2002

S4.E1 ∙ Atlanta Courthouse Shooting

Tue, Jan 10, 2006

On March 11th, 2005, Brian Nichols was on trial for rape at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. When being transfered from a holding room, he overpowered a diminutive Female Deputy, took her gun and used it to kill three people; a court reporter, Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes and a deputy who tried to stop him from leaving the courthouse. His escape set off one of the largest manhunts in Georgia history.

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S4.E2 ∙ Plane Hijack

Sun, Jan 15, 2006

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S4.E3 ∙ Prison Break

Thu, Feb 09, 2006

The story of the infamous and daring escape of six death row inmates from Mecklenburg Correctional Center in Virginia, on May 31, 1984. Those who escaped were James and Linwood Briley (two of the infamous Briley Brothers, responsible for a killing spree in 1979 that took eight lives), Lem Tuggle, Earl Clanton, Derick Peterson, and Willie Jones. All were eventually caught and their date with the executioner was met as scheduled.

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S4.E4 ∙ Paralyzed Boy Is Cured

Tue, Feb 28, 2006

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S4.E5 ∙ Daughter Who Murdered Her Family to Live with Her Lover

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S4.E6 ∙ Successful Weight Loss

Wed, May 31, 2006

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S4.E7 ∙ Roberto Clemente Jr.

Wed, Jun 28, 2006

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S4.E8 ∙ The Trapped Principal

Tue, Jul 25, 2006

An episode dealing with the grim and extremely convoluted tragedy of School teacher, Susan Reinert, whose body was found nude, gagged, bound and tortured, and had probably witnessed the murder of her two children before her own demise in the summer of 1979. However, the trials revealed a complex con and the possibility of a frame job against the Principal of Reinert's school, Jay Smith, all concocted by fellow teacher Bill Bradfield. Bradfield was eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, whereas Jay Smith, was released in 1992 after a Supreme court ruling that the prosecution acted improperly at his trial, by withholding evidence that could have exonerated Smith.

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S4.E9 ∙ Psychic Woman Kathlyn Rhea

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S4.E10 ∙ High School Basketball Player Doesn't Know She's Pregnant

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

18-year-old Kayla Alire, a basketball player for Mesa Vista High in New Mexico, didn't know she was pregnant and was suffering from a stomach ache during a game on February 18, 2004. It turns out that the stomach ache was labor pains and immediately after the game, Kayla gave birth.

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S4.E11 ∙ Beautiful Wife Murder

Mon, Aug 14, 2006

Texas Man Guilty in Murder-For-Hire Mother of quadruplets killed in Sarasota, FL True re-enactment of Sheila Bellush(35)found dead in her home Nov.7, 1997, her 2 yr. old quadruplet toddlers wandering through her blood. Suspected in the murder is 21-year-old Jose Luis Del Toro Jr.,who was arrested Nov. 20, 1997 in Mexico. Two others,Sammy Gonzales, his cousin who hired Del Toro, and Daniel Rocha,also have been arrested in connection with the murder. Reference: www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/07/06/national/printable212766.shtml

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S4.E12 ∙ Fake Cheerleader

Mon, Jul 31, 2006

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S4.E13 ∙ Ted Williams

Fri, Aug 18, 2006

Ted Williams was a legendary Baseball player, earning MVP twice and was inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1966 after a nearly two decade career with the Boston Red Sox. However the years immediately before his death in 2002 were controversial, primarily due to his son, John Henry Williams. John Henry was a entrepreneur who started several failing businesses and had disputes with dealers of sports memorabilia regarding items related to his father. John Henry became involved in lawsuits and an F.B.I. sting as a result of this. But it was Ted William's end which was the most controversial, whereas, John Henry decided to have Ted cryogenically frozen at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, causing a series of lawsuits by other family members who wanted the Baseball legend cremated. Ted was finally frozen in two (2) pieces at the facility.

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S4.E15 ∙ The Gainesville Killer

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

In the Summer of 1990 in Gainesville, Florida, police were baffled by a series of gruesome and sexually based murders. When the death toll of young college students, mostly young women, went up to five, the press dubbed the unknown assailant as "The Gainesville Ripper", a moniker the police disliked. Despite the police's persistent surveillance of an innocent man, Edward Humphrey, the real killer, Danny Harold Rolling was eventually caught, tried and executed. He later confessed to more unsolved murders before his death by lethal injection on October 25, 2006.

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S4.E16 ∙ Autistic Basketball Player Makes Miracle Shot

Tue, Oct 17, 2006

High School autistic boy, gets to play in the last few minutes of the last game his Senior year. After a couple of attempts, he makes a three point basket. The entire gym goes crazy, his team wins and he gets carried off like a hero.

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S4.E17 ∙ The Mallpasser

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

The study of a man who printed up counterfeit money and would break it into smaller bills in shopping malls, all the while abducting, torturing, and sexually abusing a host of women.

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S4.E18 ∙ Bride's Father Falls in Love with Groom's Mother

Thu, Nov 09, 2006

Young engaged couple plan family introductions before their wedding. Bride's father falls in love with the groom's mother during the wedding ceremony. Both married, they divorce and marry on the same day the young couple are wed.

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S4.E19 ∙ Ron Williamson

Thu, Dec 07, 2006

In 1988, Debra Sue Carter, a waitress was raped and killed in Oklahoma and a former minor league baseball player, Ron Williamson was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the crime. After 12 years on death row, Williamson was cleared by DNA testing. Author John Grisham wrote a book about Williamson's ordeal titled "The Innocent Man".

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S4.E20 ∙ JT LeRoy

Sat, Dec 09, 2006

J.T. Leroy was a writer for major magazines & newspapers in the mid 1990s. Leroy guarded his privacy fanatically and rarely appeared in public, except in disguise. Upon release of several novels and screenplays after 1999, he received critical acclaim. That is until several New York publications started to get suspicious ... that J.T. Leroy didn't exist. Thus discovering one of the longest running literary 'hoaxes' in history.

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