdering his ex-girlfriend in Central America.

Nightmare in Nicaragua: The Eric Volz Story

A program allows pregnant inmates to give birth and raise their babies inside a prison.

Born Behind Bars

An elite team of law enforcement officers experience stressful and unpredictable challenges.

Kansas City SWAT

An intimate account of what happens when someone is formally charged with a crime and sent to trial as told by the perspective of the accused, their legal team and their family members.

Accused: Guilty or Innocent?

The history of the area in New York known as the Five Points, breeding ground for such criminals as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano.

Five Points Gangs

Five groups of truck hunters compete to retrieve missing loads of cargo.

Big Rig Bounty Hunters

A meth dealer-turned-informant infiltrates one of the country's most dangerous motorcycle gangs.

Gangland Undercover

Seasoned forensic evidence collectors search for clues to solve crimes.

Bloodwork

The escape from Alcatraz in 1962 forces the government into a merciless manhunt, but the three inmates are never found; the family of the escaped Anglin brothers searches for answers to its very public mystery.

Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence

Top investigators and code-breakers strive to crack the code of the Zodiac Killer, whose identity remains unknown.

The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer

A re-examination of the highly publicized murder case includes new interviews with death-row prisoner Scott Peterson, who was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife in 2002.

The Murder of Laci Peterson

In 2007, Drew Peterson was charged for murdering Kathleen, his third wife; new interviews with Drew's girlfriend, Nicole Speakman.

Cellmate Secrets: Drew Peterson

Profiles of women who have been sentenced to the death penalty recount the crimes and trials through interviews with the convicted women, witnesses, family members of victims, family members of the convicted women, attorneys and more.

Women on Death Row

Mob legends, their violent lives, struggles to grab power, wealth and prestige.

Mobsters

Elizabeth Smart takes a look at parents who have found themselves searching for a missing child.

Taken: Missing Children With Elizabeth Smart

Jeff Mudgett tries to prove a controversial theory that his great-great grandfather, serial killer H.H. Holmes, and Jack the Ripper were the same person.

American Ripper

Celebrities and prominent individuals cheat the system and illicitly pay for their children's admission to the nation's most prestigious universities with the help of William "Rick" Singer, the mastermind behind the scam.

Beyond the Headlines: The College Admissions Scandal With Gretchen Carlson

The men and women profiled in "Model Killers" have looks to die for. The true-crime series tells stories via re-enactments of models who pay the ultimate price for their good looks, working in an industry whose glamorous surface belies a seedy, often-dangerous underbelly. The bright lights of the big city become too attractive for the naive beauties -- many of whom come from laid-back Midwestern backgrounds -- and their downfall begins when an obsessed photographer or mentally unstable stalker enters their lives.

Model Killers

A middle-aged seamstress in a prison tailor shop is caught up in the daring escape of two killers.

Biography Presents: Joyce Mitchell and the New York Prison Break

Big Little Crimes

Clever women devise elaborate schemes of crime and murder.

Diabolical Women

In 2008, Casey Anthony was charged with first degree murder for the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee. in new interviews, Robyn Adams shares how Casey lured her into a friendship, and Silvia Hernandez's life was ruined because of the two women.

Cellmate Secrets: Casey Anthony

"Bait cars," cars equipped with GPS tracking devices, remote control for windows, doors and engines, and hidden cameras and microphones, are stolen by car thieves and chased by the police.

Jacked! Grand Theft Auto Unit

This one-hour special digs deep into the core of The Rock, depicting its imprint on our national psyche with new and revealing interviews from those who know the true story of Alcatraz.

Inside Alcatraz: Legends of the Rock

When a young man is accused of murder, his fiancee and others come to his defense.

Beyond the Headlines: Catching the Craigslist Killer

Abduction survivor Elizabeth Smart answers questions from viewers about her nine months in captivity and her recovery; Dr. Drew Pinsky guides a discussion about Elizabeth's methods of surviving her ordeal.

Elizabeth Smart: Questions Answered

Examining cold cases solved through advancements in DNA, along with help from victims' families, law enforcement and the public.

Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks

Elizabeth Vargas explores the inner workings of the new sex trade, which relies on the internet to tap into a huge demand for sex, intimacy and companionship; entrepreneurs give details on how they make a living by using the internet to sell sex.

Sex for Sale: The Untold Story

Chelsea Dittrich, the U.S.-born daughter of a former American-based Russian spy, speaks with other children about spies as well as with her own father, whose spying activities tore her family apart.

The Spy Who Raised Me

At a religious reform school in Indiana, several former students share stories of alleged physical and emotional mistreatment; those who run the school and a former student say that what happened there is just the strict structure and discipline.

Living in Sin: Inside a Religious Reform School

Members of the "Casanova Killers" club are good-looking, charming, seductive, and sometimes psychotic in the way they manipulate their partners with all the right moves before executing the final, fatal one.

Casanova Killers

Bergen County, N.J., Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti elicited murder confessions from the Torso Killer, a vicious but relatively unknown serial killer.

The Torso Killer Confessions

Elizabeth Vargas investigates if gang violence is being propelled by social media, as young gang members' internet feuds erupt into real-world shootings.

Secret Life of a Gang Girl: The Untold Story

The disappearance of nursing student Holly Bobo remains a mystery for years; even after a tight-knit group of four men is charged in her abduction and murder, no one knows for sure who killed her or why.

The Critical Witness

A Texas millionaire is believed to have murdered two people and hired a hit man to kill the judge in his divorce case.

Oil, Money and Murder

Unravelling schemes born of vengeance and greed.

Prenup to Murder

The rise of Chippendales in the 1980s is halted by drugs, corruption and murder.

Secrets of the Chippendales Murders

Dan Abrams showcases the perspective of defendants in their pursuit to prove their innocence in a court of law.

Court Cam Presents Under Oath

Gio Benitez takes viewers on a journey into the experience of being a victim of a sudden crime, from the moment those attacked first perceive the danger through the potential long-lasting effects.

I Survived a Crime

When a person goes missing, the first 48 hours are the most crucial in an investigation.

The First 48: Missing Persons

Josh Shipp helps families deal with problems.

Teen Trouble

A man with multiple personality disorder says one of them killed his daughter.

The Killer Within

Special agents investigate every major crime in the maximum security Tennessee prison system.

The Squad: Prison Police

The series follows members of Detroit SWAT as they train and perform their duties.

Detroit SWAT

Biography: This Week

The relatives of murderers tell their stories, revealing how it feels to discover there is a killer in the family and how the crimes have impacted their lives.

The Killer in My Family

Helen Hunt presents U.S. homicide cases in which spouses were killed by their partners, with each story told by family, friends and colleagues who best knew them, and the investigators committed to finding out the truth.

Meet, Marry, Murder

A kidnapper holds a hitchhiker hostage for seven years.

The Girl in the Box

Survivors of deadly situations recount their harrowing experiences.

I Survived

Joe Mazzilli and his squad of private investigators search for runaways.

Runaway Squad

Erin Corwin's mother, Lore Heavilin, talks about her daughter's story and her legacy after her tragic death.

Beyond the Headlines: Secrets of a Marine's Wife

An unromanticized account of the lives of the infamous James brothers, Jesse and Frank, deciphers fact from fiction.

The James Gang: Outlaw Brothers

Former senior detective Graham Hill sheds new light on the inner workings, twists and turns of criminal investigations, showing how they were solved.

Murder Detective

The black market Web site known as the Silk Road emerges on the darknet in 2011; promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road becomes a billion-dollar digital drugs cartel.

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web

The harrowing, heroic stories of regular people who encountered pure evil and lived to tell about it; interviews with those closest to the cases will round out the stories of these unimaginable crimes.

I Survived a Serial Killer

The events surrounding the verdict of O.J. Simpson's criminal trial; as well as the many facets of Simpson's persona that are exposed using an audio recording that Simpson taped prior to being chased in his white Bronco; interviews with key players.

The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case: The Untold Story

A woman uncovers a deadly secret about the man she met on a Florida beach; a Connecticut teen moves in with a man, only to learn he has a terrifying dark side.

