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A Model Killer

Episode number: 1

Overview: Posing as a fashion photographer, serial killer Christopher Wilder lured young women from shopping malls with promises of fame and fortune. Most ended up dead. national publicity that the FBI created led to the capture of the suspect.

Hired Gun

Episode number: 2

Overview: A multiple murder-for-hire plot that was meticulously planned and executed. A mother, her 8-year-old son, and a live-in nurse were brutally murdered by an assassin. the FBI was able to zero in on Larry Horn, the father of the 8-year-old.

Cat and Mouse

Episode number: 3

Overview: Young women were being abducted from their own front yards in broad daylight. The FBI was determined to put an end to the serial killer's deadly game of cat and mouse.

Cracking the Cartel

Episode number: 4

Overview: A young boy and his mother are kidnapped and murdered by a drug cartel.

A Stranger in Town

Episode number: 5

Overview: The body of an unidentified young woman turned up on a highway in a small Pennsylvania town. Agents persisted to identity the body and to find the killer.

Hunter's Game

Episode number: 6

Overview: The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind.

The Dixie Mafia

Episode number: 7

Overview: A Judge and his politician wife were brutally murdered in their home. The FBI uncovered a corrupt local government and a group of violent criminal conspirators.

Shattered Shield

Episode number: 8

Overview: Lured by the easy wealth of the narcotics industry, crooked cops in the New Orleans Police Department began breaking the laws they were sworn to uphold in the early 1990s.

Blood Brothers

Episode number: 9

Overview: Two brothers abduct a banker. FBI agents slowly pieced together tiny shreds of evidence.

Crime Spree

Episode number: 10

Overview: A couple engaged in a gruesome crime spree that spanned six states and left eight people dead-including children.

Family Secrets

Episode number: 11

Overview: A young mother and her infant son mysteriously disappeared from their home. A new DNA technique ended the mystery.

Master Plan

Episode number: 12

Overview: The FBI began a massive undercover operation designed to expose the Chicago Mafia's infiltration into the city's surrounding suburbs.

Firefight

Episode number: 13

Overview: A series of brutal bank robberies and murders led to an exhaustive eight-month investigation by the FBI. What followed was the bloodiest firefight in FBI history.

Killer Abroad

Episode number: 14

Overview: The bodies of several women began turning up in and around the city of Vienna, Austria. Viennese police turned to the FBI for help.

Moving Target

Episode number: 15

Overview: A sniper murdered two young black men as they jogged with two white women. The FBI placed their suspect on their Ten Most Wanted list and began an intense manhunt.

Deadly Mission

Episode number: 16

Overview: Two brothers gained national attention after a videotaped shoot-out with state and local officers in Wilmington, Ohio. The brothers escaped and fled the state.

Cop Killer

Episode number: 17

Overview: Two officers had been shot and one had been murdered in Washington, D.C.. Each had been sitting in their patrol cars when a man sneaked up and opened fire. The FBI was brought in to help catch the cop killer, and this led to a violent gun battle.

.22 Caliber Killer

Episode number: 18

Overview: Six black males had been brutally murdered--two had their hearts cut out. The only thing connecting the victims was their ethnicity and the fact that each had been shot with .22 caliber bullets.