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- HowStuffWorks is about the stuff that makes the world go 'round. It's truly incredible to see the ingenious lengths people go to in order to extract rubber and iron, corn and wheat, and water and salt from the earth. Equally amazing is the number of different and varied products that can be derived from something so fundamental. Follow the incredible journey of these goods from the ground to your dinner table, car, closet, medicine cabinet and places you may have never imagined.
- This riveting documentary series unravels the complex nature of justice -- both how it is denied and how it is achieved. Created by a team of award-winning producers, each show presents a compelling, real story about America and law enforcement.
- Experts and authors discuss George Washington's connection to the ancient and powerful Freemasons. Experts discuss Benjamin Franklin's possible membership in several secret societies. Such as the orgiastic Hell Fire Club in England. Paranormal investigators use high-tech tools to uncover the existence of ghosts in the famous Hell Fire Caves. Experts then attempt to explain how the remains of over 1200 people wound up in the basement of Ben Franklin's London townhouse. Secret Masonic symbols and and images are analyzed and uncovered in the layout and streets of Washington DC.
- Well-known crime authors talk about some of the most compelling true crime stories that have long captivated them.
- Iconic and bestselling author James Ellroy, the "demon dog of American literature" who penned "Black Dahlia" and "LA Confidential, " takes a fresh look at some of Hollywood's most-notorious stories from the past to the present.
- The story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II, who defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas allowing Jewish families to flee Europe to Japan and other countries.
- In this season of Hardcover Mysteries eight New York Times best-selling authors examine the incredible real-life cases that inspired their own creations. Watch as the top of the line storytellers do what they do best by adding unique perspectives and creative twists to some of history's most famous mysteries.
- The case of Marty Tankleff, who was convicted of the 1988 double murder of his parents in Long Island, New York, is reinvestigated by retired NYPD detective Jerry Palace.
- The case of 27-year-old Mia Zapata, the lead singer with punk rock band The Gits, who was murdered in Seattle, Washington in 1993.
- A duo of masked bank robbers--dubbed the "Midwest Bank Bandits"--plague the American Midwest in the 1990s, raising funds to aid their audacious plan to overthrow the U.S. government.
- 2000– 1h7.4 (8)TV EpisodeThe case of Dennis Dechaine, who was convicted of the 1988 murder of 12-year-old babysitter Sarah Cherry in Bowdoin, Maine, is reinvestigated by retired NYPD detectives Jerry Palace and Reggie Britt.
- The case of Carmin Ross, who was brutally stabbed to death in her own home in Lawrence, Kansas in 2003.
- The investigation and trial of the Helzer Brothers and their accomplice, Dawn Godman, who gruesomely murdered five people in the Summer of 2000 as part of a bizarre mission to "transform America" that they claimed was given to them by God.
- The case of 20-year-old sophomore university student, Audrey Ruth Seiler, who disappeared from her college dorm in Madison, Wisconsin in 2004.
- The story of Tonica Jenkins,who faked her way into Yale and then attempted to fake her own death using the body of another woman.
- In 1958 Jean Ellroy, a divorced nurse and closet alcoholic, was strangled and her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy LA suburb. Her killer was never found and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
- Kellerman discusses a complex insurance scheme that involves murder
- The case of 37-year-old schoolteacher Susan G. Reinert, who was murdered by morphine injection in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1979.
- Housewife and church-member Betty Gore is found murdered in her own home. She has been axed to death 41 times. Wylie Police Department's investigation tracks down Betty's friend Candace Montgomery. On trial for murder, Candace admits to killing Betty and claims self-defense. Watch as best-selling author Sandra Brown takes you inside one of the most shocking verdicts ever delivered by a Texas jury.
- The murder of a prominent Sacramento attorney and the unusual circumstances surrounding his death leads the detectives of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department to suspect his elusive wife and her female lover.
- On a quiet Florida beach a woman is shot to death and her husband clings to life having taken three shots to his chest and one to his hand. Detectives carefully investigate the heinous crime and name a suspect that shocks family and friends.
- Kathy Reichs recalls the murders of atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her son and granddaughter.
- When 44-year-old husband and father Jeff Zack is gunned down at a gas station by a mysterious masked man on a motorcycle, police are initially baffled.
- The 1991 missing person case of Lubbock, Texas ladies man Roger Scott Dunn, which eventually turned into a criminal investigation based on the vast amount of blood found on the walls and floor of his bedroom, and the efforts of his father, Jim Dunn, to keep the investigation on track by contacting the Vidocq Society--an independent crime-solving club that specializes in murder.
- The missing person case of Shannon Melendi, a 19-year-old university student who vanished from a country club softball park in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994.
- Best-selling author Lisa Gardner presents the case of 25-year-old South Berwick, ME resident Amy St. Laurent. After St. Laurent disappears, what follows is a vast, multi-jurisdictional effort, with unprecedented collaboration between law enforcement agencies. Over the course of their many tireless efforts, investigators are led through multiple suspects, conflicting stories and cover-ups, and eventually, to a dangerous sexual predator who may have been hiding in plain sight.
- Mark Winger, a husband and father, catches a man in the act of bludgeoning his wife to death.
- A couple celebrating their wedding anniversary go for a stroll on the beach after dinner. Out of nowhere, a masked robber jumps them, steals their valuables then shoots and kills the husband. Police launch an intensive manhunt for the killer but come up empty. But the story begins to take a huge turn when friends of the husband bring the grieving wife's behavior in the weeks before the crime into the open.
- New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci plunges into the case of one of D.C.'s most notorious and elusive career criminals. On the morning of July 7, 1997, the day-shift manager of a Georgetown Starbucks Coffee Shop arrives and finds the bodies of employees Emory Evans, Aaron Goodrich and Caity Mahoney who had worked the night before. All three have been shot to death. Metro Detective James Trainum and an FBI Special Agent team up and spend nearly two years attempting to track down the man responsible: Carl Derek Cooper.
- On the Yom Kippur holiday in 1985, an affluent Jewish-American couple is shot to death in the parking garage of their Brentwood, California condo.
- Author Joseph Wambaugh recalls the 2004 killing of San Diego golf-course manager William Overson during an attempted robbery. Montgomery "Fritz" Bruce was sentenced to life in prison for shooting Overson.
- The dismembered body parts of young mother and aspiring model, Karyn Slover, are found on the shore of a lake.
- College student Jarrod Davidson is shot and left to die on his front doorstep. Police wonder if his recent, tumultuous divorce is somehow related.
- Author Elizabeth George tells the true story of Dr. Kenneth Stahl and his wife, Dr. Carolyn Oppy-Stahl, who were shot to death in their car. The Stahl's double homicide crime scene at the side of the remote Ortega Highway in rural Orange County, CA has no physical evidence. The case digs deep into the lives of Ken and Carolyn to find an answer. Investigators find that underneath their facade of success is a crumbling, loveless marriage with financial difficulties.
- A young couple vanishes-found nearly dead in the freezing waters of a local river. A horrific crime. A river deep with secrets. What exactly happened? Investigators will stop at nothing to solve the mystery. The incredible true story of two young college students who were shot at close range and who narrowly survived to tell their story.