I Dated a Psycho

A look at the proliferation of drugs flowing through America's cities and towns and the deadly consequences to society.

America on Drugs

The journeys of some of the most well-known names in the world of crime, and a look at how they began as unknown thugs and transformed into globally notorious kings of crime.

Kingpin

Spotlights techniques used to uncover revelations in the pursuit of justice.

Interrogation Files

A raid on the Branch Davidians by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms leads to a 51-day standoff with the FBI, ending in a tragic fire that kills 76 members of the Branch Davidian community, including 22 children.

Waco: Madman or Messiah

Inside the history and inner workings of prisons; covering institutions from the Tower of London to the high-tech ADX through interviews with journalists, former correctional officers and previously incarcerated individuals.

Prison Chronicles

Stories of real-life cases in which victims are murdered by their partners, including testimonies from the friends and family of the victims as well as the investigators.

My Lover My Killer

Real-life stories of women who murder their husbands.

Deadly Wives

Documentary series looking at shocking criminal cases up close.

Evil Up Close

Looking at how brave, determined and passionate people went above and beyond the call of duty in their determination to bring killers to justice.

Murder: Fight for the Truth

If she can't have him, no one can. That, in a nutshell, is the gist of this true-crime series that recounts in salacious fashion the relationships between cheating men and their hellbent-for-revenge "monstresses." Each hourlong episode presents two stories -- told via re-enactments and interviews with people close to the situations -- of mistresses embroiled in scandalous affairs, and the moment they become tired of being the "other woman" is when the plot thickens and deadly consequences follow.

Monstresses

Exploring Casey Anthony's life, behavior and the series of lies that led to the public outcry over her acquittal.

Casey Anthony: How Did We Get Here?

Delving deeper into the O.J. Simpson civil trial with portions of the plaintiffs' deposition tapes, which had been buried in a storage warehouse for nearly two decades; interviews with family members of the victims.

O.J. Speaks: The Hidden Tapes

New footage and detective interviews update cases previously profiled in "The First 48."

The First 48: The Detective Speaks

A team of drug interventionists tracks down missing at-risk youths and helps return them to safety.

The Extractors

Lives are changed when ordinary people's lives become breaking national news.

Aftermath With William Shatner

Shayna Hubers shot and killed her boyfriend, Ryan Poston; now Holly Nivens details how Shayna manipulated her into believing it was self-defense; Cecily Miller details Shayna's behavior after her arrest; Carissa details how Ryan wanted out.

Cellmate Secrets: Shayna Hubers

Nancy Grace and Dan Abrams provide their unique perspectives and opinions on infamous crimes and legal cases, arguing their points before a studio audience.

Grace vs. Abrams

A team of detectives reinvestigates controversial murder cases from the ground up.

Dead Again

An LAPD sex crimes detective investigates the case of a 25-year-old woman who was raped by a bus driver; an unidentified man hunts and sexually assaults teenage girls in broad daylight.

The Real SVU

True stories of friendships that led to tragic and unexpected crimes.

I Killed My BFF

The criminal justice process, from the crime to the investigation to the courtroom testimony and finally, the verdict; each case brings its own fascinating backstory, but the themes of love, sex, betrayal and greed dominate.

Killer Cases

Family members of infamous serial killers reach out to the families of the victims.

Monster in My Family

Barbara Stager is convicted of murdering her second husband after being acquitted of killing her first.

Till Death Do Us Part

Killer Profile

Kidnapped at birth in 1998 by a woman she grew up believing was her mother, Kamiyah Mobley sits down exclusively with award-winning journalist Robin Roberts for a revealing interview about life since her true identity was exposed.

Beyond the Headlines: The Kamiyah Mobley Story With Robin Roberts

The elite agents of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force freely cross jurisdictional boundaries as they track down different and very dangerous felons.

Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force

A deep dive into the international motorcycle club the Hells Angels, with access to former chapter presidents, undercover agents who risked their lives to infiltrate the group and others who witnessed the criminal activities.

Secrets of the Hells Angels

Story of Hong Kong native and former Marine Charles Ng who was responsible for a gruesome series of crimes.

The California Killing Field

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