FBI Files

A 65-year-old church bookkeeper vanishes from her Tennessee farm in 1992. Her husband is lured away by a fake property buyer. A ransom caller demands $100,000, then disappears. For more than a year, investigators suspect the husband — until a family trap, a motel meeting and a confession lead them to a neighbour’s compost pile. This is the case of Martha “Doe” Roberts. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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A Marine captain vanishes from Quantico in 1989. No body. No weapon. No crime scene. Then investigators find a computer file titled “murder” on her estranged husband’s desk — twenty-six numbered steps, including “How do I kill her???” This is the case that produced one of the first federal murder convictions without a body, and the appeals that followed. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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It was the Sunday night at the end of the July 4th weekend in 1997. After closing time, a gunman walked into a Starbucks coffee shop near Georgetown in Washington, D.C., forced three employees into a back office, and killed all of them over the keys to a safe. He left without taking the money.
For twenty months, nobody knew who did it. Then a television rerun, a woman's tip, a hidden microphone, and a joint effort by D.C. police, Prince George's County police, and the FBI led to Carl Derek Cooper.
This episode of The FBI Files remembers Mary Caitrin Mahoney, Emory Evans, and Aaron Goodrich, and traces how investigators solved one of the most shocking crimes in Washington's history.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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On September 29th, 1995, firefighters in Van Nuys, California, found a burning pickup truck with the body of a mother of three inside. Six weeks later, after a trail of deaths across four states, a Kentucky police officer spotted a stolen car and started a chase that ended on live television.
Glen Rogers, known as the Cross Country Killer, charmed women in bars and on the road. Fingerprints on a wallet and a motel room led investigators to him, and a 13-mile pursuit through Kentucky finally ended the manhunt.
This episode of The FBI Files traces the hunt from Van Nuys to I-75, the evidence that identified him, the claims he made after his arrest, and the families who waited nearly thirty years for justice.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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On opening day of deer season in 1983, 18-year-old David Wilkey was shot to death in the woods of Bedford County, Virginia. Local authorities called it a hunting accident. The man who took him hunting, David Lee Fisher, filed a $100,000 accidental death claim two days later.
Fisher, a former mob associate living under a federal witness protection identity, had insured Wilkey's life after the teenager refused to take part in another murder-for-insurance plot. It took an insurance lawyer who read the autopsy report, an informant wearing a wire in Charlotte coffee houses, and an FBI investigation to prove what really happened.
This episode traces the hunting trip, the scheme behind it, and the case that ended in a capital murder conviction.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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On October 20th, 1981, armed men ambushed a Brink's armored truck outside a New York mall, stealing $1.6 million and killing a guard. Within the hour, two police officers who stopped the getaway truck were gunned down at a highway ramp.
The robbery was carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and the May 19th Communist Organization. Investigators broke the case with a license plate, an alert college student, and a trail of apartments — but the man prosecutors called the ringleader, Mutulu Shakur, stayed hidden for more than four years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
This episode traces the robbery, the manhunt, and the trials that followed, and remembers the three men who never went home.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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He dared a judge to give him the harshest sentence possible, promising he'd escape within months. On May 12th, 1992, Danny Ray Horning walked out of an Arizona maximum security prison in a stolen lab coat and began the largest manhunt in the state's history.
For 54 days, hundreds of officers chased him through forests, canyons, and the crowded South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The public cheered him as a folk hero called Rambo. The FBI knew he was wanted for a murder in California, and that he was hunting for hostages.
This episode traces his escape, the teenager who foiled a kidnapping, the roadblock that almost caught him, and the garden hose that finally did.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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In 1993, New Orleans police officer Len Davis was awarded the department's Medal of Merit. A year later, he was running a protection racket for drug dealers, and when a 32-year-old mother of three filed a complaint about him, she was dead in less than a day.
This episode of The FBI Files follows Operation Shattered Shield, the FBI sting that exposed a web of corruption inside the New Orleans Police Department, the murder of Kim Groves that blew the investigation open, and the trials that followed, including the first federal death sentence for an on-duty police officer for civil rights violations.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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A circuit judge and his wife, shot dead in their own home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The reason: money the judge never stole.
In 1987, Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a Biloxi city councilwoman, were murdered in a plot traced back to a prison scam run from Louisiana's Angola penitentiary, a lawyer who allegedly blamed the wrong man, and a criminal network known as the Dixie Mafia.
For two years, local authorities got nowhere. Then the FBI stepped in, and an eight-year investigation exposed a corrupt sheriff's office, a city that tolerated organized crime, and a murder-for-hire plot that reached into the mayor's office.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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On the night of October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom during a sleepover while her mother slept in the next room. It was a stranger abduction from the home—the rarest and most terrifying kind of kidnapping. What followed was one of the largest manhunts in FBI history.

Polly Klaas became a household name. Her face appeared on the cover of People magazine, on national news every night, and on more than 8 million flyers distributed as far as China. Thousands of volunteers joined the search. The FBI poured resources into the case, collecting fibers, fingerprints, and the single palm print that would eventually crack it open.

But the investigation was haunted by a devastating mistake: deputies had stopped the suspect just two hours after the abduction, but they let him go. They didn't know about the kidnapping. They didn't know they were face to face with a twice-convicted kidnapper named Richard Allen Davis. Two months later, a palm print found in Polly's bedroom would finally match. But by then, it was too late.

This is the story of the kidnapping that changed American law forever. The case that inspired California's "Three Strikes" law. The case that transformed the FBI's approach to solving crimes. And the case of a little girl whose smile would never be forgotten.

This is The FBI Files. Press play—if you dare.

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