City Confidential

“One crime can turn a city upside down.”

DocumentaryCrime

Tells the story of one crime, the ensuing investigation, and the ripple effect it had on a community. Speaking with family, friends, detectives, journalists, and others close to the case, the series mixes firsthand accounts and archival footage to explore the crime and its outcome.

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Starring

Mike Colter

Audio & Subtitles

EN (Original), English [CC]

Format & Features

4K Ultra HD • Dolby Atmos • 5.1 Surround

Seasons(12 Episodes)

45m

1. Deadly Odds in Biloxi

The shocking murders of attorney Vince Sherry and his politically-active wife Margaret make the already-hot summer of 1987 sizzle in Biloxi, Mississippi.

45m

2. The Chicago Horse Mafia

The deaths of a string of champion racehorses may be linked to the death of candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach.

45m

3. Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake City

Police investigate the bomb that blew apart the car of Mark Hoffmann, a highly respected and religious Mormon.

60m

4. Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island

A woman's naked body is found outside a Seattle nightclub, posed demurely with a pinecone in her hand.

45m

5. Secrets and Superstition in Salem

When a lobsterman discovers the ankle of a partially decomposed body in his trap, a local "witch" helps solve the crime.

45m

6. Midnight in Miami

Stan and Joyce Cohen were living the high life in chic, trendy Coconut Grove--until multi-millionaire Stan was shot to death with his own gun as he slept in his mansion. Did Joyce, a beautiful socialite with expensive tastes, hire three hit men to murder her husband? Did Stan pay the ultimate price for her greed?

45m

7. New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy"

In 1994, Kim Groves was gunned down in her front yard after Len Davis, a police officer who did side-work in dealing cocaine, ordered her death because she knew too much.

45m

8. Nashville: Murder in Music City

Nashville performer and "Hee Haw" star David "Stringbean" Akeman had a strange habit. The banjo picker and joke teller kept $3,000 in cash in his overall's bib pocket, and ten times that hidden at home--cash for a rainy day. For Akeman and his wife, that rainy day never came. Murdered in 1973, their killers never found either stash.

45m