It’s 1889 and a trunk of bloodied rags, discovered on a Chicago roadside, is about to unlock a murder case like no other.

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Iain has the chance to show off his Norwegian as he tells Laura about a notorious Norwegian bank heist. The case involves an Edvard Munch enthusiast, an accomplice disguised as a dog, and millions of kroner being weathered in a swimming pool.

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When a woman is murdered in her home in 1970s Chicago, detectives struggle to identify a possible suspect. Until… they receive a strange paranormal tip-off.

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Iain looks at the unbelievable true story of the Powderhouse Blast, which took place in South Dakota in 1936. It’s a story involving a dynamite explosion, an heroic escape, and a man on the run.

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London, 1879 and a mysterious box shows up on the shoreline of the river Thames. Its contents prove puzzling for the police. Laura follows the trail to explore the gory story behind the case.

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In part two, Gary finally has to face the music. Having caught the attention of not only Pablo Escobar but the CIA too, things are about to get a *whole* lot scarier.

In the first of this two-parter, Iain uncovers the origin story of Gary Betzner, a cropduster pilot from Arkansas who got himself embroiled in the dangerous world of drug smuggling

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Laura looks at a series of extortion plots that targeted the most famous star in 1940s Hollywood: pin-up girl Betty Grable.

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Iain looks at two FBI Most Wanted criminals who had a very unusual MO when it came to robbing banks.

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It’s 1901 and Boston is abuzz with gossip. A high-society man named Sumner Paine has just been arrested for chasing his daughter’s music teacher down the street with a pistol.

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