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The best chance to find vital clues in true crime investigations occurs within the first 72 hours after the crime. Witness real crime reenactments, the investigation and the tiny details that lead to conviction. The first 72 hours are crucial.
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Episodes
1. Betrayed
22m
19-year-old Greg Parsons is convicted of brutally murdering his mother mainly on evidence of the audio tape of a song he'd written, "Kill your Parents". After three years in prison, Parsons is released when DNA exonerates him and it's proven that a friend
2. The Hustler
22m
Whistler, B.C. a winter wonderland for the rich and trendy. Three people meet - the son of a wealthy Frenchman, a Vancouver businessman looking for investors and a real estate agent trying to sell a mountainside estate. Unbeknownst to two of them, they ar
3. Fat Bandit
22m
A string of bank robberies in Winnipeg confound local police. Most bank-robbers are strung out addicts, usually quite thin. This new man doesn't fit that profile: this bandit is fat. When next he strikes he confuses police further by changing locales and
4. Head in a Bucket
22m
A woman is told by a friend that she was a passenger in a car where she was confronted with a guy's head in a bucket. The woman gets in touch with police. But the story keeps changing and the woman retracts. As police dig deeper, they discover a sordid ta
5. Murder on Campus
22m
The bizarre murder of a world-renowned anthropologist over the Christmas holidays shocks staff and students at the university where she teaches. Police get a clue that a stranger described as a female Hulk was seen shortly before the murder. In a case str
6. The Great Despisers
22m
A 19-year-old man comes home one night to discover that his father, mother and autistic sister have all been savagely murdered. Could it be the $500,000 insurance money and a movie called "The Great Despisers" that motivated the killers to perpetrate such
7. Vanished
22m
A beloved small town public school teacher fails to arrive for work for the first time in thirty years, leaving an empty house and a baffled community. Vanished, she seems to have disappeared without a trace. The few clues that are found - a missing chair
8. Bitter Truth
22m
When the curiosity of an insurance claims investigator is piqued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a young Sikh man, a trail of bigamy, deceit and murder is soon uncovered. Police detectives follow that trail and discover it leads a
9. Faith Healer
22m
A trucker stopping at a roadside rest station discovers the fully clothed body of a dead East Indian woman in the woods. An autopsy reveals that she has been strangled, that she has an unusually high level of sedatives in her bloodstream and, mysteriously
10. The Violinist
22m
Surgically clean body parts start turning up on a highway. Stranger still, they have been drained of every drop of blood. Using a unique forensic technique that takes footprint impressions from the inside of shoes, police are able to connect the body part
Extended Details
- Series72 Hours: True Crime
- Closed CaptionsEnglish