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Deadly Odds in Biloxi
Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret are gunned down in their Biloxi home in 1987. The investigation leads police to a prison scam, an inmate named Kirksey Nix, and Sherry's best friend Pete Halat.
8.3 /10
The Chicago Horse Mafia
Helen Vorhees Brach mysteriously disappears in 1977. During the investigation, the police discover Brach's con-man lover, RIchard Bailey, and a horse fraud ring unlike any seen before.
8.7 /10
Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake City
Steven Christensen and Gary Sheets are sent mail bombs which kill Christensen and Sheets' wife in 1985. A third bomb wounds Mark Hoffman, who turns out to be a top document forger who owed Christensen and Sheets money for forged Mormon church documents and tried to get rid of his debts by killing them.
7.4 /10
Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island
In 1990, George Walterfield Russell, a charming regular on the club scene, is revealed to be a psychopath after Mary Ann Pohlreich, Andrea Levine, and another woman are found dead and their bodies posed in similar positions.
8.4 /10
Secrets and Superstition in Salem
Martha Brailsford was a well-liked woman who struck up a friendship with Tom Maimoni in 1991. During a boat outing, Maimoni killed Martha and threw her overboard from his boat.
9.2 /10
Midnight in Miami
In 1986, Stan Cohen is shot three ties in the head with his own gun. His wife, Joyce, pleaded her innocence, bu the investigation led the police to an unhappy marriage, Joyce's cocaine problem, and the thugs Joyce hired to kill Stan.
7.7 /10
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. A sting operation caught Davis ordering Groves' death, but it was too late.
8.8 /10
Murder in Music City
David "Stringbean" Akeman, a Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw star, and his wife, Estelle, are found murdered in 1973. The investigation led police to two cousins, John and Doug Brown, who had heard about Akeman's secret stash of money, and killed the Akemans in a robbery gone wrong.
0 /10
Little Rock: The Politics of Murder
In 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers. The investigation led to may Lee Orsini, a woman who wanted Bill as more than a lawyer, and the two men delivering the "flowers".
8.2 /10
Las Vegas: Deadly Jackpot
In 1989, Larry Volk was shot in the head by David Lemons, a man hired by Soni Beckham and John Sipes. Beckham and Sipes plotted to kill Volk because of his cooperation with the Gaming Control Board in which he agreed to confess that he "fixed" machines so they wouldn't pay jackpots.
8.3 /10
Dallas: Arsenic and Old Money
Nancy Lyon was rushed to the hospital in 1991 by her husband after she is experiencing symptoms of a severe stomach flu and dies that night. Her true cause of death, arsenic, is discovered, and an investigation reveals an unhappy marriage with one of the premier couples of the wealthy Dallas suburb of Park Cities.
8.4 /10
Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun
Jeff and Kathy Willets ran a brothel out of their own home, which attracted some of the best of Ft.Lauderdale. One of her clients, Doug Danziger, was a local man that crusaded for morality in Ft. Lauderdale. After the cops raided the Willets' business in 1991, they found out that one of her clients was Danziger which led to a media frenzy.
7.8 /10

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Putting Lipstick on a Pig

Putting Lipstick on a Pig

Paivi is in her 50's and lives on Aland, an island in Finland with 30 000 people. We have our own government which can decide some things independently of the Finnish government: taxes, hunting, gambling etc. Paivi is a single mother and when her boys move out she is alone. She looks for company online and finds gambling. She gets addicted. She is an accountant and has access to money. Things go out of hand. Suddenly she has lost 819 000 - of her clients money! She is caught and it is a big scandal. She tries to commit suicide but gets jail. The clients are angry, they trusted her! It gets worse. It turns out she lost it all to the local gambling company. They hold a monopoly license to prevent from addiction and criminality - exactly what they didn't. The money went to the local government and they distributed it to the people: to football associations, research etc. It all turns into a money laundry case, the first in Finnish legal history to involve a gambling company. But the government refuses to pay back the money which make Paivis former clients furious. The movie had a preview on Aland where it ran for four days and won the audience award. Public opinion became strong and the government now have to plan on how to pay back and how to prevent this from happening again. But people get addicted to gambling everyday. Right now someone is losing everything. Right now, a gambler filled with guilt tries to kill herself. This is just the story of one gambler.

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